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FishSounds is an effort to catalog underwater sounds, centered on the website https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZWmgzF7Xd8. Support our work at https://xitter.cf/t.co/qp5dfVY1r4!

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🔉Major FishSounds Website Update!! The beta version is live now at FishSounds.net 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.

ALT Screenshot of the FishSounds home page with a pop up banner announcing that changes have been made.

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The admin portal will also allow us to regularly import FishBase data and export our data. Our long-term data repository on Borealis will soon be reorganized and updated to better reflect the website. 🧵6/7
Screenshot of the FishSounds Admin Portal showing data import and export options.

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We are incredibly grateful to @WILDLABSNET, @DIIORIOLucia1, @NSERC_CRSNG, and many others for supporting and funding our work. We hope to continue improving in the years to come! 🧵7/7
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Sonic Connexions, the online meetup series from the Acoustical Society of America dedicated to animal bioacoustics! The theme for this meet-up will be Too Many Voices: Acoustic Approaches and Challenges for Monitoring Large Groups of Animals. April 7, 2026 Dr. Laura Kloepper,
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First fish sounds recorded in the Southern Ocean by FishSounds friend, Fannie Shabangu, et al.! doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70065 Since our first review didn't identify any soniferous fishes from the Antarctic, we are so happy that folks are exploring this great unknown!

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...

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Our @WILDLABSNET 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!
FishSounds@fishsoundswebJan 31
Just wanted to share a sneak preview of what our recording visualizations will soon look like, thanks to the support of the @WILDLABSNET 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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Just wanted to share a sneak preview of what our recording visualizations will soon look like, thanks to the support of the @WILDLABSNET 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.

ALT Screenshot of a FishSounds recording page showing an unnamed sound of a damselfish with a waveform and spectrogram.

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If you've been enjoying FishSounds Educate, check out @FrontYoungMinds for more kid-friendly science papers, including our new article on how sounds affect marine invertebrates!
Hailey Davies@haileyldavies17 Dec 2025
Excited to share that our article is out in @FrontYoungMinds! The peer review process with bright young scientists was definitely a highlight ✨🙂 Noisy Waters: How Sounds Affect Marine Invertebrates 🪼🚢🦀🎵 doi.org/10.3389/frym.2025.15…
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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: sciencepodcastforkids.com/si…

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...

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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 @kpiependreigh!
Cover of the book What Fish Are Saying showcasing a variety of brightly colored fish

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🐟🔊 New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70149! 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.

ALT 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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We really appreciate all the support of our funders, contributors, and collaborators, including from @NSERC_CRSNG, @FishOceansCAN, @LiberEroFellows, @FishBaseProject, @CornellSounds, and so many others you can find here: fishsounds.net/people.js ❤️
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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! 🎵🐠❤️
WILDLABS Community@WILDLABSNET21 Oct 2025
🏆Meet the winners of the Boring Fund 2025! After five weeks of careful review and deliberation, the WILDLABS team and @Arm has selected the 10 projects that will receive support for essential conservation technology work. Meet them here: wildlabs.net/article/announc…
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🐟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 conservation efforts. Read more at doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…!
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.

ALT 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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🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲 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 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!
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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 ❤️ 🐠 🔉
Sourcebooks Library@SBKSLibrary28 Apr 2025
Did you know that deep in the ocean, fish are loud? 🐟🐠 Find out how fish communicate in WHAT FISH ARE SAYING, now with a STARRED review from SLJ!
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