Beth Hoots
@whatahoot.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Deakin University 🐟
On Wadawurrung Country 🦘🌏
University of Idaho alum 💛🩶
Here for the fish science! | She/her
Find my work: https://elizabeth-hoots.owlstown.net
On Wadawurrung Country 🦘🌏
University of Idaho alum 💛🩶
Here for the fish science! | She/her
Find my work: https://elizabeth-hoots.owlstown.net
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Beth Hoots
@whatahoot.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi everyone! I’m new here, so I thought I’d introduce myself. My name is Beth and I’m working towards a PhD in fish eco-physiology at Deakin University in Australia. My research is about understanding how climate warming impacts the growth and metabolism of estuarine fish 🐟
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🚨 The climelab.net lab is seeking a postdoc in ecophysiology for 2-years to work on drivers of animal thermoregulation in a phylogenetic and global context. #ecophys
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🚨 The climelab.net lab is seeking a postdoc in ecophysiology for 2-years to work on drivers of animal thermoregulation in a phylogenetic and global context. #ecophys
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
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The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
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Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global!
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global!
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
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Help keep Wilderness wild!
Stop Congress from killing federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire Lower 48 states!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr845-wolf-esa
Stop Congress from killing federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire Lower 48 states!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr845-wolf-esa
September 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Help keep Wilderness wild!
Stop Congress from killing federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire Lower 48 states!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr845-wolf-esa
Stop Congress from killing federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire Lower 48 states!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr845-wolf-esa
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The #Roadless Rule protects 45 million acres of unfragmented, pristine national #forest lands from clear-cutting and damaging new roads. The Trump administration has announced an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule — public comments are due by September 19!
The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands
These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.
buff.ly
September 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico.
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Please sign and share if you haven't already done so. 🚨⬇️
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Please sign and share if you haven't already done so. 🚨⬇️
Save A Mexican Wolf
A Mexican gray wolf in the prime of life, will be gunned down from the air unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve. Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel this unique wolf’s kill o...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico.
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Please sign and share if you haven't already done so. 🚨⬇️
Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve.
Please sign and share if you haven't already done so. 🚨⬇️
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"The applause on the steps of state parliament earlier in the day spilled into terror a few blocks away, granting these men the illusion of validation." Searing piece by @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the moment the line between rhetoric and violence dissolved www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/02/a...
Attack on Camp Sovereignty: How ordinary fears are giving cover to extraordinary hate
That is the story of these rallies: not just the extremists who thrive on attention, but the everyday people who give them cover.
www.crikey.com.au
September 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"The applause on the steps of state parliament earlier in the day spilled into terror a few blocks away, granting these men the illusion of validation." Searing piece by @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the moment the line between rhetoric and violence dissolved www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/02/a...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Y’all, can anyone think of an example of an invasive species that we caused to be invasive and then introduced another species to get rid of it but that also ended up being invasive? Double invasive? Lol
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Y’all, can anyone think of an example of an invasive species that we caused to be invasive and then introduced another species to get rid of it but that also ended up being invasive? Double invasive? Lol
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Had a blast at the annual ASFB conference @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social in Darwin. ☀️🐊
I was happy to share my research on fish behaviour. Lots of amazing talks through the week. Looking forward to the next one!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
I was happy to share my research on fish behaviour. Lots of amazing talks through the week. Looking forward to the next one!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Had a blast at the annual ASFB conference @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social in Darwin. ☀️🐊
I was happy to share my research on fish behaviour. Lots of amazing talks through the week. Looking forward to the next one!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
I was happy to share my research on fish behaviour. Lots of amazing talks through the week. Looking forward to the next one!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
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It feels like we're going backward, but there are hopeful projects underway, like the MPA network off the British Columbia coast. If done right, it “could be a real, meaningful model for reconciliation” with First Nations. My latest in @biographic.bsky.social.
www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...
www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the Great Bear Sea
After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.
www.biographic.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It feels like we're going backward, but there are hopeful projects underway, like the MPA network off the British Columbia coast. If done right, it “could be a real, meaningful model for reconciliation” with First Nations. My latest in @biographic.bsky.social.
www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...
www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...
Great presentation @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social 👏👏
August 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Great presentation @timothy-d-clark.bsky.social 👏👏
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New fish species keep popping up in Sweden, most likely because of ocean warming!
Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil!
(Photo Janice Melander)
Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil!
(Photo Janice Melander)
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New fish species keep popping up in Sweden, most likely because of ocean warming!
Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil!
(Photo Janice Melander)
Today a large Mahi Mahi in Lysekil!
(Photo Janice Melander)
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FYI if you're not in the right time zone for this do not fret! Sign up as an online attendee to get access to the required docs and Discord site, then you can contribute when it's a good time for you and chat with others awake at the same time on Discord. Fun for all time zones!
Reminder to sign up to our upcoming hackathon!
We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to assess whether data/code associated with published literature is actually reproducible, and if not, why.
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to assess whether data/code associated with published literature is actually reproducible, and if not, why.
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
August 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
FYI if you're not in the right time zone for this do not fret! Sign up as an online attendee to get access to the required docs and Discord site, then you can contribute when it's a good time for you and chat with others awake at the same time on Discord. Fun for all time zones!
I was really moved by this figure from @drjessmt.bsky.social’s keynote address this morning at #ASFB2025
These changes are occurring faster and faster, with future generations facing #climatechange conditions that would be unthinkable to their ancestors, visualizing it like this makes it personal 🔥
These changes are occurring faster and faster, with future generations facing #climatechange conditions that would be unthinkable to their ancestors, visualizing it like this makes it personal 🔥
August 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I was really moved by this figure from @drjessmt.bsky.social’s keynote address this morning at #ASFB2025
These changes are occurring faster and faster, with future generations facing #climatechange conditions that would be unthinkable to their ancestors, visualizing it like this makes it personal 🔥
These changes are occurring faster and faster, with future generations facing #climatechange conditions that would be unthinkable to their ancestors, visualizing it like this makes it personal 🔥
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Another #ConservationJobs roundup, mostly in Canada.
Please share — someone in your network will be job hunting.
All job ads #ShowTheSalary, which is rapidly becoming the norm (not just a best practice).
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
Please share — someone in your network will be job hunting.
All job ads #ShowTheSalary, which is rapidly becoming the norm (not just a best practice).
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
[1 August 2025] Another roundup of jobs related to conservation, nature, environment, etc. | Aerin Jacob
[1 August 2025] Another roundup of jobs related to conservation, nature, environment, etc. Please share to help others and add additional links in the comments. All postings include salary range. (I a...
www.linkedin.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Another #ConservationJobs roundup, mostly in Canada.
Please share — someone in your network will be job hunting.
All job ads #ShowTheSalary, which is rapidly becoming the norm (not just a best practice).
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
Please share — someone in your network will be job hunting.
All job ads #ShowTheSalary, which is rapidly becoming the norm (not just a best practice).
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
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Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.
August 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.
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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 🧪
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
August 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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 🧪
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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.
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.
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…
news.mongabay.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
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.
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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...
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?
www.biographic.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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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One like, one clam fact
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
1 like, 1 housing opinion
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
One like, one clam fact
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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!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@lkuchenmuller.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social
I had the opportunity to share my research on the impact of parasites on fish behaviour🐟🪱
So many great talks!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@lkuchenmuller.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@lkuchenmuller.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social
I had the opportunity to share my research on the impact of parasites on fish behaviour🐟🪱
So many great talks!
@whatahoot.bsky.social
@lkuchenmuller.bsky.social
@timothy-d-clark.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social
Thanks @sebiology.bsky.social for a great conference here in #Antwerp! Looking forward to the next one 🥳
July 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thanks @sebiology.bsky.social for a great conference here in #Antwerp! Looking forward to the next one 🥳
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 👏
July 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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 👏