Julia Zeh
@juliazeh.bsky.social
she/her
behavioral ecologist and bioacoustician
interested in how we can use sound to understand animals and how animals use sound to understand each other
book reader, bird watcher, and Cape Cod, MA resident
🐋🎧🌎
behavioral ecologist and bioacoustician
interested in how we can use sound to understand animals and how animals use sound to understand each other
book reader, bird watcher, and Cape Cod, MA resident
🐋🎧🌎
Reposted by Julia Zeh
This paper shows that every dollar spent on improving hurricane forecasts pays for itself many times over in reduced damages: www.nber.org/papers/w32548
Cutting funding for weather forecasting does not save money - it costs billions in addition to putting lives at risk
Cutting funding for weather forecasting does not save money - it costs billions in addition to putting lives at risk
March 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This paper shows that every dollar spent on improving hurricane forecasts pays for itself many times over in reduced damages: www.nber.org/papers/w32548
Cutting funding for weather forecasting does not save money - it costs billions in addition to putting lives at risk
Cutting funding for weather forecasting does not save money - it costs billions in addition to putting lives at risk
Reposted by Julia Zeh
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
Reposted by Julia Zeh
Meanwhile, in the world of #whales -
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded
~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
🐳🌍🦑
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded
~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
🐳🌍🦑
Endangered Rice's Whale At Risk As Protection Efforts Are Rescinded
After BOEM rescinded its protection efforts aimed at slowing ship traffic, there is little to save the whale from extinction.
www.thetravel.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Meanwhile, in the world of #whales -
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded
~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
🐳🌍🦑
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded
~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
🐳🌍🦑
Reposted by Julia Zeh
This octopus is a sucker for jellies 🐙✨️
The seven-armed octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, has only been observed by MBARI’s ROVs three times in more than three decades. This one was holding the bell of an egg-yolk jellyfish in its arms—perhaps using its meal for defense or to help catch more prey.
The seven-armed octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, has only been observed by MBARI’s ROVs three times in more than three decades. This one was holding the bell of an egg-yolk jellyfish in its arms—perhaps using its meal for defense or to help catch more prey.
February 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This octopus is a sucker for jellies 🐙✨️
The seven-armed octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, has only been observed by MBARI’s ROVs three times in more than three decades. This one was holding the bell of an egg-yolk jellyfish in its arms—perhaps using its meal for defense or to help catch more prey.
The seven-armed octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, has only been observed by MBARI’s ROVs three times in more than three decades. This one was holding the bell of an egg-yolk jellyfish in its arms—perhaps using its meal for defense or to help catch more prey.
Reposted by Julia Zeh
Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
democrats-science.house.gov
February 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
Reposted by Julia Zeh
"Now is the time for science, not silence." The war on science isn’t just politics, it’s our planet's future & the stakes have never been higher.🦈🪸🌊 As climate scientists, we must advocate & defend evidence-based policy.📄🌏 #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"Now is the time for science, not silence." The war on science isn’t just politics, it’s our planet's future & the stakes have never been higher.🦈🪸🌊 As climate scientists, we must advocate & defend evidence-based policy.📄🌏 #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
Reposted by Julia Zeh
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Reposted by Julia Zeh
We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Julia Zeh
Advocating to get a library card if you don't already have one. It is paid-for-by-your-tax-dollars free.
Just having a card is great but I also check out more than I can get through. Impulse control issues aside, the ones I check out are more likely to avoid the removal sort.
Just having a card is great but I also check out more than I can get through. Impulse control issues aside, the ones I check out are more likely to avoid the removal sort.
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Advocating to get a library card if you don't already have one. It is paid-for-by-your-tax-dollars free.
Just having a card is great but I also check out more than I can get through. Impulse control issues aside, the ones I check out are more likely to avoid the removal sort.
Just having a card is great but I also check out more than I can get through. Impulse control issues aside, the ones I check out are more likely to avoid the removal sort.
Reposted by Julia Zeh
Excited to announce a new paper by @juliazeh.bsky.social Caller identification and characterization of individual humpback whale acoustic behaviour | Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Caller identification and characterization of individual humpback whale acoustic behaviour | Royal Society Open Science
Acoustic recording tags provide fine-scale data linking acoustic signalling with individual behaviour; however, when an animal is in a group, it is challenging to tease apart calls of conspecifics and identify which individuals produce each call. This, ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
March 15, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Excited to announce a new paper by @juliazeh.bsky.social Caller identification and characterization of individual humpback whale acoustic behaviour | Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...