Marine functional #connectivity matters—from genes to energy flows. This synthesis clarifies concepts, unifies fragmented approaches, and proposes a global framework to better link science, #SpatialPlanning, and #policy in a changing ocean. doi.org/10.1002/brv.... #MarineEcology 🌐🌍🧪🌊

New paper out 🐟📏📉📈! We explored 50 years of data from 14 Atlantic salmon populations across Eastern Canada to see how body size, age, and life-history diversity have been changing. bit.ly/3KAvUDt @icesmarine.bsky.social 🧵👇 1/7

If you want to learn how to use stable isotope analysis for ecological research, my colleague has launched two online courses about this method. One is basic principles and one is R analysis of data. www.atomicecology.com/courses?fbcl... 🧪🦑🌎

We’ll cover 7 exciting themes, including: 🌊 Movement through transition zones 🌆 Fish biology in urbanised environments ⚖️ The fisheries–science policy interface 🔬 Patterns across ecological scales #FSBI2026

Following the Titanic theme, with #FSBI2025 being held in Belfast, #FSBI2026 will be taking place in 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻! Be sure to get 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵-𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 in your diary, with the exciting theme of "Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology"! fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2026/

What a great #FLFDevNet training course! Lots of new concepts & tips to help us be a better version of ourselves. A few I'm trying straight away... 1. ID 3 daily wins (gratitude) 2. Listen harder (let in the silence!) 3. ID key values 4. When questioning someone avoid "why" 5. Situational leadership

What do you think has been on Earth longer - sharks or trees? You might think trees have been around for a long time, but sharks have been here even longer! See how sharks have survived and thrived through all five of Earth’s mass extinction events in this week’s Surprising Science.

Enjoyed showing Mick Sharp, lead angler for the #Thames #Fishing Research Experiment the lab and all v excited/grateful to receive a medal for volunteering at the event. First year of many I hope. Hoping to use these samples to assess pollution impacts on #bass

What a treat to have the new Editor in Chief for Fish and Fisheries, and all round fisheries-interdisciplinary-legend Kai Lorezen visit us at the @universityofessex.bsky.social today! Come again soon @fisheriesprof.bsky.social! And a very Happy Birthday to @dubucalexia.bsky.social! 🙌🐟🤗

How do Antarctic fish protect their nests in the remote Weddell Sea? 🇦🇶❓ Our new paper in @FrontMarineSci provides a new answer: by nesting in complex, geometric patterns. (1/3) 📑 Paper: doi.org/10.3389/fmars.…#Antarcticac#FishBehaviouru#WeddellSeaea

New paper on potential impacts of deep sea mining on sharks, rays & chimaeras

Me: *checks news* Me, 20 minutes later: *transforms into tiny crab, floats way on jellyfish*

I just couldn't stop thinking about how weird sperm whale mouths are and yet how perfectly shaped for inserting giant squid into

So lovely to meet our new cohort of marine biology and ecology undergraduates @universityofessex.bsky.social. What a lovely bunch! And deff winning the highest jump there Michael Steinke!!

MN AFS members Solomon David of @garlab.bsky.social and Alec Lackmann, leader of the Otolith Lab at UMN Duluth both received an Award of Merit from the @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social Fisheries Management Section, recognizing significant contributions to management of nongame fishes. Congratulations!!

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Lecturer in Marine Biology and Scientific Diving (University of Plymouth) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l... #jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity

Super happy to see our new article on how pharmaceutical pollution can influence salmon migration out in @science.org! This was a huge effort by a great team of researchers over the last few years! You can read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…!

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people doi.org/10.64628/AAI... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Amazing effort!!!

Salmon Whisperers....

Atlantic salmon leaping up the Falls of Feugh. Exhausting even just watching them do it! We didn't see any make it to the top. Wonder if this dry summer has made it harder..... 😪

Who can tell a baby #salmon from a #trout?! Fab day sampling the beautiful River Dee with Al Reeve from the Dee River Trust (thank you!) and my PhD student Mike. Also loved seeing the seals at Newburgh and salmon leaping at Falls of Feugh 🦭🐟 #FishSci

The Salmon Run podcast is here! 🌍🏃🤝🐟 Listen now to explore: - What happens in human and salmon bodies as we move - How salmon navigate - The importance of salt! - Temperature in a changing climate on.soundcloud.com/QA1LOAVL1fML...

Save the Date: Salmon Run is on 20 September 2025. A relay run up the river plus lots more. New activities this year include The Gathering, a fishy festival at Sideshore, Exmouth, with art, music, talks & games. And more activities at the finish in Dulverton, with @exmoornp.bsky.social

Thought provoking podcast about the connections between land and sea, salmon athletes and human athletes. Thank you @tidelines.bsky.social for coming to visit us at @universityofessex.bsky.social and good luck to you and all the runners on 20th Sept!!! I wish I could join you but alas I cannot. 💙🐟🌳

I'm so proud of my lab - they're growing up! 🥹 Weddings and babies, lecturer positions, international conferences and running complex field campaigns. And now with our latest sweet addition, we are three (OK maybe 2.5!) generations of #WomenInSTEM! #HeartFull

