Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
@whyoceansmatter.bsky.social
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Strongly agree with this letter in Science arguing that field-based research should be more highly and fairly valued in academia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The value of field research in academia
From anthropology to zoology, immersion within communities, cultural settings, and study systems is integral to research and learning (1, 2). Fieldwork, the direct observation and collection of data i...
www.science.org
November 28, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Strongly agree with this letter in Science arguing that field-based research should be more highly and fairly valued in academia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🚨🎉 Check out our new paper assessing the impacts of fishing (🎣) and climate change (🌡️) on carbon export and sequestration by commercial fish! 🐟
🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
🌐🦑🦈🌊
1/9
🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
🌐🦑🦈🌊
1/9
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨🎉 Check out our new paper assessing the impacts of fishing (🎣) and climate change (🌡️) on carbon export and sequestration by commercial fish! 🐟
🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
🌐🦑🦈🌊
1/9
🔗 rdcu.be/eMTU6
🔽 Here are some key results! 🔽
@oceanicu.bsky.social
@natcomms.nature.com
🌐🦑🦈🌊
1/9
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I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems!
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems!
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
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Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Seabirds are top predators and nutrient cyclers in marine island ecosystems, but are threatened by risk of extinction. This Review explores the circular seabird economy around islands and discusses ho...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
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Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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hot off the press doi.org/10.1111/geb....
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
hot off the press doi.org/10.1111/geb....
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
September 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
rdcu.be/eEcIt
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
rdcu.be/eEcIt
Hot new fish dropped! Look at these little beauts!!! 😍🐠👌
New species alert! A Pascua goby from the Coral Sea. This genus now contains four species. Two from the Eastern Pacific and two from Australia, with more than 5,500km separating them. Lots of fun describing my second new species. #TeamFish #Fish
doi.org/10.3390/fish...
doi.org/10.3390/fish...
September 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Hot new fish dropped! Look at these little beauts!!! 😍🐠👌
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Ever wonder how the axial locomotor system is arranged into segmented myomeres of red and white muscle in a large pelagic surgeonfish? Well, now you know! 🐟🧪🦑
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ever wonder how the axial locomotor system is arranged into segmented myomeres of red and white muscle in a large pelagic surgeonfish? Well, now you know! 🐟🧪🦑
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This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold
YouTube video by Undecided with Matt Ferrell
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is blanketing shorelines from Barbados to Cancún.
It traps sea turtles. It smothers coral reefs. And it drives tourists away.
Reposted by Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
He's a billionaire with a submarine and he's just out there quietly funding tons of ocean research and teaching kids about coral reefs and giving interviews where he says that he owes a ton of his success to luck and it's a little reminder that a better world is possible.
Steam's Gabe Newell is just out there quietly running a great little ocean research and education program with relatively little fanfare.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCU...
Inspiring the Next Generation of Ocean Stewards | Ocean Discovery Day, Solomon Islands
YouTube video by Inkfish Expeditions
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
He's a billionaire with a submarine and he's just out there quietly funding tons of ocean research and teaching kids about coral reefs and giving interviews where he says that he owes a ton of his success to luck and it's a little reminder that a better world is possible.
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New #OA systematic review of the current state of marine
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
A systematic review of the current state of marine functional connectivity research
Marine functional connectivity underpins biodiversity and ecosystem functions, ensuring resilience in marine and land-sea interface ecosystems. Research on this topic has advanced rapidly in...
doi.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New #OA systematic review of the current state of marine
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
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Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
#EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sosbangor.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
🌊 New SCB Marine webinar series - "Navigating Marine Conservation Careers" kicks off w/ amazing speakers:
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🌊 New SCB Marine webinar series - "Navigating Marine Conservation Careers" kicks off w/ amazing speakers:
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
Dr. David Obura (CORDIO East Africa) & Dr. Austin Allen (Dolphin Quest)
Come learn about marine conservation careers!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MarineConservation #OceanScience
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Saw this largely white-colored yellow tang #snorkeling in #Maui. Had no idea how rare it was until I did some research. Very cool. Generally called leucistic or piebald. #youdoyou 🦑
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Saw this largely white-colored yellow tang #snorkeling in #Maui. Had no idea how rare it was until I did some research. Very cool. Generally called leucistic or piebald. #youdoyou 🦑
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
#fish #tropicalfish #ocean #hawaii #love #marinelife #diving #coralreef #vacay #photography #underwaterphotography
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📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out!
