After 7 weeks our sewage x warming mesocosm experiment is done! Amazing work from Sam Macaulay Dr Philip Sanders Marina Veseli Buntu Fanteso and James Evans for keeping the experiment running at 4 sites simultaneously. #Ecology #freshwater Oxford Biology FreshwaterQuality

Thanks for having us Michelle Jackson and Sam Macaulay. It was a very interesting and soggy afternoon helping sample the benthic communites in the mesocosms. Quite different to the fieldwork our Environmental Scientists get up to! 😁 #mesocosm #invertebrate #ecology #wastewater

Paid research assistant positions to work with myself and Michelle Jackson at the University of Oxford on our synthesis project! Remote working and part-time work is possible - details about the project and the required skills are below. Please share with suitable candidates :)

Enjoyed presenting a paper we AQUACOSM have in prep on the limitations and opportunities of #mesocosms for advancing solutions to environmental threats in aquatic ecology. Now to finish the paper!…

Benefit of increased rainfall due to climate change ➡️ restored connectivity? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Thanks for coming along Mat Cobain 🇬🇧🇪🇺 in 🇫🇮! Nice to see you there :) and I hope you could somewhat follow the interaction effect explanations!

University of Oxford Earth Day 2024: Planet vs Plastics 🌏 Sam Macaulay sharing on global ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems and the importance of advancing solutions in this area 👏 Oxford Biology Department of Physics at University of Oxford

Check out some of the cool terrestrial invertebrates we’ve been finding around the FSC Slapton Ley field centre! :) (Oh, and one vertebrate 🦎 ;)

It’s the final day of the Oxford Biology field course and we’ve seen some amazing things! Here’s a small selection of some of the invertebrate wildlife we found today 📍 FSC Slapton Ley Devon

My latest for Science Magazine about science cuts in NZ's budget, with NZAS and the Save Science Coalition

I’m in the 64% that thought these destructive practices would already be banned in UK’s marine protected areas. What good is having an area where marine biodiversity is meant to grow and thrive, only to tear it all up?

Check out the interactive dataset of 2396 multi-stressor experiments here: jamesaorr.shinyapps.io/freshwater-mul… Here’s a short video explainer for how to use it.