Rachel A.S. Forbes
@rachelasforbes.bsky.social
MSc student in Fisheries Science @marineinstitute.bsky.social of @memorialu.bsky.social researching Greenland sharks (she/her)
#BRUVS #Arctic 🧪🦈
https://linktr.ee/rachelasforbes
#BRUVS #Arctic 🧪🦈
https://linktr.ee/rachelasforbes
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MSc in Fisheries Science student at Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Hi everyone!! 🦈 I'm an MSc in #Fisheries #Science student @marineinstitute.bsky.social in Newfoundland, Canada. I'm looking forward to connecting with those interested in #ecology, #marinebiology, #sharks, #conservation, #research, and much more!! 🌊
Other accts & contact: linktr.ee/rachelasforbes
Other accts & contact: linktr.ee/rachelasforbes
Women belong in Science. People of colour belong in Science. Although this article is a few years old, the same issues persist to this day. Let's diversify Shark Week #scienceisforeveryone
@drcatmac.bsky.social 🧪🦈
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
@drcatmac.bsky.social 🧪🦈
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Dark Side of Being a Female Shark Researcher
Being a scientist should not require developing the grit to continually endure misogyny, discrimination, harassment, assault or bullying
www.scientificamerican.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Women belong in Science. People of colour belong in Science. Although this article is a few years old, the same issues persist to this day. Let's diversify Shark Week #scienceisforeveryone
@drcatmac.bsky.social 🧪🦈
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
@drcatmac.bsky.social 🧪🦈
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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🌍 Looking for experts in Marine Science, Earth Science, Climate Change, Hazards, Marine Life, Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Oceanography, Coral Reef Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Bioscience and more? Give these leading Scripps Oceanography scientists a follow! ⬇️
May 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌍 Looking for experts in Marine Science, Earth Science, Climate Change, Hazards, Marine Life, Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Oceanography, Coral Reef Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Bioscience and more? Give these leading Scripps Oceanography scientists a follow! ⬇️
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Delighted to be back teaching on The Survivor's Guide to Stable Isotope Ecology for 2026 - its always a highlight of the year. A fantastic week of isotopic learning in a truly magnificent location. www.exedramc.com/courses/surv...
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Delighted to be back teaching on The Survivor's Guide to Stable Isotope Ecology for 2026 - its always a highlight of the year. A fantastic week of isotopic learning in a truly magnificent location. www.exedramc.com/courses/surv...
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has just been updated and now includes assessments of 1,266 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
October 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has just been updated and now includes assessments of 1,266 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
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Super pumped to be a guest speaker in the COBRA webinar series in two weeks’ time, along with Olivia Pereira from @mbarinews.bsky.social! We’ll be talking about our Science Communication strategies & experiences. Register for Zoom link here: cobra.bigelow.org/webinars/
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Super pumped to be a guest speaker in the COBRA webinar series in two weeks’ time, along with Olivia Pereira from @mbarinews.bsky.social! We’ll be talking about our Science Communication strategies & experiences. Register for Zoom link here: cobra.bigelow.org/webinars/
Great news for North Atlantic right whales! 🐳
#rightwhale #conservation #NARW
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#rightwhale #conservation #NARW
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
North Atlantic right whale population grew slightly in 2024 | CBC News
The long-endangered North Atlantic right whale saw a “modest” increase in numbers in 2024, according to a newly released estimate from the New England Aquarium, and ship strikes and entanglements are ...
www.cbc.ca
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great news for North Atlantic right whales! 🐳
#rightwhale #conservation #NARW
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#rightwhale #conservation #NARW
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Food webs are the blueprint of ecosystems.
Want to know what fuels migrating birds? Or how invasive species disrupt rivers and lakes? The answers are in the food web — and stable isotopes let us read it.
www.atomicecology.com/post/whats-i...
Want to know what fuels migrating birds? Or how invasive species disrupt rivers and lakes? The answers are in the food web — and stable isotopes let us read it.
www.atomicecology.com/post/whats-i...
Whats in a food web?
Food webs are the blueprint for ecosystems, detailing how nutrients and energy fuel every aspect of life on Earth.
www.atomicecology.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Food webs are the blueprint of ecosystems.
Want to know what fuels migrating birds? Or how invasive species disrupt rivers and lakes? The answers are in the food web — and stable isotopes let us read it.
www.atomicecology.com/post/whats-i...
Want to know what fuels migrating birds? Or how invasive species disrupt rivers and lakes? The answers are in the food web — and stable isotopes let us read it.
www.atomicecology.com/post/whats-i...
What a great idea! Check out this new colouring book for all ages about the Inner Bay of Fundy, Canada.
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Buy it here:
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#ScientificOutreach #OceanAwareness #MarineScience #ArtAndScience #OceanConservation #EcoArt #OceanLiteracy
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Buy it here:
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#ScientificOutreach #OceanAwareness #MarineScience #ArtAndScience #OceanConservation #EcoArt #OceanLiteracy
‘People won't protect what they don't understand': New colouring book dives deep into the Minas Basin
Erica Porter and her father teamed up with a marine biologist and illustrator to make The Inner Bay of Fundy, Colouring and Activity Book.
www.saltwire.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
What a great idea! Check out this new colouring book for all ages about the Inner Bay of Fundy, Canada.
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Buy it here:
books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...
#ScientificOutreach #OceanAwareness #MarineScience #ArtAndScience #OceanConservation #EcoArt #OceanLiteracy
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Buy it here:
books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...
#ScientificOutreach #OceanAwareness #MarineScience #ArtAndScience #OceanConservation #EcoArt #OceanLiteracy
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From the bottom of the ocean to the heavens above, the Bay of Fundy is a wondrous place.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Astrotourism on the rise over Bay of Fundy | CBC News
A group of New Brunswickers hopes to capitalize on the extraordinary darkness of the Bay of Fundy coast by creating a 180-kilometre "dark sky corridor" to both protect the region from light pollution ...
www.cbc.ca
September 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
From the bottom of the ocean to the heavens above, the Bay of Fundy is a wondrous place.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Thanks @melissacmarquez.bsky.social for writing a great story on our recently published paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Thanks @melissacmarquez.bsky.social for writing a great story on our recently published paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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NEW – IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/lh84pyn
Read here: buff.ly/lh84pyn
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NEW – IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/lh84pyn
Read here: buff.ly/lh84pyn
There's so much life in the deep ocean, and there's still so much to discover! #deepocean #marinescience 🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean
A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
www.bbc.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There's so much life in the deep ocean, and there's still so much to discover! #deepocean #marinescience 🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Something went evolutionary wrong with this one 🤔 @ripleysaquariums.bsky.social
Centaurs are so 900 BC, make way for the #sharktaur 🦈🐎
#shorse #hork ??
Centaurs are so 900 BC, make way for the #sharktaur 🦈🐎
#shorse #hork ??
July 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Something went evolutionary wrong with this one 🤔 @ripleysaquariums.bsky.social
Centaurs are so 900 BC, make way for the #sharktaur 🦈🐎
#shorse #hork ??
Centaurs are so 900 BC, make way for the #sharktaur 🦈🐎
#shorse #hork ??
I loved seeing Greenland sharks being represented at the @ripleysaquariums.bsky.social ! Go #sharks! 🦈😍
July 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I loved seeing Greenland sharks being represented at the @ripleysaquariums.bsky.social ! Go #sharks! 🦈😍
New pub! We outline how the themes of collaboration and optical technology have merged to facilitate the repeated monitoring and characterization of sensitive Arctic ecosystems. Read it for free: doi.org/10.48336/ceg...
Thank you to the JOT team for this opportunity! 🧪
@marineinstitute.bsky.social
Thank you to the JOT team for this opportunity! 🧪
@marineinstitute.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New pub! We outline how the themes of collaboration and optical technology have merged to facilitate the repeated monitoring and characterization of sensitive Arctic ecosystems. Read it for free: doi.org/10.48336/ceg...
Thank you to the JOT team for this opportunity! 🧪
@marineinstitute.bsky.social
Thank you to the JOT team for this opportunity! 🧪
@marineinstitute.bsky.social
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Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
June 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
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Our focus for #UNOC3 includes climate-resilient coral reefs, advancing regional cooperation for #30x30, and elevating the leadership of coastal women worldwide, says WCS’s @stacyjupiter.bsky.social. 🌊 🌍
June 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our focus for #UNOC3 includes climate-resilient coral reefs, advancing regional cooperation for #30x30, and elevating the leadership of coastal women worldwide, says WCS’s @stacyjupiter.bsky.social. 🌊 🌍
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[1/3] À #UNOC3 à Nice, la #Polynésie française a annoncé la protection de 900.000 km² d’océan, soit 23 % de ses eaux. Deux vastes zones autour des Gambier et des îles de la Société deviennent des refuges marins interdits à la pêche et à toute exploitation. #geography #marinereserves #AMP #MPA
La Polynésie française décide de protéger une zone maritime de 900 000 km2 – MARINE & OCÉANS
marine-oceans.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
[1/3] À #UNOC3 à Nice, la #Polynésie française a annoncé la protection de 900.000 km² d’océan, soit 23 % de ses eaux. Deux vastes zones autour des Gambier et des îles de la Société deviennent des refuges marins interdits à la pêche et à toute exploitation. #geography #marinereserves #AMP #MPA
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Sir David Attenborough’s #Ocean is a stark reminder of the damage we’re inflicting and the how we must act to restore Earth's underwater habitats. 🪸
With #UNOC3 underway, countries need to agree to, and follow, the UN High Seas Treaty so we can protect 30% of our oceans by 2030.
With #UNOC3 underway, countries need to agree to, and follow, the UN High Seas Treaty so we can protect 30% of our oceans by 2030.
June 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I had a great time chatting to the public about my MSc research on Greenland sharks using Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems for #WorldOceansDay at the @marineinstitute.bsky.social
#GreenlandSharkWhisperer 🦈🌊
#GreenlandSharkWhisperer 🦈🌊
June 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I had a great time chatting to the public about my MSc research on Greenland sharks using Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems for #WorldOceansDay at the @marineinstitute.bsky.social
#GreenlandSharkWhisperer 🦈🌊
#GreenlandSharkWhisperer 🦈🌊
Happy Pride! Nature and science are for everyone 🌿🌈🌊
June 1 marks the start of #PrideMonth! 🏳️🌈🌍
We’re proud to stand with our 2SLGBTQIA+ colleagues, friends, and allies.
Everyone belongs in building a world where people and nature thrive—together.
We’re proud to stand with our 2SLGBTQIA+ colleagues, friends, and allies.
Everyone belongs in building a world where people and nature thrive—together.
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy Pride! Nature and science are for everyone 🌿🌈🌊
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🚢 As Arctic sea ice melts, more ships are moving in — and so is more pollution.
WWF-Canada’s Sam Davin joins Yale Climate Connections to explore how rising ship traffic is affecting Arctic waters and why a lot more needs to be done to protect it.
🎧 Take a listen. ⬇️
WWF-Canada’s Sam Davin joins Yale Climate Connections to explore how rising ship traffic is affecting Arctic waters and why a lot more needs to be done to protect it.
🎧 Take a listen. ⬇️
Melting ice brings more ships – and more pollution – to Arctic waters » Yale Climate Connections
New rules will reduce airborne toxins, but an environmental group says discharge from scrubbers still threatens the fragile Arctic.
yaleclimateconnections.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🚢 As Arctic sea ice melts, more ships are moving in — and so is more pollution.
WWF-Canada’s Sam Davin joins Yale Climate Connections to explore how rising ship traffic is affecting Arctic waters and why a lot more needs to be done to protect it.
🎧 Take a listen. ⬇️
WWF-Canada’s Sam Davin joins Yale Climate Connections to explore how rising ship traffic is affecting Arctic waters and why a lot more needs to be done to protect it.
🎧 Take a listen. ⬇️