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...

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

🧵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.

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.

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.

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.
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#CoralBleaching #MarineScience

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

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...

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....

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...

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 ⬇️

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.
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