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Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir @fishiceland.bsky.social · Aug 27

Love how curious these baby (young-of-year) Atlantic cod are😍

#teamfish #ecology #iceland

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The American Genetic Association @theaga.bsky.social · Aug 12

This advancement will boost genomic research and efforts to protect this threatened species.
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author: cypayne.github.io
#JHered #OpenAccess

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The American Genetic Association @theaga.bsky.social · Aug 12

Here's a new genome from the CCGP: The Lahontan Cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi). This species, endemic to Western North America, may be in danger of extinction.
Photo: NDOW

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Jérôme Marty (he/him) @freshwater.bsky.social · Aug 12

You are invited to submit a session to the 2026 Joint Aquatic Conference of the @iaglr.bsky.social and @Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences (SCAS-SCSA), and hosted by @experimentallakes.bsky.social !!!

Check out the call for sessions at: iaglr.org/iaglr-scas26... - Deadline: September 19.

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Giacomo Bernardi @embiotoca.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our new paper on population genomics of black surfperch. I am incredibly happy, decades in the making....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Population Genomics, Local Adaptation and Cryptic Speciation in a Temperate Reef Fish, the Black Surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, Using Genome‐Wide Resequencing

The black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni , exhibits limited dispersal due to its lack of a pelagic larval stage and offers a unique model for studying local adaptation and potential cryptic speciation...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr Vincent Raoult @sawsharkman.bsky.social · Aug 2

Cutting teeth probably let smaller sharks get higher in the food web than those with grasping teeth. Awesome stable isotope study led by fabulous PhD graduate Sabrina Riveron!

@griffith.edu.au

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Shearing Tooth Morphology May Allow Sharks to Access Higher Trophic Levels at Smaller Sizes

Predator morphology imposes limitations on prey selection due to biomechanical constraints, making some prey functionally inaccessible and thereby constraining predator trophic niches. We assessed ho....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Merv @merv1965.bsky.social · Jul 15

Young Blackbird with a Blackberry, today at Catcott

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Jul 12

Skeleton shrimps dancing in the docks (make me think about baby groot). #MarineLife #PortBiodibersity

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cars-afs.bsky.social @cars-afs.bsky.social · Jun 16

‼️ Calling All Students ‼️

🪼 2025 Peter A. Larkin Awards for Excellence in Fisheries 🪼
Applications are being accepted

DUE Friday, June 20

$200 Cash & Travel to @scas-scsa.bsky.social #2026

Email YOUR application to
[email protected] today!

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Robert Arlinghaus @rarlinghausfish.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fish and Fisheries is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief. Please apply to guide the future of this leading journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Fish and Fisheries

Fish and Fisheries is an interdisciplinary journal covering fish biology, fisheries and aquaculture – from molecular biology & genetics to behavior & conservation.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 Last discounted seat available!
The final spot at the 60 EUR discounted rate is still open for our Spatial Data Visualisation in R course.

Please feel free to share this opportunity with researchers and students from developing countries who may be interested.

👉 forms.gle/VzUEPdrKFQm8...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · Jun 9

28-mo postdoc OPEN TO ALL in Cork 🇮🇪. Hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ucc.ie. 🇪🇺-funded BLUESHORES Project. Collaborators: Laura Airoldi (Uni Padova 🇮🇹), Tjeerd Bouma & @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social (NIOZ 🇳🇱) Start: 1/9/25. Salary: €45k–€52k. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

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Anna Brüniche-Olsen @annabruniche.bsky.social · Jun 16

GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges #popgen #consgen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges

www.nature.com

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Aquatic Animal Health Team @a2s-ciimar.bsky.social · Jun 16

Just finished a fantastic week at the Flow Cytometry #GRINNAQUA Summer School, organized and hosted by our project partner INIA. Great mix of hands-on training, insightful talks, and engaging discussions. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen!

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Jun 13

💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫

I’m hiring a short-term program manager:

* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

#ConservationJobs

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Sarah Salisbury @salisburyfish.bsky.social · Jun 8

🚨🚨🚨Funded PhD position in my lab‪ @exeter.ac.uk: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

💪🐟 Project will investigate sea lice resistance in salmonids

🗓️Deadline: June 20

🔁Please share widely, I appreciate any re-posts!

✉️Feel free to reach out with any questions.

#academicJobs #PhD #phdposition
🧬🐟🧪💻

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's online! Happy to have contributed to this publication by @vishruthvenkat.bsky.social @vprincelab.bsky.social #DevBio @devbiol.bsky.social on the development of the #zebrafish anterior lateral line and the tissue-tissue interactions that shape it www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Development of the zebrafish anterior lateral line system is influenced by underlying cranial neural crest

The mechanosensory lateral line system of aquatic vertebrates comprises a superficial network of distributed sensory organs, the neuromasts, which are…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · Jun 1

Going to Sherbrooke in July for the CSEE conference? Need a lift from T.O., Montréal, Québec, Ottawa or similar locales? Here is a link for the carpool: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Not registered yet? The program is posted, looks exceptional. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...

event.fourwaves.com

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Tomas Marques Bonet @tmarquesbonet.bsky.social · May 19

Postdoc opportunity! The Comparative Genomics lab (@IBE_Barcelona, @UPFBarcelona) is seeking a postdoc with experience to work on environmental DNA and mammalian monitoring together with @estherlizano !
CVs -> [email protected] #postdoc #genomics #eDNA #conservation #Barcelona

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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · May 16

And @salisburyfish.bsky.social wins first prize for the beat on oral communication! 🎉🎉
Well done Sarah !
#ISGAXV

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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · May 12

Feed represents an important portion of production cost (30-70%) and has a big carbon footprint. Selecting more efficient fish will help reduce the ecological impact of aquaculture while increasing income to farmers and maintaining production to feed the world (with fish, not fish feed 😉🐟)

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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · May 12

Really interesting talk in light of Marc's one, seeing multiple phenotypic techniques for the same trait. Questions of feeding behaviour remain to be answered when using feeding stations. But AI and image recognition models will help with this very important trait

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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · May 12

Back after coffee at #ISGAXV and another talk on feed efficiency, by Prof Peng Xu from Xiamen University. Using feeding stations inspired by the dry livestock world they developed an automatic real time model to measure individual feed intake in tanks and managed to improve FCR 🧬🖥️🐟

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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · May 12

Does integrating functional annotation data in genomic prediction models improve the accuracy of the prediction? In livestock it depends on the trait, the species, and the type of functional data... With mixed results. We're more and more interested in testing this in aqua species
#ISGAXV
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