Unexpected prey: lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) observed preying on an alien invasive freshwater fish in a remote no-take marine reserve in the Equatorial Atlantic link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper is officially out! Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

New review by @laenavarro.bsky.social on integrating historical sources for biodiversity conservation - central to @projectfishistory.bsky.social

OneBenthic unites seabed data from research, government & industry — incl. offshore wind & marine aggregates. This collaboration underpins the new BGS Predictive Seabed Sediments (UK) dataset (www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/bgs...), openly available for science & marine management. #OneBenthic #OpenData

Guess where we’ve been this week! Hint: you might see a dolphin or two here 🐬 #destinationx #huntforherring #fishfriday

Thanks to NWIFCA, we've gotten our hands on some fascinating early 1900s reports from the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries Committee 📚These reports include notes on the timing and success of the herring fishery, the condition of herring, and a district map revealing historic herring grounds!

Where are we today?📍Hint: it’s chucking it down! #herring #destinationx 🐟

Four new fossil species from New Zealand illustrate the striking diversity of the earliest penguins, which possessed long dagger-like beaks they may have used to skewer prey.

#Fishermen of Devon & Cornwall - have higher numbers of #octopus affected your catch? The MBA and partners are gathering your experiences on the impact - positive and negative. Take part in our survey, which will guide future support. bit.ly/3V2lVbR Image c. South Devon and Channel Fishermen Ltd.

🦞 Come and join the fisheries team as a 'Research Project Support Officer in Fisheries Science' @sosbangor.bsky.social. The post is based in the Isle of Man at the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA). 🦐 jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century @ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

Simple modification to 🦐fishing gear (➕ size of escape area) shows promise in reducing bycatch of large long-lived 🦈, with minimal effect on 🦐 catch

#JFB: Tag attachment innovation on spurdog (𝘚𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘴) reveals year-round coastal association of pregnant females in northeastern Atlantic waters doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16000#JFB#FishSci

It's always nice to re-visit, and cite, great books that you've had on your shelf for years

Newborn reef sharks are ninja swimmers! 🥷🦈⚡️ Our latest study shows pups can dodge predators in under 20ms. A reminder of how amazing—and vulnerable—shark nursery habitats are. Read more via @jcuofficial.bsky.social : www.jcu.edu.au/news/release...

Friends, I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for early career scientists and students considering writing their first paper soon. All information can be found in this link: www.southernfriedscience.com/im-offering-... 🧪🌎🦑

Last chance to sign up for a training course on the Assessment of the impact of trawling on seabed ecosystems, 6–10 October 2025. Copenhagen, Denmark www.ices.dk/events/Train...

Jaws came out 50 years ago this summer. In my latest for The Revelator, I discuss what’s happened to sharks and shark conservation since then, and how much can be attributed to the movie. therevelator.org/jaws-at-50-s... 🧪🌎🦑🦈

The first chapter of my PhD came out today! Feel free to give it a read it you have a little spare time 🧬🐢 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea

Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's certainly possible to look at hypothesized northwards advance of 'southern' fish over time using opportunistic data, as we did here for stingrays academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Every now and then you catch yourself realising that #MuseumLife is not normal life.

Beautiful scientific illustration in a Government fisheries report, 1884 -Electric ray caught off Scotland -Herring measurements @projectfishistory.bsky.social

Interesting exhibition on at @linneansociety.bsky.social www.linnean.org/research-col...

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills

We’ve handpicked these UK job opportunities because we think our students and graduates would be a great fit! 🌍🎓 Detailed for each position are listed on our LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/gradua... Good luck! 🤞🍀 #ExeterGSES #graduatejobs

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A blacktip's black tip: The reliability of using dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

This was a tricky one thanks to some taxonomic relabelling but we think we found an illustration of the nursehound from the third edition of William Yarrell's 'A History of British Fishes' 1859. #TrickyTaxonThursday We also have some of Yarrell's original illustrations in our archive (ref PYA1)

(5/5) #Octopus #OctopusSwarm #OctopusBloom #ClimateChange #MarineHeatwaves

New study shows Mekong’s largest fish shrunk by nearly half in 7 years. CMS-listed & critically endangered Mekong giant catfish now average 80 kg, down from 180 kg in 1990s. 🐟⚖️ Overfishing, dams & climate shifts are driving the decline. More via @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

150 years ago today, the last known Rodrigues parakeet died. It - and one other specimen - is now in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: the only physical evidence the species ever existed. I wrote about them & the importance of #museums in our knowledge of #extinction: theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

New species of 25 million year old toothed mysticete whale from Australia! 🐋 Say hello to Janjucetus dullardi. Congrats to @inxcetus.bsky.social's on their excellent first PhD paper. He also did the amazing artwork!

🚨 We’re hiring! Join JNCC as our Science & Policy Liaison Officer for Wales 🌿 Work with Welsh Gov & ‪@natreswales.bsky.social‬ to shape nature policy with science at its heart 💚 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/JNCCjob-202539 Applications close 31 August 2025 #ConservationCareers #PolicyAndScience

Nice representation of how various factors degrade the quality of biodiversity data over time in this 2017 paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws? You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni 🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Did you know about the small, wild population of #muskox (Ovibos moschatus) in Sweden? To learn more about their current conservation status, ecosystem services, and latest population inventory, check out our latest paper, published #OpenAccess in Polar Research! doi.org/10.33265/pol...

We have some great keynote speakers lined up for our Conference on the 29-30th at ATU. Remember that you can register on-site or attend virtually: www.baskingshark.ie/conference2025