My program is ending very soon. I thought I was going to hate Massachusetts because of the cold, but it's grown on me. I really hope I come back some day!

🤿 Portknockie earlier this week, the visibility wasn’t bad at all!
Lovely to see the new kelp growth looking golden in the sun!
🦞 Other highlights included a chilled out lobster and a well camouflaged sea scorpion.

#snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #scotlandunderwater

Happy Birthday!

I've actually seen little crochet lip balm holders. Tempted to make one so I stop losing them.

the question's not whether teenagers are interested in books, it's whether they have adequate time, support, bandwidth to take them seriously

This is advice for starting a research-based career in the U.S. and is not general life advice.

My general life advice is not to put your life on hold in pursuit of a graduate degree, and don’t worry about doing it fast.

Feel free to chime in with your own advice if you’ve got any.

Laerke the polar bear is making a splash while showing off her toy-stacking skills, because enrichment isn’t just play, it’s brainwork. Balancing, carrying, and arranging objects helps keep her mind and body active in ways that mirror natural behaviors. 🐻‍❄️

📸: Animal care staff Kacie

What do we love more than chunky orca babies? Chunky AIRBORNE orca babies! Check out these spectacular shots of 2-year-old T46B2B "Takaya" taken a few days ago in Port Susan, Washington by Bart Rulon of @pugetsoundexpress.com.

More whales are visiting Sydney out of season. Scientists debate why The first whales swimming north for the winter have already been spotted off the coast of Sydney, while artificial intelligence is helping reduce one of the marine mammals’ deadliest direct threats.

Piece in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social on whales off Sydney, and how to deal with vessel strike.
In 2018 when I led @fisheries.noaa.gov Northeast whale team, we won a US Public Sector Innovation Award for taking bleeding edge tech & making it simple to use for mitigating ship strike
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Personally looove enemies to lovers. But if I met someone like that in real life I would avoid avoid avoid

This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.

"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

2 Humpback Whales Spotted from the Air in Maui, Hawaii YouTube video by afarTV

today’s 4-minute movie off Maui: Humpback Elegance youtu.be/hTzAkaIBECw?...

Update: I am definitely hiring 2 PhD students; preference to those who can start spring 2027, but reach out if you’re looking to start in Fall 27.

Want to start earlier? Reach out and we can talk about technician positions starting as early as this summer.

congrats!!

Shoutout to Rice University for their researchers bringing us one step closer to addressing #PFAS pollution!

Review the research here: doi.org/10.1002/adma...

This simple design could save oyster reefs worldwide Oyster reefs aren’t random piles—they’re carefully shaped survival systems. Researchers discovered that certain geometric patterns, not just bigger or more complex structures, give young oysters the…

This simple design could save oyster reefs worldwide www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🌎🧪🦑

Stand against genocide of any people, of any culture or religion, anywhere. There are no excuses. There can be no place for eliminationist rhetoric by any one. Human rights are for all people, everywhere, all the time, with no exceptions.

A bar chart titled "CHRONIC ILLNESS LIFE" along the y-axis, illustrating the disparity between desire and physical ability. The chart features two bars: WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE: A very tall, bright pink bar that reaches nearly to the top of the chart. WHAT I CAN PHYSICALLY DO: A very short, small purple bar that barely sits above the x-axis. The image includes a small watermark for "@itsachronicthing_" on the right side.

@itsachronicthing_

Not only will you work on birds, but also bats, skinks, geckos & frogs. This research would come up with conservation strategies & a climate change extinction risk atlas for #NewZealand. Applications close 27th April 🦜🦇🦎🐸

Aquaculture is shifting toward less sustainable species: New study Aquaculture is increasingly relying on species that are less beneficial for food security, climate mitigation, and biodiversity.

“Aquaculture has enormous potential to support global food systems and environmental goals, but our findings show that current production trends are moving us in the wrong direction,” said UBC's Dr. William Cheung.
@ubcoceans.bsky.social

science.ubc.ca/news/2026-04...

seining for smaller animals and photo ID for larger animals! I've had to do both many times

"Be skeptical of unsourced or questionable-source news stories that you see on social media and try to confirm if they're actually true before sharing them" is excellent advice that does not just apply to April Fools Day.

The “Fraud Squad” is a more accurate name.

And this is horrible for Rice’s Whale and other endangered wildlife.

How squid survived Earth’s biggest extinction and took over the oceans Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre,…

How squid survived Earth’s biggest extinction and took over the oceans www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🧪🌎🦑

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, a day that makes it sound like trans people are magical beings who live unseen on the peripheries of your consciousness, which may be true for you (I don't know your life) but trans folks exist and need to work and use bathrooms safely and drive and have rights

Out now and led by the impeccable GJ Jeunen: a new way to squeeze #eDNA sequences from preserved natural samplers!
NO need to damage the old specimens: just take out the DNA leached into the ethanol!

Also: we have a new entry into the #nsDNA world: #bryozoa!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I've enjoyed both Prince of Thorns and The Only Good Indian through Libby! I'll be sure to check out the rest.

In the mood for something disturbing and scary (albeit fictional). Any grimdark or horror recommendations? #booksky #🩸

Well-meaning people are accidentally drowning tortoises Florida conservationists says well-meaning people are mistaking tortoises for turtles and putting them in the ocean.

"David, what do you mean it's a problem when well-intentioned but uninformed people try to guess how to solve a conservation problem?"

Happy #DolphinAwarenessMonth! Anyone else get confused with the taxonomy of Killer Whales and other whale species that are actually dolphins that are technically whales?
Meme by @awhalefact.bsky.social
#WhaleTales

It was International Day of the Seal yesterday and NOBODY told me?!