⏰ Just 2 weeks to go! Join @conphysjournal.bsky.social’s "Community Conversations" on 20 October, featuring Dr @madisonearhart.bsky.social on how physiology, molecular biology and community science can support white sturgeon conservation. Book now for this free webinar: urls.fr/iy4_sD

hey everyone !!! wanna hear more about my sturgeon research?? wanna see more sturgeon pics and videos?? also wanna see cool science art?? come to my webinar!! linked below 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🐟🦑

Conservation Physiology@conphysjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

✳️ New webinar alert! ✳️ As part of our #CommunityConversations 💬 series, Dr. Madison Earhart @madisonearhart.bsky.social will discuss her work using physiology, molecular biology and community science to inform white sturgeon conservation. Register here ➡️ shorturl.at/t66O8

How can physiology, molecular biology, movement and community science inform white sturgeon conservation? Join Dr @madisonearhart.bsky.social for the next @conphysjournal.bsky.social "Community Conversation" on 20 October, 16:00–17:00 UK time. Book now: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e...

✳️ New webinar alert! ✳️ As part of our #CommunityConversations 💬 series, Dr. Madison Earhart @madisonearhart.bsky.social will discuss her work using physiology, molecular biology and community science to inform white sturgeon conservation. Register here ➡️ shorturl.at/t66O8

Can you recycle your own previously published text? While COPE guidelines exist, many authors are unaware of them, so we address this issue in a new editorial: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Text recycling: defining the boundaries of acceptable reuse of one’s own work

Text recycling, or the re-use of one’s own previously published text, is a widespread yet underrecognized issue in academic publishing. Many authors remain

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Thermal tolerance of adult Chinook salmon is well studied, but what about juveniles? This study assessed upper thermal limits of juvenile salmon using three different methodologies, to advance knowledge and improve conservation planning. Read here⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Effects of ecologically relevant acclimation temperature on upper thermal limits of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Abstract. Pacific salmon currently experience temperatures in freshwater that can reach or exceed their upper thermal limits, but little is known about the

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How do we test fish thermal tolerance on a warming planet? Our latest #Perspective article examines current methods, and the authors propose more ecologically relevant alternatives. Dive in⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

The relevance and application of measures of thermal tolerance to fish ecology, conservation and aquaculture

Abstract. Over the past 20 years, the fish research community has invested considerable effort into measuring the thermal tolerance limits of many freshwat

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📖 New paper Designing networks of freshwater and marine conservation areas accounting for cross-realm connectivity and threat propagation🌊 🌍 🐟️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Reproduction and Early Life Development in Marine Teleost Fish—A Synthesis doi.org/10.1111/faf.... Ocean acidification (OA) remains a major and underexplored threat to marine fishes, particularly regarding reproductive physiology and early life stages

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Reproduction and Early Life Development in Marine Teleost Fish—A Synthesis

Ocean acidification (OA) remains a major and underexplored threat to marine fishes, particularly regarding reproductive physiology and early life stages (ELS). Although research over the past…

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Larval condition helps explain the recent anchovy boom in an extremely warm California Current Ecosystem academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... 🦑🌎🧪🐟

Larval condition helps explain the recent anchovy boom in an extremely warm California Current Ecosystem

Abstract. Discerning the causes of boom-and-bust cycles for coastal pelagic fishes (CPF) has been a critical element in fisheries oceanography research for

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How have researchers undertaken Indigenous and West Scientific Knowledge weaving? Our recent systematic map tackles this very question: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

in the phase of realizing getting grants means actually having to do what’s in the grant what do you mean i can’t just play with sturgeon in the field?? plz send help 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🦑🐟🌐 (anyway here’s a pic of the cutest baby sturgeon ever)

happy #sturgeonsaturday on sunday! we’re so back baby! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🌎🦑🐟 in addition to the population stressor sampling I’ve been doing we’re adding acoustic telemetry to track where sturgeon are and how they are doing at the same time this will let us analyze stress patterns and habitat use together 🫡

happy #sturgeonsaturday !! In honor of my field season starting tomorrow please enjoy this beautiful and chaotic sturgeon release from last season lmk if there is something yall wanna see or ask about sturgeon while we get ready for our first day on the river this year!! 🌐🌎🧪👩🏻‍🔬🐟🦑

