Shark Science: How International Trade Fuels Unsustainable Shark and Ray Fisheries YouTube video by Beyond Jaws Podcast

Had a great time chatting to the Beyond Jaws podcast about shark and ray biodiversity and threats. Thanks for having me!

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Couldn’t have had a better time at the #ASIHin3D symposium! @hannahoish.bsky.social and @fishyhayes.bsky.social put together a fantastic group and I was honored to be included. 🦈 🧠

What an amazing symposium!!

Put Down the Scalpel: Advancing our understanding of the brain of elasmobranchs using 3D bioimaging

Kara Yopak @profsharkbrain.bsky.social talking on "Put Down the Scalpel: Advancing our understanding of the brain of elasmobranchs using 3D bioimaging" #JMIH25 #ASIHin3D

Haha - you know it!

The act of writing can serve many purposes. It can be used to inform. It can be used to resist. It can be used to heal. Jasmin Graham & I wrote an essay about our terminated NSF grant, and hopefully, it accomplishes some of those goals.

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Most of us in higher ed in the US are going to lose something over the next four years (opportunities, or funding, or time). But if we believe universities exist, in part, to preserve historical memory and create a space for dissent, our primary job right now is to fight and take the hit.

Awww I hope to see you at a meeting soon!!

I was a baby undergrad…a huge accomplishment for me. My second paper was shark brains. But the lobster paper was instrumental into getting accepted into my doctoral program. 🧠👃 🦞

Hahah - this is why you’re my favorite…

Okay, so it was work done through a summer REU: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...

Right?? It was as an undergrad… but I am forever grateful for my start in door plume tracking!

Ohhh will dig mine up! Spoiler: it’s on lobsters….

Hope to see you in four years! 😕

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

Good story on all the carnage with quotes from @aaas.org CEO Sudip Parikh. www.science.org/content/arti...

You’re the best dude! Figuring this out slowly… 🤣

Thank you!!

It had to happen eventually 🦈 🧠

Here’s hoping this place is better