Training got a refresh at Atomic Ecology recently: new courses, new rates and new ways to learn - www.atomicecology.com/training

I recently caught up with Victor Deklerck from World Forest ID to chat about their work verifying the supply chains behind many of the products, textiles and foods we rely on. Isotopes in action for the latest Atomic Ecology Meets! www.atomicecology.com/post/atomic-...

Some new training options from Atomic Ecology - the Academic Path is tailored to current studnets. We start with theory in the autumn and tackle data in the winter through regular group tutorials www.atomicecology.com/academic-pat...

Great to chat with @vdeklerck from @world-forest-id this morning fort a new episode of Atomic Ecology Meets. Isotopes in action to trace food and timber fraud! We discussed how it works, why its important and how you can get involved. Video will be online next week!

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Looking to strengthen your data analysis and reproducibility skills in R? At Physalia, we have three upcoming online courses that may be of interest to researchers, data scientists, and anyone working with biological and ecological data #Rstats #DataScience www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

New isotope just dropped....

A brief overview of stable isotopes and what they can bring to your research - I gave a talk for the Freshwater Biological Association last week and enjoyed it so much I recorded a version earlier today! vimeo.com/1201459099?s...

Your occasional reminder: I can help teach your students to write! My one-week intensive scientific writing course can happen at your institution. Details here:

Not even @aiannucci.bsky.social could write that! What an image!

Job for a freshwater ecologist in Ireland with the state body for environmental monitoring www.epa.ie/publications... #ecology #jobs

A global study of 41,499 lakes reveals that lake sediments experience heatwaves that are often longer, more frequent, and slower to cool than surface waters. ...boosting production of GHGs (e.g. CH4) and altering freshwater ecosystems worldwide. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Folks, some quick professional news here: After teaching the "Ecology and Conservation of Sharks" course for 5 years at Nova Southeastern, the graduate school has opted not to renew my contract. I'm fine, this course was a small part of my overall income.

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Context: $9 billion is more than the entire annual NSF budget allocated for all science research in the US. If the NSF budget had actually been disbursed this year (it has not). www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Isotopes and food residue show that as people in Kenya’s Turkana Basin transitioned from fishing and foraging to herding cattle, around 5,000 years ago, they took a full millennium to fully shift to a specialized diet centered around livestock. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/NTIa50Z3eRr

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.