Should the term 'personality trait' be really used in animal personality studies? With Sasha Dall and @dingemanselab.bsky.social we don't think so. We explain why in this commentary published in Animal Behaviour. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A reminder to everyone: while this year's number of shark incidents seems high, it's actually nowhere near the maximum NSW has had historically. In fact, for the last 5 years, shark bite rates have been similar to what they were 20 years ago.

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How cool is that! 😮 First live in situ observations of the iconic goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) on a seamount near Jarvis Island in 2019 & on the slope of the Tonga Trench in 2024. Past observations are restricted to specimens hauled to the surface onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interesting! We also observed this behaviour in 2017 in French Polynesia! But we were not able to publish it. It means that this behaviour is widespread across oceans! See below our observation:

#ESR « Vous nous avez "piqué" 500 millions en deux ans », le coup de gueule du PDG du CNRS devant le Sénat. www.challenges.fr/economie/vou...

The Journal of Fish Biology is publishing a Special Issue reflecting the theme of this year’s FSBI Symposium: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology! Now open for submissions, with papers to be made available as early view from acceptance. For further information, please visit: bit.ly/4trMdnD

Why can't we just get along with wild animals? Jennifer Green and Kaitlyn Gaynor introduce human–wildlife conflict in this Primer. www.cell.com/current-biol...

What a cool science study! All in it is interesting: the biology, the methodology and the analyses.

#Classement | Une reconnaissance mondiale pour l’Université de Montpellier au classement du TIME Magazine 2026 avec une 244e place mondiale. ecomnews.fr/news/occitan...

‪ #jpoUM 📅📣 J-12 | PORTES OUVERTES de l’Université de Montpellier 🗓️ Samedi 14 février 2026 📍 Tous les campus de l'UM 🎓 +600 diplômes, échanges, visites, conférences 👉 Orientation & masters au programme ! 🔗 + d'infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/journ...

Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Sharks & rays are sentinels of ocean health. - Global abundance has been fished down by 65%, - Now 37.5% of species are threatened, - The current extinction rate is 25–250 times greater than the background fossil record, with greatest losses in tropical coastal seas. #BiodiversityTargets

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

NEW PAPER ALERT | Only One Percent of Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Western Indian Ocean Are Fully Protected From Fishing Pressure. Read the full paper in Ecology and Evolution here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #shark #ray #chimaera #ISRA #publication #biodiversity #conservation

‼️New paper‼️ Social units of the Crozet killer whales are composed of both related & unrelated individuals, with an additive mortality event from the late 1990s leading unrelated individuals that survived to associate and join social units. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Une vidéo très complète avec le Collectif Les Argonautes dans laquelle on vous explique pourquoi un requin vivant est plus rentable à long terme qu'un requin mort. Illustrée par la réouverture de la pêche aux requins profonds aux Maldives (qui était un sanctuaire à requins). youtu.be/zmeGdN9JHOU?...

One of the best project I have ever seen. I love this battle between the smart Oz cockatoos 🦜 and human 🚶‍♂️about bins 🚮! It seems that this arm race is unlimited and will give scientists work for a long time 😄 It also give me great souvenirs of my year spent in Sydney!

Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. “Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick. 🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

La bataille a fait rage entre méduses & requins. Quel vainqueur? Pour le savoir écoutez l’émission BIGBANG @franceinter.fr animée par @christophegalfard.bsky.social Méduses défendues par @billfrancois.bsky.social) & requins par moi-même, arbitré par Guillaume Nery www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Shark SUPER-HABITATS : key for conservation! Habitats that include all critical activities of shark's life cycle: resting, feeding, cleaning, mating, parturition. news.fiu.edu/2025/super-h...

✨ Maria shared her research on leveraging ISRA declaration into conservation action: Common Guitarfish within the Murcia Eastern Coast case study #EEA2025

The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some fundamental differences between spatial and social dynamics. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

Happy that my shark data contributed to this collaborative paper brilliantly led by @gfalbery.bsky.social on animal social networks. Out in @natecoevo.nature.com If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends). Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB

Our paper made the cover of the journal Animal Conservation Shark feeding affects health and female reproductive investment in blacktip reef sharks from French Polynesia zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs. 🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶 Access the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

‼️ New important shark paper 🦈 We demonstrate that all critical life stages (resting, feeding, being cleaned, mating & giving birth) can occur in the small Fakarava channel & we define it as a “super habitat” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

NEW PAPER ALERT | Important Shark and Ray Areas can inform conservation planning in the Mediterranean and Black Seas Read the full paper in the journal iScience here: doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #shark #ray #chimaera #research #marine #conservation #ISRA Thanks to the Shark Conservation Fund

New paper in Ecology & Evolution: analysed 187 species of rays & skates to explore patterns of sexual size dimorphism. Turns out SSD in rays doesn’t follow the same rules as in sharks. ❓Differences in reproductive strategies❓ 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #SharkScience #Evolution #MarineBiology

Warming oceans a turn-off for female Critically Endangered sharks www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/warming...

This paper from Israeli colleagues documents a recent fatal shark bite and provides management recommendations to reduce the chance of this happening in the future. I don't think I've ever seen a paper completed and published so soon after something happens. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Little science art using my Wacom palette and software Krita This is a painted comber (Serranus scriba) from the Mediterranean Sea

Have you used fish telemetry in your research? @cjfas.bsky.social is accepting submissions on how telemetry is being applied to support conservation and management in aquatic ecosystems. This includes work from @icft2025.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/Y2FTYRL

Check out the editorial for the Special Issue: "Advances in telemetry approaches and technologies applied to fish ecology and management", which sets the scene and rational for this exciting collection of papers. doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... Authors: J. Mourier, T. Murray, R. Lennox, K. Birnie-Gauvin

Invité ce matin sur le plateau de Télématin sur France 2 pour parler requins bien sûr ! Une opportunité d’évoquer les 50 ans des dents de la mer et de promouvoir mon livre. www.dailymotion.com/video/x9lt3qy

Successful fieldtrip as part of the NETFISH project & A. Laurioux's PhD thesis with the tagging & release of 93 tiny coastal Mediterranean fishes (min=8.5cm) in 4 days with @lotektelemetry.bsky.social high resolution acoustic positioning system @umontpellier.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social

New paper! We review how to use AI to analyze animal borne camera tag footage. Important with how large these datasets are getting! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tonic immobility in cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes): function, evolutionary history, and future directions 🦑🧪🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A l'occasion de la Conférence sur l'océan #UNOC3, je vous embarque pour @franceinfo.fr dans les profondeurs de la réserve marine protégée de Cerbère-Banyuls, véritable "modèle à suivre", note @joachimclaudet.bsky.social www.franceinfo.fr/environnemen...

Just back from the field for the start of our new project NETFISH using @lotektelemetry.bsky.social high-resolution telemetry to track small coastal fishes of the Mediterranean including damselfish. We deployed an array of receivers and next week we will be back for tagging ~100 fishes. More soon...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

The event will present the Coalition’s vision, key action pillars, and examples of national efforts already underway — and will provide a platform for endorsements. Learn more: www.haltsharkrayextinction.org #UNOC3 #OceanDecade #Sharks #Rays #Biodiversity #MarineConservation

New paper in @asab.org ! With both social & diffusion models, we assess the role of social transmission in the acquisition of depredation by social units of killer whales, as well as the extent to which social units engaged in this behaviour once acquired. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Special Issue on fish telemetry is finally published in Journal of Fish Biology @thefsbi.bsky.social including 28 papers on freshwater & marine fish movement & behaviour. Thank all authors and guest editors Taryn Murray, Robert Lennox & Kim Birnie-Gauvin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10958649...

New paper in Nature Ocean Sustainability! 🦈Sharks are among the most threatened vertebrates – our study maps research priorities + gaps to guide conservation action. Let’s do better for sharks. 🔗📄https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-025-00131-8 #Sharks #Conservation

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Great to see our new paper on increasing experimental approaches in movement ecology out today in @camphilsoc.bsky.social! Conceived at a Gordon Research Conference and brilliantly led by Whitney Hansen 🐟🦌📡 @jack-brand.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...