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Francesco Garzon
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Ecologist and conservation biologist 🌊
PhD student at University of Exeter 🌊
2018 National Geographic explorer 🌊
Marine megafauna movement ecology 🦈🐢🐋
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exetermarine.bsky.social
Tag placement matters! 🦈📡

A new study led by @exeter.ac.uk uses water flow simulations to outline the effects of tag placement on sharks.

Full paper - www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

@garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social
🦑🐟🦈🌍🌐📡🌊🦤 #AcademicSky
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
For the past 4 years I have worked with a wonderful team of scientists and anglers to track sharks in recreational fisheries. With close to 70 tags deployed, we found that good angling practice can result in pretty high survival for sharks! 🦈🎣🌊
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
Four years, many tags, and even more written words later, my PhD thesis is DONE! 🎉 #biologging for #shark and #turtle ecology and conservation 🦈🐢🦑🧪 i have had a blast these past years at @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
Me holding my thesis at the (very busy) desk i occupied for the past 4 years Me sitting among a light projection of shark silhouettes
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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drcraigmc.bsky.social
Today I know I need to post some more cool deep-sea science but am feeling very resistant today. The best I can do is combine the two. A thread.
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
Attention #shark folks! Very cool job opp to study sharks in Scotland with a fantastic PI 🦈🐟🦑🧪
jathorburn.bsky.social James Thorburn @jathorburn.bsky.social · Feb 14
We're hiring a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University to join the SharkScape project, a three–year, multi-institute project involving field-based research and data analysis.

Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r...

#MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs
February 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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tonybicknell.bsky.social
Insightful paper led by colleagues at @exeter.ac.uk on behaviour of Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked from waters off the United Kingdom
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@exetermarine.bsky.social @twhorton.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @owenexeter.bsky.social #LucyHawkes
Annual migrations, vertical habitat use and fidelity of Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked from waters off the United Kingdom - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Annual migrations, vertical habitat use and fidelity of Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked from waters off the United Kingdom
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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weare.rladies.org
Happy #Monday! Here’s something fun to get the week off to a good start!

🔮 What R package would you be based on your #zodiac sign?

Let me know if these resonate! 👀✨ #rstats #rladies

🧵👇 (1/13)
February 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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cameratrapsue.bsky.social
Happy Winter Solstice!

These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.

Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.

The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds
A pinhole camera photo taken from Summer to Winter Solstice. It's a bit blurry as the aperture was made with a tiny needle and no focus mechanism. There are yellow to green lines across the photo, that's the Sun moving across the sky over the course of a day. The top line is from the Summer Solstice, the bottom line from the Winter Solstice. Cloudy days don't have any lines or broken lines as the Sun was obscured by clouds. There are some trees on the left, right and in the background. A pinhole camera photo, a 6 month exposure from Summer to Winter solstice. There are trees on the right side and background. A house with two cars in the drive are visible almost in the center of the photo. The lines are made from the Sun moving across the sky with the bottom line being the Winter Solstice and the top line the Summer solstice. On cloudy days the lines are broken or not visible as the sun was obscured by clouds. The lines show some reflections from a tree trunk. The lines are mostly a white color with some hints of blue, green and yellow in places. Some of the colors could be from rain or snow staining the paper I was using.
December 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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brendangodley.bsky.social
PLEASE REPOST: The fantastic conservation journal Endangered Species Research with all articles fully
#openaccess has just arrived @esr-ir.bsky.social
Please give it a follow. You wont regret it!
www.int-res.com/journals/esr...
#conservation #academicsky
🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡
December 21, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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pnas.org
Many air-breathing marine animals swim about three body diameters below the water’s surface, which reduces wave drag and saves energy during migration. The common pattern has implications for species conservation. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) swimming close to the surface of the water. Stock photo.
December 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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exetermarine.bsky.social
Want an easy way to stay up to date with what we're up to?

Follow our Exeter Marine feed to see posts from across our network. Be sure to like the feed too!

🦑🧪🌍🐠🦤🦈
exetermarine.bsky.social Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Nov 26
We have a new feed collating everything to do with the Exeter Marine research network! Make sure to tag us, or mention #ExeterMarine to appear on the list. 🦑🧪🌍

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December 12, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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shellspc.bsky.social
We're wrapping up Year 1 of our UK Blue Shark Tagging Project (www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...), and here are some highlights!
-2200 M tags deployed, all by recreational anglers
-1750 tag cards returned
-17 recaptures reported to date, maps below.
-Longest distance: 617 nm in 21 days!
December 11, 2024 at 8:04 PM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
Gotta love sunset fieldwork. Looking for #sharks in UK doesn’t always mean rain and gray weather 🙌 #trackingNotSlacking 🦈🧪🐠🌊
December 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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emilyjaneart.bsky.social
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
10 springtails leaping,
9 dance flies dancing,
8 ants a-milking,
7 wasps a-swimming,
6 flies a-laying,
5 gold beetles!
4 buzzing bees,
3 French worms,
2 turtle bugs,
And a painting of a small flea.

🦗🩰 🐡 #invertebrate #advent #ArtAdventCalendar
A photograph of a Staedtler 0.05 pigment liner and Posca pens around a sketchbook with colour cartoon illustrations of 10 leaping springtails. The springtails are stylized, bright orange with tiny cute black eyes. They are wearing pink and white tutu's and ballet shoes and are positioned in different leaping ballet poses!
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
When the weather keeps you from finding sharks, you find a distillery and paint the sharks instead! #shark #fieldwork #sciart 🦈🦑🌊
December 7, 2024 at 4:54 PM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
The awesome scientist and all-round lovely human behind this great paper is now on bluesky! @jlrudd.bsky.social give her a follow! #exetermarine 🦑🐠🧪🌊
November 30, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊
New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever!
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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tedvallance.bsky.social
I have eaten
The tuna
That was in
The Atlantic

And which
You were probably
Saving for your study

Forgive me
It was delicious
So sweet
And so cold
November 27, 2024 at 9:54 PM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊
New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever!
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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bd-stew.bsky.social
Yes, I love scallops, but I also love #sharks. Check out these movements of 'Tasha', the blue #shark whom we SPOT tagged off Cornwall in July. Huge thanks to Skipper Chippy, NOAA Fisheries, @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluedogfishing.bsky.social @hannahrudd.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social 🦈
November 26, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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polarbiome.bsky.social
New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels

Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇
Mapping Arctic Marine Mammals: understanding the distribution of species in a rapidly changing north
iapetus2.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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bd-stew.bsky.social
Today I am celebrating #worldfisheriesday an arena that has formed the basis of my career. Throughout this time I've been lucky enough to be involved in numerous #fishing industry - #science partnerships, a fantastic way to share knowledge, & to build trust & respect. It's also fun! #fisheries 🐟
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 AM
garzonfrancesco.bsky.social
Share your blue art! 💙

With #sharks of course! #sciart 🦑🦈🐠
November 21, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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jdpye.bsky.social
If you're a fish or marine telemetry person, this is a great time to follow a few of the network accounts, like @glatos-fish.bsky.social , @factnetwork.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social , and of course my personal favourite @oceantracking.bsky.social .

Let them know you're glad they're here!
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I’m working on a starter pack of ocean science and conservation accounts who post regularly and cover a variety of geographic and disciplinary perspectives.

Follow these fine folks. 🦑🌎🧪🐠

go.bsky.app/HYBnbQn
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM