academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... 🧪🌎🦑🐠

Our new paper on fine-scale effects of offshore wind turbine foundations on demersal fish is OA in Marine Environmental Research. Part of the #OWEC #PrePARED project @drmjwitt.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @thecrownestate.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Small-scale fisheries account for 40% of global catch, providing 20% of micronutrient intakes for up to 2.3 billion people and livelihoods for 1 in 12 people. Huge effort involving @fao.org & 800 experts, out now in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A summary of our findings on the socioeconomic significance of the invasive West African giant land snail, in @natureecoevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... You can also check our findings published in Conservation Biology here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in reef tropicalisation for your PhD? Corals, fishes, molluscs, urchins, algae! We looking for applicants for a PhD project Deadline 8th Jan! UK and international ok. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/ada...

I haven't seen a conservation social sciences starter pack so I decided to make one #ConSocSci #MarSocSci I am sure that I have missed people... please help me identify more people to add and let me know if you'd like me to add you! go.bsky.app/AdXdpZd

Breaking the glass Latin America is a leader in nonprofit open-access journals. But it struggles to give them global visibility

🚨🚨Job Alert!🚨🚨 We are looking for a senior scientist to help my team at Global Fishing Watch drive impact. This is an opportunity to build relationships that apply our technology to help make change. Please share! job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalfishin...

New study in @science.org shows shark and ray populations have declined by 50% in 50 years - illustrated by gifs made by @sharkcolin.bsky.social. Link to paper and more info: bit.ly/SharkRLI

#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends 🧵1/20

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node...

This is such a fantastic resource amazingly led by Rima Jabado et al.! Happy to have played a very minor part as contributor to the chapter on São Tomé and Príncipe led by @gporrinos.bsky.social. Well done to the 353 contributors from over 110 countries! #OceanOptimism #Conservation

Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance? Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Check out our latest Exeter Marine starter pack! 🐟🐠🐡 This will get you connected with all of faculty who are currently on BlueSky. 🦑🧪🌍🌐🐢🦤 go.bsky.app/6nvmb3h marine conservation | marine science | marine academics

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Marine Spatial Science at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania, Australia). Closes 30 Nov (details in link below) 🐟🦑🧪 @utas.bsky.social careers.utas.edu.au/ci/en/job/50...

Evidence for MPAs links to human health discussed by Eddie Allison theconversation.com/how-the-stat...

Reef fishes most threatened by extinction (worldwide) receive less scientific and public attention! see our publication in Science Advances : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Let’s (re)balance our focus to protect all marine life !! and beyond ... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

The single largest source of microplastics in the ocean is road runoff pollution. Microplastics, mainly from car tyres, are washed off our roads into storm drains, into rivers, out to sea, every time it rains. 🧵

What can turtles tell us about noise in the ocean? In our new paper in Biological Conservation, leatherback 🐢 collect underwater sound data to map natural and human noise in the soundscape facing critical nesting beaches 🚢🔊 authors.elsevier.com/c/1k2~j1R~eW... @exetermarine.bsky.social

I've created a Marine Ecology feed that auto-curates posts with the hashtag #MarineEcology - like and follow if you're interested. bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you like marine mammals, check out this fantastic opportunity to do your #PhD with a fantastic team!!! 🐳🦭🐬🐙 #MarMam #MarineMammals

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

Fact sheet online about our €4.9 million project with Rare in Honduras 🇭🇳 ➡️https://tinyurl.com/5247wa34 Grant managed by @oceandreher.bsky.social

New paper co-authored by the Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Deng Palomares - Unveiling the hidden hands: Analysis of corporate ownership of industrial tuna fishing vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With support from the project #FISH4ACP, the Fisheries Directorate of #SãoTomé and #Príncipe is implementing smartphone questionnaires to collect fisheries data 🐟🦑🌍 Training and testing just finished and data collection will start soon!

Remote underwater video is a great non-invasive way of sampling the aquatic world. Here are some researchers using this method. Let me know if you want to be added #BRUVS #RUVS 🧪🌎🦑🦈🐟🐠 go.bsky.app/2HSH6Cg

A few interesting papers out lately on human-shark interactions: Reducing fisher-shark conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1... Counterillumination reduces bites www.cell.com/current-biol... Do individual sharks bite humans more than once? conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #shark

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #sharks #conservation #CITES #IUCN #fintrade #sustainability #science

Research at the University of Exeter is ranked amongst the world’s best! 🌍✨ According to the Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 2024, we are proud to be ranked 4th in the world for Ecology. Find out more: news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize... #ExeterMarine #AcademicRankings #ExeterCEC

Frontiers | Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound https://buff.ly/3ALfNyb 🦑🌎🧪🦈🐠

www.int-res.com/abstracts/es... Global status and research priorities for rhino rays 🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈

Our new paper shows that marine protected areas can benefit biodiversity even when bycatch species only partially overlap fisheries. Paper led by newly awarded PhD, Dr Phil Erm at Cambridge. 🌍https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.14595

Our new #OA paper is out! doi.org/10.1371/jour... Over two years, we deployed 400+ #BRUVS in the data-poor archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe, one of the countries most dependent on #fisheries in the world! This research was part of ongoing conservation actions aiming to establish MPAs 🦑🌍🐠

Our #BRUVS study in #SãoTomé and #Príncipe has just been published! This study is the first #BRUVS survey in this data-poor archipelago, with 400+ deployments in two years! Led by @gporrinos.bsky.social: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @exetercec.bsky.social @blueactionfund.org

NEW PAPER ALERT: We did a meta-analysis of all the MPA Guide analyses done to date and found: 1. We need to go beyond area targets 2. Standardized assessments help us understand global conservation better 3. Local context matters in understanding conservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢📢 New #PhD opportunity at Lancaster University: Pelagic – reef connectivity & coral reef functioning 🐟🐟🐟 Come work with me + amazing team @gobyone.bsky.social , @cbenkwitt.bsky.social , @nickajgraham.bsky.social UK students only - Deadline 30 Sept. www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/graduate...

My project on the identification of refugia from global warming in the eastern Mediterranean has been selected among those eligible for a fully funded three-year PhD position at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples.

I just came across this amazing figure comparing the degree to which exploited taxa are subject to harvest management and international trade regulation -- puts sharks 7 conifers in perspective as being under-manged nationally & internationally. 🦑🌍🐟🧪🦈 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Only 9 days left to apply for this #funded PhD! Join #ExeterCEC in this project aimed at improving capacity to sustainably manage Tristan da Cunha's fisheries w/ extended periods of fieldwork using tools such as BRUVS, eDNA + GIS 🐟 ➡️ exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social

Interested in spatial planning to accelerate shark conservation? Do you have a case study or lessons to share? Are you going to @scbmarine.bsky.social 's 7th International Marine Conservation Congress #IMCC7 Join our open symposium led by Dr Amanda Lombard & I. Abstract deadline 11th April.

Great to see Jasmine Somerville's paper published in Fish and Fisheries! ✨ Research aims to optimise bycatch-reduction with light, by considering how target & bycatch species view different coloured lights underwater through use of vision modelling 🙌 ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/faf.... #ExeterMarine 🧪🌍🌊

The 7th International Marine Conservation Congress #IMCC7 is now accepting abstracts! 🎣 Submit by April 11, 2024 to be considered. See the link below for the submission portal, and a complete list of themes! t.co/HrbZFbkVXY

The 7th International Marine Conservation Congress #IMCC7 is now accepting abstracts! 🌊 Submit by April 11, 2024 to be considered. See the link below for the submission portal, and a complete list of themes! t.co/HrbZFbkVXY

🧬🦈🌊 New study reveals the urgency of regulating the trade of sharks and rays in Brazil. A Meta-Analysis of all studies using DNA based methods to track trade of elasmobranchs identified 64 species being commercialized, being 83% threatened ones (IUCN). Check the key highlights:

It was great working with Harrison and team on this! So many interesting insights into what snakebite prevention measures might be more appropriate to reduce negative interactions, improving human health and snake conservation. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @exetercec.bsky.social

Protecting sea turtles... at whose cost? Conservation has wide-ranging social impacts - both positive and negative... and we must assess them and share lessons. New paper from Sara Vieira's PhD! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Beautiful summary by Victor Jiménez! @exetermarine.bsky.social

📢New📢It's not just in fashion.. Photos of #animals edited to enhance appealing traits lead to higher willingness to donate 🐾 But not everyone liked these edited photos and there are ethical implications to photo editing... #BeautyBias #Photoshop besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦑🐟 Excellent long form piece in Slate about fisheries management of forage fish like menhaden, bunker, anchovies, and sardines. Multiple examples given dramatic ecosystem effects. Article also discusses the difficulty of conserving low profile species.