Find the article: Fish markets facilitate nutrition security in coastal Kenya: Empirical evidence for policy leveraging here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

The people who we mentor are not us and their goals are not usually our goals. So, instead of focusing on what we would do, we can help them focus on what they should do in light of:

-their priorities
-their choices
-their strengths
-their path

Academic science has a set of unwritten rules for success. In an effort to level the playing field, particularly for URM trainees, let’s make a list of the unwritten rules in science.

What are some unwritten rules you learned during each stage of your academic career?

🎉Free Science Communication Textbook Alert! 🎉

In celebration of 3rd edition release of 'Effective Science Communication', IOP Publishing is offering the 2nd edition for FREE! 📚

Just fill in a quick survey (7 Qs; 1 minute): comms.ioppublishing.org/k/Iop/effectiv…

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People are worried and want to do something about climate change, but 99% of the advice around is focused on lifestyle and consumer decisions

This is not just minimally effective for change, but also disempowering and demotivating

Facing one fear can dampen others.

A day after confronting their phobia of spiders, people were less afraid of heights. Letting a spider walk on their hand emboldened them to climb a tower.

Avoiding anxiety is a vicious cycle. Embracing discomfort builds confidence and courage.

🌊 Don't miss out! Just 10 days left to submit abstracts for the Australian Marine Sciences Association conference. Join Dr Rebecca Shellock, Dr. Michael Murunga, Dr. Kylie Scales, and myself for a session on Climate Impacts and Adaptation in Marine Socio-Ecological Systems.

The danger of a single story (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) go.ted.com/6W5s

' Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.'

'Your failures serve as a beautiful reminder that you were in the arena trying.'

— Shane Parrish

(Found in @farnanmstreet's brain food newsletter)

I wanted the first piece that I posted in 2024 to be hopeful, practical & profound. So I chose Adam Kahane 's recent article on radical collaboration. Radical collaboration is about working together with diverse others from across the system in a way that fundamentally…

As the year starts, remember that 'No one has all the answers at the beginning. Trust yourself and take the first step.'

— Shane Parrish

Believe it or not! It takes a village. On the shoulders of giants, I stood. I showed up, believed, and thrived. I was there.

'I think, therefore, I am' - Descartes! My people are proud. I carry my clan's name with pride. I am forever grateful.
IMAS CMS_UTas University of Tasmania

📢Some people are making handsome profits from efforts to reduce marginalized groups’ vulnerability to climate change. But how exactly is adaptation made into profitable activity? My new open-access article addresses this very question. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

I didn't know this had to be said, but:

Framing the mass death and displacement of millions of Black people as a win for #climate change is dehumanizing and racist.

Building products, writing, and painting are not mental excercises, they are physical ones.

Reading to improve is like watching someone else workout – it does almost nothing for you.

To run better, run.
To paint better, paint.
To write better, write.
To build better, build.

'If you're having trouble getting started, shorten the distance between where you are and where you focus.

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Keep the goal but change the focus to the next step.'

- A Tiny Thought in the FS newsletter fs.blog/brain-food/nov…

'The 'work' of productivity is less about improving efficiency and more about improving effectiveness.'

A Tiny Thought in the FS weekly newsletter.

fs.blog/brain-food/sep…

Back to basics
'Do your job. Sweat the details. Put the team first. Be attentive. Ignore the noise. Speak for yourself.'