Tommy McDermott
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Ecologist. Bit of a nerd for river habitat. 🇮🇪 in 🏴 Let’s talk fixing rivers
That’s a wrap for Trex Ecology’s efishing 2025. Kit disinfected and drying in the Hebridean sunshine. I’m looking forward to not seeing a net for a while!
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“Wild salmon can rally public support for ecosystem protection and link place-based conservation efforts to global biodiversity and climate benefits..” True of our salmonids too!
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
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Strongholds for Pacific salmon: A proactive conservation strategy for ecosystem health, food security, biodiversity, and climate resilience
ABSTRACT. Nested within the linked global crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are threats to cultural and ecological keystones such as Pacific s
https://academic.oup.com/fisheries/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fshmag/vuaf011/8090126?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content&login=false
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MPWERED
3 months ago
'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
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How Canada's buck-toothed national emblem could help fight wildfires | CBC News
New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-beaver-dam-wildfire-prevention-1.7620237
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The FSBI
3 months ago
New contribution to the #JFB Special Issue on telemetry: Advances in telemetry approaches and technologies applied to fish ecology and management #AcousticTelemetry #FishTracking #MarineResearch
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15790
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We’re looking to hire a seasonal field assistant at Trex Ecology. Job description is attached and get in touch if you have any questions! Please share too!
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Fintan Kelly
4 months ago
Researchers identify five steps to successful nature restoration - the need for policy coherence & adequate financial support to make Nature Restoration happen is clear yet the Commission have proposed an MFF/CAP that seem to deliver neither
www.google.com/amp/s/phys.o...
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Researchers identify five steps to successful nature restoration
Many European ecosystems—whether it's forests, rivers, fields, or meadows—are in poor condition. Despite all conservation efforts, biodiversity continues to decline. However, experts are hopeful that ...
https://share.google/c1knOZSnlTTJ3SLVb
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Ed Hawkins
6 months ago
Is it hot right now in the UK? New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.
istheukhotrightnow.com
Built by
@roostweather.bsky.social
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Guy Shrubsole
7 months ago
NFU says Land Use Framework “needs to give food production same priority as delivering environmental targets” Great - so instead of devoting 70% of English land to intensive agriculture & just 3% for nature, can we now make it 50-50? Or, y’know, just meet 30x30
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
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NFU publishes response to Land Use Framework consultation
The NFU has warned that farmers’ ability to continue producing food for the nation could be put at risk by the new Land Use Framework, further putting the government’s commitment to treat food securit...
https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/nfu-publishes-response-to-land-use-framework-consultation/
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
7 months ago
Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.” No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.
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The size of this beast!!🤯
8 months ago
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WATERSHED Investigations
8 months ago
"Beavers are truly an agent of disturbance: they are in that river corridor...disturbing it + making a whole variety of...habitat...they're really building that complex food web from the bottom up."
@emilyfairfax.bsky.social
on beavers, biodiversity, wildfire & drought:
westgov.org/news/article...
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Leave it to Beaver: How Nature’s Engineers are Helping Us Mitigate Disasters
The history of the West has always been defined by water. Long before settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples designed complex water management systems to cultivate the arid land. In the 19th and 20th ce...
https://westgov.org/news/article/leave-it-to-beaver-how-natures-engineers-are-helping-us-mitigate-disasters
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It’s not only rivers that flow!! Amazing day in the Angus Munros.
9 months ago
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Dr Ross Barnett
9 months ago
Spring is coming and wild shopping trolleys are returning upriver to spawn before dying. 🎶It's the circle of life🎶
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Well that was a “tyring” day…. Mapping fish habitats on the Western Isles. I love working on these rivers!
10 months ago
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What this guy says…
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10 months ago
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Dr Tommy Ryan-Keogh
10 months ago
Global declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate models
communities.springernature.com/posts/global...
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Global declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate models
The following study developed a model ranking system to reduce the uncertainties associated with future projections of ocean productivity. Declines are much more likely than presently predicted, but e...
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/global-declines-in-ocean-primary-production-underestimated-by-climate-models
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This is definitely one of the best parts of my job - marking up potential restorations options at scale. That joyous bit before all the barriers (pun intended) to fixing our rivers are forced onto such programmes
10 months ago
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Jeff Walker
10 months ago
We figured out how to measure streamflow from timelapse images taken by an inexpensive, off-the-shelf trail camera, thus making hydrologic monitoring something pretty much any one can do, any where.
usgs.gov/apps/ecoshed...
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Joris Philip
10 months ago
Our last paper on the behavioural ecology of the Arctic charr is out in Animal Behaviour. Here, we led an investigation on the development of a behavioural trait (boldness) in relation to environmental complexity, in five Arctic charr ecotypes.
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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This is a good read
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10 months ago
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Go work with Ross doing cool fish things!
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10 months ago
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Alex Raeder
10 months ago
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/23/government-decision-not-to-authorise-pesticide-is-sweet-as-honey-for-pollinators?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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ProfColinBean
11 months ago
A really interesting read .. Modelled marine migrations of Atlantic salmon post-smolts from Irish and Scottish rivers vary interannually with local currents and salinity, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024;, fsae185,
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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Modelled marine migrations of Atlantic salmon post-smolts from Irish and Scottish rivers vary interannually with local currents and salinity
Abstract. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations have suffered declines across their range in recent decades, largely attributed to decreasing marine su
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae185
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Sussex Wildlife Trust
11 months ago
UK Gov has announced intention to bring forward "complete ban on bee-killing pesticides". This is great news & requires a big thank you to our campaigners! But as
@craigbennett3.bsky.social
says"it must not be undermined by granting emergency use of neoicotinoids"
wildlifetrusts.org/news/deadly-...
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Markus Eichhorn
11 months ago
In ecological theory this assumption dates back to the ecologist Clements who proposed that there is a 'climax' state that the vegetation in any particular location will reach. Most ecologists now reject this simplification but it nevertheless persists. 2/6
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euobserver — EU news that matters
11 months ago
Lawyers for DR Congo announced that the central African country is suing the French and Belgian subsidiaries of US tech giant Apple, accusing them of using minerals pillaged from Congo and laundered through international supply chains.
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Congo sues Apple over conflict minerals, raising doubts over EU raw materials deals
Lawyers for DR Congo announced that the central African country is suing the French and Belgian subsidiaries of US tech giant Apple, accusing them of using minerals pillaged from Congo and laundered through...
https://buff.ly/4gEYI8l
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The last field surveys of 2024 are bringing all the winter vibes - spawning fish, cold and epic sunsets
11 months ago
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@mikeduncan.bsky.social
is here! History of Rome pod may be the most epic feat of history comms in recent years. Very much feels like my Twitter feed now.
12 months ago
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Madison Earhart, PhD
12 months ago
super cool study! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Kim Aarestrup
12 months ago
Today we downloaded and serviced the acoustic receivers in the last (and smallest) of the three Danish Straits, completing the 2024 downloads. If you have acoustic tagged fish in the Baltic or North Sea and think they could have been detected, check the ETN database.
@fishybiologistkim.bsky.social
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Ross Barnett
@deepfrieddna.bsky.social
is here! His book The Missing Lynx is my joint top science read (the other being Lucy by Donald Johanson).
12 months ago
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This is cool
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12 months ago
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Hannah Daly
12 months ago
Are you curious how the climate policies of political party manifestos stack up ahead of 🇮🇪
#ge24
next week? ❌ The three major parties - Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Fine Gael all failed our assessment ✅ the Labour Party came out on top
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labour-...
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Labour tops manifesto assessment on climate, the three largest parties all fail | Friends of the Earth
Campaigners call for would-be Taoiseachs to be challenged on their party’s failure in Leaders’ Debate The Labour Party has come out on top in
https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labour-tops-manifesto-assessment-on-climate-the-three-larges/
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Off to
@kendalmountainfest.bsky.social
! Four days of awesome outdoor chat and film, ceilidh and swag!! And a major dump of snow 🤞
12 months ago
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Alan Puttock
12 months ago
PhDs galore! We currently have a suite of prospective Environmental Science PhD projects that would be supervised by academics in the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) at the University of Exeter. Please see thread below for full details and how to apply.
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Tyler Norris
12 months ago
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ProfColinBean
12 months ago
Resilience of Juvenile Freshwater Pearl Mussels to Thermal Stress. Ecol Evol, 14: e70456.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Resilience of Juvenile Freshwater Pearl Mussels to Thermal Stress
Results from our experiment suggest that juvenile mussels can survive short periods of heat stress when other environmental conditions are favourable. Future studies should therefore address how heat...
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70456
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Skywalker’s here!!
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12 months ago
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Morphological and fish mesohabitat dynamics following an experimental flood under different sediment availability
This study examines the effects of an experimental flood on two river reaches with differing sediment availability. The upstream reach, narrower and characterized by limited sediment availability, ex...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/esp.6025?campaign=wolearlyview
about 1 year ago
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Iain A Malcolm
about 1 year ago
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"... increased conservation risks... could be partially mitigated by using stock‐recruitment analyses based on total egg mass... or via precautionary management where target escapements were higher than S MSY:
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Accounting for Salmon Body Size Declines in Fishery Management Can Reduce Conservation Risks
Changes in population demographic structure can have tangible but unknown effects on management effectiveness. Fishery management of Pacific salmon is often informed by estimates of the number of spa...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/faf.12869
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Alan Puttock
about 1 year ago
Drone surveys from
#beaver
wetlands in England. At both sites beavers have created wetland habitat and reduced stormflow. However, one site is in the middle of a city and the other a forest, illustrating the breadth of landscapes where we can seek to implement nature-recovery and provide
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Out looking for redds. First wee trout redds showing up and plenty beaver activity! Going to be some nice pools formed when these trees drop in.
about 1 year ago
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Without gravels we have no spawning for many iconic species. Our river beds are in a dire state though, with climate-change driven rainfall patterns making things worse.
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about 1 year ago
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Another great pack, this one pulled together by
@wagnermarkus.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Rob Briers
about 1 year ago
Fully-funded 3.5-year
#PhD
available at EdinburghNapier University to advance understanding of wild
#mammal
community responses to
#rewilding
. Start date 1 Mar 2025.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
. Please circulate if you know anyone who may be interested. 🌱🦌🐾
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Vittoria
about 1 year ago
Deserves to be shared on Bluesky too. The funniest video of all time.
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Not all about the fish (apparently). Great to see some great comics turning up here
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about 1 year ago
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Peter powell
about 1 year ago
Loving all the new action on Blue sky? Then I have a great job for you: At Welsh Dee trust we are looking for a communications and events officer. The role will help engage a wide range of audiences in the conservation of the Dee.
www.welshdeetrust.com/we-are-hirin...
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We Are Hiring: Communications and Events Officer – Welsh Dee Trust River Dee
https://www.welshdeetrust.com/we-are-hiring-communications-and-events-officer/
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Brigit Strawbridge
about 1 year ago
@kernowconservation.bsky.social
are embarking on a long-term project to help reintroduce
#Beavers
to
#Cornwall
Every penny donated (up to £250) will be DOUBLED in match funding! 🦫 Please help by donating and/or liking/reposting/following/commenting 🙏
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/kernow-con...
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