Mary Beth Decker

Protect Our Marine Monuments | Notion 🐟 Action #1: Sign the national petition to protect our marine monuments from industrial fishing!

🌊Our public lands and waters are part of our national identity, and have been for over 100 years. Rolling back protections for marine monuments threatens our country’s cultural, historic, and natural resources. Tell @NOAA to keep our marine monuments intact today: linkly.link/2F3tY

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illustrations of four species of Physalia alongside original drawings and iNaturalist images. Maps of positively identified iNaturalist records show the distribution of each species.

My favorite outcome was validating species descriptions from 18th century scientists who illustrated animals on their voyages. Their descriptions were often rejected as implausible – we found that in many cases they were exactly right. Yet another reason why @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is so valuable

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Physalia megalista, a cnidiran with a gas filled float, raised sail, and long blue tentacles hanging below. Image credit: Dalila Destanović

Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌

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