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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Very happy to see this work with @sarahperry.bsky.social @cbmwc.bsky.social and co published. These findings help guide our continued efforts to better understand when, where and why #angelsharks are using @iucnshark.bsky.social Cardigan-Caernarfon Bay #ISRA 🦈 🌊 📹 #BRUVS #openaccess #sharkscience

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A little more #sharkscience from my #PhD at @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social - a Short Communication published in Marine Biodiversity by @springernature.com. A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.

Title page for a research paper published in Marine Biodiversity, describing a field observation of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark on a baited remote underwater video station in the UK

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Thanks team for a great week of fieldwork collecting BRUVS & eDNA data for @cbmwc.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social DolphinDietDetectives project. 🌊🐟🐬🐠🦀 @neildcook.bsky.social @hannahvallin.bsky.social @guibortolotto.bsky.social

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Sarah Perry @sarahperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Beautiful morning for a day on the sea in Cardigan Bay. 🌊🐬🐟 Off to collect data for @cbmwc.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social #NatureNetworksFund project #DolphinDietsDetectives with @neildcook.bsky.social @guibortolotto.bsky.social

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Next bit of fieldwork with @sarahperry.bsky.social, @cbmwc.bsky.social and co is just around the corner - watch this space! 💙 🦈 🌊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Goosebumps moment when this #angelshark cruised past our #BRUVS - such a thrill to work with this team on this brilliant project! Excited for more sampling and future findings - watch this space! #criticallyendangered #sharks #sharkscience #marineconservation

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A great day getting to know the locals and the local history in a beautiful part of Portugal

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Excited for the next round of fieldwork with this crew in a couple of weeks!

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Always a joy being on the sea in Cardigan Bay - even better when doing some #science with @cbmwc.bsky.social and co!

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Happy to share some more #sharkscience from my #PhD, recently published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. We used smallspotted #catsharks (n = 49) as a model species for Northeast Atlantic elasmobranchs to demonstrate regional applicability of LA-ICP-MS to investigate habitat use.

Screenshot of the research manuscript title and abstract, with author names and affiliations

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Colin Simpfendorfer @sharkcolin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Yesterday our new #globalsharktrends paper came out in @science.org @nickdulvy.bsky.social did a great thread on the paper and included some GIFs that we had made but they did not play here on @bsky.app I'm hoping this now works. Status change through time... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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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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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report

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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Remote underwater video is a great non-invasive way of sampling the aquatic world. Here are some researchers using this method. Let me know if you want to be added #BRUVS #RUVS 🧪🌎🦑🦈🐟🐠 go.bsky.app/2HSH6Cg

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Alec BM Moore @alecbmmoore.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As a newbie here I'll post recent(ish) research shorturl.at/PSW7r 𝐁𝐲𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 (𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬) w @sosbangor.bsky.social fisheries team 10,741 pots, 4+years, all seasons: 1529 fish, 30 species Most frequent fish: a 🐱🦈 species (bullhuss/nursehound)

Boxplot showing seasonal abundance (in CPUE) of all fish, nursehound, and ballan wrasse; peaks in autumn for all

Nursehound Scyliorhinus stellaris on lobster fishing vessel

Plot showing discard and retention rate for fish species caught as bycatch in lobster pots

Lobster pots on deck of a fishing vessel in Welsh waters

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Neil Cook @neildcook.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

First post (gulp) is some #PhD #SharkScience work recently published. Working with @cbmwc.bsky.social we use #BRUVS to document heterogeneous habitat use in nursehounds and smallspotted catsharks in #CardiganBay UK - temporal niche partitioning may facilitate coexistence but more research is needed

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