In a study by the University of Exeter, nearly 70 blue, porbeagle and tope sharks were tagged to track their behaviour after being caught recreationally using the catch-and-release technique. The result: most sharks survived after being released. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tag placement matters! 🦈📡 A new study led by @exeter.ac.uk uses water flow simulations to outline the effects of tag placement on sharks. Full paper - www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15... @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social 🦑🐟🦈🌍🌐📡🌊🦤 #AcademicSky

For the past 4 years I have worked with a wonderful team of scientists and anglers to track sharks in recreational fisheries. With close to 70 tags deployed, we found that good angling practice can result in pretty high survival for sharks! 🦈🎣🌊

Four years, many tags, and even more written words later, my PhD thesis is DONE! 🎉 #biologging for #shark and #turtle ecology and conservation 🦈🐢🦑🧪 i have had a blast these past years at @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Today I know I need to post some more cool deep-sea science but am feeling very resistant today. The best I can do is combine the two. A thread.

Attention #shark folks! Very cool job opp to study sharks in Scotland with a fantastic PI 🦈🐟🦑🧪

Insightful paper led by colleagues at @exeter.ac.uk on behaviour of Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked from waters off the United Kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41... @exetermarine.bsky.social @twhorton.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @owenexeter.bsky.social #LucyHawkes

Happy #Monday! Here’s something fun to get the week off to a good start! 🔮 What R package would you be based on your #zodiac sign? Let me know if these resonate! 👀✨ #rstats #rladies 🧵👇 (1/13)

PLEASE REPOST: The fantastic conservation journal Endangered Species Research with all articles fully #openaccess has just arrived @esr-ir.bsky.social Please give it a follow. You wont regret it! www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #conservation #academicsky 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡

Many air-breathing marine animals swim about three body diameters below the water’s surface, which reduces wave drag and saves energy during migration. The common pattern has implications for species conservation. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Want an easy way to stay up to date with what we're up to? Follow our Exeter Marine feed to see posts from across our network. Be sure to like the feed too! 🦑🧪🌍🐠🦤🦈

We're wrapping up Year 1 of our UK Blue Shark Tagging Project (www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...), and here are some highlights! -2200 M tags deployed, all by recreational anglers -1750 tag cards returned -17 recaptures reported to date, maps below. -Longest distance: 617 nm in 21 days!

Gotta love sunset fieldwork. Looking for #sharks in UK doesn’t always mean rain and gray weather 🙌 #trackingNotSlacking 🦈🧪🐠🌊

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: 10 springtails leaping, 9 dance flies dancing, 8 ants a-milking, 7 wasps a-swimming, 6 flies a-laying, 5 gold beetles! 4 buzzing bees, 3 French worms, 2 turtle bugs, And a painting of a small flea. 🦗🩰 🐡 #invertebrate #advent #ArtAdventCalendar

When the weather keeps you from finding sharks, you find a distillery and paint the sharks instead! #shark #fieldwork #sciart 🦈🦑🌊

The awesome scientist and all-round lovely human behind this great paper is now on bluesky! @jlrudd.bsky.social give her a follow! #exetermarine 🦑🐠🧪🌊

What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have eaten The tuna That was in The Atlantic And which You were probably Saving for your study Forgive me It was delicious So sweet And so cold

What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes, I love scallops, but I also love #sharks. Check out these movements of 'Tasha', the blue #shark whom we SPOT tagged off Cornwall in July. Huge thanks to Skipper Chippy, NOAA Fisheries, @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluedogfishing.bsky.social @hannahrudd.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social 🦈

New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇

Today I am celebrating #worldfisheriesday an arena that has formed the basis of my career. Throughout this time I've been lucky enough to be involved in numerous #fishing industry - #science partnerships, a fantastic way to share knowledge, & to build trust & respect. It's also fun! #fisheries 🐟

Share your blue art! 💙 With #sharks of course! #sciart 🦑🦈🐠

If you're a fish or marine telemetry person, this is a great time to follow a few of the network accounts, like @glatos-fish.bsky.social , @factnetwork.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social , and of course my personal favourite @oceantracking.bsky.social . Let them know you're glad they're here!

I’m working on a starter pack of ocean science and conservation accounts who post regularly and cover a variety of geographic and disciplinary perspectives. Follow these fine folks. 🦑🌎🧪🐠 go.bsky.app/HYBnbQn

What can turtles tell us about noise in the ocean? In our new paper in Biological Conservation, leatherback 🐢 collect underwater sound data to map natural and human noise in the soundscape facing critical nesting beaches 🚢🔊 authors.elsevier.com/c/1k2~j1R~eW... @exetermarine.bsky.social

Great short article about our recent publication on the movements and conservation of leatherback sea turtles in Equatorial Guinea from CLS Argos 🐢 🦑 @brendangodley.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social www.argos-system.org/leatherback-...