An important conversation with some great suggestions for improving scientific integrity! 👏 🧪 🐟

SORTEE@sortee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In this eighth instalment of the #ECRAsks series, Oakleigh Wilson spoke to Timothy Clark (@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social) about data fabrication, academic fraud and whistleblowing 🕵️ 📈 Check out their conversation on the #SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2026/05...

While waiting out comments from reviewers on my thesis, I made a 2-month visit to the Goodfish lab at the University of Tasmania! Working with sand flathead to understand how they are impacted by fishing pressure was a really meaningful application of what I’ve been learning throughout my PhD 🐟🧪

Very important article and read academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Crediting and citing Indigenous Knowledges within research

Abstract. Knowledge exchanges between Indigenous and scientific communities occur regularly, with researchers frequently seeking and benefiting from Indige

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Plankton folk! I’m going through my ‘mystery eggs and cysts’ folders and I’ve put together a document with them all together. If you think you might be able to help ID any of them, please let me know and I’ll send you a copy. Thanks! #marineplankton 🦑

Excited to share my second thesis chapter is published today as part of this issue 🎉 Exploring variability in physiological traits between (and within) individual fish can help us understand how metabolic performance and growth rates change in response to factors like warming temperatures 🔥 🧪🐟🦑

Exploring metabolism–growth relationships within and across individual fish

Abstract. Differences in growth rate and metabolism between individual animals can influence survival, reproduction and competitive social dynamics during

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Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 5mo ago

A new issue of #PhilTransB celebrates variability in animal #physiology research. Read #OA: buff.ly/mAzN7wF

"A recent piece by a U.S. Forest Service fire researcher supporting manipulating designated Wilderness areas showed a profound misunderstanding about Wilderness, its history, its stewardship policies, and the Wilderness Act itself." – Wilderness Watch missoulacurrent.com/wild-wildern...

Viewpoint: A wild wilderness means unmanipulated

Kevin Proescholdt writes, An untrammeled Wilderness would allow ecological and evolutionary forces to operate without restraint, modification, or manipulation.

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🧪 #fishsky #fisheriesscience #estuaries #fishphysiology #fishbiology

Beth Hoots@whatahoot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Estuarine fish face complex stressors, including highly variable salinity and oxygen availability 🫧 In a new paper, “The impact of isosmotic conditions on the metabolism and hypoxia tolerance of a reportedly oxyconforming teleost,” we ask how common galaxias cope with these challenges 🐟

Estuarine fish face complex stressors, including highly variable salinity and oxygen availability 🫧 In a new paper, “The impact of isosmotic conditions on the metabolism and hypoxia tolerance of a reportedly oxyconforming teleost,” we ask how common galaxias cope with these challenges 🐟

The impact of isosmotic conditions on the metabolism and hypoxia tolerance of a reportedly oxyconforming teleost

Fish must manage the competing demands of ion balance and gas exchange across the gills – a physiological tension known as the osmorespiratory compromise. In dynamic estuarine environments, the osmor...

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Speak up for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem! Urge Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act. >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz... 📸 Sam Parks

🚨 The climelab.net lab is seeking a postdoc in ecophysiology for 2-years to work on drivers of animal thermoregulation in a phylogenetic and global context. #ecophys 📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa Closes: 26th Nov 2025 Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.

The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global! 🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org

Help keep Wilderness wild! Stop Congress from killing federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire Lower 48 states! >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr845-wolf-esa

The #Roadless Rule protects 45 million acres of unfragmented, pristine national #forest lands from clear-cutting and damaging new roads. The Trump administration has announced an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule — public comments are due by September 19!

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

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On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico. Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve. Please sign and share if you haven't already done so. 🚨⬇️

Save A Mexican Wolf

A Mexican gray wolf in the prime of life, will be gunned down from the air unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve. Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel this unique wolf’s kill o...

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"The applause on the steps of state parliament earlier in the day spilled into terror a few blocks away, granting these men the illusion of validation." Searing piece by @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the moment the line between rhetoric and violence dissolved www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/02/a...

Attack on Camp Sovereignty: How ordinary fears are giving cover to extraordinary hate

That is the story of these rallies: not just the extremists who thrive on attention, but the everyday people who give them cover.

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Wattle you know... it's National #WattleDay, so we have three facts that may surprise you. 1/5

Y’all, can anyone think of an example of an invasive species that we caused to be invasive and then introduced another species to get rid of it but that also ended up being invasive? Double invasive? Lol

Had a blast at the annual ASFB conference @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social in Darwin. ☀️🐊 I was happy to share my research on fish behaviour. Lots of amazing talks through the week. Looking forward to the next one! @whatahoot.bsky.social @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social

It feels like we're going backward, but there are hopeful projects underway, like the MPA network off the British Columbia coast. If done right, it “could be a real, meaningful model for reconciliation” with First Nations. My latest in @biographic.bsky.social. www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...

Welcome to the Great Bear Sea

After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.

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Great presentation @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social 👏👏

Australian Society for Fish Biology@austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 12mo ago

How many meals did a #fish eat today? What energy did it gain from that? Did it use that energy to travel up a fishway? For today’s first #ASFB2025 plenary, Timothy Clark discussed some of the powerful technology used in tagging to give us better understanding of fish than ever before.

Everyone say "fish!" 📸 The #ASFB2025 delegates assemble outside the #Darwin Convention Centre for the obligatory group photo.

New fish species keep popping up in Sweden, most likely because of ocean warming! Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil! (Photo Janice Melander)

FYI if you're not in the right time zone for this do not fret! Sign up as an online attendee to get access to the required docs and Discord site, then you can contribute when it's a good time for you and chat with others awake at the same time on Discord. Fun for all time zones!

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Reminder to sign up to our upcoming hackathon! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to assess whether data/code associated with published literature is actually reproducible, and if not, why. Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

I was really moved by this figure from @drjessmt.bsky.social’s keynote address this morning at #ASFB2025 These changes are occurring faster and faster, with future generations facing #climatechange conditions that would be unthinkable to their ancestors, visualizing it like this makes it personal 🔥

Another #ConservationJobs roundup, mostly in Canada. Please share — someone in your network will be job hunting. All job ads #ShowTheSalary, which is rapidly becoming the norm (not just a best practice). www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

[1 August 2025] Another roundup of jobs related to conservation, nature, environment, etc. | Aerin Jacob

[1 August 2025] Another roundup of jobs related to conservation, nature, environment, etc. Please share to help others and add additional links in the comments. All postings include salary range. (I a...

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Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.

See this cool TT position focused on the Sensory Physiology of Sound at Aarhus University in Denmark! www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Invertebrate #marinelife #herps 🧪

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet

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Brazil is feeding shark meat to kids, hospital patients & more via government procurements. This influx of shark meat into public buildings is exposing infants & other vulnerable groups to high levels of mercury & arsenic. *This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark

Brazil, the world’s top importer of shark meat, is feeding much of it to preschoolers, hospital patients, military staff, public workers and more via government procurements, Mongabay has found. This…

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For @biographic.bsky.social, writer @craigwelch.bsky.social followed @hakai.org scientist @rhizalyssa.bsky.social's quest to unveil the the killer that decimated populations of sea stars off the West Coast. It took a few years but the lab's hard work paid off: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

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