Lizzy 🧜♀️🐬
@sciencymermaid.bsky.social
🔬Woman in STEM 🦭 MS student in conservation medicine seeking a doctorate 🦄Equestrian 🧜♀️Real life mermaid 🗡️Fantasy enjoyer 🧶Knits, sews, and crochets occasionally
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In a study by the University of Exeter, nearly 70 blue, porbeagle and tope sharks were tagged to track their behaviour after being caught recreationally using the catch-and-release technique. The result: most sharks survived after being released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Fewer shark deaths when fishing guidelines followed - study
Researchers tagged sharks caught in England, Scotland and the Channel Islands for the project.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In a study by the University of Exeter, nearly 70 blue, porbeagle and tope sharks were tagged to track their behaviour after being caught recreationally using the catch-and-release technique. The result: most sharks survived after being released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mexico Finally Bans Fishing Of Threatened Atlantic Sharks
Mexico Finally Bans Fishing Of Threatened Atlantic Sharks
After years of delay, Mexico has finally banned the capture and retention of several threatened shark species, bringing long-overdue national action in line with international conservation promises.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mexico Finally Bans Fishing Of Threatened Atlantic Sharks
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New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
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We know this feeling all too well! What do you love about cetaceans Storytellers?!
🎨 @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social
#WhaleTales
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#WhaleTales
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We know this feeling all too well! What do you love about cetaceans Storytellers?!
🎨 @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social
#WhaleTales
🎨 @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social
#WhaleTales
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The Lariviere lab at UMiami is recruiting PhD students! Incoming students will join us in studying host-microbe interactions in the honey bee gut, using molecular and genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for more details.
#Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs
#Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Lariviere lab at UMiami is recruiting PhD students! Incoming students will join us in studying host-microbe interactions in the honey bee gut, using molecular and genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for more details.
#Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs
#Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs
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Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
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Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
World ‘very likely’ to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN
Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.
www.aljazeera.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
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After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.
Staghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.
nyti.ms
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.
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Atlantic dolphins are dying much younger. Scientists sound the alarm | ScienceDaily 🦑🧪
Atlantic dolphins are dying much younger. Scientists sound the alarm
Common dolphins in the North Atlantic are living significantly shorter lives, with female longevity dropping seven years since the 1990s. Researchers found this decline by analyzing stranded…
www.sciencedaily.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Atlantic dolphins are dying much younger. Scientists sound the alarm | ScienceDaily 🦑🧪
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The goddess of prosperity visits us this night to remind us that we are the lamps that guide God home. Always be the light. Happy Diwali!
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The goddess of prosperity visits us this night to remind us that we are the lamps that guide God home. Always be the light. Happy Diwali!
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happy diwali, all. i hope more of us keep doing the work. i hope we keep choosing light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and love and solidarity over hate. 🪔
October 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
happy diwali, all. i hope more of us keep doing the work. i hope we keep choosing light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and love and solidarity over hate. 🪔
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Bobcat enrichment time! 🐾 Rescued bobcats, Tahoma and Tanner, got a special treat, pinecones covered in mountain goat fur! These natural scents encourage rolling, rubbing, and scent marking, a purrfect way for bobcats to show off their wild side. 😻
📹: Keeper Joelle
📹: Keeper Joelle
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Bobcat enrichment time! 🐾 Rescued bobcats, Tahoma and Tanner, got a special treat, pinecones covered in mountain goat fur! These natural scents encourage rolling, rubbing, and scent marking, a purrfect way for bobcats to show off their wild side. 😻
📹: Keeper Joelle
📹: Keeper Joelle
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Friends, the Miami Seaquarium was a facility with a horrific animal welfare record. I will not miss it.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
October 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Friends, the Miami Seaquarium was a facility with a horrific animal welfare record. I will not miss it.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
This looks interesting
🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab
Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases
👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases
👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome
Welcome to the Breitbart Lab - Genomics
We are modern virus hunters, using metagenomic sequencing to discover viruses in a wide range of environments and hosts. Have fun exploring the marvels of microbiology on this website!
marine.usf.edu
October 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This looks interesting
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Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like a villain’s playbook.
Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
October 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like a villain’s playbook.
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The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
October 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Florida's 1,100 natural springs face threats from reduced flow, habitat loss, and excessive algae. Many popular springs are impaired by pollution, despite $357 million spent on restoration since 2011. A geographer explains how to restore them:
Florida’s 1,100 natural springs are under threat – a geographer explains how to restore them
Florida’s springs are a window into the state’s groundwater system. Revitalizing them will require multiple solutions tailored to each spring.
buff.ly
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Florida's 1,100 natural springs face threats from reduced flow, habitat loss, and excessive algae. Many popular springs are impaired by pollution, despite $357 million spent on restoration since 2011. A geographer explains how to restore them:
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Even when she saw terrible, horrible things, she kept hoping and working and fighting for a better future. May we all carry some of her spirit into the work ahead.
The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
October 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Even when she saw terrible, horrible things, she kept hoping and working and fighting for a better future. May we all carry some of her spirit into the work ahead.
You will be missed, Jane Goodall. I hope she knew how many people she inspired to go into science of all types
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
www.npr.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
You will be missed, Jane Goodall. I hope she knew how many people she inspired to go into science of all types
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
September 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/