Lachlan Fetterplace
@fiskeforbrains.bsky.social
Marine Ecologist PhD | Researcher | @SLU_aqua | Scicomm @fish_thinkers | #SustainableFishing #MPAs #BRUVS #FishTelemetry #EM4FISH
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Global manta and devil ray population declines: Closing policy and management gaps to reduce fisheries mortality doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
"Over 264,520 mobulids are caught per year, with small vessel fisheries accounting for 87% of global mortality. "
"Over 264,520 mobulids are caught per year, with small vessel fisheries accounting for 87% of global mortality. "
Global manta and devil ray population declines: Closing policy and management gaps to reduce fisheries mortality
Significant progress has been made in advancing priority actions to conserve manta and devil rays, yet implementation and enforcement of protective me…
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Global manta and devil ray population declines: Closing policy and management gaps to reduce fisheries mortality doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
"Over 264,520 mobulids are caught per year, with small vessel fisheries accounting for 87% of global mortality. "
"Over 264,520 mobulids are caught per year, with small vessel fisheries accounting for 87% of global mortality. "
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🪸 Two weeks to go! Please apply for this Postdoc position! 🪸
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🪸 Two weeks to go! Please apply for this Postdoc position! 🪸
@icesmarine.bsky.social bound...was the 13 hr overnight train the smart move? 🤔🤣
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@icesmarine.bsky.social bound...was the 13 hr overnight train the smart move? 🤔🤣
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NOVEMBER STUDY HALL SCHEDULE! 🗓️
We are back in business after last week's cancellation. Join us on Thursdays for the rest of the month to problem solve with the OTN data team and peers from across the globe!
See you there! oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/
We are back in business after last week's cancellation. Join us on Thursdays for the rest of the month to problem solve with the OTN data team and peers from across the globe!
See you there! oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
NOVEMBER STUDY HALL SCHEDULE! 🗓️
We are back in business after last week's cancellation. Join us on Thursdays for the rest of the month to problem solve with the OTN data team and peers from across the globe!
See you there! oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/
We are back in business after last week's cancellation. Join us on Thursdays for the rest of the month to problem solve with the OTN data team and peers from across the globe!
See you there! oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/
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#Switzerland to #Sweden on a new sleeper train.
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) offers new night train which will travel from Basel to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden starting April 2026.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) offers new night train which will travel from Basel to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden starting April 2026.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
This new night train will travel 1,400km from Switzerland to Sweden
Tickets for the EuroNight service are expected to go on sale starting 4 November.
www.euronews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#Switzerland to #Sweden on a new sleeper train.
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) offers new night train which will travel from Basel to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden starting April 2026.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) offers new night train which will travel from Basel to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden starting April 2026.
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
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New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....!
Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!
New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....!
Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....!
Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!
New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....!
Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!
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Rogan claimed that climate models have been wrong and thus global warming predictions can’t be believed. It’s easy to set the Impossible expectation that models must be perfect, but in reality, climate models have been remarkably accurate, unlike predictions from contrarians like Lindzen (7/11)
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Rogan claimed that climate models have been wrong and thus global warming predictions can’t be believed. It’s easy to set the Impossible expectation that models must be perfect, but in reality, climate models have been remarkably accurate, unlike predictions from contrarians like Lindzen (7/11)
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"We should no longer be making PFAS"
Water UK's David Henderson tells Nick Robinson removing PFAS from water sources is so hard we should talk about a ban on forever chemicals, not a clean up.
Our story on the DWI ordering water firms to act on PFAS in water sources made the Today Programme.
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Water UK's David Henderson tells Nick Robinson removing PFAS from water sources is so hard we should talk about a ban on forever chemicals, not a clean up.
Our story on the DWI ordering water firms to act on PFAS in water sources made the Today Programme.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"We should no longer be making PFAS"
Water UK's David Henderson tells Nick Robinson removing PFAS from water sources is so hard we should talk about a ban on forever chemicals, not a clean up.
Our story on the DWI ordering water firms to act on PFAS in water sources made the Today Programme.
🧵
Water UK's David Henderson tells Nick Robinson removing PFAS from water sources is so hard we should talk about a ban on forever chemicals, not a clean up.
Our story on the DWI ordering water firms to act on PFAS in water sources made the Today Programme.
🧵
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📢NGOs launch guide to successfully address bycatch of sensitive species in the EU and call for bolder action 🐬🦈
Trends are worsening, populations are at risk, yet attention is declining. It’s time to #RethinkFisheries!
👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #EndBycatch #EUBiodiversity #EUOceanWeek
Trends are worsening, populations are at risk, yet attention is declining. It’s time to #RethinkFisheries!
👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #EndBycatch #EUBiodiversity #EUOceanWeek
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
📢NGOs launch guide to successfully address bycatch of sensitive species in the EU and call for bolder action 🐬🦈
Trends are worsening, populations are at risk, yet attention is declining. It’s time to #RethinkFisheries!
👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #EndBycatch #EUBiodiversity #EUOceanWeek
Trends are worsening, populations are at risk, yet attention is declining. It’s time to #RethinkFisheries!
👉 seas-at-risk.org/press-releas... #EndBycatch #EUBiodiversity #EUOceanWeek
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🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
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The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
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Published! Our huge effort to obtain catch series for each of five overlapping populations of pygmy blue whales. Big collaboration with 30+ coauthors using spatial patterns of blue whale song (unique to each population) to figure out where each resides 1/n
March 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Published! Our huge effort to obtain catch series for each of five overlapping populations of pygmy blue whales. Big collaboration with 30+ coauthors using spatial patterns of blue whale song (unique to each population) to figure out where each resides 1/n
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Absolutely this 👇 as walking non-smoking survivor of lung cancer who has lived on residential road that over last 20 yrs has seen massive increase mostly in through traffic of cars using road as dogleg to avoid traffic lights + drivers idling engine (illegal!) while on a quick shop round corner 🙄
The 2nd highest risk factor for dying early, after high blood pressure, is high air pollution. A key step in reducing air pollution is to stop burning stuff: wood, fossil fuels - whether it's in a car engine, a wood burner, or a power station. Better public transport, walking + cycling routes vital.
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Absolutely this 👇 as walking non-smoking survivor of lung cancer who has lived on residential road that over last 20 yrs has seen massive increase mostly in through traffic of cars using road as dogleg to avoid traffic lights + drivers idling engine (illegal!) while on a quick shop round corner 🙄
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Fisheries: Creating marine protected areas only displaces fisheries and does not benefit the ocean
Costello: No they don't and yes they do
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Costello: No they don't and yes they do
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries | PNAS
Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Fisheries: Creating marine protected areas only displaces fisheries and does not benefit the ocean
Costello: No they don't and yes they do
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Costello: No they don't and yes they do
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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What the Prof. says 👇
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Net zero by 2050 to limit warming to 1.5°C. That may have been plausible 10 years ago, but the continued rise of emissions means that there is effectively no carbon budget left for 1.5. It is cumulative emissions that drives warming. 1/6 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
What the Prof. says 👇
💯
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A new paper, co-authored by CIBBRiNA case study lead Al Kingston, has identified key patterns in #bycatch of harbour porpoise, common dolphin, and harbour and grey seals in #UK static net #fisheries. [1/3]
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A new paper, co-authored by CIBBRiNA case study lead Al Kingston, has identified key patterns in #bycatch of harbour porpoise, common dolphin, and harbour and grey seals in #UK static net #fisheries. [1/3]
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PFAS är återigen ett exempel på att trots vi vet så gör vi - Late lessons on early warnings!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
PFAS är återigen ett exempel på att trots vi vet så gör vi - Late lessons on early warnings!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I’ve joined Austral Ecology as a Natural History Notes Editor, working with my good friend & former PhD office mate, Dr Steph Courtney Jones. These papers are a pleasure to read & review, so I’m looking forward to this new role! 🧪🌎🐠
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1442...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1442...
Austral Ecology
Click on the title to browse this journal
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I’ve joined Austral Ecology as a Natural History Notes Editor, working with my good friend & former PhD office mate, Dr Steph Courtney Jones. These papers are a pleasure to read & review, so I’m looking forward to this new role! 🧪🌎🐠
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1442...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1442...
