Shaun Killen
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Prof of Ecophysiology at Uni of Glasgow. Metabolic physiology, pred/prey interactions, social behaviour, fisheries-induced evolution. 🇨🇦 in 🏴
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Imagine if you downloaded a journal article and the file name was something useful instead of a19893.hlep.a8f551.t.pdf
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I have two
#postdoc
positions open to examine effects of climate stressors on fish physiology & social behaviour! Projects mix fieldwork, labwork, and modelling. Deadline is AUGUST 16. Click here for more info:
@NERCscience
#fishsci
#phdchat
#PhD
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Clownfish are total badasses. Here's
#Nemo
's mom attacking a shark while defending her nest. Footage:
@SuzanneCMills
, Ricardo Beldade.
#NemoO2
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A 20 day old clownfish explores the reef around Moorea for the first time! Amazing video by
@r_beldade
@daphnecortese
#miniblueplanet
#nemo
#fishsci
@GlasgowUniFish
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Fish can be introverts too! Here's a comparison of a social vs asocial fish. Video from this paper:
@GlasgowUniFish
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PhD opportunity with Neil Metcalfe,
@mikemwebster
, & myself. Why are some individuals within species more social than others? This seems to relate to energy demand, but does mitochondrial efficiency play a role? You could find the answer!
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PhD opportunity with myself,
@mikemwebster
,
@C_C_Ioannou
, and
@colinjtorney
on interactions between climate stressors & social behaviour in fish. Chance for a cool mix of behaviour, physiology, & modelling, plus lab + fieldwork! Contact me if interested!
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We caught this beautiful, huge Amazonian catfish in the River Kelvin in Glasgow, SCOTLAND, this morning. Please do not release your aquarium fish into local waterways! They can be very ecologically damaging!
@ClydeRF
@marinescotland
@ScottishEPA
@ScienceMunster
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Our new study in
@CurrentBiology
on how metabolic costs of feeding and digestion constrain positioning of fish within swimming schools: Super proud of
@stephmclean_
and
@annasofia_per
for their amazing work!
@T_Norin
@GlasgowUniFish
@IBAHCM
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There's something surreal about seeing fishes you normally see in an aquarium in their native habitat. Here is our first glimpse of cardinal tetras in the Amazon 😍
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
@TheFSBI
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New preprint! Unsure of what details to include when writing methods for aquatic respirometry studies? You are not alone! We show what details are most reported/overlooked & provide checklist of important details to include:
@GlasgowUniFish
#fishsci
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New in
@J_Exp_Biol
, our paper with guidelines for reporting methods for aquatic respirometry. We provide detailed descriptions of each criterion and its importance for replication. (1/4)
#fishsci
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Huge congrats to new Doctor
@lucy_cotgrove
! Richly deserved, it will be so sad to see you leave. Thanks
@mikemwebster
&
@j_e_lindstrom
for examing, &
@ScienceMunster
,
@daphnecortese
,
@marpineda17
for the school of cupcakes and
@idtrackerai
inspired cake!
@UofG_SBOHVM
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Synchronized air-breaths in a group of
#corydoras
catfish. 😍😍
@marpineda17
@afishyonado
@GlasgowUniFish
@IBAHCM
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Our 3D printed shuttle-box for measuring temperature preference in fish 😍. Find blueprints to make your own, plus a tonne of other info about shuttle-box use in our paper in
@conphysjournal
, here:
@emiflichri
@GlasgowUniFish
#fishsci
#labDIY
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Massive congrats to new fish doctor
@ThambithuraiD
! Incredibly well deserved, not sure what we'll do without you!
@IBAHCM
@GlasgowUniFish
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Our new paper in
@PNASNews
, led by
@AmelieCrespel
, showing that despite consistent phenotypic selection on growth, metabolism, & sociality, the genomic effects of simulated trawling vary strongly with fish population density: 1/6
@ERC_Research
@MSCActions
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July 6 at 12:40 BST, drop by the
#SEBconference
poster session to discuss this poster by
@FredrikJutfelt
& I. We want to hear thoughts on better assessing overall organismal plasticity in response to climate change. Focusing on single traits can miss important responses.
