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Steve Thackeray
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Freshwater ecologist, wildlife lover, likes a bit of art 💦🦠🔬
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Steve Thackeray @thackers.bsky.social · Aug 31
We are gathering views on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK (scales, focal species & pressures).

If you work in these areas, we'd love to capture your views: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...

@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #freshwater #monitoring #data #evidence
The Changing Status of Freshwater Biodiversity in the UK
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
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Never gets old - a Herring gull doing its "worm charming" dance #ukwildlife
December 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Are you a part of our Special Interest Group community and thinking of attending our 2026 annual conference? (say yes, it’s really fun 🤩)

We would be eternally grateful if you could fill out our google form survey to help us shape the 2026 event itself!
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forms.gle/sYPRkuPZCNg2...

Thank youuu 💧🔬🦐
BES Aquatic Ecology Annual Meeting
Help us design our next BES Aquatic Group Annual Meeting in 2026
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December 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Coming to #BES2025 this week? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We'll be there too!

Come find us at the Meet the SIGs session! 🌊
📍Mezzanine
🕰️ 6-7pm

We'll then head to the pub for drinks and food for a joint social with Teaching and Learning & Quantitative @bes-quantitative.bsky.social SIGs! 🍻
📍Fox & Faun
🕰️ 7.30pm
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Keen to hear about job/PhD opportunities and the latest UK freshwater & marine ecology research? (yes you do 🐟)

Good news: we’ve got a monthly newsletter for you! 📩

Sign up to our MailChimp for your monthly dose of aquatic goodness and all things SIG-related. 🌊

Sign up here ➡️ rb.gy/zd3ce1
Aquatic Ecology Group
Aquatic Ecology Group Email Forms
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December 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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New study led by @ellie-mackay.bsky.social shows how organic nutrient fractions can stimulate the growth of algae in rivers, and explores the predictability of this effect across the UK.

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🧪🦠🏞
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Beautiful reflections on Lancaster canal today. Love the effect when rotating the image 😍
A row of trees reflected in still water. The reflection is sharp and clear. I rotated the image 90 degrees, so the real and reflected trees reach out to the left and right.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ukceh.bsky.social
Learn more about our Cumbrian lakes monitoring with this YouTube playlist!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#freshwater
Cumbrian Lakes Long-Term Monitoring - YouTube
From 1945 to today: UKCEH and predecessors have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes for 80 years, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping o...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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🌊 This year we marked 80 years of monitoring the Cumbrian lakes and held the 10th Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum.
With so much focus on Windermere, the event highlighted the vital role of independent, long-term science in understanding change & guiding restoration.

www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
Collage of 9 images from a conference featuring speakers presenting on environmental DNA surveys and lake protection. Presentations include slides on eDNA monitoring, fish detection, and the FutureLakes initiative. Group of people standing outside with Windermere in the background Cake with two fondant figures and a boat labeled "John Lund," surrounded by green sponge hills and water. Iced text reads, "80 years Cumbrian Lakes monitoring."
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The beautiful, vibrant wildlife art of @bernoid.bsky.social 😍
bernoid.bsky.social Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · Nov 13
My nature journal Secrets of a Devon Wood is available to buy in @Waterstones if you're on the hunt for a gift for a nature lover. There's some signed copies in the Newton Abbot branch.
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Check out this new blog from my amazing #UKCEH_AquaEco colleagues! A summary of a recent, innovate and highly impactful sustainable phosphorus summit, in Ghana: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

@ukceh.bsky.social #phosphorus #waterquality #collaboration #sustainability
The 8th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit – an international collaboration success story
From 30 September-3 October, UKCEH co-convened the 8th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit in Accra, Ghana
www.ceh.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🌊 This Fri (7 Nov) 4:30 pm PST / 8:30 am GMT, DOST-PCAARRD & UKCEH host a joint webinar: Science and Governance of Lakes – Perspectives from the Philippines and UK.

Hear experts discuss sustainable lake management & modelling for resilience.

Register: bit.ly/pcaarrdukceh... 🧪
Four speaker photos and a graphic of mountains and a lake, with the headlines Session I: Sustainable Management of Lake Ecosystems, Session II: Modeling Aquatic Systems to Support Lake Resilience Four speaker photos and names Two logos and the text Joint Webinar on Science and Governance of Lakes: Perspectives from the Philippines and the United Kingdom
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems.

It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎

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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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It was a privilege to talk to Tristan Gooley when he was researching his latest book; The Hidden Seasons. We talked about life underwater! #freshwater #ecology #NatureWriting
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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A spooky scarecrow sketch for Halloween 🎃 #drawing
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A bit of autumn #wildlife. Not sure at all, but maybe stubble rosegill and autumnal/November moths #ukwildlife
A glossy grey toadstool in vivid green grass A patterned mid grey moth on varnished wood A pale mottled moth on warmly lit brickwork
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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New paper uses 1D lake modelling to explore the extent to which floating solar panels could offset warming-related impacts of climate change: www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kma...

#FloatingSolar #FPV #ClimateChange 🧪🌊☀️
Boxplots showing reductions in modelled, seasonal water temperatures with increasing floating solar panel coverage, under four climate scenarios
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I love an angle shades. Always worth pausing to give them consideration 👌 #ukwildlife #moth #insect
An angle shades moth on a wooden fence. It is coloured shades of brown and has the appearance of a curled autumn leaf.
October 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A little dragonfly sketch, for relaxation purposes #drawing #SciArt
Black ink drawing of a dragonfly in a cartoon, rather than realistic, style.
October 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Not a great picture, but a male migrant hawker from #Lancaster canal today

#UKwildlife #dragonfly #insect @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
A dragonfly perched on some vegetation. It has a black abdomen with paired blue markings, and a yellow marking like a golf tee at its leading end.
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Another great BES-Aquatic Group conference this year at ZSL London @zslofficial.bsky.social!

If you don't already, follow us on Mail-Chimp and here on BlueSky for UK aquatic science news and meetings!

@bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

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bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social BES Aquatic Ecology Group @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social · Sep 18
the #BESAG committee had a great time and hope you did too. Thank you to keynote speakers, workshop leaders, talk presenters and all the participants. Thanks to the sponsors, @funecology.bsky.social and to @zslofficial.bsky.social for hosting us! we hope to see all of you again next year!💧🌍🧪
September 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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at #BESAG2025 we had a great artist, Oliver Leger (www.olivierleger.co.uk), exhibiting his art which was an intersection between science and art. He gave a wonderful interactive talk too! #art #science #sciart 🧪💦💧🌊🧑‍🎨
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Tom Smith from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social is our #BESAG annual prize winner for outstanding contribution for his career stage! well done, Tom, and great talk too! #BESAG2025 #aquatic #marine #freshwater #bodysize #ecology #evolution 💦💧🌊🧪🌍
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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the #BESAG committee had a great time and hope you did too. Thank you to keynote speakers, workshop leaders, talk presenters and all the participants. Thanks to the sponsors, @funecology.bsky.social and to @zslofficial.bsky.social for hosting us! we hope to see all of you again next year!💧🌍🧪
September 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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We would love to stay in contact: you can sign up to our mailing list, follow us on bsky & join us for the annual BES meeting, and for next year BESAG conference! let' talk & share #aquatic #marine #freshwater #ocean #brackish 💦🌊💧🌍🧪
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#BESAG2025 #ECRs price winners:🥇Rosie Williams(prize from @funecology.bsky.social) & 🥈 @ap3489.bsky.social (@zslofficial.bsky.social price)!Rosie: sea surface temperature, pollution and infectious disease mortality in short-beaked common dolphins & Adam: how bioturbators benefit C and nutrients
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM