James Robinson
@james-robinson.bsky.social
Fisheries, food, coral reefs, forage fish & climate change.
Royal Society University Research Fellow with @lec-reefs.bsky.social & Lancaster Environment Centre.
Royal Society University Research Fellow with @lec-reefs.bsky.social & Lancaster Environment Centre.
Reposted by James Robinson
In our last thread, we left the jelly-enjoyers of Bluesky with a cliff hanger ending, in what one eager onlooker described as soap opera science 😜 ... wait no more, we are back! Grab your popcorn shrimp and come with us on a journey spanning more than...
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Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In our last thread, we left the jelly-enjoyers of Bluesky with a cliff hanger ending, in what one eager onlooker described as soap opera science 😜 ... wait no more, we are back! Grab your popcorn shrimp and come with us on a journey spanning more than...
bsky.app/profile/iwan...
bsky.app/profile/iwan...
We're #hiring a new #PhD student - come join @lec-reefs.bsky.social to investigate coral reefs, MPAs, and climate impacts. 🌊 🧪🦑
Details + apply here - www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Deadline Jan 9th! International applicants encouraged 👍
Details + apply here - www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Deadline Jan 9th! International applicants encouraged 👍
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We're #hiring a new #PhD student - come join @lec-reefs.bsky.social to investigate coral reefs, MPAs, and climate impacts. 🌊 🧪🦑
Details + apply here - www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Deadline Jan 9th! International applicants encouraged 👍
Details + apply here - www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Deadline Jan 9th! International applicants encouraged 👍
Come join @lec-reefs.bsky.social !
2 new post-doc positions with the amazing @timlamont.bsky.social at Lancaster Environment Centre. An exciting time to join + form his new Future Leaders research on transforming ecosystem restoration.
🌊 🧪🦑
2 new post-doc positions with the amazing @timlamont.bsky.social at Lancaster Environment Centre. An exciting time to join + form his new Future Leaders research on transforming ecosystem restoration.
🌊 🧪🦑
We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Come join @lec-reefs.bsky.social !
2 new post-doc positions with the amazing @timlamont.bsky.social at Lancaster Environment Centre. An exciting time to join + form his new Future Leaders research on transforming ecosystem restoration.
🌊 🧪🦑
2 new post-doc positions with the amazing @timlamont.bsky.social at Lancaster Environment Centre. An exciting time to join + form his new Future Leaders research on transforming ecosystem restoration.
🌊 🧪🦑
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New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Reposted by James Robinson
Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...
Reposted by James Robinson
A new study reveals that although they are often overlooked, dried fish are critical to helping feed millions of people across Africa.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A new study reveals that although they are often overlooked, dried fish are critical to helping feed millions of people across Africa.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
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New paper!
‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’
Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
⬇️🧵
‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’
Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
⬇️🧵
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New paper!
‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’
Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
⬇️🧵
‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’
Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
⬇️🧵
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#Panama's January to April #ocean #upwelling which brings normally cool, nutrient-filled waters from the deep. 2025 was different; "this vital oceanographic process did not occur for the first time" 😮
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For the first time since records began, Panama’s deep and cold ocean waters failed to emerge, possibly affecting fisheries and coral health
The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which occurs annually in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025. A study led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institut...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
#Panama's January to April #ocean #upwelling which brings normally cool, nutrient-filled waters from the deep. 2025 was different; "this vital oceanographic process did not occur for the first time" 😮
share.google/v7taeyp4vmr3...
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You know this story is going to be a good time because my editor told me the first draft had too many instances of the word "poop" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s... 🧪 (featuring Leo Uesaka, @ruthedunn.bsky.social and @movementecology.bsky.social)
These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You know this story is going to be a good time because my editor told me the first draft had too many instances of the word "poop" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s... 🧪 (featuring Leo Uesaka, @ruthedunn.bsky.social and @movementecology.bsky.social)
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Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
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"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟
New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social
🧪🌍🪶
New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social
🧪🌍🪶
August 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟
New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social
🧪🌍🪶
New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social
🧪🌍🪶
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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
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge
Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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...
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge
Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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 🦑
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
So what? Market-making helps #salmon to expand, raising environmental impacts and squeezing out other #seafood from UK diets 🦑
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
July 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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 🦑
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
So what? Market-making helps #salmon to expand, raising environmental impacts and squeezing out other #seafood from UK diets 🦑
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Reposted by James Robinson
🚨 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/...
Read the #OpenAccess article & IOF story below 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🚨 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/...
Read the #OpenAccess article & IOF story below 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🧪 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
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
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 ...
doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
🧪 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
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
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Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐
🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐
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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
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...
www.biorxiv.org
March 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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
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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...
globalfishingwatch.org/platform-upd...
Platform Updates
We regularly update our platform to include improved features and new data sets to understand human activity in our ocean.
globalfishingwatch.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
globalfishingwatch.org/platform-upd...
Reposted by James Robinson
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
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
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...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deadline FRIDAY! New postdoc position on pelagic reef subsidies. @lancasteruni.bsky.social & @lec-reefs.bsky.social
Tell your friends 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍
Tell your friends 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍
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👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
February 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Deadline FRIDAY! New postdoc position on pelagic reef subsidies. @lancasteruni.bsky.social & @lec-reefs.bsky.social
Tell your friends 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍
Tell your friends 😎 🦑🧪🌊🌍
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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 🌊🧪⚒️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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
www.findaphd.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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 🌊🧪⚒️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
**2 weeks** left to apply - come join me and @lec-reefs.bsky.social at Lancaster University.
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👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
February 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
**2 weeks** left to apply - come join me and @lec-reefs.bsky.social at Lancaster University.
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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
Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r...
#MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs
February 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r...
#MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs