Plenary Session: Shifting cultures in elasmobranch conservation
🗓 Tuesday, 5 May
⏰ 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM
📍 Sirimavo Expo Centre, Hall A
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"Aerial view of PKW in the Prince Rivulet area in December 2017 nearly two years post-fire showing extensive presence of water with black sediment and flocculant covering areas of previously white sands (Photo: Rolan Eberhard)." - the image shows a hour glass shaped patch of dark water in the middle of the image, with lighter sand towards the bottom part of the patch and some patches of vegetation. Surrounding the water is fairly bright green vegetation.
New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Rare peat-bound karstic wetlands in Lutruwita/Tasmania—alkaline, groundwater-fed systems within acidic peatlands. Endemic flora + living stromatolites. Monitoring shows slow change but infilling risk. 🌱🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Your @ skills leave a lot to be desired
(A) Adult S. n.sp_BINA on D. auriculata, a close relative of D. peltata; (B) late instar nymph of S. n.sp_BINA; (C) early instar S. n.sp_BINA nymph on D. peltata; (D) late instar nymph of S. n.sp_BINA feeding on a captured cricket; (E) D. peltata; (F) D. binata leaf lamina. The figure shows 6 panels with close ups of sundew plants with the exception ob b a which does not have a sundew in the picture.
New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology:
Tiny sundew bugs dodge capture & steal prey from their carnivorous host plants & manage to appear when Drosera sundews are most sticky — timing their heists to peak prey capture. 🪰🌱🧪🌍
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For comparison, the longevity record for BTO (Ireland and UK) Common Ringed Plover is 21y 10m 12d (from ringing to latest report).
More longevity-records here:
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#ornithology
PhD opportunity at the University of the Sunshine Coast: Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics of Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in Southeast Queensland
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Dr Matt McMillan (DPI, Queensland)
Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion
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Im a natural history notes editor together with my friend Steph yeh
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(A) Adult S. n.sp_BINA on D. auriculata, a close relative of D. peltata; (B) late instar nymph of S. n.sp_BINA; (C) early instar S. n.sp_BINA nymph on D. peltata; (D) late instar nymph of S. n.sp_BINA feeding on a captured cricket; (E) D. peltata; (F) D. binata leaf lamina. The figure shows 6 panels with close ups of sundew plants with the exception ob b a which does not have a sundew in the picture.
New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology:
Tiny sundew bugs dodge capture & steal prey from their carnivorous host plants & manage to appear when Drosera sundews are most sticky — timing their heists to peak prey capture. 🪰🌱🧪🌍
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
The oldest known Two-banded Plover (Anarhynchus falklandicus), male 41X (D010111), photographed on 22 September 2022 while foraging at Playa Paraná, northern Chubut, Argentina (42.800° S, 64.936° W). Photo credit: Clément Berthelot. The image shows a ploved on a pebble substrate with a dark blurred background. The plover has a light red tag 41X on one leg
New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology:
Exceptional Longevity in a Neotropical Shorebird
A male Two-banded Plover (A. falklandicus) was resighted over nearly two decades at the same Patagonian beach.
🐦🪶🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
RV SVEA a large blue and white research vessel passes between two rocky headlands heading out to sea
Jobs thread - Lots of aquatic research related jobs open here at SLU Aqua Sweden right now (with a few bonus aquatic jobs in other departments). Around half are English language roles. Come and work with us🙂 1/n
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Check out my recent #JFB Editor's Choice: "Put it in reverse! Captivating deep-sea footage reveals the mysterious movements of abyssal fish", featuring some amazing footage: doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
It highlights a paper by Priede and Jamieson doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
Let's try this #AcademicSky
1 fav, 1 funny, strange, or unexpected scientific anecdote about a paper, a scientist, a fact, hoping that some will be new to you.
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Application Deadline: 26 March 2026 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
7/n Professor of Aquaculture with a focus on sustainable food production (English; Swedish expected within ~2 years ). Permanent position. Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Uppsala.
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ha darn it...ill have to delete. thanks for the heads up
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Aerial view of a city landscape featuring a modern building alongside historic architecture, with green parks and people walking along a riverbank under a partly cloudy sky.
8/n PhD student – interdisciplinary aquatic ecotoxicology (English required). Temporary PhD employment (4 years). Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies – Aquatic Ecology, Umeå.
Application Deadline: 26 March 2026
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RV SVEA a large blue and white research vessel passes between two rocky headlands heading out to sea
Jobs thread - Lots of aquatic research related jobs open here at SLU Aqua Sweden right now (with a few bonus aquatic jobs in other departments). Around half are English language roles. Come and work with us🙂 1/n
1/10 ⏰⏰ New stuff from me &
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! We show that sharks themselves might not be a natural group ... it depends on what spots in the genome you analyze!
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This is part a) of the papers figure with the caption "(a) Cephalotes atratus (Linnaeus, 1758) carrying a conspecific; Manu National Park, Peru (photo courtesy of Paul Bertner). (b) Aphantochilus rogersi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871, carrying a C. atratus corpse; Sani Lodge, Ecuador (photo courtesy of Sani Lodge, Coca, Ecuador). These images document observed instances of ant carrying in both the model and the spider and are provided to illustrate the configurations recorded, without implying that these represent consistent or typical orientations in either species." The images shows a black ant holding another smaller black ant over its head
This is part b) of the papers figure with the caption "(a) Cephalotes atratus (Linnaeus, 1758) carrying a conspecific; Manu National Park, Peru (photo courtesy of Paul Bertner). (b) Aphantochilus rogersi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871, carrying a C. atratus corpse; Sani Lodge, Ecuador (photo courtesy of Sani Lodge, Coca, Ecuador). These images document observed instances of ant carrying in both the model and the spider and are provided to illustrate the configurations recorded, without implying that these represent consistent or typical orientations in either species." The images shows a black crab spider holding a similar sized black ant over its head
New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology:
Ant-mimicking crab spiders may exploit social ant behaviour to safely prey on them.
The paper suggess that the Neotropical crab spider A. rogersi mimics nestmate transport. 🐜🕷️ 🧪🌍
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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