Elasmo research student @MUniResearch, Ningaloo. Nature nerd. Happy underwater with camera. Reluctant cheese lover. Founder @fin_focus_
Joined January 2022
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28 Jul 2022
Very grateful and happy to receive the @OceaniaSharks Student Research Grant this year 🙏 Looking forward to learning more about Wedgefish with @KarissaLear @FreshFishMurd @MUniResearch And Charlie 💙
27 Jul 2022
🏆 Award Announcement 🏆
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Bateman-John (@Recesito) is the winner of the 2022 OCS Student Research Grant!!!
Thank you to everyone who submitted an application this year. Rebecca will receive $2000 to assist with her research on #wedgefish.
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
24 Apr 2025
📢I am very excited to finally share what feels like the most important paper of my career so far - the world's first randomized controlled trial of #marine #conservation incentives - out now in @ScienceMagazine's Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Citizen science highlights rare behaviours by the spotted eagle ray Aetobatus ocellatus
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17 Aug 2024
So happy to get this research out😃Special thanks to @KarissaLear & Carlos Estrabeau for being the best team members & #wedgefish wranglers💙@OceaniaSharks @MUniResearch @FreshFishMurd @CSIRO @Minderoo @artemisfilms @IMOS_AUS
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
1 Jul 2024
The global status of leopard sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) was recently assessed by the @IUCNRedList in 2023 & the latest update published just several days ago. The species remains #Endangered (EN) based on the A2bcd criteria.
👉🏼 Full assessment here: iucnredlist.org/species/4187…
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
2 Jul 2024
Hey Australian shark scientists, does anyone recognize these dart tags? Just found by a fish processor on a spinner (green) and tiger (yellow) shark. They are not ours (at least from my time in WA), could they be from the east coast? @SharkColin what do you think?
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
21 May 2024
Together with our Indonesian partners at the Protection Initiation Workshop organized by @kkpgoid & @KonservasiID, & with the StAR Project serving as a catalyst, we’re proud to have taken the first significant step in getting leopard sharks protected at a national level. 💪🏽🦈🇮🇩
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
22 Mar 2024
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥 🚨
New research on #wedgefish led by @brooke_dalberto in @ESR_IR's special "Global status of wedgefish and guitarfish".
This study provides the first preliminary species-specific life history info for R. australiae.
Paper here ➡️ doi.org/10.3354/esr01294
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
25 Mar 2024
Huge congratulations to @artemisfilms and crew winning Documentary Program or Series Production of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia Awards for Ningaloo Nyinggulu.
Watch the the three-part documentary series on iview to see wonders of Exmouth Gulf and Ningaloo.
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
16 Jan 2024
Congrats @Recesito for a great first paper highlighting a global hotspot for threatened #rhinorays in Western Australia - #ExmouthGulf keeps on giving!
doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4047
@MUniResearch @FreshFishMurd. Thanks @protectningaloo, Cape Conservation Group, @minderoo
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
11 Oct 2023
🚨New Paper 🚨
We document the stomach eversion and retraction by a captured and tagged tiger shark.
Check out the video in the thread below and DM me if you need access to the article!
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
10 Jul 2023
This Friday (July 14th) is #SharkAwarenessDay , and this year we're focusing on the #RhinoRay (Sawfish, Guitarfish, Wedgefish, and Banjo Rays).
They're some of the most threatened fish that many have never heard of, so join us for a day of celebration and awareness-raising!
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9 Jul 2023
🥺😍💙
7 Jul 2023
Obscure shark 5: Angular Roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), AKA Chonk Shark, AKA Mr. Chonkasaurus. Count Chonkula challenges the idea of how a shark is "supposed" to be shaped. LOOK AT HIM! #DiverseSharks
ALT Oddly shaped shark with pig nose and a high-arched back. Grey-brown rough skin. Held in one hand. 📷 Joanna Franke
ALT Generously apportioned shark with high arching back and grey/brown rough skin. Sitting on a wooden pier. 📷 Isola d’Elba App/Facebook
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
6 Jul 2023
We have some FIN-tastic news to share! We’re so ecstatic that StAR Program Manager Nesha Ichida is on the cover of @NGIndonesia, representing ReShark in the July issue! The issue will hit store shelves in Indonesia in the coming weeks.
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25 Jun 2023
Amazing 😻🥺💙
23 Jun 2023
Nesha Ichida has helped build the ReShark program from the ground up. She’s helped construct the life support systems for the shark hatcheries, trained the aquarists, watched the first pups hatch and monitored their growth before releasing them into marine-protected waters.
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
22 Jun 2023
Interested in further research? Send us an email: fish@murdoch.edu.au
We have 25 years experience in the field in northern WA
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29 May 2023
Woohoo!!!
25 May 2023
The next zebra shark reared in the ReShark program is set to be released in the coming weeks. But what happens to the sharks once they’re released into the wild? Researchers use tags to find out.
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
25 May 2023
📖 Read the recently released article written by @mel_pud for @NatGeo about the Manta Trust's ground-breaking discovery of the world's first manta ray pregnancy in the wild using a contactless underwater ultrasound scanner.
on.natgeo.com/4348w5h
#MantaTrust #UltrasoundScanner
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
25 May 2023
Super happy that my second PhD chapter is now published! 🥳 new insights into the complex movement patterns of bull sharks with implications for marine predator movement in general! #phd #science #sharks #marine #MovementEcology
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
19 May 2023
free, non for profit and open access (for all) journals so anyone can access the latest knowledge and information...let's do this
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Rebecca Bateman-John retweeted
8 May 2023
New paper out: growth of green sawfish culminating from several years of recaptures in a very special part of the world - another example of the amazing northwestern Australian sawfish lifeboat!
link.springer.com/article/10…
@MUniResearch @FreshFishMurd
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