So, I've just been bellyaching about the (book) publishing world. So it makes sense to re-up this post, about a super easy way you can support an author. (Could be me but definitely doesn't have to be!). And remove some money from Jeff Bezos' pocket at the same time.

When One Dead Whale Becomes a Decades-Long Buffet

Good news Friday! Congratulations Britney Brown, whoever you are, fighting the good fight and winning!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Really enjoying my first run at delivering a course with Physalia! Half way through and we have already evaluated data QC, played with biplots and run all sorts of mixing models. TRophic position and group exercises today and finishing with food webs tomorrow!

AI-Assisted Scientific Writing course (online, 3–5 June). Learn how to use LLMs & AI agents for literature search, drafting, fact-checking & peer review workflows. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #AI #ScientificWriting

There are still a few of seats for next week's Stable Isotope Data Analysis course with Physilia - This online course will cover data validation, mixing models, foods webs, niches and trophic position, lots of R packages and time to discuss your data www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

If you would like to learn how to analyse stable isotope datasets in R, you can still join us next week for this 4-day online course taught by @drhaydo.bsky.social: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... Dates and time: 18-21 May (2-6 PM Berlin time).

Across lakes and species, eDNA reads follow rank-based abundance metrics. Lots of potential for non-destructive future applications. So happy to have worked on this paper with powerhouse eDNA researcher @jlittlefair.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A giant fish called the arapaima is the focus of a conservation success story in the Brazilian Amazon. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/3PtCVIN

Physalia turns 10 this month! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our courses, collaborated with us, or followed our journey. To celebrate, we’re offering 10% off all May courses for our followers. Interested? Email us at [email protected] www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Science is better with friends, and isotope ecology is no different! Delighted to join the folks from The eDNA Consultancy for a FREE IFM webinar explaining how to combine new techniques to develop a better understanding of fish community structure and function! ifm.org.uk/events/moder...

Interested in applying isotopes to your ecological work but don't know where to start? Im giving an introductory webinar for the ESA tomorrow! Learn about applications from carbon capture to food webs and animal migration. Registration below esa.org/career-devel...

Environmental DNA from lakes and rivers in Southeast China shows that sites with frequent tropical cyclones have more nonnative fish than less storm-prone sites, partly because flood waters and high winds facilitate species movement. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/bC5150YQEl8

📣Reminder that today is the LAST DAY to fill out the Google Form to order a meeting t-shirt. More information here: csee-scee.ca/csee-merchan...

Back on the road with Atomic Ecology - visiting my Alma Matter to give a seminar on stable isotope ecology and why Irish researchers need to be doing more of it!

I got into eel history by studying the Dutch eel ships on the Thames. We don't generally remember them much now, but they were there from the c.1470 - 1938. They used to be low-key famous, even appearing in Nicolas Sarony's 1929 cigarette card collection, "Ships of All Ages." 🗃️🧪

🚨 Last seats available! Multivariate Data Analysis with R & vegan led by @gsimpson.bsky.social 📅 4–7 May (onine) www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Now available in Irish! 💚 We’re excited to welcome Irish to the Big River Watch app, making it even easier for communities across the UK & Ireland to get involved in citizen science. Starts next week: 24th - 30th April, download/update the app & survey your local river. shorturl.at/4e5dW

New Atomic Ecology Meets episode 🎥 I caught up with Jessica Lueders-Dumont to talk about her recent Nature paper using nitrogen isotopes in fish otoliths to reconstruct reef ecosystem function over thousands of years.

