We'd like to congratulate Prof Colin Adams who's been awarded this year's #BevertonMedal! 🏅 Colin was previously the FSBI's president and holds the chair in Freshwater Ecology @uofglasgow.bsky.social. His work includes evolutionary processes in the emergence of new fish diversity and fish migration.

Scale methods vary widely across labs. That’s a problem for comparability, training, and AI tools. Join our global survey on salmonid scale/otolith collection, processing and analysis : tinyurl.com/rda-salmonid... #Salmon #FisheriesScience #FishAgeing #OpenScience #RDA

New paper 🐟📈📉📏🌡️! Super happy to see this paper led by JM Matte out! We analyzed 50 years of juvenile Atlantic salmon data (Miramichi & Restigouche Rivers, Can) to test how size-at-age has changed and what’s driving it. bit.ly/4uSxlQ5 @thefsbi.bsky.social 🧵👇

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Day 2 of #EDITO workshop starts with summaries from the 4 sessions : first on #Ocean health and specifically on #BlueCarbon - session relates to @emarineboard.bsky.social policy #Science documents on that and coastal resilience www.marineboard.eu/publications... www.marineboard.eu/publications...

Excellent piece by Matz @heatshok.bsky.social and colleagues discussing the dire status of Caribbean reefs, and potential plans and policies that can be implemented if these reefs are to have any chance. Check it out in PNAS!

Was pleased to join @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on @newrepublic.com to talk about the Maduro capture and what it means. newrepublic.substack.com/p/the-us-dep...

The US Deposed Maduro. Now What? | Right Now With Perry Bacon

In today's episode, Perry speaks with Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Elizabeth Saunders.

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No Christmas truce at the bird feeder, this sharpie has been terrorizing the backyard all morning!

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero

Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.

theconversation.com

Kakapo, the world's only flightless parrot, has enjoyed its most productive breeding season since 1977:

Best breeding season for Kakapo since 1977

New data from New Zealand’s conservation authorities show one of the world’s rarest parrots, Kakapo, has produced a record number of chicks in 2025-26 – its best season since 1977 and a major conservation success story.

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While we could understand that the crumbling world order is likely driving these choices, @lindamcquaig.bsky.social conclusion is not wrong. We are trading off a livable planet for a potential quick response to the current geopolitical crisis. That’s not a good deal. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Linda McQuaig: Carney’s pipeline deal with Alberta will move us a little closer to climate Armageddon

The Memorandum of Understanding signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith amounts to Ottawa’s full surrender to the pro-oil agenda of Alberta and its fossil fuel

thestar.com

The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education. Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.

Like every year I did a homemade holidays season cards 🎅🌲❄️. I figured I would make it on theme with my new assignment and make it related to the impacts of climate change on oceans. #ShowYourStripes #SciArt #ClimateArt #OceanWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateData #Watercolor #ScienceCommunication

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 🧵👇 1/7

New report out 🌊🌿🌡️: a Canada–USA synthesis examining how coastal blue carbon ecosystems interact with ocean acidification. It reviews biogeochemical processes, management strategies, knowledge gaps, and future research priorities. DOI: bit.ly/4oyxZ0M 🧵👇 1/8

New report out 🌡️⚓🚢🪸🌊🐟! Canada’s oceans and freshwater ecosystems are changing fast. DFO Climate Change Science Community Needs Evaluation 2025 is a national review of priorities to strengthen our science, collaboration, and resilience in the face of climate change. bit.ly/4o6zFyn 🧵👇 1/8

"The North Atlantic may be approaching a critical tipping point under continued climate change." Be sure to check out the latest State of the Cryosphere report Essential reading for anyone working on or caring about our collective security iccinet.org/statecryo25/

A sneak peak of hopefully what is to come in CMIP7. We ran two CMIP6 climate models in CO2 emissions driven mode to 2300 - and the responses in the long term are very different. Preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 3rd lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 740,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,500,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,120,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,400,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

When baby salmon emerge from the gravel, how far do they disperse to summer rearing grounds? We haven't known until now (at least at the population scale), because they're too small to tag. In a paper just out, we answered this question using parentage-based (genetic) tagging! tinyurl.com/39b2sfjd

Watershed-scale dispersal patterns of juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) revealed through genetic parentage analysis - Movement Ecology

Background For many aquatic taxa, juvenile dispersal from spawning locations to rearing habitats is a critical process influencing individual fitness and population dynamics. However, our understandin...

movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com

Great study!

Jonas Lembrechts@jlembrechts.bsky.social · 2y ago

When the same data tells a different story… 📊🔍 You’d think analyzing the same dataset would lead to the same conclusions, but our new BMC Biology study shows otherwise. Different methods - different answers! Why? It's complicated... My experience in the study → 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/02/06/w...

🚨 After years of development, the new version of #rstats tmap (4) is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Huge thanks to author Martijn Tennekes and all contributors. 🔧 Install: `install.packages("tmap")` 📚 Vignettes: https://buff.ly/4aAYNbq 📖 Book Chapter: https://buff.ly/43TokaF #maps #tmap #rspatial

The only losers here are the customers who will stop getting the complete information on their source of food and how it is produced. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Scottish salmon producers allowed to remove ‘farmed’ from front of packaging

Government lawyers say ‘no need to include unnecessary pejorative words’ after campaigners appeal against change

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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

#fisheries "We studied 230 fisheries around the world. We found populations of many overfished species are in far worse condition than has been reported, and the sustainability of fisheries was overstated. Urgent action is needed to ensure our oceans are not fished below their capacity to recover."

Investigation reveals global fisheries are in far worse shape than we thought – and many have already collapsed

We studied 230 fisheries around the world, and found populations of many overfished species are in far worse condition than has been reported.

theconversation.com

joeymaier 🌊@joeymaier.bsky.social · 2y ago

🦑 #marineresearch #fisheries #fishing If this new paper in Science is correct, mathematical models have been overstating sustainability, and many fish stocks may be in far worse shape than we thought. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’ve just done my #eXit! the X exodus is massive. Don't lose any of your followers. Thanks to #HelloQuitX I've registered 413 new passengers for a journey to #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Join us on app.helloquitx.com and automatically find your communities on #January20!

So many fond memories at SCENE x.com/sceneUofG/stat…

When you hear about how some raw data is processed by someone not well versed in R/coding and write a 'little' function that results in consistent, trackable reliable outputs and is 300x folds faster than the previous method :D #LifeOfAnUnemployedDataWrangler

DFO peeps, any RES who have been allowed to report to a different region than their region of hiring ? Feel free to dm if you do not wish to mention this publicly.