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Megan Stolen

@seaforensics.bsky.social
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Wildlife forensic science and ecology, conserving wild animals from the inside-out. 🩸🩻🔬🪰🐋🦦 🐢 🪶 Fan of shelter dogs, fiber arts, and this beautiful planet. 🌍 she/her/hers Ⓥ

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A series of pro-hunting, pro-trapping, anti-welfare opinions has me withdrawing my family membership. We need a new paradigm.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You can donate to Bri’s efforts here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-singl...
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Donate to Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN, organized by B M
Hello, My name is Bri, and I am reaching out to share the work I am doin… B M needs your support for Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
@judiciarydems.senate.gov Stop posting and do something.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you are an elected official and you post about your sadness or outrage today without telling us EXACTLY what you plan to do about these murders and abductions, then you need to go. School boards to governors, senators to county seats. All states, cities, and small towns. Do something real. Now.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I REALLY need multiple likes option for this one. ❤️‍🔥
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Look at this beautiful piece of art and resistance! 🧶✂️💪
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Mini quilted mug rugs for the techs at the wildlife hospital. #quiltsky #vettechweek 🐢🐍🦎🦃🦫🐿️
Small quilts featuring wildlife - in a square.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Tried it. Liked it. Will do more. #kawandi #quiltsky
A patchwork quilt of blue and green batique fabricClose up corner photo of a scrap quilt showing the traditional flowers on one corner
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I live in Florida. This was WAY harder than it should have been. It’s like “they” don’t remember what we all went through and the people who died. The people who risked their lives and sanity to bring us the vax should be remembered always. I thank them from the bottom of my vaccinated heart.♥️
Sign reading vaccination area.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
As a necropsy team lead for several Atlantic large whales…checking my necropsy notes just to be sure….nope…no windmills. Hold tight, checking the peer-reviewed data and publications…. nothing about windmills, just lots of ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear.
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you
Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world,...
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Yesterday we released two orphaned #otters after a long stay in the Florida Wildlife Hospital. North American River otters are still hunted and trapped in Florida and many other states.
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cathryna.bsky.social @cathryna.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Off Balance When I Look Up. Handwoven 44"x 70" #weaving #michiganartist
Woven image from the perspective of standing under a tall tree on a clear warm day. Colors slightly washed out by the sun. I often try to walk under trees with my head tipped back, the feeing is like floating with a tinge of fear that I will trip and fall. It is better than staring at my shoes all day.
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Maqsood Asi @maqsoodasi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
How rising seas are threatening the crucial #art of weaving in #Samoa #Weaving is central to #cultural life in Samoa but #ClimateChange is disrupting conditions needed for plants used to make the intricate mats share.google/HcgWzHYhnvQf...
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How rising seas are threatening the crucial art of weaving in Samoa
Weaving is central to cultural life in Samoa but climate change is disrupting conditions needed for plants used to make the intricate mats
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Soap savers made on a rigid heddle loom. Reduce, reuse, use it all up. 🧼 #weavesky #unplastic
4 blue and green bags with drawstrings and a lump of soap4 blues and green woven bags with drawstrings for bits of soap
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Mass mortality event at the wildlife hospital.
A pile of brown and white stuffed pelican toys on a towel near a filing case. These are used in education program to teach kids about fishing line entanglement.
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game Open ocean cleanups won’t solve the marine plastics crisis. To really make a difference, here’s what we should do instead. hakaimagazine.com/features/sco...
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Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game | Hakai Magazine
Open ocean cleanups won’t solve the marine plastics crisis. To really make a difference, here’s what we should do instead.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I have been saving my single earrings for years- hoping the one I lost will magically come back. I have a LOT of single earrings. At last, a driveway miracle.
Close up: An earring (back side up) in the shape of a skunk with a wire loop laying on a brick driveway.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
You don’t have to kill your grass all at once. Plant the right native plants and don’t water anything once they are established. The natives will outcompete and choke out the non-natives. Ta da!
A small house peeking out behind a yard of native plants including sea grape, dune sunflower and coontie.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I love this yarn. It reminds me of shedded #snake skin. 🐍 🧶 #weavysky
Close up of golden yellow yarn with small interlocking threads resembling the shedded scales of snake skin.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Only cool dogs get laser therapy. 😎 #dogsky
A large light brown dog with black sunglasses and a bright pink tongue.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Decrease, reduce, terminate. 🥺
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
She’s the adult version of “they followed me home, can I keep her?”. This non-releasable, (non-native) quail is now my best friend.
Two hands cradle a small white, brown and gray quail.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We have houseguests again. 🦇 💩 #backyardbats
Small black flecks on cardboard mulch near an overgrown herb bed. Bat poop!
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My daughter said that if Jurassic Park was real, I’d be the one to bring home the smallest, sickly velociraptor when the park shut down. They would be the one with one leg or a raging ear infection. No one else would be willing to adopt them and we would just increase our Care Credit again. 😅
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Julie Claussen @julielovesfish.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Biodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries, better nutrition. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Biodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries, better nutrition | Cornell Chronicle
To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller porti...
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Casting my pod with the Bird Hugger- I talk about whales, tortoises and pelicans, good people and not-so-good people. #wildlifeforensics app.resonaterecordings.com/hosting/bird...
