Beth Hoots

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet

See this cool TT position focused on the Sensory Physiology of Sound at Aarhus University in Denmark! www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Invertebrate #marinelife #herps 🧪

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark Brazil, the world’s top importer of shark meat, is feeding much of it to preschoolers, hospital patients, military staff, public workers and more via government procurements, Mongabay has found. This…

Brazil is feeding shark meat to kids, hospital patients & more via government procurements.

This influx of shark meat into public buildings is exposing infants & other vulnerable groups to high levels of mercury & arsenic.

*This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

For @biographic.bsky.social, writer @craigwelch.bsky.social followed @hakai.org scientist @rhizalyssa.bsky.social's quest to unveil the the killer that decimated populations of sea stars off the West Coast. It took a few years but the lab's hard work paid off: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

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I had an amazing time in Antwerp at the #SEBconference
I had the opportunity to share my research on the impact of parasites on fish behaviour🐟🪱
So many great talks!
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The historic train station in Antwerp. Blue skies in the background and a row of rental bikes in the foreground

Thanks @sebiology.bsky.social for a great conference here in #Antwerp! Looking forward to the next one 🥳

A scientist presenting a slide with several box plots

A scientist presenting a slide with takehome messages

A scientist presenting the most dramatic title slide ever of himself staring at the ocean

A scientist presenting a slide with a model for fish energetics

So many great talks on the last couple days of #SEBconference! It was great to hear from @chris-on-fish.bsky.social and @bradhowell.bsky.social about their work at Trent, as well as my #DeakinMarine friends @gradito.bsky.social on work from her M.S. and Alex Berry on his PhD research 👏

Some great talks on fish metabolism, thermal tolerance, and bioenergetics by folks from @trentuniversity.bsky.social at this year’s #SEBconference in Antwerp, Belgium.

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My title slide with fish in the background. Text reads: Life History Attributes Influencing Metabolic Variation Authors: Elizabeth Hoots, Luis Kuchenmüller, Michael Skeeles, Timothy Clark

I’m excited to share my research in the Open Animal session today at #SEBconference! I’ll be speaking from 12:15-12:30 in the Nightingale rooms, come along for a chat about how SMR does (or doesn’t!) change with different life history traits in #fish 🐟

A scientist on a big stage showing his title slide featuring a rainbow trout with a cannula through its nostril and a diagram of water passing over the gills

A scientist showing his concluding slide on a big stage. The slide reads: Conclusions > Method promising | › High water flow did not improve gill oxygen uptake › Methodological considerations Little PaO, regulation above p50?

A fantastic talk on the “big stage” by @lkuchenmuller.bsky.social on a new method for measuring blood oxygen partial pressure in #rainbowtrout 🐟

#SEBconference

A scientist with a cool haircut shows a map of barber shops in Antwerp

A scientist with a cool haircut shows a slide with his takeaway messages, ultimately concluding that “There are no losers in the telest world”.

Leave it to @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social to weave a rant on Antwerp’s barber shops into his talk about the awesome physiological adaptations of #tuna 💇‍♂️

Glad to hear that no teleosts are losers here at #SEBconference 😅

A scientist presents different abiotic and biotic triggers of premature hatching in fish on a large screen

@leon-at-sea.bsky.social doing an incredible job of breaking down the causes and consequences of premature hatching 🐣 These are summarized in a recent review I was lucky to help write!

You can read the full text here: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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A scientist presents a slide showing her take-away home messages

A scientist presents a slide which says “Let's study embryos more extensively!”

This morning at #SEBconference, how sensitive are embryos to different environmental stressors? I caught some great talks by Zara Cowan and @patricepottier.bsky.social calling for more balanced research across life stages 🪺

Sandra Binning giving the President's Medallist talk on the importance of considering parasites for increased ecological relevance. Great presentation! 🐟🧪

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A scientist presents her take-away slide on a large dark stage. It reads: Take-away • Zebrafish can evolve improved growth at warmer temperatures • Thermal performance curves can undergo a left or right shift • Ectothermic vertebrates may adapt to global warming by enhancing performance • Role of selection in shaping thermal resilence

A scientist presents her title slide on a large stage, it features a beautiful picture of a brook trout.

A scientist presents the methods of her research on a large screen

A terrific afternoon for fish biology here at #SEBconference ❤️🐟 Great talks by @leeuwisrobin.bsky.social, Moa Metz, and @erinmcstewart.bsky.social about different ways that fish respond to climate warming!