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment
‘This brilliant volume comprehensively explains how and why social networks are so critical to help society address environmental challenges, including the climate crisis. It significantly extends pre...
www.e-elgar.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out!
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
Reposted by Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
We should broaden models, not narrow them. Models are tools to explore uncertainty, communicate scenarios, and test policy. Managers seek robust strategies, not perfect forecasts.
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
August 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We should broaden models, not narrow them. Models are tools to explore uncertainty, communicate scenarios, and test policy. Managers seek robust strategies, not perfect forecasts.
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
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A new systemic review from @baumlab.bsky.social is offering a stark warning for how profoundly ocean life can be upended by heatwaves. The review synthesizes findings from 331 studies that documented the ecological impacts of the 2014-16 Pacific marine heatwave. theconversation.com/the-worlds-l...
The world’s longest marine heat wave upended ocean life across the Pacific
The multi-year heat wave nicknamed ‘The Blob’ impacted thousands of kilometres of marine ecosystems from Alaska to Baja California.
theconversation.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A new systemic review from @baumlab.bsky.social is offering a stark warning for how profoundly ocean life can be upended by heatwaves. The review synthesizes findings from 331 studies that documented the ecological impacts of the 2014-16 Pacific marine heatwave. theconversation.com/the-worlds-l...
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New study from @wcs.org and partners document 85% decline in abundance of Nassau grouper at their spawning site at Glover's Reef over 20 years, moving the population to local extirpation. Read more from Coral Reefs: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Photo (c) Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank
Photo (c) Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank
August 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New study from @wcs.org and partners document 85% decline in abundance of Nassau grouper at their spawning site at Glover's Reef over 20 years, moving the population to local extirpation. Read more from Coral Reefs: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Photo (c) Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank
Photo (c) Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank
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Cutting teeth probably let smaller sharks get higher in the food web than those with grasping teeth. Awesome stable isotope study led by fabulous PhD graduate Sabrina Riveron!
@griffith.edu.au
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@griffith.edu.au
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Shearing Tooth Morphology May Allow Sharks to Access Higher Trophic Levels at Smaller Sizes
Predator morphology imposes limitations on prey selection due to biomechanical constraints, making some prey functionally inaccessible and thereby constraining predator trophic niches. We assessed ho....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Cutting teeth probably let smaller sharks get higher in the food web than those with grasping teeth. Awesome stable isotope study led by fabulous PhD graduate Sabrina Riveron!
@griffith.edu.au
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@griffith.edu.au
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Book lovers and fish lovers, remember to contribute to the #BestKidsFishBooks #FishBooksForKids crowdsourcing list! Recommend great books so we can make #BookSky #KidLit a fishier place for children everywhere 😍🐟🦑🐡🧪📚
List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids
Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks
List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids
Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks
BKAF Crowdsourcing Dossier: Best Fish Books for Kids (of All Ages)! (Responses)
bit.ly
July 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Book lovers and fish lovers, remember to contribute to the #BestKidsFishBooks #FishBooksForKids crowdsourcing list! Recommend great books so we can make #BookSky #KidLit a fishier place for children everywhere 😍🐟🦑🐡🧪📚
List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids
Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks
List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids
Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks
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Proud, as always, of our amazing Kelp Rescue (@kelprescue.bsky.social ) team. 4 years in the making, our 1st kelp restoration publication is out! 🎉🎉🎉
Onwards! @uvic.ca BMSC. Thanks to all our funders, especially Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) 🇨🇦
Onwards! @uvic.ca BMSC. Thanks to all our funders, especially Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) 🇨🇦
Kelp Rescue is excited to announce the publication of our 1st ever kelp restoration peer-reviewed paper! 🎉Since our start in 2021, we've been testing scientific approaches to kelp restoration, and this paper is the culmination of a huge team effort.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Proud, as always, of our amazing Kelp Rescue (@kelprescue.bsky.social ) team. 4 years in the making, our 1st kelp restoration publication is out! 🎉🎉🎉
Onwards! @uvic.ca BMSC. Thanks to all our funders, especially Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) 🇨🇦
Onwards! @uvic.ca BMSC. Thanks to all our funders, especially Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) 🇨🇦
Reposted by Dr. Matthew Tietbohl
New paper out in Proceedings B! 🔊
Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠
Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@royalsocietypublishing.org
Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠
Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@royalsocietypublishing.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New paper out in Proceedings B! 🔊
Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠
Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@royalsocietypublishing.org
Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠
Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@royalsocietypublishing.org