Julia Türtscher
julia-tuertscher.bsky.social
Julia Türtscher
@julia-tuertscher.bsky.social
Dr. rer. nat. | Paleoichthyologist at @univie.ac.at studying the evolutionary history of #sharks and #rays. 🦈
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Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?

You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni

🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
August 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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PhD opportunity:

I am looking for a PhD student to study taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes and other coral reef taxa. Successful applicants will be jointly based at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute.
January 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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We have a new paper out reviewing the 🦕 🦖 dinosaur track sites of the UK & their cultural & scientific significance - read this 🧵 thread for more details! #EarthHeritage
January 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...
January 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#GreekRedList

68% of #sharks, 48% of #rays, and the chimaera of the #Greek seas are at risk of extinction!

In fact, 14 of these species are one step away from extinction and assessed as "CR"

🔗Find more about sharks, rays and chimaera in Greek seas here: isea.com.gr/sharks-rays-...
January 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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BIG NEWS!

For the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!

Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable folks from around the US to get local projects off the ground.

Learn more & apply at bit.ly/scienceirl
January 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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OPEN CALL for Sharks International 2026 proposals for keynote speakers, themed sessions and panels, workshops, and side events 📢 🦈
Please submit proposals via: forms.gle/9EiKJVncMoa7...
Deadline: 15th March 2025
January 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A new True Facts about Rays - youtu.be/DbaiBY8De54?...
True Facts: Rays, The Floppy Sombreros of the Sea
YouTube video by Ze Frank
youtu.be
December 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM
🎉 Happy New Year 2025! 🦈
Start your year with some shark science: Our new study explores a rare YOY white shark sighting in the Adriatic Sea. Check it out!
👉 doi.org/10.3390/fish...
#SharkScience #WhiteShark #Shark 🌊
New Evidence for the Contemporary Presence of Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Adriatic Sea
The presence of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Mediterranean Sea is well documented, but mainly through historical and opportunistic records. Historically, the Adriatic Sea, particula...
doi.org
January 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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New paper by Dr Lydia Koehler @iucnshark.bsky.social and Jason Lowther - a region-wide assessment of actions for sharks and rays in the Mediterranean in the context of international law - phys.org/news/2025-01...
Despite over 200 conservation measures, Mediterranean sharks still face extinction threats
Overfishing, illegal fishing and increasing marketing of shark meat pose significant threats to the more than 80 species of sharks and rays that inhabit the Mediterranean Sea, according to a study pub...
phys.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Tiger sharks are amazing.

#marinife 🦑 🦈 🐠
January 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Shark Ecologist Job - The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands is recruiting a Shark Movement Ecologist to join our shark research team and strengthen the ongoing long-term research on shark population ecology and conservation. 🦑🌎🐟🧪🦈 www.darwinfoundation.org/en/documents...
December 19, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Hello bsky! We are hiring two Postdocs
@floridamuseum.bsky.social !
1) Paleo + AI (NSF-funded, with
@blochlab.bsky.social ): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

2) AI for Biology (open-ended): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Deadline Jan 15th. Please, RT! See also www.biovisionlab.com
BioVision Lab
www.biovisionlab.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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We want you to work with us!

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
December 17, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Check out the mesmerizing moment - a crocodile embryo hatching from its egg! 🥚🐊

Our new research in @natureportfolio.bsky.social reveals how compressive forces, rather than gene interactions, sculpt their intricate head scales - learn more here ⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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This is the face of a shark! I've stained the mineralised tissues to show that their teeth and scales are both made of the same enamel-like material 🦈 🦷 🧪
December 11, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology
November 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM