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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order. www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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Penn to introduce changes to University discrimination policies, remove term ‘diversity’
The changes include the renaming of several statements, offices, and policies, and the elimination of terms including “diversity.”
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
NEW RESEARCH: Seamounts are a HUB for sharks! New research on seamounts off Ascension Island has found that there are 41 TIMES the amount of sharks there than in the open ocean, despite no increase in primary productivity. Read the full paper here - doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🦑🌊🦤🌍🌐🧪 #AcademicSky
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🎉CONGRATULATIONS🥂 to Lucy Westover on publishing her 🥇 paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Celebrating #ECR success is GREAT. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #fieldwork #experiment #predation #noise #mongooses #vigilance #behaviour #ECR #Masters #OpenAccess so please share: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Lucy Westover holding her Masters thesis.Dwarf mongoose photo used on front cover of journal.
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ASAB @asab.org · 11/02/2025
An amazing resource from @asabeducation.bsky.social ! These worksheets are fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬
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ASAB @asab.org · 11/02/2025
It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
100% endorse this. Also true at conferences etc
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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows | Open Biology
Migration is a widely observed phenomenon supported by morphological, physiological and behavioural traits that vary with season and sex in many species. Recently, the genetic components underpinning migration in the marmalade hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae)...
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Examining patterns of susceptibility across virus and host species - Evolution Letters | Editor's Blog
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 17/01/2025
Pericentromeric #heterochromatin clusters into chromocenters. @skrutlnize.bsky.social &co use quantitative mass spec to characterize the chromocenter proteome in multiple tissues, identifying a link between satellite DNA-binding proteins & #transposon repression🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4akuNAi
Loss of D1 during embryogenesis triggers transposon expression in adult ovaries. Top: Ovaries from the indicated genotypes (D1 and aubergine mutants and heterozygotes, F1 and F2) were stained with Vasa (green) and DAPI (magenta). Bottom: RNA in situ hybridization against Copia (green) and total polyadenylated mRNA (blue) was performed in ovaries of the indicated genotypes that were also stained for DAPI (magenta). Yellow and black arrowheads indicate undifferentiated germ cells in the aubergine mutant germarium.
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Allen J Moore @ajmoore.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Ecology and Evolution (the journal) is here!
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ASAB @asab.org · 17/01/2025
There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025 ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄

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2025 Asab SPRING MEETING Liverpool, UK
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Behaviour Kolkata India 2025 Aug 25-30
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 13/01/2025
🌍 Droughts to Worsen in the Arabian Peninsula A study projects severe droughts in the Arabian Peninsula by 2100, driven by evaporation rising 5x faster than rainfall. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪 #ClimateChange
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Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We are hiring! Looking for new editorial board members - 📚 Associate Editors x c.10 📚 Handling Editor x 1 📚 Commissioning Editor x1 More information and application procedure: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
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Anna Bowland @acbowland.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Thrilled to see our work covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol on the cover of the January TREE issue 🎉. Stunning photo by Cyril Ruoso. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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ASAB @asab.org · 09/01/2025
Congratulations to our #ASABWinter2024 video contest winner Snata Chakraborty 🏆🎥 See her video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJ-...
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Anchoring Bias in Web-shaking Behaviour of Spiders - by Snata Chakraborty
YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025! The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project. #Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪
Flier for PhD position. Text with a lab logo at the bottom with a cricket silhouette of a cricket with antenna that look like normal curves. Also has a picture of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) on a white background.
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Crickets! Behavior! 
Genetics! Statistics!

The Dochtermann Lab in the Department of  Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking to fill a PhD assistantship examining how selection has shaped phenotypic plasticity and patterns of genetic variance. 
The position will start Fall Semester 2025 and the
incoming student will be joining a dynamic department (www.ndsu.edu/biology) and an interdisciplinary graduate program that provides a broad foundation for success (www.ndsu.edu/ecs).

For more information about the lab visit www.neddochtermann.com

If interested, please contact me at ned.dochtermann@gmail.com with a brief synopsis of your research interests.

