Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...
Josh Cinner
@joshuacinner.bsky.social
Professor of Geography & Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney. My Thriving Oceans Research Hub studies how to make coral reef fisheries more resilient & sustainable. We operate at the intersection of social science & ecology.
In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…
Big thanks to the @lec-reefs.bsky.social crew for hosting the Thriving Oceans team in Lancaster. Workshops in castles and walks in the woods made for an amazing collaboration.
Generations of my PhD students (4 former and 2 current) working together. @christinahicks.bsky.social @evamaire.bsky.social @jzamborainmason.bsky.social @crisruanocha.bsky.social
In my way to a series of exciting workshops in Lancaster and Montpellier - we’ll be developing the next generation bright spots analysis. Watch this space… @lec-reefs.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social
BIG new paper on the MegaMove project with @netlab.bsky.social - portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new... Top areas to reach 30 x 30 for marine megafauna are highlighted
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Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Got my first electricity bill after installing solar with a battery. $0…
Colin Simpfendorfer’s resignation from working group comes as conservationists lash expansion of lethal program they say ‘does nothing to improve beach safety’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program
Exclusive: Colin Simpfendorfer’s resignation comes as other members of working group members say state government went against their advice against expanding lethal controls
theguardian.com
Awesome postdoc opportunity in our school to work with the amazing Sophie Webber on Australia’s climate economy usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy
Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
New article: Our team's reflections on the use of Q methodology in environmental justice research, and the ways we tried to embed EJ principles in the process - and interpretation of the data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Q methodology and environmental social science: adapting Q for complexity and inclusion in environmental justice research
This paper details an application of Q methodology for a global environmental justice project, a novel use in terms of the scale and complexity of our research agenda. We provide a rationale for ou...
tandfonline.com
The QLD $90 million on more shark nets, etc is disgraceful. My quote: “Today’s policy decision makes politicians more safe and Queensland beaches less safe by taking the focus off the personal responsibility and education in beach safety.” newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/05/quee...
Queensland Government dives backwards by declaring war on marine life - News Hub
SYDNEY 25 MAY 2025: The Queensland Crisafulli government’s ‘new’ Shark Control Program—that will amp up the slaughter of sharks—looks like it was written in the 1900’s and flies in the face of conserv...
newshub.medianet.com.au
New #sharkscience from @hollieboothie.bsky.social Conservation impacts and hidden actions in a randomized controlled trial of a marine pay-to-release program. A deep dive into the ins and outs of pay to release. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @iucnshark.bsky.social @nickdulvy.bsky.social
Conservation impacts and hidden actions in a randomized controlled trial of a marine pay-to-release program
Pay-to-release program encouraged live release of endangered marine taxa but led some fishers to increase catches of those taxa.
science.org
Most conservation initiatives require changes in human behavior. Insights from behavioral science may help bridge that gap. Learn more on #EarthDay:
How behavioral science can help conservation
Leveraging cognitive biases and social influence can make conservation efforts more effective
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Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries
The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”
nytimes.com
THREE DAYS LEFT to apply for a 🔥 fully funded PhD scholarship to join our interdisciplinary Thriving Oceans Research Hub. Come be part of an epic global project focused on locating and learning from coral reef bright spots. Prior publications are helpful. www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
sydney.edu.au
Congrats to the 2025 Pew Marine Fellows! This is such a wonderful program and we are looking forward to seeing the great work the new class of Fellows will do. #PewMarineFellow pewtrsts.org/4c1h16q
Pew’s 2025 Marine Fellows Work to Conserve Ocean Species and Ecosystems
The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation has named six scientists from China, Curaçao, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa as the newest recipients of the Pew fellowships in marine cons...
pewtrsts.org
Exciting PhD scholarship opportunity to join our new Thriving Oceans Research Hub www.sydney.edu.au/science/our-.... Looking for candidates with training in social science, fisheries, and/or ecology. Prior publications are helpful. www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
The Thriving Oceans team assembled at last (11/13 of us at least). Such an amazing group of ECR talent. Watch this space for some exciting and interdisciplinary marine sustainability science!
Fish and chips shouldn’t come with a catch: how Australia can keep illegal seafood off our plates theconversation.com/fish-and-chi...
Fish and chips shouldn’t come with a catch: how Australia can keep illegal seafood off our plates
Most of the seafood Australians consume comes from overseas. This includes products from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing operations. We can fix this.
theconversation.com
Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery
Marine reserves generate more than half of coral groupers produced on the GBR and half of the fish caught by the fishery.
doi.org
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans? 2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #AcademicSky 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
