Behavioural Ecologist with special interest in fish cognition and welfare. Director of Higher Degree Research Biology.
Macquarie University
Joined September 2012
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🔧🐟 Wrasses using rocks as tools? It's true!
A new study shows tool use in reef fish is more common than we thought with deep roots in evolution. These clever fish are anything but simple!
📄 See the full article at: link.springer.com/article/10…
Fish social learning and culture may well be important for conservation management.
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com…
Parental exposure to predation influences personality and laterality in stickback offspring; transgenerational impacts.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Culum Brown 🇺🇦 retweeted
Did you know that fish also use tools?
The research led by Juliette Tariel-Adam, titled “Fish Tool Use by New World Halichoeres Wrasses” expands scientific knowledge about this fascinating behavior of wrasses from the Halichoeres genus.
See at: link.springer.com/article/10…
Social learning and culture are key components of Fish behaviour but we ignore them in fisheries management. So what happens when we over Fish social Fish? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Fancy a PhD scholarship to work on prawn aquaculture and welfare? Contact Suhnil ([email protected]) at CDU.
New paper from thefishlab
doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-0…
PhD positions to work on fish ecophys at U Gothenburg. How do fish respond to chaging temperature.
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005…
To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Culum Brown 🇺🇦 retweeted
There are 4 exciting PhD opportunities being offered this year in partnership with @UTAS_ through @aufrande
⭐️Positions: aufrande.eu/recruitment/open…
⭐️To apply: aufrande.eu/recruitment/how-…
⭐️Applications close: 24 January 2024 at 11:59 PM CET
Allons-y⛷️
Culum Brown 🇺🇦 retweeted
!!Funded PhD available (start 2024)!! Do you want to study #collectivebehaviour in weaver ants (in particular how they build their ultra-cool and totally unstudied silk nests), and develop #bioinspired #3Dprinting #swarmrobotics? Let me know! And please RT!
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🚫 Stop the disaster! Octopus farming in Spain threatens both welfare and the environment. Demand the Canary Islands government objects now! #StopOctopusFarming #EndIt
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We are excited to present: Improving Welfare and Reproducibility in Zebrafish Research - a 2.5 day workshop hosted by @UniofExeter @UoEBiosciences with support from the RSPCA! 🐟
Abstract submission is OPEN - more info and registration: science.rspca.org.uk/documen…
#3Rs #zebrafish
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I'm very excited to announce that I was highly commended for Excellence in Higher Degree Research at MQ! This is awarded for current or former HDR candidates for outstanding research undertaken in the past four years.
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Congratulations @JTarielAdam 🐟🐠🐟
We are excited to see this project in action at the @minderoo @exmouthresearch lab in a few short months!
#exmouthresearch
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NEW STUDY: Capture Response and Long-Term Fate of White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) after Release from SMART Drumlines
Butcher et al. tagged 36 white sharks with SLRTs and acoustic tags caught in NSW using non-lethal SMART drumlines before release.
doi.org/10.3390/biology12101…
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New review paper: how do behavioural responses of fishes influence ecosystem structure and function, and which are the main knowledge gaps. @Tawfiqur91 @ulrikacandolin doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15322 #JFB