Natalie Ban

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline

Enjoy another honest government ad from @thejuicemedia.com 🎯 youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Picture of one person sitting on the patio of pub by the ocean on a sunny evening, with a bald eagle sitting on the deck railing about 1.5 meters away, looking at the food

Dinner with an eagle, Shearwater, BC

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Canada Election 2025 🍁

The Canadien Government has made an ad for the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! #Canada2025

Black ink, pencil, and water color pencil sketch of a single Pacific herring. Side view, with the head on the left side.

It's herring season here in British Columbia #oceanoptimism, so here is a herring for #Sundayfishsketch

Elbows up, Canada!

Science friends!

Many of you, alarmed by grant funding cuts that make expensive field ecology research difficult or impossible, have been thinking about what to do instead. Great idea.

Some of you have been saying "I'll just do some social science surveys," without learning how. Bad idea! 🧵🧪

Let's build a Civil Defence Corps! Podcast Episode · Elbows Up · 2025-03-11 · 42m

Hey Canada, we should all listen to this interview.

@petermacleod.bsky.social describes what a 🇨🇦 Civil Defense Corps could look like (starts @ 10m in).

It includes preventing mis/disinfo, disaster response, & each of us contributing skills.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...

Canada's MAGA Takeover: The Conservative Shift We Can't Ignore Canadians need to wake up—our country is being taken over by a version of MAGA, not in the U.S., but right here in our conservative governments.

In his Substack, Cole highlights how PP & the Cons. are "courting Maga".

open.substack.com/pub/colenotc...

📣 Looking for marine science and research accounts to follow on BlueSky? 🌊

Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️

Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Will this be recorded? It's a bit early in my time zone!

CNN Poll: Americans worried by Trump’s push to expand power | CNN Politics At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his approval rating in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS tilts negative but still lands above the level he reached at any point in his ...

What is perhaps most depressing about watching the orange turnip grab power is that so many American approve. www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

Watching in agony as our southern neighbour is self-destructing.

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Happy international day of women and girls in science!

Here are two starter packs of women in ocean science for you to follow 🦑🧪

go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

Indigenous food harvesting as social–ecological monitoring: A case study with the Gitga'at First Nation A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

I'd love to be added. Here are a couple of my monitoring related papers: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10..... Thanks!!!

I'd love to be added. Thanks :)

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org/content/blog...

New publication in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Advances in systematic conservation planning to meet global biodiversity goals Systematic conservation planning (SCP) involves the cost-effective placement and application of management actions to achieve biodiversity conservation objectives. Given the political momentum for gre...

Just published in TREE!
Advances in systematic #ConservationPlanning to meet global #biodiversity goals.
💡New tools improve resource allocation & decision-making, but trust-building is key for adoption. Future SCP must address trade-offs & uncertainties.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
🌍🌐🧪 #MarinePlan

Human well-being outcomes of large-scale marine protected areas Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, >100,000 km2) account for over half of the global ocean under protection, yet little is known about their …

What are the social impacts of large-scale marine protected areas? We reviewed the evidence in this paper.

Better management of the social impacts of marine protected areas can lead to more equitable & effective outcomes.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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 ...

Fascinating new paper out in @nature.com on the importance of Small Scale Fisheries. Lots of great information on catch, nutrition, livelihoods, etc. The #sharkscience factoid I found was that only 0.2% of the SSF catch is sharks, rays or chimaerans.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science - Nature Communications Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as an example, this perspective discusses actions that recognize the sovereign rights of Indigenous Peoples and support better research across ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awesome list. Could you add me? I work on marine fisheries and conservation. Thanks!

Making the case for gender-inclusive fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation - Discover Oceans Gender equality has been a key consideration for policymakers and natural resource managers in assessing climate risk and developing effective adaptation strategies. However, the interests and concern...

RESEARCH: Making the case for #genderinclusive #fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation. By Ayodele Oloko, Louise Teh, Philippe Le Billon, William Cheung Sarah Harper & Rashid Sumaila @ubccoru.bsky.social @solvingfcb.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1... #OpenAccess

Hey Folks,
I was a bit of a late adopter here, but have finally jumped the Twitter ship and am now blue skying. I look forward to reconnecting with old peeps and connecting with lots of new ones.

Stylized tree of life diagram that demonstrates the range of useful chemical data that can be extracted from 19 classes of organisms.

Brand new review paper that sums up the thing I do. In short, there is a whole lot of overlooked chemical data ready and waiting inside aquatic taxa that can be used to monitor the environment and support species and ecosystem health.

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A social–ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing social considerations with an ...

My most cited paper has a simple message: we have to think about people too in conservation planning esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Seems about right 🤣