📣 Absolutely delighted to announce that our paper “Monitoring a Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius) Egg-Laying Site in Loch Melfort, Scotland, by a Community Science Group” has today been published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine & F.W. Ecosystems!

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📢#JobOpportunity #WeAreSeeking a Marine Support Officer to deal with survey data management, MPA data dissemination, offshore seabed surveys & answering data queries. bit.ly/JNCCjob202613 Closing date: Sun 17 May 2026 #Marine

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Our latest jobs round-up has arrived! With opportunities for graduates and ECR's such as "Marine Restoration Assistant" and "Coastal Ecologist", we might have found a role to suit you.

Visit our LinkedIn to get the full details and links - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🦑🌍🧪🦤🌐🌊

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Happy publication day to Ryan Gregg for his new book

Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth
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NEW PAPER: Mesothermic fishes face high fuel demands & overheating risk in warming oceans - found scaling imbalance betwn heat prodn & loss esp. affecting large mesothermic fishes in warm waters
led by @tcddublin.bsky.social Nick Payne et al. @thembauk.bsky.social
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Fishers can complete what science misses Scientific surveys are essential for understanding how fisheries interact with marine ecosystems. Through research vessels, onboard observations, and long-term monitoring programmes, scientists have b...

By interviewing fishers, Ismet Saygu has identified a potential hotspot for juvenile guitarfish along Turkey’s coast. Read more about how fishers’ knowledge is helping to strengthen protection measures for the species in this region.
saveourseas.com/update/fishe...

Extraordinary footage of a sperm whale birth shows coordinated help from family and non-family members for hours after birth, social behavior usually associated with primates www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Try Prof Ryan Tucker Jones at Oregon?

Linking science, fishers’ knowledge and community action, Antika seeks to advance shark and ray conservation in East Java, Indonesia

Read more about Antika’s project here: saveourseas.com/project/wedg...

📷: Rainer von Brandis | © Save Our Seas Foundation

#SOSF2026Projects #Indonesia

I wasn't aware that Dr Seuss had drawn a sawfish

It is of similar accuracy to the ChatGPT-generated 'sawfish' I use in a tutorial on GenAI

Hello Walrus-spotters of Bluesky!

Meet Dr Hannah Cubaynes, who is leading the Walrus from Space citizen science counting project.

Help count here ➡️ geohive.vantor.com/walrus/login

Watch Hannah's talk about her (prize-winning) work tracking animals with satellites 👇
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Bluesky, we need your help to count walrus! 🦭

Previously on "Walrus from Space", volunteers like you sifted through around 500,000 satellite images to support our conservation research.

Now we're asking the you to help us count the walrus in those images 👀

➡️ geohive.vantor.com/walrus/login

I look forward to reading this @leafyhistory.bsky.social !
@projectfishistory.bsky.social

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Wow! Sawfish alert

A blue infographic with simplified illustrations of various sharks and rays centered around a killer whale. The infographic describes the results of a new paper.

I’m pleased to share our new paper in Scientific Data!

We compiled the first open-access, image-based dataset capturing diverse interactions between killer whales and elasmobranchs 🦈🐋 (orca emoji coming soon…)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fish folk - have you ever heard of old (18thC) name Mylwell or Melvell?🐟 @oceanspast.bsky.social @thefsbi.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social

Apparently sometimes applied to cod, but not in this context (as named alongside, along with ling, conger, hake and bream)

A colour illustration of the John Dory fish. The image is a side on view. The illustration is signed by William Yarrell

For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social prompt #EYAWildlife we have selected a watercolour illustration of a John Dory by William Yarrell. Yarrell authored 'A History of British Fishes' and it's believed these watercolours were used in preparation for the publication
📸 PYA1

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Two paid Marine Futures Internships in Bangor with the @northwaleswt.bsky.social
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/marine-...

For candidates who are passionate and enthusiastic about the seas, are willing to learn, organised, self-motivated, and can work well in a team.

On the edge of extinction: the silent struggle of the sharpnose guitarfish in Bangladesh My journey with this species began in early 2023, to uncover the secrets of its reproductive biology, the fishers perspectives, and the threats it faces. What I found was sobering — and urgent. Over a...

A sobering discovery breaks the surface of Bangladesh’s fish markets. Most of the female sharpnose guitarfish landed are not sexually mature, whilst juveniles and newborns make up a portion of the catch.
Find out how Durjoy Raha Antu is working to halt their demise.
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Buglife News: Love Your Pet, Not Pesticides: New Report Warns of Flea and Tick Treatment Threat to Rivers Read more of our latest news related to invertebrates, insects and bugs.

A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50

www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...

Population viability analysis of the critically endangered largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) in a data-limited region: Northern Bay of Bengal The Critically Endangered largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) is facing a severe decline globally, including in the Bay of Bengal. A local market for…

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Caught in the crosscurrents: fishers’ tales from the frontlines of sharpnose guitarfish decline In the golden light of dawn, the fishing boats return to shore at Cox’s Bazar and Kuakata — two bustling coastal towns in southern Bangladesh. As the nets are emptied and sorted, a haunting reality em...

In Bangladesh, a protected guitarfish is still being caught, landed and sold. Interviews with fishers and traders expose the forces driving its decline. More below in Durjoy Raha Antu’s second blog.
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Aren't limpets primarily intertidal, and on the rocky shore? Neither good for fossilisation

This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.

Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G

Why Reproductive Biology Holds the Key to Saving Elasmobranchs in the Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is rich with marine biodiversity. Among them are elasmobranchs like sharks, rays, and skates, species that have existed for millions of years. Yet today, their future hangs in the ba...

In the Bay of Bengal, Durjoy Raha Antu and team are studying the breeding cycles of endangered sharpnose guitarfish to inform protections. But change also depends on coastal communities, whose knowledge and livelihoods are central to lasting protection.
saveourseas.com/update/why-r...

Fantastical fishes from the 1700s, Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural History Rare Books YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

While the French were establishing a settlement in New Orleans and Blackbeard was killed off the Outer Banks of NC in 1718, a printer and bookseller in Amsterdam was producing a wondrous book on Indonesian fishes of which only 16 known copies survive today. 🐠 #SciArt

Figure showing photgraphs of three seabird species (Atlantic Puffin, Sooty Shearwater and Eider Duck) plus illustration of new paper, a hand collecting seabird eggs and text reading: 'intentional take of seabirds for human consumption'

🚨New global review and next steps🚨

Intentional take of #seabirds for human consumption is happening in at least 56 countries and affects >100 migratory species. Data on sustainability, population impacts, and human health risks are often missing.

Read more: ➡️ tinyurl.com/ypbadzyr

#BLScience