Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠

@jutfelt.bsky.social

Animal physiology, marine biology, fish, climate change, scientific integrity, science and academia. Professor @goteborgsuni.

Heading back from Vancouver Island after an eventful trip. First the ICBF conference then the FINclub workshop, then finished things off diving with giant pacific octopus. Very inspiring and productive, and so much fun!

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Our recent guest Dan Simberloff discussed an early experiment he did to test some of the predictions of island biogeography theory. To do so, Dan and his collaborators had to find a way to wipe out all of the arthropod species on some small islands in Florida. 🏝️

34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.

Spaghetti plot showing Kew and Kew Gardens temperatures since 1881 with May and June records highlighted at 30.3ºC in 1922 and 34.6ºC in 1976 respectively. 2026 is plotted as a thick red line that nearly exceeds 35ºC with a value of 34.8ºC.

Moa’s thesis was outstanding and I really enjoyed our discussion during her defence. Along with the thermal physiology the day before it was an intellectually stimulating visit to beautiful Trondheim

A sunny day in Trondheim