Beth Hoots

Help keep Wilderness wild!

Stop Congress from killing federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire Lower 48 states!

>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr845-wolf-esa

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

The #Roadless Rule protects 45 million acres of unfragmented, pristine national #forest lands from clear-cutting and damaging new roads. The Trump administration has announced an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule — public comments are due by September 19!

Save A Mexican Wolf A Mexican gray wolf in the prime of life, will be gunned down from the air unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve. Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel this unique wolf’s kill o...

On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico.

Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.

Please sign and share if you haven't already done so. 🚨⬇️

Attack on Camp Sovereignty: How ordinary fears are giving cover to extraordinary hate That is the story of these rallies: not just the extremists who thrive on attention, but the everyday people who give them cover.

"The applause on the steps of state parliament earlier in the day spilled into terror a few blocks away, granting these men the illusion of validation." Searing piece by @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the moment the line between rhetoric and violence dissolved www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/02/a...

Wattle you know... it's National #WattleDay, so we have three facts that may surprise you.

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Y’all, can anyone think of an example of an invasive species that we caused to be invasive and then introduced another species to get rid of it but that also ended up being invasive? Double invasive? Lol

Had a blast at the annual ASFB conference @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social in Darwin. ☀️🐊
I was happy to share my research on fish behaviour. Lots of amazing talks through the week. Looking forward to the next one!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social

Welcome to the Great Bear Sea After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.

It feels like we're going backward, but there are hopeful projects underway, like the MPA network off the British Columbia coast. If done right, it “could be a real, meaningful model for reconciliation” with First Nations. My latest in @biographic.bsky.social.

www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...

Great presentation @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social 👏👏

Everyone say "fish!" 📸

The #ASFB2025 delegates assemble outside the #Darwin Convention Centre for the obligatory group photo.

New fish species keep popping up in Sweden, most likely because of ocean warming!

Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil!
(Photo Janice Melander)

FYI if you're not in the right time zone for this do not fret! Sign up as an online attendee to get access to the required docs and Discord site, then you can contribute when it's a good time for you and chat with others awake at the same time on Discord. Fun for all time zones!

A social scientists presents a slide from a stage showing the climate bands for her grandmother, her mother, herself, and her children, demonstrating the changes in climate faced by different generations in her family

I was really moved by this figure from @drjessmt.bsky.social’s keynote address this morning at #ASFB2025

These changes are occurring faster and faster, with future generations facing #climatechange conditions that would be unthinkable to their ancestors, visualizing it like this makes it personal 🔥

Congratulations Rachel! Looks like a great study and I’m not surprised at all that those little escape artists were able to figure it out 👀

[1 August 2025] Another roundup of jobs related to conservation, nature, environment, etc. | Aerin Jacob [1 August 2025] Another roundup of jobs related to conservation, nature, environment, etc. Please share to help others and add additional links in the comments. All postings include salary range. (I a...

Another #ConservationJobs roundup, mostly in Canada.

Please share — someone in your network will be job hunting.

All job ads #ShowTheSalary, which is rapidly becoming the norm (not just a best practice).

www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet

See this cool TT position focused on the Sensory Physiology of Sound at Aarhus University in Denmark! www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Invertebrate #marinelife #herps 🧪

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark Brazil, the world’s top importer of shark meat, is feeding much of it to preschoolers, hospital patients, military staff, public workers and more via government procurements, Mongabay has found. This…

Brazil is feeding shark meat to kids, hospital patients & more via government procurements.

This influx of shark meat into public buildings is exposing infants & other vulnerable groups to high levels of mercury & arsenic.

*This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

For @biographic.bsky.social, writer @craigwelch.bsky.social followed @hakai.org scientist @rhizalyssa.bsky.social's quest to unveil the the killer that decimated populations of sea stars off the West Coast. It took a few years but the lab's hard work paid off: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

One like, one clam fact

I had an amazing time in Antwerp at the #SEBconference
I had the opportunity to share my research on the impact of parasites on fish behaviour🐟🪱
So many great talks!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@lkuchenmuller.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social

The historic train station in Antwerp. Blue skies in the background and a row of rental bikes in the foreground

Thanks @sebiology.bsky.social for a great conference here in #Antwerp! Looking forward to the next one 🥳

A scientist presenting a slide with several box plots

A scientist presenting a slide with takehome messages

A scientist presenting the most dramatic title slide ever of himself staring at the ocean

A scientist presenting a slide with a model for fish energetics

So many great talks on the last couple days of #SEBconference! It was great to hear from @chris-on-fish.bsky.social and @bradhowell.bsky.social about their work at Trent, as well as my #DeakinMarine friends @gradito.bsky.social on work from her M.S. and Alex Berry on his PhD research 👏

Some great talks on fish metabolism, thermal tolerance, and bioenergetics by folks from @trentuniversity.bsky.social at this year’s #SEBconference in Antwerp, Belgium.

@sebiology.bsky.social
@erinmcstewart.bsky.social
@jaydebon.bsky.social
@chris-on-fish.bsky.social

My title slide with fish in the background. Text reads: Life History Attributes Influencing Metabolic Variation Authors: Elizabeth Hoots, Luis Kuchenmüller, Michael Skeeles, Timothy Clark

I’m excited to share my research in the Open Animal session today at #SEBconference! I’ll be speaking from 12:15-12:30 in the Nightingale rooms, come along for a chat about how SMR does (or doesn’t!) change with different life history traits in #fish 🐟

A scientist on a big stage showing his title slide featuring a rainbow trout with a cannula through its nostril and a diagram of water passing over the gills

A scientist showing his concluding slide on a big stage. The slide reads: Conclusions > Method promising | › High water flow did not improve gill oxygen uptake › Methodological considerations Little PaO, regulation above p50?

A fantastic talk on the “big stage” by @lkuchenmuller.bsky.social on a new method for measuring blood oxygen partial pressure in #rainbowtrout 🐟

#SEBconference

A scientist with a cool haircut shows a map of barber shops in Antwerp

A scientist with a cool haircut shows a slide with his takeaway messages, ultimately concluding that “There are no losers in the telest world”.

Leave it to @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social to weave a rant on Antwerp’s barber shops into his talk about the awesome physiological adaptations of #tuna 💇‍♂️

Glad to hear that no teleosts are losers here at #SEBconference 😅

A scientist presents different abiotic and biotic triggers of premature hatching in fish on a large screen

@leon-at-sea.bsky.social doing an incredible job of breaking down the causes and consequences of premature hatching 🐣 These are summarized in a recent review I was lucky to help write!

You can read the full text here: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

#SEBconference

A scientist presents a slide showing her take-away home messages

A scientist presents a slide which says “Let's study embryos more extensively!”

This morning at #SEBconference, how sensitive are embryos to different environmental stressors? I caught some great talks by Zara Cowan and @patricepottier.bsky.social calling for more balanced research across life stages 🪺

Sandra Binning giving the President's Medallist talk on the importance of considering parasites for increased ecological relevance. Great presentation! 🐟🧪

#SEBconference
@sebiology.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social