🎉 Excited to share my first paper at the @marineinstitute out in @FishFishJournal : Increase in Harp Seal 🦭 Ecosystem Role After the Cod 🐟 Collapse in Newfoundland & Labrador 🇨🇦 Supervised by @thelifeaquatic.xyz ! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 📻 Stay tuned for upcoming media coverage!

Some thoughts on DFO decision making and peer-review science processes, with Matt Robertson and Megan Bailey @marineinstitute.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social

📣 Just out! @FAO.org has released the most detailed report ever on the state of marine fish stocks! The data shows that some of the world’s fisheries are recovering thanks to effective, science-based management. 👉 bit.ly/4l0LV28 #UNOC3 #BlueTransformation

Recently published in @natcomms.nature.com: Ocean climate cycles related to sea level pressure anomalies above the northern hemisphere affect ecosystem productivity in a coherent way (from primary and secondary production, to pelagic and groundfish). @marineinstitute.bsky.social rdcu.be/eqn2q

MI's Dr. Frédéric Cyr is the lead author of a scientific paper that examines the impact of shifting Northwest Atlantic Ocean climate conditions on groundfish stocks, such as Northern cod. | @fcyr.bsky.social Read more here! 🔗 ow.ly/Kv7r50W7Jhn

My co-chair François Houllier and I are delighted with this resounding success, after 2 years of preparation and many hurdles to overcome. The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts. #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean

We are a growing network of >100 researchers and policymakers, working to understand climate change impacts on fisheries and marine ecosystems. 🐟 🐠 🐡 🌏 We welcome members from diverse educational and geographic backgrounds at all career stages. Use this link to become a member: lnkd.in/ggup7VwB

PhD Scholarship to work on ecosystem modelling of the Central Arctic Ocean as part of the @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social Polar Station Project Co-supervised by Maxime Geoffroy @marineinstitute.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/5d780... #PhD #ecopath

Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority. A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of. My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd

THE LIFE AQUATIC MSc student @loganexplores.bsky.social won an NSERC MSc Scholarship For his MSc research, Logan is investigating Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) structure and function for fisheries management decision making by interviewing DFO managers across Canada @marineinstitute.bsky.social

Our new FishMIP paper published in Earth's Future @agu.org looks at global & regional marine ecosystem model climate change projections Global marine ecosystem models projected greater biomass declines than regional models for many regions agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Electric cars are coming by the millions. But what will happen to all the dead batteries? Learn more on #NationalBatteryDay: https://scim.ag/4hG9FHv

Our new FishMIP paper led by Kelly Ortega-Cisneros develops a global to regional workflow for #climatechange and #fisheries simulations with marine ecosystem models @marineinstitute.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐

Nice discussion between MUN climate researchers and @adamfwalsh.bsky.social about climate change at The Signal (CBC). youtu.be/ZyUZh0Rdyus?... @marineinstitute.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social @thelifeaquatic.xyz @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social

My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs. Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway. Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.

Four PhD scholarships to work on the Transforming Climate Action Project in collaboration with Dal, Laval, & UQAR Based at the Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland 🇨🇦 Apply by March 31, 2025: thelifeaquatic.xyz/opportunities #PhD #climatechange

News from another cold, northern country… 🚗⚡️ www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. *Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success Duan+ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 60% of postdocs leave academia p(postdoc -> academia) increases with: publishing more highly cited papers location of postdoc training changing research from PhD, but not too much

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries @colognaviktoria.bsky.social + doi.org/10.1038/s415... Overall, trust in scientists is moderately high & people think scientists should engage with society and policy, but minority disagrees with policy engagement

While this isn’t good news, it is not a tipping point, nor does it presage a dramatic increase in climate feedbacks.

I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely. journals.sagepub.com...

This reflects a bit of good news; 2.7C is a lot better than the 4C that many thought we were heading for a decade ago, and reflects real progress on moving away from a 21st century dominated by coal. At the same time, its far from what is needed:

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...