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As the sun sets on our fieldwork in the Amazon, there are several takeaways that will stay with me. This trip hit home on a number of fronts and it's good to be reminded of what can make a research job special. Cheesy🧵 ahead! (1/9)
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
#teamtetra
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Our new paper about how the environment & physiological performance curves may influence animal social behaviour: . We outline 6 main mechanisms and ecological effects. 1st: differences in rank across environmental gradients may affect leadership. 1/7
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Our new paper in
@J_Exp_Biol
, lead by Felipe Blasco, on warming during swimming activity in fishes and implications for oxygen limitation.
@afishyonado
@GlasgowUniFish
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This week is
#FishInResearch
week! Fish are the most diverse vertebrates with more species than mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. This week I'll highlight how they've been critical in extending knowledge of ecology, starting with our study of climate change.(1/7)
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Great to see the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology appearing online! Here's one of our contributions, a summary of links between energetics and foraging behaviour.
@ScienceMunster
@daphnecortese
#fishsci
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Our new paper, lead by Libor Zavorka, looking at how temperature affects links among metabolism, brain morphology, and exploratory behaviour in fish. Early view in
@J_Exp_Biol
@Tifftastic87
@AmelieCrespel
@Barbara_Koeck
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Really happy about our paper just out in
@Trends_Ecol_Evo
, discussing anthropogenic effects on availability of key nutrients. Biomolecules like essential fatty acids may be just as important as energy for affecting phenotypes, fitness, and ecosystems.
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Our new paper led by
@ThambithuraiD
suggests that shoaling can increase fish vulnerability to capture by trap fisheries. Read more here:
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New in
@GlobalChangeBio
, our meta-analysis lead by
@carolin_dahms
, on factors affecting marine fish range shifts. We find correlations between rate of temp change and pole-ward range shifts, with shifts most rapid for tropical, unexploited species: (1/3)
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How fast can
#nemo
swim? That's what we're trying to find out! Important for young fish dispersal
@T_Norin
@SuzanneCMills
@criobe_pf
#nemoO2
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Absolute garbage thread. These attitudes are massively destructive to the mental health of students and PIs and need to be eliminated from academia.
#phdchat
#phdlife
(1/25) I am writing this thread concerning grad student life in organic synthesis. Some folks will agree with it (though perhaps not openly). Others may be very upset. Either way is OK. But here are some stories, thoughts, and advice
#chemtwitter
#realtimechem
@RealTimeChem
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Congrats to new Dr
@JPWHollins
! Amazing work and an incredible scientist. Now bring on the beer!
@IBAHCM
@GlasgowUniFish
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Massive congrats to Dr
@Tifftastic87
who aced her viva today! Incredibly well deserved. It's been amazing having you on the team, super proud of you!
@IBAHCM
@GlasgowUniFish
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We caught one! If you ever wondered what a cod does as it approaches & enters a baited trap, here you go! This fish also has a heart rate logger so we will know how its heart rate corresponds to behaviour throughout this process.
#fishsci
#PHYSFISH
@JPWHollins
@GlasgowUniFish
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AWESOME new preprint from
@JolleWJolles
on using Raspberry Pis in biological research. Lots of amazing low-cost DIY solutions already available or waiting to be pioneered. Link:
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Pro tip for senior researchers: if a student asks you to read their studentship proposal for feedback, maybe don't turn around and do the project yourself without including them.
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Paint job on 3D printed perch coming along beautifully. Amazing work
@ClaireauxMarion
, almost time to test on minnows.
#fishsci
@KatjaEnberg
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FYI we updated our preprint for key details when reporting methods of intermittent flow aquatic respirometry. Now have detailed descriptions of each criteria & downloadable table/checklist for summarizing & including with submissions. Check it out here:
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In our new preprint we discuss how physiological performance curves may be key for understanding the effects of environmental change on animal social behaviour.
