Cool colossal squid captured on film for the first time in the dark depths of the Southern Ocean!

A deep-sea expedition has recorded 30 previously unknown species from one of the planet’s most inaccessible regions, 700 meters into the depths of the Southern Ocean. The astonishing array included a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, unknown sea stars spanning multiple families, and new crustaceans.

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper! Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025. See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk. It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Are you working with emerging technologies in freshwater monitoring? -Remote sensing -Drones -Underwater video / audio - eDNA - Robots - & more... Submit an abstract to our session at @aslo.org '26 in Montreal, Canada and join the discussion via: www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/

Some really cool new insect and plant fossils from a ~112-million year old forest. Lots of neat pictures and analysis at the link. And it includes a fossil of one of my favourite insect orders, the caddisflies (Trichoptera). 🪲🪳🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Water policy is getting a shakeup in response to outcry at the state of our freshwaters. Including small waters like ponds, streams and ditches in the upcoming Water Reform Bill can bring clean water back to our landscapes. 👉 https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/small-waters-water-reform-bill/

🎙️ New BBC podcast: Digital Dolittles – Talking to the animals? 🐘🦉 Featuring UCL’s Prof. Kate Jones @profkatej.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social and UCL's PhD students, exploring how tech is changing the way we listen to nature 🌍✨ 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall. She was a force for nature, tirelessly advocating for the protection and restoration of our natural world. Her presence will be sorely missed." - Tanya Steele, CEO WWF UK.

📦 GroupGets.com/devcase🎤The AudioMoth Dev Case is a waterproof, injection-molded shell designed for the AudioMoth Dev. It offers complete flexibility for hardware setup, featuring built-in mounts and slots to accommodate external microphones, GPS, larger batteries, and custom auxiliary boards.

Truly inspiring! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026 Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇 www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Here are last nights Aurorae spotted from outside #Montreal and in the #easterntownships, #Sherbrooke!! A suprise indeed, but a welcome one! #Aurora #northernlights #astronomy #astrophotography

A starter pack for people & organisations that love #ponds! Whats not to love!!! go.bsky.app/5ZMVBB1

Quote: "Available evidence suggests that the ongoing extinction episode still falls a long way short of the devastation caused by the bolide impact 66 Ma, but that it has likely surpassed most other Cenozoic events in magnitude" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Posts about scientific research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on Twitter. More importantly, you're far less likely to get sexist or racist replies.

News via The Transmitter www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

New Sonic Connexions event coming up on August 12! 🧪🔉#bioacoustics Register here: whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec? Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together! www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

A newly identified group of deep-sea spiders carries methane-eating microbes on their legs, revealing a unique symbiosis and a surprising new lineage in the ocean depths #DeepSea #NewSpecies #MarineBiology #OceanExploration #biology 🧪🕷️🌊 Paper www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲 Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper! Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025. See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

Sometimes ecology is about being in nature and observing. On a Canadian lake, there’s only one way to do that: canoe. It was exploring the edges of habitats & the edges of periods of the day that were so interesting. I returned full of new research ideas and questions to be answered.

The TropWATER eDNA lab (JCU) is looking for a Postdoc Research Fellow for a full-time, 2-yr role on applied biosecurity & biodiversity monitoring projects across Nth Aus. Join a passionate team applying eDNA tools to real-world conservation and management challenges. tinyurl.com/bdh43rum

"Bad Bunny champions endangered toad" is such a delightful order to put words in www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/p...

What an incredible week it was of freshwater ecology at the #2025SFS conference in San Juan, PR! Thank you @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

Prior to #SFS2025, I was honored to meet one of Puerto Rico’s most eminent freshwater experts, the common coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) 😍🐸 #frogs #wildlife #photography #nature

📣 Looking for a UK conference at which to share your marine and freshwater research? 🐠 We have extended our abstract submission and registration deadlines for #BESAG2025! Abstract deadline: 1st August 2025 Registration deadline: 1st September 2025 Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-...

We had a fantastic day in the Canadian sunshine yesterday deploying @openacousticdevices.info HydroMoths in Lac Hertel, Quebec. There’s still a lot to learn about diel & seasonal trends in freshwater soundscapes… watch this space!

Pre-print out today: The Freshwater Sounds Archive! The world's first species-specific sound library for underwater freshwater species' sounds. - 61 entries - 35 contributors - 16 countries - 19 orders www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Just published: A HUGE global analysis of 416 validated passive acoustic monitoring datasets consisting of 12,343 sites led by Kevin Darras! Lots of take-homes, inc. the need for more spatio-temporal replication in freshwater habitats. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Important message. Also important to remember that federal funding for science isn’t “given” to university laboratories - it is awarded based on highly competitive process, profs spend months/years on proposals that are reviewed by experts, most are rejected. www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Chappuis, A., Hendrawan, I.G., Achmad, M.J. et al. First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia. Sci Rep 15, 14074 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Check out the Codcast - a new podcast about the discovery of new fish sounds #bioacoustics 🐟🧪 open.spotify.com/show/4xjrZMU...

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

Much fun with #ChatGPT making my own freshwater biologist action figure... Complete with mussels, notebook and traffic cone (bathyscope 🤪). Show me your action figures!

Just launched: the BioDCASE challenge! Monitor whales, birds and other animals, through their sounds? We're publishing new datasets, and new evaluations, to help you do so! Please join this new challenge, and please spread the word […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🎉Announcing our NEW Volunteer Application: 50501vermont.com/volunteer/ The NEW Volunteer Application will organize volunteers by their town, interests, and skills. This will streamline our intake process, helping us to connect with YOU faster! Join the 50501VT team today!

It is truly an honour to be shortlisted for the Elton Prize! Reflecting on this paper for the blog was really nice - we had such a great time writing it and it's driving so much of what we're doing in @foragingecology.bsky.social! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Are you running a long-term passive acoustic study or thinking about establishing one? If yes then have a quick look at our recent paper on mitigating long-term biases in acoustic studies. Inc. a direct comparison of AudioMoth and Song Meter Micro 2 using BirdNET & more...

📰 NEW PAPER! Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🎣🔉 We will have our final FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar on Mar 7 at 9 am Pacific—all about eavesdropping on fisheries with Dr. Audrey Looby! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is absolutely brilliant. Good science and then proper action. Well done all involved. 👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution. Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..." #NIH 🧪 1/

[New paper] 🧪 "Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe" rdcu.be/d7peE A great collaborative effort by @paleoipe.bsky.social. Super grateful to and proud of Irene Julián! 😍 Now, a thread! #globalchange #pyrenees

‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world really interesting case study of trophic cascade from @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@ionace.bsky.social and I identified and databased 6,600 UK ichneumonoids light-trapped by an amazing crew of moth trappers in 2024. Wonderful dataset. Recent highlights: first Rogas luteus for over 100 years and Enicospilus myricae, haven’t seen since I described it in 2016.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... . EFFS (www.freshwatersciences.eu/effs/index.a...). for researchers working in aquatic ecology and limnology: "Fresh Blood for Freshwater" conference series on March 13, 2025 as an online event!