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SFS Students @sfs-src.bsky.social · 5d

Submit your proposal for workshops and special sessions for the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting relating to the theme “Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities,” or other related emerging topics. Deadline: October 15th, 2025. (1/2)

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jul 26

Inspiring plenary @steveormerod.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of both long-term data series and of sheer, unbridled passion in advancing freshwater science and management #SEFS14

Steve Ormerod @steveormerod.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thanking those who have inspired and supported me, and acknowledging those in whose footsteps I’ve walked for 45 years, at this week’s #SEFS14 - The fourteenth Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, #Bolu, Türkiye

@one-cardiffuni.bsky.social

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jun 27

Drought is a natural part of climatic variability, but interacts with human pressures to cause biodiversity loss in rivers.

Habitat restoration can both reduce flood risk and promote ecological resilience to drought – a win-win – but investment is needed.

theconversation.com/how-restorin...

How restoring river catchments can minimise drought and flood risks

Natural infrastructure can be restored in ways that reduce both flood risk and the effects of drought.

theconversation.com

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jun 26

An honour to host @freshwaterbio.bsky.social at NTU. Truly inspiring speakers including @carlsayer.bsky.social @davetickner.bsky.social @louiselavictoire.bsky.social @steveormerod.bsky.social. The time to act to protect our freshwater ecosystems is NOW.

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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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jun 13

Last-minute change to the line up! We welcome @samtasker.bsky.social to talk about how the @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social Headstart project will kickstart nature recovery by restoring headwaters.

Want to come? Hurry! There are only 8 in-person tickets left and registration closes on Sunday.

Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 16

📢 Registration is open 📢
The 10th (yes, 10th!) Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting will be in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus (and on Teams) on Tuesday 24 June 2025
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event🎫!
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 ☕🍪🥐& 🥪!
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 top-notch science🔬🪳💦🌿!
www.eventbrite.com/e/temporary-...

Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting 2025

Our 10th Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting - in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus and live online via Teams.

www.eventbrite.com

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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 …

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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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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Apr 3

Another week left to get your abstract in for the SEFS14 conference www.sefs14.com - deadline now 10 April.

@messamat.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to our session SS-02 Science and management of non-perennial rivers and streams. Lots of others to choose from too www.sefs14.com/sessions

Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Mar 1

I've signed the petition "Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack".

The recovery pack would increase investment and regulation, helping improve the state of chalk streams - globally rare rivers of ecological and cultural importance.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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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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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 19

@messamat.bsky.social & I will host the special session "Science and management of non-perennial rivers and streams" at SEFS14: the 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences in Bolu Türkiye 20–25 July 2025. We invite you to submit an abstract. Deadline 15 March.
www.sefs14.com/online-regis...

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14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS14) Bolu, Türkiye

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 17

This year's superb keynotes are @tdatry.bsky.social and Prof. Angela Gurnell.

We welcome back friends @riversandpeople.bsky.social and, all the way from down under, @ryanmburrows.bsky.social.

Seven practitioner speakers hail from @theriverstrust.bsky.social, Env Ag, Wildfish and county councils.

Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 16

📢 Registration is open 📢
The 10th (yes, 10th!) Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting will be in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus (and on Teams) on Tuesday 24 June 2025
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event🎫!
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 ☕🍪🥐& 🥪!
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 top-notch science🔬🪳💦🌿!
www.eventbrite.com/e/temporary-...

Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting 2025

Our 10th Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting - in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus and live online via Teams.

www.eventbrite.com

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 16

📢 Registration is open 📢
The 10th (yes, 10th!) Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting will be in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus (and on Teams) on Tuesday 24 June 2025
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 event🎫!
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 ☕🍪🥐& 🥪!
𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 top-notch science🔬🪳💦🌿!
www.eventbrite.com/e/temporary-...

Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting 2025

Our 10th Temporary Rivers & Streams Meeting - in person at Nottingham Trent University's Clifton Campus and live online via Teams.

www.eventbrite.com

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Feb 5

18-month postdoc quantifying the biomass of aquatic insects emerging from temporary freshwater habitats and modelling associated ecosystem processes. Based in Rennes, France.
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - H/F postdoc Insectes Aquatiques Rennes

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Thibault Datry @tdatry.bsky.social · Jan 23

🌍 Join the #DRYvER Final #Webinar!
📅 20 March 2025 | 🕒 14:00 CET

Discover the key outcomes of the amazing work that was performed by DRYvER over the past 4 years.

🔗 Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4cef2e...

