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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

hey everyone !!! wanna hear more about my sturgeon research?? wanna see more sturgeon pics and videos?? also wanna see cool science art?? come to my webinar!! linked below 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🐟🦑

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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How can physiology, molecular biology, movement and community science inform white sturgeon conservation? Join Dr @madisonearhart.bsky.social for the next @conphysjournal.bsky.social "Community Conversation" on 20 October, 16:00–17:00 UK time. Book now: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e...

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

✳️ New webinar alert! ✳️ As part of our #CommunityConversations 💬 series, Dr. Madison Earhart @madisonearhart.bsky.social will discuss her work using physiology, molecular biology and community science to inform white sturgeon conservation. Register here ➡️ shorturl.at/t66O8

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Andrea Fuller @andreafuller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Can you recycle your own previously published text? While COPE guidelines exist, many authors are unaware of them, so we address this issue in a new editorial: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

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Text recycling: defining the boundaries of acceptable reuse of one’s own work

Text recycling, or the re-use of one’s own previously published text, is a widespread yet underrecognized issue in academic publishing. Many authors remain

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thermal tolerance of adult Chinook salmon is well studied, but what about juveniles? This study assessed upper thermal limits of juvenile salmon using three different methodologies, to advance knowledge and improve conservation planning. Read here⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

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Effects of ecologically relevant acclimation temperature on upper thermal limits of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Abstract. Pacific salmon currently experience temperatures in freshwater that can reach or exceed their upper thermal limits, but little is known about the

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How do we test fish thermal tolerance on a warming planet? Our latest #Perspective article examines current methods, and the authors propose more ecologically relevant alternatives. Dive in⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

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The relevance and application of measures of thermal tolerance to fish ecology, conservation and aquaculture

Abstract. Over the past 20 years, the fish research community has invested considerable effort into measuring the thermal tolerance limits of many freshwat

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📖 New paper Designing networks of freshwater and marine conservation areas accounting for cross-realm connectivity and threat propagation🌊 🌍 🐟️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Reproduction and Early Life Development in Marine Teleost Fish—A Synthesis doi.org/10.1111/faf.... Ocean acidification (OA) remains a major and underexplored threat to marine fishes, particularly regarding reproductive physiology and early life stages

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Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Reproduction and Early Life Development in Marine Teleost Fish—A Synthesis

Ocean acidification (OA) remains a major and underexplored threat to marine fishes, particularly regarding reproductive physiology and early life stages (ELS). Although research over the past…

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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How have researchers undertaken Indigenous and West Scientific Knowledge weaving? Our recent systematic map tackles this very question: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

in the phase of realizing getting grants means actually having to do what’s in the grant what do you mean i can’t just play with sturgeon in the field?? plz send help 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🦑🐟🌐 (anyway here’s a pic of the cutest baby sturgeon ever)

a small juvenile sturgeon held in a yellowsampling sling submerged in water

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

happy #sturgeonsaturday on sunday! we’re so back baby! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🌎🦑🐟 in addition to the population stressor sampling I’ve been doing we’re adding acoustic telemetry to track where sturgeon are and how they are doing at the same time this will let us analyze stress patterns and habitat use together 🫡

madison and morgan holding a white sturgeon after sampling prior to release

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

happy #sturgeonsaturday !! In honor of my field season starting tomorrow please enjoy this beautiful and chaotic sturgeon release from last season lmk if there is something yall wanna see or ask about sturgeon while we get ready for our first day on the river this year!! 🌐🌎🧪👩🏻‍🔬🐟🦑

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 23/05/2026

It's World Fish Migration Day, a perfect time to learn more about how more than 1,000 fish species around the world migrate to, from or within rivers to fulfill other critical life cycle needs. See how we're reconnecting rivers with those who depend on it most, here: nature.ly/4dBiDF9

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Removing Barriers to Reconnect Rivers

Clean, healthy rivers not only support fish and wildlife, they can provide inexpensive, no-carbon energy, along with jobs and recreational opportunities.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 05/05/2026

A little friend I met today.

