Packing #sawfish outfits and jewelry for a week of events celebrating #InternationalSawfishDay! To find an event near you visit facebook.com/groups/9133500…

Celebrating the guardians of the sea's mysteries on International Sawfish Day! 🌊✨ Let's raise awareness and support the conservation of these remarkable creatures. Together, we can ensure their future in our oceans. 🦈💙 #InternationalSawfishDay #OceanConservation

The smalltooth sawfish is not a shark, but a type of ray…and you may not know that after taking a peep at its saw! Rather than having a barb near the tail like its relatives, this fish is equipped with a long saw, or rostrum, that is used for defense and feeding. They once

Interview with Adam Brame for #InternationalSawfishDay!

Always a blast to do Homeschool Day with Mississippi Aquarium! Today we celebrated a belated #InternationalSawfishDay with DNA activities and games! SawfishConservation Phillips Lab @ USM

Thrilled to share that I was selected for the #Fulbright Specialist Program to work with researchers & grad students Universidad de Santiago de Chile! Looking forward to this exchange focused on #shark #genomics, #conservation, & climate change. USM Arts & Sciences The Fulbright Program usm.edu/news/2023/rele…

Dear publishers a lot of people around the World can't afford open access fees. I know that 100 % OA sounds lovely but the switch means that submissions from non Europe/USA are going to disappear.

Breaking: the Javan Stingaree has become the first species of marine fish declared extinct in modern times. Learn more: cdu.edu.au/news/global-bi… Learn more: iucnredlist.org/species/60095/… Photo credit: Edda Aßel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

Hiring a postdoc to work on U.S. National Science Foundation-funded polyploid salamander genomics/evolution. ~$55k/year, 3 years, teaching opportunities built in. Start as early as May 2024. Great team of students + @Itgenm right now. See the PUI life. Indy is hugely underated. marian.peopleadmin.com/postings/2368

How do you assess #eDNA assay specificity when you cannot sample all closely related non-targets and there is taxonomic uncertainty? We try to tackle this in our most recent paper in Molecular Ecology Resources onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our study abroad class that I co-teach with Mac H. Alford!

Update on where we are: nature.com/articles/d4158… thank you one and all for getting the word out. We will be in touch very very soon if you signed up.

Our RNA transcriptome paper is here! Gene expression, evolution, & the genetics of electrosensing in the smalltooth #sawfish. USM Arts & Sciences NOAA U.S. Sawfish Recovery MyFWC Field Museum Univ of Florida onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

So, cownose rays are in Bermuda 🇧🇲 now! How did they get there, and what does it mean, ecologically? 🤔 Read more about this collaborative effort between Florida Atlantic Harbor Branch Phillips Lab @ USM BZS & NOAA Fisheries ➡️ #rayrevolution #Bermuda #Atlantic tinyurl.com/46c2rmzz

New paper out with Freshwater Fish & SARA - Sharks and Rays Australia on kinship of green #sawfish in Western Australia. #sawfishscience #sharkscience USM Arts & Sciences SawfishConservation

The SCS is excited to announce the 2024 Request for Proposals for a #Sawfishresearch and #Conservation Small Research Grant. Please see the attached document for the proposal information, submission instructions, and grant application form. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Celebrating International Sawfish day at #Mississippi Museum of Natural Science

🌟It’s Giving Tuesday!🌟A day dedicated to spreading kindness and making a difference. Help us make a difference for #sawfish with a donation to SCS. Every donation, big or small, makes a direct impact. Click here to donate: …ervationsociety.allyrafundraising.com. Thank you for your support!