Dr Anna Sturrock

In rural Mozambique women face systemic barriers in ocean spaces. With FSBI’s support, Love The Oceans' Ocean School empowered women with ocean literacy, building inclusive ocean governance to better protect marine habitats #OceanLiteracy #Lovetheoceans #GenderEquity #Conservation

A beautiful and fascinating lecture by Dr Rachel Johnson from @fisheries.noaa.gov about bringing #salmon back to their ancestral waters above Shasta Dam using indigenous knowledge and the principles of two-eyed seeing. Really loving the #TranslationalEcology module at @universityofessex.bsky.social

Deep-Sea Mining Company Seeks International Permit Under New Trump Rules By Ernest Scheyder Jan 22 (Reuters) – The Metals Co TMC.O on Thursday became the first deep-sea miner to seek Washington’s approval to mine the international seabed under a streamlined permitting…

Deep-Sea Mining Company Seeks International Permit Under New Trump Rules

Stoked to launch my new module "Translational Ecology" with Prof Hepburn & guest speakers from NOAA, UC, CEFAS, EA, MMO! Yesterday we discussed conflict resolution with Yael Teff-Seker. The course focuses on how to translate env science into action, e.g. using effective stakeholder engagement. 🌳🎣🔥🪸🌎

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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a group of people are dancing on a red carpet with #timewarp written on the bottom ALT: a group of people are dancing on a red carpet with #timewarp written on the bottom

Yes Jon!!!

Check it all out here and download the code to try with your own datasets. His scripts are gorgeous and easy to use. Yay for the hive mind 🐝 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Then the wondrous Dr Kohma Arai joined the Davis lab and took my idea to another level, comparing this approach with others, including a simpler but even more effective automated feature extraction method and a fancier-but-not-better-for-our-application Dynamic Time Warp clustering method 🤓

In brief, during my postdoc, I was getting progressively more stressed about 'correctly' selecting the natal region in an otolith profile by eye. Took ages and was painfully subjective. So I started using a time series approach, using chronological measurements as predictors in a random forest model

New #OA paper in Ecological Informatics comparing automated methods for provenance assignment using chronological chemical records deposited into archival structures such as #otoliths, #lenses, #statoliths. Our focus was on #salmon but it has much broader application. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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

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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...

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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.…
#Antarctica #FishBehaviour #WeddellSea

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!!

Four smiling people holding award certificates stand next to a sign for American Fisheries Society, photo taken at AFS conference in August 2025.

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 River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.

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....