Excited to share my latest work! We found that winter flounder are not recovering, and may even be declining further despite protections from fishing. They also seem to be failing to adapt their behavior to environmental conditions. 🧪🦑🐟 OA link: academic.oup.com/tafs/advance...

As we mourn the passing of Pope Francis, I am very conscious of his legacy and teachings on #IntegralEcology I'll be offering a reflection in a podcast series marking the tenth anniversary of #LaudatoSi Sign up here! www.ignatianyoungadults.org/laudato-si

Hundreds join El Paso bishops’ protest against migrant mass deportations, asylum bans www.ncronline.org/news/hundred...

Fisheries Sustainability Eroded by Lost Catch Proportionality in a Coral Reef Seascape 🧪🦑🪸🐠 www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17...

Disappointing to see this kind of overgeneralization still being proposed for policy guidance. Targeting small fish does not always yield nutritional benefits and is a very damaging practice in some fisheries 🐟🌍🧪🦑 agris.fao.org/search/en/pr...

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠 We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OK, I'm biased... but I'm a big fan of this new paper by @liamlachs.bsky.social, which emerged from his visit to UBC. The message: don't just grab the highest resolution data. You need to evaluate what is suitable for your specific location and research question. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

New paper by several us as part of the #BlueFoods Assessment. We analyze nutrition-sensitive climate risk to micronutrients across production systems. By 2041–2060, 50 countries are projected to face high domestic climate risk for 2 or more micronutrients. Check it out: shorturl.at/OMfk9

Knowing several of the NOAA fisheries scientists who model and expertly endeavor to inform decision makers on the ~500 commercial stocks, I find it hard to believe the science is “ignored” as this article claims. They also site some of the older studies (c. 2012) which have been refuted or updated.

Cheung, Pauly, and Sumaila on the outlook of global fisheries My $0.02: ✅ great identification of policy issues ❌ a fair amount of overstatement ❓I don’t think the IUCN Red List is the right tool for this question 🐟🌎🧪🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

My friends and brother Jesuits Michael Petro and Dan Corrou have been doing some incredible work with migrant workers in Beirut through Jesuit Refugee Service. So good to see some of these stories lifted up by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/card/2024/12...

I was approached re: the Finnish decision to downgrade MDPI & Frontiers journals in 🇫🇮 rankings (THE article). This decision was based on broad patterns, including in our recent study "The strain on scientific publishing" (link: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) A quick 🧵 1/n #SciPub #AcademicChatter

An exciting early attempt to model aquatic and terrestrial food production together, predicting national climate vulnerability for specific micronutrients iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟🪸🎣🏝️ go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH 🦑🧪🌍

Really interesting productivity gradients in Australian reef fishes. Detritivores dominate at tropical latitudes, and herbivores at warm temperate latitudes. Would love to see if these gradients and their drivers (🌡️🌤️) are the same elsewhere. 🐟🧪🦑 #MarineEcology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How did global air temperatures vary before 1850? We can now answer this from direct instrumental observations. The new GloSAT dataset is under review! Morice et al.: essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Great paper! 🎣 Fisheries science is sometimes skeptical of extinction risk b/c of the gap between overfishing and extinction risk thresholds 🚨 BUT this paper totally aligns with theory: small range size, low growth rate, and overfishing are a perfect storm for conservation risk 🦑🧪🌏 #MarineEcology

I was interviewed by @theconversation.bsky.social podcast about the reopening of the Newfoundland 🇨🇦 Northern cod fishery after the 32 year fishing moratorium theconversation.com/why-canadas-... @marineinstitute.bsky.social

A lot of work on fisheries and nutrition (including my own) has looked at the nutrient content of fish catches. This paper finds important differences between the nutrients available in coral reef ecosystems and what is captured by fishers. 🦑🧪🐠 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gidday everyone, I hope you are well wherever you are. I've just landed here where the skies are blue. I'm keen to talk about #fisheries and #marineconservation & to hear your ideas about how we are going to save the planet #bemorescallop

We’ve all heard about diversity-stability relationships, but what about productivity-stability? I think this gets complicated in wild capture marine fisheries and it’s really hard to tell one story. Great paper, though! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This makes me so happy 😂

Anyone attending to SCB's Conservation Social Science Conference this week?? 🦑🐠 I'll be presenting a case of community-based judicial activism for fisheries in Lamu, Kenya, on Wednesday! The book chapter it's based on was published earlier this year: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Meanwhile, scientists try to repopulate shorelines with the endangered black abalone... and SUCCEED. www.npr.org/2024/11/07/n... 🧪🦑 cc @katharinehayhoe.com

Interesting new paper on changes in Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments by intensive bottom trawling. But I have some problems with the analyses and implications. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A short documentary on Cape Cod's nutrient pollution issue published today in Scientific American and WBUR: youtu.be/tegBETX6MLw?...

Are we forgetting early observations of coral bleaching? 🧪🦑🐠 Helpful take on 1982 mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef... also more evidence that threshold warming models are insufficient for predicting coral bleaching www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Call for abstracts is now open for the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (and joint Asian Society of Ichthyologists meeting) in Taipei, Taiwan June 9-13, 2025. (Deadline for submitting abstracts is Jan 20.) #IPFC2025 #IPFC12 www.2025asi-ipfc12.tw/site/page.as...

Salmon running this morning in Carkeek Park, Seattle. There was quite a crowd gathered to cheer them on (because how can you not).

New research: Tropical fishery nutrient production depends on biomass-based management 🧪🦑🐠🎣🐟 We used catch reconstruction and modeling techniques to estimate nutrient yields and their drivers, finding that ending overfishing is more impactful than other approaches. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Modeling the effects of selectively fishing key functional groups of herbivores on coral resilience 🦑🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/B9JVVB...

Gaza fishermen brave shells for tiny catches in struggle to feed families www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The ISRA project has just released our compendium of 125 Important Shark and Ray Areas for the Western Indian Ocean region. Download it here: sharkrayareas.org/download/wes... Learn more about the ISRA project here: sharkrayareas.org/about-isras/ Please share widely! 🧪 🦑

"Beyond yellowfin tuna fisheries contributing more than US$16 billion to the global economy yearly, the species is an apex predator that plays a critical role in the functioning, productivity and overall health of marine ecosystems" said Daniel Pauly phys.org/news/2024-01... @seaaroundus.bsky.social

New paper out today! 🧪🦑 #fisheries Capturing small fishes is NOT a recommended strategy for enhancing the nutrition contributions of coral reefs 🎣🪸🍽️ To find out why, read the article OA for 50 days at authors.elsevier.com/a/1iN6-3RKK-... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kenyan women harness fishing traditions in Kilifi county 🇰🇪 🎣 www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/healt...

I’m finally checking this place out and just in time for an end-of-year post! 2023 was a big one: ✍️ 2 FA papers submitted 🎙️ 2 podcast interviews ✈️ moved 🇰🇪 to 🇺🇸 🎓 began my last stage of formation for the priesthood But most of all, I’m grateful for relationships new and old 🙏 Happy almost 2024!