A view down a back alley, overgrown with yellow and red poppies, dandelion flowers and their clocks. In the middle, a black cat looks curiously at me, its tail a perfect questioning hook.

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Hossein Haghighi @biologyhossein.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our new paper is out! We developed a multispecies OpenArray™ chip to study cellular stress response in Acipenser species. The chip was used to measure the effects of acute thermal stress on Atlantic, lake, and shortnose sturgeon. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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High‐throughput multispecies quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays to study the effects of acute thermal stress in three species of Acipenser sturgeon

Fishes experience thermal stress in their natural environment that can be caused by natural or anthropogenic factors and can directly affect their physiology. In this study, we developed a multispeci...

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Will Bugg @wbuggiii.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New research detailing high throughput sturgeon molecular tools developed by @biologyhossein.bsky.social is now live! Here we developed and tested assays across sturgeon species to evaluate impacts across a variety of pathways induced by thermal stress 🧪🌎🌐🐟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Please enjoy baby Alligator Gars feeding on brine shrimp (Artemia), set to a Bluey instrumental 🙂 🐟🧪gars are planktivorous at this stage (20 mm, 12 days post-hatch), but will soon switch to eating insects and fish! They’re also already breathing air!

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

super super important read!! DFO cuts are directly gutting pacific salmon research and conservation by cutting a CRUCIAL lab & associated members responsible for identifying the stressors and pathogens leading to population decline!!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🌎

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'll add only that if you're not already aware, Dr. @wbuggiii.bsky.social has been working with this lab. I'm not affiliated nor a genomics expert but the work they do is the *keystone* to resource management, restoration (that is me), & conservation per founder & now emeritus lead Dr. Kristi Miller

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Will Bugg @wbuggiii.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ongoing DFO cuts to the Genomics Program and across the organization further compromise the capacity to conduct critical research evaluating the impacts of cumulative stressors and pathogens on salmon survival and to aid in the conservation of imperiled stocks 🧪🌎🌐🦑🐟 thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

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Salmon Scientists Warn the DFO Is Killing a Crucial Lab | The Tyee

The genomics program opened up the ‘black box’ of wild fish research. Former and current staff say it’s been gutted.

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

i’m doing some data analysis today and laughing at my field notes about the sturgeon clearly this one sturgeon was quite a thiccccck gal, “huge, very fat” was how we decided to convey this in the notes science should also be fun yall!!! take unhinged notes!! make yourself laugh later!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

a picture of a laptop with a sturgeon data sheet showing the field notes for each fish

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students. 75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development. Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.

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Ajediday @ajediday.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Sunday

Tabby kitten peeking from behind a desk with text above.

Transcribed Text:

can't have 3rd dinner
can't eat plastic
can't eat my humans toes
can't meow at 3am
can't do anything

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Big Bear Bald Eagles. The rain lightened up a bit and Jackie gave the eaglets a snack while they shook off the rain drops. The eaglets didn't get too wet, and Jackie quickly tucked them back under her, over their objections. #birds

Jackie and Shadow's eaglets get a quick snack during a storm.

(Screen capture courtesy of FOBBV.)

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yesterday morning was peak Saguaro! 🌵 🌼 (13 blossoms?!)

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Cope’s Gray Tree Frog is confident this trellis was placed here specifically for her and would like to request more garden accessories that blend with her skin tone😄

A gray tree frog who has clearly been eating well sits with her adorable sticky toes tucked neatly beneath her chin

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A Great Horned Owl snoozing in the sunshine.

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

i made a sparkly moon mug in honor of the incredible scientific feat NASA astronauts are undertaking today 🌕 🌙💫 🧪🌎🌐👩🏻‍🔬 #nasa #moon #pottery

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 06/04/2026

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is officially dead. The new Species Conservation Act is replacing it, but leaves many plants and animals — and their habitats — without protection. via @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

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Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is dead | The Narwhal

Proposed under Bill 5, Ontario’s Species Conservation Act is officially in force, leaving many at-risk plants and animals, like redside dace and barn owls, unprotected

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Our mural on native plants and pollinators at H. A. brown elementary school in Kensington starts today! We’re still shy of our fundraising goal, so if anyone would be down to support educational art in an underserved area of Philly, I would really appreciate it! givebutter.com/KenzoMural

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H.A. Brown Elementary School Mural

By Skype a Scientist

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Benjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Less dams, more fish! 🐟🏞️ Restoring rivers and habitats cannot wait.

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Benjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"One of the most important things food businesses can do to tackle food waste is to measure and publicly report food waste data” This should be nade mandatory!🍉🍏🍓🍞

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

happy #sturgeonsaturday (on sunday)! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🦑🌎 did you know that sturgeon rely heavily on scent & feel to find food rather than eyesight? in the photo you can see the barbels (like whiskers) & the 2 nostrils - which are basically the same size as the eye! these strong sniffers are quite impressive 👃

a large sturgeon in the Fraser river held by a smiling Madison on the nose and Chris on the tail. you can see the sturgeons face clearly highlighting the size of the nose and eyes

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

i mixed my two most frequent pastimes: worrying & pottery, with my love for the sea 🫶🏼 i always need to fidget with things, these are a sensory dream with a smooth & rougher side and i love them sm :) if this resonates with you the link is below💫🌞🌀 www.madisonearhart.com/pottery-coll...

speckled sand colored clay stones filled with a blue and white glaze that resembles the ocean and a wave crashing, on a hand

many speckled sand colored clay stones filled with a blue and white glaze that resembles the ocean and a wave crashing, on a white counter

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 02/04/2026

2 young women on the street this morning, watching me take a picture of a black squirrel "Oh look! A black squirrel!" "Yeah the black ones are more chic" 😂

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

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Sage Raymond @raisedbyfieldguide.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It’s the time of year when fishers start moving around a lot, leaving all sorts of beautiful snow tracks. Bonus points for wolf tracks in a spot that wolves don’t usually occur!

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

🌾🔥 RESEARCH 🔥🌾 Drought timing reshapes switchgrass metabolism and biofuel quality: early drought boosts stress resilience but creates fermentation inhibitors such saponins, while late drought improves ethanol yield – Basyal et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 1.Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence from survey measurement. (A) CO2 assimilation rate, (B) stomatal conductance, and (C) operating efficiency of PSII (ΦPS2) of switchgrass were measured using an LI-6800 infrared gas analyzer with fluorometer. Filled circles are averages, with different colors representing the treatment when drought was implemented (n=20). Shaded regions represent developmental stages (gray=vegetative stage, red=flowering stage, blue=senescence stage). Bars on the circles represent the SEM. Means with different letters are significantly different according to an ANOVA and a Tukey’s post-hoc test (P<0.05).

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Benjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Scary results with implications for the Canadian rockies and the beautiful meadows of Banff National Park! Our recent study led by @jonathan-farr.bsky.social shows reductions of alpine herbaceous biomass in Banff: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons: 1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅 2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April! They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt! SquidFacts.net

a blonde dude with lots of tattoos and jeffrey dahmer glasses looks moodily at the camera with a Very Cool t-shirt with a goth girl on it, surrounded by flowers. Underneath it says Plant Native Plants

A person with glasses in a lovely backyard and long brown hair wears a black t-shirt that says biology is bigger than binaries with a honeybee, lily, and clownfish on it

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

happy #sturgeonsaturday ! this is the time of year that sturgeon wake up from their overwintering cuddling and move around in search of food! in the Fraser River, BC this usually aligns with the eulachon spawning run, a crucial sturgeon food source, full of fat after a long winter 🍽️ 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑🐟

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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

wanna follow a suuuper cool group of people leading a variety of conservation efforts??? look no further!!! @libererofellows.bsky.social starter pack is here 🤩 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🦑🐟🌐🌎

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New study showing that the long-held belief that limitation on oxygen diffusion in insect respiratory system does not constrain the max body size of living or gigantic prehistoric insects 🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global! 🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org

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