folks who work in Perú - what restrictions are there to removing fish tissue samples (muscle/otoliths) and baselines (bivalves/gastropods) from the country and to the UK.
Samples will be from non-CITES species.

Drivers of mercury concentration in anchovies (Engraulis ringens) along the Chilean coast Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that biomagnifies through food webs, posing ecological and human health risks. The anchovy (Engraulis ringens), a key fo…

new paper out with Chilean colleagues

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

DIETS Dietary Interactions in Ecology Through Sequencing (DIETS) Symposium 21st – 24th July 2026 Trophic interactions underpin the function, stability and diversity of our ecosystems, rendering the…

This looks like an interesting meeting on diet DNA - to be held at Durham University between 21-24 July 2026
foragingecology.com/diets/

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Archaea How a discovery in the 1970s changed the theory of the origin of complex life on earth.

one for the microbe-lovers (I'm not one, but @criordor.bsky.social has got me at least interested in them!)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

A novel take on Nature Based Solutions! - Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And @nowpas.bsky.social 2026 is off!

if anyone happens to have sharable phytoplankton or POM d13C/d15N data for the Irish sea either in a paper on sitting on a hard disk, I'd be very happy if you could get in touch! For a student

@loop-net.bsky.social great logo!

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“

A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

🐟 Here are our keynote speakers for NoWPaS 2026 announced!! Looking forward to talk salmonids ecology and evolution with @profchrisharrod.bsky.social, @jessrodger.bsky.social, Prof. Eva Enders and Prof. Arnar Palson!

Anyone got an anatomical cutaway image of a coregonid fish? Asking for a 'friend'* for a lecture next week...

*might be me

Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory [The department of biology and environmental science](https://www.jyu.fi/en/science/bioenv) is seeking to recruit a Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory starting April 1, 2026, or as soo...

The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is seeking a qualified and motivated Laboratory Engineer with a strong background in analytical chemistry to support operations in their isotope laboratory. HT @jasonisotopes.bsky.social

ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...

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'...

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/...

job here at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk on water vole ecology and genetics.

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Obituary: Professor Peter Maitland FRSE (1937–2025) — Freshwater Biological Association The freshwater science community has lost one of its most respected and influential members with the passing of Professor Peter Maitland FRSE on 24 November 2025. He was aged 87. Here Professor Colin ...

we lost one of our greats Prof Peter Maitland in late November 2025. @profcolinbean.bsky.social has written a fine obituary to Peter here on the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social website.

www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...

Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology

Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk.

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis

What did the Romans ever do for us, eh?

HT @fakehistoryhunter.net

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OtD 10 Dec 2006 former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died. His regime, supported enthusiastically by the UK and US, saw thousands of radicals, trade unionists and others rounded up and executed, with tens of thousands more jailed and tortured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8182...

Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncov...

I had the pleasure of showing this amazing documentary on @criordor.bsky.social´s research at this week´s @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting.

Now available to all!

www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...

Research Associate on food webs (using isotope sand stable isotopes) and offshore power at SUERC

For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Deadline 15th December

The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced!

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629

Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew

Leveraging wild hybrids to map the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in a primitive vertebrate.

We are recruiting a PhD student to work on the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in lampreys. If you are interested in population genomics, hybrid zones & structural variants in a super cool primitive vertebrate, feel free to contact me. Details - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is an important component of the global carbon cycle which influences water properties such as colour and acidity. Standard methods for quantification of DOC use instrum...

via Adrian Bass and others.
This looks very handy!

Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

Trophic niche variation across the pan-Arctic coastal continuum We analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values (δ13C and δ15N, respectively) for pan-Arctic coastal primary producers and consumers to detect large-scale regional trends both temporally and spa...

"We found that despite the enormous spatial range of data, both pPOM and sPOM became 2.1‰ and 2.2‰ more 13C-depleted per decade, respectively, with parallel decreases in the δ13C values in consumers"

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟

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Ice Age vendace thriving at Loch Skeen near Moffat A survey finds the population of vendace at Loch Skeen near Moffat is

Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We regularly encounter Gordioidea (parasitic hairworms) in kick samples taken from streams around @sceneuog.bsky.social (central/west Scotland). Anyone got an idea of the likely hosts?

Gonzalo Salazar has his first thesis paper published today in @peerj.bsky.social

We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually

peerj.com/articles/20042

any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N?