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Domino Joyce
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Reader in Evolutionary Biology working on #cichlids and #salmon at Hull University. This is my fish science account, other stuff is at […]

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UK job opportunity - Head of Conservation permanent position with The Deep and The University of Hull, to contribute to our IUCN informed MSc Wildlife Conservation. #academicjobs #zoology #conservation #phdjobs […]

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African wild dog portrait
August 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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UK job opportunity - Head of Conservation permanent position with The Deep and The University of Hull, to contribute to our IUCN informed MSc Wildlife Conservation. Please share/boost/post/amplify […]

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Painted dog portrait, with dog looking off into the middle distance with blood on its face fur, ears up, one with a small nick. Rob Knell took this picture, who is the MSc Wildlife Conservation programme director.
August 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Meanwhile, new University structure, new stationary.
Rainbow coloured pack of felt tip pens that are going to make me WRITE!
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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#fsbi2025 conference merch got some good use on holiday last week (and what a lovely cup of coffee at the North Sea Observatory beachside café)
Cup of coffee with the conference logo in the foreground, beach and sea in the background
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Graduation is such a joy. Here are two new fish scientists, who know a bit more about fish behaviour and gene expression than they did this time last year (paper to follow I hope).
Two young men with graduation robes on, either side of a woman with more colourful robes on. They all look a bit proud.
July 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Great morning of talks, followed by whiskey and salmon at Bushmills, can't argue with that. #fsbi2025
A man explains how salmon are caught and counted on a bridge. A group of about 8 scientists (most women) are listening. A man holding a small net looks down into a pool, an adult salmon can be seen just breaching the surface of the water. A group of people walk towards two white buildings, one labelled Smolt Trap and one labelled Adult Trap. Tables in an old wood ceiling room, set up with whiskey for tasting with barrels in the background.
July 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Fun and social "spawning run" along the Lagan this morning #fsbi2025
Runners heading away from the camera along a path through a lawned gardens with a bridge in the background A group of runners outside a sports centre ready to start a run Runners coming towards the camera next to a river Runners at the halfway point in a mid-air jump
July 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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And so it begins…. !
#fsbigreentravel
(Too self conscious to selfie in public)
Screenshot of sustainable travel booking (to Liverpool) Inside of a train, with the sign indicating Sheffield is the destination with Brough as the next stop.
July 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Wanted to add a #salmon to #phylopic and needed to remove the outline edge white pixels to make it solid black. Thought I'd try chatGPT.

It didn't produce exactly what I wanted....
Outline of a fish with the request to make the silhouette black with a transparent background. Below is a large silhouette of a christmas tree.
July 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Five large chromosomal inversions contribute to Lake Malawi cichlid diversity.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9961 (£)
Graphical representation of the abstract including lake diagram, phylogenetic tree and chromosome introversion dynamics. Abstract is the best alt text for this diagram (indeed the diagram is a kind of alt text for the text)
June 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Having a celebratory beer by the Ness on a lovely evening, thinking about salmon and genomics. (Our loss is also your loss Leicester, sorry). #failingupwards #subtoot #academicchatter #riverness #scotland
Wide river with an orange setting sun on the left hand side of the picture. Hazy hills in the distance and interesting buildings poking into the orange-blue skyline either side of the water.
May 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Lovely to welcome Dr Anna Sturrock from The University of Essex to Hull yesterday for a brilliant talk about all the amazing forensic and archeological tools we can use to better understand fish migration @otolithgirl.bsky.social

#salmon #fishsci #fish #hull
Scientist with arms outstretched in front of a large screen with the title "A modern ghost story" and a picture of a salmon behind it
March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Very worrying ecological impacts from the tanker collision in what is such an important habitat and wonderful part of the world around #hull

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t

Image: Tony Armstrong https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyarmstrong/24913692338
Two yellow and white headed gannets with blue eyes and black stripes along their beaks touch beak tips
March 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The British Cichlid Association have a new Ian Fairweather Research and Conservation Fund for cichlid conservation

https://britishcichlid.org/ian-fairweather-research-and-conservation-fund/

#fish #fishsci #wildlifeconservation #cichlids #teamfish #teamfreshwater #conservation
Serranochromis sp. a brownish cichlid fish held up for the camera, lake with large lily pads in the background.
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Monday morning reminder that abstracts submission is open for #fsbi2025 - a joint symposium with the #ifm in Belfast - deadline March 15th

https://fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2025/

Reposts very welcome

#teamfish #fish #fishsci #sharks #salmon
Famous large blue and white fish sculpture in Belfast which is on the bank of the River Lagan - text "Advancing fish conservation and management"
March 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Fiona's next chapter/paper saw her sampling Pocillopora spp. and associated symbiont communities along a tropical-temperate gradient, and finding that subtropical communities are genetically distinct from their tropical counterparts […]

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February 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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In Fiona's first chapter she used site frequency distributions to predict coral size structure in reefs, finding that environmental stress is likely to lead to reefs with fewer, larger corals.
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.06835
#coral #greatbarrierreef #coralreefs
Figures from the paper showing sampling sites down the east coast of Australia, and a negative relationship between number of colonies and PC1 score which summarises environmental stressors
February 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Congratulations Fiona on passing your viva (with no corrections! 🙀 ) #coral #academicchatter #reef #scuba #greatbarrierreef #okinawa #nerc
Fiona taking a selfie with examiners Matishalin Patel and Gal Eyal on a screen via Zoom and chair Africa Gomez. Fiona holding a congratulatory chocolate cake with a mock up of the figure from one of her papers made of sweets
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Shout out to the Delta smelt

https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/fsh.10014

#fishsci
Small translucent sardine like fish
January 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I have a new niece! And her older brother’s current favourite Julia Donaldson is Tiddler so I’m going to try to annotate a copy with the species names for them. Contributions welcome! #fish #tiddler #juliadonaldson #johndory #marinebiology
Tiddler the fish and a lobster.
December 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Our new #salmon paper - individual migration success is genotype dependent. This was a big one (and even featured on Paolo's viva cake). Thanks to an awesome set of coauthors! #oa #fishsci #teamfish #freshwater

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70682
Principal components plots showing how salmon individuals that successfully migrated tend to be genetically similar because red (unsuccessful) and blue (successful) points group. A chocolate cake with a replicate plot made of red and blue smarties on top
December 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Are #corals moving to colder waters because of #climatechange? The answer is no, or not yet. High latitude corals and their symbiotic algae have been there for quite a long time, and are different to the ones in tropical reefs... Fiona Chong's tweets about her […]

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Two figures showing haplotype frequencies of Pocillopora corals along a gradient of Japan, with genetically different northward populations
December 17, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Goodness me, little new species of damselfish, what big eyes you have!
#fishsci

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/126777/

Photo: Luiz Roche
A blue damselfish in its deep water reef habitat with a relatively big eye at least from the look of this photo
December 13, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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I already loved UEA but love it even more after a fun viva about venomous Müllerian mimic catfish and an evening with lovely ecoevo folk.
A cake with fish on, and in the foreground a fondant Corydoras catfish
December 6, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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Funded PhD opportunity! Work in Leeds and Hull with Briony Yorke, Yvonne Nyathi, Tyler Howell-Bray and me on understanding rhodopsin biochemistry in fish vision, as part of the Yorkshire Bioscience BBSRC DTP

#fishsci #visionscience #biochemistry #evolution […]

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Astatotilapia calliptera - a beautiful colourful male cichlid fish known to be polymorphic for rhodopsin genes, against a black background.
December 3, 2024 at 11:13 AM