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Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive. Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

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It’s World Endangered Species Day! 🐟 Both plant & animal life face numerous threats that have led to population declines and even extinction. In aquatic environments, these risks usually include overfishing, habitat degradation, pollution, coastal urban development and climate change...

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The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

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Some thoughts on the push to fast track development in Canada at the cost of the environment. theconversation.com/elbows-up-in... @pagse-pfst.bsky.social @e4dca.bsky.social @cdnsciencepub.com @carleton.ca @scas-scsa.bsky.social @csee-scee.bsky.social @rcgssgrc.bsky.social @wwfcanada.org

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

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Our two days of “Shark scientist for a day” fundraiser trips raised $10,000 that will go towards providing low-resource Miami public schools with free marine biology field experiences in the future. Thanks to my 20 social media followers for joining us and supporting this important cause!

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Are you a US-based academic that has prior ties to Sweden? Are you also 7-12 years from your PhD? If so, the Foundation for Strategic Research is providing funds of up to $1.5 mil (15m SEK) to bring you back to Sweden! Application deadline Sep 23. strategiska.se/pressmeddela...

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Globe Safety xkcd.com/3086

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

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This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

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I think about this comic at least once a week

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Warming oceans can increase the metabolic rates of fishes, potentially altering their growth and survival. This study provides new insights into the effects of temperature on metabolism and swimming performance in pacific cod 🐟 🌊 Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

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Coming your way in early 2026 from Johns Hopkins Press. Stay tuned!

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'Things are perilous right now': Measles cases in Alberta rise to 313; experts endorse vaccine

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new pope! crowd goes wild American pope! crowd boos woke for an American! crowd goes wild bad on protecting abusive priests! crowd boos hates JD Vance! crowd goes wild

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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. Story by @propublica.org: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/05/mill...

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🧪🐠🐟 Hello all! If anyone needs or knows a need for a postdoc Trained in genetics, genomics, behavior, physiology, evolution, sexual selection, and fishes. Grant success (Full NSF as lead PI and PRFB) Ran a productive UG lab as VAP for 2 years. I'm looking for any job this fall. andersonevolve.com

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HUGE NEWS! 😍 The UN Decade of Ocean Science has endorsed our new DTOTrack project! 🌊 DTOTrack will map movements and distributions of marine life in the North Sea & use this data as an Essential Ocean Variable to create a digital twin of the area 🐟 europeantrackingnetwork.org/en/undos #OceanDecade

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"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

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The number of reported measles cases in Alberta has reached 210, the majority of which are in the southern region of the province.

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This is real

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At @dalhousieu.bsky.social for @oceantracking.bsky.social meetings as we plot the future of OTN thru consultation.

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Words carry great weight. As a permanent resident of Canada, I don't have the right to vote. But when you say you'll do your "best to represent everyone who calls Canada home," you include me too, and that warms my heart. Thank you to everyone who voted for a safer future for all of us. 🇨🇦

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I also spoke with Prime Minister Luís Montenegro following the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula. We will work together to help restore the electricity system and reassure citizens. Because energy security is crucial for the EU.

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We tested how robust various fish tracking software are to disturbances such as reflections and noise so I made videos with various amounts of ”reflections”. We never published it but the video is too good to keep for myself. 🧪🐟

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Venus flytraps! Charismatic! Scifi plant horrors! No muscles at all, and yet somehow they move! How do they do it? 1/6 🧪⚛️

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Dear #Rstats, How portable are serialized R objects (saveRDS/readRDS)? Is there ever a situation where I have to be afraid that my *.RData file won't read right on someone else's machine? I'm assuming they are fine, in the case of typical S3/S4 style objects?

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#25deAbril

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“Starting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into America’s protected aquariums, drop a net in any marine exhibit they please, and begin trawling,” Trump said at a press conference

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Canadians are now labeling food with a “T” symbol if it’s American and impacted by tariffs. RIP American-made food sales.

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Do you work with skates or rays? 👀 Go and check out the freshly published review paper, led by Danielle L. Orrell, about the best practice recommendations for capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia and tag attachment!🎣✋🏼💉🪡

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Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

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Me: Don't R CMD Check: ... Me: .... R CMD Check: ... R CMD Check: ❯ checking for future file timestamps ... NOTE unable to verify current time

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Steve is special, but we still love him.

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New visualization tool alert! The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower(). - install.packages("vayr") - alexandercoppock.com/vayr #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

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🚨 The Canadian Association of University Teachers has just advised against any non-essential travel to the United States.🚨 Was doing this anyway, but still shocking to see it officially in writing. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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It's #sturgeonsaturday 🌎 🧪 You can tell a lot about a species with only a few tags. There aren't that many acoustic tags in southern green sturgeon, but there are enough to see where their spawning ground starts based on their speed past acoustic tag detection stations.

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Super happy to see our new article on how pharmaceutical pollution can influence salmon migration out in @science.org! This was a huge effort by a great team of researchers over the last few years! You can read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…!

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NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

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oh! Serrated land snail in the genus Priotrochatella by Adrian Gonzales #molluscmonday via www.reddit.com/r/awwnverts/...

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BREAKING: The Dow drops 1,000 points and global markets sell off again as China hits back with tariffs on U.S. imports.

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