Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Deadline tomorrow! Don't be shy! 037
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 22/09/2026#ICYMI: My latest publication uses secondary observations on @inaturalist.bsky.social to expand our knowledge of predatory gastropod diets! 🐚🐌 Check out the #openaccess early view of the paper at @canjzoology.bsky.social @cdnsciencepub.com! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... 🧪🌍🦤🦑cdnsciencepub.comiNaturalist observations drastically expand knowledge of naticid predation in the northwest AtlanticComprehensive knowledge of predator diets is essential for studying predator-prey dynamics and understanding predation risk for species of economic importance and conservation concern. Globally, natic... 02812
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’s NSERC/FRQ application season here in 🇨🇦, which means I’m reviewing many student proposals. And I am *so grateful* to be able to send them to @stephenbheard.bsky.social’s books to back up my writing advice! I hear there’s 3rd edition 👀 (I just revisited the chapter on brevity, and it is 👌🏼) 261
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Canadian Journal of Forest Research @canjforestres.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We love to publish great science like this! 022
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Roxy is very in tune with her supper time. When it's time, she'll let you know by getting close, putting her paw on you, and starting directly into your soul. She's usually within +/- 10 mins of 6:30 lol. 010
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's super nice to see the early-view version of this paper published at @canjzoology.bsky.social: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... 131
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Up in Charlo (northern New Brunswick) for the rest of the week for some fieldwork and meetings. It's too bad there aren't any nice accommodations up here. This view of the Appalachian Mountains from my chalet is just horrible. I am definitely not going for a walk on the beach later that's for sure. 150
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This #PeerReviewWeek we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us over the last year. We really appreciate the time and effort spent in helping us to publish quality research. List here: buff.ly/h2wgahV 💫 044
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Our resident beaver has significantly upped his stick chewing game... 🪵🦫 130
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The neighbourhood fart squirrel was active around the garage and shed last night 🦨 The arseholes' noses were going wild during their morning pissenchit. 100
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 09/09/2026#Seaweed forests are widely viewed as natural climate solutions, but warming oceans are driving their rapid decline. Karen Filbee-Dexter, @twernberg.bsky.social &co reveal that losses are outpacing restoration efforts by orders of magnitude, raising urgent concerns @plosbiology.org 🧪 buff.ly/C8mfltu 0117
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Probably the best butter sauce I've ever made tonight! A tasty butter paneer 🥘 010
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A little Sunday afternoon mock up 🪚 🔨 Can you tell what it is? 000
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It was nice to see this paper from Ethan Meimoun and Daniël Lakens pop up in my Google Scholar notifications this week: doi.org/10.1177/1745... (During Suicide Prevention Month, no less!)doi.orgWhy It Is (Probably) Not Your Fault if Your Studies Do Not Work Out - Ethan Meimoun, Daniël Lakens, 2026Early career researchers, because of their role in data collection and analysis, are often first to experience the emotional impact of null or nonreplicable res... 1135
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026UL Lafayette-led study finds climate change won’t simply shrink marine lifelouisiana.eduUL Lafayette-led study finds climate change won’t simply shrink marine lifeResearch led by scientists at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette challenges a long-held assumption about the effects of climate change on marine life: warmer oceans won’t simply make animals 1118
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Can somebody please publish a Worldview or Correspondence in Nature urging scientific journals to not give credence to this kind of schoolyard buffoonery by allowing these name changes into their journals? 150
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪James A Campbell @rtbecard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Here's what I wrote when I peer reviewed it in an earlier submission... My jaw is on the floor as to how this got accepted... 101
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪James A Campbell @rtbecard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It was submitted to Nature sci. reports and rejected (rightly so), then accepted this year to Proc. Royal Soc. There was just one peer reviewer who opened with: "I apologise that I cannot review the main academic portion of this manuscript - the maths and physics is too far out of my field." 101
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪James A Campbell @rtbecard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Proceeding of the Royal society" is now officially on my list of absolutely shit journals... They published the worst paper I have every peer reviewed (and the worst piece of scientific writing I have ever read, by far). 112
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... 06771
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Sometimes a fella just needs to sit on his front lawn and do some solo sunset drinkin 🍻🍻 120
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This pic was shared in a public clamming group I'm a part of, meant to educate group members on the anatomy of a clam shell Looks great at first glance But look closely: it's nothing more than AI-generated slop & is grossly incorrect The overall look & wonky "m" in umbo are dead giveaways 1101
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Maria Duynisveld @maria-duynisveld.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Just had to smile when I read the iNat newsletter this month... I knew our paper would be featured but I didn't expect to see another Nova Scotian! Super interesting work, Jeff! 111
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Holiday in the shed. Overloaded a wall-mounted shelf in the office and she came tumbling down the other day, so put together a small bookshelf to sit alongside the desk today. 100
