PhD Candidate UOW - All things goby and coral - Big fan of all things ocean - Fascinated by botany and palaeontology too!
Joined October 2021
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
27 Nov 2025
Goby spotting: An updated guide to coral gobies (Genus: 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛) in the Indo-Pacific Region.
🔒 mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
ALT Hildebrandt, C.A., Froehlich, C.Y.M., Klanten, O.S. & Wong, M.Y.L. (2025) Goby spotting: An updated guide to coral gobies (Genus: 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛) in the Indo-Pacific Region. Zootaxa, 5723 (2), 151–188. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.2.1
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25 Nov 2025
I'm proud to announce that my article - an updated guide to Genus Gobiodon, my favourite coral dwelling cryptic fish, is now published!
If you would like a copy for your research, please email me at courtneyahildebrandt@gmail.com 😊
#goby #coral #identification #fish #science
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14 Apr 2025
Hi all!
Little update! For those that have seen my fishy drawings and thought "I'd really like that on some merch.." I have some good news for you!
I have opened a Printify on demand printing pop up for my fishy drawings!
fishy-merch.printify.me/cate…
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10 Apr 2025
Had a great time last night celebrating 50 years of One Tree Island Research Station! Thankyou for being a home away from home during my PhD!
@OneTreeIslandRS
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
7 Jan 2025
Multi-level framework to assess social variation in response to ecological and social factors: modeled with coral gobies
doi.org/10.1111/oik.10669
📷They are hard to find but if you look close enough in a coral, you'll find them zooming through the branches
© Catheline Froehlich
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23 Dec 2024
Exciting ichthyology news! The first chapter of my PhD thesis is now published! Giving a name to two adorable species of Gobiodon! You can find it open access on Raffles Bulletin of Zoology!
lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/publicatio…...
#gobiodon #coralreef #cryptobenthic #fish #gobies
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23 Dec 2024
Big thanks to all those who helped! Naming co-authors and the amazing staff in the Australian Museum Itchyology department!
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23 Oct 2024
Hi all, I have started a Blue Sky account in addition to this one, as it seems some people are migrating that way!
bsky.app/profile/goby-nerd-c…
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
📣🎉Our article is Editor’s Choice!
Holistic #tool to identify ecological & social drivers of #animal #societies. For any spp & env
Eg: gobies & #climatechange
@MarianWong10 @reefevolution @gobynerd @Oikos_Journal @uow
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Another goby to add to the ever-growing list!!
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
3 Sep 2024
🐠What an inspiring session by @gobynerd from @UOW 🐠Marine biologist answering questions from 10y olds to help with their #submerged innovation project for @firstlegoleague 🔬 #InspireTheFuture #STEMeducation @UOWEnviro
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10 Aug 2024
Lately I've been spending a lot of hours in front of a computer writing up my theses. But getting to go through photos of these little guys certainly cheers me up!
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Earlier this year, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef cooked at temperatures higher than any it has experienced in at least four centuries go.nature.com/4fyoUSl
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
25 Jul 2024
New PhD position available on the social behaviour of coral-dwelling fishes, based at The Fish Lab @UOW ! Fieldwork mainly on the Great Barrier Reef, candidate must be SCUBA certified to at least PADI Rescue (or in process). Send EOIs to marianw@uow.edu.au by 16/08🐠 Pls share!
ALT Photo collage showing underwater fieldwork at Lizard Island Research station, some Fish Lab members having fun, coral-gobies in their corals, University of Wollongong sign and research boats at Lizard Island.
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
16 Apr 2024
2024 Great Barrier Reef bleaching summary now available: aims.gov.au/sites/default/fi…
- Fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016
-Very high (60-90% cover bleached) and extreme (>90%) prevalence of coral bleaching in all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
8 Nov 2023
Tax?
Out of 2020-2021 revenue of $150 billion in Australia, 24 Fossil Fuel companies paid
not $30 billion,
not $30 million,
not $30 thousand,
just $30.
Enough for 6-7 cups of coffee, evenly distributed across the 25 million Australians.
7 Nov 2023
Without new taxpayers there is no way to fund our pensions, lets charge for creating new taxpayers
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
20 Sep 2023
Easy to assume we know about the fishes of Australia and the @GreatBarrierRf but this beautiful fish highlights we still have undescribed marine biodiversity.
One new fish species is described as new or newly recorded each week for Australia, the count of 5200 still climbing!
14 Sep 2023
Paracheilinus amanda, new species. Previously confused for P. rubricaudalis, but is genetically and morphologically distinct in having a dorsal-filament comprising of three segmented rays. Endemic to the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea.
Status: extant (new species)
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
27 Aug 2023
Very excited to share the first published paper from my PhD!! We explored the role that biofilms play in rates of topicalisation. Thank you to @willfig @ZiggyMarzinelli & @brig_sommer for being fantastic co-authors on my first paper as lead. @USydMSI
authors.elsevier.com/a/1heb1…
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
17 Aug 2023
What a jam-packed day of marine science! 🌊 Our @austmus fish team and marine invertebrates team pulled out all the stops. Students & the general public came by to see our live specimens, the famous Mr Blobby, pufferfish, upside-down jellyfish and much more 🐟🪼🪸
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Courtney Hildebrandt (she/they) retweeted
30 May 2023
We're looking for an ecosystem modeller to join the Gamay Project and help us better understand the complex ecology of Botany Bay. Spread the word! @SydneyMarine @DR_GRIB @DrKDafforn @MartinaADoblin @DrWillGlamore @j_ruprecht
seek.com.au/job/67729875?tra…
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