@daphnecortese
@lucy_cotgrove
@JolleWJolles
@ScienceMunster
@C_C_Ioannou
@GlasgowUniFish
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Trials officially underway in Brazil! Is trap fishing for the aquarium fish trade phenotypically selective?
@KochhannD
@DerekCampos
@ThambithuraiD
@GlasgowUniFish
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These small Amazonian fish are spotted tetra, happily living at around 0.5 mg/L O2 (5% saturation) & pH of around 4. Loads of them swimming, eating, going about their business with seemingly no ill effects. Absolutely incredible.
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
#teamtetra
#fishsci
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The fantastic and inspiring Pat Wright is the 2022 Bidder Lecturer of the
@SEBiology
, lecture getting underway now!
#SEB2022
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Animal social groups contain individual variation from genes, the environment, social feedbacks, & more. How does this variation affect how groups function? Our new paper in
@Trends_Ecol_Evo
with
@JolleWJolles
&
@SHOALgroup
@GlasgowUniFish
@NERCscience
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Interested in social behaviour, specifically how social environments affect stress & energy expenditure in individuals? If so, check out this PhD opportunity, led by
@LaurenNadler
, w/
@clivetrue
& myself. Cool mix of lab & field, physiology & behaviour!
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So happy to see new papers using our checklist of criteria for aquatic respirometry, available here: . This example is from a cool study by
@Martin_J_M_34
& team showing no effect of pollutant exposure on metabolic rate in tadpoles:
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Our new paper, reviewing trade-offs among hypoxia, digestion, & swimming within the aerobic scope of fishes. We also discuss how, for many species, max aerobic metabolism perhaps can't be measured during exercise and may only be elicited during digestion.
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Honoured to share the booth with DJ Valentin for some duet spinning to close out
#SEB2022
. Thank you Montpellier!
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Thanks to The Tiki Bar Glasgow for allowing me to do some mid-week spinning. Come for the cocktails, stay for the sick island beats. 😂
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A lot of the behavioural and physiological variation we see in animals is probably due to variation in the parasites they are hosting, without us even realising it. We need to look at stuff like this more often!
Preprint alert! My first first author preprint is out! If you r interested about metabolic rates, escape response, & of course parasites 🪱 this one is for you!
Thanks to
@binsan5
@manuchretien
@JayDebon
@dom_roche
and DBoisclair.
@respR_pkg
@Pyro_Science
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Great to see this study out in
@GlobalChangeBio
! It was a huge team effort, led by
@NPilakouta
, showing various acute, developmental, and likely evolutionary effects of warming on sociability in fish. A brief 🧵 (1/7)
#fishsci
@GlasgowUniFish
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Almost a week into our fieldwork in the Amazon. Incredible wildlife and scenery at every turn. Still don't have our target species but loads of interesting fish and questions to keep us busy in the meantime!
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
@TheFSBI
@GlasgowUniFish
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Estimating metabolic rate in 15 day old clownfish
#nemoO2
@criobe_pf
@SuzanneCMills
@T_Norin
@GlasgowUniFish
@IBAHCM
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Thanks to
@T_Norin
for organising an absolutely fantastic satellite symposium to kick off
@SEBiology
annual meeting. Loads of interesting talks and great people. Now on to the main meeting!
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Absolutely incredible day at the
#COP26
#ClimateMarch
. Amazing atmosphere. People are tired of inaction and the blah blah blah. Well done Glasgow!
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Looking forward to this Friday when I'll talk about social behaviour and metabolism in the Ecology and Evolution Seminars at
@UAlberta
! Pester
@DrTBlew
for zoom link if you'd like to attend and vote on the day for what topics I'll discuss🤔
#chooseyourownadventure
@GlasgowUniFish
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Could not be prouder of these two after submitting their Masters theses today. Fantastic scientists and team members, I don't want them to leave! 😭
@marpineda17
@IsabelAragao8
#teamcorydoras
@GlasgowUniFish
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Testing Nemo's metabolic response to bleached anenomes with
@T_Norin
@SuzanneCMills
@r_beldade
#fishsci
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Our
#OA
new paper
@AnimalEcology
: social forces supersede O2 demand to drive air-breathing in catfish
@afishyonado
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Incredibly thankful and fortunate to have spent a week with this indigenous Amazonian community. Our work would be impossible without them & their approach to life and fulfillment will leave a lasting impression. It was a profound experience.
