joeymaier 🌊
@joeymaier.bsky.social
They pay me to talk about anatomy and biology, but these posts are mine. When I grow up, I want to live in Sea Base Alpha 🌊🐬🦈🐳🐟🦑🪸🐚🦀🐠🐙
#whale
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct
One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
#whale
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
NOAA says we have15 new North Atlantic, #rightwhale calves this season
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist | AP News share.google/mvvVWFP2eZU4...
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I can make lobster jokes all day because I'm on a roll.
January 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I can make lobster jokes all day because I'm on a roll.
Click through to watch video of a brittle star spawning on the Great barrier reef
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“Straight out of a sci-fi film." Diver spots strange animal on Great Barrier Reef. What it was doing blew her mind | Discover Wildlife
Wildlife filmmaker stumbles upon a brittle star laying thousands of glowing eggs in Australia – and it's mesmerising to watch.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Click through to watch video of a brittle star spawning on the Great barrier reef
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My latest for @science.org—a major European effort to understand the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining begins this year. It aims to answer major open questions as the ISA finalizes regulations.
As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover afterward
A new series of research cruises will study rare abyssal species in areas slated for mining
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January 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
My latest for @science.org—a major European effort to understand the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining begins this year. It aims to answer major open questions as the ISA finalizes regulations.
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I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
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Accepting applications until Feb 15th
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - NOAA Firebird - Illinois Natural History Survey/PRI - Application Deadline: February 15, 2026
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January 6, 2026 at 1:29 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
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#Pacific #salmon #NOAA
Conflicting Ocean Indicators Suggest Moderate Returns of Pacific Salmon | NOAA Fisheries share.google/piyBvb8NjSSg...
Conflicting Ocean Indicators Suggest Moderate Returns of Pacific Salmon | NOAA Fisheries share.google/piyBvb8NjSSg...
Conflicting Ocean Indicators Suggest Moderate Returns of Pacific Salmon
Ocean data in 2025 points to roughly average conditions.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
#Pacific #salmon #NOAA
Conflicting Ocean Indicators Suggest Moderate Returns of Pacific Salmon | NOAA Fisheries share.google/piyBvb8NjSSg...
Conflicting Ocean Indicators Suggest Moderate Returns of Pacific Salmon | NOAA Fisheries share.google/piyBvb8NjSSg...
"The study shows that many reef fish populations have been heavily overfished and are producing far below what they could support over the long term. By allowing these fish stocks to rebuild, researchers say coral reefs could help address hunger on a global scale."
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January 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
"The study shows that many reef fish populations have been heavily overfished and are producing far below what they could support over the long term. By allowing these fish stocks to rebuild, researchers say coral reefs could help address hunger on a global scale."
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🦑 #Fishing #coralreef
"We show that recovering fish stocks on coral reefs can significantly increase the number of sustainable fish servings produced per year and the number of people meeting fish intake recommendations, particularly for countries with high malnutrition."
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"We show that recovering fish stocks on coral reefs can significantly increase the number of sustainable fish servings produced per year and the number of people meeting fish intake recommendations, particularly for countries with high malnutrition."
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
🦑 #Fishing #coralreef
"We show that recovering fish stocks on coral reefs can significantly increase the number of sustainable fish servings produced per year and the number of people meeting fish intake recommendations, particularly for countries with high malnutrition."
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"We show that recovering fish stocks on coral reefs can significantly increase the number of sustainable fish servings produced per year and the number of people meeting fish intake recommendations, particularly for countries with high malnutrition."
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"Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201...to plunder its rich marine life. The fleet regularly becomes so big it can be seen from space"
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‘Mad fishing’: the super-size fleet of squid catchers plundering the high seas
Every year a Chinese-dominated flotilla big enough to be seen from space pillages the rich marine life on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned part of the South Atlantic off Argentina
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January 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
"Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201...to plunder its rich marine life. The fleet regularly becomes so big it can be seen from space"
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"... in June 2025, the team concluded that the reduction in the ocean’s aragonite saturation state needed to be much lower than previously thought to keep the ocean healthy: around 10%, rather than 20%."
Researchers Say the Oceans Passed a Milestone for Acidification share.google/vxQKx69k7dnh...
Researchers Say the Oceans Passed a Milestone for Acidification share.google/vxQKx69k7dnh...
Researchers Say the Oceans Have Passed a Milestone for Acidification
[By Anna Napolitano]The past 12 months have been worrying for researchers who study the chemistry of the ocean. More and more evidence has been publi...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
"... in June 2025, the team concluded that the reduction in the ocean’s aragonite saturation state needed to be much lower than previously thought to keep the ocean healthy: around 10%, rather than 20%."
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Researchers Say the Oceans Passed a Milestone for Acidification share.google/vxQKx69k7dnh...
TIL that the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) can pass a mirror test
Meet One Of The Only Fish Ever Reported To Pass A Self-Awareness Test. Hint: It’s Smaller Than Your Finger share.google/jFz9V1fjcGXC...
Meet One Of The Only Fish Ever Reported To Pass A Self-Awareness Test. Hint: It’s Smaller Than Your Finger share.google/jFz9V1fjcGXC...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
TIL that the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) can pass a mirror test
Meet One Of The Only Fish Ever Reported To Pass A Self-Awareness Test. Hint: It’s Smaller Than Your Finger share.google/jFz9V1fjcGXC...
Meet One Of The Only Fish Ever Reported To Pass A Self-Awareness Test. Hint: It’s Smaller Than Your Finger share.google/jFz9V1fjcGXC...
🦞 #lobster
"In a story that at first blush appears to be something you would see in a heist movie on Netflix, criminals stole 40,000 pounds of lobster meat valued at approximately $400,000 from a warehouse in Taunton, Massachusetts and vanished without a trace."
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"In a story that at first blush appears to be something you would see in a heist movie on Netflix, criminals stole 40,000 pounds of lobster meat valued at approximately $400,000 from a warehouse in Taunton, Massachusetts and vanished without a trace."
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January 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM
🦞 #lobster
"In a story that at first blush appears to be something you would see in a heist movie on Netflix, criminals stole 40,000 pounds of lobster meat valued at approximately $400,000 from a warehouse in Taunton, Massachusetts and vanished without a trace."
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"In a story that at first blush appears to be something you would see in a heist movie on Netflix, criminals stole 40,000 pounds of lobster meat valued at approximately $400,000 from a warehouse in Taunton, Massachusetts and vanished without a trace."
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"The first auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market typically sees fish selling for exorbitant prices."
Tokyo fish auction sees bluefin tuna fetching record $3.2m - BBC News share.google/hCGOqCwQHT59...
Tokyo fish auction sees bluefin tuna fetching record $3.2m - BBC News share.google/hCGOqCwQHT59...
Tokyo fish auction sees bluefin tuna fetching record $3.2m
The 243kg fish went to a man known as the Tuna King, who said "the year's first tuna brings good luck".
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January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
"The first auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market typically sees fish selling for exorbitant prices."
Tokyo fish auction sees bluefin tuna fetching record $3.2m - BBC News share.google/hCGOqCwQHT59...
Tokyo fish auction sees bluefin tuna fetching record $3.2m - BBC News share.google/hCGOqCwQHT59...
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Azores must respect its exceptional network of marine protected areas (commentary) news.mongabay.com/2026/01/azor... 🧪🌎🦑
Azores must respect its exceptional network of marine protected areas (commentary)
At the end of 2024, the Azores stood as a beacon of hope and a global leader in ocean conservation, having created the largest network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the North Atlantic. The…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Azores must respect its exceptional network of marine protected areas (commentary) news.mongabay.com/2026/01/azor... 🧪🌎🦑
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A multi-method assessment of elasmobranch diversity and abundance in the southern Red Sea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
A multi-method assessment of elasmobranch diversity and abundance in the southern Red Sea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Spawning biomass is doing very well, clearly conservative catch quotas
January 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Spawning biomass is doing very well, clearly conservative catch quotas
Canada sees best cod landings, exports in decades - Undercurrent News share.google/yy3dwko1I8PJ...
Canada sees best cod landings, exports in decades - Undercurrent News
Canada has also moved into first place in global rankings for stock spawning biomass, ahead of Iceland and the Barents Sea, according to the Atlantic Groundfish Council
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January 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Canada sees best cod landings, exports in decades - Undercurrent News share.google/yy3dwko1I8PJ...
Greenlandic firm to invest in new cod fishery as other quotas fall - Undercurrent News share.google/arawKJipTXtV...
Greenlandic firm to invest in new cod fishery as other quotas fall - Undercurrent News
After several years of experimental fishing, 2025 marked the first formal allocation of a commercial offshore cod quota by Greenland’s government
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January 5, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Greenlandic firm to invest in new cod fishery as other quotas fall - Undercurrent News share.google/arawKJipTXtV...
