@sophiestanden.bsky.social
PhD student, power, politics, and aquatic food systems at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Motion Motion to approve the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 - Yvette Cooper
This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.
02.07.2025 06:22 — 👍 487 🔁 165 💬 13 📌 9
🐟 My PhD's 2nd chapter is now published! Here I show how industrial overfishing in Ghanaian waters exacerbates inequalities in the post-harvest sector, impacting fish processing and trading livelihoods, as well as Ghanaian aquatic food systems more broadly. 🐟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear.”
She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished.
10 of her family were killed with her.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
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...
By focusing almost exclusively on "moonshot" technological innovations to produce more food, this initiative does little to address the leading political and economic drivers of world hunger such as conflict, economic shocks, and inequality in food systems.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Just a few weeks left to apply for this PhD opportunity!
If you are interested, I encourage you to get in touch with me (d.d.booker@leeds.ac.uk)
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...
Seven children from one family among dozens killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza
21.12.2024 05:09 — 👍 197 🔁 126 💬 22 📌 16
The amazing @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social presents her work on squaretail grouper in Lakshadweep archipelago.
🐟First recorded aggregation in India
🐟Highest densities in the world
🐟 Emerging fisheries & fish trade
🐟 80% population decline
🐟 Less aggression, more fear
#RCUK2024
Whether you are Welsh or not, people in the UK need to be aware of Wales' treatment.
30.11.2024 09:24 — 👍 286 🔁 116 💬 20 📌 10
Absolute insanity that these dangers still persist in Wales. More often than not these tips are perched precariously, looming over our most deprived communities, just biding time before slipping through the streets.
They were very lucky this wasn’t a lot worse. Next time they may not be so lucky.
