The Society for Freshwater Science is pretty awesome. Here is how I recognize the greatest of this society and all its passionate members. Cheers 🍺 www.freshwater-science.org @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

Species bounty programs, like bounty hunters charged to bring fugitives to justice, enlist the public to capture unwanted species through financial incentives. Check out our paper in npjBiodiversity, where we review the eight-century-long practice. @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Society’s struggle with unwanted species: what centuries of history reveal about species bounty programs - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Society’s struggle with unwanted species: what centuries of history reveal about species bounty programs

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A huge thanks to the many folks who made the LeRoy Poff career celebration such a wonderful event. Special thanks to Chris Funk, Dave Lytle and Deb Finn. @streambug.bsky.social @jdtonkin.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

Gearing up for another fantastic SFS annual meeting! Just finished the beer cap art for the student auction. I’m stoked about it! Revealed on Monday night or early here if this post gets 75 likes! @sfs-src.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

Wow, this is utterly insane and really sad for those of us dedicated to 100% human-generated science.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*. For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*. I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...

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New research! Noise-induced annoyance & sleep disturbance from aircraft training at Naval Air Station Whidbey Is. @uwenvironment.bsky.social @omfishient.bsky.social @sounddefenseall.bsky.social @quietcommunities.bsky.social doi.org/10.1121/10.0... Paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Noise-induced annoyance and sleep disturbance from military aircraft training

While much is known about the public health impacts of civil aviation noise, only limited research has investigated the consequences of military aviation noise,

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A piece we wrote for The Conversation that associated with our recent paper "Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change" in Nature Reviews Biodiversity @jdtonkin.bsky.social @tdatry.bsky.social and others Read-only link: rdcu.be/e4Dkv doi.org/10.64628/AA....

Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them

Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

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Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A collaboration with Yushun Chen, Seb Brosse, @sjcfishy.bsky.social and other! @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social

Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River

China’s rapid economic development has triggered an unparalleled freshwater biodiversity crisis since the 1950s. To restore fisheries resources, the Yangtze River Fishing Ban was implemented in 2021 t...

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FieldNotes@fieldnotes-uw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Blog post! Rough Seas For Offshore Wind: The Legal Battles Shaping US Offshore Energy Development Our first blog this quarter from Xander Smith!! Check it out at the FieldNotes website: fieldnotesjournal.org/new-blog/202...

Super happy to have @ulaskimarta.bsky.social joining us at @uwsafs.bsky.social! Looking forward to working together!

Mismatches between invasive species policy, which relies on administrative borders, and scientific research conducted at ecological units complicate regulation, risk assessment, and biosecurity. Here we explore some solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Welcome the editors for FieldNotes 2026! pt. 1 We're so excited to introduce the editors of our editorial team! Stay tuned for the remaining editors and other updates!

‪Another wonderful CESAB FOOD-WEBS working group meeting in Montpellier! Super productive and creative time together. Funding: @frbiodiv.bsky.social

River need greater protection, but to date our methods for tracking protection status have been limited. In this post I describe a new method from @oldenfish.bsky.social @americanrivers.bsky.social and Conservation Science Partners - the Protected River Index www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

Improving How We Track Progress For River Protection

Rivers have relatively less protection than do land or oceans and we lack effective mechanisms for measuring protection. A new study offers an improved mechanism for tracking progress.

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🗣️ MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Over 80% of our nation’s 4.4M miles of rivers aren’t adequately protected! Our brand new peer-reviewed research with Conservation Science Partners published in Nature Sustainability shows just how vulnerable our rivers are. ➡️ Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/npra-explore...

National assessment of river protection in the U.S. Article: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Policy Brief: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Rivers Explorer: map.myriver.americanrivers.org Collaboration b/t American Rivers, Conservation Science Partners, Univ WA @americanrivers.bsky.social Thread 👇 | DM for PDF

hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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'...

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Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon-bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding. A wonderful collaboration with @jwinkfish.bsky.social. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social 👇 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Late night, but there is no better feeling that having stable isotope samples all prepped! ⚛️🎉

Finally found some time to reconnect with my caps. Red swamp crayfish in all its glory. Adding it to my office wall! @newbelgium.bsky.social @pikebrewing.bsky.social

Sunrise from UW SAFS @uwsafs.bsky.social. Not a bad way to start the day! ☀️

Is Facebook fueling the online trade in aquatic invasive species? Survey of hobbyists indicates that over half engage in peer-to-peer organism exchange, transport across state lines & release them into the wild. AI Podcast: open.substack.com/pub/oldenfis.... Paper: www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...

The current website of the US Department of Agriculture. What a nightmare.

I've been proud to serve as the faculty leader for this effort. It has been a pleasure to interact with passionate students and emerging science communicators for many years now! We publish annually. I encourage you to check out past issues and follow! @uwsafs.bsky.social @trevorabranch.bsky.social

FieldNotes@fieldnotes-uw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

FieldNotes (fieldnotesjournal.org) is a student-run undergraduate journal and digital storytelling platform at @uwenvironment.bsky.social. We have focused on highlighting undergraduate research and publishing through-provoking articles about gnarly environmental issues since 2018. Please follow.

Fish ecologists routinely posit that functional trait analyses, founded either solely or in part on morphological traits, provide opportunities to guide global biodiversity conservation. Our paper just published in GEB sought to explore this claim. doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Read thread below.

It was a real pleasure to participate in the Mazama Newt Workshop at Crater Lake hosted by the @oregonzoo.bsky.social and the National Park Service. Discussions focused on a recovery plan for the Mazama newt in light of an exploding invasive signal crayfish. Great to see @ericrlarson.bsky.social!

Just out: Few-shot transfer learning enables robust acoustic monitoring of wildlife communities at the landscape scale. Super great work by Gio Jacuzzi. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec.... Github release: zenodo.org/records/1569...

Wonderful to be able to spend some time at @iea-udg.bsky.social at @univgirona.bsky.social with my host and friend @garciaberthou.bsky.social. Looking forward to my seminar in a few hours!

A huge congrats to Dr. Diallo @jessdiallo.bsky.social! Many more great things lay ahead!

Jessica Diallo@jessdiallo.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm excited to share that I've graduated with my PhD from @uwsafs.bsky.social, with a dissertation focused on the lifetime trophic ecology of fishes and invasive species management! 🐟 📈 🔬 Thank you to @oldenfish.bsky.social for your mentorship and support!