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Dr. Brooke Bessesen

@brookebiologist.bsky.social
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🌎🐘🌱🐬🍄🪶🌼🦩🐢🦋🐾 Marine biologist, University of Reading, studies sea snakes, big on biodiversity, author, books include Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez.

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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Xanthos (Yellow Sea Snake) made it to ROUND TWO! Those sweet, little yellows need your love. 💛 And Vaquitas do too too!! Click the link to VOTE. uproar.indianapoliszoo.com #iucnredlist #seasnakespecialistgroup
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Uproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
💛 Xanthos made the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Challenge. PLEASE VOTE! Follow link > click Vote Here > tab forward to page 17 of 32 > VOTE Yellow Sea Snake. Thanks!! www.indianapoliszoo.com/uproar-conse...
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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
What a pickle! What makes a distinct taxon? What should we protect? One new paper led by @brookebiologist.bsky.social gives us food for thought 🌎🧪 Morphology, ecology and behaviour of the Golfo Dulce yellow sea 🐍 tell us one story... genetics 🧬 tell us another doi.org/10.1093/zool... 👇
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It makes me deeply happy to see so many science and author friends showing up on this platform. Welcome!!
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
In a room of grownups, this smart young fellow sat with his mom, listening intently to my talk at the university. He then asked the best question of the night: “What is the easiest thing **I** can do to help save the vaquita?” Are you feelin’ it? It’s called HOPE.
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, La Paz, Baja Sur, Mexico
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
My favorite shot from this week: on the FIL Niños stage with Pablo Montano. We took the kids on a journey through sea and sky to meet Mexico’s vaquita and California condor, with LIVE ART on the big screen by Cineamano.
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
What an honor (a bit intimidating, honestly) to speak alongside Mexico’s distinguished evolutionary biologist Dr. Antonio Lazcano, known for his preeminent science on early life.
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
More HOPE. This morning’s young adult talk at FIL was so well attended they had to build an overflow area & stream it to a jumbo screen. The curiosity & compassion of the teenage audience was palpable—it’s clear they care very deeply for vaquita and they truly want to help.
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
🔺TOMORROW 10am🔺 “[My] talk about the vaquita addresses the critical situation of this species of porpoise... the unsustainable fishing practices that affect numerous marine species.” @FIL Guadalajara Mexico 🇲🇽
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Heading south tomorrow for two weeks of vaquita conservation talks and I’m packing a companion. 🩵
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
For my upcoming talks… “Attention! 🚨 Do you live in La Paz or Loreto, Baja California Sur? Don't miss Dr. @brookebiologist's activities in your city and become passionate, along with her, about the conservation of endangered species! 😍” —translated quote, Obsidiana: Ciencia y Cultura por México
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Please repost We are hiring a new postdoc to work on the conservation of the endangered snail kite! Lots of potential for impact. Expertise in pop biology, quant modeling & conservation are desirable. 1.5 years w/potential to extend. Start date ASAP. fletcherlab.com
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Have you guys seen this? Extraordinary footage of a humpback whale birth captured in Maui, Hawai’i. I know a few locals in Costa Rica who have witnessed humpy births from their kayaks or spotting scopes, but obviously no underwater video. youtu.be/BQPAgFH96mQ?...
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
I was back in Richmond Park again yesterday - another glorious morning, with a few deer for company 🦌
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Happy thought for today: baby porcupines are called ‘porcupettes’. You’re welcome. 🙂
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
🧪🦑 For everyone expressing interest in the science bolstering renewed hope for vaquita (the world’s most endangered marine mammal), I posted 2 genetics papers in the 🧵 and this one is about gillnet avoidance: www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Over the next couple weeks, I’ll be giving numerous talks in Mexico about their endemic porpoise, la vaquita marina (Phocoena sinus), with the hope of re-sparking interest in its conservation.
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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
YES YES YES YES for anyone who doesn't know, coremata are inflatable hairy butt balloons that male moths use for courtship (📷Vinita Punia Sangwan/CC BY-NC/iNaturalist)
Photo of a moth with slender wings and a bright red abdomen, from the rear of which protrude four enormous coremata, each longer than the moth itself and covered with fine hairs. Vinita Punia Sangwan – some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) on iNaturalist.
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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Cool job! Assistant Professor in Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity at the University of Florida. #AcademicSky 🧪🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/52...
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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor Position in Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Polar bear hairs are translucent (not white) and hollow, protruding from heat-absorbing black skin. Perfect design. This is the kind of random stuff that pops into my mind. 🤓
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Thanks @mattbille.bsky.social
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
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theguardian.com
2023 ocean photographer of the year – in pictures
The winners and finalists of this year’s contest celebrate the blue planet, but they also draw attention to the many environmental challenges to marine life
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Andy Read @andyread.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
New position in the Southeast Region of NOAA Fisheries to lead field research on North Atlantic Right Whales. Great opportunity to work with a critically endangered species.🌎🐋🧪
usajobs.gov
Research Fish Biologist
<p><strong>This is a Direct Hire Public Notice. Please read this Public Notice in its entirety prior to submitting your application for consideration.</strong><br> <br> This position is located in SE ...
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
I’ve been prepping PowerPoints for my lecture tour in Mexico, which begins next week at the Guadalajara International Book Festival.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
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Dr. Brooke Bessesen @brookebiologist.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
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