The final agenda will be shared soon. Stay tuned, and don’t miss out!

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jan 8

See you in Puerto Rico @ecosarahflynn.bsky.social et al.! I hope to share our team's work to characterize dry-phase plant communities as indicators of anthropogenic nutrient pressures in non-perennial streams 🌿

Sarah Flynn @ecosarahflynn.bsky.social · Dec 18

Fellow nonperennial stream enthusiasts and researchers! We are excited to announce that we are hosting a special session at SFS 2025 “From the mountains to the seas: Expanding the sciences of non-perennial streams."

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jan 4

All are invited to sign this petition in support of saving the free-flowing Tagliamento—the King of Alpine rivers—from fragmentation by two proposed barriers
www.freetagliamento.org/it_IT/home-e...

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ITA ENG SIGN THE PETITION! FIND OUT MORE 815 scholars and experts from 35 countries have signed an appeal to ask the competent bodies to guarantee in every way the protection of this river and in…

www.freetagliamento.org

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Jan 2

Abbasi @messamat.bsky.social & Döll present a Europe-wide quantification of future streamflow intermittence. Huge variability across the continent. For my beloved chalk streams, average flows could increase—but low flows get lower, meaning more stream drying essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

Increased Streamflow Intermittence in Europe due to Climate Change Projected by Combining Global Hydrological Modeling and Machine Learning

Freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services are under stress as climate change alters streamflow intermittence. Some historically perennial rivers are now drying in most years, while non-perennial ...

essopenarchive.org

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Dec 11

My first first-authored paper for a while is out 🙌! It has a hilarious title 🤔🙄! And our findings could inform robust macroinvertebrate-based condition assessment across perennial and temporary small streams 🤞@rsarremejane.bsky.social

Available open access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....

A Kick in the Headwaters: Evaluating a Macroinvertebrate Sampling Method for Ecological Condition Monitoring in Small Streams

Small streams dominate river networks and collectively support high biodiversity, but are rarely included in regulatory biomonitoring programmes. Macroinvertebrate communities are effective biomonito...

doi.org

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Nov 26

Excited to be at the @royalsociety.bsky.social to speak at the Yusuf Hamied workshop, exploring themes of biodiversity and water sustainability with colleagues from India and the UK @alistairboxall.bsky.social @davetickner.bsky.social @jmbecologist.bsky.social @pennyjohnes.bsky.social

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Nov 25

Deadline looming! Submit a special session or workshop proposal for SEFS14 in Bolu, Türkiye by this Saturday 30 November. @messamat.bsky.social and I have stuck in one about... guess what?! Temporary streams 🦐🐞😁!
www.sefs14.com/workshops-sp...
@louiselavictoire.bsky.social

Workshops / Special Sessions | SEFS14

Workshops / Special Sessions - 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, Bolu, Türkiye

www.sefs14.com

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Nov 24

Joining @davetickner.bsky.social, two other (equally awesome) keynote speakers are now confirmed for the FBA Meeting: @michcjackson.bsky.social and Prof. Steve Ormerod 😁💦

Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Nov 22

Save the date! I'm delighted that Nottingham Trent Uni. will host the Freshwater Biological Association's 'restored' Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June 2025. Keynotes include @davetickner.bsky.social and other speakers include @louiselavictoire.bsky.social
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sa...

Save The Date! The FBA Annual Scientific Meeting 25 June 2025 — Freshwater Biological Association

We are excited to announce the restoration of the FBA Annual Scientific Meeting. This conference-style event will showcase the research and practice of FBA members including staff, early career scient...

www.fba.org.uk

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Dave Tickner @davetickner.bsky.social · Nov 23

Self-explanatory, I hope. New additions welcome (DM me).

go.bsky.app/6zW3ym4

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Nov 22

Save the date! I'm delighted that Nottingham Trent Uni. will host the Freshwater Biological Association's 'restored' Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June 2025. Keynotes include @davetickner.bsky.social and other speakers include @louiselavictoire.bsky.social
www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sa...

Save The Date! The FBA Annual Scientific Meeting 25 June 2025 — Freshwater Biological Association

We are excited to announce the restoration of the FBA Annual Scientific Meeting. This conference-style event will showcase the research and practice of FBA members including staff, early career scient...

www.fba.org.uk

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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · Nov 21

Today I'm at a 'Catchment Processes during Droughts' workshop at Uni of Bristol (UoB). Thanks Gemma Coxon (UoB) and Stu Allen (Environment Agency) for organizing this chance to discuss research and practice to support system-wide drought resilience @wilsonchan.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social

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