Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 19/09/2025That’s a wrap for Trex Ecology’s efishing 2025. Kit disinfected and drying in the Hebridean sunshine. I’m looking forward to not seeing a net for a while! 020
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 02/09/2025“Wild salmon can rally public support for ecosystem protection and link place-based conservation efforts to global biodiversity and climate benefits..” True of our salmonids too! academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...academic.oup.comStrongholds for Pacific salmon: A proactive conservation strategy for ecosystem health, food security, biodiversity, and climate resilienceABSTRACT. Nested within the linked global crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are threats to cultural and ecological keystones such as Pacific s 081
Reposted by Tommy McDermottMPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 31/08/2025'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'cbc.caHow Canada's buck-toothed national emblem could help fight wildfires | CBC NewsNew research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes. 1173875909
Reposted by Tommy McDermottThe FSBI @thefsbi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025New contribution to the #JFB Special Issue on telemetry: Advances in telemetry approaches and technologies applied to fish ecology and management #AcousticTelemetry #FishTracking #MarineResearch doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15790doi.org 011
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 21/07/2025We’re looking to hire a seasonal field assistant at Trex Ecology. Job description is attached and get in touch if you have any questions! Please share too! 010
Reposted by Tommy McDermottFintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Researchers identify five steps to successful nature restoration - the need for policy coherence & adequate financial support to make Nature Restoration happen is clear yet the Commission have proposed an MFF/CAP that seem to deliver neither www.google.com/amp/s/phys.o...share.googleResearchers identify five steps to successful nature restorationMany European ecosystems—whether it's forests, rivers, fields, or meadows—are in poor condition. Despite all conservation efforts, biodiversity continues to decline. However, experts are hopeful that ... 03217
Reposted by Tommy McDermottEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 30/05/2025Is it hot right now in the UK? New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal. istheukhotrightnow.com Built by @roostweather.bsky.social. 1224095
Reposted by Tommy McDermottGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 25/04/2025NFU says Land Use Framework “needs to give food production same priority as delivering environmental targets” Great - so instead of devoting 70% of English land to intensive agriculture & just 3% for nature, can we now make it 50-50? Or, y’know, just meet 30x30 www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...nfuonline.comNFU publishes response to Land Use Framework consultationThe NFU has warned that farmers’ ability to continue producing food for the nation could be put at risk by the new Land Use Framework, further putting the government’s commitment to treat food securit... 25713
Reposted by Tommy McDermottDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.” No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.media.tenor.coma black and white bird is standing in the grassALT: a black and white bird is standing in the grass 1022100375
Reposted by Tommy McDermottWATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 29/03/2025"Beavers are truly an agent of disturbance: they are in that river corridor...disturbing it + making a whole variety of...habitat...they're really building that complex food web from the bottom up." @emilyfairfax.bsky.social on beavers, biodiversity, wildfire & drought: westgov.org/news/article...westgov.orgLeave it to Beaver: How Nature’s Engineers are Helping Us Mitigate DisastersThe history of the West has always been defined by water. Long before settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples designed complex water management systems to cultivate the arid land. In the 19th and 20th ce... 110347
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It’s not only rivers that flow!! Amazing day in the Angus Munros. 020
Reposted by Tommy McDermottDr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Spring is coming and wild shopping trolleys are returning upriver to spawn before dying. 🎶It's the circle of life🎶 1316
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Well that was a “tyring” day…. Mapping fish habitats on the Western Isles. I love working on these rivers! 010
Reposted by Tommy McDermottDr Tommy Ryan-Keogh @tjryankeogh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Global declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate models communities.springernature.com/posts/global... 🌊communities.springernature.comGlobal declines in ocean primary production underestimated by climate modelsThe following study developed a model ranking system to reduce the uncertainties associated with future projections of ocean productivity. Declines are much more likely than presently predicted, but e... 412453
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This is definitely one of the best parts of my job - marking up potential restorations options at scale. That joyous bit before all the barriers (pun intended) to fixing our rivers are forced onto such programmes 030
Reposted by Tommy McDermottJeff Walker @walkerenvres.bsky.social · 29/01/2025We figured out how to measure streamflow from timelapse images taken by an inexpensive, off-the-shelf trail camera, thus making hydrologic monitoring something pretty much any one can do, any where. usgs.gov/apps/ecoshed... 1754
Reposted by Tommy McDermottJoris Philip @jorisphilip.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Our last paper on the behavioural ecology of the Arctic charr is out in Animal Behaviour. Here, we led an investigation on the development of a behavioural trait (boldness) in relation to environmental complexity, in five Arctic charr ecotypes. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 1112
Reposted by Tommy McDermottAlex Raeder @alexraeder.bsky.social · 23/01/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comGovernment overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticideEmergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU 042
Reposted by Tommy McDermottProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · 23/12/2024A really interesting read .. Modelled marine migrations of Atlantic salmon post-smolts from Irish and Scottish rivers vary interannually with local currents and salinity, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024;, fsae185, doi.org/10.1093/ices...doi.orgModelled marine migrations of Atlantic salmon post-smolts from Irish and Scottish rivers vary interannually with local currents and salinityAbstract. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations have suffered declines across their range in recent decades, largely attributed to decreasing marine su 063
