Michelle Jackson

Seaweed in a tray

Sampling seaweed in Weymouth for our new water pollution herbarium project 🧪🌍 Each sample will be analysed for d15N to see how it correlates with nitrates in the water

join us this September at ZSL for our annual #BESAG meeting! #aquatic #marine #freshwater

Excited that Nottingham Trent Uni will host the Freshwater Biological Association Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June.

Awesome lineup including keynotes @davetickner.bsky.social, @michcjackson.bsky.social, Steve Ormerod and Julia Martin-Ortega.

Registration is open: t.co/GRdq6E33v2

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/

Training and travel grants - British Ecological Society This grant supports the training and development of PhD students and postgraduate research assistants.

Are you a PhD student hoping to attend an ecological conference or training that could boost your research? Apply for a training and travel grant today. 

Applications for round 1 close on 24 January at 11:59 pm (GMT). 

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Colombian tree frog found by Sheffield florist highlights invasive species threat Scientists say frog’s journey shows difficulty of spotting insects or fungi spread by global plant trade

🌎 Colombian Tree Frog Found in the UK 🐸
A scientific paper🧪reveals how global trade enables invasive species like this frog to disrupt local ecosystems. Found in a Sheffield florist, it highlights the need to address biodiversity threats.
bit.ly/3DWe7mx
#InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity #Conservation

24% of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction !

👉 By Sayer et al. Jan 2025 in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔑 Multi-taxon global IUCN red list freshwater fauna (23,496 species) assessment shows that pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture and invasion are the main threats.

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Diversity and biogeography of the bacterial microbiome in glacier-fed streams - Nature Leveraging metabarcoding and metagenomics, a survey of bacteria in the benthic microbiome across 152 glacier-fed streams (GFSs) provides a global reference for future climate-change microbiology studi...

Global Diversity of Glacier-Fed Stream Microbiomes Under Threat !

👉 by @layeb.bsky.social et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔑 Glacier-fed streams harbor unique microbiomes, 62% specific to mountain ranges. Retreating glaciers threaten this biodiversity and its role in mountain ecosystems.

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🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost!

Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Priority areas:

‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Not much at all! Pretty difficult to sample well when it’s like this!

Metals in honey from bees as a proxy for environmental contamination in the United States This is the first large bio-surveillance study examining the contents and geographic variation of metals of public health concern—arsenic (As), lead (…

Honey can be used as a proxy for detecting heavy metal pollution. First large scale use of honey in biomonitoring.

Researchers found high, but not unsafe, levels of arsenic in PNW 🍯 (pesticide remnants?), and lead in So. Carolina 🍯 (mining?)

🧪🐝🍯🌎 #Bees #Bugs

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

Some very flooded rivers in Oxfordshire for this months fieldwork investigating water quality 🧪🌍

DPhil Biology deadline at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social . 29 projects, including a very interesting one with @michcjackson.bsky.social on #Foodweb subsidies in #wetlands under #multiplestressors

Karen Wiltshire Chair of Climate Science at Trinity College Dublin

A PhD position is available at Trinity College Dublin - Future Marine Food Webs in Offshore Windfarms (supervised by Prof Helen Wiltshire and co-supervised by me, Ian Donohue and Sarah McCormack). Contact Prof Wiltshire for details: peoplefinder.tcd.ie/Profile?User...
#PhD #FoodWebs #Modelling

📖Published📖

Richard et al. presents the Aquatic Metatron, a unique mesocosm facility providing a large-scale experimental resource to study the combined effects of global change components on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of aquatic ecosystems 🌊 🧪 🌎

https://buff.ly/3V5LYzq

Variability of functional and biodiversity responses to perturbations is predictable and informative - Nature Communications Measures of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning show variable responses to perturbations, complicating the prediction of responses to global change. This study shows that the variability of communi...

New paper that may be of interest to ecologists studying global change, disturbances, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, or response diversity: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Pollution in the River Thames: a history Lifeline, water source, sewer – follow the murky history of London's relationship with the River Thames

www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...

We definitely need debate over some issues, but I moved from Twitter to here to get away from science denial! My article was written as my own assessment of the facts and had no input from water companies. Thanks, John for your support!

Joining @davetickner.bsky.social, two other (equally awesome) keynote speakers are now confirmed for the FBA Meeting: @michcjackson.bsky.social and Prof. Steve Ormerod 😁💦

Consumer biodiversity increases organic nutrient availability across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems Human land-use intensification threatens arthropod (for example, insect and spider) biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Insects and spiders play critical roles in ecosystems by acc...

This paper was a massive team effort that culminated in a simple story:
More biodiverse communities of invertebrates, in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, have a higher content of "good fats" that are available for predators (e.g. bird, bats, fish, etc...).
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

BESAG is now on Bluesky! we talk about marine, freshwater and all aquatic

we are now on Bluesky! if you don't know us already, we are the #aquatic group of the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social . We post about #marine #freshwater and all #aquatic! give us a follow and we are looking forward to interact with you all! #BESAG 🌊💧💦🌍🧪

Come work with us!Central Michigan University Department of Biology (www.cmich.edu/academics/co...) is hiring a new TT faculty! 🔬🧬
www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/416...
#biotechnology

I’m recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students for October 2025 to investigate multiple stressors in wetlands: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come join our lab! 🧪🌍

Thanks for having me @mastscot.bsky.social #Glasgow - links to some of the #multiplestressor papers I mentioned in my talk below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is pollution in England’s rivers really getting worse? There’s more good news than you might think | Michelle Jackson River wildlife is on the up and there’s little evidence that storm overflows are being used more often. But protest is still vital, says academic Michelle Jackson

Interesting piece from @michcjackson.bsky.social on river water quality and changes in metrics/regulation which accounts for some (most?) of the apparent recent deterioration www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ECOLOGISTS, NATURALISTS, AND TAXONOMIC EXPERTS - REMOTE JOB at Pivotal in London, UNITED KINGDOM Jul 17, 2024 | Can you identify birds, bats or frogs from acoustic data? Or can you identify plants, mammals and insects found from high-resolution images? Do... | NEW JOB

We have a bunch of paid work coming up doing species identification work.

If you can ID bats, birds or frogs from audio, plants from images, or mammals from camera traps - apply using your form and we will be in touch!

🐦🦇🐸🌿

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www.researchgate.net/job/1013726_...

We are still looking for an Assistant Freshwater Ecologist at UKCEH in Lancaster to be a part of long-term and campaign based lake research & outdoor experiments, and to boost our fish ecology skills.

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a collage image with picture from the experiment, Svalbard and lab analysis

Big thanks to all co-authors from UNIS, Oslo Uni & @oxfordbiology.bsky.social for making this exciting project happen! @khuongdinh.bsky.social @michcjackson.bsky.social , Mathieu Lutier, Martin Heimböck, Jan Heuschele, & Janne Søreide! Project and fellowship founded by Norges forskningsråd

I’m really excited to share our new synthesis of 2,396 (!) multiple-stressor experiments conducted in freshwater ecosystems that’s just been published in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....