Lachlan Fetterplace
@fiskeforbrains.bsky.social
Marine Ecologist PhD | Researcher | @SLU_aqua | Scicomm @fish_thinkers | #SustainableFishing #MPAs #BRUVS #FishTelemetry #EM4FISH
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Inhaling toxic smoke is now the number one cause of fire injury or death in the UK, research indicates.
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
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Use of flame retardants and the dangers of increased fire smoke toxicity to UK firefighters’ health - Fidra
‘The use of certain chemical flame retardants in UK consumer products, including furniture, mattresses, textiles, electronics and building construction materials, increases fire smoke toxicity, posing...
www.fidra.org.uk
December 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Inhaling toxic smoke is now the number one cause of fire injury or death in the UK, research indicates.
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
7/8
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
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Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology
Loons are beloved across the north. Yet they’re populations are still struggling to rebound in some areas. We know what’s killing them—lead poisoning caused by sinkers left behind by fishermen. The good news is that there’s an easy fix. 🌎
Loons Losing Out
A common piece of fishing gear is threatening one of America’s most beloved bird species
www.sierraclub.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’
Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Here at SLU Aqua (Uppsala campus, Sweden), we have an exciting 2 yr postdoc open for an ECR with a background in aquatic ecosystem ecology. The position focuses on investigating how land–sea interactions and climate change affect aquatic food webs. Great lab - apply!
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Postdoctoral researcher Coastal ecosystem functioning in a changing climate | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here at SLU Aqua (Uppsala campus, Sweden), we have an exciting 2 yr postdoc open for an ECR with a background in aquatic ecosystem ecology. The position focuses on investigating how land–sea interactions and climate change affect aquatic food webs. Great lab - apply!
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www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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BALTIC SEA & BOMB RADIOCARBON - First complete Baltic Sea bomb-produced radiocarbon chronology and use in testing fish age is released. Otoliths of Baltic herring, sprat, cod, pike, pikeperch provided key discoveries that point follow-up research. OA - doi.org/10.1093/ices...
A complete otolith-based bomb radiocarbon chronology for the Baltic Sea and its use in the age validation of regional fishes
Abstract. A complete bomb radiocarbon (14C) chronology — covering an 80-year period (1938–2018) and reflecting thermonuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
BALTIC SEA & BOMB RADIOCARBON - First complete Baltic Sea bomb-produced radiocarbon chronology and use in testing fish age is released. Otoliths of Baltic herring, sprat, cod, pike, pikeperch provided key discoveries that point follow-up research. OA - doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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Science nerds. This thread is awesome. All the science starter packs you need, just in time for Xmas!
We’re getting lots of new Bluesky friends!
Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑
Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Science nerds. This thread is awesome. All the science starter packs you need, just in time for Xmas!
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Marine Ecology Starter Pack 👍 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Marine Ecology Starter Pack 👍 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K
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🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨
🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨
🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
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The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
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🎉 The December 2025 edition of the ASFB #newsletter, Lateral Lines, is out now!
If you are an ASFB member already, you can access the newsletter (and all previous editions) via our website.
📰 www.asfb.org.au/asfb-newslet...
If not, consider joining here: www.asfb.org.au/membership
If you are an ASFB member already, you can access the newsletter (and all previous editions) via our website.
📰 www.asfb.org.au/asfb-newslet...
If not, consider joining here: www.asfb.org.au/membership
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🎉 The December 2025 edition of the ASFB #newsletter, Lateral Lines, is out now!
If you are an ASFB member already, you can access the newsletter (and all previous editions) via our website.
📰 www.asfb.org.au/asfb-newslet...
If not, consider joining here: www.asfb.org.au/membership
If you are an ASFB member already, you can access the newsletter (and all previous editions) via our website.
📰 www.asfb.org.au/asfb-newslet...
If not, consider joining here: www.asfb.org.au/membership
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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
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Europe may have up to 500,000 landfills: many unmapped, forgotten and compromised. Our modelling shows the scale of risk. We also documented sites leaking PFAS, heavy metals, plastics and other toxins.
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
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Europe’s toxic landfill crisis exposed in groundbreaking mapping project
Locations of more than 60,000 landfills pinpointed across Europe in first-of-its-kind analysis, uncovering a multitude of potential threats to ecosystems and communities.
www.investigate-europe.eu
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Europe may have up to 500,000 landfills: many unmapped, forgotten and compromised. Our modelling shows the scale of risk. We also documented sites leaking PFAS, heavy metals, plastics and other toxins.
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
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Australia, good news! Introducing the Australian Bryde’s Whale Catalogue (ABWC). We are slowly growing a dorsal fin catalogue of whales that are seen in Australian waters.
