🌳🍒🫐It's a mast year! 🌳🍒🫐 There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate

Ever seen what #freshwater #mussel babies look like? 👇🏼

A spotlight on the #RiverWensum in Norfolk. Simon Johnson, Executive Director at FBA, issues a heartfelt call to action to help save England’s forgotten & sorely neglected #chalkriver. Read the full article 👉The Wensum: England’s dying and forgotten chalk river: www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/th...

Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its #waterpollution rules to protect #freshwater ecosystems... before it’s too late! 💧🌍💙 View the full statement and signatories: www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc... #WaterPollution #EUEnvironment

Please allow us to share a marvellously magical moment on this mussel Monday! The 5000th juvenile #FreshwaterPearlMussel bred here at the FBA Ark has been tagged, ready for release in the river Irt! You can find out more about #SpeciesRecovery at the FBA Ark here: www.fba.org.uk/freshwater-p...

Releasing juvenile #freshwater pearl #mussels two channels today, less than 5 metres apart, one spring fed, the other a small side channel of the main stem river (surface water). The spring fed one was 12.5 ºC, the side channel 17.7ºC! That's over 5ºC difference in the space of <5m!

Summer time, harvest time 😋

What a wonderful day we had at the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting at Nottingham Trent University. Brilliant discussions on ghost ponds, climate change, pollution, outdoor swimming, being 'activist scientist' and the concept of riverkin. Can't wait to do it again next year!

#Tagging day @freshwaterbio.bsky.social preparing our #endangered #mussels for life in the wild

Last 4 hours in our #GreenMatchFund campaign to help save #ArcticCharr in the #LakeDistrict. Please donate if you can or share our campaign with those who might donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05.... Would be great to reach 1/3 of our target of £6666. Thank you! #Windermere #freshwater #fish

Great to see our Arctic charr recovery project gaining traction in the press. Until Tuesday 29th April you can donate to our Green Match fundraising campaign to double your donation donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Will you help us save #ArcticCharr from extinction in the #LakeDistrict? Our campaign to raise funds for the Lake District Charr Recovery & Management (LD-CHARM) project has just launched! From 22-29 April your donations will be doubled! Find out more & donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We’re raising funds through the #GreenMatchFund for our #LakeDistrict #ArcticCharr Recovery and Management project, aka LD-CHARM 🐟 bit.ly/42BgnII If you can, please donate. Each donation is matched pound-for-pound up to £10K, meaning we could unlock £20K of funding for £10K of donations!

Epic week at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum sampling #ArcticCharr scales for our #CHARM project. Investigating #genetics of English #LakeDistrict populations to aid #conservation. Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...

Next week we're taking part in the Green Match Fund to raise money for #conservation of Arctic #charr in the #LakeDistrict. Every donation up to £10k is doubled so please give if you can!

We're so close to our £1000 target to start funding the tools and equipment we need for our new #tree nursery. Donations and shares gratefully received. Many thanks. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @domspracklen.bsky.social gofund.me/ddccc2ea

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

Thrilled to have been awarded a @naturalengland.bsky.social #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme grant to investigate use and condition of #ArcticCharr spawning grounds and population genetics in the #LakeDistrict @freshwaterbio.bsky.social www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/hu...

Excited that Nottingham Trent Uni will host the Freshwater Biological Association Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June. Awesome lineup including keynotes @davetickner.bsky.social, @michcjackson.bsky.social, Steve Ormerod and Julia Martin-Ortega. Registration is open: t.co/GRdq6E33v2

Fantastic to see the State of Windermere in 2024 report and Windermere Integrated Science Plan (WISP) published! Over 90 yrs of information and data on Windermere and its catchment summarised during my time with @freshwaterbio.bsky.social, which was only possible with the help of many people! 1/4

Brilliant to see these two reports by @lynseyrharper.bsky.social when she was at @freshwaterbio.bsky.social on the state of #Windermere released today! Thanks to all involved in early drafts and discussions and for the Environment Agency for funding the work

Fascinated by #freshwaterpearlmussels? Join FBA’s Pearl Mussel Assistant to hear about #conservation in action at the FBA Ark & the #freshwaterscience making a vital contribution towards protecting vulnerable pearl mussels. #margaritiferamargaritifera #speciesrecovery www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/co...

It is a pleasure to announce that registration for our Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 is now open! The #FBAASM2025 is an in-person only event at Nottingham Trent University’s Clifton Campus on Wednesday 25 June. Please head over to our website for the full ASM agenda: www.fba.org.uk/annual-scien...

Great article in the FBA's newsletter this month from Glen George about ancient names for #lakes and #rivers. They can tell us a lot about the historic #environment which may not hold true today, but which can provide important clues and inform #restoration. www.fba.org.uk/articles/anc...

