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Adam T. Downie
@adamdownunder.bsky.social
🧪Post Doc QUT
🐠Fish Ecophysiology//early life history
🌊Marine Dispersal
📚A/Editor Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries
👟Running
🤘Death Metal
👾FromSoft Fan
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Our 🚨new paper🚨 in @globalchangebio.bsky.social reviews & roadmaps how physiology can improve our understanding of 🔥#climatechange🔥 induced #tropicalisation🔃 of marine fishes🐟 & help inform management!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Physiological Traits for Predicting Poleward Extensions in Tropical Fishes: From Lab to Management
We review the physiological mechanisms that permit poleward range expansions of tropical reef fishes into temperate waters. Filling in key knowledge gaps, we develop a framework to improve the implem...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Thank you Adam Downie @adamdownunder.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in @biologyopen.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with The University of Queensland. Read Adam’s paper: bit.ly/4hA9vm1

See if your institution is participating too: bit.ly/3O7BxGi
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
@biologyopen.bsky.social highlighting our new #OA paper on the impacts of uvr☀️on clownfish embryo development 🐠🥚

@craigefranklin.bsky.social @drfishvis.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1242/bio....
October 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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@adamdownunder.bsky.social, @craigefranklin.bsky.social & co expose clownfish embryos to UV radiation (UVR) corresponding to water depths reflective of their settlement; mimicking what could happen in a future coral reef with fewer structures shielding against UVR. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Developed from the #WCH10 symposium, we provide a guide for researchers & managers on current advances for assessing the vulnerability of reptiles 🐍 & amphibians 🐸 to water stress | doi.org/10.1093/conp... | Published in @conphysjournal.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The Scott Lab at McMaster is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Details at scottlab.ca/opportunities/
Opportunities
Interested in Joining the Scott Lab? The Scott Lab is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Pote…
scottlab.ca
March 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Our 🚨new paper🚨 in @globalchangebio.bsky.social reviews & roadmaps how physiology can improve our understanding of 🔥#climatechange🔥 induced #tropicalisation🔃 of marine fishes🐟 & help inform management!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Physiological Traits for Predicting Poleward Extensions in Tropical Fishes: From Lab to Management
We review the physiological mechanisms that permit poleward range expansions of tropical reef fishes into temperate waters. Filling in key knowledge gaps, we develop a framework to improve the implem...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Reposted by Adam T. Downie
📑 #NewStudy by O’Mara et al. reviewed how the development of water resources impacts #river flows which support tropical #fisheries.

👀 doi.org/10.1007/s111...
April 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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New from the RummerLab at @jcuofficial! Our latest @JEBiology paper explores how physiology 🧬🧪🔬👩🏻‍🔬 can drive smarter, climate-ready conservation. 🍃🌊Bridging lab science + real-world action! 🌏

🔗📄Read it here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#conservation
#climatecrisis
#Ecophysiology
April 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The Editors-in-Chief of the 5 @biologists.bsky.social journals have written a joint Editorial, discussing the enormous challenges currently facing researchers in the US and how members of the community can support them through this difficult time

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
March 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Interesting new study on lateral line system of deep sea chimaeras. So much we don't know about these bizarre animals. Happy to have helped with creating the figures for this cool and important research
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The lateral line and electrosensory systems of two holocephalans - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The lateral line and electrosensory systems of two holocephalans
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Australian governments are failing to conserve biodiversity, meaning their extraordinary values are being lost and global conservation targets will likely fail. The next federal government must do better.

My letter with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social in @science.org.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Addressing Australia’s biodiversity crisis
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... for more details. Once again, I implore supervisors to apply these principles when helping their students design studies. It’s such a huge wasted effort for the students at their most sensitive career stage.
Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Back to editing at Functional Ecology. Sadly I had to reject 3 papers without review because they lacked replication @ the right level. More discussions about design before the experiment is done pls: heartbreaking waste to only talk about it afterwards. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I’ve gained a bunch of new followers so I’m taking the opportunity to wrap up the year with a 🧵 of publications. 1st: our Science paper showing that the indirect costs of reproduction (making the offspring) often exceed the direct costs (the energy in the offspring. www.science.org/stoken/autho...
Metabolic loads and the costs of metazoan reproduction
Reproduction includes two energy investments—the energy in the offspring and the energy expended to make them. The former is well understood, whereas the latter is unquantified but often assumed to be...
www.science.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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A highly opportunistic field study that we recently published, we characterised the rapid changes in physiology that occur as larval coral grouper settle onto reefs.

Reef fish settlement is fascinating, and our work contributes to the growing # of studies in this area

doi.org/10.1007/s003...
Changes in aerobic metabolism associated with the settlement transition for the leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus) - Coral Reefs
Metamorphosis is a critical aspect of coral reef fish ecology. This developmental milestone marks changes in form and function that permit successful transition of pelagic larvae to the demersal lifes...
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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A warm welcome to all our new followers on BlueSky!

We are a society @sebiology.bsky.social journal publishing research on all taxa with a focus on solving real world conservation issues 🦓🐢🌲

Stay tuned for new paper alerts and journal updates!
November 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Group leaders! The uptake of this paper suggests to me that folk aren’t talking enough about experimental design with their students? Has experimental design fallen off the syllabus? Is a sense of experimental design like a sense of humour? Everyone thinks they have a good one but….?
I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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If you’re interested in fish, fishing and the role of body size, please check out this collection of papers from our group.
November 20, 2024 at 10:56 AM