Taylor
LightNews LightNews
banner
taylorbiology.bsky.social
Taylor
@taylorbiology.bsky.social
91 followers 630 following 7 posts
Biology student who loves nature photography, marine biology, insects, fungi and much more
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Taylor
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Award-winning shark photographer dives underwater with mission to inspire
Award-winning shark photographer dives underwater with mission to inspire
“I love seeing sharks so if I can bring sharks to people who can’t go see them, maybe go inspire an elementary school kid who wants to be a shark researcher in the future, if I can do that, that’s an…
www.wdbj7.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Taylor
petercorkeron.bsky.social
Canadian government taking steps to protect North Atlantic #rightwhales this year:
Patrick Whittle for @apnews.com
"Canada is enforcing mandatory protection measures for the whale this summer... All vessels of 42.7 feet (13 meters) in length or more must comply with speed restrictions"
🐳🌍🦑
Canada to take steps to protect vanishing North Atlantic right whales from ships
The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with ships in its waters.
apnews.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reposted by Taylor
marinemammalsau.bsky.social
PhD student Emilie Stepien uses satellite tags, CATS Cams and drones to observe seal reactions to shipping in the Wadden sea 🇩🇰
Watch a pregnant seal reacting to a sea eagle caught on drone video 🦅🦭

@emstepien.bsky.social 🧪🌐

#Wildlife #WaddenSea #HarbourSeal #AnimalBehaviour #MarineEcology
July 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Taylor
ecotoxblog.bsky.social
The University of Bremen at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences - is seeking to fill 15 PhD positions 🌊🐠

Find out more about it 👉 rptu.de/s/qwnxbh

#marineecology #phdfellowship #carbonsequestration
Background: A person snorkeling next to a coral reef and fishes. Logos: The EcotoxBlog; marum Text: #JobPosting 15PhD positions in Marine Environmental Sciences
July 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Reposted by Taylor
oceanauk.bsky.social
🚨The UK Govt is asking the public to give their thoughts on whether they should extend bottom trawling bans in 41 English protected areas. 🌊 This is our chance! Use your voice to help kick this wasteful, destructive practice out of ocean havens! 👇
only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...
July 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Taylor
worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
To protect wildlife as offshore wind grows, we need the best ecological data. Monash University researchers created a practical guide to seabird flight—how high, how fast & when they fly.

📄 Journal of Applied Ecology: bit.ly/4eXfqQw

#Seabirds #ClimateAndNature
July 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Reposted by Taylor
worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
🌊 Calling all seabird scientists, researchers & conservationists! 🐦
Shape the future of seabird science at WSC 4: “Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate.”

📝 Proposals due 1 Aug 2025
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 7–11 Sept 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
Call for Symposia and Workshops WSC4
Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate Call for Symposia and Workshops The call for symposia and workshops is now open! propose a symposium or workshop for WSC4 on or before 01 August …
bit.ly
July 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Taylor
eklipse-europe.bsky.social
🌊 Reminder: Eklipse Open Call for Experts!
Help create a blueprint for site-specific conservation objectives for Marine Natura 2000 sites.
Deadline: July 23, 2025
Apply: eklipse.eu/calls/#CfE
#CallForExperts #MarineConservation #Natura2000 #SciencePolicy
July 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Taylor
oceanauk.bsky.social
🚨🚨 GIANT SUPERTRAWLERS (+100m) routinely fish in Scotland’s marine protected areas, devastating precious marine life & fish populations, DESPITE the UK Government having had the powers to stop them since Brexit. This must end! @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @theferret.scot
theferret.scot/supertrawler...
Giant supertrawlers routinely fish in Scotland’s marine protected areas
Giant supertrawlers fish in Scotland’s protected waters, impacting marine life and fish stocks, despite the UK Government’s power to stop them since Brexit.
theferret.scot
March 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Taylor
manirfeitosa.bsky.social
It's Carnival Tuesday in Brazil and I'm happy to share the newest #SharkScience paper we just published at Fish and Fisheries!
@allieamc.bsky.social and I co-led this analysis on the at-vessel and post-release mortality for sharks caught in longline and/or gillnet fisheries 1/9

tinyurl.com/2v2rjwmd
Print screen from the paper's cover with author names and abstract.
March 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Reposted by Taylor
petercorkeron.bsky.social
Another piece, this time in @gizmodo.com by @adamjkovac.bsky.social on rescinding the protections for the #GulfofMexico whale.