Literally from the car window! Nearly ran these two over. Interrupted a sparrowhawk attempting to make a woodcock its dinner 😱 Spoiler...the woodcock got away

Stunning day on the #RiverLaxford seeing amazing habitats, mussels, lichens and even sea eagles 😱😍🦅 what a stunning part of the world! Thanks to Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for explaining the amazing work he's doing and answering my many fishy questions 🐟

A tale of two headlines based on the same press release. The reality, of course, is that the National Trust’s nature restoration efforts will bolster good farming, by “improving the health of enough soil to provide habitat for 1 billion earthworms.”

Just wow! Amazing photo from #ThomaszWilk of an #endangered thick shelled river mussel #UnioCrassus spurting (nice!) to allow their larvae (glochidia) to find a #fish host #WildlifePhotographerOfTheYear #nhm_wpy www.instagram.com/tomaszwilkph... www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

As always, my last post of the year reminder... Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org Thank you all for sticking by in 2024! 🙂

A tiny ecosystem on an old jetty post #lichens

It's very nearly over for another year! #AlmostThere #ElfOnTheShelf

Never heard a Twelve #freshwater days of Christmas before? Well look no further! It's just one of the many treats in the December issue of #FBA voice #FreshwaterBiologicalAssociation mailchi.mp/fba/welcome-...

Any Riverfly goodies on your Christmas list? 🎄Grab them this weekend with freepost! ✨ riverflies.teemill.com

Are you a scientist interested in seeing the true extent of chemical pollution in freshwaters recognised? ☠️ 🌊 🔬 👩‍🔬 Then sign the Statement of Support for updated EU water pollution standards 👇 www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc...

Pleased to announce the start of a new EU innovation project on lake restoration, @futurelakes.bsky.social , contributing to the #Mission-Ocean-and-Waters #FutureLakes demonstrates innovative solutions to transform lake restoration and will promote citizen actions to support lake restoration

Attending #BES2024 next week? I'm giving a talk on our work on #wetlands and cultural ecosystem services. In the meantime, you can access the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k0257szSJ... 🌍 🧪 🦤

I do love this time of year...cold, crisp and cloud inversions help ease the mind...happy weekend Blueskyers #Windermere #Blueskies #LakeDistrict

Coming soon! In the next episode of Counting the Earth, we explore microplastics—tiny plastic particles that permeate soil, water, food, drinking supplies, and even our bodies—and ask how much do we actually understand about their long-term effects? #podcast 🎙️

Save the date! I'm delighted that Nottingham Trent Uni. will host the Freshwater Biological Association's 'restored' Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June 2025. Keynotes include @davetickner.bsky.social and other speakers include @louiselavictoire.bsky.social www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sa...

If you're going to @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social this weekend, come and hear the wonderful Michael Malay talk about his book Late Light TODAY. Tickets still available and you'll learn about #eels, #moths, #mussels, #crickets and so much more! kendalmountainfestival.eventive.org/schedule/66a...

Some fantastic #PhDs here with #ECOWILD👇🏼 Receive world-class training studying #MultipleStressors on #wetland #habitats. #FreshwaterBiologicalAssociation is supporting #marine & #freshwater #wetland #recovery from extreme events with @michcjackson.bsky.social ecowild.site.hw.ac.uk/current-oppo...

I haven't posted about #FreshwaterMussels yet on @bsky.app so here's a summery video of a gorgeous #mussel #river in the #LakeDistrict and it's inhabitants #Cumbria #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery #SpeciesConservation #Restoration #Bivalve #Mollusc

There's a chill in the air for the #autumn #BigWindermereSurvey this morning. 150 #CitizenScientists out in force in the #Windermere #catchment taking #WaterQuality and #bacterial samples for the #FreshwaterBiologicalAssociation & #LancasterUniversity www.fba.org.uk/the-big-wind...

Have you heard of entoLIVE? It’s a series of free webinars that showcases the research of invertebrate researchers. 70 webinars to date! We’re recruiting speakers for 2025 so get in touch if you’d like to present your work. 🧪 #entomology #research #science biologicalrecording.co.uk/entolive/

Gravel is the unsung hero of healthy rivers. I think it is (almost) as important for river wildlife as the water that flows over the top. The sediments, pebbles rocks and stones are vital to healthy rivers but they are also under threat. Read on to find out why 👇

Last days to apply: #Postdoc #position in #Groundwater #Biodiversity (2 years) opening up in my group @ Eawag & University of Zurich @romanalther.bsky.social 🦐 🧬 🔬 #biogeography #taxonomy #ecology #amphipods #Niphargus More info & details: apply.refline.ch/673277/1214/... please spread widely!

Hello #Bluesky! I mainly post about freshwatery things, mostly in the #LakeDistrict. Big on #Conservation, #NatureRecovery and #Threatened #Species

Hi #freshwater folks 👋 The Freshwater Biological Association have announced a new initiative to assess one of our rarest fish, the Arctic charr, in Windermere. There is a crowd funder, too, to support the work ☺️ (And here's a bit of #SciArt from me!) 🧪💦 www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...