Postdoc Research Fellow in Aquatic Invasions @ScienceLeeds 💧🐠 👽 | #Ecology #Conservation #Genetics 🧬🌎 | Nature enthusiast 💚 | 🇪🇺🇬🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Delighted to see so much interest in my PhD work with >1k views in 2 weeks! Proud of the many years of curiosity-driven work that led to it & incredibly grateful to my coauthors & funders @ecochangegroup @LizLoveLake @camplantsci @Peterhouse_Cam @isotopesUK @LaurentianU @queensu
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Rewriting the history of the invasive spiny water flea in North America.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/yXJ650ZXbeT
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/xPR850ZXbeS.
ALT Four-panel figure with map of Great Lakes basin, scatter plot of records over time, and line graphs showing sediment data and temperature trends.
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The European spiny water flea has reduced the diversity of native zooplankton by over 50%. A study finds it had been present in Canada for at least a century before first reports in the 1980s—and it may not have been introduced by humans. In PNAS: ow.ly/ezM850ZV1nx
ALT The spiny water flea, Bythotrephes longimanus. CREDIT: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
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Thanks @CBCQuirks for having us on to discuss our latest work @PNASNews (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26…)
Listen in here: cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5…
@TrentUniversity @TrentUResearch
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New research led by @camplantsci alumna @KontouD - read more in @ConversationUK...
One of Canada’s worst invasive species may have arrived naturally: theconversation.com/one-of-c…
Read the full paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26…
Very proud of our newest paper now @PNASnews led by @KontouD @camplantsci with @LizLoveLake @isotopesUK @queensu It's perhaps one of the most surprising "discoveries" we've ever made🧑🔬 Read it for free👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2622864… 🧵
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Very proud of our newest paper now @PNASnews led by @KontouD @camplantsci with @LizLoveLake @isotopesUK @queensu It's perhaps one of the most surprising "discoveries" we've ever made🧑🔬 Read it for free👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2622864… 🧵
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Coverage of our incredible new paper out now @PNASNews 👉 theconversation.com/one-of-c…
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Just a few sleeps left until @SoapboxScience lands on the Southbank this Saturday and the speaker line up is making me starstruck 🤩🤩🤩 See you there 👩🏼🔬🥼📢
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A reminder that registration is now open for our exciting annual group meeting!👾
Sign up, submit your abstract to share your research & join us this June in Edinburgh to talk about #invasivespecies #ecology #policy #conservation #research #priorities!👇
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Are you thinking of joining our SIG Meeting in June?👾
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📢CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Are you thinking of joining our SIG Meeting in June?👾
Do you have an exciting #workshop idea you would like to share?💡Can it be delivered in 1 hr?⏱️
If you answered YES, let us know using our form:📝 forms.office.com/e/FMV66upCS…
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📆❗️Save the date for the BES Invasion Science Group 2025 meeting to discuss all things #invasive #species #science, #management & #policy 🌍👾
📆When? Tue 10th June
📍Where? The Scotsman Hotel, Edinburgh 🏴
Registration & Abstract submission to open 🔜
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The speaker call for @SoapboxScience London 2025 is officially open 🤩👩🏼🔬📢 We are looking for women, non-binary and genderqueer scientists to join what's bound to be another fantastic #scicomm day at the Southbank! Who's joining? 🙋🏼♀️ Deadline March 2nd 🚨 soapboxscience.org/apply-to-……
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What happens when 300+ scientists analyse the same data? Not the same answer! Lessons about staying open to alternate explanations, don't rush to judge, more than one "truth" in nature🤔 Grateful to contribute to this amazing initiative. Read it for free: doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0…
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The new Women in Science issue and podcast are out now! 🔬🧬🧪🥽🔭🚀🩺🌍
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Featuring Dr Katie Perry, Dr Shalaka Patil, Isla Watton and Emma Brass.
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🚨Our new paper @RSocPublishing is online! Led by ⭐️ @KontouD + colleagues @queensu @LizLoveLake, we discovered how one of the most important species in lakes has been evolving to outsmart a formidable introduced predator. Read the paper for free: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.19… 🧵1/n
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ICYMI our @src_rsc Dialogue on Climate Action and Health Resilience is now online! Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=K4iq05Db…
Delighted to share the first of 3 exciting #PhD chapters, in collaboration with incredible colleagues @ecochangegroup, @LizLoveLake et al. from @plantsci @Trent_TSE @LaurentianU, @QueensUBio and Ontario MECP, published today @RSocPublishing :👇
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We discovered that embryo size consistently increased across lakes that have been invaded by the spiny water flea, and those changes were often accompanied by significant genetic differentiation between core tops/bottoms aka before/after spiny water flea establishment.
