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Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Me: “Oh cool - the Amazon forest is bouncing back” 🌳☁️ Also me: “Ooooooh… 🙄” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Surely emphasis should be cracking down on LLM generated papers (and their authors) rather than the #openaccess datasets themselves. Bizarre precedent that proprietary data would be seen as more trustworthy. www.science.org/content/arti...

[New Paper] names Chaetoderma naga, a gigantic (>13 cm) new worm-mollusc from a cold seep! Like its sister-species C. shenloong, it probably relies on endosymbiotic bacteria for energy. We named it after Nāga, a snake-god from Asian mythologies! Out now in Moll. Res., LINK: doi.org/10.1080/1323...

🇧🇸 Conch 🐚 Cay 🏝️ Nassau 📍

Blue lobsters might not be as rare as once thought: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Check out MARMORIS - a new NGO founded to explore #deepsea habitats in The Bahamas ewnews.com/new-bahamian... Beyond excited too see a fellow Bahamian passionate about deep-sea research. Way to go Denley, @katycroffbell.bsky.social and team!

This used to be an absolute plague in Brussels. Until the council said the companies were responsible for it and they'd start fining them. And then - as if by magic - the problem got solved, pdq.

Lucinid bivalves are chemosymbiotic, partnering with microbes which oxidize sulfide and give them food. How do they breathe in such a sulfide-rich environment? In their burrows, one end leads up to oxygen, while another set of branching burrows lead downward, mining sulfide (203)

Dr. Berry Billingsley ‪at Swansea University‬ is reimagining how classrooms engage with questions that transcend subject boundaries. On @storiesofimpact.bsky.social‬, she discusses how to equip students to explore queries on life, the universe, and existence. 🎧 bit.ly/47BzVAL

This *Osedax* comic by @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social is just amazing! 🤩 #MarineLife #Invertebrate #SciArt 🦑🌊🐡

Deepest know chemosynthesis-based ecosystems!

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

“Digital asbestos” is such a perfect descriptor! bsky.app/profile/katr...

This thread on storytelling from @toriherridge.bsky.social keeps haunting me…

“Data is like people. If you torture it for long enough, it’ll tell you more or less whatever you want to hear.”

Junior researchers are often given poor [or no] advice about trans national shipping of scientific samples. Academic societies could really help their members by commissioning good advice on this topic, e.g. @ASMicrobiology helpful document: asm.org/guideline/pa... —- www.bbc.com/news/article...

Harvard was partly founded on a donation from overseas immigrants from the nascent colony of Eleuthera (Bahamas) - 'It was the largest gift the college had received (up to that time) since the original Harvard donation, and is known as the Eleutheran donation’ www.harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/cast...

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.

Not sure how other folks pick journals. When I was starting out I wanted a breadth of journals. Now I prioritize ones that are owned by scientific societies. I have no interest in paying APCs to anyone other than a society. That makes @royalsocietypublishing.org one of my favorites #OA or not.

I once held a door open for Sir David Attenborough…

The hypothesis that land-dwelling iguanas rafted across the Pacific Ocean helps explain how iguana lineages from South America dispersed so easily throughout the Caribbean & The Bahamas, with some reaching small islands surrounded by deep-ocean environments. theconversation.com/we-discovere... 🧪🦎

A paper in Nature Mental Health reports on the Global Flourishing Study, which provides a comprehensive view of the distribution and determinants of well-being by assessing domains such as health, happiness, meaning, character, relationships and financial security. 🧪

Great description of #openscience in this panel discussion, describing the study as a more ‘generous way’ of doing science. First wave of papers out now www.nature.com/collections/...

Inspired by @jowilliams.bsky.social ... a favourite statistical thought experiment: 
If a couple decides to have four children* what's the most likely combination of girls and boys that they will have? Hint: its not two of each... * it's all the rage these days theconversation.com/pronatalism-...

Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of compassion, courage, and a continuing call to protect our common home and all who share it with us. In his 2023 exhortation, Laudato Deum, he spoke out strongly against those who reject what science tells us about climate and deny their own responsibility. 🧵

In 1996, Sir John Templeton (1912–2008) founded TWCF to explore life’s biggest questions. 🧠✨ His mission? Use the tools of science to better understand human's spiritual nature and the physical world. Today, we’re proud to carry that bold, forward-thinking vision into the future.

Been waiting for PNAS to put this online. A representative survey shows that 90% of US faith leaders accept the evidence for human driven climate change, 60% accept that humanity is the primary driver. Only a quarter mention this to their congregants more than once.

12. Like art, music, philosophy, and literature, science is literally part of humanity's heritage. My colleagues and I have had the amazing opportunity to be part of something vastly larger than ourselves, with meaning that transcends any state, regime, or generation. They can't take that away.

Tucked inside this piece by @iandunt.bsky.social is a paragraph that speaks to a deep unease that has been growing inside me about storytelling, and how it’s power is divorced from truth (or maybe reality/fact is a better word). iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...

I am a huge fan of short and sweet.

My new wood-fall review paper out with @divaamon.bsky.social @sydneymcdermott.bsky.social and others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #science #deepsea #marinelife

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

I am incredibly proud of this book we've created. Thanks to the amazing @sharktopia.bsky.social ia for bringing it to life! Sharks of The Bahamas is NOW available for purchase and all proceeds allow us to donate even more copies to students throughout The Bahamas. www.lulu.com/shop/sharks4...

This is a real issue and have seen people excluded from conferences.

Very old joke. Field Marshal Idi Amin to Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. 'Tell me Gaddafi, what's preventing your promotion from colonel?'

Too much doom in my timeline. Send #polychaetes please.

🌊 🧪 Love the classic ROV ops commentary: “what’d ya reckon: suction?” Hint: its almost always suction 😆 I’ve seen us pick up a big old lithodid crab with slurp gun and place it in biobox for fear of crushing it with the manipulator

The paranormal looms large in pop culture, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was of interest to many scientists. What does this history reveal about the boundaries of science? A Comment article in Nature Reviews Physics examines this question. https://go.nature.com/3PN3vsZ 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41... ‘Globally, the livelihood of 1 in every 12 people, nearly half of them women, depends at least partly on small-scale fishing’💙🐟🦐🦀🦪💙

Important reserarch showing 🧪 "83% of respondents believe that scientists should communicate about science with the public." but only 57% think scientists are honest... - that I find concerning

New paper led by Eric Schneider at Cape Eleuthera Institute on acoustic methods of pelagic fish tracking around a scientific FAD link.springer.com/article/10.1... @innovasea.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @shaunkillen.bsky.social #openaccess

I did my PhD as a biologist in an earth science department and hugely benefited from being able to freely ask the ‘dumb’ questions because everyone knew I had no geology / physics background. I learned a ton.

Deep-sea gigantism is a fascinating phenomenon, but it’s the exception, not the rule. Animals like the giant isopod or the colossal squid are anomalies in a world where miniaturization is far more common. 🌊🦑 #DeepSea #MarineBiology #MarineLife

Teacher friends: if you’re going to assign homework that requires that students speak with an external expert, you should identify some external experts willing to help in advance. Otherwise you are setting me, and anyone else who shows up when students google a subject, up to be the bad guy.