Come join @lec-reefs.bsky.social ! 2 new post-doc positions with the amazing @timlamont.bsky.social at Lancaster Environment Centre. An exciting time to join + form his new Future Leaders research on transforming ecosystem restoration. 🌊 🧪🦑

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...

A new study reveals that although they are often overlooked, dried fish are critical to helping feed millions of people across Africa. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj @lancasteruni.bsky.social

New paper! ‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’ Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ⬇️🧵

#Panama's January to April #ocean #upwelling which brings normally cool, nutrient-filled waters from the deep. 2025 was different; "this vital oceanographic process did not occur for the first time" 😮 share.google/v7taeyp4vmr3...

You know this story is going to be a good time because my editor told me the first draft had too many instances of the word "poop" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s... 🧪 (featuring Leo Uesaka, @ruthedunn.bsky.social‬ and @movementecology.bsky.social)

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social

"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟 New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social 🧪🌍🪶

3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

How did farmed salmon take over? We explored how big industry and retail shape consumer perceptions, putting UK salmon top of the Big 5 So what? Market-making helps #salmon to expand, raising environmental impacts and squeezing out other #seafood from UK diets 🦑 doi.org/10.1088/1748...

🚨 Our latest paper on how #climatechange will affect the distribution of shared fish stocks like #tuna and #billfishes across international borders is out now! 🐟🌍 Read the #OpenAccess article & IOF story below 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪 Ocean productivity is shrinking A new study finds a 7% global decline in ocean net primary production (NPP) over 25 years, driven by warming, nutrient-poor surface waters. This threatens carbon cycling and global fisheries. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Oceans

Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

Are you interested in invertebrate aquatic foods and their role in global nutrition-security? We quantified the nutrient supply of aquatic invertebrates for 29 essential nutrients, and in the process we developed predictive models of their nutrient content! Preprint alert: @chrisgolden.bsky.social

New Open Data Release! Version 3 of our normalized global fishing effort dataset is available for download. Now spanning 12 years 2012-2024! The release adds 4 more years, nearly 370 million hours of fishing activity, and 141,000 new vessels. globalfishingwatch.org/platform-upd...

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deadline FRIDAY! New postdoc position on pelagic reef subsidies. @lancasteruni.bsky.social & @lec-reefs.bsky.social Tell your friends 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍

Fully funded PhD project through @ukri.org future leaders fellowship to Jamie Wilson @livuniresearch.bsky.social on whether ocean circulation the ultimate driver of biological carbon storage in the ocean 🌊🧪⚒️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

**2 weeks** left to apply - come join me and @lec-reefs.bsky.social at Lancaster University.

We're hiring a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University to join the SharkScape project, a three–year, multi-institute project involving field-based research and data analysis. Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r... #MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs

🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗 fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

Our civil servants at USAID want us to share that Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 Tell Congress #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$ ⬇️

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...

Calling coral reef scientists, oceanographers, isotope ecologists: new post-doc at Lancaster Environment Centre with me @lec-reefs.bsky.social @renatoamorais.bsky.social @remotereefs.bsky.social @drmanateena.bsky.social Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

🚨Our paper now out and Open Access in Conservation Biology🚨 🦈Urgent conservation action needed for WIO’s large-bodied fish. Sharks, giant groupers & green humphead parrotfishes face alarming declines in the WIO due to overfishing & climate change. 🦈 @sosbangor.bsky.social t.co/wJiMuTmZih

📣 Postdoc Alert Any interest in: 🖥️ deep learning, 🌍 societal challenges, 🐟 natural resource management? Please apply or contact me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/310424

Fantastic opportunity to push the boundaries of work on the interface of reef ecology and oceanography! Please, do apply!

Check out this FANTASTIC postdoc opportunity below. Calling all folks interested in coral reef ecology/oceanography/trophic ecology to better understand pelagic~reef pathways.

🐠 Small-scale #fisheries play a significant but overlooked role in global fisheries production & are key to addressing hunger and malnutrition while supporting livelihoods around the world, according to research featured on the cover of @nature.com. Read the full story 👉 fish.uw.edu/2025/01/smal...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... ‘Globally, the livelihood of 1 in every 12 people, nearly half of them women, depends at least partly on small-scale fishing’💙🐟🦐🦀🦪💙

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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Just out in early view @Conbiology we show how to assess the sustainability of data poor reef fisheries leveraging information from global models! @joshuacinner.bsky.social @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Loving this paper on recent collaboration between Cefas and partners, including @universityofexeter.bsky.social ...in essence, tagging of a tuna that got eaten by a whale 🍣

Prospective PhD students: I am recruiting another 3 PhD students to join my Thriving Oceans Research Hub and work on the "Bright Spots 2.0" (aka exceptional responders) project as part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese.... Scholarship Ad: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Excellent new paper in @nature.com demonstrating the global importance of small-scale #fisheries (SSF) for addressing the Sustainable Development Goals www.nature.com/articles/s41... Resonates strongly with the situation in the UK, but where SSF are declining & under increasing threat 🐟

Small-scale fisheries account for 40% of global catch, providing 20% of micronutrient intakes for up to 2.3 billion people and livelihoods for 1 in 12 people. Huge effort involving @fao.org & 800 experts, out now in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort

The year 2024 was marked by violence and elections. However, climate change still made headlines. But after a standout year in 2023, online mentions of climate papers returned to more typical levels www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...

New Countdown Initiative paper which: - Presents the first indicator monitoring update across 5 themes (more below) - Provides an expert elicitation of interactions across indicators. - Reviews literature & country case studies Paper: tinyurl.com/CountdownMS Website: tinyurl.com/countdownweb...

Four PhD scholarships @memorialu.bsky.social – Bottom-up & top-down ecosystem roles of zooplankton – Trophic transfer efficiency – Two-way coupling of biogeochemical and food-web models – Modelling carbon cycle from low to high trophic levels Apply by Jan. 31, 2025 thelifeaquatic.xyz/opportunities

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...

Two weeks ago I said "hey we should use this crazy new map projection" and today there is python code! Showing here global vessel presence density (from AIS) using the spilhaus projection in a single view where you can see the whole ocean.

Marine heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent. This incredible underwater time-series from Seychelles has taught us how coral reefs can respond to bleaching - including regime shifts, boom-bust cycles, and now, a regime reversal from algae -> coral. Out now in Ecology Letters! 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Check out our new paper! We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After many months of social media absence, I'm finally ready to start posting over here. So here's a (re-)introduction: 👋 Hi, I'm a marine ecologist who mostly researches coral-reef fishes. My current work examines how seabird nutrients influence coral-reef ecology and resilience 🐦💩🪸🪸🐠🐟

Feather stable isotopes & dive data reveal links between habitat use & foraging behaviour across 3 populations of red-throated diver during their moult 🪶🌊 Out now in Ecology & Evolution: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...