Don't share too many mini photos since the move to blue sky - but I've been really enjoying painting models from the Grand Cathay range! Still some work to do, but I think these may get a spot on the shelf. Really beautiful sculpts.

Aarhus postdocs past and present representing well at #BESMacro2025

Final thoughts and beers with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and @anordonez1.bsky.social after a great week sharing ideas and meeting colleagues at the symposium hosted by @noveleco.bsky.social and expertly led by @marcuscollier.bsky.social #novelecosystems

Conversations getting deeper, as we dive into the concepts past, present, and future. So many ideas!

How do we move forward with the novel ecosystem concept? Some deep and exciting conversations happening at the symposium hosted by @noveleco.bsky.social #NovelEcosystems

Thanks to my amazing coauthors, especially superstar lab assistant Nicole, but also many field volunteers over the years I was a PhD student.

Once again sharing my favourite fieldwork pic - fresh faced Aaron Philips and I soaking wet after a great morning collecting shells.

The bioregionalisation was much more consistent, however. The transition zone matched across datasets and mapped onto previously identified break points.

This result highlights the relatively high knowledge on broader distributions in OBIS, compared to the local diversity metrics.

We found that the field data reconstructed a strong latitudinal diversity gradient in each case, but that the OBIS data were inconsistent across methods. In some cases, no latitudinal diversity gradient was uncovered.

We used my PhD field sampling of bivalves from sites from across the eastern coastline of Australia, comparing it to bivalve occurrences in the same region found in OBIS.

We reconstructed the latitudinal diversity gradient, using and comparing four methods, and also did a simple bioregionalisation.

New paper - from coauthors in CEFAS and showcasing some work I did while there. We built a "Risk Tool", which uses historical fishing data to simulates the change in risk due to fishing displacement resulting from potential redesigning of protected areas. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...