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Alanna Bridgeman
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Undergraduate | Photographer
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin. #Dublin #cityphotography #photography
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Climate conversations get stuck on individual choices while ignoring structural forces. Your carbon footprint matters less than the fact that 100 companies produce 71% of global emissions. Focusing on individual responsibility? That's deliberate - to avoid systemic change. #environment #academicsky
September 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Found this sitting in one of my albums. I think it's one of my favourites 💙 #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #landscape #ocean
September 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Muses - Achillion Palace, Corfu #photography
August 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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.”

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August 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A colorful and loud bird ( a "croaker"), this Channel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) was not too far from the Atlantic coast southeast of São Paulo, Brazil. #birds #birdsoftheworld #toucan #channel-billed #Brazil #selvefloresta #nikon www.felzfotoz.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Clownfish at Georgia Aquarium. #fish #photography #nature
June 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Idk that I have those fish just b/c the dives I watch are usually deeper than where they live, but I have lots of octopus! Here's a vitreledonella from my favorites folder @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 556 #ventunderworld #MarineLife
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Sperm Whales Breach Too! Read the full story here: buff.ly/m8Uwg45
Photo by Azores Experiences⁠
This is an encounter from 2020
#WhaleTales #whales
June 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
June 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪
#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
go.nature.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Greys and Orcas. Read the full story here: buff.ly/kE0MfJZ
Photo by Janine
#WhaleTales #Whales
May 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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“Other animals, such as cats and crocodiles, have reflectors inside their eyes to enhance their vision at night. But face-banded crabs are the first example of a signaling reflector on the outside of an animal, the authors say.”

#scicomm
#sensoryecology

www.science.org/content/arti...
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These crabs cast bright beams of light with their heads
Crustaceans may use unique reflectors to signal mates or scare off predators
www.science.org
May 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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A new study puts cuttlefish at center stage with the famous "marshmallow test," and shows that these soft-bodied hunters have what it takes.

www.earth.com/news/cuttlef...
#MarineLife 🦑
Cuttlefish easily passed a test designed for kids, startling scientists with their intelligence
A new study puts cuttlefish at center stage with the famous "marshmallow test," and shows that these soft-bodied hunters have what it takes.
www.earth.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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A cheery looking harbor seal out on the breakwater rocks at the Edmonds marina this morning.

#MarineLife #Boating #Edmonds #PortOfEdmonds #Seals #Pinnipeds #Photography #SealsOnSunday #SmilingSeals #Smile #PNW #PugetSound #Stunday
May 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A Great Earth Day with Orcas and Humpbacks. Read the full story here: buff.ly/yHsrnDs
Photo by Patrick
#WhaleTales #Whales
May 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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How do clownfish survive a heat wave? By shrinking themselves down
How do clownfish survive a heat wave? By shrinking themselves down
Researchers believe marine heatwaves could be impacting fish growth patterns—and Nemo’s only getting smaller.
www.nationalgeographic.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
March 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Panorama view of Bray, Co. Wicklow.

#panorama #landscape #photography #Ireland
May 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
May 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Researchers puzzled as baby whales spotted in unexpected places along Australia’s ‘humpback highway’
Researchers puzzled as baby whales spotted in unexpected places along Australia’s ‘humpback highway’
Newborns seen in colder waters as far south as Tasmania, indicating breeding and migration more complex than thought
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sunset over the Aegean Sea. #photography #landscape
May 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Baltimore, Cork, Ireland. #Ireland #photography #landscape
May 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Every child needs to hear these things:

I love you

I’m always here for you

Those are not direwolves

I support you
Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that:

1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤

🧪
April 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM