Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 28/01/2026 "most tedious projects of my life..."...so far. Always going to need an update at some point in the future :) 210
Reposted by Malte WillmesChris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name 🧪🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGlobal compilation of bioavailable strontium isotope data - Scientific DataScientific Data - Global compilation of bioavailable strontium isotope data 53010
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 08/12/2025After taking (too) many pictures of scales we finally have our new study out: Identifying escaped farmed salmon from scales using deep learning: academic.oup.com/biomethods/a... The model works well and covers the major Atlantic salmon rivers in Norway. Could be adpated to other fish and places! 173
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Interesting article by my colleague Carson Jeffres californiawaterblog.com/2025/10/05/c...californiawaterblog.comCalifornia: A Salmon Society?By Carson Jeffres Consider for a moment the identity of the Pacific Northwest as a Salmon Society. When you fly into an airport in the Pacific Northwest, salmon are on the floors and wal… 010
Reposted by Malte WillmesICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 03/09/2025ICES Workshop on emerging methods and technologies for the automated analysis of calcified structures #WKETAC invites experts in fish biology, stock assessment & computational technologies. 📅 2–3 October 2025 📌 Boulogne-sur-mer, France - and online ℹ️https://ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WKETAC.aspx 072
Reposted by Malte WillmesThe IsoArcH initiative @isoarch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research. bit.ly/IsoArcH2025bit.lyIsoArcH Addithon 2025This form is used to sign up for the IsoArcH Addithon to be run from 11-20 August 2025. 186
Reposted by Malte WillmesHannah James @toothdetective.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169 and was established from 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites. Check out the article here lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY and the dataset can be downloaded from the IsoArcH database here lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw 1127
Reposted by Malte WillmesSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html 11279243
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Great news article highlighting our work on the Guadalupe River in California. Really gratefull to all the volunteers collecting samples and caring about fish. calsport.org/learning-fro...calsport.orgLearning from fish: the importance of nonprofits’ research projectsNonprofits’ research projects on fish serve multiple purposes. They serve an impetus to improve restoration efforts and manage hatcheries better. They make a case for reintroducing species in areas… 040
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A piece of good news: www.opb.org/article/2025...opb.orgIndigenous youth prepare for the first descent down the Klamath River after dam removalOn Thursday, dozens of young kayakers from a variety of Indigenous tribes will embark on the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River since the country’s largest dam removal project was comple... 010
Reposted by Malte WillmesEva B. Thorstad @evathorstad.bsky.social · 03/07/2025This year, traps will be installed in 63 Norwegian rivers to remove pink salmon before they are able to spawn. New publication assessing these extraordinary measures, based on experiences two years ago: reabic.net/journals/mbi/2025/2/MBI_2025_Thorstad_etal.pdf @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social 1325
Reposted by Malte WillmesICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025🐦 Early bird reminder! 🚨 The deadline for early bird registration for the #ICESASC25 is fast approaching! ✨ Secure your spot while early bird rates are still available! 📝 Register today to join us in Klaipėda on 15-18 September: bit.ly/4ldurjP 021
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 30/06/2025and here the link to the (open access) paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 000
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Blogpost about our work tracking the establishment of Chinook salmon in a restored watershed. Lead Lauren Hitt did an amazing job combining field observations and otoliths! californiawaterblog.com/2025/06/29/b...californiawaterblog.comBuild it, and they will come: Early evidence for establishment of Chinook salmon in Putah Creek, CABy Lauren G. Hitt, Malte Willmes, Mackenzie C. Miner, Max Stevenson, Carson A. Jeffres, Robert A. Lusardi, Nann A. Fangue, and Andrew L. Rypel Figure 1. Putah Creek during salmon spawning seas… 142
Reposted by Malte WillmesAmerican Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025AFS joined other science, conservation, and outdoor organizations in a "Statement on Federal Public Lands Transfer, Sale, and Exchange." The current Senate budget reconciliation bill requires federal agencies to sell 2-3 million acres in 11 western states. Read more: fisheries.org/2025/06/stat...fisheries.orgStatement on Federal Public Lands Transfer, Sale, and Exchange - American Fisheries SocietyAmerican Fisheries Society ● American Fly Fishing Trade Association ● Angler Action Foundation ● Archery Trade Association ● Backcountry Hunters & Anglers 24122
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Excited to be back working with sturgeon finrays from California. Trying to estimate age 🔬 isnt easy but these high quality and beautiful images sure help! 040
Reposted by Malte Willmes𝙱.𝙺. 𝚂𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚘𝚌𝚔 @bksandercock.bsky.social · 27/05/2025New article on land use efficiency of renewable energy in Norway. Production density (GWh/km2) was highest for small hydropower and low for land-based wind. Storage hydropower needed to balance wind power at 0.2/1.0 TWh. Led by M.S. Kenawi with collaborators at NTNU and NINA. doi.org/10.1016/j.re... 032
Reposted by Malte WillmesJonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025We tend to think about catastrophic things when we think of biodiversity change, like the extinction of a species. But biodiversity change can be much more insidious than this. A lot of important changes go unnoticed. But these can be precursors to much more problematic changes. Dive in for more 👇predirections.substack.comChange is afoot, but not always how you expectBiodiversity is changing all the time, but not necessarily in headline catching ways 0208
Reposted by Malte WillmesDr Anna Sturrock @otolithgirl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025#ThingsWithRings! Read this new @uk.theconversation.com article about some of the surprising biological archives out there, and what we can use them for... theconversation.com/most-animals... #otoliths #archaeology, #forensics #fish #sclerochronology #biochronology @universityofessex.bsky.socialtheconversation.comMost animals have their own version of tree rings – here’s how we biologists use them to help species thriveFrom whale earwax to bird feathers, almost all organisms keep a record of their existence. 24024
Reposted by Malte WillmesHobbs @jimhobbsphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Was out this week in the Alviso Marsh to collect Longfin Smelt for UC Davis culture program. Weather was waaaaay too nice for January. 051
Reposted by Malte WillmesHobbs @jimhobbsphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025www.sacbee.com/news/politic...sacbee.comHere’s how a tiny fish became Trump’s favorite weapon in his crusade against CaliforniaThe functionally extinct delta smelt entered national politics in 2009, when Sean Hannity made it a symbol of environmentalism gone wrong. 011
Reposted by Malte WillmesRachel Paterson @rachelpatersonnz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Hot off the press: A fitness-based indicator for the effect of aquaculture-produced salmon lice on wild sea trout. doi.org/10.1093/ices... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social 0146
Reposted by Malte WillmesNorwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Work with us? Postdoc position in Arctic coastal carbon cycling at NINA’s Department for Arctic Ecology in Tromsø nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/65-post...nina-english.attract.reachmee.comNorwegian Institute for Nature Research | Postdoctoral position in Arctic coastal carbon cyclingIntroduction Applications are invited for a two-year postdoctoral research associate position related to Arctic coastal carbon cycling, in conjunction with a Horizon EU project (“POMP: Polar Ocean Mi... 1117
Reposted by Malte WillmesKaren J Murchie, Ph.D. @karenjmurchie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Are you a fish telemetry practitioner? The 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry will take place June 8-13, 2025 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. The conference website is now live for abstract submission and details on the venue. Help spread the word. event.fourwaves.com/7thicft/pagesevent.fourwaves.comInternational Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)Fourwaves - International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT) 14433
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 03/12/2024That was one of my favorite spots during my phd fieldwork. Such an interesting chapel and geology! 010
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Stuck on an R problem so decided to go for a longer dog walk. R problem is still there but the view of the fjord was beautiful. 0100
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 28/11/2024You are saying thats not what a Davis turkey looks like? 000
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Found this in an old is.R() Blogpost. #rstats #turkey #ggplot 1318
Reposted by Malte WillmesPhil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Sea Grant is accepting applications for NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant Graduate fellowships in population and ecosystem dynamics & marine resource economics. Deadline = Jan. 23. Applicant guides at lnkd.in/dyggpSR9 15354
Reposted by Malte WillmesClive Trueman @clivetrue.bsky.social · 27/11/2024New paper from @louisehosking.bsky.social @zoedoubleday.bsky.social et al reviewing the wealth of chemical information in less-frequently analysed biomineralized tissues from aquatic taxa. If you're bored of otoliths, bivalves, and corals... tinyurl.com/v8p8nxk4. #sclerochronology #marinelife 🦑 23814
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Haha jokes on them i dont feel anything anymore. oh wait. 000
Reposted by Malte WillmesTom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.comAfter 100 years, salmon have returned to the Klamath River – following a historic dam removal project in CaliforniaAfter being absent for more than a century, salmon have been spotted in Oregon's Klamath River Basin, following a mammoth dam removal project in California. 0112
Reposted by Malte WillmesEva B. Thorstad @evathorstad.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The status of European eel remains critical. ICES advises that there should be zero catches of eel in all habitats in 2025. Further, that all non-fisheries related anthropogenic mortalities should be zero @icesmarine.bsky.social ICES advice available at ices-library.figshare.com/articles/rep... 13811
Reposted by Malte WillmesJenna Pearson @jennampearson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hey Bluesky! Are you ready for #GarWeek? Look out for some fun informational posts and exclusive swag starting December 16th! @garlab.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social 310112
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Interesting post about the "forgotten" Sacramento Perch and what lies ahead californiawaterblog.comcaliforniawaterblog.comCalifornia WaterBlogA biologist, economist, engineer and geologist walk onto a bar... 000
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Great overview by Christink Parisek and coauthors of all the work going on in one of my favorite streams in California! californiawaterblog.com/2023/11/19/s... 010
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 18/10/2023Doing data entry and qaqc doesnt lend itself to fun post material (is there an accidental aRT feed yet?). So in the meantime a picture of my dog enjoying the sunshine after a week of rain. 010
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2023Do you know if there are efforts to monitor for Pink salmon in the Baltic rivers yet? I know of lots of work further north but have not been tuned into whats going on in the Baltic 000
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2023Yes it's quite alarming. At least this year they seem to have not ventured too far south. We are getting ready to gather new data (otoliths and genetics) to better understand their movements this year but we are at the very beginning of this research and their are spreading rapidly 000
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2023I think the last time we talked you said all these words. Maybe except ocellatus :) 110
Reposted by Malte WillmesBen Walther @bendw.bsky.social · 02/10/2023NEW POSTDOC Working with #hypoxia, #tags, #boats, #FishSci, #mud, #otolith & eye #lens #isotope chemistry in the #Baltic. Position is at the University of Essex with Dr Anna Sturrock and collaborating with a large international team (including me!). Deadline Nov 6. More info: tinyurl.com/muddyfish 047
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2023"Experts worry about the impact of the Pacific pink salmon on the local Atlantic species, which are already struggling. So far this year there have been low numbers of Atlantic salmon, sea trout and char caught in several rivers in Norway, causing fishing to be halted before the end of the season." 000
Malte Willmes @rocksandbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2023Not a bad place to take my first water sample for our new geochemical baseline #Isotopes #Norway 050
