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Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

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(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

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$25 Million Gift Is Largest MBL Has Ever Received | The Enterprise | Marine Biological Laboratory An unrestricted gift of $25 million was made to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) this week. It is the largest private contribution the institution has received in its 137-year history. The unres...

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Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea reveals how overfishing and selective harvest of the lar...

Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species 🦑🧪🐟 e360.yale.edu/features/hum...

Marine Biological Lab Announces $25 Million Unrestricted Gift from Scientist and Philanthropist Mark Terasaki www.mbl.edu

Basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) in the Northeast Atlantic show high occurrence of parasitism by sea lamprey 🦑🧪🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Specific locally, general globally: a synthesis on the isotopic niche in hammerhead sharks (Class Chondrichthyes, Genus Sphyrna) - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries Stable isotope analysis is a powerful tool to study the niche dynamics of organisms. We summarized the available literature on nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) isotope values of the muscle from seven...

Specific locally, general globally: a synthesis on the isotopic niche in hammerhead sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈
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Assessment of multiple paternity in spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) litters from eastern Australian waters Context The spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) is a medium-sized, coastal species distributed across the warm waters of all ocean basins. Knowledge of this species’ reproductive biology is limite...

Assessment of multiple paternity in spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) litters from eastern Australian waters 🦑🐟🦈 www.publish.csiro.au/MF/MF24222?j...

Systematic assessment of the increasing presence of white sharks in Atlantic Canadian waters 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Healing response in a pacific eagle ray (Aetobatus laticeps) after a vessel strike in Banderas Bay, Mexico The pacific eagle ray, Aetobatus laticeps, is found in coastal waters of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, where its populations can be vulnerable to vessel strikes. We present photographic evidence of r...

Healing response in a pacific eagle ray (Aetobatus laticeps) after a vessel strike in Banderas Bay, Mexico 🦑🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Geographical variation in mitogenomes of the largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis: Challenges and perspectives for #conservation efforts 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sexual Size Dimorphism in Rays and Skates (Elasmobranchii: Batoidea) 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Where data are scarce but science is critical
ICES & @fao.org have signed a new agreement to improve deep-sea fish stock assessments in areas beyond national jurisdiction #ABNJ.
This builds on our WKLIFE work & targets species like orange roughy & alfonsino.
🔗 www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
📷Ken Sulak

Global patterns and drivers of untracked industrial fishing in coastal marine protected areas Marine protected areas (MPAs) are expanding worldwide, but industrial fishing within their boundaries remains poorly understood. By combining vessel Global Positioning System data with satellite image...

Global patterns and drivers of untracked industrial fishing in coastal marine protected areas | Science 🦑🧪🌎🐟 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...?

Sharks Aren't Lingering in Local Waters, UNH Researchers Find White sharks appear to be using New Hampshire waters as “a bit of a highway to get further up the coast,” says researcher Nathan Furey, a conclusion based on data gathered from a partnership with the ...

Sharks are not lingering in New Hampshire waters. 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

Are sutures a pathway to infection? A multidisciplinary assessment of wound healing in sharks following internal acoustic tagging Context: Acoustic telemetry often involves a surgical method of internal tagging, wherein an animal is incised, a transmitter (hereafter referred to as a tag) internally inserted into the coelomic cav...

Are sutures a pathway to infection? A multidisciplinary assessment of wound healing in sharks following internal acoustic tagging 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.publish.csiro.au/WR/justaccep...

Alarming starfish disease reaches Florida waters Snorkelers and divers in Palm Beach County were recently stunned by a disturbing sight: starfish, also known as sea stars, with missing limbs, open wounds and bodies disintegrating on the ocean floor....

Alarming starfish disease reaches Florida waters 🦑🐟 www.wlrn.org/environment/...

How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research After 11 deaths, Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean became a center for shark attack science

How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research | Science | AAAS 🦑🐟🦈 www.science.org/content/arti...

Occurrence and Maternal Transfer of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Pregnant Sharks from Florida Coastal Waters Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely detected in various environmental media, attracting significant research and regulatory attention. This preliminary study investigated the o...

NEW PAPER: Occurrence and Maternal Transfer of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Pregnant Sharks from Florida Coastal Waters | Environmental Science & Technology 🦑🧪🌎🐟🦈 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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An unmanned surface vehicle for acoustic telemetry surveys of coastal fishes: range testing, real world performance, and comparison with a stationary tracking array 🦑🧪🌎🐟🦈 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Ongoing trade of fins from critically endangered rays (wedgefish and giant guitarfish) despite international regulations and a novel PCR test to detect rays among ‘shark’ fins - Conservation Genetics Wedgefish (family Rhinidae) and giant guitarfish (Glaucostegidae) are among the most imperiled vertebrate taxa. Given their prevalence in international trade, both of these ray families were listed on...

Ongoing trade of fins from critically endangered rays (wedgefish and giant guitarfish) despite international regulations and a novel PCR test to detect rays among ‘shark’ fins 🦑🌎🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Seasonal Variation and Response of Surf Zone Fish Assemblages to Environmental Variables in the Northeast Pacific Located at the land-sea interface, the highly dynamic sandy beach and surf zone ecosystem is one of the coastal zones used most intensely by humans (e…

Seasonal Variation and Response of Surf Zone Fish Assemblages to Environmental Variables in the Northeast Pacific - including Leopard Sharks. 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How stressful is capture and transport for sharks? 🦈

Bouyoucos et al @umanitoba.bsky.social and Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre evaluate endocrine and biochemical stress responses in Pacific spiny dogfish

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Sharing the Beach Residents and visitors can help to make our area as turtle friendly as possible by remembering to keep beaches clean, flat, and dark from May 1 through Oct. 31. Residents and visitors can help to m…

Worth looking into. Some Florida counties (e.g. Brevard) have ordinances regarding lighting- which includes flashlights, cell phones, etc. seaturtlespacecoast.org/sharing-the-...

You likely already do this - but do you use red-light flashlights during your beach observations?

New Regulations for Shore-Based Shark #Fishing for Massachusetts coastal waters. 🐟🦑🦈 www.mass.gov/news/new-reg...

The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The geometry of life: testing the scaling of whole-organism surface area and volume using sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A giant Atlantic bluefin tuna chasing mackerel at dawn in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Atlantic bluefin tuna diet meta-analysis reveals environmental, spatial, temporal, and biological drivers.
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Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean - Marine Biology Satellite tagging of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) has typically focused on juvenile males which dominate coastal aggregation sites, with limited data on the movements of females. We satellite-tagged...

Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean 🦑🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Spatial Distribution of Greenland Shark Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Life Stages Across the Northern North Atlantic This study analyzes the body length and sex composition of Greenland sharks across the northern North Atlantic and demonstrates distinct demographic distribution patterns. Areas with high occurrence ...

Spatial Distribution of Greenland Shark Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Life Stages Across the Northern North Atlantic 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...