Chris Harrod
@profchrisharrod.bsky.social
Fish/aquatic/stable isotope ecology. Proud dad of two Anglo-Chileans. Sweary. Wide interests. Prof of Ecology, Director of Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment, U Glasgow's Field Station on Loch Lomond, UK @sceneuog.bsky.social
Research 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 December
For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Deadline 15th December
Research Associate
Job 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...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Research 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 December
For more details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Deadline 15th December
The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced!
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
wellcomeopenresearch.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The mighty roach (Rutilus rutilus) has had its genome sequenced!
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-629
Good work from Bernd Hänfling and crew
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We 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...
Leveraging wild hybrids to map the genomic mechanisms of life-history variation in a primitive vertebrate.
iapetus.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We 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...
via 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...
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...
Cup of Carbon: smartphone-based analysis of dissolved organic carbon in water for use in citizen science
Dissolved 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...
pubs.rsc.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
via 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...
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...
Reposted by Chris Harrod
Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?
"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.org/plosone/arti...
Trophic niche variation across the pan-Arctic coastal continuum
We 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...
journals.plos.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"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.org/plosone/arti...
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🔁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
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
🐟 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN for #NoWPaS2026!
📍 Hólar University, Iceland 🇮🇸
📅 March 2–7, 2026
🧑🔬 For early career researchers on anadromous salmonids
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
👉 forms.gle/unryb2EZEcp1...
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Join us in Iceland for science, salmonids, and connections!
📍 Hólar University, Iceland 🇮🇸
📅 March 2–7, 2026
🧑🔬 For early career researchers on anadromous salmonids
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
👉 forms.gle/unryb2EZEcp1...
ℹ️ nowpas.wordpress.com
Join us in Iceland for science, salmonids, and connections!
NoWPaS 2026 Application form
NoWPaS (International formerly Nordic Workshop for PhD and Post-Doctoral fellows on Anadromous Salmonid research) is an annual workshop, which aims to build and maintain an international network of ea...
forms.gle
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🔁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
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
Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ice Age vendace thriving at Loch Skeen near Moffat
A survey finds the population of vendace at Loch Skeen near Moffat is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Some good news via @sceneuog.bsky.social PhD student Ruaidhri Forrester
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HT @profcolinbean.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We 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?
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We 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?
Gonzalo 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/20042
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/20042
Identifying knowledge gaps in hypersaline systems supporting the global electrical transition: invertebrate community structure in salars from the lithium triangle
Following decades of mining impacts, South America’s hypersaline wetlands (salars) face increasing threats from lithium extraction to support global decarbonisation. Although globally important, salar...
peerj.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Gonzalo 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/20042
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/20042
any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N?
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
any pointers towards a TDF for dolphin dentine d13C and d15N?
In 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?
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
In 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?
Reposted by Chris Harrod
Fancy 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.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
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.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
September 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Fancy 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.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
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.
🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
Absolutely 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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology
Isotopic analysis as a method of assessing diet or geographical origin is now ubiquitous in archaeology, to the point where seemingly no project is co…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Absolutely 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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Chris Harrod
#JFB: Inter and intraspecific variation in the degree of marine-derived resources of amphidromous fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70084 #FishSci
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#JFB: Inter and intraspecific variation in the degree of marine-derived resources of amphidromous fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70084 #FishSci
Does 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.
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Does 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.
Reposted by Chris Harrod
🗺️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
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
September 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🗺️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
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
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
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
Oooh! This one looks good @karinagonzalez.bsky.social
#JFB: Unexpected trophic diversity in the endemic fish 𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 in a high-altitude freshwater ecosystem, Lake Chungar (4520m), northern Chile doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70081 #FishSci
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Oooh! This one looks good @karinagonzalez.bsky.social
want to help disadvantaged students get field work experience?
Maybe sling a few quid this way... Every penny helps
www.justgiving.com/page/paterso...
Maybe sling a few quid this way... Every penny helps
www.justgiving.com/page/paterso...
Expeditions for all; making fieldwork possible for disadvantaged students
Help David Bailey raise money to support University Of Glasgow Trust
www.justgiving.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
want to help disadvantaged students get field work experience?
Maybe sling a few quid this way... Every penny helps
www.justgiving.com/page/paterso...
Maybe sling a few quid this way... Every penny helps
www.justgiving.com/page/paterso...
Calling all isotope ecologists.
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
IsoEcol 2026 – 14th International Conference on the Application of Stable Isotope Techniques in Ecological Studies
www.isoecol.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Calling all isotope ecologists.
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
Reposted by Chris Harrod
Glasgow's M8 set for nine months of roadworks
Glasgow's M8 set for nine months of roadworks
Disruption on the road, which is used by 150,000 people a day, is set to run until 10 May next year.
www.bbc.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Glasgow's M8 set for nine months of roadworks
aquatic invert crew. I once worked in a lab where they used small receptacles filled with glass beads that allowed freshwater inverts to be positioned exactly so you could count setae, view gills etc via a dissection microscope.
I can't remember what these were called. Anyone got a clue/link?
I can't remember what these were called. Anyone got a clue/link?
September 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
aquatic invert crew. I once worked in a lab where they used small receptacles filled with glass beads that allowed freshwater inverts to be positioned exactly so you could count setae, view gills etc via a dissection microscope.
I can't remember what these were called. Anyone got a clue/link?
I can't remember what these were called. Anyone got a clue/link?
Reposted by Chris Harrod
just out of the press…a 50-y study of a mountain lake without good news…
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fifty-Year Trends Reveal Reversal from Recovery to Re-eutrophication and Reinforced Anoxia in a Managed Mountain Lake - Ecosystems
Anoxia in lakes has intensified in recent decades, threatening ecosystem functioning. Yet, the mechanisms driving long-term trends in anoxia intensity and duration are complex, especially in managed e...
link.springer.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
just out of the press…a 50-y study of a mountain lake without good news…
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...