Visiting a beaver wetland in Argyle (Scotland) with the NERC EcoWild PhD students 🌍🧪

Sampling seaweed in Weymouth for our new water pollution herbarium project 🧪🌍 Each sample will be analysed for d15N to see how it correlates with nitrates in the water

join us this September at ZSL for our annual #BESAG meeting! #aquatic #marine #freshwater

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

📢 I am very excited to share our new paper in @commsbio.bsky.social: nature.com/articles/s42... . 🔥 🌍🧪How does #warming affect #plankton #bodysize distributions? We used one of the largest outdoor #mesocosm experiments to test our hypothesis 1/

Are you a PhD student hoping to attend an ecological conference or training that could boost your research? Apply for a training and travel grant today.  Applications for round 1 close on 24 January at 11:59 pm (GMT).  Find out more about the grant and eligibility criteria:

🌎 Colombian Tree Frog Found in the UK 🐸 A scientific paper🧪reveals how global trade enables invasive species like this frog to disrupt local ecosystems. Found in a Sheffield florist, it highlights the need to address biodiversity threats. bit.ly/3DWe7mx #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity #Conservation

24% of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction ! 👉 By Sayer et al. Jan 2025 in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔑 Multi-taxon global IUCN red list freshwater fauna (23,496 species) assessment shows that pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture and invasion are the main threats. 🌐🌍

Global Diversity of Glacier-Fed Stream Microbiomes Under Threat ! 👉 by @layeb.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔑 Glacier-fed streams harbor unique microbiomes, 62% specific to mountain ranges. Retreating glaciers threaten this biodiversity and its role in mountain ecosystems. 🌐🌍

🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost! Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Priority areas: ‘Responding to anthropogenic change’ ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Honey can be used as a proxy for detecting heavy metal pollution. First large scale use of honey in biomonitoring. Researchers found high, but not unsafe, levels of arsenic in PNW 🍯 (pesticide remnants?), and lead in So. Carolina 🍯 (mining?) 🧪🐝🍯🌎 #Bees #Bugs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some very flooded rivers in Oxfordshire for this months fieldwork investigating water quality 🧪🌍

DPhil Biology deadline at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social . 29 projects, including a very interesting one with @michcjackson.bsky.social on #Foodweb subsidies in #wetlands under #multiplestressors

A PhD position is available at Trinity College Dublin - Future Marine Food Webs in Offshore Windfarms (supervised by Prof Helen Wiltshire and co-supervised by me, Ian Donohue and Sarah McCormack). Contact Prof Wiltshire for details: peoplefinder.tcd.ie/Profile?User... #PhD #FoodWebs #Modelling

📖Published📖 Richard et al. presents the Aquatic Metatron, a unique mesocosm facility providing a large-scale experimental resource to study the combined effects of global change components on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of aquatic ecosystems 🌊 🧪 🌎 https://buff.ly/3V5LYzq

New paper that may be of interest to ecologists studying global change, disturbances, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, or response diversity: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Joining @davetickner.bsky.social, two other (equally awesome) keynote speakers are now confirmed for the FBA Meeting: @michcjackson.bsky.social and Prof. Steve Ormerod 😁💦

This paper was a massive team effort that culminated in a simple story: More biodiverse communities of invertebrates, in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, have a higher content of "good fats" that are available for predators (e.g. bird, bats, fish, etc...). doi.org/10.1126/scie...

we are now on Bluesky! if you don't know us already, we are the #aquatic group of the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social . We post about #marine #freshwater and all #aquatic! give us a follow and we are looking forward to interact with you all! #BESAG 🌊💧💦🌍🧪

Come work with us!Central Michigan University Department of Biology (www.cmich.edu/academics/co...) is hiring a new TT faculty! 🔬🧬 www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/416... #biotechnology

I’m recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students for October 2025 to investigate multiple stressors in wetlands: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Come join our lab! 🧪🌍

Thanks for having me @mastscot.bsky.social #Glasgow - links to some of the #multiplestressor papers I mentioned in my talk below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting piece from @michcjackson.bsky.social on river water quality and changes in metrics/regulation which accounts for some (most?) of the apparent recent deterioration www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have a bunch of paid work coming up doing species identification work. If you can ID bats, birds or frogs from audio, plants from images, or mammals from camera traps - apply using your form and we will be in touch! 🐦🦇🐸🌿 🧪🌍 www.researchgate.net/job/1013726_...

We are still looking for an Assistant Freshwater Ecologist at UKCEH in Lancaster to be a part of long-term and campaign based lake research & outdoor experiments, and to boost our fish ecology skills. 💦🚣‍♀️🐟🦠🧪💦🚣‍♀️🐟🦠🧪💦🚣‍♀️🐟 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

Big thanks to all co-authors from UNIS, Oslo Uni & @oxfordbiology.bsky.social for making this exciting project happen! @khuongdinh.bsky.social @michcjackson.bsky.social , Mathieu Lutier, Martin Heimböck, Jan Heuschele, & Janne Søreide! Project and fellowship founded by Norges forskningsråd

I’m really excited to share our new synthesis of 2,396 (!) multiple-stressor experiments conducted in freshwater ecosystems that’s just been published in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

PhD opportunity with me @oxfordbiology.bsky.social on multiple stressors in wetlands with a placement in the beautiful Lake District! Learn more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪🌎

Not the best set of pictures but can anyone help me identify this amphipod from Antarctica: www.inaturalist.org/observations... (more photos on link). 🧪🌎

Happy to contribute to The Conversation UK, discussing the research done with @michcjackson.bsky.social et al. at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social & Somerville College , on how river pollution in the UK is leading to harmful outbreaks of #sewage fungus lnkd.in/dt23Tq3v 🧪🛢🦠💧🌎

Great article by The Guardian on sewage fungus in UK, featuring our recent research @michcjackson.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social #sewage #sewagepollution #riverpollution www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪🌏💧🦠

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Just like in #GoT, winter is coming! Our new opinion paper on Global Change Biology discusses about this interesting topic: "Winter is coming: Interactions of multiple #stressors in #winter and implications for the natural world" ❄️

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #sewage #sewagepollution #riverpollution

Here’s our new paper just published in Freshwater Biology where we used process-based models and large biomonitoring datasets to study multiple-stressor interactions at a landscape level: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....