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

The FSBI Medal Winners session starts with a talk from Colin Adams. Colin, previous President of the FSBI, has been awarded this year's Beverton Medal. Given the FSBI's focus on supporting ECRs, Colin draws on his wealth of experience, with a talk titled "Surviving a career in research" #FSBI2025

Absolutely brilliant #FSBI2025 banquet. I'm so grateful to Sarah and her team for organising such an amazing meeting, and to our past and current presidents & ian winfield for their incredible stewardship of this v special society...And all the young 'uns for bringing their fresh ideas/dance moves!

We should come to terms with the fact that industrial fishing is one of the most destructive things we do to the ocean.

Our opinion piece discussing the potential spread of invasive species following riverine barrier removals is now out 🦞🐟 Excited to share my first first author publication! @rosscuthbert.bsky.social @fengzhihe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Look who I found @bendw.bsky.social !

Lovely and fascinating field trip to Bushmills salmon hatchery and beach as part of #FSBI2025. Thank you to all our tour guides and Annika/Sarah for organising!

Multiple trains, an overnight ferry and many steps later, I’ve made it from Cornwall to Belfast for the #FSBI2025 symposium! #FSBIGreenTravel Excited for this week! 🐟🐡🐠🦈

#FSBI2025 Spawning Run Selfies!

Feeling smug after finishing the #FSBI2025 Spawning Run! Lovely to see the River Lagan IRL with these fine people :)

There are over 1000 beaver in and around dundee, tayside!!! #fsbi2025 James A Macarthur

@elliedolan.bsky.social gives talk on experimental evidence for how various barriers and weirs influence salmon parr behaviour and likelihood of crossing #FSBI2025

Great to see #FSBI2025 conference organisers & attendees making such an effort for sustainable travel 💚

Interesting first day of talks at the #FSBI2025 conference. Great talk by Ben (Bluck) from our research group on European eel response to light within a "passage" context.

A very enjoyable time presenting the first chapter of my PhD on the interactions between beaver and migratory fish at #FSBI2025

Great start to #FSBI2025 with a thought provoking Jack Jones lecture by Robert Rosell about reintroducing salmon into the River Lagan. Parallels to salmon fishing in the Yemen! Also v. proud of @peterbetts.bsky.social for his excellent talk on salmon metabolism across latitudinal gradients 👏

THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! Amazing effort Catie!!! #FSBIGreenTravel #FSBI2025 💪🚴‍♀️

We made it!!! Didn't need the extra half hour walk after google maps took us to a locked gate, but lovely to be here! #FSBI2025 #FSBIGreenTravel

Second leg of our epic journey to #FSBI2025 complete! Now at the Sky Bar on the ferry in case anyone else is also on the Stena line! 🍻 Picked up @domino-joyce.fishsci.com.ap.brid.gy on our way! Full disclosure: had to sneak into an uber after missing the metro, but IT WAS ELECTRIC! #FSBIGreenTravel