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

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

Elbows up, Canada!

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...

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

📣 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!

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! 🧪🌎

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 🤣

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

Using #sundayfishsketch as motivation to do some sketching 🐙 🐟 🐠. Here is a blue rockfish

Rockfish sketch because why not?

Things are starting to happen on here! Perhaps it's time to engage with social media again 😃

I imported 15 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

Just signed up for Bluesky, with thanks to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for the invite! Would love recommendations of who to follow... esp. related to marine conservation and marine science. Thanks!