Daniel Shailer

Freelance Reporter | bits in Guardian, SciAm, Private Eye, Mongabay, Ferret, ICN, | [email protected] | prev AP, Shetland Times, Tucson Sentinel

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

Thrilled to share that I’ve been picked as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards) by @theNASEM/ @schmidtsciences.

Excited to put this back into telling climate stories!

https://t.co/IXRkxhwesU

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

In the @guardian with some environmental sleuthing from Britain's most remote inhabited island:

https://t.co/NJLJP5pKLW

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

Full paper: https://t.co/nn778O9bKm

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

Back in @MongabayOrg breaking down a new way of looking at invasives. Current frameworks look at socio-economic/biodiversity impacts (cash & kills). Now researchers are asking about suffering:

@BristolUni @forwildanimals

https://t.co/59tTNpJoKb

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

2) With so many potential sources (2 wastewater plants, 200 CSOs, 500+ landfills) it probably easier to restrict Pfas use, rather than treat later.

Water companies "don’t have the capacity to treat these compounds," says author @DrAlexFord. "They should be banned at source.”

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

In the @guardian today with new research from
@portsmouthuni & @mcsuk finding toxic Pfas everywhere you look in the Solent.

Beneath that headline finding — two important takeaways about how we measure Pfas, and what to do about it.

https://t.co/BR0WbVu1PW

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

1) Not all Pfas are equal. Individually many chemicals were below safe limits. But if you weight each one by its specific toxicity and add that up *combined* risk was in the red far more.

Ran this weighted test on remote lochs in @FerretScot: https://t.co/PWelbsRWGT

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

Do "green" tourist taxes work? The Balearic Islands have been doing it for a decade and the reviews are mixed. Latest for @AFARmedia :

https://t.co/cKIkwSLOAq

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

For decades Brazilian policy-makers have "sacrificed" the country's Cerrado region to agriculture. Now scientists have found that, hectare-for-hectare, its wetlands beat the lowland Amazon for carbon storage SIX times over.

For @MongabayOrg: https://t.co/IB9a5XoZAu

[DeSmog @DeSmog]

🔴 NEW - The SNP’s Oil Executive Holyrood Candidate

The party has put forward a senior Equinor figure to stand in Shetland.
https://t.co/zxvxgQ6NXO

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

I'm in the latest @PrivateEyeNews answering the question on no one's lips: what does Cuomo's NYC housing plan have in common with "cutting edge" Scottish fish farmers? AI!

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

"It’s a fine shame to all involved."

Britain's biggest salmon farm has the greenlight off Shetland, and it's making unlikely bedfellows of fishers and environmentalists.

w/ @karenmcveigh1 for Guardian Seascapes:

https://t.co/SSLd3wubhE

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

@sightsonwheels @HIPBMA @shetlandtimes @HighNewsMedia xx

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

Thrilled to have won a clutch of gongs at the Highlands and Islands media awards last week, including 2025 journalist of the year. Shetland is a bustling patch and I'm lucky to cover it. @HIPBMA @shetlandtimes @HighNewsMedia

[HIPBMA @HIPBMA]

#HIPBMA2026

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🔴NEW: A body which sets environmental and welfare standards for fish farms took wholesale buyers to a Scottish salmon farm which broke its rules for 11 consecutive weeks.

Our latest investigation: https://t.co/GgWPPXMUxu

[Inside Climate News @insideclimate]

Marine mammal researchers spotted up to 10 of the critically endangered vaquita porpoises during a recent survey in the Upper Gulf of California. The sighting provides hope for the future, but scientists warn the species remains at risk of extinction.
https://t.co/mpuGJ0ONmQ

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

The deets: https://t.co/ib7tO4xh0l

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

While other Scottish councils spent their share of nature/coastal adaptation funds on... nature/the coast, Shetland slushed the money into its general coffers for stuff like IT and vehicle maintenance.

"Completely unacceptable" said @ScotWildlife's @ruchirlives.

Deets below.

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

I'm particularly grateful to the editors who trusted me with the stories this award recognised, and helped whip them into shape: @LoebVernon w @insideclimate, @SarahExplains w @sciam and @ShannaDBaker w @hakaimagazine (now @bioGraphic).

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

Thrilled to share that I’ve been picked as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards) by @theNASEM/ @schmidtsciences.

Excited to put this back into telling climate stories!

https://t.co/IXRkxhwesU

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

@SalmonScotland @TheGAAIA @salmon_free

[Daniel Shailer @danswimsMCS]

HUGE (if mixed) news week for Shetland's crabs 🦀

First beachcombers find a rare Columbus crab the size of a 50p coin. Then a scientific fracas about whether subsea cables "mesmerise" crustaceans.

And we found some less good news:

https://t.co/HnDe4LyYAw