Reposted by Trevor A. BranchProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant ProfessorAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 03052
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A deep-sea fish with a transparent head and rotating eyes, the Barreleye is one of the ocean’s strangest creatures. Original post 13540130
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you are convinced it's AI generated and then discover it is not and now you doubt everything 062
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The classic exploding whale news segment from 1970 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...youtube.comThe Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved iconYouTube video by KATU News 2110
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Pleased to announce our blue whale stranding compilation is now published! With a Shiny app to explore! doi.org/10.1111/mms.... krandrup.shinyapps.io/blue_whale_g... 0259
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Concern that executive action on recreational fishing and shark fishing may threaten the status of US fisheries as being well-managed, sustainable and science-based www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump’s executive order on recreational fishing is a ‘giveaway of fish and ocean ecosystem’, advocates warnFederal agencies told to prioritize recreational fishing and to reconsider scientific standards as well as regulations 0117
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wandered over to Twitter for the first time in months to advertise a new paper and discovered that my notification feed there consists of random posts by people I never followed on topics I'm not interested in 140
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Pleased to announce our blue whale stranding compilation is now published! With a Shiny app to explore! doi.org/10.1111/mms.... krandrup.shinyapps.io/blue_whale_g... 0259
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchLarkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026PLEASE ask me for my article! It's always a thrill to know that someone wants to read it, and I hate that knowledge is gatekept like this. Not only do we not get paid if you pay the fee, but we have to pay the journal thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of making it open-access (not paywalled) 010362
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m so bored with all the discussion around AI. Can we talk about some useful technology, like heat pumps? 2326062
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions! 421922775
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Big accusation roils the Maine senate race www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 060
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen. 1464381
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Incredible world record by 6 yr old solving Rubik's cube. Amazing. Question: do young kids have better manual dexterity and reflexes than older kids and adults? Better memory agility? Shades of Ender's Game! www.youtube.com/shorts/IYp8j...youtube.comSix-year-old Chinese girl breaks Rubik's Cube world record – twiceYouTube video by The Telegraph 221
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple weeks ago I heard a joyful shriek from across the street. My neighbor kids, who I planted milkweed for, found 2 monarch caterpillars by their stoop. This week, those monarchs hatched. Our block is fully concrete, .3 miles to the closest green space. But we’re supporting the life cycle 🥰 1459681
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Assistant Professor, fisheries stock assessment Michigan, $100-125K / yr, 12 mo position renewable annually. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...careers.msu.eduAssistant Professor-FixedTerm - East Lansing, Michigan, United StatesPosition Summary The Quantitative Fisheries Center (QFC) within the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University invites applications for a full‐time, 12-month fixed-term Assistan... 012
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I mean AI is annoying but it's not like it's actually going to destroy civilization as we know it.... newrepublic.com/post/215610/...newrepublic.comU.S. Nearly Started a War Because Military Used AI to Write a ReportAn intelligence report about a Chinese ship, written with the help of AI, was “entirely false.” 040
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchJohn P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Voici le crâne de la bête / Behold the skull of the beast. #FossilFriday 24216
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Can someone explain to me why so many authors fail to capitalize "the Northern Hemisphere" and "the Southern Hemisphere"? I mean there really is only one of each, right? What am I missing? 110
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Crazy looking critter: Odobenocetops, a *dolphin* ancestor, that looked like a bad mashup of a whale, a walrus, and a narwhal, lived around 7-15 million years ago. 28515
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How come everyone knows about Megalodon but I've never heard of Livyatan? Massive predator that ate baleen whales and lived at the same time as Megalodon. Biggest biting teeth of them all. 1101
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Pacific bluefin tuna will get some help as countries agree to new harvest strategy news.mongabay.com/2026/09/paci...news.mongabay.comPacific bluefin tuna will get some help as countries agree to new harvest strategyThe annual meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) concluded on Sept. 4 with an agreement to adopt a long-term harvest strategy for Pacific bluefin tuna. The agreement aims to… 1349
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchDr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Some glass sponges may be the oldest animals on Earth. Individuals of Monorhaphis chuni are estimated at over 11,000 years old, and they build a single skeletal spike up to 3m long, the largest natural glass structure any animal makes. 🧪 #SpongeThursday #HowToBuildAGiant #marinelife 26821
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future. 201444722
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchEmma Vogel @efvogel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I love visuals that bring data to life, so I was very excited when I was asked to create animations for the @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social Museum showing the transatlantic scale of humpback whale migrations! This is just a subset of the data I am working with for @bioprotectproject.bsky.social🐋🌍🧪🌊 16125
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/09/202647 years of average annual sea ice thickness across the #Arctic... 🌊❄️🥼 Graphic now available to include 2025 at: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 47427
