Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lol. I think the Finnish Greens went this way years ago. Better late than never, I guess. 030
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I'm not running for Congress, I'm too busy for that, and I live on the other side of the Atlantic. But good luck to him 😉 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I agree it's an absolute quagmire for consumers. The problem is that "seafood" covers some of the most sustainable protein it is possible to eat, and some of the most destructive and unethical. In the worst cases, stealing resources from some of the poorest people anywhere and modern slavery. 070
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Striking all the way across the Atlantic no less 000
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Strategic dishonesty is my guess. Gotta lean into those Reform talking points. 020
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I wonder what the actual following closely proportion is. I wouldn't be surprised if it was still reasonably high—with the Trump-Dubai influencers-energy price trifecta—but self reported "following closely" =/= understanding even the near term likely consequences 000
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillBryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 17/12/2025New PhD opportunity - which I'm delighted to be co-supervising! 'From Catch to Kitchen: Learning from Recreational Anglers to Diversify UK Seafood Choices' www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phd #seafood #angling #fisheries #recreationalfishing #sustainability @thembauk.bsky.social Please share! 01210
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 16/07/2025This is a significant step forward—I'm looking forward to seeing what this can do with our inshore UK fleet. 000
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillAlec BM Moore @alecbmmoore.bsky.social · 08/07/2025onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comOn the Brink: Mapping the Last Strongholds of the Critically Endangered Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius)This study presents a high-resolution spatial distribution model for the Critically Endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius) across the NE Atlantic shelf, integrating environmental and fishing... 021
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillProf David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.socialscience.orgGlobal tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targetsThe recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre... 09736
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The hypnotherapy enhancement gig seemed anything but inclusive to me. 000
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillProf Martin Attrill @martinattrill.bsky.social · 15/04/2025New thoughtful paper on UK sustainable fisheries from @thembauk.bsky.social and others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comRecognising and Protecting the National Benefit of Sustainable Fisheries in the UKSustainable commercial fishing makes valuable contributions to coastal regions and broader national benefits. This paper offers three arguments in relation to what is required for the societal benefi.... 0104
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillTerry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Oceans are on the frontline of an array of risky initiatives that are poorly understood and under-regulated. Development of these interventions is outpacing governance readiness. Read our recommendations here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comEnhance responsible governance to match the scale and pace of marine–climate interventions - Nature Climate ChangeOceans are on the frontline of an array of new marine–climate actions that are both poorly understood and under-regulated. Development and deployment of these interventions is outpacing governance rea... 12413
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillTerry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025New study highlights the lack of appropriate governance for emerging (and potentially dangerous) interventions in the ocean. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNovel marine-climate interventions hampered by low consensus and governance preparedness - Nature Climate ChangeOceans are on the front line of new planned climate actions, but understanding of novel marine-climate intervention development and deployment remains low. Here a survey among intervention practitione... 05422
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillAltmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy. 492498666
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Whenever & wherever small state zealots get into power, environmental & humanitarian functions are usually first in line to be axed. Trump is running this playbook which—in the long view—will be a disaster for human wellbeing and flourishing www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development. 001
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Second one is amazing. Would love to know a bit more about it 110
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025We've got them at Helman too, unenclosed, albeit illegally released. Amazing to see what they've done in short order 040
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025If you're voting against a UN resolution, along with the very fine leaders of Belarus, Russia, and North Korea it's time to consider the deep wisdom of this meme. Yeah, you are the baddies.media.tenor.coma man in a military uniform says are we the baddies .ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies . 000
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillDan Smale @dansmale1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 14113
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025And it's not all misaligned algorithms, malevolent broligarchs, election interference, and bot farms. Some of it is just the net result of millions of us offering hot takes in real time, with a dash of garden variety in-group bias. 000
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I increasingly believe that widespread use and misuse of social media led us down a dark path, all the way to our current moment with Ukraine, Russia, Trump, and the rise of authoritarian extremism. This is the nettle that needs to be grasped by liberal democracies worldwide. 110
