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Lisa Dörner (she/her) @ldoerner.bsky.social · 23h

Aced the 2nd Year Progress Report 🎉

#noiseandlightpollution #noisepollution #lightpollution #ALAN #darkskies #migratoryfish #freshwater #PhD #PhDstudent #leidenuniversity #AquaPLAN @aquaplan.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

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Lisa Dörner (she/her) @ldoerner.bsky.social · Jun 30

Flash talk at my first time at the @aquaticnoise.bsky.social conference in Prague 😊. Tomorrow I will present a poster on my current field project and @aquaplan.bsky.social

#noisepollution #aquaticnoise #aquaticsystems #anthropohenicnoise #aquaticecology #ecology #fish #phd

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Apr 14

Male fiddler crabs wave their outsized claw to attract female mates and now Beth Mortimer & co have discovered that the crabs also beat the sand with their claws and carapaces, producing the loudest sand vibrations when using both strategies

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A light-hearted illustration showing two female European fiddler crabs, in the foreground, on a beach with a male fiddler crab next to his burrow in the background. The female crab on the left is saying, 'Oooooh, I love watching them wave!'. The female on the right is saying, 'Me too, but it's even better when they start thumping the sand...'. The illustration is by www.neilsmithillustrations.co.uk

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Lisa Dörner (she/her) @ldoerner.bsky.social · Apr 11

Field season 2025 off to a great start

#light&noise #pollution #alan #rivers #fieldwork #ecology

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AquaPLAN @aquaplan.bsky.social · Feb 18

🌊 ECOWAVES Summer School 2025 🌊

Marine Soundscapes in the Anthropophony Era 🌊 🔊 🥼

The course will equip participants with the skills to assess the role of sound & the impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine organisms 🐋🐬🐠🐚

📢 APPLY by 4 APRIL aquaplan-project.eu/ecowaves-sum...

ECOWAVES Summer School 2025 - Applications open! - AquaPLAN

Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...

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AquaPLAN @aquaplan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Like to have a say on future actions & strategies to manage human-generated noise & light in European aquatic environments? 💡🔊🌊🌍
Calling all European
• Shipping
• Offshore renewable energy
• NGOs
• Policymakers/govt all levels

📣 Please participate in our AquaPLAN Survey! 📣 tinyurl.com/37r24a6d

AquaPLAN Survey: Perceptions of human-generated noise and light in marine and freshwater environments - AquaPLAN

Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...

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Lisa Dörner (she/her) @ldoerner.bsky.social · Feb 27

Night parrots have a call that sounds like a frog 🐸
#birdsofafeathinar

Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. @wildlifeacoustics.com · Feb 25

Don’t miss out on the upcoming 'Birds of a Feather' webinar! Dr. Nick Leseberg will be taking us through his process of developing an acoustic detection protocol for the critically endangered Night Parrot using Song Meter acoustic recorders. Register: bit.ly/3D9OeQi

📸: ‘Night Parrot’ by John Young

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · Feb 21

New #lightpollution paper from Manuel Dietenberger et al @leibnizigb.bsky.social @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social

Shedding light on dark taxa: exploring a cryptic diversity of parasitoid wasps affected by artificial light at night 💡

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#openaccess 🔓
#science 🧪
#insects 🐝

Shedding light on dark taxa: exploring a cryptic diversity of parasitoid wasps affected by artificial light at night - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Shedding light on dark taxa: exploring a cryptic diversity of parasitoid wasps affected by artificial light at night

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Feb 12

The darkness makes some animals bolder, but artificially illuminating our nights makes animals more visible and venture out less. Recently Dissegna & Chiandetti showed that brighter nights make even tiny animals like woodlice hesitate before moving about

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A plum woodlouse crawling into a log. Photo credit: Paola Pisani

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Lisa Dörner (she/her) @ldoerner.bsky.social · Feb 11

And a throwback to warmer fieldwork for international women and girls in science day!
#ecology #fieldwork #pollution #migratoryfish #PhD #womeninscience

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Lisa Dörner (she/her) @ldoerner.bsky.social · Feb 11

Visiting field sites in February ❄️
#fieldwork #ecology #lightpollution #noisepollution #PhD

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Marko Prokic @proksima.bsky.social · Jan 31

🚨IN PRESS💡🐸 Read how most common outdoor #LED lights affect European tree #frog in our new study.
#lightpollution #ALAN #urbanization #amphibia

Have a look and share, thanks.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developing under artificial light is not so bright: Oxidative stress as a physiological response to light pollution across amphibian life stages

Light pollution has emerged as a new environmental challenge. Natural light has long been a selecting force in shaping physiological, morphological an…

www.sciencedirect.com

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