Reposted by Tommy McDermottSussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 21/12/2024UK Gov has announced intention to bring forward "complete ban on bee-killing pesticides". This is great news & requires a big thank you to our campaigners! But as @craigbennett3.bsky.social says"it must not be undermined by granting emergency use of neoicotinoids" wildlifetrusts.org/news/deadly-... 18021
Reposted by Tommy McDermottMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024In ecological theory this assumption dates back to the ecologist Clements who proposed that there is a 'climax' state that the vegetation in any particular location will reach. Most ecologists now reject this simplification but it nevertheless persists. 2/6 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi... 1242
Reposted by Tommy McDermotteuobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 17/12/2024Lawyers for DR Congo announced that the central African country is suing the French and Belgian subsidiaries of US tech giant Apple, accusing them of using minerals pillaged from Congo and laundered through international supply chains.buff.lyCongo sues Apple over conflict minerals, raising doubts over EU raw materials dealsLawyers for DR Congo announced that the central African country is suing the French and Belgian subsidiaries of US tech giant Apple, accusing them of using minerals pillaged from Congo and laundered through... 087
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The last field surveys of 2024 are bringing all the winter vibes - spawning fish, cold and epic sunsets 030
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 02/12/2024@mikeduncan.bsky.social is here! History of Rome pod may be the most epic feat of history comms in recent years. Very much feels like my Twitter feed now. 000
Reposted by Tommy McDermottMadison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 29/11/2024super cool study! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 174
Reposted by Tommy McDermottKim Aarestrup @kimaarestrup.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Today we downloaded and serviced the acoustic receivers in the last (and smallest) of the three Danish Straits, completing the 2024 downloads. If you have acoustic tagged fish in the Baltic or North Sea and think they could have been detected, check the ETN database. @fishybiologistkim.bsky.social 0143
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social is here! His book The Missing Lynx is my joint top science read (the other being Lucy by Donald Johanson). 120
Reposted by Tommy McDermottHannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 25/11/2024Are you curious how the climate policies of political party manifestos stack up ahead of 🇮🇪 #ge24 next week? ❌ The three major parties - Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Fine Gael all failed our assessment ✅ the Labour Party came out on top www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labour-...friendsoftheearth.ieLabour tops manifesto assessment on climate, the three largest parties all fail | Friends of the EarthCampaigners call for would-be Taoiseachs to be challenged on their party’s failure in Leaders’ Debate The Labour Party has come out on top in 25288184
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Off to @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social! Four days of awesome outdoor chat and film, ceilidh and swag!! And a major dump of snow 🤞 010
Reposted by Tommy McDermottAlan Puttock @alanputtock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024PhDs galore! We currently have a suite of prospective Environmental Science PhD projects that would be supervised by academics in the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) at the University of Exeter. Please see thread below for full details and how to apply. 4126
Reposted by Tommy McDermottProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Resilience of Juvenile Freshwater Pearl Mussels to Thermal Stress. Ecol Evol, 14: e70456. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...doi.orgResilience of Juvenile Freshwater Pearl Mussels to Thermal StressResults from our experiment suggest that juvenile mussels can survive short periods of heat stress when other environmental conditions are favourable. Future studies should therefore address how heat... 011
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 17/11/2024 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comMorphological and fish mesohabitat dynamics following an experimental flood under different sediment availabilityThis study examines the effects of an experimental flood on two river reaches with differing sediment availability. The upstream reach, narrower and characterized by limited sediment availability, ex... 010
Reposted by Tommy McDermottIain A Malcolm @iainamalcolm.bsky.social · 17/11/2024onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "... increased conservation risks... could be partially mitigated by using stock‐recruitment analyses based on total egg mass... or via precautionary management where target escapements were higher than S MSY:onlinelibrary.wiley.comAccounting for Salmon Body Size Declines in Fishery Management Can Reduce Conservation RisksChanges in population demographic structure can have tangible but unknown effects on management effectiveness. Fishery management of Pacific salmon is often informed by estimates of the number of spa... 156
Reposted by Tommy McDermottAlan Puttock @alanputtock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Drone surveys from #beaver wetlands in England. At both sites beavers have created wetland habitat and reduced stormflow. However, one site is in the middle of a city and the other a forest, illustrating the breadth of landscapes where we can seek to implement nature-recovery and provide #NbS. 18710
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Out looking for redds. First wee trout redds showing up and plenty beaver activity! Going to be some nice pools formed when these trees drop in. 030
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Without gravels we have no spawning for many iconic species. Our river beds are in a dire state though, with climate-change driven rainfall patterns making things worse. 183
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Another great pack, this one pulled together by @wagnermarkus.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Tommy McDermottRob Briers @robbriers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Fully-funded 3.5-year #PhD available at EdinburghNapier University to advance understanding of wild #mammal community responses to #rewilding. Start date 1 Mar 2025. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Please circulate if you know anyone who may be interested. 🌱🦌🐾 001
Reposted by Tommy McDermottVittoria @vitt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Deserves to be shared on Bluesky too. The funniest video of all time. 614220575077
Tommy McDermott @tmactrex.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Not all about the fish (apparently). Great to see some great comics turning up here 100
Reposted by Tommy McDermottPeter powell @peterpowell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024 Loving all the new action on Blue sky? Then I have a great job for you: At Welsh Dee trust we are looking for a communications and events officer. The role will help engage a wide range of audiences in the conservation of the Dee. www.welshdeetrust.com/we-are-hirin...welshdeetrust.comWe Are Hiring: Communications and Events Officer – Welsh Dee Trust River Dee 064
