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John Birks has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien ("KVA")) in the Geosciences section.
Two men with bags of juvenile salmon to be released to a river
BBC Earth is featuring an article on how growing environment shapes the cognitive abilities in fish. Research by Anne Gro Vea Salvanes from EvoFish is also highlighted, with cool videos!
Fabian, Mikko and Bea posing in front of the conference poster
With fisheries-induced evolution in the spotlight, Bea, Fabian and Mikko from EvoFish attended the ICES Annual Science Conference
Peter studying fish bones with a microscope
Nestory Peter Gabagambi has started his PhD study in evolutionary fish parasitology. In his study Peter will focus on the interaction between a tapeworm and its fish host in Lake Nyasa/Malawi.
Pipeting the amplified DNA fragments onto an agarose gel
In a joint master project between the Environmental toxicology and Evolutionary Ecology research groups, Moritz Pohl is unveiling the secrets of the remarkable anoxia tolerance of bearded goby from Namibia.
Analyses of recaptures of escaped farmed salmon reveal that much more salmon escape than is reported. This result was also noted in the Research Highlights of Nature!
As a follow-up to Kathy Willis' 25-part radio series on Plants: From Roots to Riches, Kathy and Carolyn Fry have published a profusely illustrated book to accompany the series.
Professor Kathy Willis in front of the greenhouse at Kew Gardens
Kathy Willis, Director of Science of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford, and Professor II in the EECRG is presenting a radio series on BBC Radio 4 entitled Plants: From Roots to Riches.
Camilla Jensen in laboratory with tanks with salmon and salmon lice
Camilla Jensen is working hard in the lab with her Master project on life-history adaptations in salmon lice.

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