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• Fish, Fishers & Finances in Brazil’s Ornamental Fish Trade — Prof Sean Killen @glasgow.ac.uk • Streaming Services: New ways to monitor tropical biodiversity — Christian Ching @nhm-london.bsky.social 🐟 Convenor @josiesouth.bsky.social 🔗Event details: shorturl.at/V6YMv

Hear from 5 speakers: • Saving the World’s Forgotten Fishes — Mike Baltzer & Georgie Bull, #SHOAL @shoalorg.bsky.social • A Conservation Journey in African Freshwater Fishes — Dr Manda Kambikambi #freshwater #fish #conservation

🌍🐟 Join us to explore the conservation of the world’s forgotten freshwater fishes. Hear stories of challenge, success, and collaboration from experts across academia, museums, and NGOs. 📅 Thu 19 February 🕙 10:00–14:00 📍 @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🔗 water.leeds.ac.uk/events/fresh...

Lovely to meet the team at Stirling and get a sneaky look around their awesome aquaculture centre last week. Note to self to stop dressing like I’m about to rob the gaff 🌚

"Leadbitter et al. 2025 calculates that replacing wild-caught seafood protein with the current mix of livestock protein would cost the Earth roughly 5 million km2 in land, about the size of the Amazon rainforest, an apt comparison since most land cleared for food comes from tropical forests." 🌏🐟

Many Indigenous philosophies acknowledge respect & reciprocity between people & nature. Affective ties to land & home are also at the heart of Tamazirt thinking of Amazigh communities in Morocco. Tamazirt could serve as an Indigenous anchor point for rural revitalisation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s132...

For the first time ever I’ve had someone (a senior co-author in fact) complain about the inclusion of an acknowledgment statement recognising the indigenous displaced people of the region we focus on in our manuscript. Poor form & baffling behaviour/reasoning from someone who should be better.

Reading in journal club: Developing a predictive science of the biosphere requires the integration of scientific cultures @bjenquist.bsky.social et al. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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

A recent Science Advances special issue focused on #aquaculture, but seemed to have missed the mark in a multitude of ways. My incredible colleagues and I wrote this sweeping Open Access opinion article (with 80 citations!) in response. Hope it's useful! 🐟 🦐 🎣 doi.org/10.1111/raq....

New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Explore Dr @josiesouth.bsky.social 's work on invasive species, climate change and sustainable food systems. 🐟 bit.ly/46TbcXZ

This week was full of training, workshops and seminars. @leopoldadrianus.bsky.social taught the group ecomorphology, @ecoinvasions.bsky.social gave an insightful lecture on context dependent invasion impacts

@leopoldadrianus.bsky.social teaching @universityofleeds.bsky.social post grads the ins and outs of fish eco morphology

Crayfish in Journal of Biogeography We analyse how natural and human historical events have shaped the diversity of Austropotamobius crayfish Strikingly, lots of taxonomic work remains to be done Great team, led by Lucian Pârvulescu @ebdonana.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

They're back. oilprice.com/Latest-Energ... H/t @drpauldorfman.bsky.social

Indonesia's peatlands are home to endangered orangutans, as well as economically important fish species. They also help prevent flooding and drought, lower local temperatures and minimise saltwater intrusion. Choose #sustainable #palmoil to save #orangutans! www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/li...

What was known (& IV) This shipment fits biogeographical patterns (a NW Italian crayfish lineage inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula) and several other evidences of non-nativeness, as explained in this paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century @ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our search for invasive crayfish barriers includes more than just dams or irrigation diversions. Because the virile crayfish is intolerant of stream drying (doi.org/10.1086/725318), intermittent reaches could present barriers to upstream spread to permanent streams in the mountains.

My problem with the original paper is its reckless application of invasion concepts to human migration. That would've been fine had it unambiguously showed how scientifically inappropriate such comparisons were, rather than offer weak critiques & claim that insights were to be gained from them. 1/🧵

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sacred sites & cultural practices key to #Indonesia fish conservation. 🇮🇩 🐟 This helps highlight the crucial importance of #culture and #community in ensuring the sustainability of #conservation projects. news.mongabay.com/2025/07/sacr...

Orangutan Land Trust has been an influential part of this success. Your support makes a real difference! "Indonesia’s forest conservation success comes not just from political will, but also from corporate efforts and pressure from civil society groups." news.mongabay.com/2025/07/wher...

Happy to share that if you are interested in large sample hydrology datasets and specifically water quality data you can now check our now officially published dataset: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Aquarium trade fisheries are fraught with bad opinions and misconceptions. Usually targeted at communities who know the environment inside out but exploit it for much needed livelihoods. Trade and conservation don’t have to be mutually exclusive onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Fish are a critical source of accessible food - but non-native species disrupt ecological networks. This could have unprecedented outcomes for nutrient and toxin accumulation when aquatic food is consumed by humans, with socioeconomically variable outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Why it takes so long before stricter rules come around PFAS, while it is clear that they are harmful https://www.byteseu.com/1217908/ Why it takes so long before stricter rules come around PFAS, while it is clear that they are harmful …

Amazing news!!!! I did not know DecaNet @decanet.bsky.social was on BlueSky!!!! 🦀🦀🦀 www.decanet.info/index.php

Another paper out! Co production of research with academia, government, NGOs, and other conservation groups!

My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Analysis by @wclnews.bsky.social & @theriverstrust.bsky.social levels of PFOS in freshwater fish in England are so high, if someone eats 1 portion each month, this would exceed the "safe" threshold for people to eat over a year. PFOS is classed by WHO as "possibly carcinogenic".

A step forward on the use of #cameratrapping for #wildlife monitoring. Now underwater! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

And so it goes on. I used to think that people who described humanity as a plague were a bit nutty. I'm beginning to think their view is not far from the truth....

Cross-ecosystem nutrient fluxes can influence recipient food webs. @cbenkwitt.bsky.social &co's study of #NutrientSubsidies shows that dynamic metrics better revealed flow & effects of #seabird derived nutrients through #CoralReef food chains @lec-reefs.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44RFyJk

Much of the invasive species literature confuses causes (mechanisms) & consequences (impacts) We introduce a comprehensive typology of 19 impact types across 6 levels of biological organisation (individuals to ecosystems) doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #invasivespecies #ecology #ecologicalimpacts

We ran about the Kruger National Park chasing invasive crayfish last year & found spreading populations in the Sabie, Sand and Crocodile rivers Rapid ecological impact assessment suggests no measurable change on presence/absence of fish & inverts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland can contain harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New publication alert 🌊 Blue swimming crab is one of the most important fisheries in #Indonesia and women are leading the way, creating innovative solutions to waste Women's groups building more #inclusive #resilient and #sustainable fisheries ⤵️ doi.org/10.3389/focs... @envdefensefund.bsky.social

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

New paper alert: 42 ecological traits for all 6,000+ valid species of #Neotropical_freshwater_fishes, the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna on Earth. A foundation for future studies on the ecology and conservation of tropical aquatic biodiversity. nature.com/articles/s41...

Protected areas should be a buffer against external pressures on biodiversity - but what happens when they don’t? Read about our mission to protect the iconic rivers of the Kruger National Park from biological invasions saiab.ac.za/a-race-again...

“What if I told you there are fish in the forest, beneath the leaves?” @josiesouth.bsky.social, Lecturer in Aquatic Ecology 🎞️ Have you watched the impactful film yet? Find out how research is helping to protect a critically endangered fish species bit.ly/4kktTYa

The global food system sustains billions of lives, but it frequently fails to promote health, protect rights, and support nature. A new report by UNEP and @chathamhouse.org underscores the systemic barriers that must be overcome to achieve #GlobalGoals. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology

Funding opportunity for students and staff at UK universities or other non-profit institutions within the UK, which have a focus on research, conservation or education of cichlids 🐟 DEADLINE: 31 July britishcichlid.org/ian-fairweat...

A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...