Reviewing the zero drafts of the UN Ocean Decade Vision 2030 White Papers today! Among other things, like coordinating a virtual 100+ Annual Meeting, developing a climate change workshop report, and editing our first 14 iterations of a new reporting series😅

Just got back from a week of diving my P2 in Roatan to get hours between 45 to 65 meters (150 to 215 fsw) using trimix! The goal was to build proficiency with the unit and add task loading with photography, which went well 🤙🏼 Photos from depth coming 🔜 #ccrdiving #rebreather

Fish researchers, save the date: Satellite Meeting on the Evo-Devo of Fish Biodiversity, June 24-25, 2024, in advance of Euro Evo Devo 2024 in Helsinki! Two full days of exciting talks and discussions on #Fish #EvoDevo . Website + abstract submission open soon!

Les profondeurs marines sont un refuge temporaire pour les gorgones rouges. Utilisons ce temps précieux pour comprendre et conserver ces écosystèmes. Ici notre dernier article theconversation.com/les-fonds-mari… via The Conversation France
CNRS Écologie & Environnement Alexis Rosenfeld Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer DYNAMICNORD

Top risks faced by people in the next decade are all nature related: biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, critical change to Earth systems World Economic Forum
Our work WCS Canada 💚 goes beyond biodiversity to securing the future foundation of our economy & our society
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So much for ice diving this winter 🙃

Butterflyfishes! Come check out this great poster by ⁦The University of Chicago⁩ undergrad Adera Craig, on chaetodontod biogeography. Happening now! #SICB2024

#MonarchButterflies have been added to the #endangered list under Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA).

This is an up-listing from their previous status of special concern.

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The new textbook 'Cold-water Coral Reefs of the World' is out now via Springer. The first chapter contains a history of CWC science and analyses/models of global reef distributions from my PhD thesis – glad to have contributed to this immense volume!
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🌏 Global yellowfin tuna populations are struggling! Biomass down 54%, but good news in the Western Pacific. Time for a sustainable seafood switch 🍣

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Neat-o talk on Butterflyfish🦋🐠 A good reminder that there are still many questions to ask and answers to seek… and to always take a photo or two! Also, loved Sylvia’s “how can one be bored?” 🤣 #BluePlanet
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It was only a matter of time for Atlantic salmon…. 🍣😔 But read thru to check out the conservation successes at the bottom of the article. There is hope!

ATTENTION: The world’s most comprehensive data source on global extinction risk is being updated.

Don’t miss the latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ happening at #COP28 today at 5pm UAE standard time.

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I learned how to use ggtreeExtra this week for phylogeny visualization and annotation.

ggtree: yulab-smu.top/treedata-book/
ggtreeExtra: bioconductor.org/packages/devel…