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Dr Kieran McCloskey
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Senior data scientist and project manager.
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🚨 NEW paper 🚨

🐠Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light pollution💡

My first publication from my @thefsbi.bsky.social PhD at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social is out TODAY in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Artificial Light Increases Nighttime Prevalence of Predatory Fishes, Altering Community Composition on Coral Reefs
Artificial light is a manmade pollutant that is spreading into marine environments, and coral reefs are particularly susceptible to biological impacts due to the inshore, shallow, and clear-water loc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Excellent new #OpenAccess paper by Holly Stokes and others demonstratng lack of negative impacts of satellite tracking of juvenile hawksbill turtles. Important insights from long term work. More studies appraising impacts needed 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 3, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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📢 Our new paper maps the first probable location and change in suitability of #aquaculture freshwater finfish in the United States under downscaled climate change. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 2, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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If you're a bit tired of bad news (like I am), know this:

Imaging sonar has shown almost 50 TONS of fish moving in an out of an estuary, every HOUR. They do this more at night during the day, probably to hide from predators.

Your regular fish highways...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Imaging Sonar Reveals Diel Movement of Fish Throughout a Developed Australian Estuary - Estuaries and Coasts
Estuaries present a unique interface between ocean and freshwater systems and support key fish habitats. While the role of estuaries for juvenile fish has been studied extensively, the daily movement ...
link.springer.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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A global team of microbiologists, including Scripps and UC San Diego School of Medicine's @gilbertjacka.bsky.social, calls on policymakers, governments and industry to deploy microbe-based solutions against #ClimateChange. Learn how
#microbes can be used to address climate change. ⬇️
Six Solutions against Climate Change: Researchers Launch Call-Action for Rapid Response to Mobilize Solutions
In an unprecedented call to action published concurrently across 24 scientific journals, a global team of microbiologists is calling on policymakers, governments and industry to deploy microbe-based s...
scripps.ucsd.edu
November 13, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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Published today: the 2024 Global Carbon Budget

It projects that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024

Read more: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

#carbonbudget @pfriedling.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social @robbieandrew.bsky.social @uniofexeter.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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How to measure fitness?
JHBrown leads and suggests that Selection maximizes
(g of offspring biomass/g parents/generation).
"There is no...advantage for higher metabolic power, ontogenetic or population growth rate, fecundity, longevity, or resource use efficiency” doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 12, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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🌱 Hello to everyone interested in extracting seed measurements from images! 🌱

I’ve released an experimental version of Traitor, featuring a new option requested by some users: ordered output to keep track of individual seeds during analysis.

Never heard of Traitor?👇🧵

github.com/rdayrell/tra...
GitHub - rdayrell/traitor_sorted-output: This VERY experimental modification introduces a ordered output for seed (and other object) segmentation in Traitor. This is an adaptation for grid-based analy...
This VERY experimental modification introduces a ordered output for seed (and other object) segmentation in Traitor. This is an adaptation for grid-based analyses, where tracking each object is imp...
github.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Interested in what #solutions are available to reduce #UnderwaterNoise from #shipping in our #oceans? 🚢🔉🐬

🔗 youtu.be/zwruag-7biM

Check out this #animation by the talented Amy Dozier which is based on our recent slowdown paper & is voiced by me!

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Slowing down ships leads to much quieter oceans
Underwater radiated noise from shipping is the most widespread source of human-made noise in the ocean, which is unfortunately affecting marine life. Marine ...
youtu.be
December 14, 2023 at 7:37 PM
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Dismantling NOAA is a terrible idea for many reasons, including the risks it would pose to US national security, as I told Defense One in this piece.

www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/...
Trump’s climate skepticism could hurt military operations
Proposals to “dismantle” NOAA and roll back energy efforts pose “a huge risk,” said one expert.
www.defenseone.com
November 9, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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We're hiring a lab technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of our research. Please help spread the word. Find out more and apply using the link below.

Requisition ID: REQ20156462

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Research Lab Technician II at USC
Learn more about applying for Research Lab Technician II at USC
usccareers.usc.edu
November 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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There are now over 14,000,000 people here!

Science and conservation friends, reply and reintroduce/reintroduce yourselves-

I’m David. I study shark conservation, and post about that as well as marine biology and the environment in general. I’m in the Washington, DC area.

🌎🦑🧪🦈🐠 #SciComm
November 8, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Yay! Happy to share our latest work: Machine Learning Applications for Fisheries—At Scales from Genomics to Ecosystems.

This work is collaboration of the ICES Working Group on Machine Learning in Marine Science. Tbh, it took a long time to write, but was totally worth it.

doi.org/10.1080/2330...
Machine Learning Applications for Fisheries—At Scales from Genomics to Ecosystems
Fisheries science aims to understand and manage marine natural resources. It relies on resource-intensive sampling and data analysis. Within this context, the emergence of machine learning (ML) sys...
doi.org
November 9, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Looks can be deceiving – and this is especially true for sea angels. These deep-sea snails, seemingly graceful, are fierce predators. Using hook-like appendages, they pull prey from shells, consuming up to 500 sea butterflies each hunting season! 🌊🦋

📸: Alexander Semenov
November 8, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Great to see so many marine scientists already on Bluesky - to help get you find some of them here is a starting list list of a few marine biologists

If you want to be added (or deleted), or know other I have missed (many for sure) - just contact me and I'll sort it

go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv
November 8, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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It's #FunFactFriday! Did you know that Bowhead Whales get their name from the bow that shoots arrow (as opposed to bows on bday presents!)?
Their bow shaped mouth is the largest mouth of any animal in the world and is almost a third of the length of their body!
#WhaleTales #BowheadWhales
November 8, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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AI Identifies Mysterious Whale Calls. Hear from the @NOAA Fisheries scientist who identified Bryde’s #whales as the source of a new #whale call—biotwang—in the North Pacific www.fisheries.noaa.gov/podcast/ai-i...
AI Identifies Mysterious Whale Calls
Hear from the NOAA Fisheries scientist who identified Bryde’s whales as the source of a new whale call—biotwang—in the North Pacific. With Google AI and machine learning, we sorted through thousands o...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
November 8, 2024 at 6:58 PM