Cuando la creatividad se pone al servicio de la salud, pasan cosas 🚀

#VeMásAllá, la campaña sobre vitíligo que desarrollamos junto a Incyte y ASPAVIT, ha sido premiada en los European Excellence Awards como Mejor campaña de contenido educativo y concienciación 👏🏼 

#EEA2025

🦈 A great time at the #EEA2025 (European Elasmobranch Association) conference!
Really great to catch up with colleagues and make new connections which will hopefully lead to some exciting collaborations in the near future!
Massive thanks to @eea2025.bsky.social for all of their hard work! 👏

My first time being Master of Ceremony and I actually enjoyed it! It was great being a part of the 'elasmocrew' for the #EEA2025. It's been a few intense days but I've learned so much and I've made many more connections! #sharkcommunity #connections #research #organisingcommittee

Thank you all so much for an amazing conference! Tag yourselves in the photo and can't wait to see you next year @sharks.international! #EEA2025

End of another great conference #EEA2025 - so much elasmo science across the whole spectrum in the last few days 🦈

🦈 Chiara researches population genomics and reveals low genetic differentiation and connectivity of shortfin mako shark between the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, highlighting the need for coordinated management and conservation efforts. #EEA2025 #pelagicsharks #populationgenomics

✨ Charlotte posts interesting work on social media concerning fisheries and marine policy, and posts regular updates regarding her career journey and research in fisheries science. Follow her on LinkedIn! #EEA2025

🌊 Lennert studies habitat use and connectivity of elusive European sharks using minimally invasive methods. Integrating citizen science, ecotourism, storytelling, and research expeditions to advance understanding and conservation of shark populations. #SharkResearch #OceanCollective #EEA2025

💡Ale's PhD project focuses on the use and design of molecular tools to aid conservation management of manta and devil rays. She shared insights into the global population connectivity patterns of two critically-endangered heavily-traded devil ray species #MantaTrust #EEA2025

✨ Ibon presents shark research and conservation in the Northern Adriatic! At the University of Padova we cooperate with fishers from Chioggia and the surrounding area striving for the long-term survival of the local shark and ray populations #unipd #dibiounipd #marinebiology #maiec #EEA2025

More fantastic presentations on the final day of #EEA2025 featuring Flapper Skate in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Citizen Science projects in 🇪🇸 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and coastal species of sharks around the Azores 🇵🇹
@eea2025.bsky.social

Great first visit at the European Elasmobranchs Association's Annual Science Conference in #Rotterdam #blijdorp talking about flapper skates #skatespotter #EEA2025

Great Eggcase Hunt Want to help shark and ray conservation? Take part in the Shark Trust Great Eggcase Hunt. Find and record eggcases that have washed up on the beach. Eggcase hunting is great fun for all ages!

Harriet Allen at #EEA2025

The great egg case hunt is a citizen science program where people find and report shark eggs on beaches.

54% of nursehound shark egg cases people found hatched.

Jaime Penadés-Suay at #EEA2025

SCUBA divers already take photos of sharks they see- can we use citizen science to learn from what they see?

So far, 7,000 observations of 65 species documented throughout the Mediterranean

Day 3 at #EEA2025 , great to hear from Steven Benjamins about the current status of Skatespotter, a flapper skate photo ID database I was briefly involved with in 2018/19 for my masters! One individual has been recaptured 28 times in 6 years!! 🤯 Very cool

Evaluating the potential of photo‐identification as a monitoring tool for flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius) Flapper skates (Dipturus intermedius) were once widespread in European shelf waters but are currently classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due t...

Steven Benjamins at #EEA2025 :

“SkateSpotter” works on flapper skates, Europe’s largest skate. They have unique spot patterns that can be used for individual photo ID.

2,700+ individuals in the database.

🧪🌎🦑🦈🐠

✨ Steven is a marine ecologist with an interest in how marine megafauna interacts with offshore infrastructure and fisheries. #offshorewind #marine #energy #cetaceans #elasmobranchs #bycatch #marineecology #EEA2025 @sbenjamins.bsky.social

🦈 The final day of #EEA2025 !
We started with some feedback from the breakout session workshops yesterday evening, and then had panel presentations and discussions about the role aquaria and anglers role in shark conservation

@eea2025.bsky.social

Great to hear the discussion on 'Unexpected Alliances' led by Renzo Elias which emphasised the collaborations between fishermen and zoos/aquaria #EEA2025

Lots of knowledge exchange at the breakout sessions yesterday with our largest session concerning the early-career researchers with 41 participants! #EEA2025

During the "Unintended Consequences" panel at #EEA2025 I discussed our paper led by @captbeth.bsky.social that found MPAs globally are:

1/4 unimplemented
1/3 poorly designed
2/3 remote (colonies)

www.americanprogress.org/article/beyo...

💡Sharks keep our oceans alive. Let’s keep them alive too! Follow Laura on instagram @_adri_shark_ #SharkConservation #ProtectOurOceans #SharkLove #EEA2025

This afternoon at #EEA2025 we had a great panel discussion about “Unintended consequences of Conservation Action”, followed by talks on conservation decision making, SMART drumlines, deep sea shark mortality, misidentification of commercially fished elasmos and more!
@eea2025.bsky.social

🌊 Studying the ecology and fishery interactions of the critically endangered blackchin guitarfish (Glaucostegus cemiculus) in Cyprus, integrating citizen science with research and turning local wisdom into conservation action #CitizenScience #Guitarfish #Cyprus #EEA2025

Daniel A. Gómez-Lobo at #EEA2025 :

1/4 of all rays in a French fish market were mislabeled, including 100% of individuals from one species.

About 2% of sharks were mislabeled.

✨ Andrej presented advanced research on trauma & injuries from fishing tools, post-capture survival, and reproduction—based on >37,000 examined elasmobranchs in Adriatic Sea (2022-2025) #EEA2025

🌊 Paolo’s research focuses on analysing and modelling shark catches using SMART drumlines in Australia with the aim of responding to management needs and fostering coexistence between humans and wildlife, while promoting shark conservation through scientifically based strategies #EEA2025 #sharksmart

Ali Hood at #EEA2025 :

Science has input into policy at the start of a discussion, but as the process moves forward, there are fewer and fewer scientists in the room, and more and more industry representatives.

@amandasodysseys.bsky.social at #EEA2025

Just 6 threatened species of sharks and rays have at least 10% of their range protected. Only 1/4 of sharks have at least 1% of their range protected.

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🦈🌊💡Diving deeper into management and policy during our sixth keynote panel where Irene Kingma led the discussion on ”Unintended Consequences” Experts highlighted the need for clear conservation goals while avoiding pitfalls in miscommunication and mis-steps in policy/management development #EEA2025