After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...

If you're an active researcher or practitioner working in the field of applied ecology - why not apply to join us as an Associate Editor?🌍 We're seeking a range of expertise such as marine ecology, disease ecology & local knowledge!🧪 Find out more 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Our recent paper on grey and harbour seal transboundary distribution made the cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! 😀🦭Thanks to Dr Kelly Robinson of @seamammalresearch.bsky.social for the photo! Check the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

❗Be quick – last few tickets remaining!❗ Want to kick of the year with action for our oceans and are aged 16-30? There is still time to sign up to our in-person youth gathering happening next weekend in Glasgow. Sign up here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/youth-gath...

🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨 🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌊 New research out now in ICES Journal of Marine Science! Using #OneBenthic, we reveal large-scale spatial patterns in marine epifaunal communities. One of four #Cefas papers under OWEC POSEIDON. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ices... 🔎 rconnect.cefas.co.uk/POSEIDON/ #BenthicEcology #POSEIDON #OWEC #ICESJMS

If you haven't already - please help us shape our next academic conference in Autumn 2026 by filling out a quick survey!

A new year is here and there’s just 10 days to apply for the new #SEA4FUTURE #S4F #postdoc position to work with us on #eDNA and #Sustainability of #Mediterranean #Fisheries (link below!) 🐟 🧬 🦐 Don’t miss out on the opportunity! @thefsbi.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

🚨⚠️‼️PHD OPPORTUNITY‼️⚠️🚨 🎓Looking to start a #PhD? 🪸Interested in marine sciences, cetaceans and food webs? 🔎 Apply to our environmental impacts of offshore infrastructures @netgain.bsky.social PhD and be part of the #VALMAS project. ⏰Deadline: Friday, January 30, 2026 Apply here: lnkd.in/eswMv-Pp

Thanks to everyone we met at #BES2025! If you have a minute pre-xmas break, please help us shape our BESAG 2026 Annual Meeting by filling out our super short questionnaire below! Also, keep your eyes peeled on our socials in january, we'll soon be looking for a new comittee member 👀 🪸🦑🦭🌊💧🐟

Thanks to everyone who came by to say hi at the Meet the SIGs session and joint pub social last night! #BES2025 If you haven’t already, (pretty) please help us shape our 2026 annual meeting via this short questionnaire: ⬇️📝🙏 forms.gle/HCVo3gwVKLYB... @britishecologicalsociety.org

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Day 2 at #BES2025, and more aquatic ecology posters to go check out! A1.97 - Living Sea Walls (Franz Bauer) A4.93 - UK river restoration (Molly Bridger) B4.14 - Coastal food web biomass (Benjamin Mooney) A4.47 - Amazonian stream fish (Yullia Alvez) 🌊🔬💧🐟 @britishecologicalsociety.org

Two funded PhD projects (one open to international applicants) with us at @lec-reefs.bsky.social - please pass on to potential applicants

SMRU PhD student Mia Goldman is presenting research on grey seal breeding phenology at #BES2025. Check out her poster 🦭

We’re hiring a Head of Consultancy! 💼 Full-time | £42k | Hybrid, 12-month FTC 📅 Apply by 31 Dec 📍 Flexible working | 32 days leave | 9% pension Lead impactful work directly supporting river restoration across the Forth. Details & apply👉 forthriverstrust.org/hiring-heado... #GreenJobs

Are you a part of our Special Interest Group community and thinking of attending our 2026 annual conference? (say yes, it’s really fun 🤩) We would be eternally grateful if you could fill out our google form survey to help us shape the 2026 event itself! ⬇️ forms.gle/sYPRkuPZCNg2... Thank youuu 💧🔬🦐

We spy some #aquaticecology posters at #BES2025 👀🌊 B1.70 A1.77 B2.20 Have you got a poster on #marine and #freshwater research you’d like is to highlight? Drop us a message and we’ll come check it out! @britishecologicalsociety.org

We made it to the #BES2025! First talk of the day: ‘Propagating storm damage and eroding stability in global mangroves’ 🌊🏝️ Professor Ian Donohue Dr Yu Mo

We are hiring! If you like the #sea and its #fish and are motivated to apply #eDNA methods to make #fisheries more sustainable, then this #postdoc position might be perfect for you: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/post... @thefsbi.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

Coming to #BES2025 this week? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We'll be there too! Come find us at the Meet the SIGs session! 🌊 📍Mezzanine 🕰️ 6-7pm We'll then head to the pub for drinks and food for a joint social with Teaching and Learning & Quantitative @bes-quantitative.bsky.social SIGs! 🍻 📍Fox & Faun 🕰️ 7.30pm

Coming to #BES2025 this week? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We'll be there too! Come find us at the Meet the SIGs session! 🌊 📍Mezzanine 🕰️ 6-7pm We'll then head to the pub for drinks and food for a joint social with Teaching and Learning & Quantitative @bes-quantitative.bsky.social SIGs! 🍻 📍Fox & Faun 🕰️ 7.30pm

📊 Heading to #BESAnnualMeeting next week? Come and meet the Quantitative SIG at Meet the SIGs on Tuesday 18:00–19:00 at the EICC. A great chance to chat quantitative ecology, hear what we’re up to, and get involved 👋 Stick around afterwards for the SIG socials!

