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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 5h

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 5h

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 3d

🥳 🤙🏼 that you now run so far & so fast!

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a great paper - thanks for getting it out into the world 🤙🏼🩵🦈

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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Dec 5

We urge the adoption of the Shark & Ray Red List Index to track progress on ocean conservation goals, like the Global Biodiversity Framework Target 5 & SDG 14.4. Accountability is key for preserving marine life!
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#GlobalGoals #UNGA #SDG
#SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDG
Please like & repost

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marinefreshwater.bsky.social @marinefreshwater.bsky.social · 5d

Calling all marine & freshwater sciences students 📣

@marinefreshwater.bsky.social has a new #StudentPrize!

The first winner will be announced in 2027 to allow time for submissions and nominations.

More details:
www.publish.csiro.au/mf/forauthor...

#MarineFreshwaterRes

CSIRO PUBLISHING

Awards and Prizes

www.publish.csiro.au

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 5d

🧪 Deep sea mining risks to sharks, rays & chimeras 👇🏻 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimeras

Judah et al. identify 30 species of chondrichthyans that overlap with proposed deep-sea mining activities, nearly two-thirds of which are already threatened with extinction. Precautionary management o...

www.cell.com

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 5d

!! Deep sea mining is not a benign activity. 🙏 for these thoughts about impact on deep sea elasmobranchs 🦈 - many already under pressure from fisheries 👇🏻 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimeras

Judah et al. identify 30 species of chondrichthyans that overlap with proposed deep-sea mining activities, nearly two-thirds of which are already threatened with extinction. Precautionary management o...

www.cell.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

www.nature.com

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Vox @vox.com · 7d

Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.

“We’re destroying the planet,” she said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC.

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

www.vox.com

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 7d

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Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?"

Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful."

— #JaneGoodall, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025

#ForeverInspiring #LegacyOfHope 🧪

The photo features Jane Goodall and infant chimpanzee Flint reach out to touch each other's hands. Flint was the first infant born at Gombe (Tanzania) after Jane arrived. With him, she had a great opportunity to study chimp development.

Photo source: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/jane-goodall/

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 7d

Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare

Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects

www.science.org

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was tenacious to ensure everyone knew the importance of all life on this planet. Now we need to keep going. Farewell to a remarkable woman ♥️

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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

From South America to Asia, seahorses vanish into trafficking pipeline news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from... 🧪🦑🌎🐠

From South America to Asia, seahorses vanish into trafficking pipeline

In June 2025, Ecuadorian police were summoned to the municipal bus terminal in Tulcán, in the northern province of Carchi, to investigate a suspicious package. Someone had reported a strong odor…

news.mongabay.com

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Emma Luck @emmaluck22.bsky.social · 12d

I am pleased to share our new review paper detailing killer whale interactions with commercial fisheries in Frontiers in Marine Science!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 12d

Wild map: all the places in the world where killer whales take fish from fishing activities, often right off hooks on lines

By @emmaluck22.bsky.social et al.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · 17d

🩵 the animations of the Hector’s #dolphins busy subsurface lives!

Ilias Foskolos @theclickitclick.bsky.social · 18d

Can Hector's dolphins 🐬 behave in ways that expose them in a higher bycatch risk?

@consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social
@aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social

#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation

Subsurface Behaviors of Hector's Dolphins Could Increase Their Risk of Bycatch

Hector's dolphins, endemic to New Zealand, suffer from bycatch in fishing gear. Fishing restrictions in inshore areas have reduced bycatch, although dolphins have been recorded outside these areas. W....

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ilias Foskolos @theclickitclick.bsky.social · 18d

Can Hector's dolphins 🐬 behave in ways that expose them in a higher bycatch risk?

@consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social
@aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social

#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation

Subsurface Behaviors of Hector's Dolphins Could Increase Their Risk of Bycatch

Hector's dolphins, endemic to New Zealand, suffer from bycatch in fishing gear. Fishing restrictions in inshore areas have reduced bycatch, although dolphins have been recorded outside these areas. W....

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 29d

This is now officially out with the new @currentbiology.bsky.social issue (current Current Biology issue 🙃).

@yaelbird.bsky.social
🧪🌎🐾🪶 #ornithology #conservation #movement_ecology

Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Aug 22

How are human-altered habitats affecting birds' migratory routes? And what is the role of age and wind conditions?

We tested this for an #endangered #Eagle

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🐾🧪🪶 @yaelbird.bsky.social @talavgar.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social
#conservation #ornithology

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · Sep 6

Here's something to develop a daily naturing habit - think Wordle but for birds.

Birdle 🇳🇿 07/09/2025

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

birdle.nz

Birdle New Zealand

Play and guess today's Birdle in 5 guesses. Learn about a new New Zealand bird every day.

birdle.nz

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is great - we a huge need in the #eDNA community to have data-informed standards for eDNA identity cutoffs, not just the bog-standard 97%
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
For Chordata there is no cutoff that leads to 0% error when assigning species!! (Table S4)

Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding

The identification of organisms in environmental samples using metabarcoding relies on factors such as taxonomic assignment methods, genetic markers, reference databases and confidence thresholds ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Please vote for the NZ Geo Photographer of the year
www.nzgeo.com/photography/.... Talent and devotion galore

Photographer of the Year 2025 — Finalists

These are the finest images of 2025. Now you be the judge—vote on your five favourites.

www.nzgeo.com

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Rochelle Constantine @rconstantine.bsky.social · Aug 30

😞 Often mirrored by movements of megafauna predators outside protected national waters into BBNJ where bycatch & hunting decimates vulnerable populations even further 😞

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 30

Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study

Fish and other marine organisms, though deeply affected by human activities, don’t respect human borders. The ranges of many commercially important species in fact straddle the borders of countries’…

news.mongabay.com

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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · Aug 13

Climate change is increasingly changing biological communities posing marine conservation challenges. Irvine et al. created a climate ecological disruption index that can inform conservation efforts to “build ecological resilience in a warming world” @consletters.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a paper about an index developed to predict the effects of climate-driven disruption in a network of marine protected areas along the eastern coast of Canada

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marinefreshwater.bsky.social @marinefreshwater.bsky.social · Aug 28

Marine & Freshwater Research is officially on bluesky! We’ll share peer-reviewed articles about ecology and management of aquatic environments, marine and freshwater.
Make sure to follow to stay up to date with latest articles!
#MarineFreshwaterRes
www.publish.csiro.au/mf

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Society for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social · Aug 26

New on conservation science:

Coexistence with large carnivores is a conservation challenge. Revisiting Volterra principle (more mortality on both prey and predators leads to more prey & fewer predators) can inform modern conservation strategies.

Boyce et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

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