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It was already been reported. See this paper: micologia.uv.cl/index.php/rb...
Vista de Chafing behaviour from two carcharhinid shark species Carcharhinus falciformis and C. galapagensis on whale sharks Rhincodon typus
Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. Publication of the FACIMAR. Universidad de Valparaíso
micologia.uv.cl
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It was already been reported. See this paper: micologia.uv.cl/index.php/rb...
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Chafing Behavior by Carcharhinid Sharks on Oceanic Manta Rays in North America’s Largest MPA (preprint) 🦑🌎🐟🦈 scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
April 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chafing Behavior by Carcharhinid Sharks on Oceanic Manta Rays in North America’s Largest MPA (preprint) 🦑🌎🐟🦈 scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
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New blog: As a grant peer reviewer I consider Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) even if the scheme doesn't list EDI criteria. Key is to tie the selection criteria to EDI. This is how I do it mathemagicalconservation.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/a... @katehelmstedt.bsky.social @hugepossum.bsky.social
As a grant reviewer, how do you request Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, even if it isn’t an explicit selection criterion
Many funding schemes now include equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as an explicit selection criterion. But what happens when it isn’t written into the rubric? Should applicants still consider …
mathemagicalconservation.wordpress.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New blog: As a grant peer reviewer I consider Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) even if the scheme doesn't list EDI criteria. Key is to tie the selection criteria to EDI. This is how I do it mathemagicalconservation.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/a... @katehelmstedt.bsky.social @hugepossum.bsky.social
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When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy
(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)
(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)
Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo...
Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.
Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.
What role for carbon trading? - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a senior civil servant who asked me to provide a short comment on the concept of emissions trading schemes in general, and on the
climateuncensored.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy
(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)
(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)
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An excellent thought-provoking read about what we as humans should be contemplating before we resist or resign ourselves to the GenAI revolution. Just one of several great quotes:
“Promote and produce original work of value, work that’s cliché-resistant and unreplicable, work that tries”
“Promote and produce original work of value, work that’s cliché-resistant and unreplicable, work that tries”
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
An excellent thought-provoking read about what we as humans should be contemplating before we resist or resign ourselves to the GenAI revolution. Just one of several great quotes:
“Promote and produce original work of value, work that’s cliché-resistant and unreplicable, work that tries”
“Promote and produce original work of value, work that’s cliché-resistant and unreplicable, work that tries”
This one hits close to home...was just watching this poor girl play football with my daughter the other day (& by chance have taken my own kids out fishing in that exact spot a number of times). Terrible for her family and for the family of brave diver who lost his life in the rescue attempt.
Båtkantringen i Lofoten: Svenske Ebba Torstenson (11) døde
Båtkantringen i Lofoten: Svenske Ebba Torstenson (11) døde
Båtkantringen i Lofoten: Svenske Ebba Torstenson (11) døde
www.vg.no
September 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This one hits close to home...was just watching this poor girl play football with my daughter the other day (& by chance have taken my own kids out fishing in that exact spot a number of times). Terrible for her family and for the family of brave diver who lost his life in the rescue attempt.
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#Nappstraumen, #Lofoten #Norge
Vi skal huske, at nogle sætter livet på spil for at redde andre.
Desværre havde denne redningsforsøg en trist afslutning.
www.nrk.no/nordland/red...
Vi skal huske, at nogle sætter livet på spil for at redde andre.
Desværre havde denne redningsforsøg en trist afslutning.
www.nrk.no/nordland/red...
Adrian (36) døde under redningsaksjonen: – Den mørkeste dagen på 100 år
Fredag mistet Adrian Willyson Brask livet da han forsøkte å redde liv etter båtulykken i Lofoten.
www.nrk.no
September 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#Nappstraumen, #Lofoten #Norge
Vi skal huske, at nogle sætter livet på spil for at redde andre.
Desværre havde denne redningsforsøg en trist afslutning.
www.nrk.no/nordland/red...
Vi skal huske, at nogle sætter livet på spil for at redde andre.
Desværre havde denne redningsforsøg en trist afslutning.
www.nrk.no/nordland/red...