Jeff Clements 🦪

It's been a while since I ran this short workshop, but I'm excited to introduce some graduate students from McMaster University to the world of #metaanalysis and #EvidenceSynthesis this morning!

Tree's up!🌲🎅

We'd like to welcome Felix Mark to our #AssociateEditor team!

Felix is a marine ecophysiologist 🌊🐟 studying the effects of #ClimateChange & #Anthropogenic impacts on marine ectotherms, with a particular interest in the polar regions ❄️

Meet our new #AssociateEditor Tamzin Blewett @drtblew.bsky.social !

Tamzin is a #Multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in the protection of #Aquatic ecosystems 💧 Her research supports the development of regulatory tools which limit the levels of aquatic contaminants.

A group of penguins standing on the edge of the ocean with a wave background.

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A warm welcome to our newest #AssociateEditor Juan Scheun!

Juan will bring his expertise on #EcologicalStressors and #EnvironmentalManagement to this role

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What your Introduction section isn’t Today, the fourth and final instalment in a short series inspired by bad papers I’ve read (some of them, I’ll admit once again, my own). I’ve let myself rant about what a Methods sections shouldn’t…

Today in my 1-week Scientific Writing course we tackle two hard bits of a paper: the Introduction and the Discussion. So it's fitting that this week's blog post is "Three Things Your Introduction Section Isn't"! scientistseessquirre...

(yes, still with the link card apparently not working...)

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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Here is an excellent article on the issues with STOTEN journal, and with scientific publishing in general:
english.elpais.com/science-tech...

The difference in birthday celebrations now vs my younger years becomes more apparent each year.

Beers & shots gave way to rest & relaxation. Snuggling the pups replaced shouting at parties.

After 38 trips around the sun, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Thanks for the wishes, friends.

Cheers 🍻

Excited that I'll get to relive my teenage years in April!!

See Ovi score a goal live before I die ✅

A big shout out to Dr. Guillaume Brie D'Hier (postdoc at UQAR) for leading these efforts, and the folks at Mallet Oysters for logistical support in running these experiments! A fantastic collaborative effort.

We think this probably reflects a physiological trade-off: conserving energy reserves (limited in seed) until feeding resumes at the end of dormancy, rather than expending energy to regulate membrane fluidity.

Overall, these findings indicate that while both adult and juvenile oysters enter dormancy during winter months, the physiological mechanisms facilitating this dormant state are very different between adults and juveniles.

Our results provide evidence that, like adults, juvenile oysters do indeed enter a state of dormancy during the winter months. However, unlike adults, juveniles ceased this regulation and instead mobilized glycogen reserves throughout the winter months until the end of dormancy.

We conducted a series of laboratory experiments to reveal the overwintering physiology of juvenile eastern oysters at their northern distribution limit in eastern Canada.

While the winter physiology of adult oysters is well studied, it is unknown if smaller juvenile (seed) oysters also enter a dormant phase during the winter. Furthermore, if seed do use dormancy as an overwintering strategy, it is unclear if they use the same physiological strategy as adult oysters.

For example, to survive winter conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada, adult eastern oysters adjust their cell membrane fluidity by altering the fatty acid composition of their lipid membranes and enter a period of dormancy during winter months.

In North America, animals living at the northern limit of their geographic distribution have developed creative adaptations for surviving cold winters.

Our latest study, soon to be published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, explores how juvenile oysters have adapted to winters in Atlantic Canada.

In Montreal for science policy meetings all week—my first time back here since 2017!

Two questions:

1. Who do I know still living in Montreal & would you like to grab a beer at some point? 🍻

2. Who wants to catch the Habs-Caps game with me Thursday night at & watch Ovi play before he retires? 🏒 🥅

This is the first time in a long time that I've been away more days than I'm home in a month, and it really has me missing Jenna and the girls.

The older I get, the more of a homebody I become, and I can't wait for an extended vacation over the holidays.

Squeezing in some chores between travel.

Change water filter in the house ✅
Change furnace air filter ✅
Change Civic air filters ✅
Get winter tires on the Civic ⬜

Then to pack and head off to Montreal for the week—thankfully, the last bit of work travel until the new year.

Thierry B.R. Chopin (1959–2024) – Innovator of Modern IMTA - Journal of Applied Phycology On July 18, 2024, the scientific world lost a great innovator and scientific leader with the sudden death of Thierry Chopin from cardiac arrhythmia while vacationing on Prince Edward Island. He was 65...

A big thanks to Shawn Robinson for assembling the team and leading this.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This scientific obituary, published today in the Journal of Applied Phycology, collates a series of personal tales highlighting some of Thierry's relationships from across the world. We hope it gives a sense of the type of person & scientist Thierry was, & the lasting legacy he's left.

Thierry was a brilliant scientist of international acclaim, particularly known for pioneering the modern concept of "Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture" (IMTA).

After his sudden passing in July 2024, it only seemed fitting that we solidify his legacy in the scientific record.

In 2016, these conversations led to a collaborative paper exploring the potential impacts and mitigation strategies for ocean acidification in the context of marine aquaculture—my most cited paper to date. Over the years, a professional relationship transitioned to a friendship.

During my PhD, I was fortunate to learn from & work with Dr. Thierry Chopin. While Thierry wasn't directly involved with my thesis, he was generous w/ his time & giving advice; we had many lasting conversations about marine biology, climate change, life as a marine scientist, &, of course, seaweeds.

Fishing during extreme heatwaves alters ecological interactions and increases indirect fishing mortality in a ubiquitous nearshore system - Communications Biology Nearshore field experiments simulating clam fishing during a heatwave reveal increased indirect mortality of sub-legal sized clams, highlighting a critical interaction between human fishing activity a...

You can also read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...