Aced the 2nd Year Progress Report 🎉

#noiseandlightpollution #noisepollution #lightpollution #ALAN #darkskies #migratoryfish #freshwater #PhD #PhDstudent #leidenuniversity #AquaPLAN @aquaplan.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

Flash talk at my first time at the @aquaticnoise.bsky.social conference in Prague 😊. Tomorrow I will present a poster on my current field project and @aquaplan.bsky.social

#noisepollution #aquaticnoise #aquaticsystems #anthropohenicnoise #aquaticecology #ecology #fish #phd

Male fiddler crabs wave their outsized claw to attract female mates and now Beth Mortimer & co have discovered that the crabs also beat the sand with their claws and carapaces, producing the loudest sand vibrations when using both strategies

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Field season 2025 off to a great start

#light&noise #pollution #alan #rivers #fieldwork #ecology

🌊 ECOWAVES Summer School 2025 🌊

Marine Soundscapes in the Anthropophony Era 🌊 🔊 🥼

The course will equip participants with the skills to assess the role of sound & the impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine organisms 🐋🐬🐠🐚

📢 APPLY by 4 APRIL aquaplan-project.eu/ecowaves-sum...

Like to have a say on future actions & strategies to manage human-generated noise & light in European aquatic environments? 💡🔊🌊🌍
Calling all European
• Shipping
• Offshore renewable energy
• NGOs
• Policymakers/govt all levels

📣 Please participate in our AquaPLAN Survey! 📣 tinyurl.com/37r24a6d

Night parrots have a call that sounds like a frog 🐸
#birdsofafeathinar

New #lightpollution paper from Manuel Dietenberger et al @leibnizigb.bsky.social @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social

Shedding light on dark taxa: exploring a cryptic diversity of parasitoid wasps affected by artificial light at night 💡

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#openaccess 🔓
#science 🧪
#insects 🐝

The darkness makes some animals bolder, but artificially illuminating our nights makes animals more visible and venture out less. Recently Dissegna & Chiandetti showed that brighter nights make even tiny animals like woodlice hesitate before moving about

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

And a throwback to warmer fieldwork for international women and girls in science day!
#ecology #fieldwork #pollution #migratoryfish #PhD #womeninscience

Visiting field sites in February ❄️
#fieldwork #ecology #lightpollution #noisepollution #PhD

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

🚨IN PRESS💡🐸 Read how most common outdoor #LED lights affect European tree #frog in our new study.
#lightpollution #ALAN #urbanization #amphibia

Have a look and share, thanks.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...