Hailey Davies

Our @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund updates are coming along well! Here's a demo of what our recording search pages will soon look like, including the ability to switch between simple and advanced search functions as well as acoustic measurements to help with filtering!

WATCH our Seminar videos at youtube.com/@oceans

Releasing pollack near catch depth may raise survival from 56% to 80% During 2026, new legislation—the result of an agreement between the UK Government and the European Union—is planned to come into force for recreational pollack fishing that limits catches to three fis...

Study suggests that releasing #pollack closer to the depths they are normally caught could improve their chances of survival by almost 25%. phys.org/news/2026-02...

Screenshot of a FishSounds recording page showing an unnamed sound of a damselfish with a waveform and spectrogram.

Just wanted to share a sneak preview of what our recording visualizations will soon look like, thanks to the support of the @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund! We'll also soon be adding new search features, data updates, and other changes, so stay tuned for more exciting news!

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar announcement for Friday, January 30th at 12:30 ET From Audrey Looby, University of Victoria: "The Prevalence and Important of Soniferous Fishes" From Brooke Vetter, University of St. Thomas "Anthropogenic Noise and Fish Hearing: From Ecological Impacts to Invasive Species Management"

📣 New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar next week!

Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of soniferous fish from Audrey Looby and Brooke Vetter
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@FishSounds.bsky.social

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
#prattle 💬

🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET
✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com

Well shoot isn’t that a cute snoot on the eagle ray with some serious barbs to boot! #spottedeagleray #eagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #cutesnoot #venomousfish #elasmobranch #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Grateful to collaborate with amazing coauthors, and for funding and support from NSERC, Canadian Healthy Oceans Network, and @uvicscience.bsky.social! 🌊

Noisy Waters: How Sounds Affect Marine Invertebrates Different types of sounds affect marine animals, including invertebrates (animals without backbones) like crabs and octopuses. Invertebrates play important roles in marine ecosystems, and many of them...

Excited to share that our article is out in Frontiers for Young Minds! The peer review process with bright young scientists was a definitely highlight ✨🙂 Noisy Waters: How Sounds Affect Marine Invertebrates🪼🚢🦀🎵
Full article here: doi.org/10.3389/frym...

B.C.'s oceans are turning acidic faster than once thought, finds study Coral records reveal B.C. ocean acidity amplified 50 per cent more than previously thought, threatening a $452-million shellfish fishery

Chris Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia, is working with the Hakai Institute on laboratory tests to look at the effects of ocean acidification on several species, notes a new feature article in Business in Vancouver.

Read more here:

Cover of the book What Fish Are Saying showcasing a variety of brightly colored fish

If you're looking for more great fish sounds educational content, check out FishSounds.net/educate.js or the beautifully illustrated kids book "What Fish Are Saying" by @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social!

What Sounds do Fish Make? | Tumble Episode Ever wondered what a fish sounds like? Spoiler: it’s way more interesting than “blub blub blub.” In this episode of Tumble Science Podcast for Kids, we explore the strange and hilarious noises that fi...

One of our FishSounds co-leads, Audrey Looby, recently talked to the Tumble Science Podcast for Kids and answered the question "What sounds do fish make?" 🎵🐠

Listen to find out here: www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/single-post/...

🚫 End animal testing in Canada:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Last year in Canada, over 3.7 million dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, fish and other animals were used in scientific research and toxicity testing. Animals are suffering, even though better options are available.

Visual summaries of the additions made to the datasets and recordings in FishSounds Versions 2 and 3. Top: Lollipop plot of the number of total and newly added references per publication year. Left: Spectrograms of select recordings added to the FishSounds database in the latest versions, showing representative grunts and boatwhistles of the Gulf toadfish and very fast repetitive ticks of a salmon that could not be identified to species. Right: Bar plot of the number of total and newly added recordings on the FishSounds database, either hosted on the website or through links to FishBase and the Macaulay Library.

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New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....!

Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!

We are incredibly grateful to WILDLABS for selecting us for this award, which will help us conduct the "boring" but critical task of adding visualizations and metadata to make recordings more easily searchable on FishSounds.net! 🎵🐠❤️

Happy #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

Spot these incredible creatures on ONC’s subsea cameras—from BC’s coast to the deep ocean—and during our annual hashtag#ONCabyss expeditions.

