Beth Hoots

@whatahoot.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral fellow at University of Alberta 🇨🇦 PhD from Deakin University 🐟🌏🦘 University of Idaho alum 💛🩶 Here for the fish science! | She/her Find my work: https://elizabeth-hoots.owlstown.net

The Deadman River in British Columbia, Canada under a smokey orange sky.
Six fish scientists (three of which are wearing almost identical denim caps) with their arms around each other in a patio restaurant at night. There is a green bus behind them.
Three stacked scatterplots showing oxygen uptake rate (metabolism) on the y-axis and dissolved oxygen as % saturation on the x-axis. This figure shows three exemplary traces, where SMR does not decline with decreasing DO along the theoretical oxyconforming line, but rather is maintained steadily even at low O2 levels.
A social scientists presents a slide from a stage showing the climate bands for her grandmother, her mother, herself, and her children, demonstrating the changes in climate faced by different generations in her family
The historic train station in Antwerp. Blue skies in the background and a row of rental bikes in the foreground
A scientist presenting a slide with several box plots
My title slide with fish in the background. Text reads: Life History Attributes Influencing Metabolic Variation Authors: Elizabeth Hoots, Luis Kuchenmüller, Michael Skeeles, Timothy Clark
A scientist on a big stage showing his title slide featuring a rainbow trout with a cannula through its nostril and a diagram of water passing over the gills
A scientist with a cool haircut shows a map of barber shops in Antwerp
A scientist presents different abiotic and biotic triggers of premature hatching in fish on a large screen
A scientist presents a slide showing her take-away home messages
A scientist presents her take-away slide on a large dark stage. It reads: Take-away • Zebrafish can evolve improved growth at warmer temperatures • Thermal performance curves can undergo a left or right shift • Ectothermic vertebrates may adapt to global warming by enhancing performance • Role of selection in shaping thermal resilence
Sandra Binning presents four lessons learned in her career, in a slide titled: “Lessons learned”: • Do what you love • Be guided by your curiosity • Being a generalist can be a good thing • Don't let a bad experience define you
The beautiful Antwerp train station
A screen showing an underwater picture from the Great Southern Reef with kelp, coralline algae and an abalone. The title White Rock is centered over the picture, and there is a QR code at the bottom of the screen that says GET INVOLVED. Below the screen there are four bar stools set up for the panel after the screening.
A prehistoric pine tree with fluffy flat needles extending along each branch in an “X” shape when viewed from the end of the branch. Mostly light green in color, surrounded by other vegetation including a much larger Wollemi pine right behind it!
Five Queenscliff RAR members sit and stand in the park on a sunny autumn day, and hold up small red banners calling for permanent visas and justice for refugees. A larger blue banner reads “choose fairness and decency for refugees”.
A view from the start of a walk across a suspension bridge with blue mesh sides, teak wood rails and a steel floor, stretching into a tropical forest on a cloudy day.
Five mile creek is clear and golden, with many small dark rocks in the shallow water. There are white bubbling riffles in the water, and many small and tall evergreens growing right up to the water’s edge. The sky is so blue.
A clear, rocky creek flows through a stand of evergreen trees and leafy green understory. The sky is gray, and there is a misty cloud descending onto the trees in the backyard.
Idaho’s El Dorado Creek is very clear and honestly actually a bit golden in color. The banks are grassy and green, with several tall evergreen trees growing in the background.
A large, fuzzy reddish brown moth with prominent pink eyespots on its wings and thick fuzzy antennae. It is resting on a window in the daylight.
A beautiful dark orange/purple octopus, with just its eyes poking up from a hiding spot in some yellow kelp. It has two very prominent horns above its eyes and more covering what we can see of its body.
A big dramatic cliff and blue skies in the background, which is reflected in the wet sandy beach in the foreground. Two people are walking on the beach, and some small waves are washing in.
A wooden outdoor toilet (about 6-6.5 ft tall?) with the white lid up. The outhouse has no door just three walls, and it’s sitting in complete isolation on a snowy hill surrounded by extremely majestic evergreen trees. The sky is blue.
Cloudy skies over the Barwon River headwaters, with many large, dark, rocks popping up above the tide. In the foreground, sea grass filled tidepools are visible among the rocks.
A platypus swimming just above the surface of a lake. The water reflects the dense green vegetation above it, spiky sedges and the fronds of tree ferns.
A bright green box trap sits in a sandy riverbed beneath a very dramatic rocky cliff with layers of dark and light colored rock and some brave plants hanging on for dear life.
A view from above of a bucket full of small, slender and semi-transparent fish swimming around in river water.