Jesse Cochran (from Reef Ecology Lab Red Sea Research Center, KAUST) tagging a whale shark in the northern Red Sea with OceanX. Can definitely relate to everything looking like whale sharks on slow days. youtu.be/D9JnDkR-qjA

No one knows how many pythons are out there now. Estimates run from 10,000 to perhaps hundreds of thousands. ow.ly/hYO550FZ9ca

More images from the whale shark aggregation site in the Saudi Red Sea. Mostly immature sharks, but this site interesting because it sex trio is approx. 1:1. Most aggregation sites dominated by young males. #internationwhalesharkday Red Sea Research Center, KAUST Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Royale Hardenstine (PhD '20, MS '15) Royale Hardenstine Ph.D will be presenting at this weekend's Alumni Reunion on her career in protecting Red Sea marine life. Royale shares her journey in our "Alumni You Should Meet" story series. Read more here. alumni.kaust.edu.sa/home/meet-alum…

It's Sunday, which in KSA is like Monday, and it's raining which is weird and gloomy for Saudi. So I'm here to share this adorable leaping dolphin calf to brighten your day!

Normalize describing all methods in a paper, even if they were done "as described in [16]." Because [16] did it "as described by [9]", and [9] cites an abstract from the 70s that is unavailable. 🤦‍♂️ Academic Chatter™

Shout out to my ornithologist friends that I can send the most unfocused voice message descriptions of random bird I saw this morning to and they still try to help me ID the bird. 😅

Today we have a new MSc in the Reef Ecology Lab! Alexa’s masters thesis looked at updating (the long overdue) distribution of the white-eyed gull in Al Wejh archipelago, currently one of the few people pioneering sea bird research in the Saudi Red Sea.

Spent a few days looking off into the blue, then a couple more hanging with whale shark #901 (or Mayu/Mayo). Spotted in 2019 and now again in 2022. EB Richardson Reef Ecology Lab KAUST Research Red Sea Research Center, KAUST Royale Hardenstine Ph.D

Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world’s largest fish, the whale shark - problems for #whalesharks from lethal ship strikes - 'cryptic mortality' pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… PNASNews Freya Womersley David Sims MBA - Marine Biological Association University of Southampton Natural Environment Research Council

I'm not on Twitter often but know I am still out in the world chasing megafauna.

Third times a charm! Over the weekend I collected my the first samples of my PhD, skin biopsies for hawksbill sea turtle (E. imbricata) for population genetics. Royale Hardenstine Ph.D Kaitlyn O’Toole #endangeredspecies #marineconservation

Think you know #rays? Think again! Our ‼️new paper‼️ provides the first evidence of not 1 but TWO sp. of #stingray actively producing sounds 🔊 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.38… Barbara Wueringer SARA - Sharks and Rays Australia Lachlan Fetterplace Fish Thinkers SLU Aqua Dr Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons MQ Marine 𝙹𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝙳𝚎𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚍𝚘 𝙴𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚋𝚊𝚗

New #SharkScience alert! 🦈 (1/4) A new collaborative global paper using data from 25 whale shark 'constellations' describes the use of a novel metric to understand residency patterns of this #Endangered species.

Watch the incredible moment we release Basma the hawksbill sea turtle back into #TheRedSea – we found Basma near Eiqat Rizk Island last month with ‘floating syndrome’. After help from فقيه أكواريوم and المركز الوطني لتنمية الحياة الفطرية, she’s now back to full health. #ForPeopleAndPlanet

Alumni Royale Hardenstine Ph.D presenting data on a potential elasmobranch nursery in the central Red Sea! Very exciting times in the Al Wajh lagoon… we look forward to what is next to come 🎸🐠

It’s time again for our Ocean Discovery of the Month. After receiving an acoustic tag, this Halavi Guitarfish is released back into sea by our very own Rhonda Suka. This critically endangered fish is usually spotted in Al Wajh Lagoon's shallow waters.