AFS Students & Early Career Professionals

The Student and Early Career Professionals Subsection of the Education Section of the American Fisheries Society (AFS)

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Questions about starting a subunit? Want to know more about grad school? Looking for travel funds to present your cutting-edge research? Check out the Student Subsection Website for all of your fisheries student needs! https://t.co/AtXDRSWz2w

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

New Photo Contest! Tag us in your photo submission for the theme "mistakes happen".

[Tyler Eddy @tyzissou]

Two fully funded PhD positions 🇨���

Quantifying uncertainty in zooplankton-mediated biological carbon pump processes

One based @DalhousieU and one @UQAR
in collaboration with @universitelaval & @MemorialU

Apply by Sept. 1, details here:
https://t.co/BYFLbqGcXu

[MDSeaGrant @MDSeaGrant]

Graduate students: Apply today for our State Science and Policy Fellowship! We have an open position focused on university sustainability and participate in the Maryland Commission on Climate Change (MCCC). Learn more and apply: https://t.co/moMIotqSur

[Dr. Easton White @eastonrwhite]

We are hiring a grad student in #quant #ecology for Fall 2025 and a research scientist in #ecology #aquaculture #Rstats to start immediately

Please reach out and take a look at our lab guide in the link below

https://t.co/erlN0u5PMi

[Dr. Chris Bonvillain @DrCBonvillain]

I have two MS assistantships in the #AquaticEcologyandAstacologyLab beginning Spring 25 to look at crayfish distribution and habitat assessment in the Pearl River basin in Louisiana. $20,000/yr + tuition waiver 💴!
See the A&M posting for full details.
https://t.co/p5gL41jpUm

[Matthew Robertson @Matt_DRobertson]

Funded PhD Opportunity!

Come join my lab @marineinstitute @MemorialU
to work on an international project examining evidence for coherent shifts in fish body condition throughout the NW Atlantic!

See details here - https://t.co/XApmS28Ywk

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Exciting post-doc opportunity! Study fish and fisheries ecology on Lake Champlain in Vermont with the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory!

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Make sure to tag us in your post for a chance to win some super cool fishy merchandise! 2/2

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

🚨JULY PHOTO CONTEST THEME ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 This month's theme is "Big things looking small and small things looking big".

This can be interpreted as the largest of a small species (or vice versa), pics under a microscope, or anything that fits into this category! 1/2

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Only a week left to submit photos!

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Meet Kyle Glenn, our Northeastern Division Rep!

[CARS @CARSAFS]

💥GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES💥 Multiple PhD and MSc positions at Lakehead, Laurentian, and Queen's university related to biodiversity in freshwaters! 👇👇👇

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

3. You must be an AFS student or ECP member following us on social media to participate.
4. Winners will be contacted through the platform on which they submitted their entry. This contest is in no way associated with, administered by, or endorsed by X. 5/5

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Contest rules:
1. One entry per person is permitted, do not submit through multiple platforms.
2. By sending us your entry, you consent to it being shared with the AFS SECP followers and membership. 4/5

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Tag us in your post, or email photos with captions directly to [email protected] to enter! One entry will be selected as the winner of an AFS merch prize! Contest details are as follows:
Deadline for June’s contest will be June 30th. 3/5

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

‼️🚨📷 PHOTO CONTEST ALERT 📷🚨‼️
This summer we will be holding photo contests to see what fish fun everyone is getting up to in the field and in the lab. Each month we will hold a new contest with a different theme. 1/5

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

This month's theme is "my favourite part of the workday". Please share the highlight of your day that you can always count on cheering you up! 2/5

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Introducing Chase, our Southern Division Rep! Would you look at that bass!

[AFS Students & Early Career Professionals @AFS_Students]

Meet Lauren Yancy, our webmaster and communications committee member!

[American Fisheries Society @AmFisheriesSoc]

Employers frequently rank communication skills as being among the most needed areas for more staff training. We're happy to offer a range of courses at #AFS154 addressing this critical need - plan to come to Hawai'i a little early, and browse our courses: https://t.co/wNlUTp0Gj0