Following the Titanic theme, with #FSBI2025 being held in Belfast, #FSBI2026 will be taking place in 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻! Be sure to get 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵-𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 in your diary, with the exciting theme of "Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology"! fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2026/

Cup of coffee with the conference logo in the foreground, beach and sea in the background

#FSBI2025 conference merch got some good use on holiday last week (and what a lovely cup of coffee at the North Sea Observatory beachside café)

Looking for somewhere to publish your next paper? The #JFB symposium special issue call for papers is open! Remember, it doesn't have to be work that was presented at #FSBI2025, and all work published in #JFB supports the FSBI and our charitable funding, especially for ECRs! bit.ly/40B1nKM

For the first time, at #FSBI2025, we ran the #FSBIGreenTravel award to promote more sustainable travel to our conference. We were thrilled by the response and the efforts that people went to in order to lower their carbon emissions. In 1st place, we had Maddi Garate Olaizola! This is Maddi's story:

For the first time, at #FSBI2025, we ran the #FSBIGreenTravel award to promote more sustainable travel to our conference. We were thrilled by the response and the efforts that people went to in order to lower their carbon emissions. In 2nd place, we had Catie Gutmann Roberts! This is Catie's story:

For the first time, at #FSBI2025, we ran the #FSBIGreenTravel award to promote more sustainable travel to our conference. We were thrilled by the response and the efforts that people went to in order to lower their carbon emissions. In third place, we had Mara Fischer! This is Mara's story:

An incredible week of talks and all things fishy science at the FSBI in Belfast🐟! A huge thanks again to the organizers for a great week🥳🐠 #FSBI2025

We wanted to say a final #FSBI2025 thanks to the IFM, co-convenors, Sarah Helyar and Ewan Hunter, and the wonderful team which included Craig McCoubrey, Ellie Dolan, Jonny McDowell, Niamh Heatley, Claudia Allen, Liam Brennan, Dario di Girolamo, Mercedes Dorrian-Smith, Eira Lloyd and Dairmaid Duffy!

Unreal week at the @ifmfish.bsky.social @thefsbi.bsky.social symposium hosted by QUB in Belfast🐟🌤️

Heard about a variety of interesting science🎤
Got up to Bushmills for some whisky tasting🥃
And I picked up one of the awards for best student talks🥉

Great to meet so many fish nerds!
#FSBI2025

It was an honour to represent @sibic.bsky.social at #FSBI2025 Many thanks to @thefsbi.bsky.social for the warm welcome, a great opportunity to meet inspiring researchers, especially amazing and brilliant women! 🐟
@mjjuanjorda.bsky.social @naiarare.bsky.social @otolithgirl.bsky.social #SusanneTanner

1/4 La semana pasada, nuestra presidenta Estibaliz Díaz asistió a la conferencia anual de@thefsbi.bsky.social en representación de @sibic.bsky.social. Un evento clave para fortalecer la cooperación internacional en ictiología.
#FSBI2025 #SIBIC #FishScience

1/4 La semana pasada, nuestra presidenta Estibaliz Díaz asistió al congreso anual de la @thefsbi.bsky.social en representación de la @sibic.bsky.social . Un evento clave para fortalecer la cooperación internacional en ictiología.
#FSBI2025 #SIBIC #FishScience

Talking about multivariate phnotypic plasticity of resource polymorphims in salmonids at the Belfast FSBI Symposium.
#FSBI2025

And that’s a wrap! Leaving Belfast after a fin-tastic week at the #FSBI2025 symposium with not one but two awards 😯 - the Green Travel and Best Poster Award! ✨ Wonderful meeting so many new fellow fish nerds 🐠🤓 and to hear about all the amazing research going on in this field 🦈
@thefsbi.bsky.social

I am so incredibly grateful to have presented my PhD research at #FSBI2025 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Not only was this my first international conference, but it was my first time in the UK as well! Thank you to everyone whom I met and to all those who organized this conference!

FSBI PhDs at #FSBI2025 Belfast

My first FSBI conference did not disappoint. The spawning run, sea dip, hatchery visit and seeing the farm where my granny grew up were just some of the highlights. Topped off with an award for my talk.

Not to mention all the fantastic talks heard and people met throughout the week! #FSBI2025

Had a great time at #FSBI2025 symposium in Belfast☘️ My #FSBIGreenTravel attempt of Uppsala-Belfast train trip ended up in a great adventure and now I have a story to tell. Besides, I got on time and had the chance to give my talk about my research on early life Baltic cod🐟 and meet nice people.

🏅 Una investigadora del #IEO_CSIC es reconocida con la #FSBIMedal por sus contribuciones a la ciencia pesquera con un enfoque en la investigación innovadora.

#FSBI2025 #IFM2025 @thefsbi.bsky.social @csic.es @cienciagob.bsky.social

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¡Enhorabuena, María José!

Really enjoyed coming home for a week to Belfast and getting to present my recent #fishysounds work - great week and such a lovely crowd of people 😀

Thanks #FSBI2025, and see you next year in Southampton!

@helenalcurrie.bsky.social great talk at #FSBI2025

Would be interested to talk to you about PAM in a small lake setting...

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Yesterday I presented #DIASPARA at the FSBI/IFM Symposium in Belfast #FSBI2025 🐟🌍 @thefsbi.bsky.social
We are strengthening the scientific basis for managing eel and salmon by analysing life-history traits, developing FAIR databases, and improving stock assessment models.
shorturl.at/tsy53

A #FSBI2025 icon!

Absolutely brilliant #FSBI2025 banquet. I'm so grateful to Sarah and her team for organising such an amazing meeting, and to our past and current presidents & ian winfield for their incredible stewardship of this v special society...And all the young 'uns for bringing their fresh ideas/dance moves!

Grumpy man on a wine bottle

Reviewer 3 #FSBI2025

NoWPaS 2025 connection
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Breaking records for youngest solo swim from NI to Scotland Oscar Black, 15, has become the youngest person to complete the North Channel swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland.

Incredible 16-hour swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland

This would surely take the prize for #FSBI2025 Green Travel Awards
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Our final medal award winner is Oliver Crimmen, of the Nautral History Museum (London), who was awarded this year's Le Cren Medal. With over 50 years of experience, some species are now present in the collection but extinct in the wild, which gives much pause for thought #FSBI2025

Eyeing DNA barcoding for species identification of fish larvae Identification of fish larvae based on morphology is typically limited to higher taxonomic ranks (e.g., family or order), as larvae possess few morphological diagnostic characters for precise discrim...

The next awardee that we hear from is Rochelle Chan, awarded this year's Huntingford Medal, for most impactful paper in the Journal of Fish Biology. Rochelle's paper utilises #sequencing and barcoding to identify species from #larvae in a high throughput way #FSBI2025 #JFB doi.org/10.1111/jfb....