Patterns revealed and questions raised by first application of dual species Dreissena DNA markers to lakewide Lake Superior zooplankton samples #GreatLakes 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The course "Population genomic inference from low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data" with Nina Overgaard Therkildsen, @fishyomics.bsky.social & Tyler Linderoth in October (26-29). www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

New Atomic Ecology Meets episode 🎥 I caught up with Jessica Leuders-Dumont to talk about her recent Nature paper using nitrogen isotopes in fish otoliths to reconstruct reef ecosystem function over thousands of years. Method + application + great story 👇

New Atomic Ecology Meets episode 🎥 I caught up with Jessica Lueders-Dumont to talk about her recent Nature paper using nitrogen isotopes in fish otoliths to reconstruct reef ecosystem function over thousands of years. Method + application + great story 👇

🌍 New paper! The global spread of #Sunfish reveals a growing invasion threat—30 species established beyond native ranges, driven by human pathways and climate change. Time to reconcile #fisheries benefits with #biodiversity costs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/faf.... #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🌐 🧪

More reasons to be cheerful!

An exciting week at Atomic Ecology - I will be meeting Jessica Lueders-Dumont to chat about their stunning reef food web work just published in Nature, and how to get organic N data from fossil otoliths, webinar coming soon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3

Back on the road this week, taking my backpack full of isotopes to Galway to chat food webs, bats and maybe even pike with the good folks at ATU!

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

And here's the full Isle of Sh*te picture. Total sewage spills last year. Check out the interactive map here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...

The Essentials of Stable Isotope Ecology is not: – A chemistry refresher – A software demo – A light overview It is about thinking with isotope data, and applying these data to your research If you use isotopes but don’t always feel 100% confident explaining them

Join our online course Applied Stable Isotope Ecology with R with @drhaydo.bsky.social (18–21 May) to learn how to analyse and interpret stable isotope datasets in ecology, fisheries, and environmental management. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

This looks like an interesting meeting on diet DNA - to be held at Durham University between 21-24 July 2026 foragingecology.com/diets/

The Canadian Cancer Society wants all provinces and territories Wednesday to lower the colorectal cancer screening age to 45 from 50.

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

🙀Invasive species cause such diverse ecological impacts that we needed to broaden the lens used to classify their effects. Very happy with the collaborative and progressive nature of this work, integrating previous efforts and helping fill key gaps after years of worldwide effort!

Lots of challenges and excitement since deciding to move back to Ireland and establish Atomic Ecology but getting to pass through Dublin on a sunny spring morning is definitely good for the soul

If stable isotopes are part of your research, they should be one of your strengths — not something you “sort of” understand. That’s why I built this course.

A novel take on Nature Based Solutions! - Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New paper with the one and only Dr. Kelly Miles! Rare application of soft tissue in iso forensic studies. Kelly measured δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N in human skin and muscle during the first ~20 days of decomp finding that muscle δ¹⁵N increased rapidly, but.... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Most isotope users were never formally trained in isotope ecology. They learned just enough to get by. That gap shows up later — usually during interpretation. That’s exactly what my course is designed to fix.

RTE winning the battles of the 404's hands down!

Atlantic Canada Coastal and Estuarine Science Society and the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership2026 Joint Conference 5.19.26 - 5.22.26 Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB Hosted by the . Conference theme: “Connecting communities to ocean science”. access.wildapricot.org/ACCESS-&-BoF...

In many R courses, data are clean & everything just works. But real life is messy—and that’s where problems start 👉 Our course with @cecibaldoni.bsky.social -Dealing with Messy Data in R in April: clean, join & visualise real datasets with tidyverse & ggplot2 💻📊 shorturl.at/zdmht #Rstats #MessyData

Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A collaboration with Yushun Chen, Seb Brosse, @sjcfishy.bsky.social and other! @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

🎥 New webinar now live! I sat down with Kurt Samways to talk stable isotopes, fisheries ecology, and applied conservation — with a focus on Atlantic salmon and real-world management questions. Watch here 👉 www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-... #StableIsotopes #Fisheries #Ecology

🎥 New webinar now live! I sat down with Kurt Samways to talk stable isotopes, fisheries ecology, and applied conservation — with a focus on Atlantic salmon and real-world management questions. Watch here 👉 www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-... #StableIsotopes #Fisheries #Ecology

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

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