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Oh nooooo - hopefully small moments of celebration inbetween the yuck!

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate.

Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

🐬 Want to be part of a most excellent research team? See @stephanielking.bsky.social post 👇🏻 for a ⭐️ post-doc

For those following global surface temperature anomalies, October 2025 is going to finish 1.50C above the pre-industrial baseline and 3rd hottest on record since 1940.

Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.

Oooh thanks Sophie! Will follow any of your recommendations ⭐️🩵

Yay nerd fest!

🎶 Who’s carnivorous and lives in the sea?
Death ball Roundpants!

This is figure 5, which shows CIRBP overexpression extends lifespan and enhances DNA damage resistance in Drosophila.

The remarkably long lifespan of bowhead whales could be due to an increased ability to repair DNA mutations, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hzvDN7 🌏 🧪

Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their brightest.

New Zealand has moved from an underfunded, decentralised research system to an even less well funded, more centralised research system. Unfortunately, as @mehr.nz says, it's far from clear the centre knows what it is doing.

Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) and the CSG go hand-in-hand, using robust science to identify areas where research, monitoring, management and threat mitigation are key. As of 2025, 323 IMMAs have been identified to protect cetacean populations. Learn more at our news item: shorturl.at/1UO5w

Musings from exploring Japan's fishing villages on my bike and they take on conservation — Francisco Blaha I've been keen to spend time in Japan for a long time since my time on Japanese fishing boats in the 1980s in Argentina, and my exposure to a different type of literature after reading Yukio Mishima ...

As I was told, Western conservation focuses on preservation, while here they focus on coexistence.
www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2025/10...

📢 OUT TODAY! 🚨

CMS published the most comprehensive global dugong assessment in 20+ years. Dugongs are vulnerable to extinction worldwide, some populations critically endangered. 🌊

We must map & protect seagrass, cut bycatch, restore habitats, and roll out action plans: www.cms.int/news/global-...

🚨 BREAKING: All oceanic devil rays are now Critically Endangered.

🤝 Be part of our #SaveTheMantas campaign:
✔️ Sign the petition: only.one/act/cites-2025
✔️ Grab a campaign T-shirt, snap a photo, and share it on our campaign page: mantatrust.org/save-the-mantas

You'll hopefully notice and find useful the new infographic on our web site at conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... ... designed to help you decide which SCB journal would be most suited for your next brilliant article on conservation science.

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

A crystal ball for the Gulf For 13 years conservationists have promoted marine protection as a good thing for the Hauraki Gulf. Now they have their wish, what's going to happen?

The Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-o-Toi has increased marine protection from 0.3% to 6%. What might this mean? @nzgeo.bsky.social www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-cr...

Email from the Ministry for the Environment: Tēnā koe, On Sunday at 12.00pm (12th October) the Government will make an announcement about New Zealand’s 2050 climate change targets. The Ministry for the Environment will also release the 2025 emissions projections at 5.00pm on Sunday. Ngā mihi Ministry for the Environment

Heads up - New Zealand government's annoucements on 2050 climate target will be made midday Sunday NZ time. Will we be the first country to weaken a legislated 2050 target?

Bring Google Earth Engine’s Data Right into ArcGIS Pro Access Google Earth Engine's Data Catalog in ArcGIS Pro

Did you know that you can now bring Google Earth Engine data right into ArcGIS Pro?

Here’s a new storymap with details and a link to the tool on @github.com and thoughts on a possible interoperability of GEE and ArcGIS Pro.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bf22...
#gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

Top 40 Impacts of Climate Change In this post, I list 78 current and future impacts of climate change, along with references for some of the more unexpected items.  That list was compiled scouring the web along with suggestions and c...

I has been a very long time since I posted this list of 40 consequences of climate change. But, it's important to take note of item number 40.

I truly wish things were going to get better, but sadly, it's all just going to get more f&%ked from here.

climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-...

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🥳 🤙🏼 that you now run so far & so fast!

It’s a great paper - thanks for getting it out into the world 🤙🏼🩵🦈

We urge the adoption of the Shark & Ray Red List Index to track progress on ocean conservation goals, like the Global Biodiversity Framework Target 5 & SDG 14.4. Accountability is key for preserving marine life!
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#GlobalGoals #UNGA #SDG
#SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDG
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Calling all marine & freshwater sciences students 📣

@marinefreshwater.bsky.social has a new #StudentPrize!

The first winner will be announced in 2027 to allow time for submissions and nominations.

More details:
www.publish.csiro.au/mf/forauthor...

#MarineFreshwaterRes

Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimeras Judah et al. identify 30 species of chondrichthyans that overlap with proposed deep-sea mining activities, nearly two-thirds of which are already threatened with extinction. Precautionary management o...

🧪 Deep sea mining risks to sharks, rays & chimeras 👇🏻 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimeras Judah et al. identify 30 species of chondrichthyans that overlap with proposed deep-sea mining activities, nearly two-thirds of which are already threatened with extinction. Precautionary management o...

!! Deep sea mining is not a benign activity. 🙏 for these thoughts about impact on deep sea elasmobranchs 🦈 - many already under pressure from fisheries 👇🏻 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.

“We’re destroying the planet,” she said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC.

The photo features Jane Goodall and infant chimpanzee Flint reach out to touch each other's hands. Flint was the first infant born at Gombe (Tanzania) after Jane arrived. With him, she had a great opportunity to study chimp development. Photo source: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/jane-goodall/

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Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?"

Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful."

— #JaneGoodall, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025

#ForeverInspiring #LegacyOfHope 🧪

Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects

Insects aren’t ‘little robots’—so scientists are rethinking their welfare | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