ET&C IN THE NEWS: Chemical pollution poses a growing risk to Fraser River's threatened Chinook salmon NEWS: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/21/n... STUDY: doi.org/10.1093/etoj... #SETACjournals #environmentalscience #environmentalcontaminants #waterpollution

Cocktail of pills, caffeine and fire retardant are putting BC chinook salmon at risk: study

British Columbia researchers found more than 200 contaminants in water and chinook salmon tissue samples collected from five sites in the Lower Fraser River estuary including everything from cocaine a...

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Check out the great new documentary 'Riverwoods' on the plight of Scottish salmon. Full of some amazing footage taken throughout the lifecycle of Atlantic salmon. Give it a watch for free here: www.waterbear.com/play/title/1...

Chuffed to be a runner up for the ECR awards at @isbe2026.bsky.social! Congrats to the winners!

Bob Wong@bbmwong.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congrats to the #isbe2026 early career researcher award winners 👏

Check out this great opportunity for an aspiring PhD students!

Marcus Michelangeli@mrmic1.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔬 PhD opportunity — Griffith Uni, Brisbane Seeking a domestic student to start a PhD with my group in 2027 (RTP scholarship). Round 1: Feb/April 2027 start Apps close 1 Sept 2026 I study how pollution shapes wildlife behaviour & fitness in freshwater systems. 🧵

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

🚨Journal of Ecology is seeking an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📈 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌷more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

I joined @samanthayammine.com on Discovery's Curiosity Weekly podcast to chat about drug pollution in waterways and how it can affect the behaviour of aquatic organisms. Give it a listen if you're interested! podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/c...

Cocaine is in Our Waterways. How are Animals Responding?

Podcast Episode · Curiosity Weekly · 17 June · 26min

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🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 Who can take the heat? 🐝 Published in Nature Communications we show that native bees can evolve greater tolerance to heat. But how heat tolerance evolves depends on the different nesting behaviours bees have. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper - we show that in chickadees, males with better spatial cognition sire more extra-pair young and that when a female has an EPY, it is sired by a male with better spatial cognition compared to cognition of her social mate. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Fully-funded 4-year PhD-position available! The PhD-student will investigate the effects of restocking European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm, Sweden. Application deadline is July 6. Info about the PhD-position and link to apply: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Check out Raiko Rafeeq's first PhD paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters looking at effects of antidepressant exposure on boldness and individuality across social contexts in southern pygmy perch. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... 📸 David Paul/Museums Victoria

New paper out today in TREE, led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! We show why mitochondrial DNA introgression matters for conservation, inc. how nonnative mtDNA can shape adaptation, performance, and viability in wildlife populations Open Access paper 👉 tinyurl.com/y6vyrnve

Excited to see our review out in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social on the importance of mitochondrial DNA introgression for conservation! This is the first of my @formasforsk.bsky.social projects on mtDNA introgression in salmon! Big thanks to the great co-author team! Link: tinyurl.com/mtDNA-introg...

Bit late announcing this, but I'm heading back to Australia in June to start as a Senior Scientist (Data & Modelling) with the Aquatic Ecology team at the Arthur Rylah Institute. Had an awesome time working on fish tracking with a great team in Umeå, but keen for what's next!

It was really fun joining the @npr.org Short Wave podcast last week to chat about our latest research on how cocaine pollution may affect salmon behaviour! You can listen to the episode here: www.npr.org/2026/05/12/n...

Why Swedish scientists gave salmon cocaine : Short Wave

A recent study caught our eye: salmon on cocaine. Or really, researchers giving salmon cocaine…for science. See, scientists know human drugs pollute aquatic environments – past studies have shown even...

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What drives the evolution of life histories at the species, population, or molecular level? Why are these Atlantic salmon so incredibly small? We are inviting potential candidates to express their interest to write a MSCA postdoctoral fellowship with us: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

This was a fantastic course when I attended in Canada! Would highly recommend!

AniMove@animove-course.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Animove26 is going to Kenya. Come and join us! Applications are now open until 31st of May 🦁🦏🐘🦛🦇🦂🦗 animove.org/next-animove...

A bit starstruck seeing our new study on the effects of illicit drug pollution on salmon featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Starts at 11:00 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIlG... Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... @jack-brand.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

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Exciting to see our new paper on the impacts of cocaine pollution on salmon populations featured on @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social! Starts at 0:30 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Zs... Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... @jack-brand.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social

The deep dive on the cocaine salmon paper you didn't know you needed, with the one and only @tomlumperson.bsky.social

It turns out that salmon exposed to cocaine through water pollution do a lot of swimming—which may not be a good thing

Here's what happens when you give salmon cocaine

It turns out that salmon exposed to cocaine through water pollution do a lot of swimming—which may not be a good thing

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Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds

Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds

Fish swam further and dispersed more widely after exposure to environmental levels of drug and main metabolite Traces of cocaine that pollute rivers and lakes may accumulate in the brains of salmon and disrupt their behaviour, according to researchers who warn of unknown consequences for fish populations. Juvenile Atlantic salmon that were artificially exposed to the drug and its main breakdown product swam further and dispersed more widely across a lake, suggesting the substances can affect where the fish go, what they eat and how vulnerable they are to predators. Continue reading...

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Super happy to see our new paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social today! We found that cocaine pollution affects salmon movement and space use in the wild! Big congrats to the team for this huge effort! @michaelgbertram.bsky.social Find the paper here: tinyurl.com/cocaine-fish

Interesting work showing that mtDNA copy number is associated with flight performance! This got me thinking about the idea that mitochondrial bioenergetics and mtDNA variation may influence state–behaviour feedbacks - something we explored in our recent TREE paper (tinyurl.com/mtDNA-behaviour).

Pablo Salmón@pablosalmon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧬 New study! How do mitochondria change across life? We tracked mtDNAcn within Zebra finches and found early-life decline and links of mtDNAcn to late-life flight performance #Ornithology #Physiology #Mitochondria @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @ifv-whv.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Final reminder: registration closes tomorrow (Thursday, 17:00 UK time) with more info to follow. It should be a fun and slightly different way to connect with others interested in fish behaviour!

ShoalBase.org@shoalbase.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last call to join our first ShoalBase info session + shoalathon! Registration closes tomorrow (April 9, 17:00 UK). Short intro, then a collaborative data-entry session. Should be fun! April 15, 14:00 UK Register: forms.gle/L5TynWgw6He9...

🔥 We'll soon be advertising a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UCL, focusing on insect single-cell mitochondrial genomics. 🔥 More details coming soon. Feel free to get in touch in this sounds fun or share with anyone who might be interested.

Can fish think clearly in polluted waters? Common antidepressant found in waterways impairs learning in fish… but only in males! Go check it out at: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... 🐟 🧠 💊 Huge thanks to the epic team💙 @Elly Moore @bbmwong.bsky.social @michaelgbertram.bsky.social @jake-m-martin.bsky.social

Neuroactive Pollution Disrupts Cognition in Fish by Causing Sex-Specific Effects on Spatial Learning

Cognition underpins how animals perceive, navigate, and respond to their environment, yet these fundamental processes are increasingly threatened by environmental pollutants. Neuroactive pharmaceutica...

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I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Joel Pick@joelpick.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal! 🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Now recommended on @peercommunityin.bsky.social! ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Ed Ivimey-Cook@eivimeycook.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We've just updated the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data and code review following great feedback at @peercommunityin.bsky.social. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... We now have an app: github.com/SORTEE/DCQC and a website: eivimeycook.github.io/DCQC/