Mich bears a mermaid-crowned graduation cap, a massive smile and a punny sign saying “oh-fish-ally” a doctor.

Title page of PhD defense.

Chocolate cake in the shape of a singing grouper, surrounded by musical notes (also cake).

Pleased to say I passed my defense successfully and am now officially a Dr. 👩‍🎓 Close-up of the best cake ever made by the loveliest crew 💖🩵🎶

Visual summaries of the additions made to the datasets and recordings in FishSounds Versions 2 and 3. Top: Lollipop plot of the number of total and newly added references per publication year. Left: Spectrograms of select recordings added to the FishSounds database in the latest versions, showing representative grunts and boatwhistles of the Gulf toadfish and very fast repetitive ticks of a salmon that could not be identified to species. Right: Bar plot of the number of total and newly added recordings on the FishSounds database, either hosted on the website or through links to FishBase and the Macaulay Library.

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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!

Juvenile humpback whale dies off NSW coast while entangled in shark net It is the first whale to have died out of 15 entangled in shark nets on Australia’s east coast so far this year

Heartbreaking loss: juvenile humpback whale (~8m) entangled & drowned in shark net off NSW coast. Shark nets don’t necessarily do what we assume -- protect beach-goers -- and pose serious risks to sharks, whales, dolphins, turtles, and other non-target animals.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paper & incredible science alert: Our assistant professor @laurastidsholt.bsky.social & a passionate team @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social found proof for greater nocturnal #bats 🦇 preying on migratory birds 🐦 AND devouring them in flight! #bioacoustics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Your talk was so good!! Great way to close the conference 😊

My first International Bioacoustics Conference - and hopefully not the last! 🐠 🎶 🦜 🐋 What an amazing bunch of researchers and humans. Thanks to the organisers, everyone for the great questions and conversations, and especially grateful for those chats at my poster 🐬🌊 #IBAC2025 #IBACKerteminde

Congrats Eamonn! So cool!

Cool reading about soundscapes above water too 👀🦗 in this case, the vibroscape! 🌾

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#bioacoustics #neuroecology #neuroethology #bioengineering 🚨PhD Position available🚨 in our lab at La Trobe University in Melbourne @latrobeuni.bsky.social, Australia. Project on fish hearing systems. 🦈🐟🔊👂 All details ➡️ drive.google.com/file/d/1I6k_... Please share!

flyer and schedule of the FishSounds Educate seminar series, also accessible on FishSounds.net/Educate.js

FishSounds Educate is excited to present an online seminar series all about underwater sounds and their study—aimed at bioacousticians and acoustics-curious folks alike! For more info, Zoom registration links, and links to videos of our past talks, see fishsounds.net/educate.js.