Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

• This little video is a master class in natural history: Foraging on a beach in Wales.

• Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech’s Repair Monopoly.

Jetsam (what we’re enjoying from around the web)

• This is big news! European Parliament Calls for a Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining.

• 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found in clogged catch basins. Tons. TONS! I have a long standing hatred of parades that throw garbage into the street.
• Seafood fraud, from the Fisheries Blog: A plate of lies.
• Soviet whaling fleets secretly killed thousands and thousands of whales, leaving a lasting and sad legacy for some populations: Industrial Whaling of the 20th Century Was Worse Than We Thought.
• More good news! New England Fishery Council Votes to Protect Deep-Sea Corals.
• Red Herring: The Tons of Fish That Are Caught But Not Eaten.
• This looks like serious fun: A mini boat you can build yourself with zip ties and epoxy.

Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)

• Harden-Davies (2018) The next wave of science diplomacy: marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx165.
• Martin (2018) On the acceptability and ethics of removing introduced mammals from islands. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12392
• Hamilton and friends (2018) SpEED-Ne: software to simulate and estimate genetic effective population size (Ne) from linkage disequilibrium observed in single samples. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12759.
• Campbell and friends (2018) When is a native species invasive? Incursion of a novel predatory marsupial detected using molecular and historical data. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12717.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

• Who’s ready for the latest round in the unending game of Performative Academic Servitude: How many hours should students work edition?

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

• Currently working my way through Caitlin Doughty’s excellent From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.

Derelicts (favorites from the deep archive)

• Hacking the Tractor: what the future of farming means for open science.
• Dear John: Farming and technology in the near future.
• How to build a canoe from scratch on a graduate student stipend.

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