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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New paper! 🎣📊 - We tested a modified gillnet (MOD) against the EU standard (CEN) across 10 lakes in SW Germany. Results: ~42% less fish mortality, no loss of species richness, community data, or WFD assessment quality. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... @ffsbw.bsky.social #FishEcology #WFD #Lakes

Diagram comparing two benthic multi-mesh gillnet designs, each 1.5 m high, made of sequential mesh panels labeled by mesh size in mm. Top: standard CEN net with 12 panels of equal 2.5 m width, in order: 29, 35, 5, 15.5, 24, 12.5, 8, 55, 10, 6.25, 19.5, 43. Bottom: modified MOD net, same panel sequence but unequal widths — the 29 mm panel is 5 m, the 35 mm panel is 10 m, the 15.5–19.5 mm panels remain 2.5 m each, and the 43 mm panel is expanded to 20 m; the 5 mm and 55 mm panels present in the CEN net are absent. The MOD net omits the smallest and largest mesh panels and enlarges the larger-mesh panels relative to the CEN standard.

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Dagsson @dagsson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🕒 TTRPG friends — I made a free app to track Progress Clocks for Blades in the Dark! Create & manage multiple clocks with custom colors and segments. Great for GMs running digital or hybrid games. 👉 mmotaferreira.shinyapps.io/Progress_Clo... #TTRPG #BladesInTheDark #ShinyApp

Screenshot of the app Progress Clocks for Blades in the Dark

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Our new paper in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social shows that genetic data confirms the non-native status of Austropotamobius crayfish in Spain, despite repeatedly published claims of the contrary Since it is in Spanish, we provide an English version in this link digital.csic.es/handle/10261... (1/10)

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

El cangrejo del rey The king's crayfish A 30-minute documentary on the history of crayfish in Spain In Spanish, with English subtitles (in settings) Enjoy! (and, if enjoyed, please distribute) YouTube link in next post

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Marcello D'Amico @marcellodamico.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Our article "A framework for large-scale risk assessment of road-related impacts, with application to #mustelids" is now online: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... #roadecology

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🌍Job post: 1-year research position at LAZBW in #Germany! Focus: #climatechange impacts on #biodiversity, water, & land use. Tasks: downscaling #climate data, #HydrologicalModeling, & adaptation strategies. Ends:31.12.2025, extension possible. More info: shorturl.at/6HTz0 #ClimateJobs #Hydrology

An AI-generated illustration depicting climate research. A scientist analyzes a digital map with data on rivers, biodiversity hotspots, and agricultural zones, set against a diverse landscape with mountains and lowlands. The scene emphasizes sustainability, with clear skies, flowing water, and thriving ecosystems.

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today we sampled cormorant stomachs at Lake Constance to assess their impact on #native #fish species.

esearchers opening a cormorant as part of a study to examine its stomach contents, aiming to assess the impact of cormorant predation on native fish species at Lake Constance

Close-up of researchers extracting the stomach contents from a cormorant to analyze its diet, focusing on the impact of predation on native fish species in Lake Constance

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Continuo à procura de contas Portuguesas, ou baseadas em Portugal, relacionadas com #ecologia e #biodiversidade.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Estou criar um "Starter pack" de Ecólogos Portugueses. Aceito sugestões! #Ecologia #Biodiversidade go.bsky.app/GK8QPTJ

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Com a ultima observação confirmada em 1995, o Maçarico-de-bico-fino está, com probablidade elevada, extinto: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris), the latest addition to the list of extinct birds. A warning about the possible fate of other shorebirds facing a steep decline. 📷 from www.curlewaction.org/slender-bill...; @ibisjournal.bsky.social paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Left the other place run by Trump's buddy? Here's a starter pack of freshwater scientists to get you started. Also, if you're a freshwater scientist and want to be added, let me know. Still space available. go.bsky.app/K5ubDhb

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm giving bluesky a new chance in the face of the latest event with the other platform. Who is here?

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

One of our weird discoveries: 1st field-documented case of a zebra mussel attached to a fish (lake chub). This phoretic association could facilitate 1) within-basin spread of zebra mussels via fish migration & 2) overland transport by anglers moving baitfish. redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...

Juvenile zebra mussel attached to a fish.

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Hey #FieldWork people from BlueSky! I'm looking for a camera for field work. Should be tough, easy to operate and with decent macro skills. Also shouldn't break the bank. Wanna share some options?

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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds. Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here. I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds. Please share! Gracias! 😸

Screenshot of my lists:

Forestry & Forest Ecosystems
Canids
Plant Science, Botany
Nature and Animal Art
Nature and Wildlife Photography
Corvids
Ecology
Fungi & Mycology

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

How do shrubs help or hinder #CorkOak seedlings? 🌳 We studied the effects of #ShrubDiversity on oak regeneration in Portugal 🇵🇹 Find out what we learned and why it matters for forest restoration in Mediterranean Europe #ForestRestoration #MediterraneanEcosystems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

#JobOpportunity alert! Join a #ClimateChange research project at the @FFS_BW. Develop high-resolution climate projections for Baden-Württemberg, conduct hydrological modelling. Experience with downscaling of climate data is desirable. #Fisheries #rivers #ecology www.researchgate.net/job/1005511_...

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I did It, I finaly did it! I've used all apply functions in a line of code: Models <- c("Hydrologic", "Climatic", "Land Use", "Biotic") sapply(lapply(1:length(Models), function(y) combn(Models, y)), (function(z) apply(z, 2, paste, collapse=" + "))) %>% unlist() #rstats #RChat

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

For my MSc, I worked with amphibian populations of temporary ponds (TP) in Mediterranean farmland landscapes (SW Portugal). TP are declining rapidly due to agriculture pressure. Artificial water bodies do not support as many amphibian species as TP. Conservation efforts should focus on protecting TP

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

One of the perks of working in a fisheries research center is access to good and nicely cut #fishes. Today dinner was Pike (Esox lucius) filets with butter and cream sauce:

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Mário Mota-Ferreira @mmotaferreira.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

I am currently a PostDoc researcher at the Fisheries Research Station of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. I have a Ph.D. in Biodiversity Genetics and Evolution from the Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO) at the University of Porto in Portugal.

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