Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026www.northjersey.com/story/news/n...northjersey.comHundreds of sharks swim off the Jersey Shore. Here's what experts sayScientists reveal the world of sharks, from tagging to surprising discoveries as the animals move through waters off NJ and along the East Coast. 020
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026NEW PAPER: We tracked smooth hammerhead sharks off Long Island, New York. 🦈🐟🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comPreliminary observations on vertical habitat use and diving behavior of juvenile smooth hammerhead sharks Sphyrna zygaena in the western North Atlantic - Animal BiotelemetryMarine animals inhabit a three-dimensional environment, which necessitates knowledge of both horizontal and vertical movements to understand the scope of their habitat use. Large-bodied hammerhead sha... 033
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 11/06/2026www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...fisheries.noaa.govNew Scientific Study Tracks the Trends in 100 Years of Shark Depredation in Recreational FisheriesScientists studied Atlantic recreational fishery data to better understand this complex human-wildlife conflict. 140
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 23/05/2026Dusky sharks, an apex predator similar to great white sharks, are expected to be active off Cape Cod this summer amid a historic comeback for the species, experts say.trib.alAfter 40 years, these sharks are returning to Cape Cod waters. Here’s what scientists want you to know. - The Boston GlobeBecause the sharks prefer warmer waters, they could be particularly active off Cape Cod this summer, one expert said. 44110
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The sandbar shark is so boring even the triangles it forms with its fins are obtuse. #YawnShark @whysharksmatter.bsky.social 2275
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 29/11/2025www.neaq.org/collaboratin...neaq.orgCollaborating with Recreational Fishers to Study Bull Shark Survivorship - New England AquariumDr. Ryan Knotek is leading a study to assess the fate and recovery of bull sharks caught in recreational fisheries. 0217
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 15/09/2025NOAA research cruise and ROV live streams from the depths of Hudson Canyon this week. 🦑 🐟 sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/2025/ex...sanctuaries.noaa.govExplore the Depths: Hudson Canyon Live!From Sept. 14 to 26, 2025, coral scientists, ecologists, and ocean explorers will embark on a two-week expedition to investigate the canyon's rich and under-explored ecosystems. Using the remotely ope... 0131
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Thanks @melissacmarquez.bsky.social ! www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...forbes.comWhy You Can’t Count On Seeing Sharks From The Air In New YorkSharks in New York waters spend very little time near the surface, and even when they do, murky water and waves make them hard to spot from the air. 000
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 27/08/2025www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...usatoday.comNOAA scientists are tagging Sharks making mega hurricane hunters. How it works.Scientists are studying how sharks could be used as free moving monitors to collect ocean data for better hurricane forecasts. 021
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Are Gulf sharks really an ‘overwhelming problem’? It’s complicated, experts say ca.news.yahoo.com/gulf-sharks-...ca.news.yahoo.comAre Gulf sharks really an ‘overwhelming problem’? It’s complicated, experts sayScientists are using everything from angler surveys to videos to DNA testing to study shark populations in the Gulf. 2152
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Irish Basking Shark Group @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social · 25/07/2025We have some great keynote speakers lined up for our Conference on the 29-30th at ATU. Remember that you can register on-site or attend virtually: www.baskingshark.ie/conference2025 0127
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I somehow accidentally got a not-so-boring image of the most boring shark in the world: the sandbar shark. 🦈 🐟 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social 3425
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Another beefy sand tiger shark tagged with a @lotektelemetry.bsky.social PSAT to study their habitat use in New York waters! @fishguyphotos.bsky.social #SOFOsharks 🦈 🐟🦑 2142
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Irish Basking Shark Group @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social · 25/07/2025One month to go until the International Conference on Basking Sharks at ATU in Galway, Ireland! If you haven’t registered but want to attend, you can register on the day. Check out the conference page on our website for details: www.baskingshark.ie/conference2025baskingshark.ieConference | The Irish Basking Shark GroupPlease join us for the International Conference on Basking Sharks in Galway August 29-31st. 133
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Hide your bay scallops! Cownose rays have invaded Shinnecock Bay! 🐟 PC: @fishguyphotos.bsky.social 161
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 21/07/2025One of the more poignant and under appreciated moments in Jaws is when the privileged politician finally decides to do the right thing because he was suddenly personally affected. #Jaws50 051
