Riccardo Cicciarella
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Riccardo Cicciarella
@riccardo-cirrus.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ University of Zurich
Studying bottlenose dolphin morphology & condition with UAV photogrammetry 🐬📸📊 | marine biology, stats, drone pilot | Love windsurfing, board games, and dancing
https://www.sharkbaydolphins.org/
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New paper on dolphin motor synchrony led by master's student Sam Hill-Cousins with a fantastic team of co-authors @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social @emmachereskin.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social 🐬🐬🐬: Male dolphins use synchrony to both maintain and strengthen their social bonds
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Allied male dolphins use synchronous displays to strengthen social bonds in a cooperative context
rdcu.be
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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🎉 Excited to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD!

From 270 eDNA samples across Shark Bay (🇦🇺), we identified 106 fish species and mapped their diversity with remote sensing — all non-invasively! 🌊🐠

A scalable framework for characterising marine biodiversity

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70074
Integrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Remote Sensing Reveals Known and Novel Fish Diversity Hotspots in a World Heritage Area
Aim Shark Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Western Australia, is highly vulnerable to climate change, yet its fish biodiversity remains poorly understood at fine spatial scales. We integrated en...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM