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Aaron B. Judah🔱 @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social · 6d

Great to team up with @cgmull.bsky.social @nickdulvy.bsky.social @britfinucci.bsky.social, Victoria and Jeff, to bring sharks, rays, and chimaeras to the larger discourse on deep-sea mining. This paper is also my first first-author publication and I am excited it could be this one!

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · May 30

It was a great day 😁

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · May 27

You can already pre-order on Amazon. I know you want to...

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · May 27

I've waited a decade to finally have the chance to work with this ghost #shark 👻🦈 legend. While we were geeking away on this giant beast, we also got word that the first and only Ghost Sharks of the World book finally has a released date. Coming to you January 2026!

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Jean Utzurrum @jean8rum.bsky.social · May 24

Remember that first global record of megamouth shark pups? It's finally published in a scientific journal! Read all about it here: doi.org/10.31398/tpjf

This study was partly supported by @mwwphilippines.bsky.social #AtingPating grants. Congratulations to the authors!

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · May 19

New #sharkscience from Cornelia Erk & stellar cast of ghost shark researchers.
Genetic diversity of American elephantfish showing "recent" arrival in South America. And as a bonus, relationship between the 3 Callorhinchus spp
doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
@britfinucci.bsky.social @iucnshark.bsky.social

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Mar 8

Nice one 😊

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · Mar 8

Sharktopus 🦈🐙 sighting. One of the more unusual things I’ve seen #shark #octopus #NewZealand #UniversityofAuckland newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/09/i...

In a summer of sharks, a sighting to top them all

From the University of Auckland – Comment: Sharks have been on our minds lately thanks to several publicised incidents. But what else is there to know about these amazing creatures?

newsroom.co.nz

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · Mar 6

Go @britfinucci.bsky.social

Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · Mar 6

What are the chances of a tag making its way back to a scientist from a deep sea shark?
Higher than one might think, demonstrated by the return of three tags to Brit Finucci and team following the tagging of gulper sharks off of New Zealand.
More below.
saveourseas.com/update/groun...

Ground truthing two degrees of separation in New Zealand with shark tagging

I received a message from a friend the other day. “Hey Brit, Mike found one of your tags”. I don’t know a Mike in New Zealand. But go Mike. Mike from Auckland found one of my tags washed up on a beach...

saveourseas.com

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Mar 7

Go TeamGulper

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Feb 28

Perhaps they were subtly sharing their true feelings for the person they named it after 🙃

Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · Feb 27

calling @britfinucci.bsky.social

Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · Feb 25

Why taxonomists so mean

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Jan 20

😂 there's been a lot of that lately too

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Jan 20

My new favourite game: Turtle or Not Turtle.

This game gets surprisingly difficult real fast when they're not at the surface.

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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Jan 2

New summary of 2 massive recent publications documenting the status and trends of sharks, rays, and chimaeras 🧪🦈🌎 @mongabay.bsky.social
news.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-...

news.mongabay.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Dec 16

I wrote about emerging threats to sharks for Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep... -Quotes @britfinucci.bsky.social

Deepwater Sharks Are Threatened by Demand for Liver Oil

One in seven species of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction because of the liver oil and meat trade and emerging fishing technologies that make it possible to catch deep-sea fishes

www.scientificamerican.com

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · Dec 16

Interesting new paper from the Manta Trust on the trade in mobulid products (especially gill plates). Despite CITES and CMS listings, fishing continues to threaten this iconic groups of rays.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#sharkconservation #sharkresearch #mobulids #CITES

Global assessment of manta and devil ray gill plate and meat trade: conservation implications and opportunities - Environmental Biology of Fishes

Due to overexploitation in fisheries partly driven by international trade demand, mobulid rays are among the most threatened of elasmobranch families. We conducted a global assessment of the state of ...

link.springer.com

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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Dec 5

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
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Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank

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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · Dec 2

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...

Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report

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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · Nov 27

The IUCN SSC SSG was established to respond to growing awareness and concern of the severe impact of fisheries on shark, ray, and chimaera populations globally. The SSG is recognized as the leading authority on the status of these species, using science to support actions for conservation.

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Nov 20

Save me some!

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CNN @cnn.com · Sep 25

Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.

New species of ghost shark discovered by New Zealand scientists | CNN

Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.

cnn.it

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · Mar 8

One in seven species (14%) of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction - and overfishing is the main reason theconversation.com/fished-for-t...

Fished for their meat and liver oil, many remarkable deep-water sharks and rays now face extinction

Long lifespans and slow reproduction rates make deep-water sharks and rays as vulnerable to overexploitation as whales once were. We must place them under protection to avoid extinctions.

theconversation.com

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Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Mar 8

That's just an ity bity one. Full grown is more like hand to elbow length (~75 cm)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 7

I gotta say that while everyone knows sandbar shark is #BestShark, I deeply and sincerely appreciate @britfinucci.bsky.social taking time out of what's gotta be one of the busiest days of her career to troll me personally.

I like roughsharks a lot, worry not.

Brit Finucci @britfinucci.bsky.social · Mar 7

#Bestshark made the cover of Science

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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