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 20/07/2025A feisty sand tiger shark about to be tagged and released by the #SOFOsharks team off New York! Just one of 5 different species already tagged this season. 🦈 🦑 1293
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Drymon at #AES25 #JMIH25 asks what have we learned about shark depredation in the last ten years? Referenced this paper, with several coauthors here today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌎🦑🦈🐠link.springer.comShark depredation: future directions in research and management - Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesShark depredation is a complex social-ecological issue that affects a range of fisheries worldwide. Increasing concern about the impacts of shark depredation, and how it intersects with the broader co... 194
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 12/07/2025NEW PAPER: Pooled, ensemble, or integrated? Examining tradeoffs in blue shark SDMs. Led by @sdsuresearch.bsky.social and @whoi.edu. 🦈 🧪 🌎 academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...academic.oup.comIntegrating diverse marine predator data for robust species distribution models in a dynamic oceanAbstract. Species distribution models (SDMs) are an important tool for marine conservation and management, yet guidance on leveraging diverse data to build 056
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The disputed paper was Myers, et al.'s 2007 paper Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean Here is the 2015 Grubbs et al paper explaining why some of the trophic Cascade claims in the Meyers paper are wrong www.nature.com/articles/sre...nature.comCritical assessment and ramifications of a purported marine trophic cascade - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Critical assessment and ramifications of a purported marine trophic cascade 064
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Taking my kids swimming with feeding whale sharks last week was definitely a top Proud Dad moment. The conditions off Isla Mujeres, Mexico were excellent. Sticking our heads in the sand for a few days was also therapeutic. 0351
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025These scientists will be posting from the upcoming Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists #JMIH25 #AES25 ! Give them a follow, and let me know if I should add you! go.bsky.app/8EaDAnG 🧪🌎🦑🦈🐠 37120
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025This week I was excited to introduce my kids to whale sharks! We visited an aggregation site off Isla Mujeres, Mexico, where we got up close and personal while following responsible guidelines. Hoping this gets them hooked on more shark adventures in the future! #WhaleShark 🦈 060
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025It’s baby white shark season off Long Island, New York! This little one, less than 5 feet long, was photographed yesterday off Southampton. PC: C. Paparo, FishGuyPhotos. #SOFOsharks #WhiteShark 43611
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Erin Spencer, PhD @etspencer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Proud to share that my second dissertation chapter is now published in Oecologia! Great hammerheads often eat other elasmobranchs, which suggests there must be some kind of advantage to going after big prey instead of smaller fish. (1/4)🦑🧪🌊🐟 1184
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 22/06/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/s...nytimes.comFifty Years After ‘Jaws,’ Shark Science Is Still Surfacing 050
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Canadian Science Publishing @cdnsciencepub.com · 20/06/2025Now open for submissions! A new @cjfas.bsky.social collection on the use of telemetry to support freshwater and marine conservation. This includes work from @icft2025.bsky.social and beyond! Submit by Sept 30, 2025 ▶️ buff.ly/SfcYJZN 033
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 20/06/2025riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2025/06/1268...riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.comGeek Talks lecture series delivers a decade of community - Riverhead News ReviewWhen Chris Paparo, owner of Fish Guy Photos, started the lecture series that would become Geek Talks, his plan was simple. 000
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 16/06/2025New Paper: Another collaborative multi-species shark tracking effort predicts delays in southerly migration timing under warming oceans. 🦈 🐟🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 063
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Fun evening @museumofscience.bsky.social with photographer, Keith Ellenbogen, and the OmniMAX premiere of his documentary on marine life in the Gulf of Maine! 030
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Sharks aren’t the only thing that SOFO is tracking! 040
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025#SOFOsharks www.easthamptonstar.com/villages-nat...easthamptonstar.comWhite Sharks’ Return a Good Sign | The East Hampton StarA certain New York City tabloid did its best to sensationalize drone footage captured this month depicting a great white shark a few hundred feet off the Montauk shoreline, but the sighting is neither... 061
