Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Coral science is fascinating, fun and frequently wet - but right now the wet part is blowing in on the gusts of a typhoon in Palau. We're testing corals to find the most heat resistant ones. So we had to keep the experiments going! All at the Palau International Coral Reef Center. 030
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The heatwave is cancelling 4th of July parties in the east. It's a cruel summer that does this, a cruel summer of climate change. We hope this song helps folks see and hear the reality of how our planet is changing...weather we choose to believe or not 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Hi all - been hearing about heat wave cancellation of 4th of July events in the east....that's not happening in cloudy central California but is it happening around where you are? Curious about the extent of this. 001
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025See the volume 1 season 1 of our book about sharks and people Born Predators on stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... With season 2 to follow! 020
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025It’s #sharkweek and an estimated 2 million sharks will drown this week. Shark researcher Kinney Austin saves one shark in our book Born Predators. See how she does it on substack Born Predators. 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025It’s Toothsday of shark week, and our new chapter of Born Predators has Kinney finally in the water with sharks. Is she terrified? No, she’s trying to save a shark from drowning. How do sharks drown and how does Kinney save it? Read it on Substack. “ 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025In our substack book #BornPredators Kinney Austin has an evidence problem -- was Hennessey the #shark really where her satellite tag said she was? 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025In Chapter 7 of our Substack serial novel Born Predators, researcher Kinney Austin shows Hennessey the shark was not really in Hampton Bay the night of the shark attack. Her friend Will asks the obvious question…if someone altered Hennessey's online track....why? 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025On Toothsday July 8 we posted another Born Predators chapter on our Substack site 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Substack book series Born Predators Chapter 6: Are the beaches safe? That ‘s one of the questions anyone asks after a shark encounter. Our shark researcher Kinney walks into a maelstrom – a press conference about whether white shark Hennessey is a danger stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Why is it the hottest day of the year across Europe? A #heatwave is not a surprise. Climate Change is Real! see our version of Cruel Summer Climate Change....also at youtu.be/acSOHZvgSM8 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Shark teeth tell us a lot In our substack book Born Predators, Kinney looks closely at wounds “A Bull shark has cutting teeth in the upper jaw for slicing and stiletto points in the lower for grasping. I don’t see that.” “So, not a Bull shark,” the coroner offered “No,” Kinney said. "Something else" 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Best wishes going out to folks hit by the first cruel summer heat wave of 2025. The fundamental message is that climate change is real.Hunker down and stay safe. 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025It's a Cruel Summer...again. 104 in Boston on my way to the airport to go home. And this is the middle of the heatwave. So here is the middle of Cruel Summer of Climate Change. youtu.be/dfqWquD5eqcyoutu.beCruel summer hurricanes and heatwaves July 4YouTube video by Extreme Life of the Sea 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025In our book Born Predators Miss Jilly says “Hon, if there’s a dead guy with shark bites, then it’s the shark that did it.” But you can learn a lot more about sharks from their bites. In our post today, researcher Kinney Austin builds a shark from its bites stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...stephenpalumbi.substack.comBorn PredatorsA book about sharks and people by Anthony Palumbi and Stephen Palumbi 052
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Another cruel summer is starting to hit the US - a heatwave across the country. To paraphrase 'Cruel Summer': Summer is the worst but it should be the best! The most important thing to realize is that Climate Change is real...worst thing you ever heard. See the whole video youtu.be/acSOHZvgSM8youtu.beCruel summer of hurricanes and heatwaves is realYouTube video by Extreme Life of the Sea 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025#jaws50th 50 years after Jaws we know a lot more about sharks. Big white sharks are usually female. They get pregnant and give birth to young in the summer looking for a warm shallow cove Was that the Jaws shark? In our book Born Predators Hennessey the shark is doing just that but gets into trouble 020
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025#Jaws50 Today we know a lot more about sharks. Can they be wildlife not monsters? In our new novel Born Predators the shark biologist sets out to prove the shark Hennessey didn’t attack anyone – but it turns out that people are more complex than sharks. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 020
