Anna Hughes

Anna Hughes

@annaghughes.bsky.social

🌊 Ocean conservation research 🪸 Mapping human activity at sea ᵃˡˢᵒ 🇨🇦 Vancouver snowboarder, surfer, hiker, & astrophysics PhD.

11,029 Followers 605 Following 2,800 Posts Joined May 2023
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turduckin but with eggs

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Where have all the whale sharks gone? A declining population — and a clue found 1,200 kilometres away   Every season, the Madagascar Whale Shark Project team heads out to sea to survey the waters of Nosy Be, northwest Madagascar, with the...

For years, whale sharks gathered in the waters off Nosy Be, Madagascar, until recent reports suggest that their numbers are falling. A photograph of a known whale shark taken 1,200 km away in Seychelles may have offered a clue to this conundrum.
saveourseas.com/update/where...

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Vancouver Coun. Sean Orr sues Mayor Ken Sim for defamation | CBC News Vancouver Coun. Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim for allegedly defamatory comments Sim made at an event for members of Chinese-language media in February.

Nice

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Rundle
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Zipline, tree canopy walk proposed for Queen Elizabeth Park The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is set to decide on Monday to install a new attraction in the city’s Queen Elizabeth Park.

put a zipline in Yaletown Park, cowards

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Photo of a young gull with what is a chicken's foot or something in its mouth. Another gull has its wings spread wide directly behind it, and a third is scooting by

got some film developed

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Canadian officials rescue 23 people who floated away on ice sheet Members of the group described harrowing moments, with more cracks forming as they looked for the thickest ice.

"Fellow fisherman Alfie How told The Owen Sound Sun Times that they eventually 'just sat down as a group and said this could be the end'"

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Great blue huron in a tree hiding its wing like the phantom of the opera Goose facing away so its head looks like a pin

Saw some freaks out there today

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Natalie Wilkie captures Canada's 1st gold of Milano-Cortina Paralympics, wins women's standing biathlon | CBC Sports Natalie Wilkie won Canada's first gold medal of the Milano-Cortina Paralympics, topping the podium in the women's standing 12.5-kilometre biathlon on Sunday.

hell yeah

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Happy birthday, ladies! (int'l women's day)

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One reason I love going to my grad school friends' weddings is because they inevitably play "We Found Love In A Hopeless Place" and the whole group on the dance floor is just like "yeah that's Caltech."

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Reddit post from u/JovanYT_:
"Thank you for always being there for me, even in the darkest of times :)" I texted my best friend.
"You're very welcome, and honestly, I'm really glad you feel supported, you opening up to me is not a sign of weakness — it's a big step in the right direction."

absolutely killer Two-Sentence Horror on reddit today

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Jason Alexander playing GameCube on some enormous console presentable at a 00s in store demonstration. He looks like a cryptid

how your emails are finding me

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China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report Labor abuses including violence, debt bondage and withheld wages and medical care, overfishing, shark finning, marine mammal killings: A new report exposes bad practices and a weak regulatory…

A new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation alleges forced labor, shark finning and illegal fishing on Chinese vessels targeting jumbo flying squid in the Southeast Pacific.

The findings draw on interviews with 81 fishers, mainly Indonesians who worked on 60 vessels between 2021 and 2025.

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Vancouver’s Chinese community says mayor’s apology isn’t good enough Some members of Vancouver’s Chinese community say they’re not satisfied with Mayor Ken Sim’s apology following his false claims that a city councillor distributed drugs on Christmas Day.

Vancouver’s Chinese community says mayor’s apology isn’t good enough

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Brazilian police seize more than 1.5 metric tons of shark fins Brazilian authorities seized more than 1.5 metric tons of shark fins in Rodelas, Bahia state, on Feb. 12, uncovering what they allege is a Chinese run syndicate. They arrested seven people, including…

Brazilian authorities seized 1.5 tons of shark fins in Bahia and arrested seven suspects, alleging a Chinese-run trafficking network.

Finning is illegal in Brazil, but experts warn a bycatch export loophole may still enable large-scale smuggling.

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Proposed shark net near Club Med resort in South Africa sparks conservation clash On Feb. 13, a juvenile humpback dolphin was caught and killed in one of the many nets strung up off the coast of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to protect beachgoers from sharks. The incident, ...

"Other provinces in South Africa and places such as Australia and Réunion, an Indian Ocean island administered by France, increasingly use **nonlethal approaches**, including shark spotters, drones, exclusion barriers and smart drum lines that allow captured sharks to be released alive." 🦈

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Meteor visible, booms heard across B.C.’s South Coast - BC | Globalnews.ca Videos shared online from different areas of Metro Vancouver show two bright flashes around 9:08 p.m., followed by two booms minutes later.

There are reports from people in North Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and even Washington state hearing the big boom.

globalnews.ca/news/1171594...

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What athlete’s expression will stay with you the rest of your life

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I've been told that Ken Sim told his team that a stranger waived a physical photo at him during a Chinatown event and falsely claimed that it was Orr dealing drugs on Christmas Day.

The mayor doesn't remember the specific contents or style of the photo, and can't remember who showed it to him.

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Gone in five minutes: After (very) brief appearance, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim leaves more unanswered questions After days of dodging questions, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim appeared to want to clear the air. Unfortunately, he didn't.

"The news conference began at 2 p.m., and by 2:05 p.m., the mayor had disappeared. Journalists and other observers present were baffled."

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Where the Colours Bleed to Light
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Tea Party
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could a dying empire do THIS

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your moment of calm

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Tiny grey and buff bird with black cap and chin and white cheek is standing on the snow with a chunk of peanut in its tiny beak. Bird looks quite pleased with this treasure.

Chickadees mostly focus on the sunflower seeds, but now and then they snag a peanut from the feeder - what a prize! #birds #FeederWatch 🌿

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For the final day of #BlackHistoryMonth, let's celebrate the current generation of Black scientists and engineers—including Ashley Walker (@that-astro-chic.bsky.social), researcher of planetary atmospheres and founder of BlackInAstro (www.blackinastro.com)! 🧪🪐⭐🔭 #WomenInSTEM

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I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

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Finger pointing at a female mallard duck on the beach

j'accuse

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Slip Away
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