See them in action on SeaTube 🐙 bit.ly/4q300Q1

#KnowTheOcean #CDNsci

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

Don't miss the opportunity to speak up for exotic cats in British Columbia! The BC SPCA is urging British Columbians to speak up for exotic cat welfare. These are wild animals, not pets!

🚫 Exotic cats like servals, caracals & leopard cats don’t belong in homes.

Yet, they’re still legal to breed, sell & keep in B.C.—but that could change.

Tell the provincial government you support banning all exotic cats as pets.

📣 Take action: spca.bc.ca/news/speak-u...

A bar plot showing the number of assessed designatable fish taxa that are actively soniferous, as well as the number of designatable taxa that had soundscapes and sound production mentioned in conservation documents produced by COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) and SARA (Species at Risk Act) and a second bar plot showing the number of actively soniferous designatable taxa that had at least one anthropogenic stressor mentioned as threats, as well as those that had noise pollution acknowledged as a potential threat in the same documents.

🐟New Publication🔉

We found that strategies for conserving at-risk fishes in Canada rarely consider acoustics. We propose that integrating fish sonifery and noise pollution into Canadian policies would improve species management and conservation efforts. Read more at doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...!

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Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!

Excited to share this new gorgeous science-informed kids book all about fish sounds! Our team is grateful for the opportunity to consult on the book and can't wait to use it during outreach events ❤️ 🐠 🔉

Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can...

Just published: A HUGE global analysis of 416 validated passive acoustic monitoring datasets consisting of 12,343 sites led by Kevin Darras!

Lots of take-homes, inc. the need for more spatio-temporal replication in freshwater habitats.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you ready for Science Rendezvous on May 10? 🎉🐟 FishSounds will be there—come visit us in the Elliott Building at UVic! Join us for a day of fun activities and fascinating research.
🔗 www.sciencerendezvous.ca/event_sites/...
#SciRen #SciRenYYJ #bioacoustics @uvicscience.bsky.social

screenshot of the FishSounds recording search page showing sergeant major sounds with embedded visualizations from the Macaulay Library

Browsing our #bioacoustics recordings just got easier! We've now embedded visualizations for the almost 1000 Macaulay Library recordings we link to on FishSounds. And we're hoping to improve the rest of our recording visualizations later this year!

We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

The cover page of the book by Hailey Shafer, Hailey, Davies, Sarah Jim, Audrey Looby, and Kieran Cox, with three coloured fish. An example colouring page showing herring in a kelp forest.

We made a #bioacoustics colouring book! 🎨🐟 Download What Sound Does a Fish Make!? at fishsounds.net/educate.js for a fun at-home activity. This project features art by Sarah Jim—explore her amazing work at sarahjimstudio.com!

Every gift you make to UVic has an impact Your donation can encourage students to achieve amazing things. Your donation can inspire researchers to solve big questions. Your donation, quite simply, can change the world.

Enjoying our work? Consider supporting! You can now donate to the FishSounds effort at extrweb.uvic.ca/donate/fishsounds

FishSounds Educate seminar flyer about eavesdropping on fisheries. Register at FishSounds.net/educate.js

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We will have our final FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar on Mar 7 at 9 am Pacific—all about eavesdropping on fisheries with Dr. Audrey Looby! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy World Wildlife Day!
There is brilliance in the woven tapestry of living systems, with each unique system sustaining life in the next. And through this brilliant interconnectedness, our species is sustained too.
Illustration by Kelsey Lee Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#WWD2025 #WorldWildlifeDay

FishSounds Educate seminar flyer about global bioacoustics collaborations. Register at FishSounds.net/educate.js

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We will have our next FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar on Friday Feb 21 at 9 am Pacific—all about global bioacoustics collaborations with Dr. Isla Keesje Davidson! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

FishSounds Educate flyer for Kieran Cox's seminar on noise pollution at February 7 at 9 am Pacific time. Register at FishSounds.net/educate.js.

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We will have our next #bioacoustics FishSounds Educate seminar on Friday Feb 7 at 9 am Pacific—all about underwater noise pollution with Dr. Kieran Cox! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...