Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

"We’ve looked at the Ganges and the Caspian Sea, but this could have been about Lake Victoria, or about drying rivers in Europe, or the disappearance of Bolivia’s second largest lake. It’s not just water that disappears: it’s entire ecosystems and ways of life." theconversation.com/vanishing-wa...

Very proud of this paper in BioScience : « Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature » 🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife ! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🦤

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Stunning rare images of polar bear scavenging on a sperm whale captured in the Arctic | National Geographic

Wilson, a 6-foot-4 center for the Las Vegas Aces, has dominated this year. In her eighth season, she finished in the top five in points, rebounds, blocks and steals.

*An extra plug for #WorldMantaDay #Mobula, #bioinspiration, filter feeding, form and function - free J B Teeple et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... Mobulas (manta and devil rays) are large-scale ram filter feeders that separate planktonic food particles from large volumes of water with minimal clogging.

It's Monday, & you're wondering: "Why should I care about eels?" Well...in addition to being great fodder for memes, eels are super-important to stream ecologies! Historically, eels have made up as much as 50% of the total fish biomass in lower reaches of US & European rivers. 🗃️🧪

What a cool graduate opportunity!! Dietary benefits of sexual cannibalism in spiders at Oklahoma State University. 🧪👩‍🔬🌍 sevenseasmedia.org/job/ms-or-ph...

Putting this out there again as many people are still looking for positions and/or looking to recruit early career scientists! Please share widely and I would be happy to add you to any of these, just tell me which one.

Peaking out into a Monday morning like... (Meet our pet turtle, Bowser) 🐢 #Turtle #Mondays

Like many in my generation, I was heavily influenced by Steve Irwin. I attribute much of my love for wildlife and wild places to Steve. When my daughter is older, you can bet we'll be binging Crocodile Diaries together. "If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves". RIP 🐊 🧪 🌎 🌐

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy to have this new preprint up: Disturbance provides limited respite for native fish against invaders We assess the potential for coexistence between threatened native galaxiid fishes & invasive trout, & find native fish prevail only at high disturbance regimes. Even then, it's dicy.

It's crazy to me that we don't really know how many sculpin species exist. They are basically dragons and should be dieties in somebody's religion. Incredible fish. 🐟

I've really been looking forward to Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. I really enjoyed The Poppy War, Yellowface, and Babel. As someone in academia, the dark academia elements in Babel were really cathartic to read. Looking forward to more of that here. #BookSky 📚 📖

Are scientists still supposed to be just neutral and value free providers of data when the principles and institutions of science itself are under attack?

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

"In the past, I was content to leave the broader political debate and activism to others... The luxury of disengagement is no longer an option." -- Terrence Tao newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

These are incredible! Totally thought that was an actual pigeon at first.

Grad students: Don't let ANYONE tell you that it's not funny for you to post a "First Day of School" photo holding up one of those kiddie chalkboards that say it's your first day of 23rd grade or something That shit is funny Keep doing it

I’m Noah, I’m a professor in MD trying to save the Chesapeake Bay from invasive blue catfish. I also research amphibious fishes, biomechanics, behavior, and fisheries. When I’m not sciencing, you can find me SciComm-ing about fish, fishing, or making fish art (using science)

Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers! I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.” 🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈

Mom friends group text checking in with a DC crime-ridden hellhole update

"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

🚨SPOILER ALERT🚨 📸 🦈 Brendan Talwar is a Scripps Oceanography postdoc, shark expert, and can now add winner of @netflix.com's "All the Sharks" to his impressive resume! @ucsandiego.bsky.social shares more about Brendan, his research, and experience on the show. ⬇️

PhD position with great supervisor!

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Interestingly, I have noticed a reticence to consider options other than population control when managing invasive species. We wrote about it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a.... 🌐 #bioinvasions

Boing Boing wrote about my American Scientist essay on the importance of federal funding of basic research. boingboing.net/2025/07/29/w...

Check out @climatecentral.org's new interactive tools for monitoring ocean heat around the world: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... Using the Ocean CSI system, you can find the influence of human-caused climate change on daily sea surface temperatures and around the paths of tropical cyclones.

Enjoyed hosting @lsu.bsky.social #LSUsciencecafe with speaker Dr. Garrett Hopper who spoke about freshwater mussel diversity and conservation in Louisiana. These filter feeding friends trick fishes into hosting the development of their larvae on their gills. His website … www.lsu.edu/agriculture/...

Went to the DC Zoo yesterday. Me - Let's take a picture My daughter (probably) - Dad how could I turn around at a time like this?! There's a huge arapaima right there!!! #TeamFish 🐟

Slowly losing my mind from how much Mendeley is lagging for me in Word today...

Global change asymmetrically rewires ecosystems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍 🧪 🦤

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New data paper in Ecology - For his first PhD chapter, Dr. Nathan Hermann compiled >3800 records of energy density from freshwater and marine organisms. The data are freely available to use. @esajournals.bsky.social @unhresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Here's Why You Should Care About Sharks| In honor of Shark Week, here’s my NPR Science Friday interview

This 'new normal' framing is everywhere, but it's dangerously misleading There is no new normal while we continue to make the problem worse So long as we maintain business as usual, conditions now are a brief moment in an ever-worsening descent

The Biology Department at CSU Long Beach is now advertising for an Assistant Professor of Elasmobranch Biology. Refer to the attached flyer for details. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwmarinebiology.bsky.social @misselasmo.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @official-bweems.bsky.social

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

As Interest in Deep-Sea Mining Grows, Scientists Raise Alarms About the Possible Ecological Consequences www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... 🦑🧪🌎

Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...