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Agree to a point. How will nationalisation fix it though? Look at the mess that is NI Water. If anything, the sewage issue is worse there 000
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I am in favour of nationalisation but I don't see this as a way to fix the sewage issue. It's too big. bsky.app/profile/dano... 000
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it. 7964612068
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This is where things like rewilding, natural food management, catchment scale farm advice, and nature in general can do quite a lot, at relatively low cost. 000
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025And finally (now exceeding my initial 3 points) some of the biggest water quality challenges facing our rivers and seas are agricultural in origin, and often come down to very specific practices in the wrong places. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Perhaps we could make bills cheaper though nationalisation—which is no bad thing in a cost of living crisis. I just don't think you solve the environment bit this way. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025(3) Even if you took all shareholder profits from privatised water companies and reinvested them in infrastructure you'd barely move the needle on sewage. The scale of the challenge is eye-watering. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Excellent, real time sewage reporting means we're all now massively well informed. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025(2) Whilst chronic underinvestment has, perhaps, led to more pollution in the past decade or so (I don't have a handle on data—please correct me if I'm wrong) the main thing driving heightened public concern is probably increased information availablity. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I think three points are salient. (1) People don't quite realise where we've come from—we suffered levels of sewage pollution almost unimaginable today. The Thames for example was azoic. Today it has many species of fish in it. (This is not to imply everything is fine BTW) 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Thames Water is a mess. But I don't believe nationalisation per se is the answer to our water infrastructure and sewage problems. Some parts of the UK already have nationalised water (Northern Ireland) and the pollution is just as bad, if not worse. 110
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Cards on the table: I think this is easily the most important initiative we are involved in, both in terms of positive outcomes for people and for marine conservation in Cornwall. 010
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Your Shore is like a microcosm of The Wildlife Trusts movement, i.e., independent groups working locally, but bound by shared values and a mission. There's strength in diversity, strength in being grass roots, strength in being authentically place-based, and strength in numbers ✊ 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 02/02/2025*Actually* letting communities lead can mean giving up on a top-down vision of outcomes that are baked into the DNA of many eNGOs. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This approach to conservation is very much in the zeitgeist today. In part, it is necessary because the sea is owned by all and none, and we know that marine conservation is likely to fail without community buy-in. But buy-in is not the same thing as leadership. 110
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Your Shore is a network of local marine groups across Cornwall that has gone from strength to strength. The history of this movement is coupled to the establishment of the first voluntary marine conservation areas in Cornwall. Your Shore was ahead of its time in letting communities lead. 100
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 02/02/2025If ever there was an event to fill you with much-needed #oceanoptimism it would be the brilliant Your Shore conference! Hearing the stories of some of the most dedicated, passionate, and knowledgeable volunteers anywhere can't help but inspire 💙 110
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025In dramatically short order, Bluesky has become the place to be for science online. Excellent news. The less X the better. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comBluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platformRoughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X. 1413
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 21/01/2025How courageous. If she ends up getting deported, there's a certain church over in England that would benefit from leadership with even 1% of the spine that's on display here. 071
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillDr Tom Pickerell @tomolamola.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Tracking biodiversity progress is key to holding nations accountable for their 30x30 commitments. This article highlights tools aligned with the mission of the #OurOceanConference. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/platfor...oceanographicmagazine.com30x30 tracking platform launched to 'keep nations transparent' - OceanographicA new open-source tool aims to make the global '30x30' conservation goal more accessible and transparent for nations and conservationists. 0216
Reposted by Dan Barrios-O'NeillKathryn Brown @kathryn-brown.bsky.social · 07/01/2025There's quite a few Wildlife Trusts and staff on Bluesky now, so I made a list! bsky.app/profile/did:... 1105
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Ahh great idea Kathryn. The more the merrier on here! 010
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 06/01/2025It's actually 6% on beaches, and a vanishingly small percentage of plastic in the oceans overall. Important to clarify I think 🙏 000
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Fine. Nevertheless, I don't think you're making a particularly compelling case to remain on X. 210
Dan Barrios-O'Neill @danoneill.bsky.social · 05/01/2025You're speaking metaphorically, but it's entirely possible that the inflammatory rhetoric coming from X is literally going to get someone in public office killed over here. The wise choice is, I think, for everyone in the UK with a significant platform to abandon that hellsite. 130