Team effort- @happywhale_official and the ABWC is teaming up to help collect observations.
youtu.be/A7fiM78IaCI
Team effort- @happywhale_official and the ABWC is teaming up to help collect observations.
youtu.be/A7fiM78IaCI
Australian Bryde’s Whale Catalogue explainer by Dr Vanessa Pirotta
YouTube video by Dr V
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November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Australia, good news! Introducing the Australian Bryde’s Whale Catalogue (ABWC). We are slowly growing a dorsal fin catalogue of whales that are seen in Australian waters.
Team effort- @happywhale_official and the ABWC is teaming up to help collect observations.
youtu.be/A7fiM78IaCI
Team effort- @happywhale_official and the ABWC is teaming up to help collect observations.
youtu.be/A7fiM78IaCI
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🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now
ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.
ShoalBase.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
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Published records of fish social systems are valuable, but often lost in the literature; informal observations can fill gaps. ShoalBase can centralise literature and log new observations so patterns become visible. Know a paper? Please add it! Seen a behaviour? Please add that too! shoalbase.org
ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now
ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.
shoalbase.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Published records of fish social systems are valuable, but often lost in the literature; informal observations can fill gaps. ShoalBase can centralise literature and log new observations so patterns become visible. Know a paper? Please add it! Seen a behaviour? Please add that too! shoalbase.org
How does round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) affect fish abundance in the Swedish coastal areas of the Baltic Sea?
How does round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) affect fish abundance in the Swedish coastal areas of the Baltic Sea?
Quantifying the effects of species invasions is particularly challenging, as it requires accurate measurements of the ecosystem before and after the invasion. The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), ...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How does round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) affect fish abundance in the Swedish coastal areas of the Baltic Sea?
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Great to work with @neildcook.bsky.social on this interesting, #OpenAccess paper - First record of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula in a special area of conservation #Wales #Sharks #MPA #BRUVS #Conservation #Observation #CBMWC #Catshark @cbmwc.bsky.social
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All my PhD fieldwork in Wales was in collaboration with @sarahperry.bsky.social and the fantastic team at @cbmwc.bsky.social.
You can read the paper fully #OpenAccess here - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can also see a video of the sighting here -
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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You can read the paper fully #OpenAccess here - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can also see a video of the sighting here -
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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First record of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula in a special area of conservation, UK - Marine Biodiversity
Colour aberrations are widely reported in vertebrates, but seldom for elasmobranchs. Shark trophic level varies ontogenetically and according to species, so atypical colouration may have implications ...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Great to work with @neildcook.bsky.social on this interesting, #OpenAccess paper - First record of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula in a special area of conservation #Wales #Sharks #MPA #BRUVS #Conservation #Observation #CBMWC #Catshark @cbmwc.bsky.social
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A little more #sharkscience from my #PhD at @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social - a Short Communication published in Marine Biodiversity by @springernature.com.
A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.
A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A little more #sharkscience from my #PhD at @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social - a Short Communication published in Marine Biodiversity by @springernature.com.
A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.
A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.
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Let's #network and learn from each other at the MISS Virtual Symposium! 💻
Learn about the research being conducted by MISS Members and Friends of MISS and come hang out with the MISS community! Grab your tickets at the link below! 💙
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-miss-...
Learn about the research being conducted by MISS Members and Friends of MISS and come hang out with the MISS community! Grab your tickets at the link below! 💙
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-miss-...
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Let's #network and learn from each other at the MISS Virtual Symposium! 💻
Learn about the research being conducted by MISS Members and Friends of MISS and come hang out with the MISS community! Grab your tickets at the link below! 💙
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-miss-...
Learn about the research being conducted by MISS Members and Friends of MISS and come hang out with the MISS community! Grab your tickets at the link below! 💙
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-miss-...
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We’re at #ESA2025!
Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart!
Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️
Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart!
Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We’re at #ESA2025!
Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart!
Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️
Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart!
Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️
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Wouldn’t it be good if there was some kind of environment legislation that could stop this sort of thing from happening
New: "Minister Gavin Pearce has confirmed the closure of the commercial rock lobster fishery near diseased salmon pens south of D’Entrecasteaux Channel, citing concerns that antibiotic residues could prompt Japan and China to ban imports of Tasmania’s $90-million southern rock lobster industry."
Minister Confirms Antibiotics Close Rock Lobster Fishery
Japanese and Chinese markets at risk
tasmaniantimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Wouldn’t it be good if there was some kind of environment legislation that could stop this sort of thing from happening
Great "behind the paper with @royalsocietypublishing.org" seminar - lead author of "Evidence of active sound production by a shark" discusses how she came to discover that New Zealand rig sharks can make strange noises @cassyni.bsky.social cassyni.com/events/NRzSF...
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Great "behind the paper with @royalsocietypublishing.org" seminar - lead author of "Evidence of active sound production by a shark" discusses how she came to discover that New Zealand rig sharks can make strange noises @cassyni.bsky.social cassyni.com/events/NRzSF...
