Inspiring plenary @steveormerod.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of both long-term data series and of sheer, unbridled passion in advancing freshwater science and management #SEFS14

Drought is a natural part of climatic variability, but interacts with human pressures to cause biodiversity loss in rivers. Habitat restoration can both reduce flood risk and promote ecological resilience to drought – a win-win – but investment is needed. theconversation.com/how-restorin...

An honour to host @freshwaterbio.bsky.social at NTU. Truly inspiring speakers including @carlsayer.bsky.social @davetickner.bsky.social @louiselavictoire.bsky.social @steveormerod.bsky.social. The time to act to protect our freshwater ecosystems is NOW.

Last-minute change to the line up! We welcome @samtasker.bsky.social to talk about how the @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social Headstart project will kickstart nature recovery by restoring headwaters. Want to come? Hurry! There are only 8 in-person tickets left and registration closes on Sunday.

We’re raising funds through the #GreenMatchFund for our #LakeDistrict #ArcticCharr Recovery and Management project, aka LD-CHARM 🐟 bit.ly/42BgnII If you can, please donate. Each donation is matched pound-for-pound up to £10K, meaning we could unlock £20K of funding for £10K of donations!

We are excited to have a #GreenMatchFund campaign running, 22-29 April, to raise money to help save #ArcticCharr from extinction in the #LakeDistrict. 1 week countdown before the launch when you will be able to double your donation @biggive.bsky.social! More info👇 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Another week left to get your abstract in for the SEFS14 conference www.sefs14.com - deadline now 10 April. @messamat.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to our session SS-02 Science and management of non-perennial rivers and streams. Lots of others to choose from too www.sefs14.com/sessions

I've signed the petition "Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack". The recovery pack would increase investment and regulation, helping improve the state of chalk streams - globally rare rivers of ecological and cultural importance. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Excited that Nottingham Trent Uni will host the Freshwater Biological Association Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June. Awesome lineup including keynotes @davetickner.bsky.social, @michcjackson.bsky.social, Steve Ormerod and Julia Martin-Ortega. Registration is open: t.co/GRdq6E33v2

@messamat.bsky.social & I will host the special session "Science and management of non-perennial rivers and streams" at SEFS14: the 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences in Bolu Türkiye 20–25 July 2025. We invite you to submit an abstract. Deadline 15 March. www.sefs14.com/online-regis...

This year's superb keynotes are @tdatry.bsky.social and Prof. Angela Gurnell. We welcome back friends @riversandpeople.bsky.social and, all the way from down under, @ryanmburrows.bsky.social. Seven practitioner speakers hail from @theriverstrust.bsky.social, Env Ag, Wildfish and county councils.

📢 Registration is open 📢 The 10th (yes, 10th!) Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting will be in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus (and on Teams) on Tuesday 24 June 2025 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event🎫! 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 ☕🍪🥐& 🥪! 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 top-notch science🔬🪳💦🌿! www.eventbrite.com/e/temporary-...

18-month postdoc quantifying the biomass of aquatic insects emerging from temporary freshwater habitats and modelling associated ecosystem processes. Based in Rennes, France. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

🌍 Join the #DRYvER Final #Webinar! 📅 20 March 2025 | 🕒 14:00 CET Discover the key outcomes of the amazing work that was performed by DRYvER over the past 4 years. 🔗 Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4cef2e... The final agenda will be shared soon. Stay tuned, and don’t miss out!

See you in Puerto Rico @ecosarahflynn.bsky.social et al.! I hope to share our team's work to characterize dry-phase plant communities as indicators of anthropogenic nutrient pressures in non-perennial streams 🌿

All are invited to sign this petition in support of saving the free-flowing Tagliamento—the King of Alpine rivers—from fragmentation by two proposed barriers www.freetagliamento.org/it_IT/home-e...

Abbasi @messamat.bsky.social & Döll present a Europe-wide quantification of future streamflow intermittence. Huge variability across the continent. For my beloved chalk streams, average flows could increase—but low flows get lower, meaning more stream drying essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

My first first-authored paper for a while is out 🙌! It has a hilarious title 🤔🙄! And our findings could inform robust macroinvertebrate-based condition assessment across perennial and temporary small streams 🤞@rsarremejane.bsky.social Available open access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....

Excited to be at the @royalsociety.bsky.social to speak at the Yusuf Hamied workshop, exploring themes of biodiversity and water sustainability with colleagues from India and the UK @alistairboxall.bsky.social @davetickner.bsky.social @jmbecologist.bsky.social @pennyjohnes.bsky.social

Deadline looming! Submit a special session or workshop proposal for SEFS14 in Bolu, Türkiye by this Saturday 30 November. @messamat.bsky.social and I have stuck in one about... guess what?! Temporary streams 🦐🐞😁! www.sefs14.com/workshops-sp... @louiselavictoire.bsky.social

Joining @davetickner.bsky.social, two other (equally awesome) keynote speakers are now confirmed for the FBA Meeting: @michcjackson.bsky.social and Prof. Steve Ormerod 😁💦

Self-explanatory, I hope. New additions welcome (DM me). go.bsky.app/6zW3ym4

Save the date! I'm delighted that Nottingham Trent Uni. will host the Freshwater Biological Association's 'restored' Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June 2025. Keynotes include @davetickner.bsky.social and other speakers include @louiselavictoire.bsky.social www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sa...

Today I'm at a 'Catchment Processes during Droughts' workshop at Uni of Bristol (UoB). Thanks Gemma Coxon (UoB) and Stu Allen (Environment Agency) for organizing this chance to discuss research and practice to support system-wide drought resilience @wilsonchan.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social

Ecologically, rivers in England and Wales have recovered a lot from historical pollution since 1990. But this isn't the whole story: our recent study led by Emma Pharaoh highlights where quality has declined www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

Time for my first skeet 🦋💙! Hello, I’m Rachel, a Professor of River Ecology at NTU in the UK. My team (below, in summer 2024) do research to inform protection of biodiversity in temporary streams, including England’s lovely chalk winterbournes @riversandpeople.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social