Can GPS tracking reveal how #seabirds make use of tidal mixing fronts when foraging? 🧪 New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas Read on for more Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002... @ellingbry.bsky.social

Keen to hear about job/PhD opportunities and the latest UK freshwater & marine ecology research? (yes you do 🐟) Good news: we’ve got a monthly newsletter for you! 📩 Sign up to our MailChimp for your monthly dose of aquatic goodness and all things SIG-related. 🌊 Sign up here ➡️ rb.gy/zd3ce1

Our recent report warns that unregulated and understudied cocktails of chemical pollutants in UK rivers, lakes and coastal environments can have harmful effects on aquatic ecosystems even when their individual components are present at ‘safe’ levels: #COP30 https://bit.ly/4i8pqrZ

The deadline to apply for a DPhil with scholarship consideration is fast approaching on 8 January! If you or someone you know is thinking of a PhD, make sure to get in touch with a potential supervisor asap, ahead of the University's winter closure 👇 bit.ly/dphilbio25

Registration is now open for our MERLIN policy event! This joint event will present key insights from four Horizon flagship projects and provide a space for exchange with EU and national decision-makers. It will be our final event, marking over four years of work 🌱 project-merlin.eu/brussels2026...

4 YR Fully Funded PhD Opportunity (UK home fees) Restoring Rivers for Multi-Benefit Outcomes: From Biodiversity to Flood Resilience www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor! If you… 👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management 👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision 👉have editing experience …we’d love to hear from you! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...

PhD opportunity! "Benefits & impacts of use of light in UK #fisheries & their wider effect on the marine environment" (aka #scallopdiscos!) Supervision by me @thembauk.bsky.social Tom Davies @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Tim Smyth @pml.ac.uk @fishtekmarine.bsky.social www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

📢 Free webinar on aquatic eDNA methods! Sign up below ⬇️ @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

it was great to have you there, Ciaran! We hope to see you there next year too and good luck with your interesting research #ECRs #aquatic #BESAG2025

Job Alert @qmulsbbs.bsky.social is advertising a position: Environmental Analytical Facility Technician. Join our team #ecology, #stable #isotopes, #Mass-spectrometer

What happens when the whole planet acts like a greenhouse? 🌍 Prof. Marco Bartoli explains how GHGs trap heat — just like glass in a greenhouse. REWET is tracking emissions from wetlands to help turn them into carbon sinks. 🌱 youtube.com/shorts/IYEPk... #ClimateChange #GreenhouseEffect #Wetlands

Tom Smith from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social is our #BESAG annual prize winner for outstanding contribution for his career stage! well done, Tom, and great talk too! #BESAG2025 #aquatic #marine #freshwater #bodysize #ecology #evolution 💦💧🌊🧪🌍

at #BESAG2025 we had a great artist, Oliver Leger (www.olivierleger.co.uk), exhibiting his art which was an intersection between science and art. He gave a wonderful interactive talk too! #art #science #sciart 🧪💦💧🌊🧑‍🎨

the #BESAG committee had a great time and hope you did too. Thank you to keynote speakers, workshop leaders, talk presenters and all the participants. Thanks to the sponsors, @funecology.bsky.social and to @zslofficial.bsky.social for hosting us! we hope to see all of you again next year!💧🌍🧪

#BESAG2025 #ECRs price winners:🥇Rosie Williams(prize from @funecology.bsky.social) & 🥈 @ap3489.bsky.social (@zslofficial.bsky.social price)!Rosie: sea surface temperature, pollution and infectious disease mortality in short-beaked common dolphins & Adam: how bioturbators benefit C and nutrients

we had two #BESAG2025 socials! The second one was a drink reception at the beautiful @zslofficial.bsky.social - drinks & anything #marine #freshwater #aquatic! 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠🪱🐟🐳🐬🐡🦐🦞🪼

we had two #BESAG2025 socials! The first one was our pub outing - we are very happy to see so many scientists enjoying themselves and sharing their #marine #freshwater #aquatic research! 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠🪱🐟🐳🐬🐡🦐🦞🪼

at #BESAG2025 we also had great posters from #ECRs.. telling us all about their #marine #freshwater #aquatic research! 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠🪱🐟🐳🐬🐡🦐🦞🪼 everyone was so interested and happy to chat and exchange knowledge

at #BESAG2025 we had great lightning talks from amazing #ECRs.. telling us all about their #marine #freshwater #aquatic research! 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠🪱🐟🐳🐬🐡🦐🦞🪼 PT2

at #BESAG2025 we had great lightning talks from amazing #ECRs.. telling us all about their #marine #freshwater #aquatic research! 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠🪱🐟🐳🐬🐡🦐🦞🪼

our last #BESAG2025 keynote speaker is Prof. Yin Chen. Yin gave us a great talk on #methane oxidation in #freshwater #lakes, with a #microbiologist’s perspective 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠 #aquatic #freshwater #pollution

our next #BESAG2025 keynote speaker is Dr. Joe Taylor from @ukceh.bsky.social. Joe gave a wonderful and very interesting presentation on #biodiversity and #importance of #microbial #eukaryotes in #lakes 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠

our third #BESAG2025 keynote speaker is @sarabenelli.bsky.social from the University of Parma. Sara gave us a great talk on #biogeochemical interactions between micro- and macro-organisms #aquatic #lagoon #freshwater 💧💦🌍🧪🪱

our second #BESAG keynote speaker is Dr. Emma Cavan from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Her talk was on #carbon sequestration by #oceanic #plankton and #microbes! #carbonpump #marine #ocean #aquatic 💧💦🌍

#BESAG2025. Our first keynote speaker is Dr. Iestyn Woolway. he gave us a very interesting talk on global #lakes responses to #climate #change. #freshwater #aquatic 💧💦🌍

Day 2 of #BESAG2025 at @londonzoo.bsky.social .Today is all about talks! we had keynotes, full and lightning talks. 👩‍💻🧑‍🔬👥🗣 🌍🧪💧🌊 Our amazing #keynote speakers are: Dr. Iestyn Woolway, Dr. Emma Cavan, Dr. Sara Benelli, Dr. Joe Taylor and Prof. Yin Chen..a mix of marine & freshwater research!