Brilliant work by @divingwsharks.bsky.social and her team. Make sure you check out the full #open-access article to learn more: doi.org/10.3897/ibe....

An individual-based model of basking sharks in ireland

Basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) are largely solitary, following highly individualized migration routes, yet they exhibit poorly understood aggregation behaviors, ranging from pairs to groups of up...

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Dr. Chelsea Gray@divingwsharks.bsky.social · last wk.

New Publication: An individual-based model of basking sharks in Ireland! This paper has been a long time in the making, and I'm so proud to finally share it with the world!

Excited to share that we'll be presenting early results from our #NEOBLUE project at #IMARCO2026! 🦈🌊 #NEOBLUE: Monitoring newborn and juvenile blue sharks in coastal Galicia 📅 Thursday, just before the coffee break! ☕🦈 Thanks to the @saveourseas.bsky.social for making this project possible!

🚨 #NEOBLUE_NEWS 🚨 The second field season is underway, and we are already seeing blue sharks near the Ría de Vigo! 💙🦈 Thanks to @saveourseas.bsky.social for supporting this work! 🙏 The season is just getting started 👀👀 #Sharks #BRUVs #Elasmobranchs

⚠️ Vigo acollerá o VIII International Marine Connectivity Conference (iMarCo 2026), coordinado por Andreu Blanco, do CIM da UVigo.  ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/mychtwppou #SomosUVigo #XeraciónUVigo #MarcamosADiferenza

🦈 Excited to present at @sharks-int.bsky.social I’ll share part of my PhD work: Partitioned yet connected: spatial organisation of estuarine elasmobranchs revealed by integrated telemetry and BRUVs 📍 A-0345 | 4 May | 14:40–14:50 | Hall B Thanks to @saveourseas.bsky.social 🙌 #Sharks #Skates #Rays

I am delighted to announce that I will be presenting at @sharks-int.bsky.social 🦈 I am incredibly grateful to the @saveourseas.bsky.social for making this opportunity possible through the award of a Special #SOSFTravelGrant. I am truly honoured to have been selected and to receive this support.

Enhancing the natural history knowledge of elasmobranch species inhabiting the coasts of Galicia

Kenn Papadopoulo@elasmopoulo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 New publication out We report the first record of young-of-the-year smooth hammerhead(Sphyrna zygaena) in coastal waters of Galicia, northwest Spain 🔨 🦈 🦈 Read more: lnkd.in/e5Y66rkd Thank you to all the authors for their contributions 👏 #Sharks #YoungOfTheYear @csic.es @uvigo.bsky.social

Want to know more about the project?👀🦈 This video is made for you 😊

Save Our Seas Foundation@saveourseas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In a region of remarkable marine biodiversity, Kenn’s work focuses on understanding how sharks, skates and rays use the coastal waters of Galicia, north-western Spain. Read more about Kenn’s project here: saveourseas.com/project/neob... #saveourseasfoundation #SOSF2026Projects #Spain #NEOBLUE

Hailing from 23 countries around the world, our 2026 Small Grant recipients are a mix of young researchers, experienced conservationists, and change-makers. Together, they are taking action to achieve the change we need. Meet our 2026 Small Grant project leaders: saveourseas.com/building-a-b...

Honoured to have been selected as part of the 2026 Small Grant cohort 🌍🌊🦈

Save Our Seas Foundation@saveourseas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our cohort of 2026 Small Grant recipients are world-builders taking action to mould a fairer, healthier future for us all, a future in which people and the ocean thrive. Meet our 2026 Small Grant project leaders here: saveourseas.com/building-a-b...

📢 New publication out We report the first record of young-of-the-year smooth hammerhead(Sphyrna zygaena) in coastal waters of Galicia, northwest Spain 🔨 🦈 🦈 Read more: lnkd.in/e5Y66rkd Thank you to all the authors for their contributions 👏 #Sharks #YoungOfTheYear @csic.es @uvigo.bsky.social

Fieldwork plot twist ❗ ❗ When nobody told you the USS Enterprise would fly over your study area 🛸 T. marmorata incoming 🥞 🦈 💨 Science, but make it cinematic. #BRUV #BELAS #MarineScience #FieldworkMoments #FishOnCamera 🎥🐠 (listen with sound 🎼 )

📰 📰 Hot from the press ❗ We’re excited to share our new article documenting the northernmost record to date of the Senegal seabream (Diplodus bellottii). 🐟 🔗 Read the full article: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #BELAS #BRUVs @csic.es @uvigo.bsky.social

📣 Abstract decisions for Sharks International 2026 are now available! Authors can view the status of their abstract and confirm intent to present, by logging into their dashboard on the conference website (si2026.org).

