We live in an era of abundant scientific information, yet access to information and to opportunities for substantive public engagement with the processes and outcomes of science are still inequitably distributed. Even with increasing interest in science communication and public engagement with science, historically marginalized and minoritized individuals and communities are largely overlooked and undervalued in these efforts. To address this gap, this paper aims to define inclusive science communication and clarify and amplify the field. We present inclusive science communication as one path forward to redress the systemic problems of inequitable access to and engagement with STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine). We describe the first national Inclusive Science Communication (InclusiveSciComm) Symposium held in the U.S. Based on the experience of organizing the symposium, we discuss recommendations for other convenings to help build a community of practice for inclusive science communication. In both research and practice, we advocate for more experimentation to help make inclusive science communication the future of science communication writ large, in order to engage diverse publics in their multiple ways of knowing and expand a sense of belonging in STEMM.

The Anthropocene is the scientific label given by earth scientists to the current epoch of unprecedented anthropogenic planetary change. The Anthropocene is also a political label designed to call attention to this change and evolving notions of agency and responsibility in contemporary life. This article critically explores what I call ‘the Anthropocene idea’ and the condition of ‘Anthropocene spaces’ through selected anthropological writing about recent planetary change and through analysis of current events in a specific ‘vulnerable’ location. By considering recent events in The Bahamas, I arrive at an orientation that I call simply Anthropocene anthropology. Rather than advocating for the creation of a new subfield of research, this mode of engagement offers an open‐ended conceptual framework for the critical examination of the Anthropocene idea as it influences the symbolic and material realities of contemporary Anthropocene spaces.

Resumen Este artículo introduce la idea del antropoceno como un espacio problema con importancia para la antropología del caribe y la industria turística de éste. Este término es utilizado por científicos para definir la era presente en la cual los procesos humanos operan al nivel de escala geológica y biológica en la tierra, y ha venido a justificar una gran cantidad de acciones en el nombre de la sostenibilidad. A través de la examinación de una zona dedicada a la construcción de segundos hogares en las Bahamas, identifico cambios en diseño turístico de la isla que va dejando atrás el modelo del resort como enclave del turismo en masa. Argumento que las nociones de sostenibilidad del antropoceno no sólo re‐articulan las prácticas de construcción y el “branding” del destino turístico, pero también las posibilidades analíticas para el estudio de fabricación de lugar y procesos transnacionales. Abogo por una mayor incorporación de la antropología del diseño y urbana en el estudio del turismo al caribe como una forma de mejor entender estos eventos emergentes.

A FISH STORYFisheries are prominent sites for the study of interconnection. In the life sciences, studies linking social and ecological processes have resulted in the development of specific concepts that represent these linkages, such as coupled natural and human systems and biocomplexity (Colwell 1998). These forms of interdisciplinary research rearticulate an earlier focus on fisheries regulation and common pool resource management centered around fishing communities, complicating the imagined relationship between those whose livelihoods stem from the sea and those whose lives are harvested from the water: the relationship of fisher and fished. This article is an analysis of the ways marine conservation management frames the relationships among people, natural resources, and animals within fisheries in The Bahamas. 1 I argue that with these ongoing rearticulations fisheries become conceptualized as a form of relation between human and nonhuman that produces and naturalizes ideas of fish and fishermen to the detriment of a more complex understanding of fisheries events and processes. The story of the lionfish in The Bahamas illustrates this problem.In 2008, I assisted a young Bahamian graduate student in her field study of lionfish attraction to artificial reefs around the island of New Providence. The study was the main component of her thesis for a master's degree in Zoology at a Canadian university, and I helped the student find her artificial reefs in the shallow water, which helped her save energy as she swam in heavy dive gear behind our

Conservation of sea snakes is virtually nonexistent in Asia, and its role in human-snake interactions in terms of catch, trade, and snakebites as an occupational hazard is mostly unexplored. We collected data on sea snake landings from the Gulf of Thailand, a hotspot for sea snake harvest by squid fishers operating out of the ports of Song Doc and Khanh Hoi, Ca Mau Province, Vietnam. The data were collected during documentation of the steps of the trading process and through interviewers with participants in the trade. Squid vessels return to ports once per lunar synodic cycle and fishers sell snakes to merchants who sort, package, and ship the snakes to various destinations in Vietnam and China for human consumption and as a source of traditional remedies. Annually, 82 t, roughly equal to 225,500 individuals, of live sea snakes are brought to ports. To our knowledge, this rate of harvest constitutes one of the largest venomous snake and marine reptile harvest activities in the world today. Lapemis curtus and Hydrophis cyanocinctus constituted about 85% of the snake biomass, and Acalyptophis peronii, Aipysurus eydouxii, Hydrophis atriceps, H. belcheri, H. lamberti, and H. ornatus made up the remainder. Our results establish a quantitative baseline for characteristics of catch, trade, and uses of sea snakes. Other key observations include the timing of the trade to the lunar cycle, a decline of sea snakes harvested over the study period (approximately 30% decline in mass over 4 years), and the treatment of sea snake bites with rhinoceros horn. Emerging markets in Southeast Asia drive the harvest of venomous sea snakes in the Gulf of Thailand and sea snake bites present a potentially lethal occupational hazard. We call for implementation of monitoring programs to further address the conservation implications of this large-scale marine reptile exploitation.