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Suppose you were the shark? TODAY! The 50th anniversary of JAWS, which defined the movie thriller by having a monster in the water. If you were the shark and had to live with that label for 50 years, how would you tell the story differently? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 030
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025June 19: Sharks and Juneteenth. The horrors and inhumanity of slavery included fear of sharks. “…the shark functioned as an integral part of a system of terror utilized by the slave ship captain.” From: Rediker, Marucs. (2008). Atlantic Studies, 5(2), 285–297. 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 19/06/20252 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS. Shark teeth do not lie. Prof.James Estes told me a story of sea otters-where the cause of death was impossible to tell. Until they found grooves on the otter bones that matched serrations only in white shark teeth stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 17/06/20253 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS How do sharks use their teeth. How are they different between species? The shark researcher in Born Predators, Kinney Austin, shows us the differences, & what teeth tell us. And she does it from the coroner’s office. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 110
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 16/06/20255 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS: THINGS WE KNOW NOW: Sharks continuously grow their teeth—a new set every 7–10 days—and discard the old ones like dull razors. Over the course of a life time sharks can lose 10,000’s of teeth. SEE MORE AT: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/how-does-a...stephenpalumbi.substack.comHow does a shark get its teeth?How a shark gets her teeth: From the Extreme Life of the Sea, A. Palumbi and S. Palumbi, Princeton Press 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 15/06/2025COUNTDOWN TO 50TH ANNIVERSAY OF JAWS THE MOVIE - 5 DAY: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... THINGS WE KNOW NOW - HOW SHARKS GROWTH THEIR TEETH SHARP 0124
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The invention of sharp, replaceable teeth gave sharks their biological brand in the new world of predators that evolved in the dawn sea. Innovations are key to the success of new groups—in this case the first invention of teeth for a global ocean predator. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Why did they call the movie #Jaws when it was really the teeth that mattered? Let's spend a few moment learning about shark teeth in the next few posts....how do sharks make them so sharp? How are they so strong? How do they make so many all their lives? 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 12/06/20258 DAYS TO THE JAWS 50TH ANNIVERSARY What did the marine biologist in JAWS really know about the sensory, migration or social systems of white sharks? In Born Predators, Kinney Austin knows a lot about these and they cause her to doubt the shark attack stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Our white shark character Hennessey in Born Predators swims in sensation: sight, sound, smell and even the electric pulses from the nerves of her prey. But when she can not tell what a possible prey item is and those senses don’t tell her. She has one option left. She has to taste it. 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 11/06/20259 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS: In our book Born Predators, social media knows that Jamie Brinson was killed by a shark. But his friend Puja saw a different killer. In the face of social media pressure Puja doubts what she saw and doubts herself stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 011
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025June 10: In ten days it will be the 50th anniversary of the release of the Movie Jaws. And our book Born Predators celebrates all that we now know about sharks that we didn’t before. And it celebrates a different shark biologist – and a different shark. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Today in Born Predators: Why would you need a shark biologist to investigate a slam dunk shark attack? Well, she knows a lot about the way sharks behave and can say what’s normal. And what might be unusual. And what might be impossible stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 021
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Hennessey is accused of a fatal shark attack. Social media goes wild at the death of AI tech wizard Jamie Brinson. But one person doesn’t believe the story. Shark researcher Kinney Austin has strong doubts New installment of Born Predators every Toothsday: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...stephenpalumbi.substack.comBorn Predators - Chapter 3, Part 1A book about sharks and people by Anthony Palumbi and Steve Palumbi 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Shout out to Lewis Pugh for his amazing swim around JAWS filming location Martha's Vineyard. And to understand the sharks he was worried about a bit more, see the new installment of our book Born Predators every Toothsday: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025The next chapter installment of our book Born Predators is posted. Meet shark researcher Dr. Kinney Austin. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...stephenpalumbi.substack.comBorn PredatorsA book about sharks and people by Anthony Palumbi and Stephen Palumbi 020