Postdoctoral Fellowship @memorialu.bsky.social Transforming Climate Action The objective is to constrain modelling and reduce uncertainty in the carbon cycle, the biological carbon pump, and low and high trophic level coupling Apply by Jan. 31, 2025 thelifeaquatic.xyz/opportunities

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

Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!). How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:

"There's no get out of climate change free card" - me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/c...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

New paper challenges the traditional impact chain approach often used in @ipcc.bsky.social: ant. forcing → global climate → climate impact drivers → socioeconomic impact. Instead, it advocates an end-user-focused shift, linking local climate risk thresholds directly to emissions pathways👇

🌊 Frontiers in Marine Science downgraded to 'junk' status by Finnish board. It's always hard to decide what journals to support, I'm generally of the opinion AGU/EGU & other society journals are best for quality peer-review, whereas Frontiers/MDPI are very poor. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) don’t just harm ecosystems—they also alter the ocean’s carbon cycle! Our new analysis of 30 global datasets shows ocean CO₂ uptake drops by 8% during MHWs, with regional anomalies reaching up to 30%. 🌊

Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the Transforming Climate Action Project in collaboration with Dal, Laval, UQAR Based @marineinstitute.bsky.social Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland 🇨🇦 Apply by Jan. 31, 2025 #postdoc #climatechange #ecology static1.squarespace.com/static/5d780...

Four PhD scholarships to work on the Transforming Climate Action Project in collaboration with Dal, Laval, UQAR. Students will be based @marineinstitute.bsky.social, Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland 🇨🇦 Apply by Jan. 31, 2025 #PhD static1.squarespace.com/static/5d780...

🆕High-sensitivity climate models are crucial for projecting future regional climate impacts, as global warming levels alone don't always tell the full story. New study with PIK scientists Jacob Schewe, Christopher Reyer et al. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends 🧵1/20

In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵

📢 Our new paper maps the first probable location and change in suitability of #aquaculture freshwater finfish in the United States under downscaled climate change. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm speaking in this, as are a bunch of stellar scientists! It's fully virtual so join from anywhere.

🧪🌊🚨NEW PAPER🚨Business-as-usual (BAU) will not solve the problems facing the #ocean. Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) will, but it's not widely implemented. Jason Link and I developed a business case for #EBM that shows EBM is cheaper, more efficient, and overall more beneficial than BAU🧵 (1/3)

🌊 The Baltic Sea - balancing pressures in a changing ecosystem We have published an updated Ecosystem Overview highlighting the pressures impacting this ecosystem. 📄 doi.org/10.17895/ice... ℹWe talk to Carolyn Faithfull & Riikka Puntila-Dodd who led this work www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

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

New article in PLOS Climate led by @raquelruizdiaz.bsky.social looking at the future of cod, snow crab, & yellowtail flounder on The Grand Banks 🇨🇦 Warming benefits cod but not snow crab or yellowtail @fcyr.bsky.social @marineinstitute.bsky.social @plos.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Really cool animation showing the relation between shipping traffic and whale distribution, from our paper in Science www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilm_... paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper on #CMIP7 emissions-driven design out today in GMD. Earth System Modeling has long relied on simulations driven by GHG concentrations. But this approach is outdated. ESMs need to resolve human activity and its consquences. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

🚨Paper Alert🚨 💡Everything you always wanted to know about #governance of the #HighSeas* 💭*but were afraid to ask ⚡️Achieving #coherence across public & private governance mechanisms: challenge but key to achieving ocean sustainability goals. 📰https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-011023-022521

Using up the carbon budget for 1.5°C

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Climate change impacts on Northwest Atlantic marine ecosystems and fisheries Come join our team at the Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University in St. John's 🇨🇦 & work with the fantastic FishMIP family Two years, $70K/year + benefits Details: shorturl.at/V3paN