Two papers I contributed to, published online on the same day! Both on large charismatic fish from the North Sea: Sharks and Sturgeons! 🦈🦈
Sharks and rays: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sturgeons: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Getting this published was a long process, and taught us a lot. We initially made an error in the primer design of our new 2kb 12S-16S amplicon. This was fortunately identified by a added new reviewer in the third review round. So all experiments had to be repeated with updated, correct primers...

Ik zag laatst op Planken Wambuis dit donkere dier. Maar die had meer de grootte van de reebok wat het samen mee stond te grazen...

I sequenced and assembled the full mitochondrial DNA of the angular crab (Goneplax rhomboides) using the @nanoporetech.com #MinION #Mk1D, so #nanopore only. The raw read quality really is amazing, and the assembly looks perfect!
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PQ64...

My baby Small-spotted catsharks are still happy, and so much fun to watch!

These are juvenile small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) hatched in August this year. So cool!

Today I got some new guests in my home aquarium! #babyshark #doo-doo-doo

We recently published a forum article in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on "Edge computing in wildlife behavior and ecology". One of the presented cases is our biodiversity/fish sensing box:
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Great manuscript by Wageningen University PhD-student Annemiek Hermans on the "Effect of electromagnetic fields from subsea power cables on elasmobranch behaviour" now available at @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...