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Chief Scientist @CefasGovUK Executive Agency of His Majesty’s Govt @DefraGovUK Science, evidence and advice for decision-making on sustainable use of the marine environment #CefasScience #OneHealth 💙 Who are Cefas? https://linktr.ee/cefasgovuk .. more

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.frontiersin.org/journals/aqu...

#CefasScience - a perspective on the potential for the #bluetransformation to lend to significant #OneHealth benefits felt by society, nature and the wider environment

#OneHealthAquaculture

Frontiers | A blue transformation for global One Health

Global per capita consumption of aquatic foods has never been higher, though significant differences between nations exist. The nutritional benefits of consu...

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Brent A. Mitchell @brentamitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Join us in this interactive session where we will learn about efforts to operationalize the One Health approach on the ground, nationally, and internationally; develop recommendations for an IUCN One Health strategy. IUCN World Conservation Congress

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 3d

Nope, no Environmental Protection for us today. Entrance to EPA in DC locked up tight this hot Monday morning.

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 7d

The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050.

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Cover of the 2025 EAT–Lancet report, featuring an image of a person scooping up green vegetables in their hands from a large plate. The report quote: “The targets of the EAT–Lancet Commission for healthy people on a healthy planet with just food systems can only be met through concerted global action and unprecedented levels of transformative change.”

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 7d

And, a global analysis of 'aquaculture adoption' here: media.proquest.com/media/hms/PF...

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 7d

'...the majority of ICES nations lack long-term strategies for aquaculture growth, with an increasing gap between future domestic production and consumption—resulting in a potential 7 million tonne domestic seafood deficit by 2050'

Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 7d

'Many of the 20 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) member nations have been global leaders in the protection and management of wild fisheries, but to date, most of these nations have not developed robust aquaculture industries'

Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 7d

Mind the gap between ICES nations’ future seafood consumption and aquaculture production url: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.

The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · 8d

For me, our latest Doughnut findings underscore the urgency and importance of the collective work to move beyond GDP as the measure of economic success, reorienting economies to create a future that provides a good life for all within planetary boundaries. Dive in! /FIN

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature

A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · 8d

(1) Kate has written a short paper, 'The Evolving Doughnut', which concisely sets out the ideas that inspired the framework she created in 2012, and describes how and why it has changed over its three iterations. Plus download the latest Doughnut diagrams (CC-BY) 5/

The Evolving Doughnut | DEAL

A report by Kate Raworth on the Doughnut's evolution since 2012, with the latest Doughnut diagrams available to download

doughnuteconomics.org

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · 8d

📢BIG NEW STUDY📢
Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Infographic with a Doughnut diagram. Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance. As global economy doubles, progress to end poverty is slow, while planetary overshoot worsens.

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European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 10d

New from the @eea.europa.eu 👉 The State of the Environment 2025 assessment.
A stark reminder of the #OneHealth connection. Chemical pollution, AMR, & biodiversity loss directly impact medicine efficacy, disease emergence, and public health.
#EuropesEnvironment2025

www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges

Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degr...

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Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland.ie · 12d

Celebrating #WorldRiversDay with this beautiful old Irish proverb. When was the last time you listened to your local river? 💙🐟

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Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 12d

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 13d

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The Marine Management Organisation, with an s, is looking for a new CEO 💙👇

Marine Management Organisation

Location: Flexible. This role is open to national applications. The CEO will be expected to maintain a regular presence at the MMO Head Office in

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Reposted by Peter Thorne, Grant D. Stentiford, Jonathan A. Foley , and 6 more Peter Thorne, Grant D. Stentiford, Jonathan A. Foley, Scott L. Greer, Éva E. Plagányi, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Juan Rocha, Mary Burke

Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 13d

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Rebecca Solnit, Graeme S. Cumming , and 24 more Lisa W. Fazio, Rebecca Solnit, Graeme S. Cumming, John K. Pinnegar, Ken Caldeira, Grant D. Stentiford, John R. Hutchinson, Mark D. White, Alex Callinicos, Dawn J. Wright, Parliamentary Library, Cathy N. Davidson, Margaret Johnston, Jussi T. Eronen, Trevor A. Branch, Andrew L. Whitehead, Jonathan Birch, Jennifer A. Johnson, Allan D. McDevitt, Anthony Burke, Halley E. Froehlich, Andrew M. Riggsby, Kathleen Kennedy, David H. Price, Charles T. Mathewes, Richard Moorhead, Vincent Raoult

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 15d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution - Nature

The Biodiversity Cell Atlas aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life, which will be phylogenetically informed, rely on high-quality genomes and use shared standards to facilitate comparisons across species.

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 16d

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Senior science role in blue carbon at Cefas 👇

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 16d

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 17d

'the cold-blooded nature of these hosts and their taxonomic distinction from mammals (including humans) supports a similarly distinct viral profile, with relatively few taxa likely to have zoonotic (or pandemic) potential'

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 17d

'...a potentially lower food safety risk of consumption (of aquatic protein) compared to other meats'

Can the #bluetransformation reduce the risk of zoonotic pandemics??

www.frontiersin.org/journals/aqu...

#OneHealth

Frontiers | A blue transformation for global One Health

Global per capita consumption of aquatic foods has never been higher, though significant differences between nations exist. The nutritional benefits of consu...

www.frontiersin.org

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 19d

With a mollusc

Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 20d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Louisiana reports five deaths from flesh-eating bacterium in coastal waters

Officials say deaths from Vibrio vulnificus exceeding average amid warning over climate-linked case increase

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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CefasScience #OneHealth

Viral load differences associated with infection outcomes and resistance to white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection in mud crab, Scylla serrata

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV), the causative agent of white spot disease, remains a serious threat to crustacean aquaculture. Infecting a wide rang…