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Writeup on The Whale: new amazing museum opening just north of the Lofoten Islands in Norway in May 2027. I've been involved a bit on one of their installations www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...smithsonianmag.comA New Museum in Norway Is Bringing Visitors Into the World of Whales—From Life-Size Orcas to Immersive Underwater ExhibitsOpening in 2027, The Whale will explore the science, behavior, evolution and cultural history of whales through art, storytelling, sound and architecture 080
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchMark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out. 9363145
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Pet peeve: folks that say they are "going to Africa" for a vacation instead of the country they are traveling to. Just say "Namibia". Nobody says "I'm going to Europe" when they are going to Croatia. Africa is an enormous continent 3x the size of Europe, with 54 unique countries. 292
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My pettiest academia opinion is that people care way too much about how a citation is formatted. If I can find the paper you're referencing, you cited it fine. I don't care what's bolded and what's italicized and what order the year vs. issue number is presented in. Fight me. 🧪🦑🌎 1918818
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchUW College of the Environment @uwenvironment.bsky.social · 15/09/2026UW study shows coyote density is 9 times higher in Seattle compared to the wild lands in Washington. “Coyotes are here to stay in cities, and it is up to us to learn how to live with them.” - Laura Prugh, professor in @uw-sefs.bsky.social bit.ly/46kdUVp washington.eduCoyote density is 9 times higher in Seattle than in Washington’s wild lands | UW NewsA new UW study shows a nine-fold increase in coyote density in Seattle compared to natural areas of Washington state. Coyotes in urban environments have fewer p 1158
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Another big potential #FishJob Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History careers.amnh.org/postings/4925careers.amnh.orgAssistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate ZoologyThe Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M... 03436
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchStephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My PhD advisor. This all rings true to me; especially the part about Bob being kind and gracious. That counts for a lot. 1221
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fact-checking Paul Greenberg's NYT op-ed on bottom trawling: a response by Max Mosler sustainablefisheries-uw.org/fact-checkin...sustainablefisheries-uw.orgFact-checking Paul Greenberg’s op-ed in the New York Times - Sustainable Fisheries UWThe New York Times spews misinformation with its recent op-ed calling to ban bottom trawling. This is a science-backed response to correct the record. 010
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What was the longest ever blue whale? Find out in the next issue of Whalewatcher: all blue whales all the time. ACS members get a free printed copy www.acsonline.org/membership 0113
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Entire special issue of Whalewatcher on blue whales coming soon! Greatest of all time! Edited by yours truly with 30 articles over 130+ gorgeous pages. Members of the American Cetacean Society get a printed copy, become a member here: www.acsonline.org/membership 1206
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Iceland's last whaling company (which has caught 81 fin whales this year) shrugs off the threat of a ban in the legislature (side note: fin whales are abundant in the North Atlantic, so this is a moral and not a sustainability issue) www.reuters.com/world/icelan...reuters.comIceland's last whaling company shrugs off threat of permanent banIceland's last remaining active whaling company said it believed it could survive a renewed push to ban the practice, given that previous attempts to outlaw whale hunting had repeatedly failed. 021
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Entire special issue of Whalewatcher on blue whales coming soon! Greatest of all time! Edited by yours truly with 30 articles over 130+ gorgeous pages. Members of the American Cetacean Society get a printed copy, become a member here: www.acsonline.org/membership 1206
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another iconic symbol of overfishing: bluefin tuna (think million dollar Japanese auctions), is returning to British waters and all populations are rebuilding or doing well. So much better of a story than 10 or 15 years ago. 17425
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Key midterm elections coming up in the US, glad to see we have nothing to worry about in terms of collusion or election interference from foreign powers. 030
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Beefalo [cattle x bison] are not a thing: genetic tests reveal no bison DNA in most of the registered breeding animals. spacedaily.com/s-thirty-nin...spacedaily.comThirty-nine of the 47 registered Beefalo whose genomes were sequenced carry no detectable bison ancestry, including the foundation bull that sold for $2.5 million in 1975 and whose pedigree recorded h...The American Beefalo Association defines the breed as three-eighths bison. A genome-wide survey of frozen semen, drawn largely from animals collected at or near the founding of the breed, found that n... 083
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Counterintuitively, the key to changing someone else's mind (or maybe yours!) is starting an open-minded discussion and listening to them. Start with: "Could you tell me more about that?" "Why do you think that?" www.upworthy.com/stanford-res...upworthy.comStanford researchers find a single question could be the key to changing someone's mindCuriosity goes a lot further than we might think. 1153
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just noticed that Bluesky automatically adds 1/3, 2/3 etc for multithreaded posts. Very useful since I often don't know how many posts I will thread together! 080
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why do Southern Hemisphere studies need to specify "austral" summer, winter etc., but Northern Hemisphere studies don't need to specify "boreal" summer, winter etc.? Ponder that for a moment. 2155
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Incredible survival story: three days on top of an overturned boat, ankle deep in water and exposed to the elements with no food or water... in the remote Bering Sea www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/u...nytimes.comBoy, 15, Drifted for Days on an Overturned Boat Before RescueThe teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said. 394
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How do we know that AI is successfully solving math theorems? Only because there are some brilliant mathematicians checking the proofs... and posing them. Seems like we need a surge of investment in basic mathematics to take advantage of AI, check it, and make sure it is ethically used. 051
Reposted by Trevor A. BranchTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422055930