1/4 A preprint of Near, T. J. and C. E. Thacker. in press. Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 65 is available here zenodo.org/record/8352027 @thackfish

Introducing the newest family of sharks - the Dichichthyidae ['Die-kick-thee-iday']. Pictured below is the Blackgill Bristle Shark - Dichichthys melanobranchus - the type species CSIRO Te Papa Florida Museum #newspecies #sharks #OkinawaChuraumiAquarium

New shark family and a new species about to drop in the next few days. Collaboration between CSIRO Te Papa Florida Museum - stay tuned for the introduction of the Bristle Sharks! Image copyright of Schmidt Ocean

Reef fish biomass increases in MPAs, but how do individual species respond? New paper in Ecology Letters - sp. responses are variable, 40% don't benefit from protection, rare top predators and small herbivores benefit the most.

doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

Led by Loïc Sanchez

[ #CESAB ] 🎉 Congratulations to Suchinta Arif, laureate of the 2024 CIEE-ICEE call for proposals:
🐟she will take part to the next #BlueJustice workshop in May
🍁 thx to La France au Canada 🇫🇷 🇪🇺!

So proud of this co-created scientific discovery & conservation area 💙🪸

🎉 Protection for the only know cold-water coral reef in Pacific Canada

📍 The Great Bear Rainforest & Sea

👏🏼 Fisheries and Oceans Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance the Kitasoo Xai’xais and Heiltsuk Council Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project

New paper out in Nature Communications - in the NE Atlantic, well connected marine systems are gaining in warm-affinity species while enclosed seas are losing cold-affinity species

doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

New study on #SharksintheDark published in Science Magazine finds increasing human impact to deepwater sharks and rays. 🧵

#GlobalSharkTrends
bit.ly/SharksInTheDark
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#Bestshark makes the cover of Science Magazine

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Anna Metaxas of Dalhousie University has worked in oceans around the world, studying corals, kelp, and other organisms that live on the ocean floor.

Download the Ingenium poster and the ones of many other #FemInSTEM :

▶️ tinyurl.com/925msxsw

#IWD2024

Successful recovery of our 3 National Geographic Society #dropcameras to assess #deepsea scavenger #biodiversity and #biogeography here on #seamounts in #Palau with National Geographic Pristine Seas. We are so excited to show you the amazing dee-sea species we find🌊

We are having a TIME in LA right now! We managed to CT scan an OARFISH!! Perfect way to end a Friday afternoon!

For a while now, Laura Dee and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint!

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today I woke up in Palau🇵🇼 I am so excited to be joining National Geographic Pristine Seas National Geographic Society to deploy baited cameras to assess the ecology and #biodiversity of #deepsea habitats on #slopes and #seamounts in this region. For the oceans🌊

Just HOW exciting it is to see our work out today in Science Magazine is difficult to put into words.

Pelagic and benthic fishes and sharks show divergent responses to protection along a human pressure gradient 🐟🦈🐠

Please share/read on
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Big review on #mesophotic coral ecosystems out today in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: Function and stability of mesophotic coral reefs sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New #SharkScience : First skate egg case nursery in the Ross Sea. This important habitat for #deepwater Antarctic skates is fully protected within the Ross Sea region #MPA .

Open access link here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Relationship status change?! ➡️it's complicated🫠

For his 1st PhD chapter, Pooven Muruga reassesses the relationship between reef fishes and hard corals
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With co-authors Alexandre C Siqueira & The Bellwood Lab, find this #NewPaper in NatureEcoEvo

doi.org/10.1038/s41559…
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Recent grad with quantitative ecology skills? Come be a part of the US LTER network using cool fish excretion data combined with the Mo'orea Coral Reef long term monitoring dataset! Burkepile Lab, the Allgeier lab, and you could take on fish pee in the sea !!

🔥I am hiring five new postdocs to help launch the new Thriving Oceans Research Hub!!! The positions will be in quant. social science, behavioural science, fisheries/marine ecology, data science/statistics, & social-ecological systems. Details here:
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…