Dr. Florencia Cerutti

“Ocean Literacies,” a WIOMSA Magazine special edition, is calling for contributions. Submissions, which can include photostories, artworks, poems, stories, articles, or research summaries, are invited by July 31st, 2025. #WIOMSA2025 #OneOceanOneFuture

Today’s featured Important Shark and Ray Area (ISRA) is the Bita-Meta-Orinoco Confluence, within it reside the range-restricted and threatened Orinoco Discus Stringray. South American Inland Waters compendium: doi.org/10.59216/ssg.i… #shark #ray #chimaera #ISRA #conservation

Le Symposium international sur les récifs tempérés #ITRS 2025 débute aujourd'hui, à Brest. Amélia Curd, chercheuse en écologie marine à l'Ifremer, vous en dit plus sur ces récifs tempérés 👇

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Update We are seeking information on population trends for 3 mobulid species to Info@IUCN-SSG.org by 30 March 2025. Please feel free to share widely! Learn more here: iucnssg.org/faq.html #shark #ray #chimaera #conservation #research

#StandUpForScience2025 #suppprtscience #WomeninSTEM #sharkscience

🦈 Open Call for Proposals! 📅 Submission deadline: March 15, 2025 📩 Reviewed by our scientific panel—responses by April 2025 🔗 Click this link to access the submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 📸 (2-4) Daniel Fernando #SI2026

OPEN CALL for Sharks International 2026 proposals for keynote speakers, themed sessions and panels, workshops, and side events 📢 🦈 Please submit proposals via: forms.gle/9EiKJVncMoa7C9… Deadline: 15th March 2025

As we reflect on the global progress made in shark and ray conservation in 2024, we’re committed to continue to turn the tide in 2025! Explore our current and ongoing projects here: bit.ly/3uOqHQV And stay tuned for the SCF 2024 Impact Report!

📢 NEW SCIENCE ALERT! Global assessment of the manta and devil ray meat and gill plate trade! 🔗 Find out more by heading to our Research Portal! Infographic: Jasmine Corbett; illustrations by Marc Dando 📷 (1) Guy Stevens and (2,3) Simon Hilbourne

Four PhD scholarships to work on the Transforming Climate Action Project in collaboration with Dal, Laval, UQAR. Students will be based @marineinstitute @MemorialU in St. John's, Newfoundland 🇨🇦 Apply by Jan. 31, 2025 #PhD static1.squarespace.com/static/5d78088…

Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays buff.ly/49rZAKY " total shark and ray abundance has declined by half since 1970, and these declines have led to a loss of key ecological functions across marine ecosystems"

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @ScienceMagazine reveals that #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/GlobalSharkTre… Please SHARE & LIKE 🧵1/20

New paper! We use telemetry to identify behaviors of goliath grouper while they form seasonal spawning aggregations. We show how these behaviors change with the lunar cycle, temperatures and current strengths. int-res.com/abstracts/meps…

The IUCN’s report on the global status of sharks, rays and chimaeras: a crisis, but there are solutions - Save Our Seas Foundation buff.ly/49yhOLf

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node/5…

Pour découvrir les offres de stages et CDD en cours à l'@umrMARBEC, rendez-vous sur son site internet : #EmploiMARBEC #StagesMARBEC #CDD #biodiversiteMarine #Méditerranée #Tropiques 👉umr-marbec.fr/nous-rejoindre…

Good news! Our work has received over 1,000 views since publication! @BritFinucci @A_Hearn @DarwinFound @Diany_pj @physiologyfish @PelayoSalinas @MigraMar @PelagiosKakunja @amaukua @mespinozamen @_oscarsosa @squalusorg Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… #ViewsMilestone

📢 New Publication Alert! We’re excited to share our latest paper: ‘Shortfalls in the protection of Important Shark and Ray Areas undermine shark conservation efforts in the Central and South American Pacific.’ 🔗Read the full publication here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 New Publication Alert! A technical brief on important marine areas has just been released at the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (CoP 16) of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cali, Colombia.