for the #stopfundingoverfishing & #fisheries crowd, a summary from @drdanielskerritt.bsky.social (@oceana.bsky.social) & Rashid Sumaila (@ubcoceans.bsky.social)

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

*Slams laptop shut until 5786*

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The NYTimes opinion piece on Jay Bhattacharya also misunderstands his criticisms of *Science* as within the NIH’s wheelhouse — when these challenges go far beyond the NIH, and are worsened by his unethical bootlicking:

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The point is to get them briefed before the reporters call. Also, it continues to be hilarious that Bob Dylan never called them back.

I, for one, am excited to return to not watching Jimmy Kimmel because I think he's not very funny and his show isn't my cup of tea. But I will do show pleased that his show was not censored by an increasingly terrifying authoritarian government, and that some people can watch him if they want to.

I love the story of Peter Higgs, of boson fame, who was pretty sure he knew what was coming so went for a long hike in the Scottish highlands, far from a phone signal.

When Millennials start winning Nobels: *Nobel committee, all hunched around a phone excitedly at 2 AM PDT* *Phone rings five times, goes to voicemail* *everyone looks nervous, redials* *six hours later, Millennial sees 18 voice mails* *deletes without listening to anything from an unknown number*

Every year when there are Nobel Prize announcements, they always make a big deal out of calling someone in the middle of the night their time with the news. The people in charge of determining the most impactful scientists in the world aren't smart enough to figure out time zones?

Mongers, ranked: 1. Cheese 2. Fish 3. Rumor 4. Iron 5. War 6. Conspiracy

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The tariffs are the least popular thing Trump is doing. It's a unilateral trillion-dollar tax hike on Americans that raises prices on items they buy every day.

‘Involved sequentially’: leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🌎🧪🦈

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

This may seem wild but it was in fact inevitable. Conspiratorial people animated by grievance and grift invariably land on one of the oldest and most lucrative conspiratorial grifts of all. You can set your clock by it.

Today is a great day to send a Quack-o-Gram to your congressperson with the message #impeachRFK

Interior Sec. Doug Burgum is the administration's attack dog on wind energy, killing projects, claiming it's unreliabe. But wind energy doubled in North Dakota during his tenure as governor, now providing 1/3 of the state's electricity. Only 5 other states produce more www.eenews.net/articles/bur...

Scheduling a UN meeting about the 2-state solution to Israel and Palestine during a Jewish High Holy Day when no Jews can attend seems like the sort of thing that my friends on the social justice left would be outraged by if it was any group other than Jews affected by it. Sigh.

"Politicians are all the same" is by far the most common political belief among Americans and Democrats should spend way more time convincing those people "no, they're not" than trying to position themselves as representing a middle that doesn't exist.

So if you've got an adversarial senator, maybe ask them why they love being beholden to UN decisions without any US representation.

Senate ratification is a long-shot, but this is different from UNCLOS. The treaty goes into effect in 116 days whether the US ratifies it or not, but parties who fail to ratify don't get a voice at the Convention of the Parties.

A good, short primer on what the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction means and what comes next. The US has signed, but yet ratified the treaty. Ratification requires a 2/3 votes in the to the US Senate. Add ratification of the High Seas Treaty to your regular constituent call.

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A quick and dirty non-comprehensive write-up of my comments during my congressional briefing on deep-sea mining last Friday. www.southernfriedscience.com/9-quick-ques...

Ain't no party like a spinner shark party...

Frontiers | International law concerning the environmental protection in Arctic: what is left behind UNCLOS and the BBNJ Agreement? www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... 🧪🌎🦑

A great question Jim! You have indeed heard that sharks don't get cancer, perhaps from the bestselling book "Sharks don't get cancer." But it is sadly a lie that is used to sell pseudoscience "shark pills" to desperate cancer patients. Sharks get cancer.

VIDEO: Hundreds of sharks spotted swimming, jumping out of Atlantic off Long Island coast | Fox Weather

Since I pulled it up to assign as a reading for my shark biology course: Remember Charlotte the stingray, who appeared pregnant despite being the only stingray in her tank? www.southernfriedscience.com/no-a-shark-d...

Here we go! For #SciArtSeptember #Islet theme here is a sicklefin lemon shark 尖齒檸檬鯊 Negaprion acutidens—which frequent Taiwan's 東沙環礁國家公園 Dongsha Atoll National Park as a pupping nursery. Thanks @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for another fun month of #SciArt prompts!! #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 Day 1/30 🐡🦑🧪

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⚠️ Meat from vulnerable shark species – like the great hammerhead – is being sold in U.S. stores under ambiguous or incorrect labels. Until we improve traceability, it can be hard to know what’s ending up on consumers’ plates. Read the full story: http://bit.ly/4nCmXro

KUOW - Newborn orca spotted with Northwest's endangered J Pod

I am coming up to New York City for Climate Week on Friday to speak on this panel "Island Actions for a Sustainable Future" hosted by Guam Green Growth and Hawaii Green Growth luma.com/82on944e

Yup, this is still funny www.youtube.com/watch?v=06qP...

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Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠

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Magnolia, seen here in her professional pet photos she won for being “pet of the month” at my old apartment complex, is 14 years old today!

Wow yeah that’s not right at all. And it doesn’t even force the other treaty bodies to coordinate. It can’t, really.

It doesn't "supercede" the other bodies, right? It forces them to coordinate? And 30% is a different treaty, and this one could help with that, but its a different treaty

This is what the New York Times wrote about the new high seas treaty I could have sworn the first claim was actually the opposite, and the second claim is not mentioned in the treaty www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

🌊 Big news: WTO members agreed on a new fisheries subsidies deal that tackles harmful subsidies fueling overfishing. A critical step toward healthier oceans and fairer fisheries. #OceanNews #Fisheries

Online now: Invasive species eradication standards