Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 12/07/2026A series of pro-hunting, pro-trapping, anti-welfare opinions has me withdrawing my family membership. We need a new paradigm. 000
Reposted by Megan StolenTiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 08/02/2026You can donate to Bri’s efforts here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-singl...gofundme.comDonate to Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN, organized by B MHello, 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 01210
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026@judiciarydems.senate.gov Stop posting and do something. 000
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026If 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. 000
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 18/10/2025I REALLY need multiple likes option for this one. ❤️🔥 020
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Look at this beautiful piece of art and resistance! 🧶✂️💪 040
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Mini quilted mug rugs for the techs at the wildlife hospital. #quiltsky #vettechweek 🐢🐍🦎🦃🦫🐿️ 4190
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Tried it. Liked it. Will do more. #kawandi #quiltsky 1140
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I 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.♥️ 040
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 26/08/2025As 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. 050
Reposted by Megan StolenDavid Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Microplastics 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...theguardian.comThe life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and youMicroplastics 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,... 032
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Yesterday 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. 030
Reposted by Megan Stolencathryna.bsky.social @cathryna.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Off Balance When I Look Up. Handwoven 44"x 70" #weaving #michiganartist 2171
Reposted by Megan StolenMaqsood Asi @maqsoodasi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025How 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...share.googleHow rising seas are threatening the crucial art of weaving in SamoaWeaving is central to cultural life in Samoa but climate change is disrupting conditions needed for plants used to make the intricate mats 082
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Soap savers made on a rigid heddle loom. Reduce, reuse, use it all up. 🧼 #weavesky #unplastic 020
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Mass mortality event at the wildlife hospital. 010
Reposted by Megan StolenColin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Scooping 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...hakaimagazine.comScooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game | Hakai MagazineOpen ocean cleanups won’t solve the marine plastics crisis. To really make a difference, here’s what we should do instead. 051
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I 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. 040
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 17/07/2025You 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! 061
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 06/07/2025I love this yarn. It reminds me of shedded #snake skin. 🐍 🧶 #weavysky 030
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 23/06/2025She’s the adult version of “they followed me home, can I keep her?”. This non-releasable, (non-native) quail is now my best friend. 010
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025My 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. 😅 010
Reposted by Megan StolenJulie Claussen @julielovesfish.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Biodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries, better nutrition. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...news.cornell.eduBiodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries, better nutrition | Cornell ChronicleTo 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... 0176
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Casting 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...app.resonaterecordings 000
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Seeing 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. 🧠💘📚 000
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025The best day of the year. Met some terrific people and spread the otter joy. Happy #WorldOtterDay. 🩵🤎 000
Reposted by Megan StolenMongabay @mongabay.com · 28/05/2025A 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.news.mongabay.comDNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in ThailandA 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… 13721
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 27/05/2025If your paper “methods” include the words “explosive harpoon”, I don’t care what your results are. I’m not reading it. 🐋 000
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. 000
Reposted by Megan StolenMongabay @mongabay.com · 26/05/2025Researchers 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.news.mongabay.comWithout 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… 519074
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 24/05/2025My first snake necropsy was the longest one ever. 🐍 Take your time, I’ll wait. ☺️ #wildlifeforensics 020
Reposted by Megan StolenMatthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Find 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/...science.orgFeeding global aquacultureGlobal fish farming relies on wild-caught ocean fish, in quantities larger than previously reported. 082
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 17/05/2025When @jdebruyn.bsky.social comes to visit, I learn so many cool things without even trying. 🐢 💀 #decomposition #wildlifeforensics 020
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 08/05/2025So good to be in the room with so many do-gooders. #wildlifeforensics 010
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Just 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 000
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Doc 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. 🐢 💚 010
Reposted by Megan Stolen#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025You 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 18454
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 03/05/2025This 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 180
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Hey #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...accessibility.huit.harvard.eduWrite helpful Alt Text to describe images | Digital AccessibilityAlternative (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... 1172
Reposted by Megan Stolenwomensartbluesky.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 098685
Reposted by Megan StolenRichard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025For 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/...nhm.ac.ukRe-examining Britain’s role in whaling | Natural History MuseumDr Sophia Nicolov explores what the Museum’s whale, dolphin and porpoise collection can tell us about Britain’s role in whaling. 03914
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I’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. 030
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Window shopping at the little box store. #wildlifeforensics #taphonomy #cameratrap 040
Reposted by Megan StolenAngelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This 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...southernfriedscience.com5 things you can do if you’re pissed off about the latest Trump EODonald 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… 063
Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 25/04/2025And 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. 🐋🦭🦦 010