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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...

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

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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 🦑

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🚨 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/...

Global declines in net primary production in the ocean color era - Nature Communications This study shows primary production has significantly decreased in nearly half of the ocean. The authors demonstrate that decadal shifts in ocean color are driven by increasing nutrient limitation of ...

🧪 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?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods Aquatic invertebrates are a diverse, nutrient-dense, and socio-ecologically important food whose contribution to human nutrition is frequently overlooked. We quantify their contribution to global nutr...

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

Platform Updates We regularly update our platform to include improved features and new data sets to understand human activity in our ocean.

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...

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

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

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...

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 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍

Is ocean circulation the ultimate driver of biological carbon storage in the ocean? at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Is ocean circulation the ultimate driver of biological carbon storage in the ocean? at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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 🌊🧪⚒️

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**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! 🤗

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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! 🥹👉👈

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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👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Post-Doctoral Research Associate – Pelagic Subsidies to Coral Reefs An exciting opportunity for a marine scientist to contribute to a Royal Society funded project: Oceanic Subsidies: human and climate drivers of tropical marine food webs.We are seeking a highly motiva...

Updated link for this post - 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

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Post-doctorant in deep learning for poverty and malnutrition prediction Project title : Uncovering the role of fisheries management in reducing poverty and malnutrition

📣 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.

Note closing date is 28th February 2025 (NOT January)

🐠 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...

Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...

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’💙🐟🦐🦀🦪💙

Preferred candidates will have a #PhD in marine science, oceanography, or ecological modelling, with strong data skills and relevant experience in fieldwork, lab work, and writing publications.

DM me for more details!

The research will focus on quantifying pelagic ~ reef pathways that move through reef fishes (planktivores and mobile consumers), requiring expertise in oceanography, stable isotope techniques, and community ecology.

You'll join LEC REEFS - a big interdisciplinary team of 7 PIs, 9 post-docs, 10 PhD. This project is also partnered with 3 superb collaborators in Bangor, Perpignan, and Brisbane:

@renatoamorais.bsky.social
@drmanateena.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social

Coral Reef in the Ras Mohanned Marine Park, Egypt. Credit: Alex Mustard / Ocean Image Bank

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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