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Neil Cook
@neildcook.bsky.social
Planet Ocean Inhabitant, Ocean lover, Sharks, Blue Mind, Research and Conservation, BRUVS
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Thanks team for a great week of fieldwork collecting BRUVS & eDNA data for @cbmwc.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social DolphinDietDetectives project.
🌊🐟🐬🐠🦀
@neildcook.bsky.social @hannahvallin.bsky.social @guibortolotto.bsky.social
A break in the storms let us head out on the water in Cardigan Bay 🌊. Gathering BRUVS & eDNA data for our #DolphinDietDetectives project. 🐬
 #NatureNetworks #MarineConservation
@aberdlsagb.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Beautiful morning for a day on the sea in Cardigan Bay. 🌊🐬🐟
Off to collect data for @cbmwc.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social #NatureNetworksFund project #DolphinDietsDetectives with
@neildcook.bsky.social @guibortolotto.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Next bit of fieldwork with @sarahperry.bsky.social, @cbmwc.bsky.social and co is just around the corner - watch this space! 💙 🦈 🌊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
It's thrilling to see an angelshark swim past a camera in Cardigan Bay, Wales. First sighting in years!

As I wrote in What the Wild Sea Can Be, angelsharks are critically endangered but they are certainly not gone. There's so much to fight for in our ocean 💙🌊🦑🦈
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critically endangered angel shark filmed off Welsh coast
First sighting in Cardigan Bay since 2021 of the species, which is under threat from human activities
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Goosebumps moment when this #angelshark cruised past our #BRUVS - such a thrill to work with this team on this brilliant project! Excited for more sampling and future findings - watch this space! #criticallyendangered #sharks #sharkscience #marineconservation
Our underwater cameras in Cardigan Bay give an incredible insight into our seabeds in West Wales. They recently captured an Angelshark, one of the world's rarest & most threatened shark species! 🦈

Read the full story: champ.ly/RIUSW4c3

📸CBMWC

@aberdlsagb.bsky.social @neildcook.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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July 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A great day getting to know the locals and the local history in a beautiful part of Portugal
The resident population of bottlenose #dolphins in Sado estuary (PT), great day with @sarahperry.bsky.social and @neildcook.bsky.social! 🐬😍🐋

📷 Ines Carvalho

#marineconservation #marinemammals #cetacean #marinewildlife #portugal #photography
June 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Excited for the next round of fieldwork with this crew in a couple of weeks!
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Always a joy being on the sea in Cardigan Bay - even better when doing some #science with @cbmwc.bsky.social and co!
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A behind the scenes look into our #DolphinDietDetectives BRUVS deployment 🐬

We're collecting eDNA water samples & underwater footage to discover more about the availability of potential dolphin prey species 🐠

This project has been made possible thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworksFund 🙏
March 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Happy to share some more #sharkscience from my #PhD, recently published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

We used smallspotted #catsharks (n = 49) as a model species for Northeast Atlantic elasmobranchs to demonstrate regional applicability of LA-ICP-MS to investigate habitat use.
March 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Yesterday our new #globalsharktrends paper came out in @science.org
@nickdulvy.bsky.social did a great thread on the paper and included some GIFs that we had made but they did not play here on @bsky.app
I'm hoping this now works.
Status change through time...
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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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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December 5, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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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...
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Remote underwater video is a great non-invasive way of sampling the aquatic world. Here are some researchers using this method.

Let me know if you want to be added #BRUVS #RUVS 🧪🌎🦑🦈🐟🐠

go.bsky.app/2HSH6Cg
November 18, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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As a newbie here I'll post recent(ish) research shorturl.at/PSW7r

𝐁𝐲𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 (𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬) 
w @sosbangor.bsky.social fisheries team

10,741 pots, 4+years, all seasons: 1529 fish, 30 species

Most frequent fish: a 🐱🦈 species (bullhuss/nursehound)
November 28, 2024 at 9:14 AM
First post (gulp) is some #PhD #SharkScience work recently published.

Working with @cbmwc.bsky.social we use #BRUVS to document heterogeneous habitat use in nursehounds and smallspotted catsharks in #CardiganBay UK - temporal niche partitioning may facilitate coexistence but more research is needed
November 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM