Chris Harrod
@profchrisharrod.bsky.social
Fish/aquatic/stable isotope ecology. Proud dad of two Anglo-Chileans. Sweary. Wide interests. Prof of Ecology, Director of Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment, U Glasgow's Field Station on Loch Lomond, UK @sceneuog.bsky.social
The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is seeking a qualified and motivated Laboratory Engineer with a strong background in analytical chemistry to support operations in their isotope laboratory. HT @jasonisotopes.bsky.social
ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...
ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...
Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory
[The department of biology and environmental science](https://www.jyu.fi/en/science/bioenv) is seeking to recruit a Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory starting April 1, 2026, or as soo...
ats.talentadore.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is seeking a qualified and motivated Laboratory Engineer with a strong background in analytical chemistry to support operations in their isotope laboratory. HT @jasonisotopes.bsky.social
ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...
ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...
hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters
Baselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
we lost one of our greats Prof Peter Maitland in late November 2025. @profcolinbean.bsky.social has written a fine obituary to Peter here on the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social website.
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...
Obituary: Professor Peter Maitland FRSE (1937–2025) — Freshwater Biological Association
The freshwater science community has lost one of its most respected and influential members with the passing of Professor Peter Maitland FRSE on 24 November 2025. He was aged 87. Here Professor Colin ...
www.fba.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
we lost one of our greats Prof Peter Maitland in late November 2025. @profcolinbean.bsky.social has written a fine obituary to Peter here on the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social website.
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...
Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk.
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk.
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Reposted by Chris Harrod
#OtD 10 Dec 2006 former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died. His regime, supported enthusiastically by the UK and US, saw thousands of radicals, trade unionists and others rounded up and executed, with tens of thousands more jailed and tortured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8182...
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 10 Dec 2006 former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died. His regime, supported enthusiastically by the UK and US, saw thousands of radicals, trade unionists and others rounded up and executed, with tens of thousands more jailed and tortured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8182...
I had the pleasure of showing this amazing documentary on @criordor.bsky.social´s research at this week´s @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting.
Now available to all!
www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...
Now available to all!
www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...
Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary
Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncov...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I had the pleasure of showing this amazing documentary on @criordor.bsky.social´s research at this week´s @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting.
Now available to all!
www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...
Now available to all!
www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...
Research Associate on food webs (using isotope sand stable isotopes) and offshore power at SUERC
For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Deadline 15th December
For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Deadline 15th December
Research Associate
Job PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the ECOCHANGE (Ecosystem Consequences of Changes to Habitats and the implications for a Net Gain Energy approach) project working with Dr Kieran Tierney...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Research Associate on food webs (using isotope sand stable isotopes) and offshore power at SUERC
For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Deadline 15th December
For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Deadline 15th December
The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced!
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
wellcomeopenresearch.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced!
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
Reposted by Chris Harrod
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in lampreys. If you are interested in population genomics, hybrid zones & structural variants in a super cool primitive vertebrate, feel free to contact me. Details - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Leveraging wild hybrids to map the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in a primitive vertebrate.
iapetus.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in lampreys. If you are interested in population genomics, hybrid zones & structural variants in a super cool primitive vertebrate, feel free to contact me. Details - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
via Adrian Bass and others.
This looks very handy!
Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
This looks very handy!
Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is an important component of the global carbon cycle which influences water properties such as colour and acidity. Standard methods for quantification of DOC use instrum...
pubs.rsc.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
via Adrian Bass and others.
This looks very handy!
Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
This looks very handy!
Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Reposted by Chris Harrod
Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?
"We found that despite the enormous spatial range of data, both pPOM and sPOM became 2.1‰ and 2.2‰ more 13C-depleted per decade, respectively, with parallel decreases in the δ13C values in consumers"
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Trophic niche variation across the pan-Arctic coastal continuum
We analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values (δ13C and δ15N, respectively) for pan-Arctic coastal primary producers and consumers to detect large-scale regional trends both temporally and spa...
journals.plos.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"We found that despite the enormous spatial range of data, both pPOM and sPOM became 2.1‰ and 2.2‰ more 13C-depleted per decade, respectively, with parallel decreases in the δ13C values in consumers"
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Reposted by Chris Harrod
🔁Help us spread the word!
Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟
#NoWPaS2026 #EarlyCareerResearchers #FishScience #SalmonidResearch
Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟
#NoWPaS2026 #EarlyCareerResearchers #FishScience #SalmonidResearch
🐟 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN for #NoWPaS2026!
📍 Hólar University, Iceland 🇮🇸
📅 March 2–7, 2026
🧑🔬 For early career researchers on anadromous salmonids
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
👉 forms.gle/unryb2EZEcp1...
ℹ️ nowpas.wordpress.com
Join us in Iceland for science, salmonids, and connections!
📍 Hólar University, Iceland 🇮🇸
📅 March 2–7, 2026
🧑🔬 For early career researchers on anadromous salmonids
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
👉 forms.gle/unryb2EZEcp1...
ℹ️ nowpas.wordpress.com
Join us in Iceland for science, salmonids, and connections!
NoWPaS 2026 Application form
NoWPaS (International formerly Nordic Workshop for PhD and Post-Doctoral fellows on Anadromous Salmonid research) is an annual workshop, which aims to build and maintain an international network of ea...
forms.gle
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🔁Help us spread the word!
Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟
#NoWPaS2026 #EarlyCareerResearchers #FishScience #SalmonidResearch
Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟
#NoWPaS2026 #EarlyCareerResearchers #FishScience #SalmonidResearch
Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ice Age vendace thriving at Loch Skeen near Moffat
A survey finds the population of vendace at Loch Skeen near Moffat is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We regularly encounter Gordioidea (parasitic hairworms) in kick samples taken from streams around @sceneuog.bsky.social (central/west Scotland). Anyone got an idea of the likely hosts?
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We regularly encounter Gordioidea (parasitic hairworms) in kick samples taken from streams around @sceneuog.bsky.social (central/west Scotland). Anyone got an idea of the likely hosts?
Gonzalo Salazar has his first thesis paper published today in @peerj.bsky.social
We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually
peerj.com/articles/20042
We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually
peerj.com/articles/20042
Identifying knowledge gaps in hypersaline systems supporting the global electrical transition: invertebrate community structure in salars from the lithium triangle
Following decades of mining impacts, South America’s hypersaline wetlands (salars) face increasing threats from lithium extraction to support global decarbonisation. Although globally important, salar...
peerj.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Gonzalo Salazar has his first thesis paper published today in @peerj.bsky.social
We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually
peerj.com/articles/20042
We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually
peerj.com/articles/20042
any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N?
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N?
In a @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting led by students discussing research funding. Does anyone have a link to databases/websites detailing small grant funding for ecological research?
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
In a @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting led by students discussing research funding. Does anyone have a link to databases/websites detailing small grant funding for ecological research?
Reposted by Chris Harrod
Fancy working with killer whales?
We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team.
👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka
👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4
Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team.
👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka
👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4
Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
September 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Fancy working with killer whales?
We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team.
👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka
👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4
Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team.
👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka
👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4
Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
Absolutely storming review/opinion piece of where we are with stable isotopes in archaeology from the always mighty Tamsin O'Connell. Everything she says here goes for isotopes in ecology too.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology
Isotopic analysis as a method of assessing diet or geographical origin is now ubiquitous in archaeology, to the point where seemingly no project is co…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Absolutely storming review/opinion piece of where we are with stable isotopes in archaeology from the always mighty Tamsin O'Connell. Everything she says here goes for isotopes in ecology too.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Chris Harrod
#JFB: Inter and intraspecific variation in the degree of marine-derived resources of amphidromous fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70084 #FishSci
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#JFB: Inter and intraspecific variation in the degree of marine-derived resources of amphidromous fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70084 #FishSci
Does anyone know of an expert in #Austism studying adolescents that reject family moves to a new country? We are looking for advice and help. Please resend etc.
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Does anyone know of an expert in #Austism studying adolescents that reject family moves to a new country? We are looking for advice and help. Please resend etc.
Reposted by Chris Harrod
🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live!
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
September 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live!
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica