Jessica Blythe, PhD

Congratulations to Norie España, PhD Candidate, on a wonderful poster presented today at @brocku.ca' Faculty of Social Sciences research colloquium!

If you are interested in #equity, #MPAs & #LMMAs watch this space for Norie's work...coming soon!

Ensuring Equitable Access in the Blue Economy: A Systematic Review of Ocean Resources and Marginalised Groups’ Inclusion | African Journal of Development Studies (formerly AFFRIKA Journal of Politics,... The blue economy, conceived as the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and environmental integrity, has emerged as a key pathway for achieving global developm...

🐟 My read for the day! 🦀 "Ensuring equitable access in the blue economy" by Laura Novienyo Abla Amoah & Felix Kwabena Donkor

#BlueEconomy #Equity

journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.3...

💡 Looking for a great paper to read today?

This one finds that organisations working on #conservation projects have sometimes DAMAGED community #wellbeing! It concludes with ideas for more equitable relations.

www.jstor.org/stable/27324...

Thanks for recommending it @noellagray.bsky.social!

Women are often disproportionately impacted by biodiversity loss, but simultaneously sidelined when it comes to decision-making at various levels. 🌱

In episode 3 of the IPBES podcast, Brit Garner discusses this in more depth with Nadia Sitas and Nita Shashidharan.

🎧 natureinsight.podbean.com

Deep-Sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: Ecology, Function and Management Applications are invited for a 3.5 years PhD studentship: Deep-Sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: Ecology, Function and Management. The studentship will...

PhD opportunity! "Deep-Sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems: Ecology, Function and Management". Do cutting edge research on the deep sea under supervision from Prof Kerry Howell @pml.ac.uk, Dr Angela Stevenson @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social & me @thembauk.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

Benefits and impacts of use of light in UK fisheries and their wider effect on the marine environment Applications are invited for three 3.5 year PhD studentships: Benefits and impacts of use of light in UK fisheries and their wider effect on the marine...

PhD opportunity! "Benefits & impacts of use of light in UK #fisheries & their wider effect on the marine environment" (aka #scallopdiscos!) Supervision by me @thembauk.bsky.social Tom Davies @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Tim Smyth @pml.ac.uk @fishtekmarine.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

Stanford research and expertise help establish first-of-its-kind marine protected area A new framework informed by Stanford-led research and stakeholder convenings balances conservation with cultural heritage and sustainable resettlement of communities removed from an island chain decad...

“Facilitating a space wherein communities can shape policies & decisions about their land, ocean, values, practices, & livelihood should be the norm.” – Josheena Naggea

Learn how a Stanford working group is centering cultural heritage in ocean governance ➡️ woods.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...

Co-producing ocean plans with Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders - npj Ocean Sustainability npj Ocean Sustainability - Co-producing ocean plans with Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders

Wonderful new paper for my morning read!

To co-produce ocean plans, start by recognizing the distinct rights and knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities. doi.org/10.1038/s441...

The Hidden Forces Keeping Reef Fishers Below Living Wage New York, NY (November 21, 2025)—A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) published in Coral Reefs reveals why many coral reef fishers remain in poverty, even as fish stocks decline and ...

New study in Coral Reefs by @wcs.org's Tim McClanahan and Jesse Kosgei explains how fishers in Kenya are staying in the fishery even though stocks are declining and they are not earning a living wage.

newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

NOW OR NEVER - COLLECTIVE ACTION IS VITAL TO PROTECT CORAL REEFS | Together for the Ocean Coral reefs are absent from national climate and biodiversity plans. Alfred DeGemmis, Director of International Policy at WCS, and Rachel James, Global Coral Reef Rescue Initiative Lead at WWF, explor...

Coral reefs are largely missing from country reporting to international biodiversity and climate agreements—a lost chance for targeted action to promote resilience.

