Anastasia Smith

🎙️ The fabulous @mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social was recently invited to talk on the Impact Storytelling Podcast about her research exploring the hidden social lives of the endangered European eel! 📊 👩‍💻🛥️

Listen now on YouTube & Spotify:
tinyurl.com/Eelpodcast 🎧

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend my first international conference, MARE,at the University of Amsterdam!I had an incredible time attending lots of insightful talks as well as getting the opportunity to pitch the first chapter of my PhD, and presenting a poster about my research! #Mare2025

🚨 Bottom trawling is destroying our ocean. But right now, we have a shot to stop it!

The government is considering banning bottom trawling in 41 protected areas, but they want to hear from YOU before they do.

📢 ADD YOUR VOICE before the 1 Sept deadline: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

Leatherback sea turtles can grow up to 1.8 metres long and weigh up to 450 kilograms. That’s heavier than a grand piano 🐢😲

🎥: ausmashmash

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid (Gift Article) The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

Trump’s withdrawal of foreign aid and dismantling USAID will cause annually:

18 million cases of malaria, 166k deaths; 200k children paralyzed with polio; 1 million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition, often fatal; >28k new cases of diseases such as Ebola and Marburg

Why? Why??

Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...

Small-scale fisheries account for 40% of global catch, providing 20% of micronutrient intakes for up to 2.3 billion people and livelihoods for 1 in 12 people.

Huge effort involving @fao.org & 800 experts, out now in @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#BREAKING: We’re taking the Trump administration to court!

Oceana, alongside other environmental groups, is challenging President Trump's attempts to revoke ocean protections & open up millions of acres to offshore drilling. More 👉 oceana.ly/3EMOhSt

Some amazing marine life photos, , incredible talent !🐟🐠🦈

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

World's sea-ice falls to record low The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before.

Sea ice in the Arctic and around Antarctica cool our climate, drive ocean circulation across the planet, and provide a unique habitat for polar ecosystems.

Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Underwater Mountains Are Teeming With 41 Times More Sharks Than The Open Ocean “Predators appear to use seamounts as ‘hubs’ to gather, socialise, mate or rest.”

Underwater Mountains Are Teeming With 41 Times More Sharks Than The Open Ocean | IFLScience

Frontiers | Management of jellyfish outbreaks to achieve good environmental status Jellyfish and gelatinous zooplankton (GZ) in general, fulfill important ecological roles with significant impacts, although they are often oversimplified or ...

Heyyy!!! #marineresearchers!!!
Look at this interesting paper from #GES4SEAS in @FrontSustain
Management of #jellyfish outbreaks to achieve good environmental status #GES #MSFD

Increasing problem and some solutions

www.frontiersin.org/journals/oce...

A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪

Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH

DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚

Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈

Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in !

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Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠

We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition

Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really interesting paper on coral reef composition!

Social media loves to villainize dolphins. Here's why it's wrong. These marine mammals have a bad reputation online, but the truth behind their behavior might surprise you.

Dolphins as villains? I've been guilty of that. What's behind the joke, why perpetuate it, and are there consequences? www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa We explore how integrating behavioural ecology and macroecology can provide fundamental new insight into both fields, with particular relevance for understanding ecological responses to rapid environmental change. We outline the field of macrobehaviour, which aims to unite these disciplines explicitly, and highlight examples of research in this space. Macrobehaviour can be envisaged as a spectrum, where behavioural ecologists and macroecologists use new data and borrow tools and approaches from one another. At the heart of this spectrum, interdisciplinary research considers how selection in the context of large-scale factors can lead to systematic patterns in behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa, and in turn, influence macroecological patterns and processes. Macrobehaviour has the potential to enhance forecasts of future biodiversity change.

For anyone newly interested in #behaviour and/or #macroecology since #BES2024, check out our paper that outlines #Macrobehaviour - a merger of the two to address challenges of rapid env change www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Let's grow this community!

Green turtles in Lombok - Gili islands
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #pets #trawangan #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #turtle #greenturtle #turtles

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Bill to jail bosses of major polluters set to be introduced in Scotland The Ecocide Prevention Bill would impose harsh penalties on executives responsible for major environmental damage.

Bosses of major polluters could face jail time under Scotland's new Ecocide Prevention Bill. Making Scotland the first part of the UK able to properly sanction executives responsible for major environmental harm, like oil spills. #BigOil polluters, we're coming for you 🛢️🫵
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Frontiers | First satellite track of a juvenile shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Mediterranean Sea The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) is a highly mobile, coastal littoral, and epipelagic oceanic species broadly distributed in tropical, subtropical...

Frontiers | First satellite track of a juvenile shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Mediterranean Sea https://buff.ly/4gwKJS7

New protections for vulnerable shark and ray species in SA The State Government has introduced new rules for shark and ray fishing aimed at protecting vulnerable species from overfishing and preventing inhumane treatment.

New protections for vulnerable shark and ray species in SA - PIRSA https://buff.ly/3OPOWEs

Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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