Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

Assessing metabolic rate and post‐tagging recovery in juvenile fish Juvenile fish play a crucial role in the health of aquatic ecosystems, serving both as the foundation for future adult populations and as a valuable food source. Studying the juvenile life stage of f...

At work, we often anaesthetise, perform surgery on, and tag juvenile fish. We wanted to find out if these procedures impact their oxygen consumption in the following days. Good news, we didn't find cause for concern! 🙂

Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

Green List Status Assessment of the Banded Wobbegong (Orectolobus halei) The recovered (blue) status compared to what the past status might have been without conservation (Conservation Legacy, green) and future status unless management continues (Conservation Dependency, orange).

Decline is not inevitable.

Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering.

Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

An advantage that Trumpy Republicans have is that it's very difficult to accurately describe what they're doing without sounding like you're a deranged hyper-partisan!

Example:

"They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark - Nature Communications The Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate, inhabits the dim, frigid depths of the Arctic Ocean. Despite its extreme lifespan, this study finds that its vision remains intact and well-adapted ...

🦈 #shark

The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected

"Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark"

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What David said and also @mojoshark.bsky.social would likely be in the know.

You have to look past the fact that this is an attempt to project confidence and power and see it for what it is: an open admission of weakness and desperation.

Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.

Recovery of Paleodictyon patterns after simulated mining activity on Pacific nodule fields - Marine Biodiversity Since the late 1980s, various experiments have been conducted in polymetallic nodule fields of the Pacific Ocean to assess the potential environmental impacts of future mining, specifically in two are...

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.

Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

As an American, I fully endorse this sentiment.

So everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels.
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I figured there was no way I was coming up with a better stage name than my actual name.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.

Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley track by Chuck Bangley

Still ruthlessly promoting this, so start 2026 off with some shark rock! Available on a bunch of streaming services and buying yourself a copy on Bandcamp directly supports the making of more of this kind of music. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...

"Let's Look Back on 2025: Year in Review" wow no thank you, once was plenty

On both personal and professional levels 2025 has mostly been a major unplanned and unwanted reset, but here’s a thing I managed to accomplish that I’m very happy to get out.

“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.

A Jim Shore nativity scene infiltrated by Star Wars and Star Trek action figures and Warhammer 40,000 models. Highlights include an Imperial probe droid hovering with the angel, Tryanid Zoanthropes chilling with the three wise men, and Yoda and Dr. McCoy checking on baby Jesus.

Tradition, 2025.

Every year @banglespaints.bsky.social and I make “improvements” to the family nativity scene.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is a perfect engine, an eating machine. All it does is swim, and eat, and make little sharks.

“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.

And I’m missing the NS crew here in NC!

If you feel inclined to buy yourself a copy on Bandcamp, you’ll be directly supporting making more music much like this. And you’ll have your own copy that no streaming service can take away from you. Maybe burn it to a cd so it becomes physical media. Maybe draw a shark on it.

A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley track by Chuck Bangley

I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...

This whole album goes so hard.

Transphobia is the “break glass in case of emergency” policy position for this administration. Absolutely ghoulish.

Saipan Blue: The Spirit of Christmas Angelo Villagomez Saipan Mariana Trench Guam Ocean Conservation Culture Chamorro Indigenous

I wrote a Hallmark Christmas movie about BOEM's attempt to mine the sea floor near the Mariana Trench

I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean

www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Going with a less-obvious shark-related option.

Amazing footage. Imagine going fishing and getting your catch depredated by a giant squid.
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