#AES25: Data further validate Glyph’s ability to enhance oral bioavailability & expand therapeutic reach w/ successful application of Glyph to another class of clinically validated molecules previously held back by limitations Glyph’s designed to solve. bit.ly/44K0BwW
"It's not a secret that this has been a special and challenging period, and something that we have not experienced before", says the Head of Greenland's Representation to the US to HNN.
#Greenland #Arctic #AES25 #USA
Greenland has made it clear that it is open for business, not for sale. “We will need to diversify and find investments, but the people of Greenland should have a stake in this,” says Greenlandic Member of Parliament Kuno Fencker.
#Greenland #AES25 #Arctic @tomdans.bsky.social #USA @folketinget.dk
A black, white, and orange tortoiseshell cat smiles blissfully as she gets head rubs.
Had an amazing time as always at #JMIH25 #AES25 meeting up with old friends, making new connections, getting ideas for future collaborative projects, and learning about all the cool 🦈 research.
Hope to be in New Orleans next year with everyone!
But my kitty is very happy to have me home now 😉
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From 3:30 to 4:00 (store close), the AES store is having a sale of 25% off!! Come get your last minute elasmoswag!
#AES25 #JMIH25 Can't count on MPAs solely to protect sharks, and need fishing management. Also, not all fishing effort data is available to everyone, so there is underestimation in calculations.
#AES25 #JMIH25 The silky sharks are hit by fishing pressures, so MPAs in the Galapagos were analyzed. Females use a wide expanse compared to males. 10 MPAs were analyzed. Not all MPAs are equal, though across the world.
#AES25 #JMIH25 ...more research would need to look at this latter data. However, we see large family groups. No kin are seen between the Bahamas and FL, showing distinct populations.
#AES25 #JMIH25 From genetic data on samples, there is low genetic diversity, and there was evidence of some parthenogenesis. Females can potentially reproduce annually, and there is evidence of full siblings in different cohorts, which could show remating or sperm storage
#AES25 #JMIH25 We are lacking abundance estimates from prior to the decline and after so we can accurately calculate what the requirements would be for the species to be considered recovered enough to be removed from the ESA eventually (if possible).
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Dom Swift looking at Assessing the recovery of the smalltooth sawfish based on genomics.
#AES25 #JMIH25 Not every area had positive detections, but Panama and Peru did. Others are running surveys in the east Pacific and Atlantic. eDNA is a useful tool which can be explored more
#AES25 #JMIH25 Two distinct lineages of largetooth Sawfish, one of which in Australia we know about, but not the east Pacific. Phillips and team collected eDNA samples in Panama, Colombia, and Peru
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Phillips has created species-specific Droplet Digital PCR assays to isolate for the DNA of the target.
It is cost-effective, not necessarily cheap, for presence and it's efficient.
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Of the threatened elasmobranchs, the rhino rays are the most threatened families, especially vulnerable to fishing pressures. To prevent extinction, there's a lot of components and work to be done, but first we need to know where they persist. Phillips is using eDNA
A sawfish sits on the bottom of an aquarium tank
A sandbar shark swims through an aquarium tank
An alligator gar in an aquarium
A bowmouth guitarfish in an aquarium
For those at #JMIH25 or #AES25, I can recommend a visit to the aquarium at the Mall of America if you still have time. Lots of cool elasmos and also cool freshwater fish (Gar for @solomonrdavid.bsky.social 😉)
#AES25 #JMIH25 Despite problems with effectiveness, scientists need to be careful because weakening current policies could be more harmful even if they aren't perfect.
#AES25 #JMIH25 ...others are lacking data or some species face other threats in addition, like bycatch and climate change.
we need other measures to help, but they can be trickier to implement for various reasons such as species-specific concerns and popularity of measures.
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in analyzing effectiveness, much depends on different factors like markets.
With retention bans, implementation is different including based on popularity of the species and other problems. in effectiveness, again it depends because some species are doing well...
#AES25 #JMIH25 Most bans focused on waste, not overfishing mortality despite scientists warning this was just the first step to shark fisheries management.
Easy to understand and popular with the public, these bans have been easy to implement.
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elasmobranch conservation is expanding, and retention and finning policies have been popular tools.
Recent criticism suggests finning bans don't reduce fishing mortality, so people claim they must not work. This policy began in the 1990s, and much of it is connected to overfishing
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Sonja Fordham Bans on Shark Retention and Finning Policy Considerations for Scientists
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Many also left Twitter because of Musk's attack on the science community and they don't want to support him. With recent conversations on ideological bubbles, no one complains about Twitter, and we're here to talk science, not politics, and it's better to be able to be safe.
#AES25 #JMIH25
A huge benefit is no algorithm and better harassment moderation tools.
Shiffman completed an online survey of science communicators on BlueSky that found similar demographics to science Twitter, but way better for all professional uses.
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beyond just anecdotal evidence, Shiffman has data. several alternatives emerged, and BlueSky has risen to the top. Altmetric data confirms engagement is better on bluesky for science.
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social media has become powerful for scientists and conservationists for various usage. Shiffman was an advocate and educator on how to do this with Twitter, but since Musk, everything sucks. It's not safe, spreads misinformation, and also, its no longer useful.
