We've had a blast at the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic week! 🐟🐠🦈

Ft. talks from
@cbenkwitt.bsky.social
@lljeannot.bsky.social
@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social
@james-robinson.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to James Boon for passing his viva today with flying colours!

James' thesis is titled 'The role of refuges in coral reef ecosystems and biological invasions'.

You can read one of his chapters here: doi.org/10.1111/geb...., with more to come soon!

@jamesboon.bsky.social 🪸🤖🐟👁️

We're at #RCUK2024! Ft.

@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social plenary on spawning grouper

@netlab.bsky.social on reef shark residency in El Nino

@lljeannot.bsky.social seabird nutrients and cryptobenthic fish

Visiting researchers Anish Paul on fish predation, Jane Sudrajat & Maserati on coral restoration

The amazing @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social presents her work on squaretail grouper in Lakshadweep archipelago.

🐟First recorded aggregation in India
🐟Highest densities in the world
🐟 Emerging fisheries & fish trade
🐟 80% population decline
🐟 Less aggression, more fear

#RCUK2024

#NewPaper led by masters graduate Sam Healing: doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Sam & the team (@cbenkwitt.bsky.social , @ruthedunn.bsky.social, @nickajgraham.bsky.social) showed that seabird-vectored nutrients are integrated into temperate rocky shores, such as those surrounding the Farne Islands, UK

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Another year, another amazing #RCUK2033!

Huge thanks to the Reef Conservation UK committee, and the team at Newcastle University for hosting - we had a blast.

Seabirds help corals grow twice as fast, recovering coral populations following an extreme marine heatwave.

Check out our new paper in Science Advances here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...