Great first visit at the European Elasmobranchs Association's Annual Science Conference in #Rotterdam #blijdorp talking about flapper skates #skatespotter #EEA2025

Based on interviews and archive work (Bergen/Oslo, April 2024), Peter Wilson, @sbenjamins.bsky.social and I reviewed minke #whaling around Ireland in @injournal.bsky.social Vol 41. Funded by Percey Sladen Memorial Fund & Society for Nautical Research www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Shark Conservation Fund invites proposals for its small grant funding window. Up to $25,000 to support ocean policy projects aligned with: 🦈 Fisheries Management Reform 🌍 Preventing Extinctions 🌊 Identifying & Protecting Critical Habitats Deadline 📆 #March31 ogy.de/widx

Healthy Reefs Need Sharks phys.org/news/2025-02...

Repeating this. It's not getting better. Holds for many non-gov US scientists too these days.

We're hiring a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University to join the SharkScape project, a three–year, multi-institute project involving field-based research and data analysis. Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r... #MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs

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Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Here’s a thread of words that result in the National Science Foundation rejecting grants under the Trump administration’s bigoted and anti-intellectual executive order. Among other things, about every shark paper I’ve ever written has included the word “female” referring to *FEMALE SHARKS*

Bedrijven die als je niet oplet je lokatiegegevens verzamelen en daar commerciële dingen mee doen, vinden dat een overheidsorganisatie haar burgers niet rechtstreeks mag informeren en waarschuwen zonder dat te doen. Goh. *knmi app installeert en op hoofdscherm zet*

"Everybody - wake up! It's the #BigGardenBirdwatch!" Will you be taking part today? 👀🌳

Scientists can and should lead the charge in equity by committing to DEI work despite federal rollbacks by the Trump admin. These actions are vital for the integrity and equity of our research, sci comm, and impact on society #DEI #STEM

Trans rights are human rights! Pass it on

Cool functional morphology paper by Pollock et al. from @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social finds functional optimality of puncture & stress resistance performance drove convergent #evolution of sabre-teeth in mammalian carnivores. #Science #Paleontology #EvolutionaryBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...

"Tackling climate change effectively requires a shift to a more equal society, where happiness is prioritised over consumption. It necessitates radical behavioural changes, particularly from the wealthiest, and policies that enable these changes." theconversation.com/keir-starmer...

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 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡

If you ever wanted to name an astronomical object in Earth's backyard, now's your chance: go over to the RadioLab podcast to vote for the 7 finalists to name one of Earth's quasi-moons! www.radiolab.org/quasi-moon

For any PhDs thinking of transitioning out of traditional academia where the beans that get counted are high-impact, numerous pubs... just know that you have so many other skills that are highly valuable in other spaces! 🧪

Leatherback sea turtle in Japan found to have ingested plastic sheet 106 x 108 cm. Paper by Shota Deguchi et al. Copy available from [email protected] 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #seaturtle #marineturtle #oceanplastic #marineplastic #plasticpollution

“Scientists don’t know everything and have sometimes been wrong before” Does not mean “random nonsense you just thought of is as likely to be correct as something overwhelmingly endorsed by experts and supported by evidence and should be treated with as much respect.”

True crabs keep leaving the ocean to live intertidal, freshwater, and terrestrial lifestyles. It happened up to 17 times in the last 100 million years and may still be happening 🦀🧪 academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

Top predator status and trends: ecological implications, monitoring and mitigation strategies to promote ecosystem-based management. doi.org/10.3389/fmar... #MarineBiology #MarineEcology #TopPredators #MarineConservation #ocean #MarineScience

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

🌊 Nanoplastics disrupt krill’s #BlueCarbon role 🌊 Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) aid CO2 sequestration via faecal pellets (FPs). New research finds nanoplastics accelerate FP degradation, reducing carbon storage by up to 27%—a loss of ~5.5 metric tonnes per season. 👉 https://buff.ly/4eSLCmR

Excellent long read on the counter-intuitive ecology of land abandonment. "the old idea of humans as antithetical to nature is also wrong-headed, and that rosy visions of thriving, human-free environments are more imaginary than real." Humans are not the virus. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs and are rushing to publish their data on climate change before Trump silences them. NOAA collaborates with researchers around the world to understand coral bleaching, including on the Great Barrier Reef. cell.com/current-biol...

Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems? I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested! www.ices.dk/community/gr...

Scientists as political advocates "[...] as more and more scientists come under political attack, they are realizing that we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join the conversation on Marine Ecology here. Topics on monitoring, assessment, protection, conservation, restoration and management go.bsky.app/4PTX62K

You can support the Gaza Soup Kitchen in Chef Mahmoud's honour here

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

check this paper about crayfish based on newspaper news published in Spain along the 20th century www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Newspaper archives can inform our understanding of long-term change in marine ecosystems Sturgeon used to be caught regularly around the Welsh coast, but have now disappeared from living memory From recent research on century-scale change in fishes & fisheries tinyurl.com/4veee2vt

Wisdom's still alive, she's back at her breeding grounds! This season she'll turn at least 74 years old. 🎉🎊💃

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