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Bryan Legare MS 🏳️🌈 @sharkecology.bsky.social · 22/05/2025It's bby #shark season and with a new project = new questions Like does the increase in #sargassum effect baby sharks? Btwn 06-12 we studied a nursery area for juvenile blktip & lemon sharks in Coral Bay St John Today I redeployed an acoustic reciever in the core area for YOY blktips It was gross. 023
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Thanks to @vimsfishmrg.bsky.social for deploying a high-rate PSAT on this beautiful juvie white shark for us! The 2025 field season is underway! 🦈 🦑 🐟 #SOFOsharks 0205
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Anybody in the Hamptons this weekend? #SOFOsharks 🦈 030
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 19/05/2025NEW 🦈 PAPER: We tagged 150 sharks of 10 species off New York and assessed their daytime swimming depths. Important implications for aerial monitoring. Great team effort! #SOFOsharks academic.oup.com/mcf/article/...academic.oup.comScratching the surface: Swimming depths of multiple shark species in New York coastal waters and implications for aerial monitoring 1232
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 15/05/2025#SOFOsharks nypost.com/2025/05/14/u...nypost.comEarliest’, ‘closest to shore’ Great White spotting for enthusiast marks start of shark season off Montauk“All just part of what they do every year for as long as we know they’ve been here.” 051
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Finally got to see The Shark is Broken! 🦈 So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice. 020
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Sammy Andrzejaczek @sammy-shark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We used acoustic telemetry to track 355 white sharks over a 15 year period in California, describing differences in seasonal trends among demographic groups. DM if you need a copy, and huge thanks to all collaborators - it took a village! www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24136 23210
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry @icft2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025ICFT attendees - remember that registration closes on May 7, and that includes booking the hotel at the conference rate. For all of your conference needs, including checking out the schedule of presentations, please visit the conference website event.fourwaves.com/7thicft/pagesevent.fourwaves.comInternational Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)Fourwaves - International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT) 001
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈Dr. Chelsea Gray @divingwsharks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Come to Galway to talk about Basking Sharks! We are accepting abstracts until May 15th! 143
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I love The Great North. When this character appears does anyone read the hat as “Chief eDNA”? 120
Reposted by Tobey Curtis 🦈SharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Hooked and stolen: How rebounding shark populations are changing Florida’s fishing 🦑🐟🦈 www.upressonline.com/2025/04/hook...upressonline.comHooked and stolen: How rebounding shark populations are changing Florida’s fishingIn the turquoise waters off Florida’s East coast, Captain Douglas Covin cuts his boat engine and waits. Within minutes, they arrive – six 300-pound bull sharks circling expectantly. The moment a sail... 283
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I was surprised to spot this dusky shark on the wall at the famous Beantown Pub along Boston’s Freedom Trail (the only bar where you can drink a Sam Adams within sight of Sam Adams’ grave)! #SharksNearMe 🦈 🐟 151
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Legend. www.mafmc.org/newsfeed/202...mafmc.orgMid-Atlantic Council Honors Jack Casey with James A. Ruhle Cooperative Research Award — Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management CouncilThe Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council has named Jack Casey as the recipient of the James A. Ruhle Cooperative Research Award. The award was presented during the Council’s April meeting in Gallow... 000
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The first ever white shark tag recapture in the Atlantic, as reported in The Fisherman magazine c. 1984. The NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program has been running for over 50 years! @shellspc.bsky.social 03912
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Remember, just because you voted for someone doesn’t mean they get a free pass for terrible decisions. You are empowered to demand better of them BECAUSE you voted for them. 040
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025With everything going on, I’m trying to diversify my investments (aka “retail therapy”). In this case, I invested in a not-huge, but really beautiful megalodon tooth. #TreatYoSelf 1110
Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 03/03/2025New Paper: Early insights into the seasonal and spatial distribution of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) along the Maine coastline. 🦈 🦑🌎 🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Early insights into the seasonal and spatial distribution of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) along the Maine coastline 0197