@louiselavictoire.bsky.social
Freshwater ecologist/biologist, focusing on nature recovery, restoration, conservation 🔬💧🏞️🚣🏼♀️
🌳🍒🫐It's a mast year! 🌳🍒🫐
There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate
Ever seen what #freshwater #mussel babies look like? 👇🏼
19.09.2025 14:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A spotlight on the #RiverWensum in Norfolk. Simon Johnson, Executive Director at FBA, issues a heartfelt call to action to help save England’s forgotten & sorely neglected #chalkriver.
Read the full article 👉The Wensum: England’s dying and forgotten chalk river:
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/th...
Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its #waterpollution rules to protect #freshwater ecosystems... before it’s too late! 💧🌍💙
View the full statement and signatories:
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc...
#WaterPollution #EUEnvironment
Please allow us to share a marvellously magical moment on this mussel Monday!
The 5000th juvenile #FreshwaterPearlMussel bred here at the FBA Ark has been tagged, ready for release in the river Irt!
You can find out more about #SpeciesRecovery at the FBA Ark here:
www.fba.org.uk/freshwater-p...
Releasing juvenile #freshwater pearl #mussels two channels today, less than 5 metres apart, one spring fed, the other a small side channel of the main stem river (surface water). The spring fed one was 12.5 ºC, the side channel 17.7ºC! That's over 5ºC difference in the space of <5m!
21.07.2025 21:00 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Summer time, harvest time 😋
05.07.2025 19:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much Rachel for your hospitality. EVERYTHING was wonderful!
26.06.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a wonderful day we had at the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting at Nottingham Trent University. Brilliant discussions on ghost ponds, climate change, pollution, outdoor swimming, being 'activist scientist' and the concept of riverkin. Can't wait to do it again next year!
26.06.2025 06:30 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Waaaaaa! Take my money!
17.05.2025 18:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#Tagging day @freshwaterbio.bsky.social preparing our #endangered #mussels for life in the wild
29.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Last 4 hours in our #GreenMatchFund campaign to help save #ArcticCharr in the #LakeDistrict. Please donate if you can or share our campaign with those who might donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05.... Would be great to reach 1/3 of our target of £6666. Thank you!
#Windermere #freshwater #fish
Great to see our Arctic charr recovery project gaining traction in the press. Until Tuesday 29th April you can donate to our Green Match fundraising campaign to double your donation donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
25.04.2025 06:42 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We're also raising money for this vital project. All donations matched until 29 April donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
25.04.2025 06:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Will you help us save #ArcticCharr from extinction in the #LakeDistrict?
Our campaign to raise funds for the Lake District Charr Recovery & Management (LD-CHARM) project has just launched!
From 22-29 April your donations will be doubled!
Find out more & donate:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
We’re raising funds through the #GreenMatchFund for our #LakeDistrict #ArcticCharr Recovery and Management project, aka LD-CHARM 🐟
bit.ly/42BgnII
If you can, please donate. Each donation is matched pound-for-pound up to £10K, meaning we could unlock £20K of funding for £10K of donations!
Epic week at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum sampling #ArcticCharr scales for our #CHARM project. Investigating #genetics of English #LakeDistrict populations to aid #conservation.
Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...
Next week we're taking part in the Green Match Fund to raise money for #conservation of Arctic #charr in the #LakeDistrict. Every donation up to £10k is doubled so please give if you can!
16.04.2025 06:27 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
We're so close to our £1000 target to start funding the tools and equipment we need for our new #tree nursery. Donations and shares gratefully received. Many thanks.
@envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @domspracklen.bsky.social
gofund.me/ddccc2ea
No you don't. Just get ChatGPT to write the command and then go to the image generator thingy to input it and upload your photo. Took a bit of trial and error to get it right but doable for free!
12.04.2025 16:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Much fun with #ChatGPT making my own freshwater biologist action figure... Complete with mussels, notebook and traffic cone (bathyscope 🤪). Show me your action figures!
12.04.2025 14:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0@lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@insuhi.bsky.social
@echoview.bsky.social
@ifmfish.bsky.social
Thrilled to have been awarded a @naturalengland.bsky.social #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme grant to investigate use and condition of #ArcticCharr spawning grounds and population genetics in the #LakeDistrict
@freshwaterbio.bsky.social
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/hu...
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
Fantastic to see the State of Windermere in 2024 report and Windermere Integrated Science Plan (WISP) published! Over 90 yrs of information and data on Windermere and its catchment summarised during my time with @freshwaterbio.bsky.social, which was only possible with the help of many people!
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Brilliant to see these two reports by @lynseyrharper.bsky.social when she was at @freshwaterbio.bsky.social on the state of #Windermere released today!
Thanks to all involved in early drafts and discussions and for the Environment Agency for funding the work
Fascinated by #freshwaterpearlmussels?
Join FBA’s Pearl Mussel Assistant to hear about #conservation in action at the FBA Ark & the #freshwaterscience making a vital contribution towards protecting vulnerable pearl mussels. #margaritiferamargaritifera #speciesrecovery
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/co...
FBA Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) at Nottingham Trent University on Wednesday 25 June 2025.
Registration now open for the FBA Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) and check out the agenda online
It is a pleasure to announce that registration for our Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 is now open!
The #FBAASM2025 is an in-person only event at Nottingham Trent University’s Clifton Campus on Wednesday 25 June.
Please head over to our website for the full ASM agenda:
www.fba.org.uk/annual-scien...
@leeinthelakes.bsky.social you like etymology...might be of interest?
30.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧚♀️ Freshwater mussels are sometimes referred to as naiads, which in Greek mythology were enigmatic and often mischievous water spirits!
What are your favourite names with historic origins?
