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What do we want?
Fossil databases! 🐚🦕
When do we want them?
Forever! 🗓️
Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fossil databases! 🐚🦕
When do we want them?
Forever! 🗓️
Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...
www.nature.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 AM
What do we want?
Fossil databases! 🐚🦕
When do we want them?
Forever! 🗓️
Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fossil databases! 🐚🦕
When do we want them?
Forever! 🗓️
Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
I watched it for the first time last January & it was easily the best movie I saw in 2025.
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boxd.it/8GpUPh
February 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I watched it for the first time last January & it was easily the best movie I saw in 2025.
boxd.it/8GpUPh
boxd.it/8GpUPh
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watched TO SLEEP WITH ANGER yesterday and i know i'm late on this but what a picture. bona fide masterpiece of american filmmaking.
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
watched TO SLEEP WITH ANGER yesterday and i know i'm late on this but what a picture. bona fide masterpiece of american filmmaking.
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Lytechinus pictus is the white urchin that's climbed on top of some purple urchins. They're all small ones and the white urchin is about an 1" across. I'd find white urchins on sandy/muddy spaces where they dig in & cover themselves with shells like this one. The orange coral is a single polyp.
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Lytechinus pictus is the white urchin that's climbed on top of some purple urchins. They're all small ones and the white urchin is about an 1" across. I'd find white urchins on sandy/muddy spaces where they dig in & cover themselves with shells like this one. The orange coral is a single polyp.
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Don’t sleep on the importance of wetlands, but they’re in danger, says Bob Piercey, who is the education manager at the Fluvarium in St. John’s.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
It’s World Wetlands Day. Here’s what they do for you — and plants and animals
Don’t sleep on the importance of wetlands, but they’re in danger, says Bob Piercey, who is the education manager at the Fluvarium in St. John’s.
www.cbc.ca
February 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Don’t sleep on the importance of wetlands, but they’re in danger, says Bob Piercey, who is the education manager at the Fluvarium in St. John’s.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Here's more shark for your eyeballs. Echinorhinus cookei (prickly shark) from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 601 #CliffReefs #MarineLife
February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Here's more shark for your eyeballs. Echinorhinus cookei (prickly shark) from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 601 #CliffReefs #MarineLife
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@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
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Helmet crab (Telmessus cheiragonus) hanging out in the sediment, as they do. 🦑 #oceans #scuba #diving #crustaceans #crabs #invertebrates #pacificnorthwest
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Helmet crab (Telmessus cheiragonus) hanging out in the sediment, as they do. 🦑 #oceans #scuba #diving #crustaceans #crabs #invertebrates #pacificnorthwest
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One shark I really want to see is Cephalurus cephalus. @mbarinews.bsky.social has a cool image of one in this link
www.mbari.org/news/biologi...
www.mbari.org/news/biologi...
Biologists discover deep-sea fish living where there is virtually no oxygen • MBARI
Marine biologists recently discovered large schools of fishes thriving in low-oxygen conditions that would be deadly to most other fish.
www.mbari.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:52 AM
One shark I really want to see is Cephalurus cephalus. @mbarinews.bsky.social has a cool image of one in this link
www.mbari.org/news/biologi...
www.mbari.org/news/biologi...
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Unraveling the Complex Planktonic Microbial Community in the Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Unraveling the Complex Planktonic Microbial Community in the Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊
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Ateleopodidae (jellynose) from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 601 part 2. That's a cute little fish. I think the pink ones might be Anthias? #CliffReefs #MarineLife
February 2, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Ateleopodidae (jellynose) from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 601 part 2. That's a cute little fish. I think the pink ones might be Anthias? #CliffReefs #MarineLife
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#Cenozoicrewind2025 Last but not least, meet Flandriacetus gijseni!
#paleoart #vectorart #beakedwhale
#paleoart #vectorart #beakedwhale
January 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
#Cenozoicrewind2025 Last but not least, meet Flandriacetus gijseni!
#paleoart #vectorart #beakedwhale
#paleoart #vectorart #beakedwhale
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January 30, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Reality keeps asserting itself whether we’re ready or not. We are watching sea urchins collapse across oceans, another reminder that Earth systems don’t care about our attention, consensus, or permission. A dramatic rethink of security has never been clearer.
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
The Sea Urchin Apocalypse Is Real, and It Might Be Spreading Globally, Scientists Warn
New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.
gizmodo.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Reality keeps asserting itself whether we’re ready or not. We are watching sea urchins collapse across oceans, another reminder that Earth systems don’t care about our attention, consensus, or permission. A dramatic rethink of security has never been clearer.
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
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Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
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January 27, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Siphonophore flyby. They are doing transects now to get a quantitative analysis & said they'll stop to zoom on animals later. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 895 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Siphonophore flyby. They are doing transects now to get a quantitative analysis & said they'll stop to zoom on animals later. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 895 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife