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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

hot off the press doi.org/10.1111/geb.... led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Down in the big city/main campus to hear a talk by star quantitative ecology MSc student @nadiafrontier.bsky.social She did great (as expected) and the uni looks amazing as always

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Seven years ago, we hosted the cream of the isotope ecology community in Viña del Mar, Chile for #IsoEcol2018. A great conference and a really, really great conference party 😎

Large crowd of scientists in a group photo from the 2018 IsoEcol meeting in Viña del Mar Chile

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

First @sceneuog.bsky.social speaker at #FSBI2025 is up, with Ruaidhri Forrester talking on his PhD work on vendace, Coregonus albula

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Ever gone to a conference and found out that an earlier speaker has an almost identical talk? Luckily it's by a close mate @drhaydo.bsky.social ‬ and I have time to change my talk for #FSBI2025 #GreatMindsThinkAlike

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Very happy to report this new paper led by newly minted Dra @karinagonzalez.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Orestias were the reason that I first came to Chile back in 2007 (well, apart from @criordor.bsky.social !). This led to ANID-funded work on lago Chungará with INVASAL.

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Yes it was. Timo was great and he did a superb job!

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Heading back to Glasgow tired but very content after a long, intense but absolutely fantastic week of teaching stable isotope ecology to this lovely group of scientists on the #SGSIE2025 course at the ExedraCenter Our field is in very, very safe hands!

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The 10 year old has discovered the flying spaghetti monster in a noodle cup...

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Job alert! Come and join us at the friendliest place I've ever worked. @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome here at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

University of Glasgow
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine

Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome
Vacancy Ref: 164231
Salary: Professional range and subject to negotiation
Reader/Senior Lecturer, Grade 9, £58,596 - £65,814 per annum

The School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine are seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome. You will make a substantial and positive contribution to the strategic direction of the School/College through leading and contributing to clinical activity and/or research of international standard, high quality teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, securing research funding, and providing academic leadership and management within the School/College. You will also actively engage in relationships with external stakeholders that advance knowledge exchange, public understanding and outreach.

Applications are invited from candidates of international standing with an appropriate record of academic/clinical achievement in applied animal nutrition, metabolomics and/or the microbiome. We are looking for a candidate who will complement our existing strengths in clinical veterinary medicine, evolutionary biology, animal physiology, aquaculture and microbiology and whose work contributes to our broader research agenda around animal welfare, sustainability and planetary health.

The School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine is home to researchers studying organismal biology and animal health across a diverse range of systems, approaches and disciplines with existing strengths in infectious disease, physiology, ageing, veterinary epidemiology, and evolution among others. You will be based on the University of Glasgow’s Garscube campus, where the majority of veterinary teaching and research infrastructure is located. This inc…

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

#StormÉowyn making itself felt already... Thankfully we have a back up generator here at @sceneuog.bsky.social so the science can keep going!

map showing areas of electrical power-outs

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I think that the scientific illustrators are safe for a while

very inaccurate AI-derived image of different fish body forms

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hi @windsor-aguirre.bsky.social! Do you have the data files from this paper you folks published? The link in the paper is broken... Am doing a practical on morphometrics next week and an extra example will keep the students happy 😉

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Loch Lomond still looking good through a light snow shower.

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

wow! my 2025 is starting off with a bang. Look 'who' followed me 😶

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Feliz año nuevo a tod@s/happy new year to all!

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Crappy photo of a noisy non-fish. One of many that wake me up every morning 🫠

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I'm not on Lomondside no more! The view from my desk looking West towards Aus. Merry Christmas Eve to all. Chilean Christmas means the big feast is tonight, so time to get the bbq cleaned up...

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Isotope Ecology folk. Call From Len Wassenaar and David Soto for a special issue to honour the great Keith Hobson think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

HT @ecoinvasions.bsky.social This paper looks like it quite relevant for many of us in @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Early Christmas lunch with @ma-cormier.bsky.social chatting isotopes, future collabos and how lovely it is to work at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Seeing that brave young lady posting (and defending) her thesis abstract made me go and read mine for the first time in decades. Not very exciting but I'm sure those arseholes would manage to find something 'woke' about it

Abstract of a PhD thesis on fish conservation.

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It has been a long time since I've had to break the ice to launch the boat just to go sampling 🥶

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Bit chilly out here on Lomondside Snow not really sticking, but plenty away from the lochshore

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A rather lovely visual depiction of one of the reasons why Loch Lomond is so fascinating. The underlying geology as shown by Macrostrat is associated with markedly different bathymetry (and ecology) macrostrat.org/map/#x=-4.63... #MultipleLakesinOne

Geological map of the Loch Lomond area of Scotland

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If ggplot2 drives you up the wall, this might be for you. Not really tested it in depth, but so far, it's pretty useful for quick graphing jbengler.github.io/tidyplots/ar...

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ben Lomond looking rather splendid and in stereo...

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First ice of the winter on Dubh Lochan

Shot of a thinly, ice-covered lake surface taken in the shallows

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A very exciting PhD on the ecological implications of divergence & adaption to warm water habitats in 3-spined sticklebacks combining field work in Iceland, mesocosms, tank studies & lab-work in the UK. Great team, lots of exciting ideas and techniques to test them. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

PhD Advert - title "Examining ecological shifts and impacts of adaptive divergence in response to geothermal habitats"

Climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity, but some populations will undergo ecological shifts to persist with impacts on the supporting ecosystem. How this will occur is unknown but in some areas of geothermal warming provides unique opportunities to investigate the ecological impacts of a warmed habitat.

In Iceland’s geothermally warmed habitats, we have discovered several populations of threespine stickleback. This has driven adaptive divergence in metabolism, morphology, and behaviour (Pilakouta et al 2020, 2023). However, evidence also suggests that ecological differences in diet occur. This could drive much of the adaptive divergence observed, while also impacting the broader community.

This project will look directly at the dietary changes that occur in these populations to better understand the ecological drivers of thermally-driven adaptive change. To achieve this the project will address three main aims:

1. Analysis of long-term dietary variation between populations from geothermal and ambient habitats (across multiple locations)
2. Assess ontogenetic variation in diet to determine at what life stage ecological divergence occurs
3. Tests of heritable divergence in diet preferences, performance, and bioenergetic partitioning through the use of lab-rearing and mesocosm experiments

images showing a cleared and stained stickleback (above) from a geothermal habitat in Iceland (below)

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Moody shot across Loch Lomond just to the south of @sceneuog.bsky.social We're prepping ourselves for the first winter cold snap due to hit next week.

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

An absolutely stunning Autumn morning here at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment aka SCENE, the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social field centre on Loch Lomond.

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Good morning from Loch Lomond (and the no less stunning Dubh Lochan)

Jetty and lake view from Dubh Lochan at SCENE (the University of Glasgow field station)

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

This one will be a classic! On precision and accuracy: A review of the state of compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids #StableIsotopes #CompoundSpecificStableIsotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On precision and accuracy: A review of the state of compound-specific
isotope analysis of amino acids

Audreyana Nash, Seth D. Newsome , Kelton W. McMahon

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Isotope Ecology crew! #IsoEcol2024 is now open for registration!!!! isoecol2024.com See you there, you lovely people 😁

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