My incredible friend Sara has published a WILD paper from her soon-to-be-completed PhD, which is about IMMORTAL SEA CUCUMBER BITS www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Incredibly proud of the first Honours student I co-supervised, Violet Chilvers, who published her thesis in Aquaculture Research! Her research explored how source, ploidy and thermal regime impact the growth and survival of blue mussel larvae. doi.org/10.1155/are/...

Since moving to Iceland to start my career with Benchmark Genetics, LandbasedAQ wrote a nice piece on what my goals are to help advance salmon breeding! www.landbasedaq.com/atlantic-sal...

Very cool paper!

Very excited to be joining the team!

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️ Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation Check who already signed up: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment - Froehlich - 2026 - Reviews in Aquaculture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Celebrate the Jays #WorldSeries run and pass the time before tonight's first pitch with some blue jay science published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology!

Tired of manually landmarking hundreds of images? 📍🖼️😩 Our lab developed HusMorph, a free and open-source tool that automates morphometric landmarking using #MachineLearning — no coding required. Simply train the model on your images, and it quickly places landmarks with human-level accuracy. #AI

A good laugh to start with on Friday 😂

One week to apply for our fully funded PhD position in Norway! This is a really exciting project in collab. with University of Helsinki and Benchmark Genetics. Samples are ready - you do (read: learn) everything - functional genomics, bioinformatics, genotype-phenotype associations 🤩 Please RT!

Very proud moment today! My first Honours student submitted her thesis for publication! A lot of hard work was put into this one and I’m very excited for her to get to share her achievements soon!

I am excited to have joined @canjzoology.bsky.social as an Early Career Researcher Associate Editor! I look forward to promoting high quality science and being more involved in the publishing world!

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

In work led by Shelby Clarke, we explored differences in thermal tolerance from two sources of mussels in Atlantic Canada at a physiological, behavioural and molecular level. Very excited to have this one out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

Great to see support for the oyster industry!

The Filgueira lab had an amazing time earlier this week at Aquaculture Canada 2025! So proud of the students for giving such incredible talks, particularly Jasmine Talevi for taking home the best oral presentation award!

@genomeatlantic.bsky.social is proud to be part of the collaborative push to protect Atlantic Canada's oyster industry from MSX. #MalletOysters #NewBrunswickRPC ‘Minimize the damage’: Race to study MSX heats up as deadly disease hits Maritime oysters www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Another aquarium-trade species found in the wild. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Finished deploying our oyster cages across Cape Breton today with my Honours student, Elise! We will be assessing MSX-driven mortality throughout the summer and looking for genetic markers of disease resistance after!

A hatchery on Prince Edward Island claims to have produced Canada's first MSX-resistant oyster seed. In an interview with CBC, I helped provide some context on how that might be hard to tell at this stage. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New paper alert 🧬💻🐟 We finaly got our follow up study on fine mapping of QTL associated with spontaneous malness in XX-rainbow trout out in PlosOne! Check it out: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... It's a much improved version of the preprint (thanks to reviewers and editors and to Florence Phocas (INRAe)

Our new paper highlighting the relative freedom from protozoan infection of hatchery shellfish seed, information foundational to shellfish health management in the US: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking for a PhD? There is an opening for a PhD-student in evolutionary ecology on phenotypic plasticity in aquatic organisms at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway – with two super-good supervisors (Sigurd Einum and Tim Burton) - highly recommended! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Excited to share our latest work that studied how upper thermal tolerance is regulated in farmed Atlantic salmon! We combined RNA-sequencing and GWAS results to explore how gene expression and genetic architecture may influence this important trait. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Friendly reminder that the abstract submission deadline for #AC25NB is April 4! I’ll be chairing the session on ‘Shellfish Health - MSX and Dermo.’ Don’t miss out!

Waking up on my last day in New Orleans for #Aquaculture2025 with a manuscript acceptance! 🥳 Stay tuned for some RNA-seq and GWAS work on upper thermal tolerance in Atlantic salmon!

Catch my talk tomorrow at 14:45 in the Genomics session in Galerie 4 at #Aquaculture2025! I’ll be presenting some new mussel population genomics work!

Cooke Aquaculture has purchased AquaBounty’s former farm sites on Prince Edward Island. I’m glad these facilities won’t go to waste! www.fishfarmingexpert.com/aquabounty-c...

Great day in the lab testing out our new respirometry system! Fun times ahead!

This was a really fun interdisciplinairy project to work on. Machine learning is such a powerful and helpful tool when working with large image datasets! Henning is also a very talented computer science student 👨‍💻👌

New preprint led by fish pathologists concludes farmed Atlantic salmon pose little risk to wild Pacific salmonids seawestnews.com/decades-of-d...

As a panelist at the Canadian Genomics Summit, Dr. Tiago Hori highlighted how climate change is threatening shellfish aquaculture in a myriad of ways. Good thing funding from @genomecanada.bsky.social is helping us develop new genomics tools to solve these challenges!

$175 million in funding announced to support genomics research in Canada over the next seven years!

Read about how researchers at @dalhousieu.bsky.social are exploring sustainable solutions across finfish, bivalve and seaweed aquaculture! www.dal.ca/news/2025/01...

Save the date! Aquaculture Canada 2025 will be hosted in Fredericton, NB June 8-11! Abstract submission is open until April 4, don’t miss out! #AC25NB #AquacultureIsAgriculture

Many salmon runs in BC are suffering, and people often point to salmon farms as the reason (even though the science doesn't support this). But the truth is more complicated. This article outlines one of the main drivers of declines. craigmedred.news/2025/01/16/v...

I know it’s not a big accomplishment, but I am still excited to have reached 100 citations!

Finally out and open access! In this review we reflect on the sea star wasting investigation in 2013, what went wrong and how it informed later work on Diadema. Some interesting new info on ciliates in sea stars as well! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Fun day spawning oysters and testing our pressure shocker to make triploids!

I have never needed something more in my life.

#floatthefarms seawestnews.com/seafood-farm...

Postdoc position at Rutgers (New Jersey, USA) studying interactions between offshore wind and commercial fisheries jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/241...

Our recent work to uncover the former extent of Europe's forgotten oyster reefs is covered in @uk.theconversation.com today! theconversation.com/oysters-once... Gathering historical evidence is key to raising ambitions to restore our seas and recover vital habitats @exetermarine.bsky.social

Nice write up on the importance of supporting #sustainable #shellfish #aquaculture for delicious meals that help the planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I know everyone on this app says not to, but I am very happy with my decision to submit a manuscript this morning for review! This paper has haunted me for too long and I am glad to have it off my plate over the holidays!

Please share! Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊 Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Also There is no such thing as a free lunch SO Don’t let perfection be the enemy of improvement

Sad to see AquaBounty shutting the doors on its operations investors.aquabounty.com/news-release...