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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is an honour to have been awarded the British Ecological Society’s Founders’ Prize for 2026! A big thank you to @britishecologicalsociety.org, my amazing students, collaborators, and mentors, and a big congrats to the other award winners! 🥳 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/anno...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New paper out today in TREE, led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! We show why mitochondrial DNA introgression matters for conservation, inc. how nonnative mtDNA can shape adaptation, performance, and viability in wildlife populations Open Access paper 👉 tinyurl.com/y6vyrnve

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New Policy Analysis paper out today in Environmental Science & Technology, where we outline a framework for an Environmentally Safe and Just Pharmacy 💊🌍 A big thanks to @alistairboxall.bsky.social @bryanwbrooks.bsky.social and the amazing team! Open Access paper 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Exciting to see our new paper exploring how human activities reshape predator–prey interactions featured on this month's cover of TREE! A big thanks to @predator-smarts.bsky.social and the team, and to Angus Emmott for the fantastic cover photo! Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Exciting to see our new paper on the impacts of cocaine pollution on salmon populations featured on @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social! Starts at 0:30 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Zs... Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... @jack-brand.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New paper out today, 'Global North-South science inequalities due to language and funding barriers' We highlight how language and funding barriers can compound inequity and offer practical recommendations to bridge these gaps. Read the Open Access paper here! 👉 tinyurl.com/654ztk3w

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some exciting news to start off 2026. I'm delighted to welcome @pattyvillarrubia.bsky.social to our group! 🥳 Patty is a rising star working at the intersection of plastic pollution, Earth system governance, and finding solutions to social–ecological challenges 🌟

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Happy to share our latest paper out now in ES&T, 'Are Behavioral Ecotoxicity Endpoints Relevant at the Population Level? Evidence-Based Insights for Environmental Protection' 🧪🐟 👉 Read the full Open Access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New article out today in Qvintensen magazine on pharmaceuticals in the environment 💊🌍 Fun to write with @jackmanera.bsky.social @jack-brand.bsky.social & Mirjam Amcoff Free to read (in Swedish): statistikframjandet.se/wp-content/u...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happening now! COPE Publication Integrity Week 2025 – Trust markers and researcher identity: Community perspectives Happy to share my story on 'Tracking researcher identity through the peer-review process: when it goes wrong...' 👉 publicationethics.org/events/publi...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Great to see our new paper out today on protecting the right to science in multilateral environmental agreements! Led by the amazing @bcarneyalmroth.bsky.social Open Access 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Happy to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org on the role of chemical pollutants in shaping biological invasions Part of our upcoming Special Feature issue on 'Wildlife behaviour and movement ecology in a human-dominated world'! Available Open Access 👉 tinyurl.com/ptsjmbpn

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Honoured to be presenting in the inaugural Global Estuaries Monitoring Network Webinar! Join us at 8–9:30 pm (HK time) / 12–1:30 pm (GMT) on 19 September to hear about the impacts of contaminants in estuaries worldwide 🌍 Register by emailing globalestuaries.gem@gmail.com www.globalestuaries.org

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Great to see this new piece out today in @acs.org on pharmaceuticals in the environment 💊🐟 Read about our work on migrating salmon on drugs, guppies on Prozac, and solutions to the pharma pollution crisis Open Access 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Happy to share our new paper on the impacts of corporate capture strategies on human and ecosystem health 🌍 Available Open Access at 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @dralexford.bsky.social @ipcp.bsky.social @acs.org

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Great to see our paper on the importance of experimental approaches in movement ecology out in an issue today! @camphilsoc.bsky.social Conceived at a Gordon Research Conference and led by the fantastic Whitney Hansen www.kwhitneyhansen.com 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.... @jack-brand.bsky.social

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Excited to be starting next week as an Associate Editor for Environmental Science & Technology @pubs.acs.org Looking forward to receiving your manuscripts and working with authors, reviewers, and fellow editors in the ES&T community! 🚀

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The extended chemical defensome: emphasizing mechanisms of defense as key research avenues to tackle priority questions in environmental toxicology Happy to share our new paper led by the amazing Marco Franco! @eawag.bsky.social 👉 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology New paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org, originally conceived at a Gordon Research Conference 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Wild brown trout exhibit greater seasonal variability in their movement and sub-basin usage than their hatchery-reared conspecifics Happy to share our new paper in Fisheries Management and Ecology! 🐟 #telemetry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It was an honour to present my first plenary at #EuroDURG2025! I spoke about our recent paper on the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on Atlantic salmon migration 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @eurodurg.bsky.social

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's an honour to be presenting my first plenary next week at the 2025 EuroDURG Conference 'Bridging Data, Policy & Patients in Drug Utilisation Research' in Uppsala. Also, excited for the conference dinner at Uppsala Castle! 🇸🇪 www.uu.se/en/departmen...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Great to see our new paper on increasing experimental approaches in movement ecology out today in @camphilsoc.bsky.social! Conceived at a Gordon Research Conference and brilliantly led by Whitney Hansen 🐟🦌📡 @jack-brand.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Wild to see our new pharmaceutical pollution and salmon migration paper in @science.org covered on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social! Starts at 2:45 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm4u... Read the paper 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @jack-brand.bsky.social

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Salmon migration affected by drug pollution in water from antianxiety medication Nice article by @cnn.com on our new paper in @science.org! Read it here 👉 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/16/s... Read the paper here 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @jack-brand.bsky.social

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Great to see this piece in @nytimes.com covering our new article in @science.org on the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on salmon migration 👉 nytimes.com/2025/04/10/c... 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/... @jack-brand.bsky.social

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

New paper out today in Environmental Evidence led by Jake Martin & Erin McCallum 🐟💊 Evidence of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic animal behaviour (EIPAAB): a systematic map and open access database 👉 environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Great to see our new paper on the spatiotemporal dimension of wildlife–pollution interactions out in ES&T Letters @pubs.acs.org Fantastically led by @jack-brand.bsky.social and Jake Martin 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just finished an EPIC lunch-to-lunch workshop of the Aquatic Ecology Group at SLU Umeå! Complete with a northern lights show, reindeer herds, fireworks, and ghosts! ❄️🦌🎇👻

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Happy to share our new paper on enhancing cooperation in wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs! An impressive collaboration led by Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba 👏 Open access 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's an honour to have received an ACS Environmental Au Rising Stars Award! A big congrats to the other awardees. 🥳 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @pubs.acs.org @acs.org

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New paper led by Losia Lagisz out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! 'We recommend tangible actions towards making learned societies more affordable and accessible.' tinyurl.com/2jww44j2

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Excited to share our new paper, led by @danielwanoble.bsky.social, in @royalsocietypublishing.org! ‘We believe that the future of preprints is bright, and community-driven initiatives, such as EcoEvoRxiv, will play a crucial role in the future of scientific publishing.’ tinyurl.com/4tpbj859

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It was an honour to write a chapter on chemical pollution for the new book Behavioral Responses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications, by @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social! Big thanks also to Tomas Brodin & @marleneagerstrand.bsky.social 👏 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Excited to share our new editorial on the key remaining challenges in developing greener drugs 💊🌍 A great collaboration with @bbmwong.bsky.social, Klaus Kümmerer, and Manuela Jörg! Free access👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Environmentally realistic levels of drug pollution change fish behaviour and decrease migration success in the wild 🐟💊 Super proud to share our new paper out today in Proceedings B, led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Two days ago, I shared my story of having my identity stolen to publish fake peer reviews The number of academics who have reached out with similar stories is shocking—impersonated in the same way, receiving AI-written reviews, reviewing AI-written articles, etc www.science.org/content/arti...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

First paper post on Bluesky! 🎉 Happy to share our new paper out today in ACS Environmental AU, where we test the effectiveness of slow-release #pharmaceutical implants for field-based #ecotoxicology experiments! Open access 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #ecotox #telemetry #behaviour

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Looking forward to talking about pollution and wildlife reproduction in Reproductive Health Australia's upcoming public webinar on Tuesday November 26th at 9:00am CET 🌍 Register here 👉 lnkd.in/gP3ifVSy

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