Great resource on animal migrations for researchers & decision-makers, from @cms.int Examples: saiga antelope and puffin

Excited to share some work on spatial variability in localized upwelling regimes on coral reefs at #OSM26 today! @sosbangor.bsky.social @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social

📄New paper out in Behaviour doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10356 🐦 Ambush behaviour is rarely reported among #seabirds. We observed that #MediterraneanShag might employ this strategy to seize fish schools. Our knowledge on seabird #foragingbehaviour is still lacking! #ornithology

NEW RESEARCH 🚨 Researchers identify ultrasonography as reliable method of determining sex in migrating silver eels. This technique was shown to be more reliable than molecular marking, and removes the need for sacrifice. @mjw-marine.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🦑🧪🌍🦤🌐

Awesome # ichthyology work by @lampichthys.bsky.social and co. A pugnosed ponyfish that glows two ways: Bacterial bioluminescent wavelengths elicit biofluorescent emissions in the ponyfish genus Deveximentum link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Scientists have captured footage of a sleeper shark farther south than ever before, suggesting this Antarctic ocean is not shark-free

Check out this nice infographic on our recent study on killer whale responses to pilot whales sounds. Thanks @whalescientists.bsky.social for putting this together and spreading the word! 🤓🐳🔈 #bioacoustics #MarineMammals #whales #SciCom

Really interesting study using royal hunting records to document diversity & abundance of mammals & birds in C18th Spain, with insights into historical decline of e.g. lynx @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social

The NERC Special Committee on Seals (SCOS) 2025 report is now live on the SMRU website: www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/0.... Updated population trends analysis and advice to gov relating to management of UK seal populations 🦭📈📉

Guitarfish (🦈-like rays) are one of the most threatened groups of vertebrates, widely caught as bycatch Mitigation of fishing gear can help address this Interesting new study👇 shows simple💡can reduce shark & ray bycatch (inc guitarfish) - with no significant effect on overall catch of bony 🐟

#ArabianLeopardDay Arabian leopards are extinct from most of their historical range Extensive survey concluded "probably no surviving, sustainable populations of Arabian leopards in Saudi Arabia" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Map: IUCN Cat Specialist Group www.catsg.org/arabianleopard

Not cryptic in the sense of this interesting paper, but many sharks are really difficult to tell apart from closely related species, with implications for conservation Top: Graceful shark, found across Indo-W Pacific Bottom: Smoothtooth blacktip shark, known only from 2 locations in Arabian waters

A very interesting and well-executed study. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

📖Published ! These findings highlight an emerging health threat for mountain gorillas, with implications for other isolated wildlife populations facing similar ecological and evolutionary pressures 🐒 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/ZYPCqX8

Mysterious "spot" calls are widespread in the Indian Ocean... New research ties enigmatic pygmy right whales and their little known doublet calls to the spot calls, suggesting they make both calls! Frequency declining rapidly and synchronously for both calls onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another new paper led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social: First observations of grey seal cannibalism at Sable Island, inc. a comparison of carcass pathology to cases in Scotland. Collab between SMRU, DFO and @dalhousie.bsky.social with support from @oceanfrontier.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Last day to submit abstracts for #FSBI2026 at the University of Southampton 27-31 July (due by 17:00)! We have lots of fun social events planned in addition to the scientific programme, including excursions, fish quiz, spawning run, etc. Full details fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2026/

New publication led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social on competition between grey & harbour seals in Scotland using 20+ yrs of diet data. Many thanks to all who collected samples, and collaborators from the Lighthouse Field Station and Institute of Marine Research #OA Paper: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Forecasting extinction risk for future-proof conservation decisions: Trends Ecol & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Should conservation focus on threatened species? Or should we be proactive and protect species before they become threatened? This paper explores how to get the balance right.

