Peter Corkeron

Drone hits fuel tank at Oman's Duqm port A fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm commercial port ​was hit on Tuesday when the facility came under ‌attack from several unmanned aircraft, the state news agency said, citing a security source, on the fourth ...

Intriguing how messages conveyed by the drone strikes on the ports at Duqm and Salalah appear not to have sunk in. Certainly not to the media. Or the commentariat? Just reports, like this one from @reuters.com

Now, let's see this post disappear without a trace...

...current seasonal speed restrictions with alternative management areas and advanced, technology-based, strike-avoidance measures"

Amendments to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule NOAA Fisheries has announced an advance notice of proposed rulemaking considering possible deregulatory action to modify the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Speed Rule.

This looks bad
@fisheries.noaa.gov
Amendments to the North Atlantic #RightWhale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule
"The goal of this initiative is to reduce unnecessary regulatory and economic burdens on the regulated community by replacing current seasonal speed restrictions with...
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When the War on Terror Met Conservation | Common Dreams “Project tenBoma” a program of the International Fund for Animal Welfare that ran from 2015 to 2020, exemplified how military intelligence operations found their way into anti-poaching efforts.

For more see linked article
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www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...

Glossary:
JSOC: US Joint Special Operations Command
ISR: Intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance
SOCAFRICA: US Special Operations Command Africa

The War on Terror Paved the Way for Trump’s Rise—Now He’s Making It His Own Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.

Good piece by @attackerman.bsky.social in @thenation.com
Problems with US JSOC
"Special operations must be reconfigured under one that can be trusted to obey the law"

At one point the chief of ISR for SOCAFRICA was working for a major #conservation org *while chief of SOCAFRICA ISR*
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Good to see the drone program that I funded to get started is still producing results. From back when I was at @fisheries.noaa.gov

One of my collaborative projects with Michael Moore at @whoi.edu

And to clarify I'm not referring to early career folks, but to those who have permanent, well funded positions who have track records of over 10 years of never accepting review requests.

As someone who’s currently unemployed and has been a few times over the years I understand this concern.

There’s been times when I tried to get reviews explicitly included into job performance and other scientists pushed back against it.

Reviews and editing are grotesquely undervalued

The comment's not directed at you personally Trevor. Yes review requests are overwhelming now.

Those of us who pull our weight with reviewing and editing are carrying the parasites who publish but then don't contribute as they should for this to work.

They're a big part of this problem.

What would really speed things up would be if more people agreed to do reviews.

Dear Kristi Noem: you’re tracking down ICE critics? I’m one of them | Robert Reich The homeland security department is reportedly seeking information on critical social media accounts. Look no further

Amusing that in this piece, @rbreich.bsky.social appears to be under the impression that #kristinoem understands what a possessive pronoun is.

Norway’s 2026 quota is 1641 minkes

Climate crisis linked to fall in southern right whale birth rates as researchers raise ‘warning signal’ Lead author of Australian study says breeding slowdown is linked to climate-driven changes in ‘magnificent’ whale’s foraging grounds

Interesting piece by @petrastock.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the slowdown of calving in the Southern #rightwhales at the Head of the Bight, South Australia.

From a new scientific paper led by Claire Charlton
Open Access link in the article.
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Nationals To Resurrect Australian Whaling Industry As Part Of Exciting New Energy Policy — The Shovel “What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"

Clare, see also this Australian take on the same issue.

As mentioned in the article, the #IWC turned 80 this year. The whaling moratorium turned 40

So, for the first half its existence it was a whalers' club. For the second half it's been driven by the moratorium, which has minimized commercial whaling.

What comes next?
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D'oh
Forgot some tags
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Looks like bad news for #vaquita

Great analogy - perhaps we can resurrect Urochordata for those Labor MPs?

Or maybe there's a repository for their backbones hidden somewhere in the bowels of some building in Canberra.
Like the Predator's trophy room.

Given that at least one of these applies in my case, I reckon I can use the term

USS Vasa?

Good to hear you got in on the Aix en Provence program.

These are good points.

Bowheads are still the standout, it's that other Balaenids live longer than we thought. Their biology is interesting.

Be wonderful if interest in whales could help understand cancer. Great work.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying this finding as it is.

Science is fun

Dolphins IRL are far more wonderful than anyone's wild imaginings - including John Lilly & his acolytes

Worth going to the journal article for the full story

Perhaps one of the authors might care to comment
@liviagerber.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social are on this site

‘We need to rethink how we approach biodiversity’: an interview with IPCC ecologist and ‘refugee scientist’ Camille Parmesan An ecologist at the IPCC for over 25 years, Camille Parmesan, who is also a refugee scientist, explains how to preserve biodiversity on a warming planet.

TIL a new term for those in a similar situation to me*: "refugee scientist".
Guess I can add that to "US government scientific whistleblower".

"'the media in the USA has taken no interest" rings true

h/t @wpmueller.bsky.social for the story

*But obviously flying much higher than me
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PS thanks for showing interest.

Paper, led by @alaskaraven.bsky.social uses cool mark-recapture modeling to show that Southern #rightwhales live about twice as long as everyone previously thought.

Yes, it's big.

So is the other side of the story - North Atlantic #rightwhales lives are cut short. Dramatically.

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.

If you need a happy science story today - another piece how male dolphins who bond better with their mates* age slower

@aunz.theconversation.com piece by @liviagerber.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social and Lee Rollins

*Aussie dolphins, so the Aussie meaning of mates
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Happy science story:
Dolphins with good mates* age slower.

More awesome work from @researchdolphin.bsky.social
Led by @liviagerber.bsky.social

@stephanielking.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social
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*the Australian meaning of mate - after all, they're Australian dolphins

Truth Embassy win: Whale Centre no longer proceeding on Minjerribah The Quandamooka Truth Embassy has welcomed confirmation that the Yalingbilla whale skeleton will not be placed on the Point Lookout headland, marking a major development in a five-year campaign to pro...

Good news from Minjerribah / Straddy:

"The Quandamooka Truth Embassy has welcomed confirmation that the Yalingbilla whale skeleton will not be placed on the Point Lookout headland"
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