Reagan Lawrence
@rlawrence15.bsky.social
MSc Marine Biology | she/her | Salmon Hatchery Fish Technician | 🇵🇸🇱🇧🏳️🌈
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To be fair, announcing you intend to fuck up an emu doesn’t have the same click bait value.
Colossal are likely trying to ‘de-extinct’ the moa by tweaking an emu genome. There’s 62 million years of evolution between an emu and a moa.
For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey
www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey
www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible
After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird
www.newscientist.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
To be fair, announcing you intend to fuck up an emu doesn’t have the same click bait value.
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#FishFriday 🐟:
"Design for Planting a Circular Aquarium, with Arum, Sundew, Forget-Me-Not, Etc."
_River Gardens: Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria..._ (London, 1857), Plate I
archive.org/details/rive...
"Design for Planting a Circular Aquarium, with Arum, Sundew, Forget-Me-Not, Etc."
_River Gardens: Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria..._ (London, 1857), Plate I
archive.org/details/rive...
January 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#FishFriday 🐟:
"Design for Planting a Circular Aquarium, with Arum, Sundew, Forget-Me-Not, Etc."
_River Gardens: Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria..._ (London, 1857), Plate I
archive.org/details/rive...
"Design for Planting a Circular Aquarium, with Arum, Sundew, Forget-Me-Not, Etc."
_River Gardens: Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria..._ (London, 1857), Plate I
archive.org/details/rive...
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The place now known as Wisconsin has a rich history of wild rice harvesting dating back thousands of years with the Menominee, the original people of the area. ow.ly/jsU350UsMNG
Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River - Inside Climate News
Better water quality could be driving the increase.
ow.ly
December 17, 2024 at 9:50 PM
The place now known as Wisconsin has a rich history of wild rice harvesting dating back thousands of years with the Menominee, the original people of the area. ow.ly/jsU350UsMNG
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DAY 7 #12daysofanglerfishmas Did you know there are anglerfish on coral reefs? Just like their relatives, frogfishes are sit-and-wait predators who use lures and have an extensible stomach!
December 7, 2024 at 7:22 PM
DAY 7 #12daysofanglerfishmas Did you know there are anglerfish on coral reefs? Just like their relatives, frogfishes are sit-and-wait predators who use lures and have an extensible stomach!
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Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State.
“Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
“Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News
Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.
insideclimatenews.org
December 7, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State.
“Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
“Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
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Ok I’m gonna need you all to repost today’s #EtymologyEpithet far and wide because this is one of my fav fishes I’ve ever described.
November 30, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Ok I’m gonna need you all to repost today’s #EtymologyEpithet far and wide because this is one of my fav fishes I’ve ever described.
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What a thorough and wonderful write up by WTTW's Patty Wetli - thank you for highlighting the effort and care for studying suckers demonstrated by an incredible network of volunteers! news.wttw.com/2024/12/03/u...
The Unglamorous Sucker Fish Plays a Key Great Lakes Role. A Shedd Scientist and Her Band of Volunteers Want to Tell You Why
Community volunteers helped Shedd Aquarium researcher Karen Murchie discover an important trigger of sucker fish migration and along the way they've become vital advocates for freshwater animals.
news.wttw.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:54 PM
What a thorough and wonderful write up by WTTW's Patty Wetli - thank you for highlighting the effort and care for studying suckers demonstrated by an incredible network of volunteers! news.wttw.com/2024/12/03/u...
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Salmon already returning to the Klamath. A sign of hope. apnews.com/article/klam...
Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in US history
Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades to spawn in cool creeks.
apnews.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Salmon already returning to the Klamath. A sign of hope. apnews.com/article/klam...
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How do we count sturgeon underwater? We use sound! Sturgeon are so big and usually close to the bottom that we can use habitat mapping sonar to count them. Each blob in the image on the right is a sturgeon. #sturgeonsaturday
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November 23, 2024 at 5:37 AM
How do we count sturgeon underwater? We use sound! Sturgeon are so big and usually close to the bottom that we can use habitat mapping sonar to count them. Each blob in the image on the right is a sturgeon. #sturgeonsaturday
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This article I wrote a month ago is a much needed response to an op-ed in the Times Colonist, “Orcas, poachers and our threatened salmon industry". It exposes a troubling misunderstanding of killer whales, wild salmon and the basics of wildlife science. #endangeredSRKW #chinook
Fact over fiction: The realities of endangered killer whales
As the saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
#killerwhales
www.raincoast.org/2024/10/fact...
As the saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
#killerwhales
www.raincoast.org/2024/10/fact...
Fact over fiction: The realities of endangered killer whales | Raincoast
As the saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
www.raincoast.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:11 AM
This article I wrote a month ago is a much needed response to an op-ed in the Times Colonist, “Orcas, poachers and our threatened salmon industry". It exposes a troubling misunderstanding of killer whales, wild salmon and the basics of wildlife science. #endangeredSRKW #chinook
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The Rough Fish Revolution
"Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly at risk"
www.biographic.com/the-rough-fi...
"Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly at risk"
www.biographic.com/the-rough-fi...
The Rough Fish Revolution - bioGraphic
Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly a...
www.biographic.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
The Rough Fish Revolution
"Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly at risk"
www.biographic.com/the-rough-fi...
"Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly at risk"
www.biographic.com/the-rough-fi...
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So I guess I'm here now!
I'm Mel, the Ocean Writer & here's my latest story for Nat Geo on the world's largest megacoral, which broke today:
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
(Will be back in due course to figure out the whole Blue Sky thing & follow y'all!)
I'm Mel, the Ocean Writer & here's my latest story for Nat Geo on the world's largest megacoral, which broke today:
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
(Will be back in due course to figure out the whole Blue Sky thing & follow y'all!)
Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:18 PM
So I guess I'm here now!
I'm Mel, the Ocean Writer & here's my latest story for Nat Geo on the world's largest megacoral, which broke today:
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
(Will be back in due course to figure out the whole Blue Sky thing & follow y'all!)
I'm Mel, the Ocean Writer & here's my latest story for Nat Geo on the world's largest megacoral, which broke today:
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
(Will be back in due course to figure out the whole Blue Sky thing & follow y'all!)
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