Excited to see this paper out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... > 1,000 fish calls from 8 fish species identified including 5 whose wild calls had never been documented. The paper shows species-specific sound characteristics that offers a foundation for future species-specific detectors 🐟🔊🧪

New octopus dropped down in Coral City 👽✌️🐙 #octopus #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #headfoot #alien #dropdown #peaceout #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

🐦Community composition coupled with habitat fragmentation drives acoustic divergence in bird assemblages "We demonstrate how birds adjust their sound frequencies via acoustic niche partitioning driven by both community composition and habitat fragmentation" 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/B75UgYW

What's that? You didn't know boxfish made sound? Me neither... It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/biol...

🧵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.

Hello everyone. Today in "one day, one paper", concert noise and artificial lighting reshape bat activity, reducing foraging minutes and delaying peaks in sensitive species, highlighting urban festivals as overlooked drivers of ecological disturbance 🌎

🎉 After decades of negotiation, the #HighSeasTreaty is officially on the countdown to entry into force! The Treaty enters into force on 17 Jan 2026: a milestone for global ocean protection. How will you celebrate this historic day? #BBNJ #60ToGlobal

#teamSTRANGE goes to Switzerland! @mikemwebster.bsky.social talking @ Uni Bern about sampling biases in animal behaviour research and how acknowledging them helps us improve replications and ask cool new questions! www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Transmission of Urgency Levels in the Alarm Calls of the Oriental Reed Warbler | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Approving the Rosebank oil field would be a catastrophic mistake for Scotland’s climate, economy, and communities. Rosebank will not lower bills or improve energy security. What it will do is lock us into climate chaos while profits flow to shareholders and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund.

NEW SPECIES of mangrove crab discovered in Western Australia, and registered to the Ocean Census. Congratulations to Ocean Census Science Network member Dr Andrew Hosie and Ana Hara from #WAMuseum. 👇 visit.museum.wa.gov.au/learn/news-s... @cirripedia.bsky.social

🐟🔊 New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....! Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!

👋〰️🛸〰️ #southernstingray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #flyingsaucer #magiccarpet #flapflap #overhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

🏆 Green Gown Award WINNER! Huge congratulations to the St Andrews Nature Networks project for winning in the Nature Positive category. 🌿 Check out the project here👇 https://ow.ly/pCFV50Xocml #EverToExcel

Thompson et al. Making “scents” of how plant volatiles influence agriculturally important insects: a review academic.oup.com/ee/article/d...

“Nothing has improved in Gaza… Medicine is still blocked. Even food has not changed. “We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.” Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

This week, we’re at #EvidenceWeek in Parliament with @senseaboutsci presenting evidence on on chemical ecology-inspired solutions for sustainable crop protection to MPs, peers and parliamentary staff, to support them in scrutinising government policy in this area.

How noisy are small boats underwater? Our new paper shows that slower speeds aren’t always quiet and the importance of particle motion! doi.org/10.1121/10.0... @asa-news.bsky.social @sophienedelec.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social #Bioacoustics #OceanNoise

#Halloween has arrived at sea! 👻🎃 From the surface to the seafloor, the ocean never runs out of strange, spectacular, and spooky sights. No costumes needed. 💙

Huang et al. Humans perceive but animals don’t: pitfalls in using plasticine models for assessing biotic interactions royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

Crab Treadmill. You heard it here, folks.

Our newest paper has just published from Royal Society Open Science!! 🦀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour

The yellowtail parrotfish face off and throw down in the Stadium with their mohawks up 🦜🐟😤😤🦜🐟 #yellowtailparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #slowmotion #faceoff #throwdown #mohawksup #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Our Special issue on Visual Ecology in Challenging Environments is out: #coral reef & #deep-sea fishes, #reindeers on polar daylight, #bioluminescence, non-visual #pigments & life in dark caves. Happy to co-edit with Sara Stieb + thks to all contributors! See in Functional Ecology: buff.ly/z5AYxZQ

Rearing condition affects behavioral response to cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm in zebra finches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681716v1

On World Migratory Bird Day, today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Grey Plover! 🤩 These impressive fliers migrate from the Arctic, capable of non-stop flights of 6,500 km to reach UK coastlines. Some stay for winter while others continue their journey to western Africa.

Already one month into my placement at Rothamsted Research and learning more and more about chemical ecology every day! 🌱

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

A Turning Point for the #Ocean. What the High Seas Treaty Means. More than 60 countries signed, and the law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve #biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean #MarineEcology #Policy insideclimatenews.org/news/2709202...

How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals? We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs in the field. Full text: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #evolutionarybiology #animalbehavior @eseb.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social Photo: Grant Maslowski

Here we propose adding an 11th criterion to UNESCO’s framework to protect animal cultures—habitat protection alone isn’t enough. Excited to collaborate with philosophers @merikatariina.bsky.social & @birchlse.bsky.social on this! Message me for access ;-) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sperm whale echolocation loud & clear on the @mbarinews.bsky.social hydrophone live stream right now! www.mbari.org/project/soun... Amazing to have live audio from the deep sea streaming online... & this long-term data enabling discoveries about these cryptic animals' lives tinyurl.com/58a5jefp

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Very happy seeing that already 60 countries have ratified the #HighSeasTreaty. It could be enter into force next year! Nice to see my country among them! #MarineEcology #marineprotection highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

How can the #HighSeasTreaty help enable the protection of nearly half of our planet? Discover how we can protect it for future generations: buff.ly/mQVvEgX #RaceForRatification

Tonight seems like a good time to share your emotional support crabs 🦀 🦑

What do rivers sound like? What creatures (or otherwise) contribute to freshwater soundscapes? Our newest research, led by Katie Turlington, provides a new method to explore these types of questions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #bioacoustics #freshwater

A lil nurse shark arrived in Coral City and circled the Cam a few times today. Welcome home! #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #babyshark #boop #circles #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Ever wondered how tidal creek crabs stabilize their gaze? think crabs are neat? want to support a first time author? read my first article! out now in IOB @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

After almost a year(!!) of my PhD, I am excited to start my 3-month placement at @rothamsted.bsky.social 🌱 I shall miss this lovely group at St Andrews @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social @mikemwebster.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social but I'm sure I'll be back to the sea before I know it! 🌊🐟🦀

Crickets, finches, chimpanzees, fish, sholicola, lovebirds, ants & insects: the "Animal Communication II" session at #Behaviour2025 explored how sound, song, signals & even vibrations shape survival, sociality & adaptation in animals from cities to coral reefs.

New fish species keep popping up in Sweden, most likely because of ocean warming! Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil! (Photo Janice Melander)

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“A behavioral analysis of nearly 600 bird species suggests that light pollution from human development can lengthen the time birds spend singing by nearly an hour per day” #scicomm #lightpollution #sensoryecology #bioacoustics www.sciencenews.org/article/bird... 🧪 🐦

Beavers are back 🦫 For the first time in over 400 years, wild beavers will return to the northwest Highlands. Today, the Scottish Government gave the green light for six beaver families to be reintroduced to Glen Affric and Abriarchan forest. 🧵1/2

Living dangerously. A miniature hermit balances on the tip of a crab's leg. She's tiny, but valiant. Next, a tiny hermit on a crab's cheliped, ignoring the watchful eye above. It's a big world out there! #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Scorpionfish spend most of their time hunkered down looking like a rock… but when they swim, they fan out their strikingly colorful pectoral fins to caution haters that they are packing potent venom 🦂🐟 #scorpionfish #venomous #packing #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay ##coralcity