Dan Barrios-O'Neill

This is a significant step forward—I'm looking forward to seeing what this can do with our inshore UK fleet.

On the Brink: Mapping the Last Strongholds of the Critically Endangered Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius) This study presents a high-resolution spatial distribution model for the Critically Endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius) across the NE Atlantic shelf, integrating environmental and fishing...

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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

The hypnotherapy enhancement gig seemed anything but inclusive to me.

Recognising and Protecting the National Benefit of Sustainable Fisheries in the UK Sustainable commercial fishing makes valuable contributions to coastal regions and broader national benefits. This paper offers three arguments in relation to what is required for the societal benefi....

New thoughtful paper on UK sustainable fisheries from @thembauk.bsky.social and others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Enhance responsible governance to match the scale and pace of marine–climate interventions - Nature Climate Change Oceans are on the frontline of an array of new marine–climate actions that are both poorly understood and under-regulated. Development and deployment of these interventions is outpacing governance rea...

Oceans are on the frontline of an array of risky initiatives that are poorly understood and under-regulated.

Development of these interventions is outpacing governance readiness. Read our recommendations here:

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Novel marine-climate interventions hampered by low consensus and governance preparedness - Nature Climate Change Oceans are on the front line of new planned climate actions, but understanding of novel marine-climate intervention development and deployment remains low. Here a survey among intervention practitione...

New study highlights the lack of appropriate governance for emerging (and potentially dangerous) interventions in the ocean.

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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article) More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

Whenever & wherever small state zealots get into power, environmental & humanitarian functions are usually first in line to be axed. Trump is running this playbook which—in the long view—will be a disaster for human wellbeing and flourishing

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Sounds incredible!

Second one is amazing. Would love to know a bit more about it

We've got them at Helman too, unenclosed, albeit illegally released. Amazing to see what they've done in short order

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies . ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies .

If you're voting against a UN resolution, along with the very fine leaders of Belarus, Russia, and North Korea it's time to consider the deep wisdom of this meme. Yeah, you are the baddies.

New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And it's not all misaligned algorithms, malevolent broligarchs, election interference, and bot farms. Some of it is just the net result of millions of us offering hot takes in real time, with a dash of garden variety in-group bias.

I increasingly believe that widespread use and misuse of social media led us down a dark path, all the way to our current moment with Ukraine, Russia, Trump, and the rise of authoritarian extremism.

This is the nettle that needs to be grasped by liberal democracies worldwide.

Agree to a point. How will nationalisation fix it though? Look at the mess that is NI Water. If anything, the sewage issue is worse there

I am in favour of nationalisation but I don't see this as a way to fix the sewage issue. It's too big.
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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

This is where things like rewilding, natural food management, catchment scale farm advice, and nature in general can do quite a lot, at relatively low cost.

And finally (now exceeding my initial 3 points) some of the biggest water quality challenges facing our rivers and seas are agricultural in origin, and often come down to very specific practices in the wrong places.

Perhaps we could make bills cheaper though nationalisation—which is no bad thing in a cost of living crisis. I just don't think you solve the environment bit this way.

(3) Even if you took all shareholder profits from privatised water companies and reinvested them in infrastructure you'd barely move the needle on sewage. The scale of the challenge is eye-watering.

Excellent, real time sewage reporting means we're all now massively well informed.

(2) Whilst chronic underinvestment has, perhaps, led to more pollution in the past decade or so (I don't have a handle on data—please correct me if I'm wrong) the main thing driving heightened public concern is probably increased information availablity.

I think three points are salient. (1) People don't quite realise where we've come from—we suffered levels of sewage pollution almost unimaginable today. The Thames for example was azoic. Today it has many species of fish in it. (This is not to imply everything is fine BTW)

Thames Water is a mess. But I don't believe nationalisation per se is the answer to our water infrastructure and sewage problems. Some parts of the UK already have nationalised water (Northern Ireland) and the pollution is just as bad, if not worse.

Cards on the table: I think this is easily the most important initiative we are involved in, both in terms of positive outcomes for people and for marine conservation in Cornwall.

Your Shore is like a microcosm of The Wildlife Trusts movement, i.e., independent groups working locally, but bound by shared values and a mission. There's strength in diversity, strength in being grass roots, strength in being authentically place-based, and strength in numbers ✊

*Actually* letting communities lead can mean giving up on a top-down vision of outcomes that are baked into the DNA of many eNGOs.