Spent last week surveying plant communities living in streams across Britain as part of the long-running Upland Waters Monitoring Network (uwmn.uk) assessing impact of air pollution on freshwater ecosystems. We had all four seasons over the week!

Delighted that the EU COST Action DNAqua-Net collaboration has once more borne fruit. We undertook a structured experiment across seven DNA labs to assess sources of uncertainity in metabarcoding for freshwater macroinvertebrate community assessment. Open Access. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Glorious spring weather for sampling the chalkstreams of SE England! Plenty of water bubbling up out of the Chilterns despite the current dry spell.

NEWS: Despite fears about insect declines, we know very little about 99% of species globally 🌍📉. Scientists are proposing a new approach to get a more complete picture of insect populations and analyse how they are responding to threats. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/some-i... 🧪 🧵 1/

Working with colleagues at @lborouniversity.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social @zoologyotago.bsky.social we have shown that organic component of excess fine sediment in stream bed governs invertebrate community response. Open Access paper now out in Freshwater Biology doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

Ready for a Night of Science @qmulse.bsky.social

Guardian article covering the SI&T committee report www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK parliament Science Innovation & Technology committee recommends that government needs a “clear strategy for sustaining long-term insect monitoring research” committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Prof Iwan Jones will be at the Arctic Frontiers (arcticfrontiers.com) meeting this week in Tromsø, Norway to discuss ways to encourage scientific collaboration across and beyond the Arctic and to present our work on the pink salmon invasion of the Arctic. #ArcticFrontiers @qmulse.bsky.social 🧪🐟🐻‍❄️

Read Prof Iwan Jones' commentary on a comprehensive assessment of the risk of extinction of freshwater species. theconversation.com/a-quarter-of...

Our poster is up! A cluster of GLiTRS posters can be found at A9. Enjoying #BES2024 so far.

Please come and chat with us at the BES annual meeting next week. Learn about the work we are doing on the NERC-funded GLiTRS project