This might be the coolest origin story of any music genre.

It's Out! To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea: thehill.com/opinion/nati...

Hartford? The Whale? They only win the Stanley Cup once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

US science for the next few decades.

Well this is all horrible. 🧪

I got a whole MSc by looking through non-lethally collected dogfish shark stomach contents. More commonly known as puke.

Dusky sharks, an apex predator similar to great white sharks, are expected to be active off Cape Cod this summer amid a historic comeback for the species, experts say.

This seems relevant to @panic.gay’s interests.

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

New scene in Avengers: Endgame. This is canon now and ties into Doomsday.

From NC? Join me in writing. NC has 4 National Forests: Croatan, Uwharrie, Nantahala and Pisgah — and they are are full of wild places to hike, hunt, camp, raft and fish.

The music hill I’m wiling to die on that a lot of people don’t expect is that the Dave Matthews Band is good, actually.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

Mark it on your calendars, fellow elasmo-nerds! Also if you’re planning on joining in on the bony fish and herpetology sides of JMIH 2026.

After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Psyched to be a co-author on this new paper led by @shannonbarry.bsky.social that uses genetics to prove that North Carolina’s baby bull sharks used to be Florida’s. 🦈🐟🦤🧪🦑 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

Do you have any idea what NOAA could be if it had a $200 billion budget?

The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF

Highly recommend starting a group chat about a niche hobby and including one person who does not do that hobby.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Warren Buffet also appears to be objectively happier and less of a miserable ghoul desperately begging for accolades on his own social media platform than some the others on this list. Makes you think.

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

At work, we often anaesthetise, perform surgery on, and tag juvenile fish. We wanted to find out if these procedures impact their oxygen consumption in the following days. Good news, we didn't find cause for concern! 🙂 Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Decline is not inevitable. Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering. Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

An advantage that Trumpy Republicans have is that it's very difficult to accurately describe what they're doing without sounding like you're a deranged hyper-partisan! Example: "They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

🦈 #shark The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected "Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark" share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...

You have to look past the fact that this is an attempt to project confidence and power and see it for what it is: an open admission of weakness and desperation. Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

As an American, I fully endorse this sentiment.

So everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels. publications.gc.ca/collections/...

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

Still ruthlessly promoting this, so start 2026 off with some shark rock! Available on a bunch of streaming services and buying yourself a copy on Bandcamp directly supports the making of more of this kind of music. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...

"Let's Look Back on 2025: Year in Review" wow no thank you, once was plenty

On both personal and professional levels 2025 has mostly been a major unplanned and unwanted reset, but here’s a thing I managed to accomplish that I’m very happy to get out.

“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.

Tradition, 2025. Every year @banglespaints.bsky.social and I make “improvements” to the family nativity scene.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is a perfect engine, an eating machine. All it does is swim, and eat, and make little sharks.

“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.

I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...

Transphobia is the “break glass in case of emergency” policy position for this administration. Absolutely ghoulish.

I wrote a Hallmark Christmas movie about BOEM's attempt to mine the sea floor near the Mariana Trench I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. Going with a less-obvious shark-related option.

Amazing footage. Imagine going fishing and getting your catch depredated by a giant squid. 🦑🐟🦤

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: White shark Bull shark Blue shark Great hammerhead And most importantly spiny dogfish

Mysterious deepwater sharks, killed to make cosmetics, are granted new trade protections in ‘watershed moment’ 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.cnn.com/science/deep...