@neddochtermann.bsky.social
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Deadline approaching for PhD studentship with @kofanchen.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy & I (cosupervisor). Neat study done on immune genes affecting neural processes. Our goal is to look at sleep X immunity using wild & mutant flies with immune diffs! #Drosophila www.kofanchenlab.net/drosophila-s...
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Drosophila species
Individuals of a species need to allocate and perform vital behaviours such as searching for mate and food, and escaping from environmental threats along the 24 hours of a day. Locomotion serves as a ...
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 08/01/2025
If I get the times correctly, the WSJ announcement followed a meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC), during which it was confirmed that the new virus was causing the pneumonia. The meeting is reported in @daliyang.bsky.social's book, Wuhan. ▫️2/ books.google.fr/books?id=3wD...
screenshot of text: "On January 8, the NHC Expert Panel chaired by Xu Jianguo met to assess the laboratory results. The group concluded that the novel coronavirus as identified by the laboratories was the etiological agent causing the outbreak in Wuhan. The announcement of this conclusion came out the following day in the form of a bland Xinhua News Agency interview with Xu Jianguo."
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Nice work!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Humans are not 'drinking alone': alcohol consumption is not unique to humans and may have benefits - including nutritional, medicinal or cognitive - in other species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The evolutionary ecology of ethanol
The consumption of ethanol has frequently been seen as largely restricted to humans. Here, we take a broad eco-evolutionary approach to understanding …
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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Trish Moore @trishjmoore.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Join us at UGA Entomology! We are searching for an assistant professor in quantitative insect ecology. Applications due January 31. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/406...
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Assistant Professor: Quantitative Insect Ecologist
The Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for a tenure-track position (9 months) in quantitative insect ecology at the Assistant Professor rank.The position ...
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Krish Sanghvi @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Is low fecundity of old males a consequence of seminal fluid or sperm declines, or female post-mating responses? Our new paper in evolution letters finds some surprising answers! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Reproductive output of old males is limited by seminal fluid, not sperm number
What causes an old male to reproductively fail? Is it his sperm or seminal fluid? In fruit flies, old males produce fewer offspring than young males. But s
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James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Marine heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent. This incredible underwater time-series from Seychelles has taught us how coral reefs can respond to bleaching - including regime shifts, boom-bust cycles, and now, a regime reversal from algae -> coral. Out now in Ecology Letters! 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
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Tim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This looks interesting: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
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Three modes of evolution? Remarks on rates of evolution and time scaling
Abstract. Rates of evolution get smaller when they are measured over longer time intervals. As first shown by Gingerich, rates of morphological change meas
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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Resilience of Coastal Communities (ROCC) project bit.ly/3DicIGC, which includes ESI academics Dr Rachel Turner and Dr Tomas Chaigneau, has an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall exploring the resilience of Cornwall’s coastal communities. nmmc.co.uk/2024/02/exhi...
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Top paper! 🦭🦑🌎 #biologging #seals #telemetry @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Excited to announce a new preprint with Craig Walling and Loeske Kruuk!!! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... If you are interested in estimating genetic variation and maternal effects read on...
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Simple maternal effect animal models provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation
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Ken Norris @drunkennorris.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Wild and exciting PhD available. #birds, #ornithology, #museums, #science
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 17/12/2024
#Bioremediation using synthetic #microbiomes offers significant advantages over traditional single‐strain‐based approaches 🧫🦠. This Perspective outlines 5 important considerations for the rational design of pollutant‐degrading microbiomes for enhanced bioremediation: plos.io/3ZZbBEA
This figure describes the potential advantages of microbiome-based bioremediation compared with single-strain-based bioremediation, and details the 5 factors to consider when constructing synthetic microbiome for enhanced bioremediation.
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Julie Bremner @wormbotherer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
About 5 years in the making: (there really is) limited evidence on the impacts of #windfarms on #fisheries species. Wind is a solution to the climate crisis, but we also need food security. These are tough, complex choices and we need evidence to support them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14672979...
