To extend everyone’s little sturgeon break… very chill baby sturgeons sturgeoning.

PhDone! Huge thanks to an amazing team, the Boddenpike gang, my inspiring supervisors & mentors, and everyone else involved in the project. Couldn´t have done this without any of you! Looking forward to many more exciting years of fishy research! 🧪🐟#PhDone #FishSci #Researcher

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Little milestones which don´t mean a lot in the grand scheme of things, but I´m chuffed to have crossed 100 citations on my google scholar & RG profiles! Testimony to the fact there´s some people out there reading my stuff, thinking "well, that seems to make sense"! 😆🐟🧪

Hi #fishsky - calling all fans of the fish Lota lota or #burbot. What common names do you know for this species (in any language) and why is it called that? I have heard some very funny common names in US English and German for the species and would LOVE to know some more! #fishtaxonomy

Question for any ecology peeps that might read my tweets (blues? Do we have a new word for this by now? 😅): Do you know of any courses teaching species distribution modelling techniques (correlative/causative) that you can recommend? Grateful for any advice (baby pike pic for attention) 🙏🧪

Opt out tomorrow!

🎬 Lights, camera, action! 🌊 Last week, our new design pearls were in the spotlight. Part of our team was onboard our research vessel, testing its underwater visibility under the frequency of harbor porpoise clicks. Using an echosounder, we simulated these signals—and the results? Very promising! 🦑

Interested in automated length and morphological measurements? Check out our new app and preprint! 🧪🐟🦑 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Hey, higher ed leaders, this is what acting with courage looks like. Give it a try! We’ll support you.

Great piece about archival tissues by @otolithgirl.bsky.social. If you haven´t already, give it a read! 🐟🐢🦉🐋🧪

Trophic ecologists who work with stable isotopes I bring you a{nichetools} - a complementary package to {SIBER} and {nicheROVER} that allows you to work with data objects created by either pkg. Check it out! benjaminhlina.github.io/nichetools/ #rstats #stableisotopes #foodwebs

Congrats Erica Durante for publishing amazing research (+ your 4th PhD paper!). Erica developed methods to extract estrogen & progesterone from cephalopod beaks. Now we can get lifetime reproductive data from species we know little about! @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yes, more love for the "rough" fish! As soon as someone starts caring, that´s the first step! :)

A common garden experiment in the wild reveals heritable differences in migration tendencies among brown trout populations. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–15. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Amino acid δ15N in eye lens laminae reveals life-time ontogenetic trophic shifts of a highly migratory species. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–10. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Ecological uniqueness of fish assemblages and species contributions to beta diversity are affected by river-lake disconnection. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s111...

It's #SuberbOwl weekend and yes, this account will bring the owls 🦉

Spatiotemporal variation in size-dependent growth rates in small isolated populations of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

#JFB: Native and non-native species response to the colonization and subsequent suppression of northern pike 𝘌𝘴𝘰𝘹 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘶𝘴 doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15968#JFB#FishSci

I am an editor at a scientific journal that's global in scope, with papers from all over the world. Until my EIC tells me otherwise, I will respond to any sections of papers referring to the "Gulf of America" with: "LOL. LMAO. No."

Happy to share that our paper "How quota cuts, recreational fishing, and predator conservation can shape coastal commercial fishery efforts" is finally published in CJFAS, with @rarlinghausfish.bsky.social, Sean Pascoe, Birgit Gassler and Simon Weltersbach cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

New paper by colleagues in Nature on global scale relevance of small scale fisheries (recreational fisheries excluded). Very nice read. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new paper describes a stakeholder process on western #cod where the stock collapsed during the workshop process. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human barriers are replete across the world! This paper just out in Nature Water aims to advance a more comprehensive river barrier mapping solution to support environmental management www.nature.com/articles/s44... @jjopperman.bsky.social @americanrivers.bsky.social @wwf-water.bsky.social

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

📢 Global Ecology Digest #5, Jan 06-13, 2025 ✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a DIGEST ! 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... Crafted with ❤️, please share 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

Elven stewardship of natural wonders in iceland. Makes me think, there must be some hard-working, humorless, grumpy gremlins in German folklore that can be leveraged into protecting rivers and coastlines, no? 😅 atmos.earth/an-elven-all...