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Bonus weirdness, the author of this puff piece is fond of alliteration, and referred to the #shark as a Tangerine Terror; I don't think I have previously heard "terror" used to refer to a #nurseshark 🤣
Bonus weirdness, the author of this puff piece is fond of alliteration, and referred to the #shark as a Tangerine Terror; I don't think I have previously heard "terror" used to refer to a #nurseshark 🤣
Back in Aug of 2024, a nurse shark with albino-xanthochromism was caught near #CostaRica. This resulted in a publication to Marine Biodiversity releasedin Aug. 2025. That caused a bunch of late 2025 pop. sci. articles then....but ScienceAlert is covering it *now* 🤔
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Unique 'Golden Shark' Caught Off Central America Diagnosed With Rare Condition
The fearsome silent hunters of the deep – sharks – aren't usually hued like a traffic cone, but now and again, nature goes "Hold my beer." One spectacular example of this is a nurse shark (Ginglymosto...
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January 4, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Bonus weirdness, the author of this puff piece is fond of alliteration, and referred to the #shark as a Tangerine Terror; I don't think I have previously heard "terror" used to refer to a #nurseshark 🤣
Bonus weirdness, the author of this puff piece is fond of alliteration, and referred to the #shark as a Tangerine Terror; I don't think I have previously heard "terror" used to refer to a #nurseshark 🤣
Back in Aug of 2024, a nurse shark with albino-xanthochromism was caught near #CostaRica. This resulted in a publication to Marine Biodiversity releasedin Aug. 2025. That caused a bunch of late 2025 pop. sci. articles then....but ScienceAlert is covering it *now* 🤔
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Unique 'Golden Shark' Caught Off Central America Diagnosed With Rare Condition
The fearsome silent hunters of the deep – sharks – aren't usually hued like a traffic cone, but now and again, nature goes "Hold my beer." One spectacular example of this is a nurse shark (Ginglymosto...
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January 4, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Back in Aug of 2024, a nurse shark with albino-xanthochromism was caught near #CostaRica. This resulted in a publication to Marine Biodiversity releasedin Aug. 2025. That caused a bunch of late 2025 pop. sci. articles then....but ScienceAlert is covering it *now* 🤔
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@echinoblog.bsky.social that's a beautiful sea star! Also crab and urchin. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 AM
@echinoblog.bsky.social that's a beautiful sea star! Also crab and urchin. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife
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Great collection of this Brisingid! Double checking, is that Novodinia sp. @echinoblog.bsky.social? They didn't lose a single arm either! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife
January 4, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Great collection of this Brisingid! Double checking, is that Novodinia sp. @echinoblog.bsky.social? They didn't lose a single arm either! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 892. #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife
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High-frequency diel sampling of #RedSea #reef waters during #mesotrophic winter and #oligotrophic summer conditions revealed distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities compared to nonreef waters, along with previously undescribed #dielcycles.
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High-frequency diel sampling of #RedSea #reef waters during #mesotrophic winter and #oligotrophic summer conditions revealed distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities compared to nonreef waters, along with previously undescribed #dielcycles.
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Microbial dynamics in coral reef waters: Diel cycles in contrasting seasons
Tiny microbes around coral reefs reveal the reef’s hidden pulse.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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High-frequency diel sampling of #RedSea #reef waters during #mesotrophic winter and #oligotrophic summer conditions revealed distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities compared to nonreef waters, along with previously undescribed #dielcycles.
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High-frequency diel sampling of #RedSea #reef waters during #mesotrophic winter and #oligotrophic summer conditions revealed distinct prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities compared to nonreef waters, along with previously undescribed #dielcycles.
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And here's even more popular press coverage, this time from the BBC, of last year's paper on beaked whale sounds
The sounds revealing the secrets of world's most elusive whales share.google/JNvfnCgkh0m3...
The sounds revealing the secrets of world's most elusive whales share.google/JNvfnCgkh0m3...
January 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
And here's even more popular press coverage, this time from the BBC, of last year's paper on beaked whale sounds
The sounds revealing the secrets of world's most elusive whales share.google/JNvfnCgkh0m3...
The sounds revealing the secrets of world's most elusive whales share.google/JNvfnCgkh0m3...
In 2026, Norwegian startup Flocean is slated to launch the world’s first demonstrator and commercial-scale subsea desalination plant at Mongstad, Norway.
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Norway: World’s first subsea desalination plant set to launch in 2026
In 2026, Norwegian startup Flocean is slated to launch the world's first demonstrator and commercial-scale subsea desalination plant at Mongstad, Norway.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:08 AM
In 2026, Norwegian startup Flocean is slated to launch the world’s first demonstrator and commercial-scale subsea desalination plant at Mongstad, Norway.
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