✅Home tanks setup for simulating light pollution
✅Fish settled in
✅Model predator (kingfisher) constructed
✅Experimental tanks setup

My @asab.org funded project investigating the impact of #lightpollution on collective anti-predator response in fish is finally in full swing 😁🌆🐟

Interesting first day of talks at the #FSBI2025 conference. Great talk by Ben (Bluck) from our research group on European eel response to light within a "passage" context.

Really enjoyed day 2 of the #UFAW2025 conference, especially presenting my (@ufaw.bsky.social funded) work on how environmental enrichment in husbandry tanks can influence fish passage performance at river infrastructure (in the lab) #AnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience

Back in the warm office after measuring water velocities for a student project at a cylindrical bristle cluster (CBC) #fishpass - a fish passage solution for sloped weirs. We've tested mostly in the lab (see link in 🧵) so nice to get some field data 🙂🐟

Right, back to it! Things to get stuck into this week: #dataanalysis, #fieldwork, #bidwriting... Let's see how long this new year motivation lasts 😉

Data analysis day - trout response to novel object (🐖). Some fish not bothered. Others really don't like the pig. Is this related to the different husbandry / enrichment environment the fish were held under 🤔. Time will tell. #fishwelfare

@animalta.bsky.social working well for the tracking 🙂

Was hoping for a blue sky for my first post, but alas, it's fieldwork in November, in England. So grey sky and rain it is. Scouting potential salmon spawning sites for a project this winter with @helenalcurrie.bsky.social 🐟