Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oof. No experience with them, but they can't be worse than LATAM 2026. LAN were so bloody good! 110
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026LATAM? last time it took them a week to get my bags to me... Absolutely horrible WhatsApp based communication system. 100
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 28/07/2026you are too kind! I'm looking forward to welcoming all the NoWPaS family to @sceneuog.bsky.social in 2027. It is a wonderful place and you are guaranteed an inspiring and fun week. 000
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Early career researcher? working on salmonids? Sign up for the 2027 @nowpas.bsky.social workshop hosted by @sceneuog.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/nowpas...linkedin.com📣 NoWPaS 2027 Announcement 🌎 Loch Lomond at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (University of Glasgow) 📅 08/02/2027 – 12/02/2027 ✒️ Abstract submission opens in September… | ...📣 NoWPaS 2027 Announcement 🌎 Loch Lomond at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (University of Glasgow) 📅 08/02/2027 – 12/02/2027 ✒️ Abstract submission opens in September (ht... 041
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026stunning paper highlighted by @profcolinbean.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Time to change our thinking about fish distributions? This is amazing. Did stone age fishers introduce fishes to Scandinavian mountain lakes 5000 ybp? Were they doing the same elsewhere in Europe?cambridge.orgThe introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreThe introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC 1219
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026hello fish bone archaeology/historical ecology world! does anyone have a length (or mass) - vertebrae diameter relationship for ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus? 023
Reposted by Chris HarrodFrancisca Santana Sagredo @fransantanas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Our new paper is out! Here we reconstructed the life and journey of an altiplano woman that travelled to the Atacama Desert during her last year of life, changing her diet and lifestyle: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social @profchrisharrod.bsky.socialroyalsocietypublishing.orgTracking the life and last journey of an Altiplano woman from the Atacama DesertAbstract. The unusual burial of a young woman in the Pica Oasis in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900–1450) ra 193
Reposted by Chris HarrodJames Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The good news fairy finally visited. Finally. 041
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 18/06/2026@bbsbryology.bsky.social folks - any tips on measuring production/phytomass in aquatic mosses? Stupid fish biologist begging for help. 001
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Thanks! If we get funding, will be in touch 👍 010
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 14/04/2026folks who work in Perú - what restrictions are there to removing fish tissue samples (muscle/otoliths) and baselines (bivalves/gastropods) from the country and to the UK. Samples will be from non-CITES species. 211
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 16/03/2026new paper out with Chilean colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDrivers of mercury concentration in anchovies (Engraulis ringens) along the Chilean coastMercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that biomagnifies through food webs, posing ecological and human health risks. The anchovy (Engraulis ringens), a key fo… 071
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This looks like an interesting meeting on diet DNA - to be held at Durham University between 21-24 July 2026 foragingecology.com/diets/foragingecology.comDIETSDietary Interactions in Ecology Through Sequencing (DIETS) Symposium 21st – 24th July 2026 Trophic interactions underpin the function, stability and diversity of our ecosystems, rendering the… 042
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/03/2026one for the microbe-lovers (I'm not one, but @criordor.bsky.social has got me at least interested in them!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, ArchaeaHow a discovery in the 1970s changed the theory of the origin of complex life on earth. 021
Reposted by Chris HarrodBrian Hayden @drhaydo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026A novel take on Nature Based Solutions! - Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comCountries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chiefJessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross 022
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 20/02/2026if anyone happens to have sharable phytoplankton or POM d13C/d15N data for the Irish sea either in a paper on sitting on a hard disk, I'd be very happy if you could get in touch! For a student 0116
Reposted by Chris HarrodDr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 18/01/2026A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“ 8368762384
Reposted by Chris HarrodJoris Philip @jorisphilip.bsky.social · 06/01/2026🐟 Here are our keynote speakers for NoWPaS 2026 announced!! Looking forward to talk salmonids ecology and evolution with @profchrisharrod.bsky.social, @jessrodger.bsky.social, Prof. Eva Enders and Prof. Arnar Palson! 061
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Anyone got an anatomical cutaway image of a coregonid fish? Asking for a 'friend'* for a lecture next week... *might be me 021
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is seeking a qualified and motivated Laboratory Engineer with a strong background in analytical chemistry to support operations in their isotope laboratory. HT @jasonisotopes.bsky.social ats.talentadore.com/apply/labora...ats.talentadore.comLaboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory[The department of biology and environmental science](https://www.jyu.fi/en/science/bioenv) is seeking to recruit a Laboratory Engineer in a stable isotope laboratory starting April 1, 2026, or as soo... 155
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 15/12/2025hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comA global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh watersBaselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'... 0258
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2025job here at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk on water vole ecology and genetics. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...jobs.gla.ac.ukResearch Associate in Ecology and Landscape GeneticsJob Purpose To make a leading contribution to the NERC funded project ‘Delivering a Climate Resilient City through City-University Partnership: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transfor... 043
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2025we lost one of our greats Prof Peter Maitland in late November 2025. @profcolinbean.bsky.social has written a fine obituary to Peter here on the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social website. www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/ob...fba.org.ukObituary: Professor Peter Maitland FRSE (1937–2025) — Freshwater Biological AssociationThe freshwater science community has lost one of its most respected and influential members with the passing of Professor Peter Maitland FRSE on 24 November 2025. He was aged 87. Here Professor Colin ... 093
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...jobs.helsinki.fiProfessor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem EcologyProfessor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology 15240
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2025What did the Romans ever do for us, eh? HT @fakehistoryhunter.net www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgAssessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreAssessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis 110
Reposted by Chris HarrodWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/12/2025#OtD 10 Dec 2006 former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died. His regime, supported enthusiastically by the UK and US, saw thousands of radicals, trade unionists and others rounded up and executed, with tens of thousands more jailed and tortured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8182... 210553
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I had the pleasure of showing this amazing documentary on @criordor.bsky.social´s research at this week´s @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting. Now available to all! www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...theguardian.comLife Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentaryCristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncov... 0135
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Research Associate on food webs (using isotope sand stable isotopes) and offshore power at SUERC For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... Deadline 15th Decemberjobs.gla.ac.ukResearch AssociateJob PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the ECOCHANGE (Ecosystem Consequences of Changes to Habitats and the implications for a Net Gain Energy approach) project working with Dr Kieran Tierney... 052
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 15/11/2025The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced! wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629 Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crewwellcomeopenresearch.org 050
Reposted by Chris HarrodArne Jacobs @fishyomics.bsky.social · 14/11/2025We are recruiting a PhD student to work on the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in lampreys. If you are interested in population genomics, hybrid zones & structural variants in a super cool primitive vertebrate, feel free to contact me. Details - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...iapetus.ac.ukLeveraging wild hybrids to map the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in a primitive vertebrate. 045
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 09/11/2025via Adrian Bass and others. This looks very handy! Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...pubs.rsc.orgCup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen scienceDissolved organic carbon (DOC) is an important component of the global carbon cycle which influences water properties such as colour and acidity. Standard methods for quantification of DOC use instrum... 084
Reposted by Chris HarrodMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"? 25508153
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"We found that despite the enormous spatial range of data, both pPOM and sPOM became 2.1‰ and 2.2‰ more 13C-depleted per decade, respectively, with parallel decreases in the δ13C values in consumers" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgTrophic niche variation across the pan-Arctic coastal continuumWe analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values (δ13C and δ15N, respectively) for pan-Arctic coastal primary producers and consumers to detect large-scale regional trends both temporally and spa... 061
Reposted by Chris HarrodNoWPaS - Salmonid Research Network @nowpas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025🔁Help us spread the word! Share the post, tag your early-career researchers friends, or mention it in your lab meetings. Let’s make sure every early career anadromous salmonid researcher knows about it! 🐟 #NoWPaS2026 #EarlyCareerResearchers #FishScience #SalmonidResearch 044
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukIce Age vendace thriving at Loch Skeen near MoffatA survey finds the population of vendace at Loch Skeen near Moffat is 040
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 02/11/2025We regularly encounter Gordioidea (parasitic hairworms) in kick samples taken from streams around @sceneuog.bsky.social (central/west Scotland). Anyone got an idea of the likely hosts? 000
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Gonzalo Salazar has his first thesis paper published today in @peerj.bsky.social We show that the invert taxa of the very understudied salares of the Lithium Triangle differ greatly between sites and will need assessing individually peerj.com/articles/20042peerj.comIdentifying knowledge gaps in hypersaline systems supporting the global electrical transition: invertebrate community structure in salars from the lithium triangleFollowing decades of mining impacts, South America’s hypersaline wetlands (salars) face increasing threats from lithium extraction to support global decarbonisation. Although globally important, salar... 183
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 09/10/2025any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N? 000
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2025many thanks! www.terravivagrants.orgterravivagrants.orgHome - Terra Viva GrantsAnnouncement Terra Viva Grants is now part of the International Society of Tropical Foresters Terra Viva Grants (TVG), the go-to grants database for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resou... 000
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2025In a @sceneuog.bsky.social research group meeting led by students discussing research funding. Does anyone have a link to databases/websites detailing small grant funding for ecological research? 111
Reposted by Chris HarrodExeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Fancy working with killer whales? We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team. 👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka 👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4 Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct. 🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐 01311
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Absolutely storming review/opinion piece of where we are with stable isotopes in archaeology from the always mighty Tamsin O'Connell. Everything she says here goes for isotopes in ecology too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeologyIsotopic analysis as a method of assessing diet or geographical origin is now ubiquitous in archaeology, to the point where seemingly no project is co… 0222
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 19/09/2025it's very specific as we face a major issue with our eldest son. We would like to speak to researchers (to understand the context) and to people who have experience in helping people. 100
Reposted by Chris HarrodThe FSBI @thefsbi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025#JFB: Inter and intraspecific variation in the degree of marine-derived resources of amphidromous fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70084 #FishScidoi.org 021
Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Does anyone know of an expert in #Austism studying adolescents that reject family moves to a new country? We are looking for advice and help. Please resend etc. 265
Reposted by Chris HarrodBritish Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 18/09/2025🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live! Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica 1176