Jeff Clements 🦪

Fantastic to see this out as a preprint.

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Hats off to @nhcooper123.bsky.social et al!!

Back when I was working in Scandinavia, I demonstrated this incredible ecosystem service with mussels for some of the Swedish locals.

Check out those natural water filters at work!
This is one reason why it is important to conserve natural bivalve populations.

To do this, they suck water in through their incurrent siphon, filter particles out of the water using their gills, and then pump the clean water out through their excurrent siphon.

Biological water filters!

Did you know that an individual oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water per day?

Bivalves like mussels, oysters, and clams feed on the particulate matter floating around in the water column, allowing them to act as natural water filters.

The image shows two figures, a and b. Figure a shows a map of Europe with thermal positions indicated by color-coded hexagons, ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. Arrows point to "Reduced negative impacts" and "Increased negative impacts." Figure b shows a scatter plot of effect size vs thermal position with a fish illustration on top. "Biomass change estimates" indicated by circle size.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍

Rainy Saturday read 📖

And if you are signing up as a first-time reviewer, check our our "tips and tricks" for some guidance on being a constructive and collegial peer reviewer!

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A quantitative analysis of fishing impacts on shelf‐sea benthos 1. The effects of towed bottom-fishing gear on benthic communities is the subject of heated debate, but the generality of trawl effects with respect to gear and habitat types is poorly understood. T...

Fig 2 in Collie et al. (2000) J. Anim. Ecol. I think: doi.org/10.1046/j.13...

Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour (Spier, 2002). Des

Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews, Conservation Physiology, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, coaf085, doi.org/10.1093/conp...

The best part of travelling for work is coming home 🥰

What a privilege it is to have a family to miss as much as I miss mine when I'm gone. Forever grateful for this life.

A familiar flag in a pub here in Glasgow (left)!

Had a great chat with the bar keep. His ancestors moved to Cape Breton way back when. Said he always wanted to but hasn't been able to make the trip, but feels very tied to the place. Great fella. Very cool experience.

The home of our hearts.

Last day in Glasgow; first day of sunshine 😅

It's been a blast - cool conference in a city with some great food and impressive architecture, and it was awesome to see some people I haven't seen in a long time.

But I'm definitely ready to get back home to my girls ❤️

Let the 18 hour trek commence.

Off to Scotland for the week to showcase some work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow.

I guess 10°C and rain is an upgrade from -15°C and snow... Lol

This hockey team is going to give me a coronary 😳🍁

They melt my heart 🫠❤️

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CLUTCH MARNER!!!🍁🍁🍁

Still can't believe the Leafs traded him of all players lol.

GO CANADA GO!!!

Imagining the rich lives of invertebrates A writer’s evocative meditations invite readers to consider the often-overlooked creatures on their own terms

Bermudian writer @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social opens her collection of essays, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, by inviting readers to see beyond human use and abuse of marine invertebrates.

Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://scim.ag/46bhu4z

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...

Interesting paper in Nature:

Somewhat paradoxically, researchers' use of AI boosts individual productivity & impact, but reduces the overall extent & diversity of knowledge gained.

A cautionary tale that widespread adoption of AI may hinder scientific advancement.

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It's a blessing to live in a place where we can snowshoe through the woods in our backyard ❄️

Thanks! This was part of the reasoning behind the paper. I kept thinking about how I wished I had this when I was starting out with peer review. Hopefully others find it useful!

Looking forward to #OSM26 next week! Who will I see in Glasgow?

Winter stress release 🏒🥅🍺

Thanks Chris!!

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Most resources on effective #PeerReview provide tangible & logistical suggestions for critically evaluating a manuscript but few provide advice for crafting a constructive, useful & collegial review.

We bridge this gap in our recent Editorial in @conphysjournal.bsky.social

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We're still ironing out the administrative details of how to submit and all that, but it's officially in the works and should be available as an option for authors very soon!

I LOVE it!! Really excited to see it!

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

Here is the editorial announcement, which comes with an explicit call to include replication studies in undergraduate and early graduate student training.

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A fantastic initiative from the journal Behavioural Ecology:

A new dedicated section called 'Replication Studies', which will publish results from replications in a short and snappy format.

Excellent stuff @katelaskowski.bsky.social @roseodea.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social