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Kennedy Quillen
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phd student @ university of south florida 📚🌊
studying cryptic fishes & food webs 🐠🪸
she/her 🏳️‍🌈👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻✨🌈
𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯
https://linktr.ee/CrypticFishes
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Global #fish #invasions transform #ecosystems.
Until now a unified view was missing.
Our Global Fish Invasion Database (GFID) fills this gap.
1538 spp across 193 countries.
Led by Phillip Haubrock
esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies
GFID: A Global Fish Invasion Database
We present the Global Fish Invasions Database (GFID), the first standardized, comprehensive global dataset of 1536 established non-native fish species across 193 countries. GFID includes detailed met...
esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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📣 SAY IT LOUD FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK 📣

"Mikaela Loach, a Jamaican British climate justice activist, says the hurricane was “caused by the climate crisis,” and says fossil fuel companies are to blame." 👏

Time to name unnatural disasters for those responsible: Big Oil & Gas.

#MakePollutersPay
Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Executives, Climate Activist Says
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history.
truthout.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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We keep hearing “CO₂ was higher before.”

Yes — and recovery took millions of years.

Earth can heal. Humanity just doesn’t live long enough to wait.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
What Ancient CO₂ Can, and Can't, Teach Us About the Modern World
What Earth's deep past reveals about the illusion of safety in a warming world.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The satellite presentation of Melissa is now evolving very rapidly indeed. Needless to say that Melissa now has her foot firmly on the loud pedal and is in the midst of an impressive period of rapid infensification that will see her become a major hurricane in no time at all.
October 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Your reminder that there is beauty in the world
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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A spotted eagle ray glides gracefully over a coral outplant predation study deployed by Rescue a reef to observe how parrotfish and other reef fish behave when presented with new corals in their habitat #spottedeagleray #flylikeaneagle #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
October 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if 2025 could stop kicking my butt that would be cool
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Hey October no rush but you’ve only got like (checks notes) 10 days left to fix me
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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If you haven't watched Haunted Hotel on Netflix, watch it! It is brilliant.
a cartoon character is kneeling in front of a blender with the word arise on it
Alt: a cartoon character is kneeling in front of a blender with the word arise on it
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
slow sunday - crafts, sudoku, and football 🍂🎨🏈
September 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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September 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
life sucks, but there are dogs
August 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
my goal this summer is to selfie with as many syngnathids as possible
June 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
dare i say the wawa hoagie rivals the pub sub
June 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
going to a trinket exchange do we like the chicken basket
June 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Happy Pride
June 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.
May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Happy pride month! Did you know that we're facing a world with more rainbows because of climate change? (I wish all climate impacts were like this one.) earthsky.org/earth/climat...
Climate change will produce more rainbows
earthsky.org
June 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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GM 🖤

Please take care of yourself
May 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Our latest study finds nearly 5 million seahorses smuggled across 60+ countries despite strict trade regulations — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Read full story: projectseahorse.org/new-study-ex...

#SavingSeahorses #ProjectSeahorse #OceansAsia #IllegalWildlifeTrade
May 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Shell Key, FL 🐚
May 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃
May 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
i am not an artist but this is my art
May 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM