New paper Using historical sawfish 'saws' often found in museums, loss of genetic diversity is demonstrated in these critically endangered shark-like rays Led by the excellent Annmarie Fearing. Great to be involved/a part of Annmarie's PhD! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Never trust people who can’t admit when they’re wrong.

2-years Postdoc in Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation at #SLUAqua with @orjost.bsky.social and in collaboration with NRM Stockholm. #ecoevo #EvolBiol Using systematic reviews, meta-analyses & other synthesis methods to address the following questions 🧵 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

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🏅 Last but not least, we heard from Simon Jennings, this year's Beverton Medallist, awarded to a distinguished scientist for lifelong contribution. Simon talked about importance of identifying difficult questions then fitting the right tools as well as spotting happenstance opportunities #FSBI2026

I talk a lot about the complexity of ocean conservation, and how real solutions can’t fit on a bumper sticker. Enter the Ocean Cleanup. Launched by a teenager giving a TED Talk, they claimed they were going to scoop all the plastic out of the ocean. 🧪🦑🌎

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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🏅 Beverton Medal #FSBI2026 Simon Jennings is recognised for ground-breaking research and a lifetime contribution to fisheries science. His work has advanced ecosystem-based management and strengthened links between research and policy. More: bit.ly/4bi6mVO

📢 #WeAreRecruiting Senior Fisheries Advisor Help shape sustainable fisheries management, advise on offshore MPAs, support Fisheries Management Plans & provide advice on impacts to #MarineBiodiversity 📍Hybrid (Peterborough/Aberdeen base) 📅FTA Aug 2027 🔗 jncc.gov.uk/about-jncc/c... ⏰Closes 2 Aug

Putting finishing touches to talk on @projectfishistory.bsky.social - looking forward to #FSBI Southampton @thefsbi.bsky.social

A taster of the @projectfishistory.bsky.social from @alecbmmoore.bsky.social, digging out some especially revealing #historical #ecological facts on #herring (never forgotten) spawning grounds in the #IrishSea. #FSBI2026

⚔️ A fight between two wild lesser #Anteaters is something few people ever witness. Rare footage from #Brazil captured an unusual display of aggressive #Behaviour between two free-ranging adults, grappling with their forelimbs and prehensile tails. 1/3

Great opportunity for a numerate postgrad with an interest in fisheries, working on Fishing Vessel Data Analysis and Mapping in Wales. swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...

Our RRS Discovery cruise is well underway. We're studying the effect of bottom trawling on organic carbon that is stored in seabed sediments. We are sampling seabed sediments and fauna, the sediment plume behind the trawl, and the movement of CO2 from the seabed to the surface. #DY213 #SeaSTORE

Bottom trawling pressure in Taiwan’s EEZ is very high in some places, with swept-area-ratios over >100 in some places, with what looks like a maximum of 621. That means that that 1km2 is trawled entirely twice a day 😱. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

🌊 New paper by @lornamckellar.bsky.social 🪸 Expert elicitation (IDEA protocol) gives a transparent way to set 'good status' thresholds — but we need agreement on what 'good' means for consistent use across indicators & regions. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Defining thresholds for good environmental status using structured expert elicitation

Abstract. Thresholds for good status are required under the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the UK Marine Strategy (UKMS) to assess if go

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We are hiring a new PhD candidate 🎉as part of the No-REGRETS (NOrth Sea Renewable Energy: Gaining the Required Ecological Knowledge for the TranSition) consortium. If you are excited too, have what we are looking for and interested in joining us please apply. #ornithology #animalmovement

Eldar Rakhimberdiev@eldarrak.bsky.social · last yr.

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🌊 New paper by Jonathan Heath @sosbangor.bsky.social 🦞 ⚓ Anchoring pressure on the seabed can be estimated from AIS ship tracking data Pressure can be mapped to highlight spatial hotspots Significant pressure levels revealed in a designated conservation area www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to see a spatial assessment of bottom trawling in Ghana’s using vessel monitoring system data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A quick calculation suggests a maximum swept-area-ratio of about 0.16 y-1, which is very low relative to many other areas (maximum in Europe is 74 y-1).

new publication: Stratigraphic evidence of organic carbon depletion in an intensely trawled muddy seabed Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stratigraphic evidence of organic carbon depletion in an intensely trawled muddy seabed - Ambio

Understanding the long-term effects of bottom trawling on sedimentary organic carbon (OC) is crucial for assessing its role in carbon cycling and climate regulation. Most studies analyse effects on su...

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"These findings add to growing evidence that intensive bottom trawling can reduce the capacity of muddy shelf sediments to function as long-term carbon sinks and climate regulators."

New important study showing that chronic mobile bottom fishing is decreasing organic carbon content and organic carbon density in the western Irish Sea mud belt.

Jan Geert Hiddink@jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · last mo.

🌊 New paper in @ambio-journal.bsky.social 🎣 Sediment organic carbon content is lower in intensely trawled areas, declining by 0.05 wt% per additional swept area ratio (1 yr-1 ). rdcu.be/fqQBA

🌊 New paper in @ambio-journal.bsky.social 🎣 Sediment organic carbon content is lower in intensely trawled areas, declining by 0.05 wt% per additional swept area ratio (1 yr-1 ). rdcu.be/fqQBA

An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

🌊 🎣New paper showing that: 1) The European Commission calls for closing all marine Natura 2000 to bottom trawling 2) Natura 2000 Network closures protect habitats unevenly, underrepresenting offshore habitats www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦈New study assessing trawling impacts across 461662 km² of Greenland seas 🦐 The community was long-lived and sensitive. 🪸🧽 Trawling intensity was low and localised🎣 Some habitats were severely affected, particularly for the most sensitive benthic components. 🦞 academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Instead, on land we have removed the habitats that wild species live in and replaced them with agriculture and cities. Also not great for wildlife...

Ariel Brunner@arielbrunner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We would never tollerate this from hunters on land. Why is the fishing industry allowed to get away with it? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

State-supported terrorism...

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

UN inquiry finds Israeli forces shield settlers during attacks on Palestinians reut.rs/4upRuvk

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

For anyone who wants to argue cars are the most efficient transportation. Lol.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

I worry that initiatives like this will break pro-social norms. Willingness to give feedback generously is one of the most beautiful things in our community. Plus, universities pay profs with the understanding that this is part of the job description, so the idea we do this for "free" is laughable.

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming