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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 2h

Immediately excited then disappointed by the Whalefall movie.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I interact with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social ONCE on Facebook and now my feed is full of vertebrates! 😫

A suggested Facebook post for a shark focussed page.

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

After ribbing my colleague for making figures in excel all day I produced this beauty with R. Bet you can't make that in excel can you??! #rstats #accidentalaRt @accidentalart.bsky.social

A horrifically wrong figure with error bars all over the place.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Is plastic pollution getting worse?" It's the question we get asked more than any other. After 15 years of data from Lord Howe Island, we finally have a straight answer. 🧵 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A hand holding a plastic fork piece in the foreground. In the background, another hand lays out plastics on a sheet of paper towel. The plastic was in a shearwater chick's stomach.

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Would it be weird if I embroidered eyes/faces on the squiggles to turn them into worms?

A shirt with a blue background and white squiggles

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Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Stromatolites are fossil evidence of some of the earliest forms of life on earth, and some can be up to 3.45 billion years old! Stromatolites are formed when blankets of photosynthetic single-celled micro-organisms "cement" surrounding sediment in slowly growing layers.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Occidental Petroleum will begin operating the world’s largest carbon removal facility, Stratos, at the end of 2026. The facility is designed to remove up to 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere annually. If it works, that's a time machine that will take us back by ~6 minutes every year.

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E&E News: World’s largest carbon removal plant to open at the end of 2026

Occidental Petroleum's project in West Texas was supposed to start in late 2024. Scientists say carbon removal is essential to slowing climate change.

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Ocean Acidification Research Center @uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The NOAA #OceanAcidification Program has a new website with background, classroom ready, regional and species-specific resources for educators, students and anyone interested in OA. 🧪🌊🦑🍎 #BackToSchool oceanacidification.noaa.gov/ocean-acidif...

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Choose Your Own (O)Adventure - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program

Education & Outreach Choose your own (O)Adventure Finding and using educational resources about Ocean Acidification for your classroom Dive into our curated collection of background, classroom ready, ...

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

the way i'm nodding along like yes, yes

Domain affected Possible effects
Cognition & intellectual work Echo chambers
Homogenization of creativity
Confirmation bias
Skills & training Changing career paths
Shifts in training priorities
Deskilling in core competencies
Scientific norms & culture Accelerated publication pace
Inaccuracy tolerance
Intensified publish-or-perish culture
Collaboration structure Obsolescence of in-house specialists
Fewer PhD/postdoctoral positions
Decline in cross-area collaboration
Information generation Displacement of curated databases
LLMs replacing search engines & encyclopedias
Literature review & data extraction

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Recursively applying AI to condense an abstract until the whole article is summarised by one word.

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this is going to turn me into the joker

The creeping normality of AI in the life sciences

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hot iridescent worms in your area, Lurking in karstic caves, Slithering out of cave crickets 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/12/gord...

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<i>Gordius wulingensis</i>

Horsehair worms are a menace to crickets (as well as mantis , millipedes , and centipedes ) everywhere. Imagine being a cricket going about ...

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Children: as problems in schools to be controlled; financial benefits to the state, but also burdens that must therefore be incentivised, for parents to have them; not in need of decent nutrition but still to be shamed for their bodies; & oh btw the Children’s Commissioner is sacked. FFS #nzpol

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Obviously I bought him. He is mine now. He will look after my car keys. Good shark.

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Last hours for early bird rego for the 6th Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium, Wellington in October. Come join us to hear the latest research in ocean acidification, multiple stressors, ocean observation, climate science, marine carbon dioxide removal, & blue carbon: highco2-vi.org 🌊🪼🌏🦑🐙🦀🪸 #OHCO2W

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The Ocean in a High CO₂ World– 6th International Symposium

The local organising committee warmly invites you to join us for The 6th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO₂ World in Wellington, New Zealand, at Tākina Convention & Exhibition Centre.

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

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Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces

Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 Zebra crab!

A black-and-white striped crab on the red surface of a sea urchin

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat

A small crab in a black gloves hand. The crab has a chiton on its carapace

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Earth systems don’t care about your borders. We solve the climate crisis as a planetary species or we don’t solve it. #NomadCentury

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sticking to worms. Peinaleopolynoe orphanae from the deep sea, an Elvis worm, named for their glittery jumpsuits.

A sparkly scaled worm with rainbow reflections

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've written a post about Echinomermella matsi, a roundworm which parasitises sea urchins. This worm can castrate or even reduce the lifespan of sea urchins, and this is a story about how these worms turned parasitic over the course of their evolution 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/07/echi...

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<i>Echinomermella matsi</i>

Nematodes (roundworms) just can't get enough of being parasites. Parasitism has independently evolved at least fifteen times among nematode...

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Stephen Lokier @lokier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If anyone knows any MSC or PhD students working in the realm of evaporates or any other chemical sediments then please encourage them to apply for this opportunity to share their research.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Interesting piece @science.org It's true that in the way scientific hierarchy is designed it generally rewards confirmation & penalises difference. What this paper misses is the epistemic injustice in recognition based on the identity of who presents the surprises. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Advancing science by designing for surprise

Consider a thought experiment. Two graduate students have written identical dissertations: the same experiments, the same data, the same robust findings. One is written as a standard, cautious text th...

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For #MolluscMonday, a grim one. The new IUCN Red List assessed every mollusc known to live only at hydrothermal vents. Of 201 species, 125 are now threatened with extinction, and the driver is deep-sea mining that has not meaningfully started yet. #marinelife iucn.org/press-releas...

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From desert frog to deep-sea molluscs, remarkable species at risk – IUCN Red List

Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In Aust...

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Unfortunately this seems to me like another example of a real animal, slopped by AI 😡🦑 Check these source images from @mbarinews.bsky.social who actually observed it. No frontal "mouth" (just a fold between arms further down at most), no suckers visible when on the bottom, eyes less forward

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Flapjack octopus • MBARI

The adorable flapjack octopus sits on the seafloor like a flat, fluffy pancake.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

By popular demand, here is everyone in the climate and energy portrait series.

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

CHONK! Any day I spot a *Cryptochiton* is a good day. #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑

A picture of a gumboot chiton - *Cryptochiton stelleri*, the world’s largest chiton species, whose thick, red-brown skin completely covers its plates (hence, “*Crypto*”) - with my hand for scale. It is bigger than my hand.

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#WormWednesday Minoru Imajima illustrated with great clarity. This is Lepidonotus akunanae from 2011. Not all polychaetes lend themselves to such artistic featuring. www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/a...

Line drawing of head, scales and chaetae of a polynoid worm, drawn by Minoru Imajima

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If this science stuff doesn't work out maybe I'll just bake all day.

Chocolate muffins decorated with cheetah spots

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Nephtyidae for Nephtys. (it should have been spelled Nephthys after the goddess, but someone stuffed up). Horrid spelling to get right.

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Just got mixed up saying Warehouse and Woolworths and called it Werewolves which is what I'll be calling it from now on.

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Animated Werewolves Dance Under Moonlight

Alt: Animated Werewolves Dance Under Moonlight

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What my fellowship conceptual diagram currently looks like. Internal deadline tomorrow. Science help me 🙏

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So can we, like, do something now? The time to start radical decarbonisation was years ago. Now we're on damage control and we STILL need to start radical decarbonisation. Vote!

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yes FTLOS please stop! Why does it keep forgetting.

Me trying to get Word to stop always correcting OTU to OUT.

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Time to find a side hustle...anyone want to commission a taxonomically accurate rug?! Man what a mess.

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