Mike Williamson

YouTube video by Lauren Cook Beavers: Nature's Ecosystem Engineers

Amazing animation by @laurens-colours.bsky.social
#aquatic #ecology #beavers #animation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVM...

Know a PhD student or Early Career Researcher in aquatic ecology who's research deserves a prize? 👀 👑 🧠

We are offering a talk at our upcoming September conference, ticket expenses reimbursed and a chance to work with a Global Change Biology editor to publish your research!

Link in the comments 😊

In this month's blog post, I demonstrate how to visualize shipping traffic data using R. The tutorial covers downloading the dataset from EMODnet, performing exploratory data analysis, and creating a map using ggplot2.

#Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis #DataVisualization #ShippingTraffic

Herculean collation of >12K megafauna tracks, >100 species, reveals 75% overlap of critical habitats with shipping, fishing, pollution or warming. Protection targets not enough to safeguard megafauna.

New paper in @science.org, led by @anammsequeira.bsky.social 👇

📸silvana-palacios,daniel-torobekov

#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...

Also thanks to
@DefraGovUK
@welshgovernment.bsky.social
and
@ScotGovMarine
for supporting this research and wider monitoring through the long-term UK strandings programmes.

Many thanks as well to @natreswales.bsky.social and @ascobans.bsky.social
for providing funding for additional samples 🙏

Improving eel pass efficiency: The role of crest shape and water flow in facilitating upstream juvenile eel migration River connectivity is crucial for the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) to complete its complex life cycle, which is vital for upstream recruitment to the declining population of this critically endan...

Great to see our new paper on the impacts of water flow and crest shape on juvenile #eel movement on fish passes now out in the Journal of #Fish #Biology! #openaccess #science #freshwater @zslscience.bsky.social @jack-brand.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super happy to see our new article on how pharmaceutical pollution can influence salmon migration out in @science.org!

This was a huge effort by a great team of researchers over the last few years!

You can read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…!

Biologging as a potential platform for resolving ocean environmental issues and threats: Towards the development of the Internet of Animals Biologging is a method that utilizes animal-borne devices to study the behavioural ecology, physiology, and surrounding environment of animals. This i…

Nice new paper out reviewing the use of #biologging as a platform for monitoring environmental threats and aiding marine management. Also introduced me to the term Internet of Animals, which made me happy #science #behaviour #Marine

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

Trend in European Glass Eel recruitment 1960 - 2024

Looking for data, and plots for presentations, on stock trends from your study species? Check out @icesmarine.bsky.social adviceXplorer, a visualisation tool for ICES fisheries advice.

ices-taf.shinyapps.io/advicexplorer/

#fisheries #stock #plots

Blue background with pink seaweeds graphic around the edge. a wave in a circle frame is on the right. text reads: PHD OPPORTUNITY. PhD Scholarships for Black British researchers in the faculty of Environment, science and economy. This programme offers 4-year fully funded phd studentships to support Black British researchers. The aim of these scholar ships is to help improve access and participation in PhD study for talented Black British students. Deadlines for applications: Friday 28th February 2025. To find out more visit exeter.ac.uk/study/funding.' The university of exeter logo is in the bottom right hand corner

PhD SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY 🚨

@exeter.ac.uk is proud to offer several studentships supporting Black British Researchers, to improve access and participation in PhD study. 🌍🧪🦤🌐

DEADLINE: 28th Feb 2025

For more details, visit - www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

#BlackinSci #BlackSky #AcademiaSky

Great new paper out on the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution in salmonids by @jack-brand.bsky.social and colleagues.

Social network analysis as a tool to inform anguillid eel conservation and management Abstract. Eel Management Plans demand European silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) escapement to the sea of at least 40% of that expected historically in the ab

and sociality in #eel aggregations
doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Looking forward to seeing what next year will bring!

Environmental stress reduces shark residency to coral reefs - Communications Biology Environmental stress on coral reefs is increasing. Authors show a stress-related reduction in residency of grey reef sharks on the remote reefs of the Chagos Archipelago, promoting more diffuse space ...

First post on #Bluesky, thought I'd highlight some of our research this year with @netlab.bsky.social. Acoustic telemetry can be used to answer a whole variety of questions including;

Residency in reef #sharks - doi.org/10.1038/s420...