Our new study is out! We analysed DNA preserved in buried river sediments and Neolithic sites (Serbia), uncovering past landscapes and traces of sturgeon populations. Read more about our findings and the challenges in such complex and dynamic contexts: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @mikkelwp.bsky.social

A top predator on the run! New paper on aversive responses of killer whales to the sounds of long-finned pilot whales – out now in Scientific reports – open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Below a short summary of the main results. 🔈🐳🤓 #bioacoustics #MarineMammals #whales

Our recent study in Ecological Modelling shows that southern right whale mother-calf pairs leave calving grounds once calves reach ~8 m in length, not after a fixed time. Larger, fatter mothers help calves reach departure size faster! 🐋⚡ Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌐🌏🌱🧪

New paper published in Marine Mammal Science. We investigated prey preferences and individual dietary specialization of false killer whales in the Caribbean Sea using stable isotope analysis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A dolphin hunting fish by a group of manatees on a sandbar in Tampa Bay a couple days ago. This is one of 5 groups of manatees that were hanging out in the shallow waters of Tampa Bay. The groups ranged from about 40-300 manatees. #nature #amazing #animals #wildlife #awesome #naturephotography

Very fond of this remarkable bridge that just celebrated 200 years. Such a key feature of the 24 years we lived and/or worked on Anglesey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

New paper out: The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation with @fossildetective.bsky.social, @bigfacecats.bsky.social, Curtis Congreve & @jonhendricks.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🦑⚒️

One of the coolest sharks @schmidtocean.bsky.social filmed! They saw this Rough shark (Oxynotus?) in Galapagos during dive 582 part 2. I think it ended up being a range extension iirc. #CliffReefs #MarineLife

We use the New Zealand Seafloor Community Classification to explore how representativity of benthic communities could be enhanced in MPAs. We found that a small increase in spatial protection (1.5%) can result in large increases in the representativity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚀 Upskill in 2026 with one of our training courses! 🔵Mapping & spatial analysis with R 🟠Stock assessment 🟢Ecopath with Ecosim 🔵Reimagining complex data-intensive reports 🟠Writing bespoke assessment models in RTMB 🟢Environmental Impact Assessments Registration is open www.ices.dk/events/Train...

Two hundred years ago #OnThisDay the magnificent Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, was opened. Read more about it on my web site: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/places/bridg...

New in #PhilTransB - theme issue explores the #biosphere in the #Anthropocene. All #OA. Read: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Are you an FSBI member that would like to be more involved with the society? Do you have skills in website design? We have a new position that may be perfect for you, which would involve helping improve and maintain our website. 💻 More info, here: fsbi.org.uk/2026/01/26/f...

Kirsti Burnett sequenced the very first reference genome for the blackchin guitarfish, which will be used to assess the genetic health of the population in Cabo Verde. saveourseas.com/update/build...

A shark with sightings so rare that it's only been documented fewer than 250 times worldwide, the deep-sea goblin shark was hauled aboard for the first time in Canary Island waters. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rare-de...

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

David Dudgeon & Jia Huan Liew (2026) Welcome to the Homogenocene? Trajectories of change in global #freshwater #fish biodiversity during the Anthropocene: evidence from tropical East Asia 🔓 via Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #BioInvasions 🧪🌏🐟

Cool new paper on deep-sea fish Cusk eels to 6 km depth 🤯, and interesting observations of sharks, rays & egg cases

Today is National Handwriting Day! ✍️ Reading handwritten records can be a challenging or enjoyable aspect (often both!) of archival research. Our Syon Abbey Collection contains six centuries of handwriting! #NationalHandwritingDay #HandwritingDay #Handwriting #Archives #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic

New paper out today! "Fossil otolith assemblages reveal millennial-scale changes in reef fish biomass and trophic structure across the Isthmus of Panama" 🔓https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0419 We used fossil fish otoliths to reconstruct community structure and energetics over millennia.

Concerns raised after sawfish, sharks and turtle found mutilated on northwest WA beaches www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

New paper on SEA TURTLE phenology 🐢 in the Cayman Islands. Collaborative effort between @exeter.ac.uk and Cayman Islands DoE. Full paper here - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... IG reel - www.instagram.com/p/DTz3wiUDKyA/ @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social 🦑🌐🌍🐢🧪 #AcademicSky

Sometimes you stumble on some #sharkscience that makes you think you don't really know anything about them at all. Yesterday i found this paper: "Observations of the bowmouth guitarfish by-catches by the tropical tuna purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean’s open waters" doi.org/10.1017/S002...

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social