Molly Fowkes
@mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social
PhD Researcher at Lancaster University tracking the social networks for critically endangered European Eels 🐠
Interested in all things movement ecology, social networks, applied conservation and animal behaviour!
https://lec-reefs.org/team/molly-fowkes/
Interested in all things movement ecology, social networks, applied conservation and animal behaviour!
https://lec-reefs.org/team/molly-fowkes/
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New paper out! 📢 We tested whether boat activity from an eel telemetry study disturbed protected waterbirds in a UK reservoir.
🦆 No evidence of disturbance.
🌦️ Bird numbers varied with weather + season.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🦆 No evidence of disturbance.
🌦️ Bird numbers varied with weather + season.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The impact of boat activities associated with an acoustic fish telemetry study on waterbird populations in a Special Protection Area
It is widely recognized that the research techniques used to monitor and study wildlife have the potential to disturb and alter the behavior of the study species. However, other impacts on sensitive,...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New paper out! 📢 We tested whether boat activity from an eel telemetry study disturbed protected waterbirds in a UK reservoir.
🦆 No evidence of disturbance.
🌦️ Bird numbers varied with weather + season.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🦆 No evidence of disturbance.
🌦️ Bird numbers varied with weather + season.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
Why coral reefs damaged by blast fishing struggle to recover — even after decades
Why coral reefs damaged by blast fishing struggle to recover — even after decades
Blast-fished reefs are unlikely to recover naturally without human intervention.
theconversation.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Why coral reefs damaged by blast fishing struggle to recover — even after decades
Really enjoyed diving into science filmmaking at the BES Macro 2025 workshop today — interviewing techniques, storytelling, and lots of creative ways to share ecology with the world. 🎥🌍
#BESMacro2025 #ScienceCommunication #Filmmaking #Ecology #VisualStorytelling
#BESMacro2025 #ScienceCommunication #Filmmaking #Ecology #VisualStorytelling
July 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Really enjoyed diving into science filmmaking at the BES Macro 2025 workshop today — interviewing techniques, storytelling, and lots of creative ways to share ecology with the world. 🎥🌍
#BESMacro2025 #ScienceCommunication #Filmmaking #Ecology #VisualStorytelling
#BESMacro2025 #ScienceCommunication #Filmmaking #Ecology #VisualStorytelling
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🚨NEW🦈PAPER🚨
Excited to announce my first publication with @drcatmac.bsky.social on the ontogenetic and seasonal trophic ecology of great hammerheads around the Biscayne Bay nursery! Linked below
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Excited to announce my first publication with @drcatmac.bsky.social on the ontogenetic and seasonal trophic ecology of great hammerheads around the Biscayne Bay nursery! Linked below
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Nursery Resource Use Dynamics in Great Hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) Across Ontogeny
The ecological trade-offs required by nursery dependence are poorly understood. Using multi-tissue stable isotope analysis, this research provides evidence of constrained resource use in juvenile gre....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🚨NEW🦈PAPER🚨
Excited to announce my first publication with @drcatmac.bsky.social on the ontogenetic and seasonal trophic ecology of great hammerheads around the Biscayne Bay nursery! Linked below
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Excited to announce my first publication with @drcatmac.bsky.social on the ontogenetic and seasonal trophic ecology of great hammerheads around the Biscayne Bay nursery! Linked below
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Big milestone reached: just landed my first research grant to support Chapter 4 of my PhD thesis from @lancasteruni.bsky.social Data Science Institute! 🐠 Thank you to DSI for supporting early-career researchers like myself.
Data meets nature. Let’s go! 🌊🔉
#PhD #Acoustics #Eels #Ecology #Lancaster
Data meets nature. Let’s go! 🌊🔉
#PhD #Acoustics #Eels #Ecology #Lancaster
May 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Big milestone reached: just landed my first research grant to support Chapter 4 of my PhD thesis from @lancasteruni.bsky.social Data Science Institute! 🐠 Thank you to DSI for supporting early-career researchers like myself.
Data meets nature. Let’s go! 🌊🔉
#PhD #Acoustics #Eels #Ecology #Lancaster
Data meets nature. Let’s go! 🌊🔉
#PhD #Acoustics #Eels #Ecology #Lancaster
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Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play
Using drones, 17 distinct behaviors of narwhals were captured in the wild. Findings reveal complex behaviors of the Arctic’s iconic whale never seen before. This highly gregarious whale uses its...
www.eurekalert.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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In new video footage, cuttlefish show off their dazzling camouflage techniques, such as creating stripes that move over their bodies or mimicking non-threatening objects
Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey
In new video footage, cuttlefish show off their dazzling camouflage techniques, such as creating stripes that move over their bodies or mimicking non-threatening objects
www.newscientist.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In new video footage, cuttlefish show off their dazzling camouflage techniques, such as creating stripes that move over their bodies or mimicking non-threatening objects
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
🚨 More than 2 oil & chemical spills per day. That’s what Big Oil is dumping into UK seas – unchecked, until now.
We dug through complex, opaque government data & built a public map so everyone can see the truth.
Read coverage by The ENDS Report: www.endsreport.com/article/1907...
We dug through complex, opaque government data & built a public map so everyone can see the truth.
Read coverage by The ENDS Report: www.endsreport.com/article/1907...
‘Sickening’: UK waters saw two chemical spills a day last year, analysis reveals
Over 200,000 kilograms worth of oil and chemicals spilled into waters around the UK coast last year, at a rate of more than two spills a day, according to campaigners.
www.endsreport.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 More than 2 oil & chemical spills per day. That’s what Big Oil is dumping into UK seas – unchecked, until now.
We dug through complex, opaque government data & built a public map so everyone can see the truth.
Read coverage by The ENDS Report: www.endsreport.com/article/1907...
We dug through complex, opaque government data & built a public map so everyone can see the truth.
Read coverage by The ENDS Report: www.endsreport.com/article/1907...
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
New research from @thesimslab.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social - 🦈🌊
Unlocking the mystery of baby #whaleshark birthing grounds - Extreme environments like #OMZs provide safety from predators & a rich food supply, crucial for neonate survival.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@thembauk.bsky.social
Unlocking the mystery of baby #whaleshark birthing grounds - Extreme environments like #OMZs provide safety from predators & a rich food supply, crucial for neonate survival.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@thembauk.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New research from @thesimslab.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social - 🦈🌊
Unlocking the mystery of baby #whaleshark birthing grounds - Extreme environments like #OMZs provide safety from predators & a rich food supply, crucial for neonate survival.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@thembauk.bsky.social
Unlocking the mystery of baby #whaleshark birthing grounds - Extreme environments like #OMZs provide safety from predators & a rich food supply, crucial for neonate survival.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@thembauk.bsky.social
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
Underwater Mountains Are Teeming With 41 Times More Sharks Than The Open Ocean | IFLScience
Underwater Mountains Are Teeming With 41 Times More Sharks Than The Open Ocean
“Predators appear to use seamounts as ‘hubs’ to gather, socialise, mate or rest.”
buff.ly
February 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Underwater Mountains Are Teeming With 41 Times More Sharks Than The Open Ocean | IFLScience
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Sea ice in the Arctic and around Antarctica cool our climate, drive ocean circulation across the planet, and provide a unique habitat for polar ecosystems.
Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.
🌊🥼❄️🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.
🌊🥼❄️🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World's sea-ice falls to record low
The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sea ice in the Arctic and around Antarctica cool our climate, drive ocean circulation across the planet, and provide a unique habitat for polar ecosystems.
Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.
🌊🥼❄️🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.
🌊🥼❄️🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Find the press release from Lancaster University of our paper.
Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/great-b...
Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/great-b...
Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns - Lancaster University
Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study, led by researchers at Lancaster University, reveals.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Find the press release from Lancaster University of our paper.
Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/great-b...
Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/great-b...
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Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠
We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition
Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition
Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications
Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...
www.nature.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠
We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition
Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition
Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
🦭🔍 New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧵
@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines
The result showing that seals exhibit avoidance of the turbine during operation is important for industry developers and regulators, as lower numbers of seals close to the turbine reduces the potenti...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🦭🔍 New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧵
@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
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#DYK nearly 75% of major marine fish stocks have been depleted/overexploited & 50% of live coral cover on reefs destroyed?
- @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment
Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈
- @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment
Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈
January 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
#DYK nearly 75% of major marine fish stocks have been depleted/overexploited & 50% of live coral cover on reefs destroyed?
