🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...

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I made a starter pack of my fellow shark science and conservation professionals. There were about 350 of us on Twitter so we’ve got a ways to go, but many are here! Follow them and get more sharks in your feed, which I assume everyone wants. 🧪🌎🦑🦈

go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB

Great talk by Loéva Martin-Podevin on our project using AI to monitor recreational fishing facilities in NSW @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social #ASFB2024

Loéva Martin-Podevin showing us how AI can be used to survey recreational fishing in New South Wales. Really cool approach to a very complicated issue @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social #asfb2024

The Australian Society for Fish Biology is Australia's fish science community association (similar to AFS in the north America). They've recently migrated to Bluesky, give them a follow if you're interested in knowing what Australian fish science is doing!

@austsocfishbiol.bsky.social

Excellent little summary of my talk at @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social #ASFB2024 by the very talented @ninawootton.bsky.social

This is extraordinary behaviour of this smooth ray. Expelling its intestines violently to help get rid of anything it cannot pass. I shot this in Tasmania this year and we think it’s the first known documentation of this species doing this behaviour. Manta rays are known to do this. #marinelife

We've loved learning about the sharks and rays in the #NT! 🦈

Big week for the Northern Shark and Ray Research Group at @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social #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.

I am finding these starter packs useful for finding others with similar interests so here is another. Ping me if you work in the recreational fisheries science and management space and want to be added! #recreationalfisheries #angling #anglers #fisheriescience go.bsky.app/3UoUZkC

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

Here's another piece 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!

www.discoverwildlife.com/news/stingra...

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:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfoG...

Happy #FlatSharkFriday!

Take a look at this excellent showcase of the great work coming out of the RIEL at CDU. Excited to join this group recently and contribute to some awesome science not just in the NT but Australia-wide:
www.cdu.edu.au/files/2023-1...

Christmas came early for me in Darwin. Next year's Stick Figure Fish calendar featuring sharks and rays of the open ocean + bonus sticker pack 🙌

Conversations Under the Canopy: Aggregating Juvenile Mangrove Whiprays Actively Produce Sound doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

Our new gallery paper (linked to our recent pub showing some rays actively make sound) co-authored with JDE & @motherofrays.bsky.social & featuring stunning photos by Javier!

⚠️New paper alert⚠️ This one's a bit different-a photo gallery in The Bulletin of ESA linked to our recent discovery of rays actively making sound, feat. stunning photos of the chatty rays by J. Delgado Esteban & co-led by @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...