Mary Beth Decker
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Mary Beth Decker
@mb-decker.bsky.social
🌊Our public lands and waters are part of our national identity, and have been for over 100 years. Rolling back protections for marine monuments threatens our country’s cultural, historic, and natural resources. Tell @NOAA to keep our marine monuments intact today: linkly.link/2F3tY
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🐟 Action #1: Sign the national petition to protect our marine monuments from industrial fishing!
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October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by Mary Beth Decker
My favorite outcome was validating species descriptions from 18th century scientists who illustrated animals on their voyages. Their descriptions were often rejected as implausible – we found that in many cases they were exactly right. Yet another reason why @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is so valuable
June 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reposted by Mary Beth Decker
Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌
June 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM