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Hailey Davies

@haileyldavies.bsky.social
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Big fan of ocean critters, science art, & education | PhD Candidate at UVic studying marine bioacoustics & conservation 🐟👩‍🔬 she/her

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Quantitative Aquatics (Q-quatics) @q-quatics.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#FishBase CA is now updated! Our growing database now includes: 🐠 36,700 species 🗣️ 333,200 common names 📸 66,300 pictures 📚 68,500 references 🤝 2,570 collaborators 🌍 700,000 visits per month Found an issue? Let us know via Comments & Corrections. 🌐 www.fishbase.ca #OpenScience #CitizenScience
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Hailey Davies @haileyldavies.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The field-based chapter of my PhD is out in @cjfas.bsky.social! 🎣 We quantified barotrauma in British Columbia rockfishes (n=352) and tested descending devices around Entrance Island. Read here: dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfa...
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Sink today, swim tomorrow: barotrauma symptoms and effectiveness of descending Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.)
Rockfishes have closed swim bladders that prevent rapid gas expulsion, making them susceptible to barotrauma when captured. Although descending devices are now required for releasing non-retainable ro...
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🔉 Major FishSounds Website Update!! The beta version of the new FishSounds.net is live now and will be finalized over the next month. Most of the updates won’t necessarily be noticeable on first glance, so a few of the more consequential changes are outlined below. 🧵1/7
Screenshot of the FishSounds home page with a pop up banner announcing that changes have been made.
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
First fish sounds recorded in the Southern Ocean by FishSounds friend, Fannie Shabangu, et al.! doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Since our first review didn't identify any soniferous fishes from the Antarctic, we are so happy that folks are exploring this great unknown in fish #bioacoustics!
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Rhyming in the cold: first evidence of soniferous fishes in the Southern Ocean
The acoustic ecology of Southern Ocean fishes remains unknown due to a lack of dedicated acoustic research on the fishes of this ocean. Passive acoustic monitoring data were collected at the South Af....
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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!
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
WATCH our Seminar videos at youtube.com/@oceans
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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...
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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...
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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!
Screenshot of a FishSounds recording page showing an unnamed sound of a damselfish with a waveform and spectrogram.
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📣 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 🐟🐠🐡 @FishSounds.bsky.social #bioacoustics #neuroskyence #prattle 💬 🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET ✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com
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"
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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
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Hailey Davies @haileyldavies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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...
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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...
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Hakai Institute @hakai.org · 01/12/2025
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:
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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
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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!
Cover of the book What Fish Are Saying showcasing a variety of brightly colored fish
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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/...
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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...
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BC SPCA @bcspca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚫 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.
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🐟🔊 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!
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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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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! 🎵🐠❤️
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 08/10/2025
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
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Hakai Institute @hakai.org · 04/08/2025
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
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BC SPCA @bcspca.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚫 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...
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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!
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🐟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...!
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.
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲 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...!
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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 ❤️ 🐠 🔉
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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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/...
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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...
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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!
screenshot of the FishSounds recording search page showing sergeant major sounds with embedded visualizations from the Macaulay Library
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Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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
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We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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!
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.
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Enjoying our work? Consider supporting! You can now donate to the FishSounds effort at extrweb.uvic.ca/donate/fishsounds
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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.
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎣🔉 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...
FishSounds Educate seminar flyer about eavesdropping on fisheries. Register at FishSounds.net/educate.js
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🗺️🔉🤝 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 seminar flyer about global bioacoustics collaborations. Register at FishSounds.net/educate.js
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚢 🔊 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...
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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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🦐🐙🦀 We will have our next #bioacoustics seminar on Friday Jan 24 at 9 am Pacific—all about underwater invertebrate sounds with Dr. Ashlee Lillis! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
flyer for FishSounds Educate seminar on underwater invertebrate sounds, register at FishSounds.net/educate.js
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar series resumes Jan 10 at 9 am Pacific—this time with a break in format! We'll be hosting a discussion about a community-led special issue on underwater sounds and are eager for broad involvement! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flyer for a community-led special issue discussion on Jan. 10 at 9 am Pacific. Register at FishSounds.net/Educate.js
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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
FishSounds Educate is excited to present an online seminar series all about underwater sounds and their study—aimed at bioacousticians and acoustics-curious folks alike! For more info, Zoom registration links, and links to videos of our past talks, see fishsounds.net/educate.js.
flyer and schedule of the FishSounds Educate seminar series, also accessible on FishSounds.net/Educate.js
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