@mjw-marine
Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Zoological Society of London. Investigating European eel behaviour and movement in UK reservoirs with the Fish Movement Ecology Group - https://www.fishmovementecologygroup.com/
NEW RESEARCH 🚨
Researchers identify ultrasonography as reliable method of determining sex in migrating silver eels. This technique was shown to be more reliable than molecular marking, and removes the need for sacrifice.
@mjw-marine.bsky.social
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Non-lethal tools for accurate sex identification in European #eel are required.
Our new #OpenAccess paper shows ultrasonography is an accurate, non-lethal tool for identifying sex, but molecular markers were less reliable.
Link here ▶️ www-tinyurl.com/b414e8a2
@zslscience.bsky.social
#Science
@zslscience.bsky.social @conservationsp.bsky.social @josephwilliamson.bsky.social
New paper out! 📢 We tested whether boat activity from an eel telemetry study disturbed protected waterbirds in a UK reservoir.
🦆 No evidence of disturbance.
🌦️ Bird numbers varied with weather + season.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Amazing animation by @laurens-colours.bsky.social
#aquatic #ecology #beavers #animation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVM...
Know a PhD student or Early Career Researcher in aquatic ecology who's research deserves a prize? 👀 👑 🧠
We are offering a talk at our upcoming September conference, ticket expenses reimbursed and a chance to work with a Global Change Biology editor to publish your research!
Link in the comments 😊
In this month's blog post, I demonstrate how to visualize shipping traffic data using R. The tutorial covers downloading the dataset from EMODnet, performing exploratory data analysis, and creating a map using ggplot2.
#Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis #DataVisualization #ShippingTraffic
Herculean collation of >12K megafauna tracks, >100 species, reveals 75% overlap of critical habitats with shipping, fishing, pollution or warming. Protection targets not enough to safeguard megafauna.
New paper in @science.org, led by @anammsequeira.bsky.social 👇
📸silvana-palacios,daniel-torobekov
📢✨ Aquatically-inclined and looking for an autumn conference?
Join us for this year's #BESAG2025 to discuss all things #freshwater and #marine science!
Where: ZSL London
When: 15/16th September 2025
Registration and abstract submission info ⬇️
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/besa...
Also thanks to
@DefraGovUK
@welshgovernment.bsky.social
and
@ScotGovMarine
for supporting this research and wider monitoring through the long-term UK strandings programmes.
Many thanks as well to @natreswales.bsky.social and @ascobans.bsky.social
for providing funding for additional samples 🙏
Great to see our new paper on the impacts of water flow and crest shape on juvenile #eel movement on fish passes now out in the Journal of #Fish #Biology! #openaccess #science #freshwater @zslscience.bsky.social @jack-brand.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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…!
Nice new paper out reviewing the use of #biologging as a platform for monitoring environmental threats and aiding marine management. Also introduced me to the term Internet of Animals, which made me happy #science #behaviour #Marine
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trend in European Glass Eel recruitment 1960 - 2024
Looking for data, and plots for presentations, on stock trends from your study species? Check out @icesmarine.bsky.social adviceXplorer, a visualisation tool for ICES fisheries advice.
ices-taf.shinyapps.io/advicexplorer/
#fisheries #stock #plots
Blue background with pink seaweeds graphic around the edge. a wave in a circle frame is on the right. text reads: PHD OPPORTUNITY. PhD Scholarships for Black British researchers in the faculty of Environment, science and economy. This programme offers 4-year fully funded phd studentships to support Black British researchers. The aim of these scholar ships is to help improve access and participation in PhD study for talented Black British students. Deadlines for applications: Friday 28th February 2025. To find out more visit exeter.ac.uk/study/funding.' The university of exeter logo is in the bottom right hand corner
PhD SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY 🚨
@exeter.ac.uk is proud to offer several studentships supporting Black British Researchers, to improve access and participation in PhD study. 🌍🧪🦤🌐
DEADLINE: 28th Feb 2025
For more details, visit - www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
#BlackinSci #BlackSky #AcademiaSky
Great new paper out on the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution in salmonids by @jack-brand.bsky.social and colleagues.
and sociality in #eel aggregations
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Looking forward to seeing what next year will bring!
First post on #Bluesky, thought I'd highlight some of our research this year with @netlab.bsky.social. Acoustic telemetry can be used to answer a whole variety of questions including;
Residency in reef #sharks - doi.org/10.1038/s420...
