This International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience, the ASFB is spotlighting four of its amazing student members. We asked them about their research, what inspired them to begin a career in science, and any advice for others considering a similar path. Read on... www.asfb.org.au/asfb-blog/as...

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

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ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.

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Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

Bleaching on both the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo is a warning we can’t ignore. The window to protect our coral reefs is closing fast and we must act now to limit warming and safeguard these iconic ecosystems. 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... #CoralBleaching #MarineScience

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record

Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause of damage.

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I also got the exciting opportunity to speak about our paper on @oceanographicmag.bsky.social Ocean News Podcast 🌊 You can listen to it here: open.spotify.com/episode/31Ax...

Why Are Sharks VITAL For Coral Reefs? - The Ocean News Podcast

The Ocean News Podcast · Episode

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My first first-author paper (my master's work) is finally out in @animalecology.bsky.social ! We found that the recovery of reef shark populations invoked anti-predator behaviours in mesopredatory reef fishes on Ashmore Reef in Western Australia🦈🐟. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Recovery of reef shark populations invokes anti‐predator behaviours in mesopredatory reef fishes on a coral reef

The nonconsumptive top-down effects of reef sharks on the wider coral reef community are a topic of controversy. Our study provides an important addition to experimental and spatial evidence for reef....

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Thanks @zoe-storm.bsky.social for writing a great piece on our recent brook trout work! 🔥 ❄️ 🐟 Links to her ConsPhys in Action article & our research paper below ⬇️

Conservation Physiology@conphysjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Home is where the heat is (for brook trout that is) Intrigued? Then check out this latest #ConPhys in Action piece, explaining the importance of local conditions to 🐟 temperature tolerance, and therefore for #Conservation planning. Comments on Stewart et al (links in 🧵⬇️ )

Attenborough voice: “And now, with the return of the reef’s apex predator, we observe a subtle but striking shift…” Our new study led by @zoe-storm.bsky.social: recovering reef sharks trigger caution in mesopredators. Less feeding, more vigilance. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...