Please meet this year's guest #BestShark, the bonnethead shark, selected by Jasmin Graham (she/her) Proceeds of this auction benefitted graduate student shark research southernfriedscience.com/bonnethead-sha…

I love graphical abstracts for papers, but - and hear me out on this - what about meme abstracts? Anyway, give this new #MPAGuide paper a read over at Marine Policy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I don't know who thought it up, but "sane-washing" is my favorite new coinage. It describes the journalists who take Trump's weird mutterings and pretend to string together coherent policy positions from them.

🦈 Where Did the Skates Go? 🦈 Our very own Roxani Naasan Aga Spyridopoulou recently received a grant from @Save Our Seas for the conservation of the rough skate. Roxani's work highlights the importance of fishers' engagement in marine conservation! Find the article here: loom.ly/kQAFrUI

We are delighted to have Save Our Seas as one of our principal sponsors for Wildscreen 2024! Part of SOSF’s mission is to bring the sea, sharks, and their stories ashore to reach people’s hearts and help orientate their minds to conservation, inspiring them to take action.

🗞️ Tired of all the negative media coverage? Here’s some hopeful news. The latest State of the World’s Mangroves report by Global Mangrove Alliance has highlighted the tremendous progress in protecting #mangrove #ecosystems. Here's a thread with a few key takeaways 👇

#BREAKINGNEWS! National Marine Sanctuary Foundation celebrates the advancement of Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary! Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary is the 1st Indigenous-nominated sanctuary & will be the 17th sanctuary in the system, protecting 4,543 square miles. Read more: ow.ly/xcKW50ThvcT

Breaking news🗞️: The first tribally-led proposal to create a federal National Marine Sanctuary🌊 reaches a key milestone— & is on the verge of being established. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on California’s central coast is. BIG deal.✨ More here👇🏼

The gang's all here! 🎁 defector.com/the-gangs-all-…

wrote about some elephant seal boys caught napping, feasting on good fishes, and spitting out the yucky ones 🫡

Toothy skin! Perfectly uniform skin denticles of the juvenile Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). These flat 'skin-teeth' give these sharks a super smooth surface, for drag reduction or relaxing in tropical warm waters? Ella Nicklin Florida Museum #shark #skinteeth #denticles

Video: Rare octopus, other new species filmed at underwater mountain range near Chile | CNN buff.ly/3AWA1ob

Last time Trump pulled us out of the Paris accords This time he'll pull us out of the climate fight entirely theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Silence from Florida leaders on UF spending scandal is downright shameful | Opinion miamiherald.com/opinion/letter…

Fresh mail! Truly amazing that the worst scandal to hit the GOP all year, leading to ongoing and frantic damage control, is just that they went ahead and published their actual policies. (Though the claim that he didn’t write it himself is, um, believable…)

In which YouTube personalities were paid $100,000 per video to generate fake content while I, a real climate scientist, paid for my own Global Weirding PBS YouTube series on real climate content out of my own pocket. You can’t make these things up. cbsnews.com/amp/news/russi…

As Chair of the Central Coast Caucus, I am excited to see the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary reach this historic milestone. We are one step closer to having the first federally recognized sanctuary that honors our tribal partners. noaa.gov/news-release/n…

Dolphins herd fish in Beaufort County. Here’s how they do it | Hilton Head Island Packet buff.ly/3MrDzRX

Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library buff.ly/4cTNmel

Habitat partitioning by two coral-dwelling scorpionfishes in Hawai‘i | Coral Reefs buff.ly/3B6wcwI