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Fish/aquatic/stable isotope ecology. Proud dad of two Anglo-Chileans. Sweary. Wide interests. Prof of Ecology, Director of Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment, U Glasgow's Field Station on Loch Lomond, UK @sceneuog.bsky.social

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And @nowpas.bsky.social 2026 is off!

03.03.2026 08:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if anyone happens to have sharable phytoplankton or POM d13C/d15N data for the Irish sea either in a paper on sitting on a hard disk, I'd be very happy if you could get in touch! For a student

20.02.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@loop-net.bsky.social great logo!

19.02.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles β€œVienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption β€œThey don’t want to get blamed againβ€œ

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles β€œVienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption β€œThey don’t want to get blamed againβ€œ

A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: β€œVienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student β€” They don’t want to get blamed againβ€œ

18.01.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 6937 πŸ” 2406 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 159

🐟 Here are our keynote speakers for NoWPaS 2026 announced!! Looking forward to talk salmonids ecology and evolution with @profchrisharrod.bsky.social, @jessrodger.bsky.social, Prof. Eva Enders and Prof. Arnar Palson!

06.01.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone got an anatomical cutaway image of a coregonid fish? Asking for a 'friend'* for a lecture next week...

*might be me

12.01.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory [The department of biology and environmental science](https://www.jyu.fi/en/science/bioenv) is seeking to recruit a Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory starting April 1, 2026, or as soo...

The University of JyvΓ€skylΓ€, Finland, is seeking a qualified and motivated Laboratory Engineer with a strong background in analytical chemistry to support operations in their isotope laboratory. HT @jasonisotopes.bsky.social

ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...

16.12.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters Baselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'...

hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the FooΞ΄-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

15.12.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Research Associate in Ecology and Landscape Genetics Job Purpose Β  To make a leading contribution to the NERC funded project β€˜Delivering a Climate Resilient City through City-University Partnership: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transfor...

job here at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk on water vole ecology and genetics.

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

12.12.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Obituary: Professor Peter Maitland FRSE (1937–2025) β€” Freshwater Biological Association The freshwater science community has lost one of its most respected and influential members with the passing of Professor Peter Maitland FRSE on 24 November 2025. He was aged 87. Here Professor Colin ...

we lost one of our greats Prof Peter Maitland in late November 2025. @profcolinbean.bsky.social has written a fine obituary to Peter here on the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social website.

www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...

12.12.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology

Here's an opportunity to lead research at KilpisjΓ€rvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk.

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

12.12.2025 10:44 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis

What did the Romans ever do for us, eh?

HT @fakehistoryhunter.net

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

12.12.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#OtD 10 Dec 2006 former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died. His regime, supported enthusiastically by the UK and US, saw thousands of radicals, trade unionists and others rounded up and executed, with tens of thousands more jailed and tortured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8182...

10.12.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 7
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Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncov...

I had the pleasure of showing this amazing documentary on @criordor.bsky.socialΒ΄s research at this weekΒ΄s @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting.

Now available to all!

www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...

02.12.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Research Associate Job PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the ECOCHANGE (Ecosystem Consequences of Changes to Habitats and the implications for a Net Gain Energy approach) project working with Dr Kieran Tierney...

Research Associate on food webs (using isotope sand stable isotopes) and offshore power at SUERC

For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Deadline 15th December

17.11.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced!

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629

Good work from Bernd HΓ€nfling and crew

15.11.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Leveraging wild hybrids to map the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in a primitive vertebrate.

We are recruiting a PhD student to work on the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in lampreys. If you are interested in population genomics, hybrid zones & structural variants in a super cool primitive vertebrate, feel free to contact me. Details - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

14.11.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is an important component of the global carbon cycle which influences water properties such as colour and acidity. Standard methods for quantification of DOC use instrum...

via Adrian Bass and others.
This looks very handy!

Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

09.11.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

06.11.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 512 πŸ” 156 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 9
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Trophic niche variation across the pan-Arctic coastal continuum We analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values (Ξ΄13C and Ξ΄15N, respectively) for pan-Arctic coastal primary producers and consumers to detect large-scale regional trends both temporally and spa...

"We found that despite the enormous spatial range of data, both pPOM and sPOM became 2.1‰ and 2.2‰ more 13C-depleted per decade, respectively, with parallel decreases in the Ξ΄13C values in consumers"

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

06.11.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”Help us spread the word!

Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟

#NoWPaS2026 #EarlyCareerResearchers #FishScience #SalmonidResearch

20.10.2025 13:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ice Age vendace thriving at Loch Skeen near Moffat A survey finds the population of vendace at Loch Skeen near Moffat is

Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

04.11.2025 08:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We regularly encounter Gordioidea (parasitic hairworms) in kick samples taken from streams around @sceneuog.bsky.social (central/west Scotland). Anyone got an idea of the likely hosts?

02.11.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Identifying knowledge gaps in hypersaline systems supporting the global electrical transition: invertebrate community structure in salars from the lithium triangle Following decades of mining impacts, South America’s hypersaline wetlands (salars) face increasing threats from lithium extraction to support global decarbonisation. Although globally important, salar...

Gonzalo Salazar has his first thesis paper published today in @peerj.bsky.social

We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually

peerj.com/articles/20042

13.10.2025 09:23 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N?

09.10.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Home - Terra Viva Grants Announcement Terra Viva Grants is now part of the International Society of Tropical Foresters Terra Viva Grants (TVG), the go-to grants database for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resou...

many thanks!

www.terravivagrants.org

07.10.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In a @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting led by students discussing research funding. Does anyone have a link to databases/websites detailing small grant funding for ecological research?

07.10.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text reads 'we're hiring, graduate research assistant and postdoctoral research associate. Logo are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text reads 'we're hiring, graduate research assistant and postdoctoral research associate. Logo are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines the graduate research assistant position, which is part time (14 hours), fixed term until 0ct 2028, based at the university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines the graduate research assistant position, which is part time (14 hours), fixed term until 0ct 2028, based at the university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines postdoctoral research associate position, which is full-time fixed term until 31st oct 2028, starting salary Β£34.6k, location is university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines postdoctoral research associate position, which is full-time fixed term until 31st oct 2028, starting salary Β£34.6k, location is university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

Fancy working with killer whales?

We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team.

πŸ‘‰ Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka
πŸ‘‰ Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4

Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct.

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26.09.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Oh the fun! 😊

24.09.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology Isotopic analysis as a method of assessing diet or geographical origin is now ubiquitous in archaeology, to the point where seemingly no project is co…

Absolutely storming review/opinion piece of where we are with stable isotopes in archaeology from the always mighty Tamsin O'Connell. Everything she says here goes for isotopes in ecology too.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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