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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · 19d

🌳🍒🫐It's a mast year! 🌳🍒🫐

There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · 19d

Ever seen what #freshwater #mussel babies look like? 👇🏼

Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · Sep 8

For #FreshwaterPearlMussel Monday... we are excited to share with you a magical moment filmed at the FBA Ark.

The film shows glochidial release from a female mussel from the River Clun, a priority river population for the FBA's species recovery programme.

More info:
www.fba.org.uk/freshwater-p...

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · 23d

A spotlight on the #RiverWensum in Norfolk. Simon Johnson, Executive Director at FBA, issues a heartfelt call to action to help save England’s forgotten & sorely neglected #chalkriver.

Read the full article 👉The Wensum: England’s dying and forgotten chalk river:
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/th...

The Wensum: England’s dying and forgotten chalk river — Freshwater Biological Association

After many years away, Simon Johnson, FBA Executive Director, recently re-connected with the River Wensum in Norfolk. Once bursting with nature and one of England’s most famous fisheries, he found thi...

www.fba.org.uk

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · 21d

Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its #waterpollution rules to protect #freshwater ecosystems... before it’s too late! 💧🌍💙

View the full statement and signatories:

www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc...

#WaterPollution #EUEnvironment

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · Jul 21

Please allow us to share a marvellously magical moment on this mussel Monday!

The 5000th juvenile #FreshwaterPearlMussel bred here at the FBA Ark has been tagged, ready for release in the river Irt!

You can find out more about #SpeciesRecovery at the FBA Ark here:
www.fba.org.uk/freshwater-p...

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Jul 21

Releasing juvenile #freshwater pearl #mussels two channels today, less than 5 metres apart, one spring fed, the other a small side channel of the main stem river (surface water). The spring fed one was 12.5 ºC, the side channel 17.7ºC! That's over 5ºC difference in the space of <5m!

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Jul 5

Summer time, harvest time 😋

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you so much Rachel for your hospitality. EVERYTHING was wonderful!

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Jun 26

What a wonderful day we had at the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting at Nottingham Trent University. Brilliant discussions on ghost ponds, climate change, pollution, outdoor swimming, being 'activist scientist' and the concept of riverkin. Can't wait to do it again next year!

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · May 17

Waaaaaa! Take my money!

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 29

#Tagging day @freshwaterbio.bsky.social preparing our #endangered #mussels for life in the wild

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 29

Last 4 hours in our #GreenMatchFund campaign to help save #ArcticCharr in the #LakeDistrict. Please donate if you can or share our campaign with those who might donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05.... Would be great to reach 1/3 of our target of £6666. Thank you!

#Windermere #freshwater #fish

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 25

Great to see our Arctic charr recovery project gaining traction in the press. Until Tuesday 29th April you can donate to our Green Match fundraising campaign to double your donation donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 25

We're also raising money for this vital project. All donations matched until 29 April donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Lake District Charr Recovery & Management (CHARM) – Big Give

We want to save one of England's rarest fish species, Arctic charr, from extinction. We will engage communities in the …

donate.biggive.org

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · Apr 22

Will you help us save #ArcticCharr from extinction in the #LakeDistrict?

Our campaign to raise funds for the Lake District Charr Recovery & Management (LD-CHARM) project has just launched!

From 22-29 April your donations will be doubled!

Find out more & donate:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 22

We’re raising funds through the #GreenMatchFund for our #LakeDistrict #ArcticCharr Recovery and Management project, aka LD-CHARM 🐟

bit.ly/42BgnII

If you can, please donate. Each donation is matched pound-for-pound up to £10K, meaning we could unlock £20K of funding for £10K of donations!

Lake District Charr Recovery & Management (CHARM) – Big Give

We want to save one of England's rarest fish species, Arctic charr, from extinction. We will engage communities in the …

bit.ly

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 17

Epic week at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum sampling #ArcticCharr scales for our #CHARM project. Investigating #genetics of English #LakeDistrict populations to aid #conservation.

Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme

www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 16

Next week we're taking part in the Green Match Fund to raise money for #conservation of Arctic #charr in the #LakeDistrict. Every donation up to £10k is doubled so please give if you can!

Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are excited to have a #GreenMatchFund campaign running, 22-29 April, to raise money to help save #ArcticCharr from extinction in the #LakeDistrict.
1 week countdown before the launch when you will be able to double your donation @biggive.bsky.social!

More info👇
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Save the date for the the Lake District Charr Recovery & Management Green Match Fund, from 22-29 April, and have your donation doubled.

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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · Apr 15

We're so close to our £1000 target to start funding the tools and equipment we need for our new #tree nursery. Donations and shares gratefully received. Many thanks.
@envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @domspracklen.bsky.social

gofund.me/ddccc2ea

Donate to Support our wildflower and tree nursery in the Duddon Valley, organised by Restoring Hardknott Forest

Can you help us build a community nursery to grow rare wildfl… Restoring Hardknott Forest needs your support for Support our wildflower and tree nursery in the Duddon Valley

gofund.me

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 12

No you don't. Just get ChatGPT to write the command and then go to the image generator thingy to input it and upload your photo. Took a bit of trial and error to get it right but doable for free!

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 12

Much fun with #ChatGPT making my own freshwater biologist action figure... Complete with mussels, notebook and traffic cone (bathyscope 🤪). Show me your action figures!

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Louise Lavictoire @louiselavictoire.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thrilled to have been awarded a @naturalengland.bsky.social #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme grant to investigate use and condition of #ArcticCharr spawning grounds and population genetics in the #LakeDistrict

@freshwaterbio.bsky.social

www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/hu...

Huge funding boost from Natural England for threatened fish in the Lake District — Freshwater Biological Association

We are delighted to announce that the Lake District Arctic Charr Recovery and Management project has been awarded Natural England Species Recovery Programme funding to support vital research to help s...

www.fba.org.uk

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 28

Excited that Nottingham Trent Uni will host the Freshwater Biological Association Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June.

Awesome lineup including keynotes @davetickner.bsky.social, @michcjackson.bsky.social, Steve Ormerod and Julia Martin-Ortega.

Registration is open: t.co/GRdq6E33v2

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Lynsey Harper @lynseyrharper.bsky.social · Mar 25

Fantastic to see the State of Windermere in 2024 report and Windermere Integrated Science Plan (WISP) published! Over 90 yrs of information and data on Windermere and its catchment summarised during my time with @freshwaterbio.bsky.social, which was only possible with the help of many people!

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are delighted to share the #StateOfWindermere report & #WindermereIntegratedSciencePlan, by @lynseyrharper.bsky.social. Collating data to provide an overview of the current ecological status of Windermere, detailing pressures from #ClimateChange & human use.

Read:👇
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/th...

The State of Windermere report and the Windermere Integrated Science Plan now published, text on aerial image of Windermere from Fell Foot.

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