Today’s second #ASFB2025 plenary was from Madeline Green, who took us from her fishing-obsessed childhood to current research using molecular monitoring to help manage fisheries 🧬🎣 Madeline received the ASFB’s ERC International Travel Award, allowing her to visit Iceland to present her research ✈️

Western Australia's ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch - Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch

Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef

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My first-first author paper is out! We found that overall healing in sharks was comparable between sutured and non-sutured incisions. But sutured incisions had significantly more bacteria present. www.publish.csiro.au/wr/pdf/WR25009 Forever thankful to Jordan Matley & @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

Despite lots of work already being done, these aspects (movement, trophic interactions, and demographics) are often studied in isolation. But they are each a piece of the puzzle. Often times there are taxonomic biases in research. This doesn't even cover the rays! @natklinard.bsky.social

Sharks and rays can play many ecological roles (predators, prey, vectors, etc). The functional roles of individuals scale up depending on the ecological context. And there are many questions to consider @natklinard.bsky.social @johnwayne5.bsky.social

New Paper led by @natklinard.bsky.social We lay out a framework for assessing the ecological roles of reef sharks (but widely applicable) incorporating movement, trophic/community, and life history/population dynamics. w/@johnwayne5.bsky.social and A MacNeil doi.org/10.1111%2Fbr...

Defining ecological roles of sharks on coral reefs

Sharks have often been perceived to play a critical role in the dynamics of coral reef ecosystems globally. Yet, there is relatively little evidence to support this idea across all but a limited set ...

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Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn

Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn

As Senate establishes inquiry into the ‘human-mediated disaster’, a report is calling for more long-term action

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𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑎, a new cryptic species of Manta Ray, is described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. The existence of an undescribed manta ray species has been suggested for over 15 years and is now formally described. 🐟🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An integrative taxonomy investigation unravels a cryptic species of Mobula Rafinesque, 1810 (Mobulidae, Myliobatiformes), from the Atlantic Ocean - Environmental Biology of Fishes

Manta and devil rays comprise a vulnerable animal group with a complex nomenclatural history and a somewhat unresolved taxonomy. The existence of a putative undescribed species of manta ray in the Atl...

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A bit late but excited to share that I defended my PhD a couple of months ago and moved to Germany to start a postdoc at the GEOMAR Centre for Ocean Research Kiel working on creating a digital twin of animal movement in the North Sea using acoustic telemetry data as part of the DTOTrack project ☺️

Excited to have our recent review on the successes and challenges of integrating acoustic telemetry research into management within the Great Lakes selected as CJFAS’s Editor’s Choice article ☺️ check out the open access article at the link below!

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences@cjfas.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐ Editor's Choice ⭐ #AcousticTelemetry provides key insights into fish behaviour and movement, but challenges exist with integrating research and management in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Read the Review from @natklinard.bsky.social‬ et al ➡️ cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... 🐟 🧪

New #sharkscience led by Vinay Udyawer Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds... Amazing insights from fisher interviews about their changing interactions through time link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds of the Northern Territory, Australia - Maritime Studies

Through their time at sea professional fishers possess and obtain invaluable knowledge and insights into the behaviour, distribution, and abundance of both target and non-target species. Their observa...

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Thank you to @theglobeandmail.com for highlighting the uncertainties over Great Lakes research, not just in the US but also Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Uncertainty looms over research conference as U.S. science cuts and tariff tensions mount

Across the Great Lakes, researchers fear the Trump administration’s blunt orders to downsize government could endanger critical monitoring programs on both sides of the border

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International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance

Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans

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writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient

The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients

Abstract. It is common to present multiple adjusted effect estimates from a single model in a single table. For example, a table might show odds ratios for

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Seems like an opportune time to remind the world that evidence is important and should inform or be the basis for decisions of all types - health, social supports, education, the environment, etc. environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Environmental evidence in action: on the science and practice of evidence synthesis and evidence-based decision-making - Environmental Evidence

In civil society we expect that policy and management decisions will be made using the best available evidence. Yet, it is widely known that there are many barriers that limit the extent to which that...

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NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014

It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Learn more about control efforts for sea lampreys, which now face setbacks as federal staff cuts threaten progress — despite the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s recent announcement of lake trout’s full rebound: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/lake...

Lake trout recovery in Superior sign of lamprey removal success | Great Lakes Now

Learn more about control efforts for sea lampreys, crucial to lake trout recovery, which now face setbacks as federal staff cuts threaten progress, despite GLFC's recent announcement of lake trout's f...

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Spending $20M per year to protect a multibillion dollar fishery is obviously a wise investment - as is apparent to anyone whose intelligence has not been eroded by extremist political ideology. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...

Trump firings hit Great Lakes sea lamprey program, Michigan forestry workers | Great Lakes Now

Fish and wildlife officials tasked with holding back a species that would otherwise decimate the Great Lakes fishery were among those caught up in a mass purge of federal workers.

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Where giants roam: The importance of remote islands and seamount corridors to adult tiger sharks in the South Pacific Ocean 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper!📣Bio-logging is transforming our understanding of animal behaviour and environments. This paper, co-authored by our director of data operations, @jdpye.bsky.social, outlines a vision for creating dynamic digital archives through standardized data platforms: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Animal-borne electronic tags, or bio-loggers, are increasingly used for research and wildlife conservation. This Perspective discusses the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharin...

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TrackdAT is now updated to include all papers published through 2024, bringing us to a total of 2826 articles!! Check out the website to explore the new data and sign up to export it 🐟🦈📊

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends 🧵1/20

Hey #FishTrackers! This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025. Follow for updates!

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Abstract submission is now live for the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry. For all details regarding the conference, please check out the website at event.fourwaves.com/7thicft/pages

While most people who think about shark conservation think primarily about the global trade in shark fins, the global trade in shark meat is larger in volume and value, impacting different species and involving different markets.

The breadth of research topics has expanded, mirroring the inclusion of a greater diversity of species, and attention is being trained on the emerging threats and the accelerating global changes to aquatic ecosystems.

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node...

We’ve just pushed all publications until the end of October 2024 to the website, bringing us to over 2800 articles! 🥳

Come explore our interactive map of all published acoustic telemetry articles on the website (www.trackdat.org)!