Bex🌻
@rebekahflatt.bsky.social
Postgraduate researcher in Marine Sciences studying elasmobranchs at the University of Hull 🌊🤿🦈
Dog lover, bird enthusiast & plant fanatic 🐕🐦⬛🪴
Dog lover, bird enthusiast & plant fanatic 🐕🐦⬛🪴
New Paper!🦈🚨
I’m so excited to share this! We used underwater cameras to study sharks, skates and rays in Scotland. From 682 hours of footage we recorded 6 species, including the Critically Endangered flapper skate. Check out the paper below!
🔗: lnkd.in/emFKz5PP
#sharks #elasmobranchs #MarineLife
I’m so excited to share this! We used underwater cameras to study sharks, skates and rays in Scotland. From 682 hours of footage we recorded 6 species, including the Critically Endangered flapper skate. Check out the paper below!
🔗: lnkd.in/emFKz5PP
#sharks #elasmobranchs #MarineLife
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New Paper!🦈🚨
I’m so excited to share this! We used underwater cameras to study sharks, skates and rays in Scotland. From 682 hours of footage we recorded 6 species, including the Critically Endangered flapper skate. Check out the paper below!
🔗: lnkd.in/emFKz5PP
#sharks #elasmobranchs #MarineLife
I’m so excited to share this! We used underwater cameras to study sharks, skates and rays in Scotland. From 682 hours of footage we recorded 6 species, including the Critically Endangered flapper skate. Check out the paper below!
🔗: lnkd.in/emFKz5PP
#sharks #elasmobranchs #MarineLife
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October 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Can anyone ID these fish for me please? I’m thinking goby, blenny, goby, but I’m not sure! Found in rockpools at Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK 🐟🌊
#MarineLife 🦑 #fishidentification
#MarineLife 🦑 #fishidentification
September 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Can anyone ID these fish for me please? I’m thinking goby, blenny, goby, but I’m not sure! Found in rockpools at Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK 🐟🌊
#MarineLife 🦑 #fishidentification
#MarineLife 🦑 #fishidentification
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Inshore areas recognised for flapper skate and thornback rays | Shetland News
Inshore areas recognised for flapper skate and thornback rays
TWO INSHORE areas in Shetland are set to be awarded status as important shark and ray areas (ISRAs). Researchers at UHI Shetland led the submissions, for an...
www.shetnews.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Inshore areas recognised for flapper skate and thornback rays | Shetland News
Recently I’ve been volunteering with the Hull International Fisheries Institute for their tagging and electrofishing river surveys, and I’m really enjoying learning about the wildlife in our rivers and seeing some amazing fish species up close 🐟
August 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Recently I’ve been volunteering with the Hull International Fisheries Institute for their tagging and electrofishing river surveys, and I’m really enjoying learning about the wildlife in our rivers and seeing some amazing fish species up close 🐟
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I had an amazing time at the MBA’s @thembauk.bsky.social 21st Postgraduate Conference at Hull last month! 🫧🐟🌿
The presentations were fantastic and it was so nice to connect with fellow PGRs and to learn about their incredible research. Well done to the amazing team who organised this event! 🦈🪸🌊
The presentations were fantastic and it was so nice to connect with fellow PGRs and to learn about their incredible research. Well done to the amazing team who organised this event! 🦈🪸🌊
May 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I had an amazing time at the MBA’s @thembauk.bsky.social 21st Postgraduate Conference at Hull last month! 🫧🐟🌿
The presentations were fantastic and it was so nice to connect with fellow PGRs and to learn about their incredible research. Well done to the amazing team who organised this event! 🦈🪸🌊
The presentations were fantastic and it was so nice to connect with fellow PGRs and to learn about their incredible research. Well done to the amazing team who organised this event! 🦈🪸🌊
Unfortunately the great tits stopped returning to the nest a couple of weeks ago. I can only hope that they’re okay and built another nest elsewhere🤞🏻 I’ve missed seeing the chicks hatch and grow (like last year - below!) and just hope they’ll be back (or others) next year 😔🪹
May 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Unfortunately the great tits stopped returning to the nest a couple of weeks ago. I can only hope that they’re okay and built another nest elsewhere🤞🏻 I’ve missed seeing the chicks hatch and grow (like last year - below!) and just hope they’ll be back (or others) next year 😔🪹
We put up a bird house with a camera in our garden in 2021 and every year since we’ve had great tits come and nest in it, and it looks like they’re going to nest again this year! Looking forward to watching them raise their chicks and seeing (hopefully) all of them fledge 🤞🏻🐣 #birds #spring
March 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nice to see the little egret and marsh harrier again as well as some yellowhammers around the Humber today! 🐥🦅
February 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nice to see the little egret and marsh harrier again as well as some yellowhammers around the Humber today! 🐥🦅
Saw a little egret on today’s walk 😊
February 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Saw a little egret on today’s walk 😊
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❤️🩹🦈🩹New #physioshark paper 📑 out – “The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@shamildebaere.bsky.social & our team!
#sharks #Elasmobranch #SharkResearch #WoundHealing #SharkConservation #NeonatalSharks #SharkBiology
@shamildebaere.bsky.social & our team!
#sharks #Elasmobranch #SharkResearch #WoundHealing #SharkConservation #NeonatalSharks #SharkBiology
The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks
Elasmobranch fishes (i.e., sharks, skates, and rays) exhibit remarkable wound-healing capabilities and consistently maintain a high capacity for tissue regeneration throughout their lives. This high ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
❤️🩹🦈🩹New #physioshark paper 📑 out – “The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@shamildebaere.bsky.social & our team!
#sharks #Elasmobranch #SharkResearch #WoundHealing #SharkConservation #NeonatalSharks #SharkBiology
@shamildebaere.bsky.social & our team!
#sharks #Elasmobranch #SharkResearch #WoundHealing #SharkConservation #NeonatalSharks #SharkBiology
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A red Squid-shaped-squid playing with its food. Psychroteuthis glacialis is what we've been seeing, so maybe that? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 788 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
February 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A red Squid-shaped-squid playing with its food. Psychroteuthis glacialis is what we've been seeing, so maybe that? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 788 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
Spotted 2 buzzards soaring and 1 perched in a tree (?), a red kite flying over a farmer’s field, and a kestrel sat in a bush while on a drive to/from Beverley on Wednesday. Then saw a flock of common teal on the Humber (Brantingham Drain area) on Thursday which I’ve never ‘seen’ (or ID’d) before!🦅🦆🌅
February 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Spotted 2 buzzards soaring and 1 perched in a tree (?), a red kite flying over a farmer’s field, and a kestrel sat in a bush while on a drive to/from Beverley on Wednesday. Then saw a flock of common teal on the Humber (Brantingham Drain area) on Thursday which I’ve never ‘seen’ (or ID’d) before!🦅🦆🌅
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Success – an important win for nature! 🐝
Today, the UK Government made the only sensible choice - listening to the science and upholding the ban on neonicotinoids.
This pesticide doesn’t belong in our countryside. Farmers now need support to adopt nature-friendly alternatives.
Today, the UK Government made the only sensible choice - listening to the science and upholding the ban on neonicotinoids.
This pesticide doesn’t belong in our countryside. Farmers now need support to adopt nature-friendly alternatives.
Just 1 teaspoon of neonicotinoids can kill 1.25 BILLION bees.
Yesterday, over 1 million voices told the UK Government: stop allowing banned pesticides in our countryside.
DEFRA, it’s time to end ‘emergency’ use.
Protect pollinators vital to nature's recovery & our food security.
Yesterday, over 1 million voices told the UK Government: stop allowing banned pesticides in our countryside.
DEFRA, it’s time to end ‘emergency’ use.
Protect pollinators vital to nature's recovery & our food security.
January 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Success – an important win for nature! 🐝
Today, the UK Government made the only sensible choice - listening to the science and upholding the ban on neonicotinoids.
This pesticide doesn’t belong in our countryside. Farmers now need support to adopt nature-friendly alternatives.
Today, the UK Government made the only sensible choice - listening to the science and upholding the ban on neonicotinoids.
This pesticide doesn’t belong in our countryside. Farmers now need support to adopt nature-friendly alternatives.
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Yesterday, lots of people were asking me why I, an ocean conservation scientist, said “I support restricting where we use trawling gear, but I don’t support banning it everywhere.”
The answer is simple: humans need food and jobs.
Trawling hurts sensitive habitats
Don’t trawl there.
The answer is simple: humans need food and jobs.
Trawling hurts sensitive habitats
Don’t trawl there.
a man wearing a hat and a white tank top is standing in front of a body of water
ALT: a man wearing a hat and a white tank top is standing in front of a body of water
media.tenor.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday, lots of people were asking me why I, an ocean conservation scientist, said “I support restricting where we use trawling gear, but I don’t support banning it everywhere.”
The answer is simple: humans need food and jobs.
Trawling hurts sensitive habitats
Don’t trawl there.
The answer is simple: humans need food and jobs.
Trawling hurts sensitive habitats
Don’t trawl there.
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Garden birds are the BEST 😍🐦
This weekend is the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch 24-26 January.
We’ve seen lots of vibrant visitors to our feeders this #Winterwatch & some cheeky ones too! You can enjoy more incredible wildlife on Winterwatch! Tune in on BBC iPlayer
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature
This weekend is the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch 24-26 January.
We’ve seen lots of vibrant visitors to our feeders this #Winterwatch & some cheeky ones too! You can enjoy more incredible wildlife on Winterwatch! Tune in on BBC iPlayer
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature
January 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Garden birds are the BEST 😍🐦
This weekend is the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch 24-26 January.
We’ve seen lots of vibrant visitors to our feeders this #Winterwatch & some cheeky ones too! You can enjoy more incredible wildlife on Winterwatch! Tune in on BBC iPlayer
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature
This weekend is the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch 24-26 January.
We’ve seen lots of vibrant visitors to our feeders this #Winterwatch & some cheeky ones too! You can enjoy more incredible wildlife on Winterwatch! Tune in on BBC iPlayer
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature
Despite the weather we still saw 7 starlings, 3 wood pigeons, 3 house sparrows, 2 blue tits, 2 collared doves, and 1 crow for the #BigGardenBirdwatch🐦 More than I expected as the garden was mostly empty all day with the wind! This strange-looking bird was the most ‘exciting’ thing I saw all day…
January 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Despite the weather we still saw 7 starlings, 3 wood pigeons, 3 house sparrows, 2 blue tits, 2 collared doves, and 1 crow for the #BigGardenBirdwatch🐦 More than I expected as the garden was mostly empty all day with the wind! This strange-looking bird was the most ‘exciting’ thing I saw all day…
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🦑 #Nudibranchs! Even more! How many could I spend time shooting? Yea more than that. #Bohol #Philippines
January 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🦑 #Nudibranchs! Even more! How many could I spend time shooting? Yea more than that. #Bohol #Philippines
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One of my favourite graphite pencil drawings I've done of a great spotted woodpecker.
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #bird #birds #birdart #drawing #PencilArt #woodpecker #art #ArtWork
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #bird #birds #birdart #drawing #PencilArt #woodpecker #art #ArtWork
January 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
One of my favourite graphite pencil drawings I've done of a great spotted woodpecker.
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #bird #birds #birdart #drawing #PencilArt #woodpecker #art #ArtWork
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #bird #birds #birdart #drawing #PencilArt #woodpecker #art #ArtWork
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January 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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just met a weiner dog named beef so not EVERYTHING is awful just most things
January 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
just met a weiner dog named beef so not EVERYTHING is awful just most things
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New #sharkscience from @juliachaumel.bsky.social and @georgelauder.bsky.social showing that the tail of pelagic rays contain an extension of the lateral line system making it a giant hydrodynamic antenna. Fascinating stuff with implications for ecology.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A hydrodynamic antenna: novel lateral line system in the tail of myliobatid stingrays | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Eagle rays, cownose rays and manta rays (order Myliobatiformes) have a slender tail that can be longer than the animal’s body length, but its function and structure are unknown. Using histology, immunohistochemistry and three-dimensional imaging with ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
New #sharkscience from @juliachaumel.bsky.social and @georgelauder.bsky.social showing that the tail of pelagic rays contain an extension of the lateral line system making it a giant hydrodynamic antenna. Fascinating stuff with implications for ecology.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Spotted a male bullfinch in our garden today! I've only seen a bullfinch once before at a friend's house, and they were my grandad's favourite bird, so it felt extra special seeing one out of my bedroom window this afternoon. Hoping it returns for the Big Garden Birdwatch! 🐦🤞
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Spotted a male bullfinch in our garden today! I've only seen a bullfinch once before at a friend's house, and they were my grandad's favourite bird, so it felt extra special seeing one out of my bedroom window this afternoon. Hoping it returns for the Big Garden Birdwatch! 🐦🤞