Comment: Balaenoptera ricei is also the Gulf of Mexico whale. What did Dale Rice do to deserve the opprobrium of his name being tied to a whale that'll go extinct?
🐳🌍🦑
Trump Just Made Life More Dangerous for One of the Rarest Whales on Earth
There may be fewer than 100 Rice's whales left in the Gulf of Mexico, but the Department of the Interior doesn't believe that should stop ships from traveling as fast as they choose.
gizmodo.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reposted by Taylor
laminda.bsky.social
Leucochloridium! This genus of parasitic flatworms turns snails into disco-eyed zombies. Worms infect snails, then produce colorful broodsacs that migrate into a snail's eyestalks. The sacs pulse like undulating caterpillars. This attracts birds—definitive hosts for worms, where they reproduce 🧪
February 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Taylor
ericheupel.bsky.social
While doing my postdoc I did a number of outreach efforts based on the fisheries visual sampling system we developed. Putting a video system between the belly and cod end of a trawl net ( see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLy... ).
This piece ended up in a couple pubs and a Museum exhibit:
🧪🐡🦑🐟
Cartoon style illustration of SMAST open cod end visual trawl survey system. The system mounts in under an hour to a fisherman's trawl net -sewn in between the belly and cod end. The illustration shows a fishing boat at top left of image with view underwater of net and it's parts, the open mouth with fish "entering" it, the ring sewn between the belly and the open cod end with fish passing into the belly, through the ring and out the open cod end. Callouts diagram the ring configuration and a frame of video captured by the system showing an number of cod in the frame. The system is used on normal commercial trips, with the cod end closed and not recording for most of the tows, but for 1 of every 5 or 10 tows (depending on boat and agreement) being a 15 minute tow with cod end oipen and cameras being recorded. This system allows us to accurately identify and count fish (and other animals) being "harvested" - with precise GPS location and time - while not actually harming any animals. For an example of video from this system see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLy9Wwbbxw
February 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Taylor
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
We're having our Zoom town halls about the ocean conservation science and policy textbook we're writing tomorrow and Thursday. If you want to join, there's still time to sign up! We'd love to hear what features would make this textbook more useful to you!

🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟
We’re making a new marine conservation science and policy textbook. What do you want to be in it?
The leading textbook in Marine Conservation Biology (Norse and Crowder) is 20 years old. It’s great and it shaped the field for a generation, but a lot has happened since it came out. There are new…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Taylor
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Fine-scale habitat selection of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Northwest Iberian Peninsula waters - Marine Biology https://buff.ly/40tNFJR 🧪🦑🌎
Fine-scale habitat selection of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Northwest Iberian Peninsula waters - Marine Biology
The escalating impact of human activities on marine ecosystems necessitates a thorough understanding of how marine predators, such as cetaceans, respond to environmental changes. Our investigation…
buff.ly
January 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
taylorbiology.bsky.social
The beauty of nature is absolutely mind blowing
aveneziano.bsky.social Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · Jan 11
When you scan certain species of #ammonites, you find yourself in a beautiful realm of fractality and geometry! (2/2)

🧪 #science #paleo

📷 from doi.org/10.1038/srep...
A micro CT scan of an ammonite revealing the internal patterns of the sutures, a fractal structure across the ammonite spiral.
January 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Taylor
josephtobias.bsky.social
Save ecology field studies from extinction! Even though they are less productive, they are vital for generating ideas and fine-tuning intuitions. 🌐🪶🧪
January 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Taylor
earthsciinfo.bsky.social
The major climate groups monitoring global temperature released their estimates for 2024. The anomalies range from +1.46 to +1.62°C, likely the first post-industrial year with Earth +1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions. The 30-year climate average is still ~1.2°C but obviously increasing 🧪 +...
climateofgavin.bsky.social Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Jan 10
All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live.

All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly).

The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC.

It is therefore *likely* this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.
five time series of global mean surface temperature changes starting low and noisy in the 1850s - rising clearly since the 1960s - and showing 2024 was clearly the warmest.
January 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Reposted by Taylor
rmcarpiano.medsky.social
🧪🛟😷 medsky
Bird Flu Samples From Very Ill Patient Had ‘Concerning’ Mutations (Gift Article)
Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Taylor
xaviermouy.bsky.social
Introducing "Sonic Connexions", a series of online meetups designed for casual conversations about animal bioacoustics. It is open to anyone, so join us and become part of this vibrant community!

First meetup on January 29th, 2025!

Sign up here: forms.office.com/r/qhPcMUKz6w

🧪🔉🐟🐋🦜🪳
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Reposted by Taylor
petercorkeron.bsky.social
Good article by @evezuckoff.bsky.social for @wcai-npr.bsky.social on our paper about right whales' longevity, and the problems facing North Atlantic #rightwhales

@alaskaraven.bsky.social interviewed. Also commentary from Scott Kraus, who's not here.
Well done
🐳🌍🦑
How long can North Atlantic right whales live? Scientists may finally have an answer
The endangered right whales' median age at death is about 22. Southern right whales, a closely related species, generally live into their seventies. The difference? Southern whales aren’t facing entan...
www.capeandislands.org
December 24, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Taylor
petercorkeron.bsky.social
And, a piece in The Conversation on the recent paper:

Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential lifespans as much as double previous estimates

"It’s possible, even likely, that many other whale species will also prove to have long lifespans."
🐳🌍🦑
1/
Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential lifespans as much as double previous estimates
These marine mammals are still feeling the effects of whaling. For most species, it may be another 100 years before there are enough old whales for scientists to confirm their lifespans.
theconversation.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Taylor
petercorkeron.bsky.social
New paper alert
Extreme longevity may be the rule not the exception in Balaenid whales
by @alaskaraven.bsky.social , Els Vermeulen, and me.

2 messages:
♀Southern rights could live much longer than we thought (10% >130);
♀North Atlantic rights' lives are truncated (10%>47)
🐳🌍🦑
Extreme longevity may be the rule not the exception in Balaenid whales
Whale life spans have likely been greatly underestimated.
www.science.org
December 20, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by Taylor
kaycebell.bsky.social
Science job!
🧪
kzutaustin.bsky.social Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Dec 18
Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!
The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…
zamudiolab.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:55 AM