New #iucn based assessment of conservation status once more shows inland fisheries is not a jey threat. It is pollution, habitat loss etc. in freshwaters. Therefore, attention should focus there. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today in marine invertebrates What most humans want out of social media More squid 📸: NOAA

Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant fishes in the world. In two new studies, we show that some herring in the Baltic Sea have become fish eaters. These piscivorous herring are genetically unique, grow fast, and play an important role in regulating stickleback populations.

A new #fishR post today showing newly modified functions in the #FSA package being used with #dplyr or #purrr to efficiently compute abundance (w/ removal/depletion data) or mortality (w/ catch-curve data) for multiple groups (e.g., species, area). #rstats fishr-core-team.github.io/fishR/blog/p...

Very heartening to see so many coho salmon spawning here on the central California coast. 🐟🧪🌎

New synthesis on the overlooked value of old animals in conservation by @kellerfish.bsky.social and others in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Christmas paper, fresh from under the tree!!! Everyone measuring oxygen isotopes in fish otoliths, this year for Christmas, we´re making the whole story just a little bit more complicated for you (naughty!), but we also offer solutions (back on the nice list maybe…?) 🧪🐟🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...

The CIA built a catfish robot as a spy. We're guessing his real name was James Pond. #25DaysOfFishmas getpocket.com/explore/item...

This is the Christmas Darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi), a fish native to the American southeast so named for the colorful green and red coloration. There's a closely related subspecies that is called the 'Christmas Eve' or 'Hanukkah' darter (E. h. binotatum). Happy Holidays to all!

I see Freshwater Megafauna Christmas, and raise you Hecht Ruprecht! Germans will get it, Knecht Ruprecht is a partially demonic helper of Santa, carrying a cudgel/rod and a sack to punish naughty children. Figure comes from the same folklore as the better known Krampus. And Hecht means pike. 😁

Merry (freshwater) Mega(fauna) Christmas! 🎄

My first first-author paper was published this morning! Did you know eye lenses grow in layers throughout life and can be analyzed to study movement and foraging ecology. But eye lenses differ in bio molecular composition across fish taxa, especially for sharks! 🧪🌎🦑 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

10/20/2024 Huge Gar by Elm Lake Pier #2 at BBSP. Maybe hunting? Using suction while 'lateral feeding' in"Feeding kinematics {etc}" by Lemberg(2019). The gar surfaced later. video: www.rickubis.com/rick/alligat... gar page: www.rickubis.com/rick/garfish... #GarWeek @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

Little-known fact: Shortnose Gar can fly! See moxostoma.com/garfrenzy/ for more photos and the whole story. #gar #garweek

Definitely not on-theme (again) for this week's #SundayFishSketch. This illustration of a Burbot took way longer than I care to admit, but I am pretty happy with how it turned out in the end.

14th day of the #25daysofFishmas with a macrophthalmic Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) collected in the lower Tagus river! Native to pur waters it has been declining decade after decade mostly due to overfishing and habitat loss. @MAREscience

Do fish in an urban river system use a rehabilitated and reconnected stormwater pond during the summer? YUP! Read about it in new OA paper by @j-reid.bsky.social - Congrats Jess on publishing 1st thesis chapter. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Team @garlab.bsky.social photo with @jonathanwt.bsky.social & @alyssarausch96.bsky.social! Back in the field today, ready for #GarWeek next week!!!

Nice write up including our recent bluefin #tuna #otolith metabolic rate and climate work on the BBC (thanks Isabelle Gerretson) www.bbc.com/future/artic... LInk to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦑 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

For the 12th day of #Crustmas: a #Fishmas crossover! Splendid toadfish being protected by its pal, the banded cleaner shrimp! 🦑🌊🦐🤿 (Cozumel, MX) #underwaterphotography #olympustg5

Angling creates hook shy pike, our latest paper finds. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Did you know that there's an #RCode package to build your own trait database that works across taxa? Elizabeth Wenk introduced `traits.build` at #ESAus2024 & it looks super powerful for making trait data FAIR. #OpenScience #FunctionalTraits 🧪🌾🌏 Check it out: traitecoevo.github.io/traits.build...