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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · 5d

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · 5d

& we ran a workshop on how to upscale conclusions in invasion science with a team of biomechanics, network ecologists, engineers & invasion scientists

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · 5d

This week was full of training, workshops and seminars. @leopoldadrianus.bsky.social taught the group ecomorphology, @ecoinvasions.bsky.social gave an insightful lecture on context dependent invasion impacts

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · 8d

@leopoldadrianus.bsky.social teaching @universityofleeds.bsky.social post grads the ins and outs of fish eco morphology

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 13d

Crayfish in Journal of Biogeography
We analyse how natural and human historical events have shaped the diversity of Austropotamobius crayfish
Strikingly, lots of taxonomic work remains to be done
Great team, led by Lucian Pârvulescu
@ebdonana.bsky.social
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · Sep 5

They're back.

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H/t @drpauldorfman.bsky.social

Jellyfish Force another French Nuclear Reactor to Shut Down | OilPrice.com

For a second time in three weeks, a swarm of jellyfish has forced the closure of a nuclear reactor in France in another curious incident in which jellyfish entered the filters of the water cooling sys...

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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · Sep 1

Indonesia's peatlands are home to endangered orangutans, as well as economically important fish species. They also help prevent flooding and drought, lower local temperatures and minimise saltwater intrusion.

Choose #sustainable #palmoil to save #orangutans!

www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/li...

Indonesians fight to save peat land from being converted for agriculture

Indonesia has more tropical peatland than any other country, but it is also quickly losing this poorly understood ecosystem.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · Sep 1

What was known (& IV)
This shipment fits biogeographical patterns (a NW Italian crayfish lineage inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula) and several other evidences of non-nativeness, as explained in this paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interdisciplinarity to reconstruct historical introductions: solving the status of cryptogenic crayfish

Anciently introduced species can be confounded with native species because introduction pre-dates the first species inventories or because of the loss of the collective memory of the introductions. T...

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eric R. Larson @ericrlarson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our search for invasive crayfish barriers includes more than just dams or irrigation diversions. Because the virile crayfish is intolerant of stream drying (doi.org/10.1086/725318), intermittent reaches could present barriers to upstream spread to permanent streams in the mountains.

An isolated stream pool above a culvert (not visible, where the photographer is standing) with a dry bed upstream. The pool is turbid and surrounded by dry steppe, with mountains visible in the distance under a mostly sunny sky.

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Aug 1

Furthermore - we are a close knit community of friends & colleagues- where disagreement & critique are key to developing ideas. We continue to work together in a positive manner.

Misrepresenting our response as villainising is - as you say - a lack of fidelity to the original works

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Aug 1

Villainising was never the premise of our response, rather a commentary from the invasion science and global migration network regarding shallow analyses & sensitive commentary - you can mean well but represent yourselves in a way that disadvantages both disciplines & maligns your points

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Aug 1

My problem with the original paper is its reckless application of invasion concepts to human migration. That would've been fine had it unambiguously showed how scientifically inappropriate such comparisons were, rather than offer weak critiques & claim that insights were to be gained from them.
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Teun Everts @teuneverts.bsky.social · Jul 31

Painful to see how our comprehensive, interdisciplinary review on the dangers of comparing biological #invasions to human migration was misinterpreted and decontextualized. We share the same vision, and urge for discussion rather than villainization.

Below our response.

doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Scholarly discourse in polarizing interdisciplinary contexts

“Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.” (Dante, 1867/1320, Inferno, Canto III, line 51). These words could apply to both our original work (Ahme

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Aug 1

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*?

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*which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jul 31

Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign

Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jul 31

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

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SHOAL @shoalorg.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sacred sites & cultural practices key to #Indonesia fish conservation. 🇮🇩 🐟

This helps highlight the crucial importance of #culture and #community in ensuring the sustainability of #conservation projects.

news.mongabay.com/2025/07/sacr...

Sacred sites & cultural practices key to Indonesia fish conservation: Study

Researchers have recently found that sacred waters protected by Indigenous traditions are key to fish conservation in Indonesia, yet they remain largely unrecognized and excluded from national framewo...

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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · Jul 25

Orangutan Land Trust has been an influential part of this success. Your support makes a real difference!

"Indonesia’s forest conservation success comes not just from political will, but also from corporate efforts and pressure from civil society groups."

news.mongabay.com/2025/07/wher...

Where there’s political will, there’s a way to stop tropical deforestation, study finds

Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts surveyed for a new study — with strong political commitment often arising out o...

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Thiago Nascimento @thiagovnascimento.bsky.social · Jul 25

Happy to share that if you are interested in large sample hydrology datasets and specifically water quality data you can now check our now officially published dataset:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Swiss data quality: augmenting CAMELS-CH with isotopes, water quality, agricultural and atmospheric data - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Swiss data quality: augmenting CAMELS-CH with isotopes, water quality, agricultural and atmospheric data

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Conservation must be twinned with habitat protection - the peat swamps of Bangka are being destroyed by illegal palm oil plantations

See our video here, on the mission to save Betta burdigala vimeo.com/1077004302

@shoalorg.bsky.social @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social
#forgottonfishes

Sanctuary | Betta Burdigala

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-betta-burdigala --- The Betta burdigala team (Dr Veryl Hasan, Dr Josie South, Fitri Sil Valen, Ahmad Fahrul Syarif, Dr Tan…

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 25

The Betta burdigala project has been exceptionally successful in navigating increasingly complex problems and we want other communities to benefit from this approach to inclusive conservation

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ornamental fisheries can be described as wicked problems where solutions are difficult to agree upon. But here we set out a pathway to inclusion of all parties which can support co-developed conservation outcomes where no one feels isolated or excluded from the fishery.

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Aquarium trade fisheries are fraught with bad opinions and misconceptions. Usually targeted at communities who know the environment inside out but exploit it for much needed livelihoods. Trade and conservation don’t have to be mutually exclusive

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Early stakeholder cohesion in wild‐capture freshwater ornamental fisheries can support conservation outcomes

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 24

In promoting non native species aquaculture, are we actually putting vulnerable people more at risk from malnutrition?

@zarahpattison.bsky.social
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
@bioscienceleeds.bsky.social
@cp-trendsecolevol.bksy.social

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 24

We demonstrate pathways by which non-native species could inadvertently cause nutritional and health deficits - an enormous yet understudied aspect of biological invasions which may be experienced more/less by different subsets of society.

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Josie South @josiesouth.bsky.social · Jul 24

Fish are a critical source of accessible food - but non-native species disrupt ecological networks. This could have unprecedented outcomes for nutrient and toxin accumulation when aquatic food is consumed by humans, with socioeconomically variable outcomes

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Redirecting

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