Use BRUVS? Our new study uses barracuda spots to check independence among BRUVS. TLDR; sometimes we saw same fish on different cameras but BRUVS 500m apart can be considered independent. But count individuals rather than using MaxN if you can! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fiu.bsky.social

Took a while to get this published but good data never dies! Great to see this out

It's great to see this paper out in Animal Conservation @zslofficial.bsky.social! We show that prey availability is an important correlate of shark abundance and hence the need for a holistic management approach. doi.org/10.1111/acv.... Read more at @fiu.bsky.social news news.fiu.edu/2026/sharks-...

One of the highlights of academic life: Commencement with graduate students. Congratulations Dr Marrero!

And foraging grounds for reef fishes! www.tropicalfishecologylab.com/the-fishscap...

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

Paper accepted. 100 day streak on Wordle broken. This day could go either way…

Prof Jim Fourqurean and @carlosduartephd.bsky.social kicking off the Blue Impact summit at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus @fiu.bsky.social

Great day 1 at the FL Keys Marine Science Workshop and nice job by Paula Pabon with the lab’s first talk of the meeting @fiu.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Another post-doc opportunity at the University of Queensland to work on coral reefs. This time modelling reef ecosystems in the Red Sea in collaboration with Dave Suggett at Kaust. 2.5 years and work rights in Australia. Happy to discuss. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

New 2yr postdoc position @ University of Queensland on coral distributions and Allee effects. Must have permission to work in Australia uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Fun day at @georgiaaquarium.bsky.social! Great to see so many people enjoying some marine biology, and of course in particular the reef exhibit 😉

Opportunity at the Australian Institute of Marine Science using decision support and ecological modelling to predict reef futures and inform restoration: www.seek.com.au/job/85158879...

TT Assistant prof in biological sciences -- elasmobranch biology 🦈 🧪 @calstate.bsky.social #academicjobs csucareers.calstate.edu/en-us/job/54...

Great to work with Frances and the rest of the team on this one! 🦈

Additional Editors sought for Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social Follow link on Journal Page below 🦑🌍🦤🌐🧪🐟🎣 www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #mammal #genetics #conservation #Birds #invertebrate #Conservation.

Great to see this paper come out at link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Former lab grad student Lanie Esch did a great job looking at fish in the FL aquarium trade and working out which were the biggest risks as future invasive species based on release probabilities and chances of establishing.

Annual GRFP thread, more relevant than ever (# of awards down 50%). This thread is for students who didn't win the GRFP today. Who are wondering if they belong in science, or scrolling through posts that start "So excited to announce..." with a little spurt of bitterness they aren’t proud of. 1/9

Congratulations to Dr Sara Schoen for defending her PhD dissertation on Tuesday. Always a good week when we get to bring out the fibreglass barracuda!

Thanks to @gobyone.bsky.social for a great talk yesterday about tiny fish! @fiu.bsky.social

Calling potential domestic PhD applicants! New scholarships available to work on coral reefs at University of Queensland. Deadline 23 March. Feel free to reach out

One of my stranger days of fieldwork… monitoring a new Seawall in N Miami…

Nice work! If anyone is interested in the potential spread of this species have a look at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Prospective PhD students: I am recruiting another 3 PhD students to join my Thriving Oceans Research Hub and work on the "Bright Spots 2.0" (aka exceptional responders) project as part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese.... Scholarship Ad: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Can we all agree Wednesday is the perfect day for Xmas / NY? Weekends come at the right time, wind down / back to work feels right… how do we make this a permanent thing?

My school teacher wife uses ChatGPT to make incorrect answers for multiple choice quizzes because it is better that being confidently wrong than anything else.

Cool PhD opportunity at FIU! 🦑🌊🧪🍎📚

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪

Come join us at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand! We are hiring a tenure-track marine biologist/ecologist (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer = US Assistant Professor). NZ lifestyle, a beautiful marine lab, and great colleagues! tinyurl.com/ymmdsjus Please share widely!

Thanks to Yanni and Ben for guiding us through the process to getting this paper out - cool findings! @fiu.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/vian...

I once visited 5 Central American countries in one morning.

My department is looking for an assistant professor in fisheries and conservation: careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please repost! #marinesky #oceanography #STEM #fisheries

Looks about right :-). Thanks scholargoggler.com

This seems… encouraging? Just need to keep trying to increase reef health…

Let’s go Florida reef scientists!