Global trade responses to shark finning regulations | Nature Communications

Global trade responses to shark finning regulations - Nature Communications

The study finds limited evidence that shark finning regulations alter global shark trade volumes. While overall effects are not significant, long-term trends suggest gradual trade shifts, including…

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Heads up, I'm looking for one, possibly 2 PhD candidates for amazing projects! lnkd.in/p/gCrd4UNm

Calling prospective PhD candidates! I'm pleased to announce that I'm looking for one and perhaps two PhD candidates. One will be involved with an ARC Linkage project on sea cucumbers across ...

Calling prospective PhD candidates! I'm pleased to announce that I'm looking for one and perhaps two PhD candidates. One will be involved with an ARC Linkage project on sea cucumbers across the Grea...

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We also built a free Shark & Ray MPA Explorer so researchers, managers, and conservationists can explore species-level MPA coverage for all 1,158 species. If you're interested in sharks and rays, take a look! tinyurl.com/SharkRayMPAExplorer @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social

Should the term 'personality trait' be really used in animal personality studies? With Sasha Dall and @dingemanselab.bsky.social we don't think so. We explain why in this commentary published in Animal Behaviour. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A reminder to everyone: while this year's number of shark incidents seems high, it's actually nowhere near the maximum NSW has had historically. In fact, for the last 5 years, shark bite rates have been similar to what they were 20 years ago.

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Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

How cool is that! 😮 First live in situ observations of the iconic goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) on a seamount near Jarvis Island in 2019 & on the slope of the Tonga Trench in 2024. Past observations are restricted to specimens hauled to the surface onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interesting! We also observed this behaviour in 2017 in French Polynesia! But we were not able to publish it. It means that this behaviour is widespread across oceans! See below our observation:

Emily Yeager@emilyyeager9.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking for some weird science to brighten your Monday? Check out our new paper on remora cloacal diving behavior in manta rays published today in Ecology and Evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#ESR « Vous nous avez "piqué" 500 millions en deux ans », le coup de gueule du PDG du CNRS devant le Sénat. www.challenges.fr/economie/vou...

« Vous nous avez "piqué" 500 millions en deux ans », le coup de gueule du PDG du CNRS devant le Sénat

« Je ne sais pas comment mon successeur va boucler le budget l’an prochain. » Devant les sénateurs, l’actuel PDG du CNRS est revenu sur les contraintes budgétaires imposées à l’institution, malgré une...

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The Journal of Fish Biology is publishing a Special Issue reflecting the theme of this year’s FSBI Symposium: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology! Now open for submissions, with papers to be made available as early view from acceptance. For further information, please visit: bit.ly/4trMdnD

Why can't we just get along with wild animals? Jennifer Green and Kaitlyn Gaynor introduce human–wildlife conflict in this Primer. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Human–wildlife conflict

Kaitlyn Gaynor and Jennifer Green introduce the many forms of conflict between humans and wild animals.

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What a cool science study! All in it is interesting: the biology, the methodology and the analyses.

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Extraordinary footage of a sperm whale birth shows coordinated help from family and non-family members for hours after birth, social behavior usually associated with primates www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

#Classement | Une reconnaissance mondiale pour l’Université de Montpellier au classement du TIME Magazine 2026 avec une 244e place mondiale. ecomnews.fr/news/occitan...

Occitanie : Une reconnaissance mondiale pour l’Université de Montpellier au classement du TIME Magazine 2026  - Ecomnews

Ce classement, développé par TIME Magazine en partenariat avec Statista R, vise à offrir une évaluation rigoureuse et contemporaine des universités du monde entier. Il repose sur des critères multidim...

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‪ #jpoUM 📅📣 J-12 | PORTES OUVERTES de l’Université de Montpellier 🗓️ Samedi 14 février 2026 📍 Tous les campus de l'UM 🎓 +600 diplômes, échanges, visites, conférences 👉 Orientation & masters au programme ! 🔗 + d'infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/journ...

Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Revealing the hidden patterns of shark and ray diversity over the past 145 million years

Gardiner et al. reconstruct the diversity of sharks and rays across the past 145 million years using deep learning and an extensive dataset. Their results unveil previously hidden patterns, including ...

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Sharks & rays are sentinels of ocean health. - Global abundance has been fished down by 65%, - Now 37.5% of species are threatened, - The current extinction rate is 25–250 times greater than the background fossil record, with greatest losses in tropical coastal seas. #BiodiversityTargets

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 ALERT | Only One Percent of Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Western Indian Ocean Are Fully Protected From Fishing Pressure. Read the full paper in Ecology and Evolution here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #shark #ray #chimaera #ISRA #publication #biodiversity #conservation

‼️New paper‼️ Social units of the Crozet killer whales are composed of both related & unrelated individuals, with an additive mortality event from the late 1990s leading unrelated individuals that survived to associate and join social units. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Une vidéo très complète avec le Collectif Les Argonautes dans laquelle on vous explique pourquoi un requin vivant est plus rentable à long terme qu'un requin mort. Illustrée par la réouverture de la pêche aux requins profonds aux Maldives (qui était un sanctuaire à requins). youtu.be/zmeGdN9JHOU?...

Un requin vaut-il plus mort ou vivant ? (avec Johann Mourier)

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One of the best project I have ever seen. I love this battle between the smart Oz cockatoos 🦜 and human 🚶‍♂️about bins 🚮! It seems that this arm race is unlimited and will give scientists work for a long time 😄 It also give me great souvenirs of my year spent in Sydney!

michael chimento@mchimento.bsky.social · 8mo ago

By combining observational and controlled assay data, we documented the knowledge of individual birds: who knows how to open bins, and who can defeat commonly found bin protections. Surprisingly, we found several birds able to defeat high-efficacy protections, such as locks,as seen in the vid above.

Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. “Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick. 🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w

Historic Victory for Sharks as Oceanic Whitetips Upgraded to Appendix I at CITES Banning International Trade

Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 27, 2025 – CITES CoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. The vote marks a major victory for one...

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🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now

ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.

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La bataille a fait rage entre méduses & requins. Quel vainqueur? Pour le savoir écoutez l’émission BIGBANG @franceinter.fr animée par @christophegalfard.bsky.social Méduses défendues par @billfrancois.bsky.social) & requins par moi-même, arbitré par Guillaume Nery www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Requin versus Méduse

Christophe Galfard reçoit Guillaume Néry, champion d'apnée , le biophysicien Bill François et Johann Mourier, biologiste pour un combat Requin VS Méduse.

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Shark SUPER-HABITATS : key for conservation! Habitats that include all critical activities of shark's life cycle: resting, feeding, cleaning, mating, parturition. news.fiu.edu/2025/super-h...

Super-habitats could hold key to shark conservation

Scientists have identified a super-habitat for reef sharks in Fakarava. The finding could have major implications for conservation.

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✨ Maria shared her research on leveraging ISRA declaration into conservation action: Common Guitarfish within the Murcia Eastern Coast case study #EEA2025

The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some fundamental differences between spatial and social dynamics. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 dependence in animal networks and reveal some...

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Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

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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Our paper made the cover of the journal Animal Conservation Shark feeding affects health and female reproductive investment in blacktip reef sharks from French Polynesia zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...