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Theresa Rueger
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Behaviour, ecology and evolution of coral reef fishes. Senior lecturer at Newcastle University www.drtrueger.com
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Theresa Rueger @theresarueger.bsky.social · May 22
New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict!
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict
Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.
www.science.org
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co-breed.bsky.social
1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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nickarjones.bsky.social
🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour
Special Issue: Measuring fish cognition: Empirical based guidance for designing cognition assays: Journal of Fish Biology: Vol 107, No 4
The <em>Journal of Fish Biology</em> is a leading international ichthyology journal, addressing all aspects of fish biology, their exploitation and importance to human society.
tinyurl.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork

👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🙏Share widely
Dwarf mongoose Rhesus macaques grooming Meerkat
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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helenyan.bsky.social
🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨

Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡

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🦑🧪

🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
August 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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chemingson.bsky.social
2) Importantly, I am looking to recruit a PhD-level graduate student to start next school year (August 2026). My lab website (still under construction: christopherhemings.wixsite.com/my-site) has the details outlining the position and applying.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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mikemihalitsis.bsky.social
Super excited that our new paper is out today in
@pnas.org. Title: Lateral jaw motion in fish expands the functional repertoire of vertebrates and underpins the success of a dominant herbivore lineage.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
May 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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joeymaier.bsky.social
PNAS paper about this year's missing #ocean #upwelling along the coast of #Panama

share.google/pWxTjMwVl5Lh...
September 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
theresarueger.bsky.social
Turns out it's very unlikely Nemo and Marlin lived in the same anemone.. Just out in Behavioral Ecology! with Pete Buston, Steve Bogdanowicz, Tina Barbasch
@behavecol.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social
matishalin.bsky.social Matishalin @matishalin.bsky.social · Aug 1
Why do anemonefish (A. percula) live in groups where only the dominant pair breed? We tested ~200 groups for genetic relatedness and showed no patterns indicating relatedness was high within groups. 🧬🧪

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

@theresarueger.bsky.social #MarineBiology #SocialEvolution
A bright orange clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) with white bands and wide black edging. swims near the tentacles of a pale purple sea anemone.
August 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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matishalin.bsky.social
Why do anemonefish (A. percula) live in groups where only the dominant pair breed? We tested ~200 groups for genetic relatedness and showed no patterns indicating relatedness was high within groups. 🧬🧪

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

@theresarueger.bsky.social #MarineBiology #SocialEvolution
A bright orange clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) with white bands and wide black edging. swims near the tentacles of a pale purple sea anemone.
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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sciencesncl.bsky.social
🐠Clownfish shrink to survive heat stress and avoid conflict. Want to find out how? Listen to Melissa Versteeg and
@theresarueger.bsky.social from 08.20 on #CNN 's 5 Good Things podcast here🎧 tinyurl.com/b4nwrcc9 #WeAreNCL #marinescience
Read the article here 📖https://tinyurl.com/yjsbeztm
Alaska Man vs. 700-pound Boulder - CNN 5 Good Things - Podcast on CNN Audio
We tell you how a hiker in Alaska survived a 700-pound boulder falling on his back. This café in a war-torn country serves cuteness with its coffee. Clownfish are learning how to survive climate chang...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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rjpheathcote.bsky.social
🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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dmevans.bsky.social
Come and join us in Newcastle for a wonderful gathering of network ecologists! This year our theme is 'Network Ecology in the Anthropocene' and our plenary speakers include Jane Memmott and Paulo Guimarães. Symposium tickets are an absolute bargain, especially for students.
nclneg.bsky.social Network Ecology Group - Newcastle University @nclneg.bsky.social · Jun 9
EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e...
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.
June 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🐠🔥 Clownfish shrink to survive heatwaves

A new study finds that clown anemonefish shrink during marine heat stress – and those that shrink more (especially in sync with their partners) survive better.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

#ClimateChange #Fish 🧪
Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict
Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.
doi.org
May 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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theresarueger.bsky.social
New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict!
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict
Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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thecowbirdlab.bsky.social
Highlighted by @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @asrc-gc.bsky.social www.gc.cuny.edu/news/why-som...
Why Some Birds Get Mean Over a Nest
Professor Mark E. Hauber contributed to a study showing that female birds competing for scarce nesting spots evolve more aggressive behavior, backed by parallel changes in brain gene expression.
www.gc.cuny.edu
May 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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nicmalexandre.bsky.social
🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds
Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response to environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds (Cal...
dx.doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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rando.insalubrio.us
@theresarueger.bsky.social and her team report that clown fish (Amphiprion percula) can shrink in response to heat stress, boosting their survival odds by 78% with better odds when these fish coordinate with a breeding partner! 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A pair of clown fish (Amphiprion percula) swimming near a sea anemone.
May 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
theresarueger.bsky.social
New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict!
Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
@sciencesncl.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict
Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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dmevans.bsky.social
'Shrinking Nemo': Smaller clownfish sound alarm on ocean heat www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great work by @theresarueger.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social
'Shrinking Nemos': smaller clownfish sound alarm on ocean heat
Fish made famous by the movie Finding Nemo are shrinking to cope with marine heatwaves.
www.bbc.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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drfishvis.bsky.social
The actual study 🐙💉❤️

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females to facilitate copulation
Chun et al. show that in the blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females during copulation, most likely as a defense against being cannibalized.
www.cell.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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darrencroft.bsky.social
🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Really enjoyed working on this project with a fantastic editorial team @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social

Preorder available now shorturl.at/Y58at out Jan2026

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
From leading cetacean biologists, an up-to-date, comprehensive collection exploring advancements in our understanding of cetacean ecology, behavior, and societies.   Cetaceans—whales, dolphins, and po...
press.uchicago.edu
March 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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salkeith.bsky.social
And with that, sMacrobehaviour has left the building! What an awesome few days, thanks everyone 🥰🥳😃 Yay science #sDiv @kamarske.bsky.social @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social @theresarueger.bsky.social @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social @sheardcat.bsky.social & co. Looking forward to March 2026
March 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
Hurrah - it's arrived! 🎉 Congratulations to @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social (Editors) and all the authors. Delighted to have contributed the #noise #pollution chapter, enlivened with beautiful drawings by Martin Aveling.

#ChangingWorld #behaviour
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Cover of the book 'Behavioural Responses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications'.
March 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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gobyone.bsky.social
🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗

fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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goby-nerd-courtney.bsky.social
Want to learn about the two species I recently described and named, but don't have time or want to read a 23 page paper?

Here is a quick little poster version I put together while I was working on it!

Hope you enjoy!
Scientific poster detailing a study naming two species of cryptic coral reef fish. It includes the methods used and descriptions of the fish.
February 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM