Simran Kaur Rupra 🇬🇧
@sharkysimmy.bsky.social
Shark Specialist (population genomics) & verified marine nerd 🦈🪸
MSc Zoology with Marine Zoology 🐚
British Brummie currently working in white shark conservation & population genetics, South Africa 🇿🇦
#SavetheBlue 🌊
MSc Zoology with Marine Zoology 🐚
British Brummie currently working in white shark conservation & population genetics, South Africa 🇿🇦
#SavetheBlue 🌊
A throwback to the days of sampling/photographing bronze whaler sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus) whilst hanging off boat platforms 🥲🤙🏽🦈
#PhDjourney #conservationgenetics #gansbaai
#PhDjourney #conservationgenetics #gansbaai
April 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A throwback to the days of sampling/photographing bronze whaler sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus) whilst hanging off boat platforms 🥲🤙🏽🦈
#PhDjourney #conservationgenetics #gansbaai
#PhDjourney #conservationgenetics #gansbaai
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Fisheries management can work if given a chance!
Remarkable management success story of recovery in all three species of bluefin tuna over the past 20 years, and possibly future impacts of climate change
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Saving bluefin tuna: The sushi delicacy threatened by climate change
Once pushed to the brink of extinction by overfishing, bluefin tuna has experienced a spectacular rebound in recent years. But can it survive the onslaught of climate change?
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Fisheries management can work if given a chance!
Hey Bluesky 👋 I'm a #shark specialist - lovely to meet all you fellow #fish lovers! 😍🐠
Let's kick off my first #sharkscience post with a #fintastic white shark research photo! 🥳
First tough question... What's your favourite shark, and why? 🦈🤔
Let's kick off my first #sharkscience post with a #fintastic white shark research photo! 🥳
First tough question... What's your favourite shark, and why? 🦈🤔
December 12, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Hey Bluesky 👋 I'm a #shark specialist - lovely to meet all you fellow #fish lovers! 😍🐠
Let's kick off my first #sharkscience post with a #fintastic white shark research photo! 🥳
First tough question... What's your favourite shark, and why? 🦈🤔
Let's kick off my first #sharkscience post with a #fintastic white shark research photo! 🥳
First tough question... What's your favourite shark, and why? 🦈🤔
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Next June is the 20th Anniversary conference for the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society. The website is live (www.oceaniasharks.com.au/conference-2...).
Sunshine Coast 16-19 June.
Will be a great #sharkscience event, including plenaries from Christine Dudgeon, Adam Barnett and me.
Sunshine Coast 16-19 June.
Will be a great #sharkscience event, including plenaries from Christine Dudgeon, Adam Barnett and me.
OCS Conference 2025 | OCS 2025
Shark, Ray and Chimaera Science conference
www.oceaniasharks.com.au
December 11, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Next June is the 20th Anniversary conference for the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society. The website is live (www.oceaniasharks.com.au/conference-2...).
Sunshine Coast 16-19 June.
Will be a great #sharkscience event, including plenaries from Christine Dudgeon, Adam Barnett and me.
Sunshine Coast 16-19 June.
Will be a great #sharkscience event, including plenaries from Christine Dudgeon, Adam Barnett and me.
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Thanks @ma-sharks.bsky.social for the flashback, this was an incredible necropsy made possible by your dedication to securing these fish when they wash ashore.
Here are some other photos from today. If you'd like to see more, check out photographer Michael Snow's pictures here: www.msnowphoto.com/Porbeagle-Sh...
December 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Thanks @ma-sharks.bsky.social for the flashback, this was an incredible necropsy made possible by your dedication to securing these fish when they wash ashore.
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“When he showed up, was it like, ‘Oooh, sexy foreigner with a cool accent’?”
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Citizen science photos of flukeprints show a humpback whale swam from Colombia in the Pacific all the way to Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, between two distinct breeding populations
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Citizen science photos of flukeprints show a humpback whale swam from Colombia in the Pacific all the way to Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, between two distinct breeding populations
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Humpback whale makes record journey of more than 13,000km from South America to Africa
Research done with the help of citizen science shows male humpback completed almost twice the typical migration distance
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:44 AM
“When he showed up, was it like, ‘Oooh, sexy foreigner with a cool accent’?”
🐋
Citizen science photos of flukeprints show a humpback whale swam from Colombia in the Pacific all the way to Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, between two distinct breeding populations
🦑🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🐋
Citizen science photos of flukeprints show a humpback whale swam from Colombia in the Pacific all the way to Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, between two distinct breeding populations
🦑🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Yesterday was another successful day working w/ artisanal fishers of Balneário Camboriú’s Central beach, here in southern Brazil 🇧🇷 14 cownose rays (Rhinoptera spp.) came in this beach seine operation, and all of them were quickly released! #iconicoceans @MISS_Elasmo
December 11, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Yesterday was another successful day working w/ artisanal fishers of Balneário Camboriú’s Central beach, here in southern Brazil 🇧🇷 14 cownose rays (Rhinoptera spp.) came in this beach seine operation, and all of them were quickly released! #iconicoceans @MISS_Elasmo
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First satellite track of a juvenile shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Mediterranean Sea 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Frontiers | First satellite track of a juvenile shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Mediterranean Sea
The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) is a highly mobile, coastal littoral, and epipelagic oceanic species broadly distributed in tropical, subtropical...
www.frontiersin.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM
First satellite track of a juvenile shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Mediterranean Sea 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
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A year ago I published a short letter about the difficulties of calling out toxic behaviour in #academia
It ended with a call to academic leaders "to prioritize integrity over reputation" - 12 months on, it is a call worth repeating
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
It ended with a call to academic leaders "to prioritize integrity over reputation" - 12 months on, it is a call worth repeating
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 4:19 PM
A year ago I published a short letter about the difficulties of calling out toxic behaviour in #academia
It ended with a call to academic leaders "to prioritize integrity over reputation" - 12 months on, it is a call worth repeating
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
It ended with a call to academic leaders "to prioritize integrity over reputation" - 12 months on, it is a call worth repeating
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social