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SFS Students @sfs-src.bsky.social · 4d

Special Sessions will complement contributed sessions, which cover major topics, including biogeochemistry; microbial, molecular, invertebrate, and fish ecology; hydrology, geomorphology, ecosystem dynamics, restoration, climate change, and biodiversity. Visit sfsannualmeeting.org for more 🐟🌊 (2/2)

SFS 2026 Annual Meeting

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 5d

See you there, Jono! Excited about your talk!

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for sharing (and publishing) our work!

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Jean-Philippe Lessard @bugecology.bsky.social · 6d

New paper alert at Ecological Monographs!!!

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Society for Freshwater Science @freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 11d

💡Have a great idea for SFS?

📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen

🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan

🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 12d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 12d

New paper from our lab: The use of #microplastics as case-building material by larval caddisflies facilitates the transfer of plastic (& potentially its associated contaminants) to predatory fish.

Larval caddisflies (Limnephilidae) that had been exposed to microplastics (PET) and natural materials will readily incorporate plastic into their cases.

Plastic in gastrointestinal tract of a freshwater fish (brown bullhead) exposed to larval caddisflies whose cases incorporate plastic.

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 12d

New drought impacts research in "Ecological Monographs"👇

Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 13d

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time

Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13d

Biodiversity modulates the cross-community scaling relationship in changing environments #allometry #scaling 🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments

Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 13d

amazing - can't wait to be back next year!!

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 13d

Mo'orea, indeed! Will read, seems like a cool paper...

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 13d

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time

Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...

dx.doi.org

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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · 14d

Nice article by @jimrobbins.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on one of my favorites - marbled murrelet - and its potential fate given changes to our forests, oceans and the US Endangered Species Act. @coforegonstate.bsky.social 🧪

A Tiny Seabird Faces Growing Threats in the Forest

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 15d

Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)?

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs.

Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 15d

Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬

Rachel Carlson @rachelspatial.bsky.social · 15d

We're hiring! My lab is seeking a 2-yr Postdoc in 🌊 marine ecology + 🛰️ remote sensing. You'll work with a big team (including @albertruhi.bsky.social @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social) to study the impacts of changing rainfall on marine freshwater plumes + coastal organisms. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05114

Postdoc Scholar - Marine ecology – ESPM The Coastal Climate Resilience Lab - MCECO - ESPM Ecosystem Sciences Div - Carlson Lab

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very nice work! We’re doing research on a related topic (lc-PUFA transfer & drought), we should connect!

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Frank Burdon @fburdon.bsky.social · Sep 2

How does trophic connectivity between different ecosystems work at a landscape scale? We applied a novel conceptual framework with functional traits and fatty acid biomarkers to assess direct and indirect effects of landscape drivers on cross-ecosystem connectivity in stream-riparian #foodwebs

Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs

Stream and riparian habitats are meta-ecosystems that can be strongly connected via the emergence of aquatic insects, which form an important prey subsidy for terrestrial consumers. Anthropogenic per...

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Aug 15

Rapid evolution occurs, but speciation rates are nowhere near fast enough to replace the loss of entire endemic lineages.

Bioinvasions & other stressors are causing global biodiversity losses that could take millions of years to fill - or are irreversible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looming extinctions due to invasive species: Irreversible loss of ecological strategy and evolutionary history

Consequences of invasive species on phylogenetic and functional diversity of birds and mammals.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · Aug 14

CC @aslo.org

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · Aug 14

We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. Apply and join a great interdisciplinary Department! @natureatcal.bsky.social @agu.org @freshwaterscience.bsky.social
#academicjobs

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · Aug 11

An experiment into the impacts of the invasive mosquitofish on the threatened Spanish toothcarp reveal that water quality impairment and resource competition are significant factors.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...

@irene-gil-luna.bsky.social ‬ @garciaberthou.bsky.social

Invasive mosquitofish impact a threatened toothcarp through water quality impairment and resource competition

Invasive non-native species are an important cause of biodiversity loss, particularly in fresh waters. The mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki are among the world’s worst invasive species: they have cause...

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · Aug 12

JOB: Tenure track position in Freshwater Ecology at the U of Calgary: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Here is an alternate take on my OpEd defending Science. As i mentioned last time there is a hunger from the public to hear from science experts. I encourage more of us to write to papers where you have roots on matters defending science, facts and democracy

www.ptreyeslight.com/opinion/we-m...

We must defend science and environmental data - Point Reyes Light

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls,...

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · Aug 8

Such an inspiring story, and so symbolic - teens, all descendants of the region’s Indigenous tribes, paddling along a river that has been recently freed by the largest dam removal project in American history!

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.

The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Indigenous teen kayakers make the first descent of a sacred river, freed from its dams
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15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.

The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.

wapo.st

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