Some of our PhD REEFs researchers had an exciting week at #ISBE2026 presenting their PhD work for the first time🎉 Stella & @mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social shared insights on eel movement and sociality 🐍 Victoria explored the global biogeography of reef fish behaviour 🐠 Congratulations Team!🌊

A busy week for LECREEFS at #ICRS2026🪸 A plenary from @christinahicks.bsky.social & talks from @cherfychow.bsky.social @lisagoberdhan.bsky.social @lljeannot.bsky.social Khatija & @nickajgraham.bsky.social about diversity patterns, cryptofauna distributions & pelagic subsidies to coral reefs 🪸🐠

@christinahicks.bsky.social, @anastasiasmith.bsky.social, @fmc1.bsky.social and Omokotu attended the 11th Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa! 🪸 Ana spoke about Kenyan reef fishery governance 🐟 Christina delivered a wonderful keynote speech & moderated several sessions representing @oceana.bsky.social

Seattle updates! @lljeannot.bsky.social attended a cryptobenthic fish taxonomy workshop at the University of Washington, led by Luke Tornabene, @chrisgoatley.bsky.social, Diego Vaz & @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social, to learn about delineation, descriptions, phylogenetics, CT scanning & more📊🐠👩

@james-robinson.bsky.social & @bwoodhead.bsky.social at the PICES SPF Symposium!🐟 Beth spoke on distal drivers of SPF fishing pressure🎣 James ran a workshop on nutrition in SPF value chains & presented @crisruanocha.bsky.social work on fishmeal factory impacts on fish consumption in West Africa🐟

Last week our fantastic PhD student @nyxonrf.bsky.social attended the @thembauk.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference in Newcastle! Nyxon presented her first thesis poster, highlighting data from Kew Herbarium @rbgkew.bsky.social on the photosynthetic diversity of seagrass Well Done Nyxon! 🐠🐚🌊

Last week some of our PhDs attended Envision's student conference in Windermere Khatija Alliji, @bwoodhead.bsky.social, @anastasiasmith.bsky.social & @nadia-hamilton.bsky.social spoke on topics from coral reefs to pelagic systems 🎣🪸 AND alumni @markh22.bsky.social joined a panel on post-PhD life 🎓

This international women’s day we celebrate the inspiring women that are part of, and work alongside our group. The UN’s theme for #IWD is “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”- learn more here: www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol... 👩🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🎓👩🏾‍🏫👩🏼‍💻

🎙️ The fabulous @mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social was recently invited to talk on the Impact Storytelling Podcast about her research exploring the hidden social lives of the endangered European eel! 📊 👩‍💻🛥️ Listen now on YouTube & Spotify: tinyurl.com/Eelpodcast 🎧

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 🐦💩🌱

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/...