🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨 Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡 🌐 🦑🧪 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...

2) Importantly, I am looking to recruit a PhD-level graduate student to start next school year (August 2026). My lab website (still under construction: christopherhemings.wixsite.com/my-site) has the details outlining the position and applying.

Super excited that our new paper is out today in @pnas.org. Title: Lateral jaw motion in fish expands the functional repertoire of vertebrates and underpins the success of a dominant herbivore lineage. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS paper about this year's missing #ocean #upwelling along the coast of #Panama share.google/pWxTjMwVl5Lh...

Turns out it's very unlikely Nemo and Marlin lived in the same anemone.. Just out in Behavioral Ecology! with Pete Buston, Steve Bogdanowicz, Tina Barbasch @behavecol.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social

Why do anemonefish (A. percula) live in groups where only the dominant pair breed? We tested ~200 groups for genetic relatedness and showed no patterns indicating relatedness was high within groups. 🧬🧪 doi.org/10.1093/behe... @theresarueger.bsky.social #MarineBiology #SocialEvolution

🐠Clownfish shrink to survive heat stress and avoid conflict. Want to find out how? Listen to Melissa Versteeg and @theresarueger.bsky.social from 08.20 on #CNN 's 5 Good Things podcast here🎧 tinyurl.com/b4nwrcc9 #WeAreNCL #marinescience Read the article here 📖https://tinyurl.com/yjsbeztm

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

Come and join us in Newcastle for a wonderful gathering of network ecologists! This year our theme is 'Network Ecology in the Anthropocene' and our plenary speakers include Jane Memmott and Paulo Guimarães. Symposium tickets are an absolute bargain, especially for students.

🐠🔥 Clownfish shrink to survive heatwaves A new study finds that clown anemonefish shrink during marine heat stress – and those that shrink more (especially in sync with their partners) survive better. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... #ClimateChange #Fish 🧪

New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict! Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston @newcastleuni.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Highlighted by @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @asrc-gc.bsky.social www.gc.cuny.edu/news/why-som...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

@theresarueger.bsky.social and her team report that clown fish (Amphiprion percula) can shrink in response to heat stress, boosting their survival odds by 78% with better odds when these fish coordinate with a breeding partner! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict! Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston @newcastleuni.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'Shrinking Nemo': Smaller clownfish sound alarm on ocean heat www.bbc.com/news/article... Great work by @theresarueger.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social

The actual study 🐙💉❤️ www.cell.com/current-biol...

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Really enjoyed working on this project with a fantastic editorial team @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social Preorder available now shorturl.at/Y58at out Jan2026 #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

And with that, sMacrobehaviour has left the building! What an awesome few days, thanks everyone 🥰🥳😃 Yay science #sDiv @kamarske.bsky.social @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social @theresarueger.bsky.social @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social @sheardcat.bsky.social & co. Looking forward to March 2026

Hurrah - it's arrived! 🎉 Congratulations to @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social (Editors) and all the authors. Delighted to have contributed the #noise #pollution chapter, enlivened with beautiful drawings by Martin Aveling. #ChangingWorld #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗 fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

Want to learn about the two species I recently described and named, but don't have time or want to read a 23 page paper? Here is a quick little poster version I put together while I was working on it! Hope you enjoy!

Lovely to celebrate the brilliant #PhDs of @emweschke.bsky.social & Harry Suter and the wonderful #Masters by Research of Evie Croxford & Lauren Vane. Amazing people; fantastic research... but sad it's the end of an era. Looking forward to seeing what they all do next... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans? 2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #AcademicSky 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Non-native regal demoiselles (Neopomacentrus cyanomos) have become more common and abundant in the Western Gulf of Mexico, but thus far, they appear to have no effect on potential competitors. New paper by my student Mariana Rivera-Higueras dx.doi.org/10.5343/bms....

Interesting in applying for independent #fellowships? Know anyone who is? Check out our (@bristolbiosci.bsky.social) updated support information: www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese... Reach out if you have any questions. Please share. 😊

Our lab's first paper out in 2025! Led by the brilliant Ella Ackroyd in collaboration with Rob Heathcote Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Danio rerio) across multiple contexts royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #openaccess #fishsci #zebrafish

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Reposting this with about 1 month left to apply. Come work with us! 🤗

🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Please read and implement. #AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour

We kick-off our 2025 Collective Behaviour Online Seminar Series in 2 weeks with: Dan Sankey “Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution” 21st Jan, 2pm UK time. Talks are 15 mins, with 15 mins questions. Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... for information.

Ecologists are the best... 🥰

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today‘s Pygmy sunfish (Elassoma sp.) Linoleum print turned out pretty cool! 🐟🥰

🧵1/4. New book finally coming out on 26 December 2024. This has been a monumental effort and I take the opportunity to thank my co-editor @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social, all of the amazing contributors, chapter reviewers and the team at Oxford Academic. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Some awesome model development of Coralcraft by @daphneoh.bsky.social for her first PhD chapter allowed us to ask: Do greater #coral cover and morphological #diversity increase habitat complexity? 🐠 Not always!! Community composition matters... 🧐 Find out more: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

It's my last day at Hakai. Does that mean it's time to run through my favourite news stories from the past decade?

Fully-funded PhD: Comparative analysis of collective behaviour in natural and artificial systems. Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia). Come fly in the swaRmverse! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

📰Published📰 Killifish with bigger brains and aggressive tendencies are more successful in colonizing novel environments https://buff.ly/3DnPqzm 🧪🌍

Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online? I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎 www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪

🚨 NEW paper 🚨 🐠Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light pollution💡 My first publication from my @thefsbi.bsky.social PhD at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social is out TODAY in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵(1/6)

PLEASE REPOST: The fantastic conservation journal Endangered Species Research with all articles fully #openaccess has just arrived @esr-ir.bsky.social on @bsky.app Please give it a follow. You wont regret it! www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #conservation #academicsky 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡

40% success rate may seem low, but it's a LOT better than total failure. My news to me good news for Dec 15. Read for the details on what does work. #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries news.mongabay.com/2024/12/stud...

Most people associate brood parasitism with cuckoos, but this new paper presents evidence for brood parasitism in sea anemones. Some anemones use their tentacles to stick their larvae directly into the mouth hole of other brooding anemones. #Invertebrate 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Remarkable management success story of recovery in all three species of bluefin tuna over the past 20 years, and possibly future impacts of climate change www.bbc.com/future/artic...

cool paper alert (w/ bonus: great writing) super strong interspecific competition: pink anemonefish push out clown anemonefish authors use survey data to document such takeovers which "are brutal" as fish "literally fight for their lives--a futile fight") link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First data paper from my postdoc is now out in Proc B! We found that psychoactive pollution decreased the migration success of brown trout in a natural lake system! Massive thanks to the coauthor team for their work on this! Paper 👉 tinyurl.com/yn77u2nb

We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL). For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau... 🐍🧪🐸🔬