🚨New paper in Nature Communications🚨! We find that shark finning regulations have little impact on the global trade of shark products in the short-term, but might lead to more noticeable changes several years (7+) after regulations are implemented. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Global trade responses to shark finning regulations - Nature Communications

The study finds limited evidence that shark finning regulations alter global shark trade volumes. While overall effects are not significant, long-term trends suggest gradual trade shifts, including de...

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Children weren’t the target of federal food program changes, but they’re increasingly “collateral damage,” one expert said. The drop in the number of children receiving SNAP benefits is a “public health crisis” in the making, said another expert.

Help Shape the Future of Blue Food! The BFPP fosters research collaborations that accelerate the incorporation of blue foods into food system policies & programs. Researchers, practitioners, and professionals engaged in blue foods' research are invited to join: tinyurl.com/bffp-interes...

Blue Food Futures Program Membership Interest Form

Thank you for your interest in joining the Blue Food Futures Program! We invite you to fill out the following form to provide us with essential information about your background and research interests...

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#academicJob Professor of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Community-Engaged Conservation Arizona State University, Tempe apply.interfolio.com/185163

Yesterday—4 days after OMB released its proposal to revamp all federal funding—there were 3500+ comments. Today there are nearly 4,500. Our story on the damage the proposal could inflict on science and the researchers pushing back. Reported w/@marilenharo.bsky.social:

White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know

The Trump administration’s proposal aims to improve transparency in federal funding, but critics fear the proposed rules would politicize research

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Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎

Research Associate in Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Research Associate in Biology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

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The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is announcing a new Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity! Priority review starts June 15, 2026. Help us spread the word to the #MarineScience community. Details and Apply ➡️: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07627

Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute (CMSI) Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Umm, no they aren’t…

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

Climate Science Serving America Fellowship

Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

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🌎✨ Fully funded for early & mid-career researchers across the Americas! Join the Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium 2026 in São Paulo, Aug 25–27. 🔗 Apply by April 15: https://ow.ly/HVhY50YyUla #NASEMCapacity #LatinAmerica #LAConnections

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

Seung Min Kim@seungminkim1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

Are you interested in complex social-ecological systems, pedagogy, sustainability education, and working with bright students and engaged faculty? I'm hiring a postdoc for a cool new initiative! More Info & Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31747

China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report

China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report

Labor abuses including violence, debt bondage and withheld wages and medical care, overfishing, shark finning, marine mammal killings: A new report exposes bad practices and a weak regulatory…

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New paper 🐟 Ever wonder how blue nutrients found in #seafood flow through international #supplychains? We explored how trade redistributes blue nutrients across borders blogs.edf.org/edfish/2026/... @envdefensefund.bsky.social @keikonomuraa.bsky.social @jahwaiian.bsky.social @jagephart.bsky.social

Trading Away Blue Nutrients

In Pacific Island Countries, blue foods play a central role in diets, culture, and livelihoods. However, global trade patterns often redistribute seafood - and thus blue nutrients - away from where th...

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Trump opens only US marine national monument in Atlantic to fishing — again news.mongabay.com/2026/02/trum...

Trump opens only US marine national monument in Atlantic to fishing — again

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Feb. 6 to open a marine protected area off the northeastern U.S. to commercial fishing, in his latest move to deregulate the country’s waters and f...

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We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Environmental Governance and Management. Very excited for this position. Please circulate widely among your networks: www.sfu.ca/rem/about/em... #academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Faculty Positions

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends. 🧪🦑🌍🐟 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

🦐🐟 Who benefits nutritionally from aquaculture? While most production benefits domestic consumers, we find nutritional inequities in trade. This new @pnas.org paper has been a LONG time in the making with @chrisgolden.bsky.social & expertly led by Laura Elsler ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Job: Dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington www.washington.edu/provost/lead...

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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Check out our new paper on one of the most quantified marine biodiversity crises—with proven pathways to recovery. Découvrez notre nouvel article sur l’une des crises de la biodiversité marine la plus nettement quantifiée—avec des solutions de rétablissement identifiées.

Nick Dulvy@nickdulvy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social

Two funded PhD projects (one open to international applicants) with us at @lec-reefs.bsky.social - please pass on to potential applicants

Tim Lamont@timlamont.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨 🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues. Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.

Matthew Pfab@matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone

UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Friday Harbor Labs is hiring an assistant professor WOT in marine invertebrate organismal biology 🦐🪸🐙 For details and to apply: apply.interfolio.com/178804

In the latest Currents newsletter, you'll find: 🌍 A call for applicants for the Blue Food Futures Fellowship 🌊 Research on actions at port that can help deter illegal fishing 🎣 Insights on how blue foods can support country climate goals & more! Read & subscribe ⤵️ mailchi.mp/oceansolutio...

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations

Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 9mo ago

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Ever notice small scale #aquaculture (SSA) doesn't seem to get much attention? Us too. We ran a semi-quant synthesis of the the literature and found it is poorly defined, missing from the US & Europe, & underrepresented in marine systems (e.g., oysters) dx.doi.org/10.1111/raq....