Dr Helen Currie
@helenalcurrie.bsky.social
Research Fellow & Centre Manager @University of Portsmouth @centrebluegov.bsky.social #fisheries @UoS_ICER alumni| fish ecology| science policy| aquatic noise| animal behaviour| #teamfish| 🐟| #scicomm 🤓| ED&I #womeninSTEM #BLM (she/her)
💧 Rivers, wetlands & freshwater life are in crisis — but cities can be part of the solution.
Excited to share our new synthesis on urban planning for freshwater biodiversity conservation 🚨📜
🔗 Paper: shorturl.at/1rnxB
📰 The Conversation: shorturl.at/81uJH
#Freshwater #UrbanPlanning #Biodiversity
Excited to share our new synthesis on urban planning for freshwater biodiversity conservation 🚨📜
🔗 Paper: shorturl.at/1rnxB
📰 The Conversation: shorturl.at/81uJH
#Freshwater #UrbanPlanning #Biodiversity
How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research
Urban waterways sit at the heart of the global nature crisis.
shorturl.at
May 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
💧 Rivers, wetlands & freshwater life are in crisis — but cities can be part of the solution.
Excited to share our new synthesis on urban planning for freshwater biodiversity conservation 🚨📜
🔗 Paper: shorturl.at/1rnxB
📰 The Conversation: shorturl.at/81uJH
#Freshwater #UrbanPlanning #Biodiversity
Excited to share our new synthesis on urban planning for freshwater biodiversity conservation 🚨📜
🔗 Paper: shorturl.at/1rnxB
📰 The Conversation: shorturl.at/81uJH
#Freshwater #UrbanPlanning #Biodiversity
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
📢 Join us for the @thefsbi.bsky.social annual symposium in Southampton! Celebrating all the good that can be done for fish biology and conservation when we work outside our traditional siloes.
#FSBI2026 #FishSci #FishBiology #FishMigration
ABSTRACT DEADLINE SOON 🐠🐟🦈😁
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#FSBI2026 #FishSci #FishBiology #FishMigration
ABSTRACT DEADLINE SOON 🐠🐟🦈😁
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January 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM
📢 Join us for the @thefsbi.bsky.social annual symposium in Southampton! Celebrating all the good that can be done for fish biology and conservation when we work outside our traditional siloes.
#FSBI2026 #FishSci #FishBiology #FishMigration
ABSTRACT DEADLINE SOON 🐠🐟🦈😁
share.google/vA9r1qi9k21L...
#FSBI2026 #FishSci #FishBiology #FishMigration
ABSTRACT DEADLINE SOON 🐠🐟🦈😁
share.google/vA9r1qi9k21L...
Really enjoying all the fab #animalbehaviour talks at #ASABWinter2025 so far in beautiful #Edinburgh 😄
Come chat to me at my poster (session 1, poster 32) on #fish behaviour and #acoustic masking 🐟🔊
Or, check out the paper 📃: bit.ly/48FcdUw
Come chat to me at my poster (session 1, poster 32) on #fish behaviour and #acoustic masking 🐟🔊
Or, check out the paper 📃: bit.ly/48FcdUw
December 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Really enjoying all the fab #animalbehaviour talks at #ASABWinter2025 so far in beautiful #Edinburgh 😄
Come chat to me at my poster (session 1, poster 32) on #fish behaviour and #acoustic masking 🐟🔊
Or, check out the paper 📃: bit.ly/48FcdUw
Come chat to me at my poster (session 1, poster 32) on #fish behaviour and #acoustic masking 🐟🔊
Or, check out the paper 📃: bit.ly/48FcdUw
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
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
🎙️ 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
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
🎙️ 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
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
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
#PhD #Biodiversity #AI #FreshwaterEcology #Bioacoustics #FreshwaterRestoration
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
#PhD #Biodiversity #AI #FreshwaterEcology #Bioacoustics #FreshwaterRestoration
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
🎧 #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
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
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🎧 #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
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
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
Following the Titanic theme, with #FSBI2025 being held in Belfast, #FSBI2026 will be taking place in 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻! Be sure to get 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵-𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 in your diary, with the exciting theme of "Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology"! fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2026/
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Following the Titanic theme, with #FSBI2025 being held in Belfast, #FSBI2026 will be taking place in 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻! Be sure to get 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵-𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 in your diary, with the exciting theme of "Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology"! fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2026/
🎧 #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
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
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🎧 #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
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
📣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 🌍
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 🌍
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
📣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 🌍
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 🌍
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
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
📆 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
October 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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
📆 27–31 July 2026 | University of Southampton
Theme: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology 🐟
#FSBI2026 #FishBiology #Conference @thefsbi.bsky.social
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
📆 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
October 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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
📆 27–31 July 2026 | University of Southampton
Theme: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology 🐟
#FSBI2026 #FishBiology #Conference @thefsbi.bsky.social
🚨 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
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
July 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨 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
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
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!
Thanks #FSBI2025, and see you next year in Southampton!
July 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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!
Thanks #FSBI2025, and see you next year in Southampton!
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
#conferenceathome #fishconference #IFM - with
@dravowles.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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
#conferenceathome #fishconference #IFM - with
@dravowles.bsky.social
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 🙏
December 5, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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 🙏
Reposted by Dr Helen Currie
📢 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!
December 3, 2024 at 9:17 PM
📢 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!
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
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
November 21, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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
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
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... 🐑
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... 🐑
November 18, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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... 🐑
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... 🐑