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social

New paper out! 🦈🥞📡 Using 4 years of acoustic tracking on 179 undulate skates (Raja undulata), we show that fine-scale movement traits (activity + space use) vary consistently among individuals but don’t align with broader philopatry patterns.👀 Full paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Individual Variation in Philopatry Is Unrelated to Activity and Space Use in the Undulate Skate Raja undulata

Consistent individual variation in fine-scale movement traits is unrelated to movements occurring at larger spatio-temporal scales in undulate skates (Raja undulata).

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Another year 🦈👀 www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/k...

kenn_papadopoulo's 2025 iNaturalist Year in Review

Kenn Papadopoulo's highlights and stats from 2025 on iNaturalist

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#BELAS News❗❗ A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first blue shark in the wild! 🦈 That makes it species number 8 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing one more elusive species… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿 Tagging season never stops!! 💪 youtu.be/jmmILoVI9_c

First acoustic telemetry tagging of blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Ría de Vigo (Galicia, Spain)

YouTube video by Elasmopoulo

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Happy that my shark data contributed to this collaborative paper brilliantly led by @gfalbery.bsky.social on animal social networks. Out in @natecoevo.nature.com If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends). Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB

Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density...

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#BELAS❗❗ I hope you are going through your week like this small spotted catshark interacting with a sea lettuce 🦈 🥬 youtu.be/U35_d0I1sQM?... #BRUVS 🦈 🐟 🦀 🦞 More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀

Small spotted catshark interacting with sea lettuce (ulva) in the Ría de Vigo

YouTube video by Elasmopoulo

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#BELAS news‼️ Thrilled to see our project featured in #LaVozdeGalicia! 🦈✨ The article showcases the behaviour of sharks and rays in the Ría de Vigo, with a stunning underwater montage by #JoseIrisarriCastro 👏 www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo... #BRUVs 🦈🐟🦞🦀

Científicos descubren cómo se comportan los tiburones y las rayas en la ría de Vigo

El proyecto Belas desarrolla iniciativas para preservar los elasmobranquios, que son vitales para mantener el ecosistema costero. Ya han marcado 215 ejemplares de siete familias

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#BELAS News❗❗ We’re back in the blue! 🌊 Our third BRUV season has officially kicked off, and it’s already looking promising: 63 deployments ⛵ 73 hours of underwater footage 🎥 4 elasmobranch species spotted 🦈 More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀

#BELAS News❗❗ We would like to extend a big thank you to Biologging Solutions Inc. for their support and collaboration on this project. Your technology makes our research possible. 👏 Stay tuned, more to come from in and out of the Ría de Vigo! 🌊 🦈 🔗biologging-solutions.com #Biologging #LoggLawCAM

Always a pleasure to spend some time underwater 🦈🐙🎥 Galicia 🤿🤿

Beautiful video about Octopus vulgaris filmed in the Cies islands! 🐙🐙 #Cephalopods #Octopus www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmsm...

Así viven los pulpos en las Islas Cíes

YouTube video by JOSE IRISARRI

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Nice feature of the incredible work done by Jorge Urcera on octopus arm regeneration featured in @science.org! 🐙🐙 A bifurcated limb showing signs of autonomous behaviour. Another example of octopus complexity. #Cephalopods #Octopus @csic.es www.science.org/content/arti...

This octopus grew a ninth arm—which soon developed a mind of its own

Study highlights just how flexible cephalopod’s bodies are after injury and during recovery

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mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, 1–13. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays

Neglecting to consider mortalities can generate bias in telemetry studies. The R package mort identifies potential mortalities or expelled tags in passive telemetry arrays. Thresholds are derived fro...

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I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

I guess it is time to start writing 👀🦈🦈 si2026.org

🦈 Blotched Fantail Ray (Taeniurops meyeni) Interested in learning more about chondrichthyan research, management advances, and explore new opportunities for collaboration? Join us at the world’s largest shark, ray, and chimaera conference from 4-8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!