The Fish Lab MQ

We are the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution of Fishes Lab @MQSciEng. Visit our website for info on research & opportunities:

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

We have shirts! For just $30 you can get your hands on one and make all the other labs jealous, PLUS all proceeds go towards funding our research. Just shoot us a message to order. Design by https://t.co/vbv5u3iuor. #FishLabInTheWild

[Culum Brown 🇺🇦 @CulumBrown]

Do mothers that experience predation risk pass that on to their offspring via maternal effects? https://t.co/fuU9EmwL16 @FishLab_MQ @MQBiology @MQSciEng

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

Our very own @jpkadar will be part of this years @SoapboxSydney to talk about her exciting and cutting edge research on Port Jackson Sharks! Be sure to tune in August 20th 9am.

[Soapbox Science Sydney @SoapboxSydney]

Julianna Kadar @jpkadar is a PhD student in the Fish Lab 🐠 @Macquarie_Uni where she tags & tracks adorable Port Jackson sharks!

Tune in August 20th at 9pm to hear more about her research & to ask all your shark related questions!

Book free tickets here: https://t.co/6tOdATpNU0

[Culum Brown 🇺🇦 @CulumBrown]

@pscarbia new paper out in Animal Cognition today. Males lose their spatial learning abilities while guarding the nest. Use it or loose it! @FishLab_MQ @MQBiology @MQSciEng
https://t.co/rQNegQJ1dX

[Connor Gervais @walking_sharks]

Baby PJ #sharks reared under warmer temperatures displayed faster learning than those under current day temperatures but displayed greater mortality.

New research from @catarina_vp, me, @joshreed_mq, @CulumBrown @FishLab_MQ
https://t.co/ssCGWQVaS7

[Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons @MotherOfRays]

And yet another great session at this year's @MQBiology HDR conference! Talks from #flatworms to #mantarays to #lizards from @Manta_Rob, Jorge Rodriguez Monter, @IvanBeltran31 and Ko-Huan Lee. 👏👏👏

[Dr. Rob Perryman @Manta_Rob]

Presenting my research on manta ray cephalic lobe movements at the @MQBiology student conference today!
@FishLab_MQ
@MarineMegafauna
#marinescience
#marineresearch

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

Congratulations to our #PhD student @MotherOfRays on her success in receiving 20 acoustic transmitters for her smooth #stingray research using #acoustic telemetry!

[Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons @MotherOfRays]

Actual footage of me after being told I was successful in my application to the @IMOSAnimalTrack @vemcoteam Tag Top Up Student Award and that I am getting 20 #acoustic transmitters to stalk more stingrays with! Thanks #Vemco & #IMOSATF! @FishLab_MQ @MQ_Marine @MQSciEng @MQBiology

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

Congrats @MotherOfRays, @KyeRAdams and Daniel!

[Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons @MotherOfRays]

HUGE THANK YOU to @IMOSAnimalTrack @SydneyMarine for their support of @KyeRAdams, Daniel Swadling (@UOW) and my #acoustictelemetry research in SE NSW, supplying us with 10 @vemcoteam #acoustic receivers from the 2019 Receiver Loan Pool! @FishLab_MQ @MQ_Marine @MQSciEng @MQBiology

[Courtney Harvey @Courtney_Sharks]

So many fascinating talks today at the 2019 Coastal Mini-Symposium! It’s great to see innovative research happening right here at @Macquarie_Uni @MQBiology @EnvScMQ @LivingSeawalls @FishLab_MQ

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

📢⚠️Paper by @pscarbia @CulumBrown shows gobies reared in complex environs (rock/oyster substrate) learn a spatial task faster 📈 than gobies reared in homogeneous environs (seagrass/sand). So beware how you house your #fish! 🐟🐠#AnimalWelfare #WomenInSTEM

[Animal Behaviour - Australasia @AnimBehav]

Many of our members research behaviour in captive animals. Perhaps they will pay extra attention to this article, which shows that captive environmental #enrichment can affect learning ability in gobies:
https://t.co/H6GzbLawa1 #animalbehaviour #cognition

[Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) @BBM_Wong]

We have a website! Register your interest to join us here in Melbourne for the 18th International Society for Behavioural Ecology Congress in 2020. Grants available for students and delegates from developing nations. Free onsite childcare. More info soon. Stay tuned. @BehavEcol

[ASFB @AustSocFishBiol]

Abstract submission for our #ASFB2019 conference in Canberra ends this Friday (May 10). All fish and fisheries research is welcome!

Submit your talk for a general session (biology, ecology, evolution) or one of our many special sessions

https://t.co/J7qIOAI549

[Dr. Rob Perryman @Manta_Rob]

Quite rare to find an oceanic manta (Mobula birostris) with the drone so I was very excited to film this one barrel-roll and lunge feeding!

@FishLab_MQ
@MarineMegafauna
@MQ_Marine
@PapuaExplorers
#naturelovers
#nature
#SharkScience

[Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social @_lrendell]

Accepting applications now - new 1 yr MSc program in Animal Behaviour @univofstandrews @SchoolofBiology led by @mikemwebster : https://t.co/Nsh2wcHTU9

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

New paper 📢 Familiarity often drives social preferences in juvenile #fish & #sharks 🐟🦈 BUT not in juv Port Jackson sharks 🚫 Since adult PJs form groups, our results suggest an ontogenetic shift in social behaviour 🤔 https://t.co/ogLMWWvhMS @catarina_vp @CulumBrown @MQSciEng

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

Huge congrats to @walking_sharks for submitting his thesis today!! 😀👏🦈 @MQSciEng @MQBiology

[Connor Gervais @walking_sharks]

PHD THESIS SUBMITTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to everybody who has helped me get here especially @CulumBrown and all in the @FishLab_MQ and @TiffanyJNay.

On a side note.... our submission screen is super anticlimactic... Is it too much to want animated fireworks?

[Julianna Kadar @jpkadar]

Why do we treat sharks any differently from charismatic mammals? We need to check our moral compasses, well said @catarina_vp! @CulumBrown @seamuseum_ #oceantalks

[The Fish Lab MQ @FishLab_MQ]

Don't miss @CulumBrown, @HuveneersSSEG & @catarina_vp on shark deterrents, shark intelligence and how sharks make friends, April 4 at Sydney's Maritime Museum @seamuseum_ @SydneyMarine @MQSciEng @MQBiology @MQ_Marine https://t.co/7T5QGYYve5

[Australian National Maritime Museum @seamuseum_]

Ever wondered if shark repellent actually works, or if sharks can hear sounds underwater? Discover the answers to these questions and more in our April Ocean Talk with three of Australia’s leading shark ecologists and @sydneymarine: https://t.co/DpFQum8rah | #sharkscience #sydney

[Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons @MotherOfRays]

Look at her go! A two month track from one of our acoustic tagged smooth stingrays affectionately known as Clementine for #FlatSharkFriday! @FishLab_MQ @MQBiology @MQSciEng @MQ_Marine @vemcoteam @IMOSAnimalTrack @SydneyMarine

[Culum Brown 🇺🇦 @CulumBrown]

PhD OPPORTUNITY still open: Laterality and personality in rainbowfish, @Macquarie_Uni @FishLab_MQ https://t.co/6poTbQU7tr