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
#teamtetra
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Can't believe this was a week ago already! 😭 In Moorea with
@SuzanneCMills
doing the camera work and with
@T_Norin
@emiflichri
and
@r_beldade
in spirit.
#itsfridaynight
#playwithsound
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POV when you're a cardinal tetra in an enclosure at an ornamental fish distributor in the Amazon, with 100,000 of your closest pals.
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
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NEW in
@RSocPublishing
: Fantastic work by
@b_t_cooper
showing individual fish compromise exposure to their own preferred temperature to remain part of a group. Read here:
@adrbart
@GlasgowUniFish
@UofGMVLS
@NERCscience
#fishsci
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Whoever thought it is a good idea to put exported citations in all caps should be put in prison.
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The Amazonian catfish we caught in the River Kelvin in the middle of Glasgow yesterday is looking good! Slowly acclimating to normal temperature range. Was well behaved during photoshoot for taxonomy with
@DerekCampos
and colleagues in Brazil!
@ScienceMunster
@GlasgowUniFish
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About to embark on a 26 hour boat ride up the Rio Negro. Wish us luck 😊
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
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Amazing cake made by
@lucy_cotgrove
for
@JPWHollins
defence celebrations. Complete with perch and
@vemcoteam
receivers!!
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Big day, beginning fieldwork for project led by
@marpineda17
, looking at evolutionary effects of the ornamental fishery in the Amazon. Very excited to get started!
@TheFSBI
#fishsci
Had an amazing couple days in Manaus and now packed up and ready to go into the Amazon! Wish us luck finding the tetra and stay tuned 🎣
#TeamTetra
@KochhannD
@val_amazon
@shaunkillen
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Back in Glasgow after a fantastic week in Montpellier with
@afishyonado
,
@ThambithuraiD
,
@LoTeulier
,
@karine_salin
& everyone at the CEPA Ecophysiology conference. Amazing talks and so much fun to hangout in person again 😊
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Pat Monaghan busts out her now famous rap skills to celebrate
#InternationalWomensDay
Yet another reason why I love our institute!
@IBAHCM
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Our new paper in
@conphysjournal
, led by
@emiflichri
with everything you need to know about shuttle-boxes for measuring environmental preferences of aquatic animals. Types, design, use, limitations, and knowledge gaps.
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@jessica_a_roark
@pollyp1
Don't worry, most of us won't mock and penalize you for honestly stating your interests.
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Great team effort lead by
@daphnecortese
, showing interactive effects of parental and offspring environment on morphology, physiology, and survival in wild clownfish. (1/4)
@SuzanneCMills
@r_beldade
@AmelieCrespel
@T_Norin
#fishsci
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After years out of the spotlight, apparently
@ricky_martin
is now livin' la vida loca as a predatory journal editor.
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After 28 hours by boat we are in Barcelos, a hub of the Brazilian ornamental fish trade. So excited to see some new species, and to go out with the fishers and see them in action.
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
@TheFSBI
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Camera shy baby clowns, hiding in their anenome from the
#GoPro
.
#fishchi
@SuzanneCMills
@T_Norin
@r_beldade
@AmelieCrespel
@daphnecortese
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The Rio Negro creates an infinitely complex maze through the Amazonian jungle. Luckily our fisherman partner has been fishing tetras & other aquarium species here for 35 years and knows it inside out. It was unreal to see him navigate it.
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
@fsbi
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New in
@cjfas
, our study led by
@JPWHollins
@Barbara_Koeck
@AmelieCrespel
with links among temperature, physiological plasticity, & capture vulnerability in scaled-down trap & trawl fishing. Selection on traits varies with temp:
@davemarinebio
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New PhD studentship available with me, Neil Metcalfe, and John Armstrong to examine physiological effects of catch and release angling on Atlantic salmon. Please retweet! More info here!:
@GlasgowUniFish
#fishsci
#phdchat
#PhD
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Great work by
@marpineda17
and
@IsabelAragao8
on our new paper in
@J_Exp_Biol
. A really cool example of how social dynamics can alter how individual animals respond to changes in their environment. And using adorable Corydoras catfish as well!
@GlasgowUniFish
📣New paper 📣 Super excited to share my first ever publication (!) in
@J_Exp_Biol
Great working with the Cory dream team on this
@IsabelAragao8
@shaunkillen
@afishyonado
🐟 Early access is here:
#fishsci
#AcademicTwitter
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Congrats new Dr.
@daphnecortese
! A great end to an amazing PhD project. Thanks to
@afishyonado
@BustonLab
@englishse
and Delphine Lagrand for the great thesis exam & discussion!
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Early view & OPEN access: our take on why physiological mechanisms are important for understanding fisheries-induced evolution.
@ThambithuraiD
@AmelieCrespel
@davemarinebio
@j_e_lindstrom
@KevParInRain
@SJC_fishy
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New paper with great work by
@ThambithuraiD
, looking at selection on morphology by scaled down trap & trawl fishing. For both gears, vulnerable fish had shallower bodies: interesting given active and passive gears generally select on different phenotypes.
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Amazing strategy for keeping speakers on time at ICES WGFTFB meeting - chair of session threatens to open jar of fermented shark if someone goes over their time limit. 🤢😂
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Good to know, conference abstract submission portal, good to know. Guess I need to revise my submission 🤔.
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Sherlock, my gremlin
#petsAtSEB
. Great hashtag idea by
@lucy_cotgrove
to highlight one of the nice parts of virtual conferencing!
#SEBconference
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Think I ate several kilos of tambaqui today. Also, didn't realise there were such amazing beaches in the Amazon. 😍
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New preprint with some outstanding work by
@manuchretien
, looking at the effects of social group size and shelter presence on metabolic rates in fish. SMR was higher for fish held in groups of 4 as compared to fish in groups of 8; no effect on max MR.
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Can't wait for this!
@ShaunKillen
is the
#UTMBiology
Grad Students (EEB) Super Speaker Guest for 2022-2023 Seminar Series
if interested, come this Friday, Dec 2, at noon, in DV2080, but more info you will find here:
@UofGlasgow
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I promise this session will be better than my haircut in that photo.
Meet
@shaunkillen
- our session organiser for the "Automated animal tracking in behavioural studies" session at
#SEBconference
2021
Submit your abstract! Deadline 19 April
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Our workshop on anatomy, physiology, and evolution is underway with
@KRuthsatz
&
@Zoology_Museum
. Excited for a day of hands-on morphology and anatomy. Thanks so much to
@Co_Biologists
for supporting us!
@UofG_SBOHVM
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After two years it feels good to be back at the deck spinnin' sick mashups at Hillhead Bookclub in Glasgow. It's amazing what sounds, worlds, and journeys you can create with electricity, amirite
@mattguzzo12
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None of our target cardinal tetra today but saw loads of other cool fishes in the Amazon. Here's what appears to be a ma and pa Cichlasoma pair with a cloud of their babies following them.
#teamtetra
@marpineda17
@KochhannD
@GlasgowUniFish
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Small scale trawl simulations with
#zebrafish
. Selection experiments underway!
@ThambithuraiD
@FishDwyer
@GlasgowUniFish
#fishsci
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#Corydoras
tucked in to their respirometers for the night.
@marpineda17
@afishyonado
@GlasgowUniFish
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Congrats to
@levet_marie
for receiving the 2017-2018
@UFAW_1926
Prize for her masters project on boat noise effects on fish stress & behaviour! Extremely well deserved and excellent teamwork with
@kieranp_mcc
@DrSteveSimpson
@Dwarf_Mongoose
@AmelieCrespel
and others!
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