@thefsbi.bsky.social
@thembauk.bsky.social

The silhouette of flamingoes at dawn

Thank you #Orbetello
#Mediterranean #Lagoon #Fish #Flamingo
@webdnaproject.bsky.social

Day 1 of our annual #BESAG2025, at @londonzoo.bsky.social
workshops day! Our second workshop was led by Prof Mike Sweet. We had great group discussions on the use of #probiotics in natural #ecosystems 🌍🧪💊💧🌊

#BESAG2025. Our first keynote speaker is Dr. Iestyn Woolway. he gave us a very interesting talk on global #lakes responses to #climate #change. #freshwater #aquatic 💧💦🌍

our third #BESAG2025 keynote speaker is @sarabenelli.bsky.social from the University of Parma. Sara gave us a great talk on #biogeochemical interactions between micro- and macro-organisms #aquatic #lagoon #freshwater 💧💦🌍🧪🪱

New publication lead by Iris Pimentel. Hypothesis-Driven Research on Multiple Stressors: An Analytical Framework for Stressor Interactions
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

there is still time to join us for our annual #BESAG conference! in London (ZSL), 15/16 Sept! Check out our amazing prices for #ECRs! #aquatic #marine #freshwater 🌍🧪💧🌊

Two soft toys (an orange copepod and a blue tardigrade) on the BES magazine, by the advert for the annual aquatic ecology group conference.

Cara the copepod is telling her friend that she has found the event for them, in the BES Niche magazine!

Come and meet your aquatic ecology community at #BESAG2025!

#CaraTheCopepod #marine #freshwater #ecology @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social 🧪💦

Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-...

A black and white photo of a man operating a machine

The famous Meselson-Stahl experiment, which provided strong evidence for semi-conservative DNA replication, had its roots at the MBL! 🧬 Meselson and Stahl met here in the summer of 1954.

Happy #DNADay! #sciencestartshere

📷: Matthew Meselson in summer 1954

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Taxonomic Classifiers in Marine Vertebrate eDNA Studies Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a widely used tool for surveying marine vertebrate biodiversity. To this end, many computational tools have been released and a plethora of bioinformatic app...

My nightmare in #eDNA is to detect a rare or threatened species that turns out to be a false positive, so we set out to evaluate some of the commonly used taxonomic classifiers.

The results are finally out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Join us for our Annual #BESAG2025! We have a great price for #ECRs! send us your nomination by the 4th of August and you can have a free conference ticket and present your exciting research! #freshwater #marine #aquatic Link to register to the conference: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-...

📢✨. NEW DATA WORKSHOP for #BESAG2025!

We're thrilled to host Dr Paul Medley and his workshop on analysing fisheries data at our upcoming autumn conference!

🌏 Where: ZSL London
⏰ When: 15/16th September 2025

Tickets and abstract submissions ⬇️:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-....

#BESAG2025: Aquatic Ecology Group Annual Meeting 2025 Get together with the freshwater and marine research community to hear the latest research, share skills, and build your network!

📢✨ Aquatically-inclined and looking for an autumn conference?

Join us for this year's #BESAG2025 to discuss all things #freshwater and #marine science!

Where: ZSL London
When: 15/16th September 2025

Registration and abstract submission info ⬇️
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/besa...

Fresh catch from a Mediterranean lagoon

Fieldwork tenet number 1: the gifts of nature shall not go to waste
@webdnaproject.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk
#eDNA #FoodWebs #Mediterranean #Lagoon

Our first field work has now ended. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this amazing week in Rome! @universityofessex.bsky.social @marianilab.bsky.social @rdowell.bsky.social @daniaalbini.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social TorVergata. Stay tuned for updates 🐟 🧬 🕸️ 🧪

Our #webDNA boat team 🚣returning from sampling from the Orbetello laguna (IT) #foodweb #DNA #fish

A big thank you to Chiara Leone from the Tor Vergata Team, for all her efforts in organise and coordinate activities for a team of > 10 people for 5 days of sampling and field work! #webDNA

Sea

Sea dip

Sea dip

a quick dip into the sea for some of the #webDNA team, after a long day of sampling and processing! #marine #foodweb #SIA #eDNA 🐟🐠🌊🧪🦠🔬

*Tor Vergata

#webDNA in action

Fish

Fish measurements

Fish

For our #webDNA project we are collecting many information from the Orbetello area #marine #foodwebs, from #fish sizes and their diets, to samples for #SIA and #eDNAmetabarcoding 🐟🐠🕸️🌊🔬🧪🌍

Crabs

Sediment

Eals

We are in Italy, Orbetello, for our first field campaign! #webDNA has officially started! the Torre Vergata Team is a great host! @marianilab.bsky.social @rdowell.bsky.social @EoinOgorman #foodweb #eDNA #fish #plankton #macroinverts #marinescience 🐟🦠🌊🕸️

Calling all fans of #eDNA!

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2025 annual @ukeof.bsky.social UKDNAWG meeting at the @royalsociety.org is fast approaching! Please submit them via this link by 18:00 on 12th March! enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/u...

Please spread the word!

Calling all postgraduate students! 🎓 Join us at the 21st
#Marine Biological Association #postgraduate conference at
@uniofhull.bsky.social

Why you should join us:
💡Share your #research
🤝Build connections
🌍Interdisciplinary focus

For more information ➡️ buff.ly/3PBmtCL

#MBA

📢 Delighted to present our full line-up of keynote speakers for #BESAG2025! 📢

Dr Sara Benelli
Prof. Yin Chen
Dr Iestyn Woolway
Dr Emma Cavan
Dr Joe Taylor

Can you guess the theme this year? 🦠👀

🌏 Where: ZSL London
⏰ When: 15/16th September 2025

Registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-...

Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment - Communications Biology Warming reduces zooplankton size by up to 57% at +8° C, with some nonlinear trends and breakpoints. This large-scale mesocosm study highlights the importance of intergenerational responses to warming ...

📢 I am very excited to share our new paper in
@commsbio.bsky.social: nature.com/articles/s42... . 🔥 🌍🧪How does #warming affect #plankton #bodysize distributions? We used one of the largest outdoor #mesocosm experiments to test our hypothesis 1/

Since I was a kid, when looking at pictures of #jaguars and #leopards side-by-side, i’ve always felt like the former was a scarier prehistoric version of the latter, a more elegant and sophisticated solution…
I still feel exactly the same!

The ‘sustainable’ cod in your shopping basket may be no such thing – new study reveals mislabelling Nearly a third of the cod we tested had a different origin than the one reported.

Haven't been much on bsky bc I feel social media are to blame for much of what is going on. But, wanted to share this;

🐟 We've pushed genetics for seafood mislabelling investigations & results are sobering! Our @theconversation.com piece @marianilab.bsky.social

theconversation.com/the-sustaina...

More opportunities for postgraduateresearch via the @leverhulme.bsky.social #SustainableTransitions programme at University of Essex. Fully funded MSc followed by a PhD. Open to UK students meeting specific eligibility criteria. Closing 18 April. See www.essex.ac.uk/scholarships... for more details