New Paper ❗️ 🪸Reimagining #CoralReef futures Where we develop aspirational visions for coral reefs towards a #SafeAndJust space 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00179-6 With @joachimclaudet.bsky.social @jessicablythe.bsky.social @vbrn.bsky.social et al @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

Reimagining coral reef futures - npj Ocean Sustainability

npj Ocean Sustainability - Reimagining coral reef futures

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I'm honored to be part of this amazing effort with an awesome group of people

Jessica Blythe, PhD@jessicablythe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🌊 The global community has made ambitious commitments to advancing ocean equity – what is missing is a transparent & replicable way to measure equity and track progress 🐠 📢 Our new @nature.com paper, the #OceanEquityIndex, offers a simple yet robust solution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh no, such sad news. I'll miss her.

Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kristina Gjerde was a mentor to me in high seas policy. I, and many others, owe our careers to her. May her memory be a blessing. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/kris...

Enjoy another honest government ad from @thejuicemedia.com 🎯 youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline

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The Canadien Government has made an ad for the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! #Canada2025

Honest Government Ad | Canada Election 2025 🍁

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It's herring season here in British Columbia #oceanoptimism, so here is a herring for #Sundayfishsketch

Science friends! Many of you, alarmed by grant funding cuts that make expensive field ecology research difficult or impossible, have been thinking about what to do instead. Great idea. Some of you have been saying "I'll just do some social science surveys," without learning how. Bad idea! 🧵🧪

Hey Canada, we should all listen to this interview. @petermacleod.bsky.social describes what a 🇨🇦 Civil Defense Corps could look like (starts @ 10m in). It includes preventing mis/disinfo, disaster response, & each of us contributing skills. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...

Let's build a Civil Defence Corps!

Podcast Episode · Elbows Up · 2025-03-11 · 42m

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In his Substack, Cole highlights how PP & the Cons. are "courting Maga". open.substack.com/pub/colenotc...

Canada's MAGA Takeover: The Conservative Shift We Can't Ignore

Canadians need to wake up—our country is being taken over by a version of MAGA, not in the U.S., but right here in our conservative governments.

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📣 Looking for marine science and research accounts to follow on BlueSky? 🌊 Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️ Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!

Dr Margaux Steyaert 🪸@margauxsteyaert.bsky.social · 2y ago

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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What is perhaps most depressing about watching the orange turnip grab power is that so many American approve. www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

CNN Poll: Americans worried by Trump’s push to expand power | CNN Politics

At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his approval rating in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS tilts negative but still lands above the level he reached at any point in his ...

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Watching in agony as our southern neighbour is self-destructing.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this. Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.” What?! 👀

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.

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Happy international day of women and girls in science! Here are two starter packs of women in ocean science for you to follow 🦑🧪 go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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New publication in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Just published in TREE! Advances in systematic #ConservationPlanning to meet global #biodiversity goals. 💡New tools improve resource allocation & decision-making, but trust-building is key for adoption. Future SCP must address trade-offs & uncertainties. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌍🌐🧪 #MarinePlan

Advances in systematic conservation planning to meet global biodiversity goals

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) involves the cost-effective placement and application of management actions to achieve biodiversity conservation objectives. Given the political momentum for gre...

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What are the social impacts of large-scale marine protected areas? We reviewed the evidence in this paper. Better management of the social impacts of marine protected areas can lead to more equitable & effective outcomes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human well-being outcomes of large-scale marine protected areas

Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, >100,000 km2) account for over half of the global ocean under protection, yet little is known about their …

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Fascinating new paper out in @nature.com on the importance of Small Scale Fisheries. Lots of great information on catch, nutrition, livelihoods, etc. The #sharkscience factoid I found was that only 0.2% of the SSF catch is sharks, rays or chimaerans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature

A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science - Nature Communications

Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as an example, this perspective discusses actions that recognize the sovereign rights of Indigenous Peoples and support better research across ...

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RESEARCH: Making the case for #genderinclusive #fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation. By Ayodele Oloko, Louise Teh, Philippe Le Billon, William Cheung Sarah Harper & Rashid Sumaila @ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #OpenAccess

Making the case for gender-inclusive fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation - Discover Oceans

Gender equality has been a key consideration for policymakers and natural resource managers in assessing climate risk and developing effective adaptation strategies. However, the interests and concern...

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Hey Folks, I was a bit of a late adopter here, but have finally jumped the Twitter ship and am now blue skying. I look forward to reconnecting with old peeps and connecting with lots of new ones.

Brand new review paper that sums up the thing I do. In short, there is a whole lot of overlooked chemical data ready and waiting inside aquatic taxa that can be used to monitor the environment and support species and ecosystem health. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Seems about right 🤣

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2y ago

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

I haven't seen a conservation social sciences starter pack so I decided to make one #ConSocSci #MarSocSci I am sure that I have missed people... please help me identify more people to add and let me know if you'd like me to add you! go.bsky.app/AdXdpZd

Quick sketch of a western pirate perch #sundayfishsketch

Because of popular demand we have now a number II Conservation Science starter pack since the first one is full since a while 🙃. If you are not yet on the first one, pass me message. I preferentially add folks with clear conservation research focus in profile and skeets. go.bsky.app/9RdjmCX

Starter pack for fish sci & fisheries go.bsky.app/EeZv5UT

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