@wcs.org / @worldwildlife.org op-ed on why it matters and how collective action can protect them: for-the-ocean.org/now-or-never... 🌏

The 2023 marine heatwave was devastating for Caribbean reefs; in this study, we report full mortality of over 5,000 Acropora palmata colonies across a reef scale. What is worrisome is that nearly 70% of reef crests across the Caribbean faced equal or higher levels of stress doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

With COP30, Indigenous Brazilians strive for new resources to protect nature For many Brazilians, the country’s Indigenous peoples are considered the main protectors of nature. This is one of the key findings of a new Greenpeace survey published in October: according to the…

Less than 1% of global climate funding reaches Indigenous peoples and traditional groups, despite their leading roles in environmental conservation, particularly in the Amazon.

Across Brazil, organizations are working to align financial procedures with the reality of local communities.

When do you give up on a paper?

Never?
After x years?
If it's not a priority?

I just seem to accumulate an ever growing list of papers that I feel guilty about...

Thanks @ymalhi.bsky.social for this reflection on hope! It's the read I needed today #OceanOptimism

DYK the Ocean Image Bank has thousands of free, gorgeous ocean photos? 🌊📸 www.theoceanagency.org/ocean-image-...
Photo: Hugh Whyte / Ocean Image Bank

Sea Around Us launches catch reconstruction course to empower global fisheries research | Sea Around Us Catch reconstruction video tutorials.

We’ve made fisheries research approachable, visual, and FREE. Get started today: bit.ly/catchrecon

🚨Paper Alert!🚨

🐟🫂🎣 Accounting for #human–nature linkages in area-based #conservation #monitoring through #social–ecological #indicator bundles.

#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

@cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @ocean-climate.bsky.social @ipbes.net

🚨 Paper Alert!🚨

From ocean 🌊 to markets 💰 : fish exports ✈️ threaten nutrition security 🥡 in coastal communities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

📰 doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Establishment of Ghana’s first marine protected area: Implications for fisheries governance, maritime administration and On 7 October 2025, Cabinet approved the establishment of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area (MPA) — the Greater Cape Three

Ghana's new Marine Protected Area is an area that will protect habitats where depleted fish stocks can recover, support biodiversity, and create a “spillover effect” that benefits fisheries outside the MPA boundaries.

citinewsroom.com/2025/10/esta...

Loved your take on this Phil! Thanks for writing and sharing!

A safe climate is a human right, and states have a legal obligation to respond through addressing climate change. This is a key message for #COP30.

Read more in our new commentary: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.

One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.

Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Ocean-based action is an essential part of the climate solution — but it's often overlooked. As #COP30 begins this week, leaders have a historic opportunity to include ocean-based solutions in global climate strategies. Will they? https://oceana.ly/4nCvzOc

Congratulations Colette!!

I’m happy to hear it! Come on BlueSky!!

Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries - Ambio Gender equality is a ubiquitous national goal, yet sectoral gender data gaps to support this goal persist. These gaps are both structural and sexist, concealing women’s contributions and impeding acti...

Sharing our paper on Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries. Gaps are structural & sexist, hiding women’s contributions, impeding actions that would strengthen livelihoods, development, food security & environmental sustainability.
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Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011

A newly released Global Tipping Points report suggested that coral reefs have passed thresholds beyond which they can't bounce back.

Our new study from Fiji shows just the opposite - astonishing, rapid recovery within 4 years of reefs pummeled by a category 5 cyclone.

#ForCoral

With our partners, we are working around the clock to find and map all of these special reefs—what we’re calling high integrity climate-resilient coral reefs (HICOR).

The science is clear: Climate resilience is measurable. Hope is actionable, says @stacyjupiter.bsky.social. #HopeForCoral

New Perspective paper in #npjOceanSustainability highlights that marine spatial planning (#MSP) and marine protected area (#MPA) planning are not the same, but both are key for ocean sustainability in a changing ocean!🌊

doi.org/10.1038/s441...

@erc.europa.eu @plantprojecterc.bsky.social