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Posts by Erin LaBrecque (she/her)
If you or someone you know is in want/need of help with Thanksgiving, check these places out and feel free to share this any and everywhere 😊
Here's links too!
www.thepeoplescompass.org/thanksgiving and www.thepeoplescompass.org/holidays
#thanksgiving #holidaygifts #SNAP #nh50501 #50501movement
The best decision I've made recently: rereading Starter Villain by @scalzi.com
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
🚨 A new study has found alarmingly high levels of “forever chemicals” (PFAS) in dead sea otters along the Pacific Coast, with concentrations more than 3 x higher near urban and shipping hubs.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#seaotters #seaotter #otter #marinescience #marinebiology #marinemammals
Timeline cleanse. Kotzebue sound today, around 4pm
Perspective! Holy...
I don't know if that biggie is going to freak out the dinghy sailors, cause confusion, or insight a race! 😂 Oof, that's a lot of ship.
Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily
You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
If you need a little pep in your step.
youtu.be/PmDxy_RDrQA?...
⚠️ A massive harmful algal bloom has impacted Southern California for months, sickening hundreds of marine animals. Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System director & Scripps Oceanography biological oceanographer Clarissa Anderson shares more about the event for @insideclimatenews.org. ⬇️
The President's budget proposed the elimination of the Marine Mammal Commission 🐳🐬🧪
See Chair's response here:
myemail.constantcontact.com/MMC-Proposed...
It's been 22 years since the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain, and we’re revisiting a few stories of where he came from in the first place.
He’s a symbol of the state of New Hampshire. Almost all of us know how he fell, but how was the Old Man created?
📍 New maps show dramatic shifts in North Atlantic right whale distribution (2003–2019) 🐋
Built from MGEL’s monthly models, these maps are now live on the MARCO & Northeast Ocean Data Portals—offering fine-scale insights for ocean planning.
🔗 portal.midatlanticocean.org
#SpatialEcology
ICYMI, I have a piece in the conversation about President Trump’s disastrous executive orders related to the ocean. No not that one, the other one.
Don't forget to breathe. ☺️
In March, GOBI and the IUCN High Seas Specialist Group co-hosted a 3-day workshop at Duke University, uniting 30+ global experts to advance ecologically representative ABMTs for the high seas and support #BBNJ implementation.
📚 Learn more: gobi.org/newsletter/
Three women doing a cold water dip in a lake still partially frozen. All have warm hats on.
A little self care today with two amazing ladies. They are showing me the ropes of safe ice water dipping in our local lake.
In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.
The eclipse will be visible from the Washington, D.C., area up to Maine and parts of Canada and across the Atlantic Ocean to portions of Africa and Europe, according to a map from NASA.
It will begin before sunrise in the U.S. and end shortly after 7 a.m. ET.
🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
The #scicomm group COMPASS is offering a free communication workshop on April 2 for current or former government workers - federal, state, and local levels www.compassscicomm.org/event/sharin...
spData logo
The shapefiles are gone! 🎉
The {spData} package has officially dropped all datasets in the shapefile format, moving toward modern and efficient geospatial data standards. 🚀🌍
Upgrade your workflows with {spData}: https://buff.ly/4htZ5D3
#rspatial #rstats #GIS #Geocompx
Jazz hands 🤗🤗🤗 Also known as HUGS!!!!
Animal movement workshop alert! A line of speakers difficult to beat with John Fieberg, Marie Auger-Méthé, Brett McClintock & Inês Silva and the location is definitely a place that makes you "move" for it: lovely Madeira. 19-23 May 2025. Just after the ECS in Azores. It's PT islands 2025. See you?
We need to have a conversation about wombats! Also, please stop using koalas as a measuring unit. Still the best thing on the interwebs.
@theoatmeal.bsky.social
theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats
Whilst we have had a great field season and have deployed 11 tags in two days on elephant seals 🦭, we can’t ignore the unthinkable amount of plastic in this, one of the most isolated areas of the world.
To all of my 🌊 and 🐕peeps breaking up my feed with cute photos and inspiring science - thank you!