🚨 New in People and Nature led by Brian Michael Robert we find that small-scale fisheries do not capture the diversity of micronutrients available in their waters! Fisheries policies should integrate nutritional value to help alleviate malnourishment in coastal communities. doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…

Grant proposal due in a week, paper revisions due in 2, thesis defenses and search committees ramping up... Gotta have that 7 pm espresso...

Probably my biggest ever gesture as an advisor - in just 2 days, spent 6 hours underwater in a 15C lake (with 2C air temp!) so that my student could finish training dives and join a research trip to Belize. Didn't have a dry suit on day 1...

Any #spatial #R #stats people out there who can help me interpret a semivariogram? Chris Brown maybe?

Headed to the North Sea International Bottom Trawl Survey with my PhD student Adrián González Ortiz to collect fish specimens for his U.S. National Science Foundation funded project on ecosystem functioning

New ⁦⁦⁦Conservation Biology⁩ we show how to assess the sustainability of data poor reef fisheries at local scales leveraging information from global models ⁦Sean Connolly⁩ ⁦Mike Mihalitsis⁩ ⁦Jacqui Lau⁩ ⁦Michele Barnes⁩ ⁦⁦ conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

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Excited to share! CONGRATULATIONS! Dr. Bradley Tolar Bradley Tolar (he/him), UNCW BAMB, is the principle-investigator on a $1.5M Grant Award for Coastal Research to lead the TEAL-SHIPS Transect Expedition! Learn more about his Co-PIs and collaborators. lnkd.in/e2M2eTYi

Turns out Barcelona is a pretty good destination to get your samples processed...

A happy man with 200 freeze dried fished @gonz

A "crazy" admission - I fully proof read every email I send, usually twice, including the emails I sent to undergraduates in my classes and rejection emails I send to inquiring graduate students. Every inquiry deserves your genuine communication...

I am so sick of reviewers hijacking my papers. Sure, I'll redo all the analyses with the model "you prefer" ...just quickly rewrite 1000s of lines of code and redo every figure for literally no change to results or conclusions...

YouTuber JK took a photo every day for 22 years to see how he ages (25 to 47 years)

Have you ever seen a red fish this big? One more sampling cruise was done with Matthew McLean Fish Ecology Lab 🐟always fun to be out there!

1st author publication just accepted in an excellent journal after a long and intense review process. Got to celebrate these things right!

Apparently I've built a pretty good relationship with chatGPT...

For the new kids in back: If you hate statistics, you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

🚨NEW IN PNASNews🚨 We evaluated the distribution and drivers of aesthetic value in reef fish assemblages worldwide! MPAs enhance aesthetic value and tropical developing countries have the greatest potential conservation benefits! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Reef Life Survey

Check out our new study in PNASNews. 🌈 Aesthetic value is driven by changes in temperature, productivity, habitat and human impacts 🐠 MPAs boost beauty though increasing taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity 🏝️ Tropical countries have the greatest potential benefits

Check out our new paper in GEC showing how ecological traits can be used to rank conservation priorities for fish species within the same IUCN categories. Priorities for threatened species can change importantly based on conservation goals. doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…