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Finished reading: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 📚Japanese neurodivergent convergence at the Kwik-E-Mart.

Thanks to today’s guest scientists! We caught and worked up a beautiful bonnethead shark, and a large tiger shark was hooked but got away. Today we had @technotional.bsky.social @coraliejp.bsky.social and more!

I've decided to give away my first printed and painted Great Auk egg! To Enter: 1. Repost this post 2. Follow me (I'll be checking) The winner will be chosen by random draw on April 30th! The winner will have to pay shipping but I don't suspect it will be much.

Finished reading: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry 📚This could easily be adapted as a Studio Ghibli movie, fitting somewhere between Kiki and Ponyo.

Heading over to St. Augustine for the 2025 Florida Marine Science Educators Association conference. Stop by our booth for some free swag and learn about the new Mote Science Education Aquarium opening this summer. sites.google.com/fmsea.org… #FMSEA25

🌊 Go on a hike without the bug bites. 🥾 Celebrate Earth Day 🌍 with a virtual excursion into an estuary! Explore mangroves and seagrass habitats in Sarasota Bay. 🐟🦀 ✨ All ages 📆 4/22, 3:30 pm ET 🌐 mote.org/event/estuar... #SuncoastRemakeDays #RemakeDays #EarthDay youtu.be/lfXxV893oUQ?...

Ocean Science Blogger Roll Call! – Southern Fried Science

Finished reading: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚As the author noted, this is a book about C3PO in Thunderdome.

Itty bitty snails slowly munching away inside a glass jar that’s been sealed for 17 years. youtu.be/r8AOl7bti…

Finished reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚 Tomorrow’s dystopia today.

“Mammals internalise everything (grudges, eggs) and furthermore are excessively, flamboyantly wet internally.” Chicken Lore — gallusrostromegalus: …

Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 📚 Weird be dragons? Lagrange d’Arthur shirks the wizards of odd with the help of a chronicler of fungA.I.

It’s a great day on the bay. Join us for Bay Fest at at The Bay Park. Learn about our local sea life and see what we are planning for #SuncoastRemakeDays #SarasotaBay #RemakeDays www.thebaysarasota.org/event/bay-fe...

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Annual Florida Marine Science Educators Association Conference will be held in beautiful St. Augustine, Florida, from April 24-27, 2025! 🐠 VISIT FMSEA.ORG TO LEARN MORE 🌊 #FMSEA25 #MarineScience #ProtectOurOceans #StAugustine2025 #AnnualConference #Registernow

ORTBO is an anagram of ROBOT. #severance

"Adding Way Too Many Fish to Minecraft" from @eightsidedsquare.com #makingthemoistofminecraft youtu.be/AMJhruPaORM?...

“There’s a secret hiding in your pencil lead” –Merlin Mann #journaling #writingprompts #naturejournaling https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/02/07/theres-a-secret-hiding-in.html

The Enthusiasm Ladder “Wherever your enthusiasm is at, your audience is going to be about two rungs below that…” –Brandon Hall #interpretation #publicspeaking https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/02/06/the-enthusiasm-ladder-wherever-your.html

Florida Master Naturalist Program – Coastal Systems conference.ifas.ufl.edu/fmnp/cs25… Join me for a Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) Coastal Systems course this spring. Deepen your understanding of ... https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/02/03/florida-master-naturalist-program-coastal.html

More synonymies for Interactive Videoconferencing. digital field experiences (DFEs) streamingscience.com/2024/03/2…

Fine, I put out a press release: www.southernfriedscience.com/for-immediat... TLDR: it didn't rename the Gulf of Mexico and it isn't even a gulf.

Finally got my top ten songs for 2024 from Siri. At number one was the pop hit — “I’m having trouble connecting to the internet…” followed at number two with “For more information, check the home app…” 🎶

New year, new books! Do you have a favorite title that introduces kids and teens to #TeamFish? Contribute to the #BestKidsFishBooks #FishBooksForKids crowdsourcing list! Let's make #BookSky #KidLit a fishier place 😍🐟🦑🐡🧪📚 Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids

Finished reading: The Invasion (Animorphs #1) by K. A. Applegate 📚 OK Millennials. This Gen X dad needs your advice. We just had our first brush with this nearly 30 year old YA series. The household preteen loved it. Do we continue? There are 54 of these things.

Achievement unlocked. Your son co-creates your avatar in LEGO Brawls. Meet Dad the Dapper Diver and his Sting Ride.

4.2 steps to using ChatGPT on iOS: https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/01/02/steps-to-using-chatgpt-on.html

Maybe the reason they don’t use periods at the end of their messages is because they lack characters.

She surprised me by redecorating the Christmas tree last night for New Year’s Day. Removed the kiddo family baubles and replaced with her more elegant porcelain ornaments. 🎄🐚🤍

Finished reading: Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change by Ellen Prager and DaveJones. No deficit of facts in this high flying, deep diving Q&A about the ocean and atmosphere. The last three chapters are essential. Ambient reading by Underwater & Distant Thunder 📚

Clean and quiet.

Finished reading: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 📚 Sirs Percival and Galahad are dead in this Arthurian bromance where trans knights matter. Reading ambience by Imaginary Reality.