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 01/06/2025It’s not just scientists who are tagging and tracking sharks. You can see shark tracks in many oceans. Including the shorelines and bays of the original #Jaws movie. For example: www.ocearch.org/tracker/ How does it propel our story about Hennessey? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 0114
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025On a dark summer night, on a boat in a Long Island bay the water looks invitingly calm. Should you jump in? Are there #Sharks around? How do people tag & track large sharks? How can you find their location? Learn how: www.montereybaywhitesharks.org & why: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025You’re on a boat in a small bay near where the movie Jaws takes place. It’s a deep summer night. A dear friend is in the water, and you find there’s a huge, tagged white shark in that same bay. What’s your reaction? What do you do? How does it turn out? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 021
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025You’re on a boat in a small bay near where #JAWS took place. It’s a deep summer night. A friend of yours is in the water and now you find out there’s a huge, tagged white shark in that same bay. What’s your reaction? What do you do? How does it turn out? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Toothsday 5/27: we’re posting Chapter 2 of Born Predators. Hennessey senses the wide ocean as layers of sight, sound, smell, taste, & electrical signals broadcast by her prey. Her predator’s brain integrates, evaluates & decides. Her mother’s brain plans stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 021
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025The complete chapter 1 of Born Predatorsis out! Then we’ll add to the story every Toothsday. With the idea that by #Jaws 50th Anniversary day June 20, we’ll be well inside the tail. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...stephenpalumbi.substack.comBorn Predators - Chapter 1A book about sharks and people by Anthony Palumbi and Stephen Palumbi 032
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025stephenpalumbi For our #shark book, we are trying to tell a story that doesn't wipe sharks out, but wipes them in as major characters and empathetic wildlife. The complete chapter 1 is out later today! Then we’ll add every Toothsday. Comments welcome! stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The main character in our new book is a white shark named Hennessey. She’s migrating up the US east coast with 7 pups inside. And she’s looking for a warm cove to give birth in. How do sharks reproduce? Why a warm cove? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 032
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025We think about lions and wolves and tiges very differently because of Lion King, Dancing with Wolves and Free Willy. What can we learn about sharks from a story about them as chatracters not monsters? See our serial about Hennessey stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda... 000
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Born Predators, a new book about people and #sharks. #Whitesharks are ocean wildlife but people think of them as murderous villains. During 50th anniversary year of the movie #Jaws, see how we tell the story of one shark that will change your mind. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...stephenpalumbi.substack.comBorn PredatorsA book about sharks and people by Anthony Palumbi and Steve Palumbi 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Welcome to #EarthDay! Though there are a lot of things we need to improve on, my main wish is to help everyone realize #climatechange is real! No more Cruel Summers like this youtu.be/acSOHZvgSM8youtu.beCruel summer of hurricanes and heatwaves is realYouTube video by Extreme Life of the Sea 010
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The movie #Jaws showed sharks as villains. But #sharks are complex, wonderful, sometimes dangerous wildlife pursuing long lives in the oceans. For fun, we're starting a #musical about sharks as ocean wildlife to explain: This is how a shark thinks youtu.be/N_ndx0GILD0?... via @YouTubeyoutu.beThis is how a shark thinksYouTube video by Extreme Life of the Sea 1195
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024@jrcunning.bsky.social great talk this morning on the bleaching survey results 020
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I’m at a meeting of over 800 folks dedicated to coral reef futures through protection and restoration. It’s meant to build momentum and energy for moving ahead wherever and whenever we can to help coral reefs and the people that depend on them. 050
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Hi all. In the spirit of fabulous photos of ocean critters and #oceanWildlife here is a timid Blue Spotted Ray from Heron Island on the #GreatBarrierReef. We were there running a Stanford class surveying sea urchins among the rocks. There were no sea urchins but these critters showed up. 060
Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024#oceanwildlife comes bursting out of a loggerhead turtle nest in #kaligisland Indonesia. These were gathered up to help them crest a dune to get to the waves. But just look at how hard they’re working to get to the sea 070