Hello, everyone! I recently attended the American Elasmobranch Society conference, the world's largest annual gathering of shark, skate and ray scientists. Along with several other members, I shared updates from the conference in real-time with followers all over the world using twitter. I've now added each of the conference tweets to a "Storify", which organizes them and allows people to easily read them even if they are unfamiliar with twitter.
If anyone is interested in learning more about using twitter as a tool for science outreach, I recently had a paper published about this topic- please let me know if you are interested in receiving a copy. Here are links to each of the American Elasmobranch Society tweets, organized by conference session theme and by talk. Each talk's abstract is included, along with links to learn more about the study species or lab. If you have a question about any of the research I've shared on twitter, please leave it as a comment at the bottom and I'll make sure the presenter sees it. President Lara Ferry's plenary, Elasmobranchs in Biological Research: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13604 Deepwater Chondrichthyans Symposium http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13605 Elasmobranch Behavior: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13610 Elasmobranch Anatomy, Development and Physiology http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13617 Elasmobranch Genetics: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13633 Gruber award (best student presentation) talks http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13625 Elasmobranch Conservation: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13632 Elasmobranch Ecology: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13634 Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Sincerely, -- *David Shiffman* *Ph.D. Student, Research Assistant,* Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy <http://www.cesp.miami.edu/> R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program <http://rjd.miami.edu/> [image: RJD] *e: *[email protected] | *p: *412.915.2309 *a: *4600 Rickenbacker Cswy, Miami, Florida, 33149 *t: *@WhySharksMatter <http://twitter.com/#!/WhySharksMatter> | *b: *Southern Fried Science Blog <http://www.southernfriedscience.com/>