Sandra Binning presents four lessons learned in her career, in a slide titled: “Lessons learned”: • Do what you love • Be guided by your curiosity • Being a generalist can be a good thing • Don't let a bad experience define you

Such a joy to hear Sandra Binning talk about her career in research and how she got started investigating the “small stuff”. Thanks for a great lecture, Sandra ❤️ #SEBConference

If you’re an ECR at #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp and interested in writing for Conservation Physiology in Action, or getting involved in reviewing, come chat to our editorial team tomorrow @conphysjournal.bsky.social

The beautiful Antwerp train station

Two delicious waffles

Cheesin’ with the statue of the boy and his dog sleeping near the cathedral in Antwerp

The oldest building in Antwerp! Very dramatic medieval towers with a menacing statue of a giant in the foreground

Having a great time exploring #Antwerp before this year’s #SEBconference 🧪 Can’t wait to catch up with everyone at the #ECR mixer tonight 🍻

FINclub research trip going well! 32 people, dozens of fish and invert species, 16 experiments, two dogs and lots of fun. Some photos in thread.
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#Australian students interested in #marinescience, check this opportunity out!

'This could be the beginning of the end': Toxic algal bloom a sign of a changing climate A mysterious, brown foam appeared on a beach an hour south of Adelaide. It was just the beginning of a toxic algal bloom that has now grown to thousands of square kilometres in size, killing precious ...

JFC this reads like a horror movie except it's been unfolding across a swathe of the South Australian coastline, indiscriminately killing all manner of marine life

Yet another devastating phenomenon we're all going to become more familiar with in the advent of fossil-fueled marine heatwaves

Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.

So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government.

Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised.

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Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...

"Remember, these standards exist to help us decide whether you have a job in academia forever or will never work in academia again. If you have questions about these standards, please ask three different people and get three contradictory answers."

A neon colored squid on the phone, drawn in cartoon style, glued to a wall, that says Get Squid Facts text SQUID to 1-833-SCI-TEXT

a very cute cuttlefish, a giant australian cuttelfish, looks at the camera, swimming in front of algae covered rocks

a poster that says Plant Native Plants, with an illustration by meg lemieur of purple coneflower, with a bunch of clips with seed bags attached on the bottom labeled "take one and plant"

Sarah holds up a zine that says Philly Biopdiversity Zine in front of a little free library covered in squid, painted blue and pink, shoved in some planters. The zine has a raccoon skateboarding in crocs in front of the love statue (philly icon) with a pigeon sitting on the sign, with the art museum in the background

Back to book pitching, so here I am caring about the # of followers I have 🤦‍♀️

HELLO! I'm a 🦑 scientist on a mission to get people to take action to protect earth's biodiversity.

Alongside others, I use street art, zines, photography, collabs, & more to encourage action.

Tell ur friends 😅

Alt text is so relatable 🤣

A screen showing an underwater picture from the Great Southern Reef with kelp, coralline algae and an abalone. The title White Rock is centered over the picture, and there is a QR code at the bottom of the screen that says GET INVOLVED. Below the screen there are four bar stools set up for the panel after the screening.

A panel of two women and two men (from left to right) sit on barstools in front of a screen with an underwater photo from the Great Southern Reef and a QR code under the words MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. One of the women is holding a microphone, and the panel moderator is standing on the right of the group looking extremely thoughtful.

I really enjoyed attending a community event in #Torquay yesterday to watch #WhiteRock, a documentary with information and real solutions to combat sea urchin barrens on the #GreatSouthernReef 🪸 thank you to @greatsouthernreef.bsky.social for all their incredible efforts! #marineecology #fishsky

My new piece in @rollingstone.com : “Our democracy is made up of reciprocal ties between and among all of us, and AmeriCorps strengthens these ties. We will all feel the loss of AmeriCorps...and our democracy will pay the price.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This road trip was inspired by a great #Australian eco-thriller, the #book Wild Dark Shore 🌊 I will be thinking about the Salt family and their home for a long time…

A prehistoric pine tree with fluffy flat needles extending along each branch in an “X” shape when viewed from the end of the branch. Mostly light green in color, surrounded by other vegetation including a much larger Wollemi pine right behind it!

A Wollemi pine sapling, a black plaque gives the species name. More trees and grey skies behind.

A giant bandicoot sculpture made out of twigs looms above a concrete pond. It stands on a pile of bark chips and is roped off so you can’t hug it. I am sitting very close (but outside the ropes) grinning my face off because it’s the best sculpture I’ve ever seen.

On Sunday I drove to the botanical gardens in Cranbourne with one mission: to see the dinosaur trees AKA Wollemi pines 🦕 🌲
These living fossils are an incredible example of nature’s resilience, and of the huge significance of even small patches of wilderness. Bonus: a giant bandicoot sculpture!

Call for proposals! 🎉

We are inviting proposals for our cross-journal special feature (between @funecology.bsky.social and @animalecology.bsky.social):

"Energy trade-offs under changing environments"

Guest edited by myself, @amandapettersen.bsky.social, and @nealdawson.bsky.social!