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Josh Cinner

@joshuacinner.bsky.social
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Professor of Geography & Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney. My Thriving Oceans Research Hub studies how to make coral reef fisheries more resilient & sustainable. We operate at the intersection of social science & ecology.

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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...
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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Big thanks to the @lec-reefs.bsky.social crew for hosting the Thriving Oceans team in Lancaster. Workshops in castles and walks in the woods made for an amazing collaboration.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our Bright Spots 2.0 workshop team @christinahicks.bsky.social @evamaire.bsky.social @crisruanocha.bsky.social @jzamborainmason.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social @bessruff.bsky.social
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Generations of my PhD students (4 former and 2 current) working together. @christinahicks.bsky.social @evamaire.bsky.social @jzamborainmason.bsky.social @crisruanocha.bsky.social
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In my way to a series of exciting workshops in Lancaster and Montpellier - we’ll be developing the next generation bright spots analysis. Watch this space… @lec-reefs.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BIG new paper on the MegaMove project with @netlab.bsky.social - portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new... Top areas to reach 30 x 30 for marine megafauna are highlighted
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News | Portal
The Portal is the home of news, events, timetables and study information for all students at Lancaster University. It also features useful services and tools.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This is why I am not that worried about AI
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Professor Matthew England FAA @profmattengland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is not the actual cover of Nature, just shown here for illustrative purposes. We did submit this figure for consideration for their cover. Print run in two weeks, we'll know by then if it gets used.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Vale Jim Estes- a giant in marine ecology.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Got my first electricity bill after installing solar with a battery. $0…
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Shark Safety WA @sharksafetywa.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Colin Simpfendorfer’s resignation from working group comes as conservationists lash expansion of lethal program they say ‘does nothing to improve beach safety’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program
Exclusive: Colin Simpfendorfer’s resignation comes as other members of working group members say state government went against their advice against expanding lethal controls
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Awesome postdoc opportunity in our school to work with the amazing Sophie Webber on Australia’s climate economy usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy
Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New article: Our team's reflections on the use of Q methodology in environmental justice research, and the ways we tried to embed EJ principles in the process - and interpretation of the data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Q methodology and environmental social science: adapting Q for complexity and inclusion in environmental justice research
This paper details an application of Q methodology for a global environmental justice project, a novel use in terms of the scale and complexity of our research agenda. We provide a rationale for ou...
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Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) @pepinneff.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The QLD $90 million on more shark nets, etc is disgraceful. My quote: “Today’s policy decision makes politicians more safe and Queensland beaches less safe by taking the focus off the personal responsibility and education in beach safety.” newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/05/quee...
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Queensland Government dives backwards by declaring war on marine life - News Hub
SYDNEY 25 MAY 2025: The Queensland Crisafulli government’s ‘new’ Shark Control Program—that will amp up the slaughter of sharks—looks like it was written in the 1900’s and flies in the face of conserv...
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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New #sharkscience from @hollieboothie.bsky.social Conservation impacts and hidden actions in a randomized controlled trial of a marine pay-to-release program. A deep dive into the ins and outs of pay to release. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @iucnshark.bsky.social @nickdulvy.bsky.social
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Conservation impacts and hidden actions in a randomized controlled trial of a marine pay-to-release program
Pay-to-release program encouraged live release of endangered marine taxa but led some fishers to increase catches of those taxa.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/04/2025
Most conservation initiatives require changes in human behavior. Insights from behavioral science may help bridge that gap. Learn more on #EarthDay:
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How behavioral science can help conservation
Leveraging cognitive biases and social influence can make conservation efforts more effective
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...
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Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries
The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Scientists collect unique sea creatures during voyage to East Antarctica
From giant sea spiders to "sea pigs" and "sea butterflies" — analysing the rich biodiversity in Antarctica has thrilled researchers studying the impacts of climate change.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
THREE DAYS LEFT to apply for a 🔥 fully funded PhD scholarship to join our interdisciplinary Thriving Oceans Research Hub. Come be part of an epic global project focused on locating and learning from coral reef bright spots. Prior publications are helpful. www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Congrats to the 2025 Pew Marine Fellows! This is such a wonderful program and we are looking forward to seeing the great work the new class of Fellows will do. #PewMarineFellow pewtrsts.org/4c1h16q
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Pew’s 2025 Marine Fellows Work to Conserve Ocean Species and Ecosystems
The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation has named six scientists from China, Curaçao, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa as the newest recipients of the Pew fellowships in marine cons...
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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'Thrown under the bus': Study concludes international students not to blame for rising rents
International students have been "thrown under the bus" and unfairly blamed for the rental crisis, according to new study.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Exciting PhD scholarship opportunity to join our new Thriving Oceans Research Hub www.sydney.edu.au/science/our-.... Looking for candidates with training in social science, fisheries, and/or ecology. Prior publications are helpful. www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Hyperlink to a PhD scholarship in coral reef fisheries sustainability
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
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Opinion | The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Honest Government Ad | Our Last Fair Election?
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Thriving Oceans team assembled at last (11/13 of us at least). Such an amazing group of ECR talent. Watch this space for some exciting and interdisciplinary marine sustainability science!
Photo of 11 members of the Thriving Oceans Research Hub
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Fish and chips shouldn’t come with a catch: how Australia can keep illegal seafood off our plates theconversation.com/fish-and-chi...
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Fish and chips shouldn’t come with a catch: how Australia can keep illegal seafood off our plates
Most of the seafood Australians consume comes from overseas. This includes products from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing operations. We can fix this.
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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery
Marine reserves generate more than half of coral groupers produced on the GBR and half of the fish caught by the fishery.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans? 2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #AcademicSky 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
Coral Reef in the Ras Mohanned Marine Park, Egypt. Credit: Alex Mustard / Ocean Image Bank
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Taking a much needed break on an island where the kava flows and the loudest sound is the rolling thunder- I could, however, do without the sea lice…
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Prospective PhD students: I am recruiting another 3 PhD students to join my Thriving Oceans Research Hub and work on the "Bright Spots 2.0" (aka exceptional responders) project as part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese.... Scholarship Ad: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Coral Reef Fisheries Sustainability
A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for a PhD student within Faculty of Science to conduct social sciences-based fieldwork.
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd. We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students 1/n
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Jessica Zamborain Mason @jzamborainmason.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Just out in early view @Conbiology we show how to assess the sustainability of data poor reef fisheries leveraging information from global models! @joshuacinner.bsky.social @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries
Multispecies coral reef fisheries are typically managed by local communities who often lack research and monitoring capacity, which prevents estimation of well-defined sustainable reference points to....
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Prospective PhD students: I am recruiting another 3 PhD students to join my Thriving Oceans Research Hub and work on the "Bright Spots 2.0" (aka exceptional responders) project as part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese.... Scholarship Ad: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
sydney.edu.au
Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Coral Reef Fisheries Sustainability
A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for a PhD student within Faculty of Science to conduct social sciences-based fieldwork.
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hot new #OpenAccess paper by ECR superstar @jzamborainmason.bsky.social on Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries. We downscaled a global model to examine whether Ahus Island's fishery is sustainable. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries
Multispecies coral reef fisheries are typically managed by local communities who often lack research and monitoring capacity, which prevents estimation of well-defined sustainable reference points to...
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Big paper drop by @reefjav.bsky.social ! Reef fish communities are undergoing substantial change on the Great Barrier Reef, with latitude and through time. Changing coral composition, not simply coral cover, a major driver. @lec-reefs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications
Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Ok, so what is up with all of the cat pictures in my Discover feed in Bluesky? I have muted several permutations (cat, cats, cat pictures, pets, etc) of words and tags and it is still about 10% of my feed. Anyone else have this problem? How do I make it stop???
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Wildlife contributes to human well-being and values in visible and invisible ways that are under-recognized or dominated by conflict narratives. We review these critical contributions and what research and policy is needed to protect them: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Diagram depicting wildlife’s contributions to people (WCP) and their connection to nature’s contributions to people (NCP). Wildlife plays critical roles through actions like predation, herbivory, scavenging, and ecosystem engineering, directly and indirectly by supporting services such as habitat creation, climate regulation, pollination, food production, and cultural identity, while maintaining ecosystem balance. Designed by Sylvia Heredia.
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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Fascinating new paper out in @nature.com on the importance of Small Scale Fisheries. Lots of great information on catch, nutrition, livelihoods, etc. The #sharkscience factoid I found was that only 0.2% of the SSF catch is sharks, rays or chimaerans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature
A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...
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James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Small-scale fisheries account for 40% of global catch, providing 20% of micronutrient intakes for up to 2.3 billion people and livelihoods for 1 in 12 people. Huge effort involving @fao.org & 800 experts, out now in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature
A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort
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Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature
A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
OK, just deleted my Twitter account, so am all in for Bluesky....
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"The (Australian) federal Environment Department published the offshore carbon capture & storage plans on 2nd January, for 2 weeks of public consultation".... Because they don't really want any public consultation on fossil fuel expansion or reef destruction. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Greens attack Woodside proposal to bury CO2 from WA gas project under pristine reef
Party labels plan for offshore carbon capture and storage near Scott Reef ‘nothing but greenwashing’ and calls on Albanese government to extend public consultation
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So happy to be rid of that sling! Six weeks with my arm immobilised post shoulder surgery was more than enough for me. Now on to painful physiotherapy and eventually back to surfing.
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Jennifer Appoo @jenniferappoo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A bit late but excited to share our new paper exploring how seabird nutrient inputs influence mangrove food webs! 🐦🌿 @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social Open access: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
New paper in GEB: coral reefs are changing, but the most common shift is not what you think it might be. Systems dominated by live corals and small fishes are disappearing, while those dominated by algae and large fishes are becoming more common. #ecology #science doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The last (🥺) story I'll ever edit for Hakai Magazine is live today. It's about an unfinished Haida canoe left to rot for over a century on a remote Alaskan island, and the modern-day carver who wants to learn everything he can from it. By @viajoshhunt.bsky.social hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
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The Canoe in the Forest | Hakai Magazine
An unfinished boat hidden on a remote island in Alaska illuminates a missing chapter in the history of traditional Haida and Tlingit canoe building
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Jessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm loving all the food, climate, open data & other science starter packs showing up recently. Let's build up the fisheries, aquaculture & aquatic foods community here 🐟🍤🎣 Suggest folks to add below! go.bsky.app/EeZv5UT
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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I’ve gotten to see lots of great concerts in my day, but one of the best was Glass Animals on the steps of the Sydney Opera House last week. Sydney can really turn it on!!!
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