Our scientists have explored the potential for mechanical devices to clear the ocean of litter and found that while they did trap fragments of plastic and other fibres, seaweed made up the majority of the items captured 🔗 plymouth.ac.uk/news/scientist…

Neat new paper reviewing what's known - and more importantly, what's not known - about the life history of estuarine/euryhaline #sharks and #rays to inform their management. @VinayUdyawer @spottedcatshark RIEL Charles Darwin University CSIRO Australian Institute of Marine Science link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥 🚨 New #sharkscience lead by Paul Butcher 👇 Researchers examined the short-term post-release movements & longer-term fate of #whitesharks after capture, #tagging, & release from #SMART drumlines in NSW. Full paper here ➡️ doi.org/10.3390/biolog…

The Important Shark and Ray Areas from the Western Indian Ocean region have been added to our e-atlas! A compendium is coming soon. View our e-atlas: sharkrayareas.org/e-atlas/ Learn more about us: sharkrayareas.org/about-isras/

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 🚨 New #sharkscience published in Fisheries Research led by Molly Grew Researchers assessed the efficacy of a rare-earth magnet (neodymium) to deter four benthic #elasmobranchs under laboratory conditions 🧲🦈 Full paper here ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.fish…

Wanna see what @spottedcatshark and I have been up to lately? Check out this write up on our threatened species bycatch mitigation project in partnership with Top End net fisheries: cdu.edu.au/news/uniting-i…

Last week I spoke to ABC News 24 about Charlotte the stingray, who has become pregnant with no male involvement in a North Carolina Aquarium. You can check out the entire interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=cfoGS7… Happy #FlatSharkFriday!

Here's another piece by Melissa BBC Wildlife I contributed to on everyone's (or at least my) favourite stingray right now - Charlotte in a North Carolina Aquarium - who's making waves after becoming pregnant with no males around. Happy #FlatSharkFriday! discoverwildlife.com/news/stingray-…

Ever wondered how stingrays produce their blue spots? Well wonder no longer Mason Dean has the answer in cool new #sharkscience - photonic glass. The little video is a great explainer. OceaniaSharks Elasmobranch Society

Answer Man's question is on Hendersonville's celebrity stingray, Charlotte. Why did she get herself pregnant? Joni Pin-Fitzsimmons Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons gives insight. blueridgenow.com/story/news/loc…

I am dying at this skit 😂 #CharlotteTheStingray

I’m really proud and happy about my PhD thesis “The missing link: exploring laterality and personality development in two fish species”which is finally online: research.rug.nl/en/publication… #laterality #personality #fish

PHD OPPORTUNITY: The Tropical Aquaculture Research team at UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast, with the Aus Govt, NT Fisheries, & Darwin Aquaculture Centre is recruiting a PhD to research larval biology and the effect of biocides on a biofouling oyster (Planostrea pestigris). usc.edu.au/study/scholars…

Friends working in bioacoustics - looking for suggestions of hydrophones for recording sounds made by fish 🎤🐟

New paper combines fatty acid and stable isotopes to provide greater detail and resolution of elasmobranch trophic ecology. Led by @ChloeNRoberts_ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

There is a major lack of microbial/music parody stickers. Thankfully I'm here to change that! pinkpetri.etsy.com

Whoa.. 🤯 We see the same thing all the time with stingray barbs in shark jaws/skulls. Sharks are so badass.

🚨New paper led by Jordan Matley & Natalie Klinard. We reviewed 149 acoustic, radio, satellite, and archival tagging studies + anecdotal accounts from 36 researchers to discuss the long-term effects of tagging aquatic animals with electronic transmitters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fa…

The end of silent predators: First cases of active sound production in batoids from the Mediterranean Sea and its potential implications buff.ly/3Y1MUVX

Big week for the Northern Shark and Ray Research Group @ ASFB #ASFB2024 Conference with Sam Amini's poster on critically endangered sawfish kinship, Julia Constance's talk on threatened river shark movements, and my talk on TEPS bycatch mitigation RIEL Charles Darwin University