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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today on the @scifri.bsky.social podcast, hear @drcatmac.bsky.social tell the SHOCKING TRUTH about Megalodon!!! Plus, a remora's er, um ..'cloacal diving.' And other fun stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time

Podcast Episode · Science Friday · July 28 · 18m

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Carylanne Joubert Maier @carylanneejmaier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#JMIH26 #AES26 Gruber Award Presentation time! John Hlavin's Niche-shift reconstruction and ontogenetic shifts.

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Carylanne Joubert Maier @carylanneejmaier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#JMIH26 #AES26 Emily Yeager looking at sharks, specifcally lemons, as mobile ecosytems for teleost assemblages.

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Carylanne Joubert Maier @carylanneejmaier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#JMIH26 #AES26 Julia Saltzman is exploring how changes in satellite telemetry systems affects scientists' inferences about shark movement and habitat use.

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Dr. John Hlavin @marinebiojohn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚨NEW🐠PAPER🚨 The fine-scale ecological data needed to identify marine nurseries are a luxury not affordable across all management or conservation contexts. Here we propose a decision-based tool to facilitate precautionary nursery identification and management! Open access! doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

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Frontiers | A decision tree to guide precautionary and adaptive tiering in marine nursery identification and management

Many marine species depend on nurseries during early life stages to promote growth and increase survival to maturity, supporting stock replenishment and stab...

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Dr. John Hlavin @marinebiojohn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

⚠️NO WAKE SCROLL ZONE⚠️ 🚤Proceed reading at idle speed⛴️ New meta-analysis from @juliasaltzman.bsky.social untangles the effects of vessel disturbance on marine megafauna, published open access in npj Ocean Sustainability! doi.org/10.1038/s441...

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Charting the course for management: a global analysis of effects of vessels on marine megafauna - npj Ocean Sustainability

npj Ocean Sustainability - Charting the course for management: a global analysis of effects of vessels on marine megafauna

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Dr. John Hlavin @marinebiojohn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🚨NEW 🐟 PAPER 🚨 On this episode of unusual animal friends… @juliasaltzman.bsky.social was in the right place at the right time to record and generate an ethogram of a stingray-cobia pair, an interaction fishers have relied on to find and sight-fish for cobia! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Behavioral Evidence of Predator–Predator Commensalism: Cobia Track and Feed on Prey Disturbed by Southern Stingrays

We documented a novel predator–predator commensal foraging interaction between cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and a southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) in a shallow coastal habitat of Biscayne Bay, ...

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George Lauder @georgelauder.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What is the function of the elongate tail in elasmobranch #rays? A 🧵 and a new hypothesis. A paper with @juliachaumel.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B (shorturl.at/PmfYD) shows that the tail of cownose rays (and a few other species studied so far) has an elaborate lateral line.

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Julia Saltzman @juliasaltzman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I am excited to share our paper out in Journal of Fish Biology which describes an aggregation of Atlantic tarpon which may be of potential reproductive or migratory significance off Miami Beach! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @drcatmac.bsky.social

Title of paper and photo of tarpon aggregation. “The Silver King in the Magic City:
Observation of Atlantic Tarpon Megalops atlanticus Aggregation off Miami, FL
Julia Saltzman, Cliff Hawkins, & Catherine Macdonald”

Graph of behaviors documented in study and text which says Using drones, we observed 182 Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) in a large aggregation off
Miami Beach, FL!
•The behaviors of the tarpon observed may suggest courtship, pre-spawning, or pre-migration activity.

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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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

Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank

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Julia Saltzman @juliasaltzman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi! I’m Julia- in my current life I wear two hats. 🧢I work in development at a non-profit environmental law firm focused on the conservation of the historic Everglades ecosystem. 🧢I work as a research assistant. I primarily use quantitative tools for conservation of marine megafauna.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Baby Shark Sighting Misrepresented in Media Coverage | by me for American Scientist buff.ly/4fLgeYd Earlier this year, media reports claimed that a baby great white shark was seen for the first time ever, which i…

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Baby Shark Sighting Misrepresented in Media Coverage

A photograph of a small great white shark made headlines, but for the wrong reasons. The coolest aspect of the study was missed.

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

ICCAT again does NOT implement best practice "Fins Naturally Attached" rules thanks to just 2 of its members blocking widely supported efforts to get the measure implemented. Some other shark measures were adopted. Details in the link www.sharkleague.org/2024/11/18/u... #sharkconservation #shark

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Unprecedented International Effort to Prevent Shark Finning Blocked by Japan & China - Shark League for the Atlantic and Mediterranean

ICCAT meeting ends in dramatic defeat of proposal to end at-sea fin removal while other shark safeguards advance Limassol, Cyprus. November 18, 2024. This year’s meeting of the International Commissio...

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Matt Crespi @mattcrespi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Skype a Scientist is a far-reaching program that can send a friendly inspiring scientist into any classroom w/an internet connection. It can go where local budgets have been cut, textbooks censored, or schoolboards coopted. If you'd like a cool bureaucracy-free org to support in trying times...👇

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Enjoy some Bluesky positive vibes (sound on👍) from these juvenile Lake Sturgeon @garlab.bsky.social!

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Julia Saltzman @juliasaltzman.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I am excited to share my latest paper, published today in Marine Ecology Progress Series. This work is part of my masters thesis with @eastonwhite.bsky.social ! Find the paper here or DM me for a PDF: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

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Julia Saltzman @juliasaltzman.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

when the proofs finally come for a manuscript that is years in the making 🥹🥹🥹

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

My field is 60%+ women. Shark Week, the biggest stage in marine biology, has so many more men than women that there are *more men named Mike* then women who are featured in more than one episode. 🧪🦑

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Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, mis...

A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.

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