Great trip to #Bergen to see my brother and follow up on tip off on fast emerging sea Bass populations in Fana, Bergen and further north Fjords #Norway - turns out this has been happening some 20+ years but now more common - plan to be working with IMS and UiB and of course @otolithgirl.bsky.social

For the first time, at #FSBI2025, we ran the #FSBIGreenTravel award to promote more sustainable travel to our conference. We were thrilled by the response and the efforts that people went to in order to lower their carbon emissions. In 1st place, we had Maddi Garate Olaizola! This is Maddi's story:

New #OA paper showing the importance of anadromous trout for recruitment-and in turn-for keeping our #rivers connected! Combines #kinship analysis with SNPs with a new method for identifying maternal strategy using carbon #isotopes in the eye #lens core. 1/4 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #OA systematic review of the current state of marine functional connectivity research in @meps-ir.bsky.social. This #SEA-UNICORN output uses an 'umbrella review' approach to summarise this growing field and includes a bibliometic analysis of 'who' is doing what. 1/2.. 🦞🐟🌊 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

Our last hurrah in #Skagit - fundraiser screening at the venerable Lincoln Theatre, 26 August. Our final #TheClimateRestorers film -“Ecosystem Restoration - from the Dust Bowl to the Loess Plateau catastrophe of China, to the Skagit+ California Central valleys. Big, inspiring stories. Please share.

What a delight to meet Sam Ryder on the train today. I'm such a huge fan and he is the loveliest person. Keep spreading the kindness!! (And @samhairwolfryder.bsky.social if this is your account, thank you so much for the pic and not judging my clear over excitement!!!) Xx

Very belated post about the amazing @thefsbi.bsky.social and @ifmfish.bsky.social confernce we just had in Belfast. The science was incredible, the people were amazing. Pretty sure I didn't get to talk to all ~160 of you, but I had the best time, and it's feeling very quiet without you!!

Last week, I took part in the FSBI-IFM 2025 symposium at Queen's University Belfast. It was a pleasure to meet and listen to so many interesting and friendly people from all over the world🌍, and to present my current project🐍🐟 in such a beautiful venue☀️. See you again, guys! 🐟

It was an honour to represent @sibic.bsky.social at #FSBI2025 Many thanks to @thefsbi.bsky.social for the warm welcome, a great opportunity to meet inspiring researchers, especially amazing and brilliant women! 🐟 @mjjuanjorda.bsky.social @naiarare.bsky.social @otolithgirl.bsky.social #SusanneTanner

Wow. @universityofessex.bsky.social PhD students Lucy Smith & Izi Firth curated an amazing exhibition: #NaturesCanvas. Who knew our Life Sci dept housed so many talented artists? Glad to see so many #otoliths on display 🐟🥰! And a bell jar filled with crude oil to signify our hypoxia & ecotox work ☠️

Sometimes I worry that my work doesn't have enough impact. And then we do 1 school assembly to promote #WorldSharkDay & highlight the many types of marine sci careers (no you dont HAVE to be a diver or fisher) and I feel fulfilled & hopeful about the future. Thank you Broomgrove Juniors (& my kids!)

Phew... another scorcher. As the heat ramps up we think about how challenging shadeless rivers and low river flows are for Exe Salmon. Find out how you can help these amazing creatures through the Salmon Run: our latest newsletter is here: mailchi.mp/1b37aba495bb...

Had a great time at #FSBI2025 symposium in Belfast☘️ My #FSBIGreenTravel attempt of Uppsala-Belfast train trip ended up in a great adventure and now I have a story to tell. Besides, I got on time and had the chance to give my talk about my research on early life Baltic cod🐟 and meet nice people.

Yesterday I presented #DIASPARA at the FSBI/IFM Symposium in Belfast #FSBI2025 🐟🌍 @thefsbi.bsky.social We are strengthening the scientific basis for managing eel and salmon by analysing life-history traits, developing FAIR databases, and improving stock assessment models. shorturl.at/tsy53

So well deserved!! It was a real pleasure to meet you. Your talk and career story is inspiring! 🙌

Nice to stretch the legs and see a bit of the River Lagan at the same time. #FSBI2025

Had such a laugh hosting the #FSBI2025 pub quiz last night. Turns out, coming up with 60 questions for a room full of academics, arbiters of truth, is far more difficult than first anticipated...! Felt like a second viva!

Fun and social "spawning run" along the Lagan this morning #fsbi2025

A great time presenting my work on salmonid metabolism across a latitudinal gradient, lots of interesting conversations with everyone after the talk #FSBI2025

It was brilliant to catch up with so many people from #NoWPaS2025 at #FSBI2025

Fantastic keynote on #FSBI2025 Day 4 by @nickdulvy.bsky.social - highlighting how equitable and collaborative big data approaches can help advance management and conservation of threatened fish species 🦈

Our final medal award winner is Oliver Crimmen, of the Nautral History Museum (London), who was awarded this year's Le Cren Medal. With over 50 years of experience, some species are now present in the collection but extinct in the wild, which gives much pause for thought #FSBI2025

This year's FSBI medal is awarded to @mjjuanjorda.bsky.social. Maria talks to us today about what tuna have taught her throughout her career. Some very useful lessons learned and advice for the ECRs in the audience! #FSBI2025