Discard Survival of Thornback Ray (Raja clavata), Undulate Ray (Raja undulata) and Small-Eyed Ray (Raja microocellata) in Northeast Atlantic Inshore Fisheries doi.org/10.1111/fme....

Nice to see conservation policy outcomes from simple ideas 20+ yrs ago I had access to remote areas of Kuwait/Iraq, & saw its potential as bull shark 🦈 nursery habitat Then spent 10+ years collecting evidence to back this up shorturl.at/0Cm0f Now designated an Important Shark & Ray Area

🌀 Chasing windows of opportunity for habitat formation: Spatial and temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates 🌊 🦪 Oysters can settle and survive at upstream locations, however oyster habitat cover decreased long the estuarine salinity gradient🦪 🌍 Find out more: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

What we know we don’t know: impacts of deep-sea mining on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other migratory species. – Southern Fried Science

My latest article, my first time ever writing for MongaBay, summarizes some recent shark conservation science and what it means for the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species COP news.mongabay.com/2025/11/for-...

The Marine Biological Association has a deep, long-running history in fisheries research that continues to shape how we understand and manage UK seas today. In the early 1900s, Walter Garstang was already challenging the idea that fish stocks were limitless. #WorldFisheriesDay

Biologging provides crucial data, but our study of European shags shows that logger type, placement and duration can alter behaviour, reduce body mass and chick growth, and affect survival, highlighting key welfare and data-quality concerns. tinyurl.com/u7vbv2xk @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

First sighting in 45 years of a basking shark off Mie, Japan, and occurrence records of the species in Japanese coastal waters link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're currently visiting the Isle of Man and and hoping to speak with any active or retired herring fishers on the island 🐟Tomorrow we're diving into the @manxheritage.bsky.social archives! @georginahunt.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social

Published! Gough et al: Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales. Drones+tags+diet reveal pilot whales need ~142 squid/day @marinemammalogy.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @acs-ps.bsky.social @uhmanoa.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

PhD Opportunity: Come and join our fabulous plastics research team at the University of Exeter and colleagues at @pml.ac.uk to work on the impacts of conventional and alternative plastics on the health and functioning of benthic ecosystems. Full details and application link here: lnkd.in/ePeFMXzJ

We’ve made fisheries research approachable, visual, and FREE. Get started today: bit.ly/catchrecon

Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...

There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

Join this webinar to delve into our most recent and comprehensive global dugong assessment revealing urgent conservation gaps and calling for stronger regional action. 🗓️ Monday 17 of November at 1 PM Sydney Details: www.tropwater.com/event-detail... Report: www.cms.int/news/global-...

School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social was very well represented at the UK seagrass symposium this year! These wonderful people have done - and are doing - everything from internships to PhDs and everything in between on these crucial habitats. Keep up the good work, everyone!

🔍 Postdoc opportunity! We’re looking for one (or two) postdoctoral researchers to join our Arctic Ecology team to work on: 🛰️ Muskox movement ecology 🌍 Ecosystem & carbon modelling 📄 Details in the attached flyer. #Postdoc #ArcticEcology #MovementEcology #CarbonModelling #WildlifeResearch

Pair of choughs between Lligwy & Moelfre Sun 9th Nov - I've never seen them on this side of the island @angbirdnews.bsky.social

PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas. One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome. Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Great to see cross-disciplinary training & knowledge exchange between historians & scientists as part of @ukrio.bsky.social funded @projectfishistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Thanks @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social helping to unlock overlooked historical data

PhD studentship available. Please repost. www.swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-... @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @exetergses.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @hls.exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @ecehh.org @willhgaze.bsky.social @elzehesse.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

Fossil shark teeth from Pliocene Tuscany show the first evidence that 𝑂𝑠𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑥 "zombie worms" exploit shark tooth dentine in the wild. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

Ever wanted to get the lowdown on natural history museums? Interested in how they're shaped from behind the scenes? Or how they in turn shape scientific understanding? Then join Jack Ashby's talk exploring both the scientific and social relevance of these fascinating institutions 🎟️ from £9.38

📣 There are just a few days left to apply! We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team! Closing date: 11 November 2025 For full details and to apply ➡️ jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... #ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks

Indeed. A few years ago, we picked up all these from one beach in a single day. We picked up more this morning. Another menace on our beaches.

Historical sources such as the excellent Tourists in Wales website can provide valuable information for ecologists studying longer-term aspects of species and environments sublimewales.wordpress.com/introduction/

Antarctic robot ‘Lassie’ uncovers thousands of icefish nests beneath Antarctic ice www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Why do eagle and manta rays have long, whip-like tails? 🦈 Our study shows that they act like kite tails, adding drag to keep rays stable as they glide! Thanks to @georgelauder.bsky.social, Connor White, Harvard MCZ, @nhm-london.bsky.social , CSIRO & @tamu.bsky.social Article: shorturl.at/gSf7P

New evidence in @science.org that herring🐟 spawn where they were spawned (natal homing) adds urgency to the work @projectfishistory.bsky.social is doing @sosbangor.bsky.social - identifying unmapped spawning areas using historical sources 📜 & living knowledge 🎣🗣️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Marine Mammal Ecology 🧪🌍 #science

Out now in the @sochistnathist.bsky.social journal, my article on the BERRY-POMEROY MANUSCRIPT! This is a natural history text from the year 1599 which lists 278 species of animals and plants living in Elizabethan Devon! There are some very surprising records here... 🐺🐻🪶🐀🐾🎣🍎🍐📗 (Thread 🧵...)

Published! Our huge effort to obtain catch series for each of five overlapping populations of pygmy blue whales. Big collaboration with 30+ coauthors using spatial patterns of blue whale song (unique to each population) to figure out where each resides 1/n

The earliest appearance of gigantic lamniform #sharks has now been pushed back by ~15 Ma (upper Aptian, ~115 Ma) with the discovery of enormous cardabiodontid shark remains from northern Australia.🦈🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

MSc by Res opportunity - developing behavioural indicators to inform killer whale conservation with @exeter.ac.uk @whaleresearch.bsky.social @seadocsociety.bsky.social People from underrepresented groups in marine science encouraged to apply. Deadline 19Dec www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

PhD on pied flycatchers

Reflecting on the International Basking Shark Conference last month, we are all still so inspired by the energy and passion captured in one weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMCg...

Guinean landing surveys of Bentfin devil rays add insight into threatened elasmobranch catch link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Nice write-up of new study on European cultural grassland diversity. Resurvey from 100 year old baseline. Plant richness declines. Good photo of the field botanists! Paper is linked in article. #botany

🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below #UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals

Fossil found on Dorset coast is unique 'sword dragon' species www.bbc.com/news/article...

A seasonal aggregation of juvenile scalloped hammerheads Sphyrna lewini along beaches of the Gold Coast, Australia

1st PhD chapter from @jjackman27.bsky.social on comparing #eDNA filtration methods in a hyper-tidal estuary. Although some methods outperform others, all are generally effective in recovering fish biodiversity, including the passive metaprobe. Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Advice release - elasmobranch stocks ICES advice to @ec.europa.eu, North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) & the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on fishing opportunities for elasmobranch stocks in 2026 is now available ices-library.figshare.com/collections/...

🧜‍♀️ Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus libri: . Amstelodami: Apud Ioannem Iacobi Fil. Schipper, MDCLVII [1657]. [Source]

Bite wounds on Tursiops aduncus provide the first inference of cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.) in the Red Sea www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023” www.theguardian.com/environment/...