Dr. Jodie Rummer
Marine Biologist, TEDx Speaker, and Fish Physiologist studying how fish are responding to climate change
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Watch my TEDx talk: Athletes of the Great Barrier Reef
With over 400 million years of evolution, fish represent one of the most successful adaptive radiation events in vertebrate history. Yet, we do not fully understand how fish are responding to environmental and human-induced stress and their capacity to adapt to global climate change.
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New paper in Nature Ocean Sustainability! 🦈Sharks are among the most threatened vertebrates – our study maps research priorities + gaps to guide conservation action. Let’s do better for sharks. 🔗📄https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-025-00131-8 #Sharks #Conservation
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Friends of Dave Randall have organised a symposium, 5-6 July 2025, University of Antwerp, Belgium, to celebrate his life and career Registration 300€, discounted to 50€ for the first 30 ECRs. Space for 100 attendees on a first come basis Deadline 5 June daverandallsymposium.weebly.com
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Great interview with @physiologyfish.bsky.social including resilience of #sharks
The #RummerLab @physiologyfish.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social discusses how physiological research can drive smarter conservation strategies aimed at targeting the stress caused by climate change in their new JEB Perspective journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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New from the RummerLab at @jcuofficial! Our latest @JEBiology paper explores how physiology 🧬🧪🔬👩🏻🔬 can drive smarter, climate-ready conservation. 🍃🌊Bridging lab science + real-world action! 🌏 🔗📄Read it here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... #conservation #climatecrisis #Ecophysiology
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New #sharkscience from Alex McInturf, @physiologyfish.bsky.social and others. Can you use catch data to provide information on aggregation and group behaviour in sharks? Yes you can. Thoughtful article with a nice case study on the amazing blacktip reef shark onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🦈 New paper in Ecology & Evolution 📑 via our Physioshark research (ongoing since 2013 in French Polynesia🌺)! Fisheries catch data can be used to unravel elasmobranch aggregation dynamics, social structures, & group behaviours. Case study: newborn blacktip reef sharks. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Neonatal sharks have a secret superpower: injury healing! 🦈💥 In my latest Outside @jexpbiol.bsky.social on @shamildebaere.bsky.social's study from @physiologyfish.bsky.social's lab at @jcuofficial.bsky.social see how temperature boosts healing and how this ability could improve fishing practices! 🌊
No bandage necessary: the healing power of baby sharks
Not all nurseries have a crib and rocking chair; some are underwater. Shark nurseries can be found in shallow pools among reef habitats. Several species of sharks give birth to their babies, which are...
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New paper led by Alexandra McInturf & @physiologyfish.bsky.social We present a methodological framework for analysing catch data to infer aggregation behaviour. We outline key metrics to explore and apply this framework in a case study of juvenile sharks. 🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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One of my amazing PhD students (Joel Gayford) - grateful we can have a week of brainstorming with his secondary supervisor - @duncanirschick.bsky.social - nature therapy for the win!
We’re super lucky to have Prof @sjcfishy.bsky.social speaking with our JCU evidence & controversy in marine science class re: catch-and-release fishing today!
Huge success… seminar and interactive workshop at JCU, full house for both!!!
Very excited to be giving a seminar and workshop at James Cook University in Australia this Wed, March 19th and Th, March 20th! Special thx to @physiologyfish.bsky.social and Joel Gayford for facilitating this seminar!
We’re so excited to have you and honoured you are giving our visiting distinguished professor seminar at JCU this week!
The Trump administration’s interference in Australia’s universities is an attack on academic freedom, scientific integrity, & national sovereignty. Australia must not cave to ideological bullying from a disgraced US president. #standupforscience 🧬 🧪 🧫 🐠 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender
Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate
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