A great day for the annual SOS beach trip with the new undergraduate students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Sandcastles were built, beach pictionary played, and much fun had by students new and old, and staff.

Photographs of #FishingCommunities always speak to my heart. These are from Lithuania’s Curonian Spit. One of the highlights of #ICESASC25 getting to view these at the conference dinner. 🇱🇹🐟

Starting the last day of my travel back from the #ICESASC25 in Lithuania (train ferry combo). The travel was fairly cheap with interrail with the ferry was only £126 return. But it does take 3 days 🙂 @sosbangor.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

And she was shorted-listed for the best presentation award! @sosbangor.bsky.social

Great talk on using historical sources to map herring spawning grounds by @georginahunt.bsky.social for @projectfishistory.bsky.social.

Really enjoyed presenting my PhD work at #icesasc25 in Klaipeda, Lithuania - even at 9am the day after the conference dinner

Great talk by Daniel van Denderen showing that fishing had resulted in an explosion of small pelagics #icesasc2025

'Notably, 11 out of 24 state features/criteria were not assessed in over half of the ecoregions' - my PhD work is evaluating methods for estimating thresholds for good status to address gaps in state assessments e.g., for GES under the #MSFD and #UKMS

Study on the prediction of approaching #tippingpoints Research team recommends: Warnings of approaching #climate tipping points using statistical early warning signals have to be taken with a grain of salt ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Study-on-...

New paper out from @duncanobrien.bsky.social, will be particular interesting to those of you trying to understand #stability loss in real-world ecosystems "Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟

‘Taking the further step of correctly portraying scientific consensus as convergent evidence rather than scientists’ opinions will further the goal of showing why vetted and validated science is a crucial ingredient of policy decisions around the world.’

Only 9% of journalists working for national and transnational media come from a working class background.

(Not intentionally) but on this #earthday I presented my PhD work at my first webinar series. We had a great turnout and some interesting questions around the application of methods for estimating thresholds and the use of reference conditions. Thanks to the #SMMR organiser team for having me on 🌍

I'll be presenting my PhD work tomorrow online at 1pm BST for the SMMR webinar series - 'setting thresholds for good status in marine ecosystem management' - free to join www.smmr.org.uk/event/smmr-n...

RESTORATION of marine habitats & species: just out @icesmarine.bsky.social workshop report on enhancing understanding of restoration processes, success criteria, & factors affecting recovery rates. Pleased to have contributed to this useful new resource doi.org/10.17895/ice...

"Mapping of Marine Protected Areas & their associated fishing activities in the Atlantic, Baltic, Nth Sea & Outermost Regions" We identified & characterised fishing activities in 800 #MPAs & assessed which activities are compatible with MPA conservation objectives 🧪🌎🦑🐠 data.europa.eu/doi/10.2926/...

I am advertising two PhD studentships (part of the six that DICE is currently advertising). PhD 1: Understanding and optimising local nature recovery networks in England. Deadline 11/05/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Supervised by Bob Smith and Zoe Davies, funded by UKRI E3.

PhD 2: Exploring scenarios for conservation areas to balance biodiversity and ecosystem services in the UK’s marine environment. Deadline 23/04/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Supervised by Rachel Seary and Bob Smith, funded by Leverhulme.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... interesting paper on identifying 'tipping point' / non-linear pressure-state thresholds: "detectability was found to depend on both the shape of the threshold relationship and the statistical definition of the threshold location"

Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne! I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com

Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance? The deadline for submissions to the 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is this week. Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/4gKMnz9

Links to join and listen in to day 1 - AM: www.fao.org/webcast/home... PM: www.fao.org/webcast/home...

I'm giving a talk this afternoon about defining significant adverse impacts, including work by @lornamckellar.bsky.social

At @fao.org this week to talk about fisheries management in the high seas. eafm-symposium.nafo.int

Looking for a PhD position, and interested in in 2nd generation restoration considering genetic factors in seagrasses (aka assisted evolution)? - still 10 days left to apply!

We found that for small or noisy datasets, range of natural variation is most suitable to estimate ecologically meaningful, reliable, and transparent thresholds for good status, while for larger datasets with low noise levels, all four methods are likely to be useful.

The first paper of @lornamckellar.bsky.social is out! She tested the statistical robustness of four methods to set thresholds for ‘good’ ecosystem status. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

🚨 New research 🚨 (and the first paper from my PhD) How do we define good vs. degraded marine ecosystems? Our study evaluated four methods for setting ecological thresholds—and not all are equally reliable. 🌊🧵 (1/4)

And our #plankton paper got picked up by the New York Times! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/c...

Excited to announce I will be co-chairing a conference session at 11th ESP World Conference in Darwin. Submit your abstract by March 15th for our session ‘Navigating tomorrow’s seas through integrative ecosystem service assessments and decision support tools’ here: espconference.org/esp11/author 🧪🦑

Exciting to see some of my PhD work on setting thresholds for good status being presented at the EAFM symposium #FAO #ABNJ

I'm then continuing next week to @fao.org in Rome for a conference on Applying the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in ABNJ, where I will be talking about thresholds for avoiding significant adverse impacts, including work by @lornamckellar.bsky.social eafm-symposium.nafo.int

On the way to @icesmarine.bsky.social to co-chair WKREST, on marine nature restoration

Give a group of scientists the same data and the same research question, and they should come up with similar answers—in theory. But they don’t. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social)

The US Department of Defense states that climate change is "woke". Be on the lookout for future releases branding gravity as "communist".

We are seeking a highly motivated #Postdoc Researcher -background in #Ecology, #Biology or #Biodiversity -experience in #BiologicalInvasions - to contribute to the #HorizonEurope #GuardIAS project. Info and applications (by 12/3): euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317579 #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies

🎉🚨 🧪 Huge congrats & thanks to @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker @itchyshin.bsky.social for leading this important paper Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"

Great looking PhD on temperate rainforest restoration, biodiversity, carbon and resilience, with colleagues at @buforestry.bsky.social deadline 28th February www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Trump administration orders NOAA scientists to halt all international work. Staff were told to stop meetings, discussions, emails with foreign colleagues. Freeze affects travel, virtual meetings, and collaborations until political appointees review them. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 www.opb.org/article/2025...

📣POSTDOC wanted: We are looking for a marine ecologist to join our #kelp forest team at IMR in Norway 🌊🌿. The position is focused on impacts of harvesting on kelp and kelp forest #biodiversity. Enthusiasm, strong cv and interest in #fieldwork is required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two weeks left to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position in my lab, working on cuties like this Trimma capostriatum. If you're into pop gen, fish, and fieldwork, please consider applying. We're a fun group to science with! 🥹👉👈 fishandfunctions.com/join fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

Really enjoyed presenting my work on thresholds for good status at our CDT SuMMeR symposium, and meeting all the other students / hearing about their cool projects (like Dani’s) - looking forward to seeing everyone’s progression at our summer school in July

In a world of powerful science & big data, how can historical documents usefully inform sustainable management of our oceans? Looking forward to giving this talk tonight @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

CDT SuMMeR (sustainable management of marine resources) symposium - ended with a project synergy/ collab session amongst PhD students. Developing discussion groups around key PhD themes - my theme/ q of interest: what does ‘restored’ look like for different habitats? 🤔🌱

Busy first day at the CDT SuMMeR symposium in Bristol, I chaired the first session and presented my work on estimating thresholds for good status using reference conditions for plankton, seagrass, reef fish, and benthic indicators - lots of positive feedback and discussion

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Great talk from @aquadan1.bsky.social on her CDT SuMMeR PhD looking at the elasmobranchs in the UK using interdisciplinary approaches - as endorsed by jaws himself @sosbangor.bsky.social