I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed. nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Hello. You are now aware that the Chesapeake Bay is the largest impact crater in the continental US. Please enjoy your evening.

Amazingly, there’s a research paper on why Gerlach’s wave generator didn’t produce 440 kW as designed; they estimate it could harness about 125kW, which apparently is not enough to budge the big flywheel. 🧪 www.academia.edu/35151979/The...

In 1896, the Capitola pier hosted the world’s first electric wave power motor for commercial power generation. The Gerlach wave generator never produced the 440 kW of electricity it was designed too, and was destroyed that winter by a wave storm. 🌊🔌💡

Some of the earliest wave power devices constructed were built along this section of coastline.. to harness this wave power. 🌊 This wave machine used blow holes to hydraulically lift water to the top of a tower that could be used for dust control on the dirt wagon roads.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Kardashian: using ChatGPT to study law made her fail tests all the time because it returns wrong answers gizmodo.com/kim-kardashi...

In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish #GarWeek #WaterYear @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social

SInce many search engines incorporated AI-generated summaries for virtually any request, I have a couple of questions: - AI summary is not a reliable source, so why it is given first, in larger font and with no or hidden warning? - how much energy is being wasted for generation of this nonsense?

Tide Charts are back up and running on St. Michaels Floodwatch! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/538b...

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Predation by orcas on five fin whales, a Bryde's whale and a gray whale in the Gulf of California, tongue and some skin consumed

What I love about xkcd is that you read it and think "what a crazy story, that can't possibly be true" and then look it up and it's basically true xkcd.com/3162/

#ggplot2 question: how to add mathematical expressions to a plot? Something broke "annotate" so that this now fails: ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point(size=2) + theme_minimal() + annotate(geom='text', x=4, y=32.75, size=6, label=expression('Concentration of'~CO[2]))

Annual plug for the fabulous phylopic.org website with tens of thousands of easily searchable silhouette images for almost every life form imaginable. They make nice additions to your biology plots!

What's the best place to deposit a large and valuable dataset from an old paper that has been digitized, so that others can easily access it? Data Dryad? DataOne? Ideally would be citable with a DOI so that the source is clear.

For those wanting a spooky horror story for tonight... P = 0.06 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

FEAR: the impact of killer whales on baleen whales Talk on 19 November by yours truly!

Muphry's law: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry'...

Excellent spooky cappuccino in Ori, Milton Keynes today! Assuming my coffee wasn’t actually haunted… 👻

Krill fishing has just got even more political and horrifying Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation He faces life in prison for "high treason" 🦑🌊🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I need some suggestions for a really good audio book for an all day solo drive... science / science fiction / anything different and interesting and well narrated.

“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript. #science #academia

Thoughts on data entry. There's a skill to it. Needs a numeric key pad. Enter it twice to double check for errors. Great activity to do during the World Series: you can enter half a column between each pitch.

How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry

Tempting... xkcd.com/3160/

How old is Garliath, the massive Alligator Gar? It’s difficult to say with +accuracy without lethal sampling and extracting otoliths (ear stones with annual rings like a tree). Growth is very slow after 6 feet long. Given locality, morphology, I’d guess at least 50, but could be over 90 years old!

Tulane University is hiring a marine biologist for a professor of practice position. This is a non-tenure track teaching position that comes with good job security, benefits, and the opportunity to work with a wonderful group of colleagues and outstanding students. See the link below for details.

Question for taxonomists: what happens if the original description for a particular species (genus, species) was based on a specimen that is later found out to be a hybrid?

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

Do you think X (a male) comes from the same distribution as the other 551 data points or is something different? (Axes deliberately omitted)

When you write an article on Linneaus and are all proud of it and send it to the taxonomist you know and they love the article but point out that his name was actually Linnaeus.

All those fancy carbon sequestration methods and did we just forget that trees remove CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into wood that can just be buried to stop decomposition returning the CO2 to the atmosphere? cmns.umd.edu/news-events/...

"NOAA has built a reputation for world-class research...For every dollar invested in NOAA, the country’s return is orders of magnitude greater in productivity, transportation, farming, fishing, business development, and savings to communities in insurance and public safety."

🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪 Every gift helps: 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Lessons from a classroom blind tasting of wild vs. farmed salmon www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

You need the satisfaction of that final step where you add line numbering and double space it and can sit back and say "NOW it's ready to go"

Underwater robot embarks on "historic mission" to circumnavigate globe. What it finds could be crucial | Discover Wildlife

If you’re not following @solomonrdavid.bsky.social work are you even alive on the inside

I'm so used to double spacing of submitted manuscripts and manuscripts for review. But the last few I have been asked to review have been single-spaced. With online reviewing, does it just make more sense to have single-spaced manuscripts? I find them harder to review.

I didn't expect to be confronted by Zombie Clippy today www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/m...

Yes, we need to get paid. But what we need to do is get back to work. Management is frozen until we do, for better or worse. This is already going to screw up some timelines going into the spring.

OK now over three weeks out of the office and I am just thinking of the things piling up for me and everybody else. Fisheries management is contentious, but does not generally follow partisan lines. Regardless, the science and analysis that goes into it is legally mandated and has tight schedules.

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

The Blue Food Futures Fellowship application is now open! Fellows receive 6 mo support at their home institution to address pressing issues in blue food + mentorship from a global blue research network + opportunities to present research at international fora ⬇️ More bluefood.earth/fellowships/

That's a lot of fans of the hitchhikers guide!