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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD

@dogfishwalker.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist, shark nerd, and extremely part-time musician. Working my way toward being a broken man on a Halifax pier. He/him/y’all.

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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It finally happened.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is the end result of any social gathering in eastern North Carolina.
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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🦈Predicting shark bycatch doesn’t always mean you can avoid it. ✍️ A new Editor’s Choice article in ICES Journal analyses 117,789 Hawaiʻi longline fishing sets over 30 years to ask when shark avoidance can work, and when avoiding sharks means losing tuna too. 👉 Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The most noticeable and probably most consequential shift I’ve noticed in my lifetime is from the news being about things that happened to the news being about things someone said.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/07/2026
"I’d milk it for all it was worth. Sharks don’t drink milk. They’re born alive like mammals, but their mothers don’t nurse them, not even Nurse Sharks. Baby sharks are left to fend for themselves... That’s the kind of shark-based factoid I’d work in at cocktail parties."
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Silver Linings of Being Bitten by a Great White Shark
“If I were bitten by a great white shark, I’d work it into every conversation I ever had for the rest of my life.” 7/10/24 7/28/26
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Dusky sharks have been a prohibited species in US fisheries since 1999. These big adults are a sign that policy is working. A fully grown dusky shark can reach 14 feet in length and stand toe-to-toe with white sharks in the food web.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Jimmy Eat World has managed to keep putting out new material that feels like it’s growing along with me while I never seem to outgrow their older work.
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Meet the bull shark we hired as security to keep the ne’er-do-wells out of Coral City 😤🐂🦈 #bullshark #sharkweekiseverydayincoralcity #sharksofcoralcity #coralcitycamera
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” obviously.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This might be the coolest origin story of any music genre.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It's Out! To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea: thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea
If we fail to take this clear and concrete action to restore trust in maritime safety and security, soon there will be no one willing to pull us from the sea.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hartford? The Whale? They only win the Stanley Cup once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 03/06/2026
Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 31/05/2026
US science for the next few decades.
A photo of a NASA technical note from 1963, titled "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL"
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Well this is all horrible. 🧪
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I got a whole MSc by looking through non-lethally collected dogfish shark stomach contents. More commonly known as puke.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 23/05/2026
Dusky sharks, an apex predator similar to great white sharks, are expected to be active off Cape Cod this summer amid a historic comeback for the species, experts say.
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After 40 years, these sharks are returning to Cape Cod waters. Here’s what scientists want you to know. - The Boston Globe
Because the sharks prefer warmer waters, they could be particularly active off Cape Cod this summer, one expert said.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This seems relevant to @panic.gay’s interests.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New scene in Avengers: Endgame. This is canon now and ties into Doomsday.
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a group of people are holding lightsabers in a room
Alt: GIF of Mace Windu (played by Samuel L Jackson) igniting a lightsaber with three other Jedi around him.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
From NC? Join me in writing. NC has 4 National Forests: Croatan, Uwharrie, Nantahala and Pisgah — and they are are full of wild places to hike, hunt, camp, raft and fish.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The music hill I’m wiling to die on that a lot of people don’t expect is that the Dave Matthews Band is good, actually.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.
A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Mark it on your calendars, fellow elasmo-nerds! Also if you’re planning on joining in on the bony fish and herpetology sides of JMIH 2026.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act
In its first meeting in three decades, the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Psyched to be a co-author on this new paper led by @shannonbarry.bsky.social that uses genetics to prove that North Carolina’s baby bull sharks used to be Florida’s. 🦈🐟🦤🧪🦑 doi.org/10.3354/meps...
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Do you have any idea what NOAA could be if it had a $200 billion budget?
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Highly recommend starting a group chat about a niche hobby and including one person who does not do that hobby.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Warren Buffet also appears to be objectively happier and less of a miserable ghoul desperately begging for accolades on his own social media platform than some the others on this list. Makes you think.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
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Hugo Flávio @hugoflavio.com · 12/09/2025
At work, we often anaesthetise, perform surgery on, and tag juvenile fish. We wanted to find out if these procedures impact their oxygen consumption in the following days. Good news, we didn't find cause for concern! 🙂 Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Assessing metabolic rate and post‐tagging recovery in juvenile fish
Juvenile fish play a crucial role in the health of aquatic ecosystems, serving both as the foundation for future adult populations and as a valuable food source. Studying the juvenile life stage of f...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Decline is not inevitable. Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering. Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
Green List Status Assessment of the Banded Wobbegong (Orectolobus halei) The recovered (blue) status compared to what the past status might have been without conservation (Conservation Legacy, green) and future status unless management continues (Conservation Dependency, orange).
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An advantage that Trumpy Republicans have is that it's very difficult to accurately describe what they're doing without sounding like you're a deranged hyper-partisan! Example: "They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/01/2026
'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2026
next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🦈 #shark The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected "Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark" share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...
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The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark - Nature Communications
The Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate, inhabits the dim, frigid depths of the Arctic Ocean. Despite its extreme lifespan, this study finds that its vision remains intact and well-adapted ...
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You have to look past the fact that this is an attempt to project confidence and power and see it for what it is: an open admission of weakness and desperation. Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
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Recovery of Paleodictyon patterns after simulated mining activity on Pacific nodule fields - Marine Biodiversity
Since the late 1980s, various experiments have been conducted in polymetallic nodule fields of the Pacific Ocean to assess the potential environmental impacts of future mining, specifically in two are...
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
As an American, I fully endorse this sentiment.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
So everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels. publications.gc.ca/collections/...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Still ruthlessly promoting this, so start 2026 off with some shark rock! Available on a bunch of streaming services and buying yourself a copy on Bandcamp directly supports the making of more of this kind of music. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
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A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"Let's Look Back on 2025: Year in Review" wow no thank you, once was plenty
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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
On both personal and professional levels 2025 has mostly been a major unplanned and unwanted reset, but here’s a thing I managed to accomplish that I’m very happy to get out.
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