Image shows the amount of evidence available on windfarm impacts on fisheries for different types of species. The amount of evidence is represented by lines, with thicker lines meaning more evidence. Most of the lines are thin, signalling little available evidence; the most evidence was found for demersal and reef-associated roundfish.
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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Harmonic radar tags on fruitflies!! It won't be long until we're able to track flies on their longer distance migration routes!
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We have a PhD opportunity through @treesdla.bsky.social to work on adaptive constraints and the evolution of sexual dimorphism. The project can include experimentation and/or population genomics and is co-supervised by @aidaandres.bsky.social Details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/lim...
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The limits of sexual dimorphism: studying sexually antagonistic genetic variation in fruit flies | UCL Trees
Males and females of the same species often differ in their morphology, physiology and behaviour, reflecting the sexes’ reproductive roles. But while sexual dimorphism is ubiquitous, recent work has h...
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
PLEASE REPOST: The fantastic conservation journal Endangered Species Research with all articles fully #openaccess has just arrived @esr-ir.bsky.social on @bsky.app Please give it a follow. You wont regret it! www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #conservation #academicsky 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Day 8 of #BatMas: The Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)🦇🌎🧪 These bats are the largest bat in continental Africa, with wingspans up to 1 meter. Despite their size, they eat only fruit (mangoes, figs). Uniquely, the males produce loud honking vocalizations to attract females 📸: Sarah Olson
A bat held in a persons hand - the person is wear a thick leather white glove. The bat is pictured with it's right profile to the camera. The bat itself is grey with white tipped hairs. It has a carmel brown eye and brown ears.
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Day 10 of #BatMas: The Spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) 🦇🌎🧪 Unlike most bat species, this species is monogamous and both parents are thought to be involved in raising their offspring. They are carnivorous and eat birds, rodents, insects and sometimes and other bat species. 📸: Michael B. Kowalski
A dark brown bat held in a yellow gloved hand. The bat has its mouth slight ajar with its white teeth showing. The bat has massive ears and a large 'leaf' appendage on it's nose.
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Day 14 of #BatMas: Hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus)🦇🌎🧪 A very unique species to the order of Chiroptera, this species almost has no hairs on its body, except for some short, bristly hairs around its neck, front toes, and around the throat sac (of which produces a strong smell) 📸: Chi'en Lee
A bat ontop of a broken wooden log - the bat itself is hairless and dark brown. The right brofile of the entire bat is viewed
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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is fabulous! Have a look @lobsterlucy.bsky.social @vitaustin.bsky.social!
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University of Exeter CEC @uniexecec.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A highlight of studying with us is the fieldwork! In the second year students visit the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands a 2-hour sailing journey from the Cornish coast, renowned for their extraordinary climate that borders on the subtropical. youtu.be/xI1phDwZlKc?... #ExeterCEC 🌍🦤
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Ecology and Conservation Isles of Scilly field course
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.
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ASAB @asab.org · 13/12/2024
Have you been enjoying ASAB Winter? Don't want it to end? Well don't worry, the fun can continue this spring! Registration is open now. Come join us in Liverpool! #ASABWinter2024
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Dr. Sarah Signor @signor-molevol.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My graduate student shashank and I wrote this cool review on the evolution of transposon defense. Come for pirna cluster evolution stay for wild theories!
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Evolution of piRNA-guided defense against transposable elements
Transposable elements (TEs) shape every aspect of genome biology, influencing genome stability, size, and organismal fitness. Following the 2007 disco…
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ASAB @asab.org · 13/12/2024
ASAB will also be at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata, India, this summer (Aug 25-30). Abstract submission is currently open! #ASABWinter2024
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Please share widely!
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Alice Trevail @alicetrevail.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean! With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project 📍University of La Reunion Apply by Jan 15th #jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢 Well done team! Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0... 🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍 #AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
background image of a large sea turtle on land with a satellite tag attached to its carapace. green seaweed graphic surround the image. text reads: new paper. satellite tracking reveals critical habitats and migratory pathways for green and hawksbill turtles nesting in Montserrat, Eastern Caribbean. Wiggins, J. et al (2024), Endangered Species research. Logos at the bottom of the page for University of Exeter, Government of Montserrat and Marine Conservation Society. 
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01375
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