A 'ray of hope'? Over 40 years ago 'common skate' were considered to have been extirpated in the Irish Sea in a famous nature paper. A recent capture in Welsh waters 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 might be a sign things are changing. Read here: tinyurl.com/yc4jy3dm Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 @sos_bangor_uni

If you saw Euan Mortlock and I talk about fallow deer yesterday at Defunct ASAB Conference you might have caught some cute pics like this one... #ASABangor

I'm definitely at the 'just keep swimming' stage of my PhD. Nearly there! 🐟🐟🐟

If you are at all interested in how I utilise the northern #fulmar as a wild #sentinel species for #plastic exposure please check out my Wiley Analytical Science magazine article! Thanks Agilent Technologies for making this possible and my supervisor Gary Hardiman. #WASMagazine analyticalscience.wiley.com/do/10.1002/was…

Got 5 minutes? Here is a wee survey investigating the aesthetic value of coral reefs, just click the picture you find more beautiful!

Hot off the press - check out our new paper which investigates the severity of the global biodiversity crisis using population trend data! School of Biological Sciences QUBEcology Queen's University Belfast 🎓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

My online course on R for ecology is now OPEN! 🌿 Struggling with R? This one's for you. Go here to pre-register: rforecology.com/waitlist-page/ Enrollment ends Tues May 23rd, but you'll get lifetime access to do the course in your own time and on your own schedule. #rstats #ecology

The verges at home are full of cow parsley just now, the birds are in full chorus, and there are a few bumblebees doing the rounds too! #NatureOnYourDoorstep

Simple, informative and impactful. Have a read! ft.com/content/3ca31e…

Impressive job by Sea Fisheries Protection Authority launching ID guides for skates and rays in Irish waters 🌊! With some of our most endangered species being difficult to distinguish, these guides are a game-changer for monitoring efforts. A powerful tool to tackle the problem head-on!

A complete shutdown of cold water ocean upwelling off the coast of Peru is the sign of a strong impending El Niño... It was along this coast that the phrase was first coined by colonial Spanish fishermen. This is a huge anomaly.

📣 The #CESAB GitHub repo is open. Dive in to discover tools, ddb, packages, and training course slides. All open and reproducible ! A big thanks to Nicolas Casajus for his magical contributions 🧙‍♂️ ! #OpenScience #Biodiversity #rstats4ds FRB ▶️ github.com/FRBCesab

My first lead author #paper has been published in PeerJ Publishing! The paper looks at the patterns of #genetic #diversity for 40 shark & 19 ray species. Link: peerj.com/articles/15396/ Thanks to my wonderful coauthors and supervisors Chetan Rao, Brian Bowen Kiyo K / @tobo Lab, Kartik Shanker!

Tune in to BBC Radio Ulster this Sunday around 11.30am where I’ll be talking about the current global biodiversity crisis we’re facing! #BiodiversityDecline #RestoreNature School of Biological Sciences QUADRAT bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Next week our Human Dimensions Working Group is hosting an online workshop about the human dimensions of shark conservation research. It's free and online, and you can register here: buff.ly/3pmn5Cg Please share with interested colleagues!

Big Congrats to my mate Mark for passing his viva this morning, one of the most interesting projects I've heard about, visual systems in fish 💙🐟🦈🌼

Parks are good for biodiversity, but animals need to be able to move between habitat patches to find food, shelter, and mates. My thesis investigates how we can use trees to create green corridors for invertebrates and connect urban green spaces🌳 The Graduate School #tweetyourthesis

#QuartoTipOfTheDay 💪 So Simple. 🔥 So powerful! ➡️ Make ANY ggplot2 chart interactive with 1️⃣ line of code 😱 ! Your report will be so much better! productive-r-workflow.com/quarto-tricks