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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Later this week I'll be chatting with Kurt Samways for the next Atomic Ecology Meets - If you like your isotopes with Atlantic salmon, marine derived nutrients, innovative restoration and large dollop of Canadian nice, then this one is for you! youtu.be/mLrugYqLBh4

Europe has a nitrate problem - essential to our agriculture but harmful to freshwater and coastal habitats, nitrate pollution has become fact of life. Isotopes have a huge, but largely untapped, potential to identify point sources of nitrate and also estimate where that nitrate originated.

Last chance to join the best, in-person stable isotope ecology course there is - The Survivors Guide to Stable Isotope Ecology! We have a great selection of instructors, a phenomenal venue and time to discuss your work 1:1 amongst lectures and data tutorials www.exedramc.com/courses/surv...

Upskilling for 2026, or just looking to add a new technique to your research armoury? I have two self-paced courses available through Atomic Ecology covering all the essential information required to analyse and interpret stable isotope data! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8U...

Delighted with the response to my recent chat with Sora Kim for the first Atomic Ecology Meets! New episode planned for February, stay tuned! www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-...

At a workshop last week, a couple of colleagues and I started discussing why stable isotope based approaches so prevalent in academic research are rarely seen in applied fishery management.

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

I am looking for a new job! I am one of the federal public servants whose position is being discontinued as part of the government-wide expenditure review. If you know of opportunities to work in marine and fisheries ecology, let your girl know. www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-boudreau-9114a93a7

Starting the journey home from a wonderful week at CESAB in Montpellier. Science, discussion, new friends, a whole lotnof isotopes and maybe even a beer or three. So pleased that I dint have to get back to the Maritimes this time round!

There are just a few weeks left to sign up for my Center for Wildlife Studies "biology and ecology of sharks" online course, which you can take for transfer credit or just to learn something. There's an optional 3-day field research experience in additon to the online lectures and assignments!

New R Coding for Ecology chapter on measuring landscape patterns with landscapemetrics and motif 📊🌍 doi.org/10.1007/978-... Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Code: github.com/Nowosad/land... #LandscapeEcology #RSpatial #GIS

A quick reminder that the deadline for this exciting postdoc fellowship is due soon. Come work with us! Support for work in biodiversity, ecology, and conservation with applied connections. Contact me or other Lovejoy faculty if you are interested 🧪🌐🌾

Upskilling for 2026, or just looking to add a new technique to your research armoury? I have two self-paced courses available through Atomic Ecology covering all the essential information required to analyse and interpret stable isotope data! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8U...

Delighted with the response to my recent chat with Sora Kim for the first Atomic Ecology Meets! New episode planned for February, stay tuned! www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-...

Amazing visualization of the challenges faced by right whales migrating along the eastern seaboard!

Is your New Years resolution to learn more about sharks? (Just kidding, I assume that's everyone's New Years resolution!) Good news! We are offering my online take-at-your-own-pace "Biology and Ecology of Sharks and Their Relatives" course again, starting in February! 🦑🧪🌍🦈

🎥 Webinar now live! I sat down with Dr Sora Kim to talk food webs, trophic ecology & how stable isotopes are actually used in applied research. Watch here 👉 www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-... #StableIsotopes #Ecology #FoodWebs

🎥 Webinar now live! I sat down with Dr Sora Kim to talk food webs, trophic ecology & how stable isotopes are actually used in applied research. Watch here 👉 www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-... #StableIsotopes #Ecology #FoodWebs

🎤 NoWPaS 2026 Keynotes are out! Four speakers • Three countries • Cutting-edge salmonid research Physiology, isotopes, genetics & migration 🌊🐟 🔗 Read the abstracts & learn more: nowpas.wordpress.com/2026-keynote... #NoWPaS2026 #Salmonids #EarlyCareerResearchers

Have only every heard great things about this meeting. By salmon ECRs for salmonid ECRs, and in a magical location to boot!

📢 Upcoming Webinar: Atomic Ecology Meets Dr Sora Kim! Later this week, I’ll be launching the first in a new series of webinars titled 'Atomic Ecology Meets'. These are designed to sit somewhere between a podcast and a seminar, providing a small (but powerful) dose of high quality science along

Multiple mega-farms in the Lough catchment + sewage outlets + septic tanks. That's a whole lot of poo, containing a whole lot of nitrates + phosphates with the potential to end up in the Lough, feeding algae. You can explore on our Watershed Pollution Map: share.google/IUa0Eb6MJKqE...

Happy New Year from Atomic Ecology 🌱 This year I’ll be sharing more about how stable isotopes help answer practical questions in food systems, fisheries, and environmental management — not just theory, but tools you can use. Looking forward to the conversations ahead. www.atomicecology.com

Canada is a primary supplier for the international medical community, currently producing a significant portion of the world's supply of several critical isotopes used to diagnose and treat cancer. www.ontario.ca/page/nuclear... #Canada