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Danielle Ferraro

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ocean and fisheries @emlab.ucsb.edu co-organizer @rladiessb.bsky.social

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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New 🦈 trade paper from past and present @emlab.ucsb.edu members & collaborators! Check out co-lead author Echelle's neat summary below ⤵️
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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Fish will have to adapt to a warming world, what will that adaptation do to fisheries yields? We answer that question today in Science. I’ll summarise our findings very briefly in this thread www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields
Global warming is altering the fisheries that underpin food security, but projections of these impacts generally exclude evolutionary processes. We describe a model that forecasts how fish will adapt ...
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This workshop motivated me to ⭐ finally ⭐ spin up a personal website! I'm excited to build it out over the next few weeks (and spend way too much time picking fonts & colors hehe) 🤓 Check out @samcsik.bsky.social's workshop materials below!
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Feels like every time I think "I wish Positron had XXX feature" - it suddenly becomes so.
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Did #TidyTuesday this week for the first time in many years 🥹 and posted about it over on @weare.rladies.org!
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RLadies+ Santa Barbara @rladiessb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This past fall, our R-Ladies SB community came together to brainstorm ways for keeping up to date with the ever-evolving landscape of R & data science tools. We published a blog post on our conversations and recommendations, and @dferraro.bsky.social neatly summarizes them here!
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
So pumped to curate over at @weare.rladies.org this week! 👩‍💻✨🤓 I'll be sharing some ways I use #rstats, things I’m currently learning, and reflections from recent conversations with my R communities 💜 See you over there!
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What a 5,000-mile-long marine heat wave means for summer in the US:
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What a 5,000-mile-long marine heat wave means for summer in the U.S.
It could boost temperatures, humidity and the threat for tropical storms in the West through summer.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Some good news!
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
emLab is on Bluesky 🥳
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National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our Director, Ben Halpern, joined @ologies.bsky.social with Alie Ward to talk all things aquaculture ecology — from sustainability to seafood futures. 🌊 Tune in for an insightful conversation! 🎧 #Aquaculture #MarineScience #OceanConservation #SustainableSeafood #Sustainability #OlogiesPodcast
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I LOVED participating in the Letters to a Pre-scientist program this year - was matched with an 8th grader and we exchanged snail mail discussing our interests and what diff career paths can look like. Highly recommend prescientist.org for a low-effort (only 4 letters!) way to meaningfully engage 📬
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Tis the [Velella velella] season.
A photo of a sandy beach in Santa Barbara with Velella velella aggregations washed up on the shore. A photo of a sandy beach in Santa Barbara with Velella velella aggregations washed up on the shore.
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Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This thread asks the question on everyone’s mind: What’s the deal with chitons? First, some of them are really lovely. (1/11) Pics: © Wendy Feltham © anjadocke © Anne Hoggett © Matt Tank CC BY-NC #addOcean
Oval-shaped mollusc with stunning patterns in orange and white. The animal has eight more or less oblong shells that articulate with each other at the long edges. It kind of looks like a steampunk armadillo, if an armadillo didn't have a head, tail or legs. And was mechanical. 

The shells have an unpatterned triangle along the midline, with slanted patterns of bright orange, dark orange and white. 

The chiton is on a rock and is surrounded by barnacles. 

Tonicella lineata (Tonicellidae): Washington, USA. © Wendy Feltham CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/3971245Stunning bright red and white chiton that looks so obvious but is nestled on a background of pink coralline algae. It might not be such a striking contrast to a more casual glance. (Or with non-colour vision.)

This creature looks like a tapestry. The girdle (which runs around the edge of the shells) is wide and a superb crimson with little beige spots at the edge that make it look frayed and break up the smooth outline. 

The eight shell valves are red, black (or very dark red) and white and the line pattern is ragged, so it looks as though it's been embroidered. The impression is not of a hard mineral surface, but of velvety fabric. 

This species is very variable in colour and this pattern is not the most frequently encountered, but it's too lovely to ignore.

Callochiton dentatus (Callochitonidae): Cape Town, South Africa. © anjadocke CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/403740209After the orange and red chitons, this one is much more cryptic, but it's included to show the range of shell shapes. 

Like the others, this has eight shells or valves, but they are small tear-drop shaped shells that articulate with each other at a narrow point. They look like a spine protruding from the mottled grey-green tissue of the girdle. 

Apologies for that mental image. The actual image is less off-putting.

Schizochiton incisus (Schizochitonidae): Queensland, Australia. © Anne Hoggett CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/82844901Back to the pretty chitons! This one is blue, white and brown. That combination doesn't sound promising -- you probably wouldn't paint your living room in those colours -- but it works on this mollusc. 

The girdle looks like snakeskin (with tiny scales) and is banded in pastel blue and light brown. The shell valves have broad brown triangles along the midline, which are overlain with pale blue streaks and bright blue dots. On either side of those brown triangles, a pattern of light brown lines and zigzags radiate to the edge of the shells. It's not vividly hued but it is a lively pattern.

Ischnochiton smaragdinus (Ischnochitonidae): South Australia. © Matt Tank CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/88356217
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We're planning a future R-Ladies meetup - please share with us your tips on how to keep your code hip and relevant 💁‍♀️
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RLadies+ Santa Barbara @rladiessb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
*tap tap* This thing on? We’re SO excited to have made it over to this platform! We can’t wait to connect, learn, and share with the R communities blossoming here 🌼
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Danielle Ferraro @dferraro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hellooo, Bluesky! Here for science-conservation-nature-ocean-fisheries-data-Rstats goodness. Excited to find new and old communities on this platform 💫 If you're reading this, let me know if you have any newbie tips for using this app!
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