I am an Associate Professor @brocku.ca studying complex social-ecological systems. Posts are about ocean equity, blue justice, small-scale fisheries, climate adaptation, and all things sustainability! #MarSocSci #OceanOptimism 🌿🐟
Jessica Blythe, PhD
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Thank you @joachimclaudet.bsky.social David Gill, Julia Baird, Marilyne Carrey, Bani Maini (all mentioned in the article 😉) & the zillions of others who got me through 🐟✨
🔗 The paper is available here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The promise of “simpler rules” is politically attractive. The consequences may be far less so.
Reopening the #CommonFisheriesPolicy could unravel years of progress towards sustainable fisheries, creating new risks.
Thanks, @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social, for helping bring clarity.
Jessica Blythe, PhD
Jessica Blythe, PhD
⚖️ Marine protection cannot be a box-ticking exercise 🪸
French authorities have been given a legal deadline to strengthen protection measures for the Bancs des Flandres Natura 2000 site.
Conservation measures should be judged by their ecological results, not by the existence of procedures alone.
A new study analyzed 1 676 marine gene patents to map who is patenting what in the ocean.
The researchers found that:
🧬 private companies focus on industrial and agricultural applications
🧬 universities and research institutes develop foundational tools for downstream innovation
Oceana in Europe
Last year was a lot. I led a Nature paper while completing six months of #chemotherapy 🤪 🦀 . In this "Behind the Paper" blog, I reflect on what made both possible. Spoiler: It wasn't resilience or grit. It was my colleagues 😭 🥰.
🔗 The blog post is available here: go.nature.com/4ebvcIX
🪸 Bamboo coral forests, sponge gardens & a myriad of unknown creatures found 3,000m deep, in a realm of perpetual darkness & immense pressure.
How can we even consider deep-sea mining when we're only just discovering what's there?! #DefendTheDeep
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/scienti...
As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change.
Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June.
www.ShowYourStripes.info
Super Reefs can withstand climate impacts - they are out there, we need to find & protect them & learn their secrets. @emilysdarling.bsky.social of @wcs.org notes that protecting source reefs can maintain dispersal networks & help degraded reefs recover:
insideclimatenews.org/news/1406202...
Environmental Justice Foundation
Scientists on a Greenpeace Arctic expedition have discovered never-before-seen deep-sea ecosystems and potential new species.
A marine heatwave around the British Isles could have contributed to the UK's record 35.1C heatwave on land last month, according to scientists. Story feat @oceanterra.org & @noc.ac.uk 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Oceana UK
Stacy Jupiter
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Ed Hawkins
Adam Vaughan
The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...www.nature.com
