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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 8d

Work across ecology, tech, and data science to:

🎙️ Record and analyse environmental soundscapes
🧠 Develop AI for real-time biodiversity
🗺️ Track ecosystem recovery

Supervised by:
🔊 Dr Edward Smart, UoP
🌱 @helenalcurrie.bsky.social
🐸 @carlsayer.bsky.social

#UniversityofPortsmouth #UCL

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 8d

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened on Earth, yet vital for biodiversity, climate resilience, and human wellbeing. This project uses sound, sensors, and AI to reveal how life returns as habitats heal 🌍

#PhD #Biodiversity #AI #FreshwaterEcology #Bioacoustics #FreshwaterRestoration

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 8d

🎧 #PhDOpportunity🌿🐟

Fully funded PhD using AI and acoustic technologies to track freshwater biodiversity recovery — from chalk stream restoration in Hampshire to ghost pond resurrection in Norfolk. 💧

Apply now 👉 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/lis...

📅 Deadline: 5pm (UK time), 17th December 2025

Listening to Life: Acoustic and AI Technologies for Tracking Freshwater Biodiversity Recovery | TREES DLA

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened habitats on Earth due to multiple anthropogenic pressures. Protecting them requires novel monitoring solutions that are both low-cost and highly sen...

www.trees-dla.ac.uk

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 15d

📆 Apply by 16 Jan 2026| Start Oct 2026

🔗https://www.port.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/research-degrees/phd/explore-our-projects/towards-a-water-literate-society-deconstructing-environmental-habit-forming-in-early-childhood

#PhD #WaterLiteracy #Geography #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalSciences

Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 15d

This project brings together 🌿 social geography, 💧 environmental sustainability, & 🧠 behaviour change to co-create a child-centred water literacy programme.

Join Dr Tara Woodyer, Dr Julia Brown & me on this journey towards a more sustainable, water-aware future!

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 15d

📣Fully Funded PhD Opportunity at the University of Portsmouth💧

Explore how early childhood routines shape lifelong water habits, and how that understanding can help tackle water scarcity and protect ecologically sensitive and globally unique freshwater environments 🌍

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 18d

Exciting news! 🎉 FSBI 2026 Annual Symposium website is live: fsbi.org.uk/symposium-20...

📆 27–31 July 2026 | University of Southampton
Theme: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology 🐟
#FSBI2026 #FishBiology #Conference @thefsbi.bsky.social

Symposium 2026 - Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Symposium 2026

fsbi.org.uk

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 18d

Plus:

🧬 Fish & human health
🐠 Behaviour & physiology in conservation
🌡️ Fisheries management in a changing world
A great opportunity for early-career & senior researchers alike.

📅 Save the date: 27–31 July 2026 — see you in Southampton!

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 18d

We’ll cover 7 exciting themes, including:

🌊 Movement through transition zones
🌆 Fish biology in urbanised environments
⚖️ The fisheries–science policy interface
🔬 Patterns across ecological scales

#FSBI2026

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 18d

The symposium will unite researchers, practitioners & policymakers to tackle global challenges in fish biology — from climate change to conservation & fisheries management. 🌍

Huge shout-out to @lnadler.bsky.social, leading the organisation! 👏

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · 18d

Exciting news! 🎉 FSBI 2026 Annual Symposium website is live: fsbi.org.uk/symposium-20...

📆 27–31 July 2026 | University of Southampton
Theme: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology 🐟
#FSBI2026 #FishBiology #Conference @thefsbi.bsky.social

Symposium 2026 - Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Symposium 2026

fsbi.org.uk

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 New Paper Alert: rb.gy/1jgmoh

Background noise masks acoustic signals, reducing both obvious startles and subtle group-level responses in juvenile common carp 🐟🔊

🎯 Detection drops with noise
🧠 Fine-scale behaviour matters
📈 Signal-to-noise ratio is key

#FishBehaviour #Bioacoustics #UWnoise

Masking noise reduces the anti-predator-like response to an acoustic stimulus: Application of Signal Detection Theory to fish behaviour

In studies of animal cognition, the influence of background masking noise on responses to any particular stimulus are often overlooked. In fish, there is little understanding of their response to targ...

rb.gy

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Jul 11

Really enjoyed coming home for a week to Belfast and getting to present my recent #fishysounds work - great week and such a lovely crowd of people 😀

Thanks #FSBI2025, and see you next year in Southampton!

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Jul 11

Glad you enjoyed it - sure - lets chat!

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fab fieldtrip to the River Bush Salmon Station and Runkerry Strand on Day3 of #FSBI2025 - learning a load about local #Atlanticsalmon management strategies - finished the evening with a local curry chip!
#conferenceathome #fishconference #IFM - with
@dravowles.bsky.social

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Dec 5

Had an amazing evening #networking over an early Xmas dinner 🎄 and sharing 2024's success stories 🎊 with some of our amazing @centrebluegov.bsky.social UoP researchers! I'm really lucky to work with such a lovely team of enthusiastic people - looking forward to some exciting projects in 2025 🙏

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · Dec 3

📢 Exciting #PhD alert! Study Atlantic bluefin #tuna in Southwest UK waters using #drones, remote sensing, #ocean profiling & eDNA while working with #anglers🐟 www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... Supervised by @lilianlieber.bsky.social @marinemicrobes.bsky.social @peterimiller.bsky.social & me!

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Nov 21

Been a long cold day 🥶, but following many hot cups of ☕️, kit has successfully been deployed 💪

Hopefully it holds out for the next 2 months or so, and captures some cool fishy data 🤞🤞 Watch this space! @dravowles.bsky.social

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Nov 21

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks again to the fab team for all your hard work taking field measurements yesterday - doesn't seem like it was so cold now! 💪

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Nov 21

It's #WorldFisheriesDay2024 🐟

Today we're on our way to site for #AtlanticSalmon monitoring fieldwork prep Day 3, and....it's snowing ❄️🥶 Wish us luck! 🍀 @dravowles.bsky.social

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Dr Helen Currie @helenalcurrie.bsky.social · Nov 18

Best officially make the jump from the other place and write my first 💙☁️ post!

Today I've been scouting for potential #AtlanticSalmon spawning sites with @dravowles.bsky.social - hopefully some 🐟 updates to follow soon, provided the local livestock lets us leave the field... 🐑

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