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026📷 jeffclements on iNaturalist 📍 Canada 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDayinaturalist.org 061
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A rare find: Galeatus spinifrons, an Old World lace bug species introduced to North America. There are only 11 iNaturalist records of the species around the world, and you're looking at the only one from Eastern Canada (so far)! 1512
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Our paper documenting the arrival of Manila clams (Ruditapes philippinarum) on the east coast of North America is out! The arrival of this species here marks the presence of this species on every major coast in the northern hemisphere—a truly circumglobal species. 030
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Aly Putnam, Ph.D. (she/her) @aputnam.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The clams are out of the bag! 🦪🎉 Our paper documenting the first established population of #Manilaclams in the Northwestern Atlantic is officially published! Read it here: rdcu.be/fr06Ordcu.beCompleting the journey in the global north: the Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) (Bivalvia: Veneridae) arrives in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean 184
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Manila clams are one of the most successful marine invaders globally, but have remained absent from the east coast of North America. That is, until now... We document the establishment of R. philippinarum in eastern NA, with Boston as the apparent epicentre. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...link.springer.comCompleting the journey in the global north: the Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) (Bivalvia: Veneridae) arrives in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean 020
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Vacation in this paradise we get to call home 🏡☀️☕ 020
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstatsaeet.orgCourse Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2edThis course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. 01419
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A wild number, but an unsurprising one for journal editors. 000
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026While the pool may have have grown, the report says, in surprise to noone, that it takes more effort to secure reviews. Publons 2018 analysis quoted the oft repeated figure that you need to send 2.4 invites to secure one report (up from 1.9 in 2013). Well, this number is now 4.5! / 164
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Kicking the vacation off right. Proper coffee from Receiver ☕ and an early morning trot with Jenna and the dogs 🐕🦺 010
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Bivalves after hearing Republicans dumped a shitload of hydrogen peroxide in the Reflecting Pool 🦪⁉️ (Disclaimer: I generated this image using AI. Oysters do not actually have human faces.) #oyster #reflectingpool #whitehouse #usa 010
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 07/06/2026A new paper from our lab, in collaboration with Dr. Brian Beal at the University of Maine at Machias, provides a contemporary understanding of soft-shell clam fecundity and places it firmly in the context of current fishery regulations (legal size limits). doi.org/10.1016/j.fi... 100
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 01/06/2026New paper out this morning in Global Change Biology Communications We show that warming waters in the Gulf of St Lawrence are increasing Vibrio parahaemolyticus outbreak risk—a naturally-occurring bacterium that can cause illness when shellfish are eaten raw onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comRapidly Warming Waters Drive Vibrio parahaemolyticus Abundance in a Northern GulfVibrio parahaemolyticus (Vp) has been identified as a highly responsive bacterium to climate change, with increasing outbreaks and human impacts as marine waters warm. We identified an increase in Vp... 120
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Not a Habs fan and I have no skin in this game, but NHL goalie interference rules are an absolute joke. That call was absolutely brutal, and if it's correct within the NHL definition of goalie interference, then the definition is a joke. Can Gary Bettman just go away now? 110
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Roxy protesting against me getting on the treadmill 😂🐕🐾 010
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I've been enjoying watching the jumping spiders 🕷️🕸️ come to life around the yard the last couple of weeks. Hunting, hiding, and hopping about. They're quick! 120
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#ICYMI: Our latest paper in #Ecosphere shows that artificial #oyster reefs can recover lost #ecosystem #services in fragmenting/declining #eelgrass beds & may facilitate more successful #restoration outcomes doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @esajournals.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 154
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"Papua New Guinea has detailed its plans to protect approximately 200,000 km² of Pacific Ocean waters – an area roughly the size of the United Kingdom – from fishing and all other destructive human activity." Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history share.google/Lx6z18O1Bhiw...share.googlePapua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history - OceanographicPapua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean. 251373391
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Thanks for this contribution to "Ecosphere"!🦪 111
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Struggling to restore seagrass? New findings in our journal "Ecosphere" suggest turning to artificial oyster reefs ⤵️ 021
Reposted by Jeff Clements 🦪Canadian Science Publishing @cdnsciencepub.com · 18/05/2026Environmental Reviews is seeking two Editors-in-Chief. We welcome leaders in environmental science, engineering, or applied solutions with strengths in evidence synthesis, peer review, and advancing EDIA. Apply by May 30, 2026 ▶️ ow.ly/EJ6a50YlalM #EnvironmentalScience #EditorInChief 012
Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026#ICYMI Our latest paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecosphere shows how artificial #oyster reefs🦪 can recover lost epibenthic #ecosystem services in large bare patches of fragmenting #eelgrass beds doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... 262