It's World Fish Migration Day, a perfect time to learn more about how more than 1,000 fish species around the world migrate to, from or within rivers to fulfill other critical life cycle needs. See how we're reconnecting rivers with those who depend on it most, here: https://nature.ly/4dBiDF9

Removing Barriers to Reconnect Rivers

Clean, healthy rivers not only support fish and wildlife, they can provide inexpensive, no-carbon energy, along with jobs and recreational opportunities.

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Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

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A little friend I met today.

Our new paper is out! We developed a multispecies OpenArray™ chip to study cellular stress response in Acipenser species. The chip was used to measure the effects of acute thermal stress on Atlantic, lake, and shortnose sturgeon. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

High‐throughput multispecies quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays to study the effects of acute thermal stress in three species of Acipenser sturgeon

Fishes experience thermal stress in their natural environment that can be caused by natural or anthropogenic factors and can directly affect their physiology. In this study, we developed a multispeci...

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New research detailing high throughput sturgeon molecular tools developed by @biologyhossein.bsky.social is now live! Here we developed and tested assays across sturgeon species to evaluate impacts across a variety of pathways induced by thermal stress 🧪🌎🌐🐟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Please enjoy baby Alligator Gars feeding on brine shrimp (Artemia), set to a Bluey instrumental 🙂 🐟🧪gars are planktivorous at this stage (20 mm, 12 days post-hatch), but will soon switch to eating insects and fish! They’re also already breathing air!

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

super super important read!! DFO cuts are directly gutting pacific salmon research and conservation by cutting a CRUCIAL lab & associated members responsible for identifying the stressors and pathogens leading to population decline!!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🌎

Will Bugg@wbuggiii.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ongoing DFO cuts to the Genomics Program and across the organization further compromise the capacity to conduct critical research evaluating the impacts of cumulative stressors and pathogens on salmon survival and to aid in the conservation of imperiled stocks 🧪🌎🌐🦑🐟 thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

I'll add only that if you're not already aware, Dr. @wbuggiii.bsky.social has been working with this lab. I'm not affiliated nor a genomics expert but the work they do is the *keystone* to resource management, restoration (that is me), & conservation per founder & now emeritus lead Dr. Kristi Miller

Will Bugg@wbuggiii.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ongoing DFO cuts to the Genomics Program and across the organization further compromise the capacity to conduct critical research evaluating the impacts of cumulative stressors and pathogens on salmon survival and to aid in the conservation of imperiled stocks 🧪🌎🌐🦑🐟 thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Ongoing DFO cuts to the Genomics Program and across the organization further compromise the capacity to conduct critical research evaluating the impacts of cumulative stressors and pathogens on salmon survival and to aid in the conservation of imperiled stocks 🧪🌎🌐🦑🐟 thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Salmon Scientists Warn the DFO Is Killing a Crucial Lab | The Tyee

The genomics program opened up the ‘black box’ of wild fish research. Former and current staff say it’s been gutted.

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i’m doing some data analysis today and laughing at my field notes about the sturgeon clearly this one sturgeon was quite a thiccccck gal, “huge, very fat” was how we decided to convey this in the notes science should also be fun yall!!! take unhinged notes!! make yourself laugh later!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students. 75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development. Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.

Sunday

Big Bear Bald Eagles. The rain lightened up a bit and Jackie gave the eaglets a snack while they shook off the rain drops. The eaglets didn't get too wet, and Jackie quickly tucked them back under her, over their objections. #birds

Yesterday morning was peak Saguaro! 🌵 🌼 (13 blossoms?!)

Cope’s Gray Tree Frog is confident this trellis was placed here specifically for her and would like to request more garden accessories that blend with her skin tone😄