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Seeing my son’s papers come out and suggesting edits on my daughter’s first paper is making me very proud and weepy. 🥹 That honor roll, kindergarten parent assembly feeling continues. 🧠💘📚
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The best day of the year. Met some terrific people and spread the otter joy. Happy #WorldOtterDay. 🩵🤎
A cartoon character of an otter near a riverBeing introduced by an organizer at an event for otter day. The image shows our Otter Spotter table and a slide show about to start.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 28/05/2025
A new genetic study links otters found in exotic animal cafes in Japan with wild populations in well-known poaching hotspots in southern Thailand. The new DNA evidence of a wildlife trade route between Thailand and Japan backs up calls from experts for stricter monitoring of wildlife exports.
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DNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in Thailand
A glut of social media videos featuring captive Asian small-clawed otters in the mid-2000s led to what wildlife trade experts term “the pet otter boom.” Demand for the species exploded, placing…
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If your paper “methods” include the words “explosive harpoon”, I don’t care what your results are. I’m not reading it. 🐋
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@anatrecord.bsky.social Minke whales were hunted and killed for this paper. I and many other scientists think that is terrible. Do better.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/05/2025
Researchers in Costa Rica found that pig carcasses decomposed twice as fast when vultures had access to them. The absence of vultures led to a doubling of fly populations at carcass sites, which could affect human health, since these flies can carry diseases like botulism and anthrax.
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Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound
“Absolutely disgusting, so grim, the worst fieldwork of my life, but also extremely rewarding in a very odd way,” said Julia Grootaers, describing her three months collecting data among rotting pig…
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My first snake necropsy was the longest one ever. 🐍 Take your time, I’ll wait. ☺️ #wildlifeforensics
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Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Find more in our research, led by @unpopularscience.bsky.social. In Table 1, we show that carnivorous fish farms for seabass, bream, and salmon require 2 to 5 kilos of wild caught fish for every 1 kilo of farmed fish they produce. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Feeding global aquaculture
Global fish farming relies on wild-caught ocean fish, in quantities larger than previously reported.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Aquaculture ain’t the answer. 👎
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
When @jdebruyn.bsky.social comes to visit, I learn so many cool things without even trying. 🐢 💀 #decomposition #wildlifeforensics
Photo of Dr. DeBruyn collecting samples at a forensic field site.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So good to be in the room with so many do-gooders. #wildlifeforensics
A program for Animal ForensiCon- a veterinary forensic conference.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Just a reminder that shooting a #dolphin in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (U.S. federal law) is a misdemeanor crime. Same goes for nearly all animals in the U.S. legal system. #wildlifeforensics
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Doc taught me all the really important stuff. Not just vertebrate zoology but how to take good field notes, how to tag a sea turtle, how to be part of a team and how to be humble, kind and careful with my words. He is dearly missed. 🐢 💚
A sign for Doc Ehrhart Sanctuary surrounded by vegetation. There is a blue, green and brown sea turtle statue next to the sign.
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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
You are invited to join us for #MIllionsMissing #DisabilitySOS on May 12th - two weeks from today! Join us in DC and online! All you need to know can be found here: www.meactions.org/millionsmiss... #MEAction will be sounding a Disability SOS at the nation’s capitol and across social media. #PwME
Cartoon protest art with detailed, dark lines depicting the Statue of Liberty sinking to her crown in bright red liquid. She holds her torch high above an ocean of red next to the words "#Millions Missing SOS". Text in the image reads "May 12, 2025 protest in Washington D.C. and from home."
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This little dude got some Spryng and some PRP in his bionic legs. He’s a “miracle” of science and the best of veterinary medicine. This is what science does, it fixes broken puppies and mends hearts. Also: trazodone is nice. #dogsky
A black pitbull mix puppy with a pink collar stares out the window of a car after veterinary treatment.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hey #quiltsky, let’s be the cool group who use alt text for all our posts. You can set up a reminder in this app. Here are some other quick tips. 🧵 accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-con...
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Write helpful Alt Text to describe images | Digital Accessibility​
Alternative (Alt) Text is an essential part of making content accessible. When adding images, charts, icons or other graphic elements, alt text should be added to ensure your content will be accessibl...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Seadog" (Otter) animal thread painting - hand embroidery artwork by Emily Tull, wildlife portrait artist and embroiderer #WomensArt
Pictorial embroidery textile artwork featuring the head of an otter facing right with wet looking fur against a turquoise background
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For those who missed it last month, here's @sophianicolov.bsky.social talking about her amazing research on the legacies of British whaling in @nhm-london.bsky.social's collections: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
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Re-examining Britain’s role in whaling | Natural History Museum
Dr Sophia Nicolov explores what the Museum’s whale, dolphin and porpoise collection can tell us about Britain’s role in whaling.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’ve been honored with involvement in (euthanasia) and presence at the natural death of countless wild animals as well as family “pets”. Many of us scientists, veterinarians and “owners” are incredibly thoughtful but we can do better. And societies around the world need to recognize these unknowns.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Window shopping at the little box store. #wildlifeforensics #taphonomy #cameratrap
A raccoon peers into a scavenger excluder cage. Photo taken with a trail camera.
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is turning into an evergreen post -- just switch out EO on "Pacific Islands Heritage" to EO on "Deep Sea Mining" www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...
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5 things you can do if you’re pissed off about the latest Trump EO
Donald Trump opened an area of about 250 million acres of protected American waters to industrial fishing fleets on Thursday.  This sets a very dangerous precedent that our public lands and wa…
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
And that’s a wrap. Three great days of the low-carbon virtual National Marine Mammal Stranding Meeting. So many great talks. So many things to be worried about. So many people doing amazing work. I always walk away from these meetings feeling inspired and wanting to do more. 🐋🦭🦦
Title slide from a talk: Forensic Applications (Photography and ALS) in Southwest FL marine mammal stranding investigation with authors listed
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