Jenni Prokkola

Can’t believe we are still doing this

Development of abundance and distribution of the invasive pink salmon in the large River Teno/Tana catchment in northern Finland and Norway.
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Photo by Panu Orell. A juvenile salmon in a river, on top of a red and black rock. There is algae around the rock in the river bottom but the water is very clear. Sunlight is reflected on the fish scales, and showing the red and black dots, and brown, tall stripes on the side of the fish.

🐟🌡️🧪 New study from #ThermoEvo project
@luke.fi: Juvenile Atlantic salmon show no increase in aerobic scope during an ecologically realistic #heatwave.
This suggests limited capacity to cope with higher oxygen demand in warming rivers, when O2 costs increase.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Photo by Panu Orell. A juvenile salmon in a river, on top of a red and black rock. There is algae around the rock in the river bottom but the water is very clear. Sunlight is reflected on the fish scales, and showing the red and black dots, and brown, tall stripes on the side of the fish.

🐟🌡️🧪 New study from #ThermoEvo project
@luke.fi: Juvenile Atlantic salmon show no increase in aerobic scope during an ecologically realistic #heatwave.
This suggests limited capacity to cope with higher oxygen demand in warming rivers, when O2 costs increase.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

The ”land of the free” is building literal concentration camps. I don’t think the world should just watch it happen in real time 🙄

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work

"Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NBC is editing out footage of JD Vance being booed at the Olympics.

CBS is state sponsored propaganda.

Bezos fired over 300 journalists from The Washington Post and left many stranded in foreign countries.

They’re crowd funding to get home.

Support independent journalism.

Thanks for writing that, and it would be great if biologists had more conversations about this. Also we tend to present work e.g. in conferences after the experiment is done, but could be even more useful to do this before it’s done. Registered reports would also help, if we just used them:)

Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.

The principles of experimental design in ecology and evolution has 20k downloads, but unfortunately I still have to reject ~20% of papers without review because they lack replication at the right level. More discussion among mentors and mentees please.
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Hieno artikkeli vitamiinipuutoksesta, joka on aiheuttanut massakuolemia lohenpoikasilla myös Itämerellä -90-luvulla. Silloin syyksi arvioitiin kilohailin suhteellisen isoa määrää silakkaan nähden, ja on mielenkiintoista että silakkaa ehdotetaan ”vitamiinipilleriksi” myös Tyynen valtameren lajeille.

Save the date
📍 Oulu, Finland
📅 30 June – 2 July
✍ restofish@luke.fi

Find all the details including submission guidelines on the website: lyyti.events/p/Symposium_...

@luke.fi | @oulu.fi
@jmprok.bsky.social

Abstracts still open for Symposium on Habitat Restoration for Diadromous Fishes 📣

If you’re working on:
🔵 Climate-smart habitat restoration
🟢 Tools & best practices for design and monitoring
🟡 Social aspects of restoration
🟠 Lessons from real-world projects

Submit by 15 Feb! ⏰

👉 shorturl.at/z4e5u

Going down a rabbit hole of TX special elections on a Sunday morning was not what I expected, but it’s great news! Hope the wave continues in November…

Good times to be had in Finland this summer, submit an abstract now 👇
#restoration #science 🧪

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people

“It’s like Call of Duty.”

But it's not. It's Minneapolis, and these are real human beings. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

With #Gemini hallucinating #GoogleSearch, #Grok hallucinating in its own encyclopedia, and #ChatGPT increasingly drawing on that exact #Grokipedia, we are continuously enshittifying the information space. This has already become a huge mess that will be increasingly difficult to clean up.

Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten - Nature While the photoreceptor outer segments in the bird outer retina have access to oxygen, the inner retina operates under chronic anoxia, supported by anaerobic glycolysis in the retinal neurons.

Link to their article:

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

Have you ever wondered what’s going on in birds’ eyes? They’re bizzarre! 🧪🐦👀

Damsgaard et al. describe the role of a structure, which function was not properly understood until now, in @nature.com. Amazing work.

In this N&V, Michael Berenbrink and I highlight the study (gift link): rdcu.be/eZ6EC

Laajempaa taustatietoa silakan ja lohien yhteyksistä @suomenluonto.bsky.social jutussa:

Joo, tosiaan! Toivotaan että massiaisia riittää jatkossakin😊

Meriselviytymisen parantuminen voisi selittää kossien määrää, ja siihen taas voisi vaikuttaa se että vaelluspoikasille olisi ollut paremmin ravintoa. Silakoiden kunto on samaan aikaan kohentunut, ja niillä on samoja ravintokohteita.

A plea from an editor:

postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

Luke: Itämeren lohitilanteessa elpymisen merkkejä Uutiset nopeasti ja luotettavasti.

Uusi tiedotteemme: Itämeren lohitilanteessa elpymisen merkkejä

Onhan se kiva pitkästä aikaa kertoa hyviäkin uutisia ☺️

@luke.fi

🌿🌱🪴We all need more plants in our lives. Therapy is expensive; plants are not. 🤣

the most telling thing I’ve seen all week is the Daily Show montage of MAGA mouthpieces pretending to mourn Renée Good’s death before saying she got what she deserved

Interested in fish tracking? VLIZ is hiring!! 🐟

My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat 🦇 conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches.

Apply now: murdoch.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/MurdochCaree...

The answer the people demand, to the question that somebody asks every 6-8 months