- @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment
Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈
- @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment
Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
Plastic Pollution Sounds Just Like Food to Deep-Diving Whales | Duke Today https://buff.ly/3Yjhquv 🌎🦑🧪
Plastic Pollution Sounds Just Like Food to Deep-Diving Whales | Duke Today
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buff.ly
December 25, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Plastic Pollution Sounds Just Like Food to Deep-Diving Whales | Duke Today https://buff.ly/3Yjhquv 🌎🦑🧪
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Frontiers | Novel approach to studying marine fauna: using long-life remote underwater video cameras to assess occurrence and behaviour of threatened and data-deficient elasmobranch species in southern Mozambique https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.151871…
Frontiers | Novel approach to studying marine fauna: using long-life remote underwater video cameras to assess occurrence and behaviour of threatened and data-deficient elasmobranch species in southern Mozambique
Understanding the behaviour and ecological role of elasmobranchs is essential for their conservation, particularly in regions harbouring threatened and data-deficient species like the Inhambane…
buff.ly
December 23, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Frontiers | Novel approach to studying marine fauna: using long-life remote underwater video cameras to assess occurrence and behaviour of threatened and data-deficient elasmobranch species in southern Mozambique https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.151871…
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:44 PM
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑈𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑔𝑖𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, a #NewSpecies of estuarine #MorayEel is described from #Japan, #Taiwan, the #Philippines, southern #Indonesia, and #Fiji. #Anguilliformes #Muraenidae #Eels
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1296...
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1296...
December 11, 2024 at 1:33 PM
#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑈𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑔𝑖𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, a #NewSpecies of estuarine #MorayEel is described from #Japan, #Taiwan, the #Philippines, southern #Indonesia, and #Fiji. #Anguilliformes #Muraenidae #Eels
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1296...
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1296...
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Beautiful paper about the global danger of ship strikes for large #whales and the value of slowing down shipping. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social focussed on more local #SalishSea dangers for whales and shipping. kudos anna nisi, @trevorabranch.bsky.social, team.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans
After the near-complete cessation of commercial whaling, ship collisions have emerged as a primary threat to large whales, but knowledge of collision risk is lacking across most of the world’s oceans....
www.science.org
December 7, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Beautiful paper about the global danger of ship strikes for large #whales and the value of slowing down shipping. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social focussed on more local #SalishSea dangers for whales and shipping. kudos anna nisi, @trevorabranch.bsky.social, team.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#SciAdvent Dec6 🐋🎄🐋🎄🐋
Some #whales can communicate at long distances using the SOFAR! The SOund Fixing And Ranging channel is a deep region of the sea where temperature and pressure change rapidly, creating a "tunnel" for sounds 🔊 to travel through. (1/2)
Some #whales can communicate at long distances using the SOFAR! The SOund Fixing And Ranging channel is a deep region of the sea where temperature and pressure change rapidly, creating a "tunnel" for sounds 🔊 to travel through. (1/2)
December 6, 2024 at 7:43 AM
#SciAdvent Dec6 🐋🎄🐋🎄🐋
Some #whales can communicate at long distances using the SOFAR! The SOund Fixing And Ranging channel is a deep region of the sea where temperature and pressure change rapidly, creating a "tunnel" for sounds 🔊 to travel through. (1/2)
Some #whales can communicate at long distances using the SOFAR! The SOund Fixing And Ranging channel is a deep region of the sea where temperature and pressure change rapidly, creating a "tunnel" for sounds 🔊 to travel through. (1/2)
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
Hey #FishTrackers!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
Abstract submission is now live for the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry. For all details regarding the conference, please check out the website at event.fourwaves.com/7thicft/pages
International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)
Fourwaves - International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)
event.fourwaves.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Hey #FishTrackers!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
Reposted by Molly Fowkes
New paper! We use telemetry to identify behaviors of goliath grouper while they are in a seasonal spawning aggregation. Behaviors will vary based on lunar phase, water temperature and current strengths. www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
December 5, 2024 at 1:04 PM
New paper! We use telemetry to identify behaviors of goliath grouper while they are in a seasonal spawning aggregation. Behaviors will vary based on lunar phase, water temperature and current strengths. www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
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It has been great to host Joe Roman and discuss nutrient subsidies, invasive species, and whale pee! Excellent seminar today, covering his whale research and his superb new book - Eat, Poop , Die!
December 4, 2024 at 5:14 PM
It has been great to host Joe Roman and discuss nutrient subsidies, invasive species, and whale pee! Excellent seminar today, covering his whale research and his superb new book - Eat, Poop , Die!