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Marine scientist and VP for Strategy and Programs
@templetonworld.bsky.social
Help us shape our grant making priorities for the future!
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Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time
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Me: βOh cool - the Amazon forest is bouncing backβ π³βοΈ Also me: βOooooohβ¦ πβ
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Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) sees 20% increase in revenue year over year, topping Wall Street estimates
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/30/aws-revenue-outage
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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.
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Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
https://www.science.org/content/article/journals-and-publishers-crack-down-research-open-health-data-sets
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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec
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[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 NΔga, a snake-god from Asian mythologies! Out now in Moll. Res., LINK:
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Blue lobsters might not be as rare as once thought:
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Rebecca R Helm
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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 itβs possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread π§΅)
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The Royal Society
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Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of
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, head to our website:
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Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society
Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/
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Check out MARMORIS - a new NGO founded to explore
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habitats in The Bahamas
ewnews.com/new-bahamian...
Beyond excited too see a fellow Bahamian passionate about deep-sea research. Way to go Denley,
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New Bahamian Non-Profit βMarmorisβ Embarks on Deep-Sea Discovery Mission
NASSAU, BAHAMAS β A new era of ocean exploration is unfolding in the Caribbean with the official launch of Marmoris, a Bahamian non-profit organisation dedicated to uncovering, documenting, and conser...
https://ewnews.com/new-bahamian-non-profit-marmoris-embarks-on-deep-sea-discovery-mission/
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John Rowan
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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.
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Dan Killam
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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)
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Templeton World Charity Foundation
4 months ago
Dr. Berry Billingsley βͺat Swansea Universityβ¬ is reimagining how classrooms engage with questions that transcend subject boundaries. On
@storiesofimpact.bsky.social
β¬, she discusses how to equip students to explore queries on life, the universe, and existence. π§
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Big Questions That Change How We Learn with Berry Billingsley (podcast)
Interdisciplinary approaches to learning are reshaping religious education and science classes in schools.
https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/big-questions-in-the-classroom-with-berry-billingsley-podcast
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Matt Bracken
4 months ago
This *Osedax* comic by
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is just amazing! π€©
#MarineLife
#Invertebrate
#SciArt
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Deepest know chemosynthesis-based ecosystems!
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Nature
4 months ago
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean β and itβs the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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Ned Richardson-Little
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βDigital asbestosβ is such a perfect descriptor!
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This thread on storytelling from
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Tori Herridge
5 months ago
βData is like people. If you torture it for long enough, itβll tell you more or less whatever you want to hear.β
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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:
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Chinese nationals accused of smuggling 'biological pathogen' into US
Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu allegedly brought a fungus into the US which damages a variety of crops and is toxic to humans and animals.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gkdppymk4o
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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 donationβ
www.harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/cast...
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7 months ago
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ChloΓ« R McKenzie
7 months ago
Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than βhard workβ. 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.
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Adam Summers
7 months ago
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
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#OA
or not.
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I once held a door open for Sir David Attenboroughβ¦
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin
7 months ago
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.
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Nature Portfolio
7 months ago
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. π§ͺ
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The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing - Nature Mental Health
The Global Flourishing Study 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. Initial findings reveal significant variations in flourishing across countries and demographic groups, with factors such as age, marital status and religious service attendance showing strong associations with well-being.
https://go.nature.com/4lQfipn
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Great description of
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in this panel discussion, describing the study as a more βgenerous wayβ of doing science. First wave of papers out now
www.nature.com/collections/...
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Inspired by
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... a favourite statistical thought experiment: β¨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-...
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Katharine Hayhoe
8 months ago
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. π§΅
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Live updates: Pope Francis dies at 88
Pope Francis, Latin Americaβs first pontiff who ministered to poor people with a message of mercy, has died. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal and indiffer...
https://apnews.com/live/pope-francis-dies-catholic-church-updates
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Templeton World Charity Foundation
9 months ago
In 1996, Sir John Templeton (1912β2008) founded TWCF to explore lifeβs biggest questions. π§ β¨ His mission? Use the tools of science to better understand human's spiritual nature and the physical world. Today, weβre proud to carry that bold, forward-thinking vision into the future.
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John Timmer
9 months ago
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.
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Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue | PNAS
Religious leaders shape the attitudes and beliefs of their congregations. In a nationally representative sample of U.S. religious leaders (N = 1,60...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419705122
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Carl T. Bergstrom
9 months ago
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.
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Tori Herridge
9 months ago
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 itβs power is divorced from truth (or maybe reality/fact is a better word).
iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...
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I am a huge fan of short and sweet.
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Dr Craig R McClain
9 months ago
My new wood-fall review paper out with
@divaamon.bsky.social
@sydneymcdermott.bsky.social
and others
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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#deepsea
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The Hidden Forests Below: A Review of the Ecology and Evolution of Wood Falls on the Deep Seafloor
Wood fallsβparcels of wood that sink to the deep-sea floorβrepresent unique and dynamic ecosystems that support a highly diverse and evolutionarily distinct assemblage of faunal communities. The faun...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maec.70008
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Bronwen Scott
9 months ago
Weβve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now letβs have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In todayβs
#AtoZ
β J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: Β© uwkwaj CC BY-NC
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Jillian Morris
9 months ago
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...
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Sharks Of The Bahamas
Dive in and learn about sharks of the Bahamas! This coloring and activity book contains 12 different species of sharks, fun facts, cutouts, habitat pages, and more. Color the sharks and habitats howev...
https://www.lulu.com/shop/sharks4kids-and-sharktopia/sharks-of-the-bahamas/paperback/product-dygyp5g.html?page=1&pageSize=4
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This is a real issue and have seen people excluded from conferences.
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Henry Gee
10 months ago
Very old joke. Field Marshal Idi Amin to Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. 'Tell me Gaddafi, what's preventing your promotion from colonel?'
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Sarah Faulwetter
10 months ago
Too much doom in my timeline. Send
#polychaetes
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π π§ͺ Love the classic ROV ops commentary: βwhatβd ya reckon: suction?β Hint: its almost always suction π Iβve 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
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10 months ago
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Nature Portfolio
11 months ago
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
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βGlobally, the livelihood of 1 in every 12 people, nearly half of them women, depends at least partly on small-scale fishingβπππ¦π¦π¦ͺπ
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Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature
A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08448-z
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Svenja Tidau
11 months ago
Important reserarch showing π§ͺ "83% of respondents believe that scientists should communicate about science with the public." but only 57% think scientists are honest... - that I find concerning
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David Bailey
11 months ago
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
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Determination of distance away and depth of transmitters relative to a vertical acoustic telemetry array in the open ocean - Animal Biotelemetry
Background Many ecologically and commercially important species occur in the epipelagic marine environment and have been observed to spend a considerable amount of time associating with surface struct...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40317-024-00395-w
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I did my PhD as a biologist in an earth science department and hugely benefited from being able to freely ask the βdumbβ questions because everyone knew I had no geology / physics background. I learned a ton.
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Dr Craig R McClain
11 months ago
Deep-sea gigantism is a fascinating phenomenon, but itβs 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. ππ¦
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. π¦
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Teacher friends: if youβre 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.
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