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Locally Extinct for a Century, Bay Scallops Thriving Again on Virginia Shore of Chesapeake Bay Bay scallops are making an incredible resurgence in coastal bays along Virginia's Eastern Shore, according to a new survey.

Another #oceanoptimism story, this time about #scallops in the waters of #Virginia

Source: Good News Network
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“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

I would imagine that the troll limit on Twitter was reduced after they changed owners and began their re-nazi-fication program

Okay so earlier today I posted some Grim sounding stuff about #coralreefs (see below.). Now we'll try for a little bit of #oceanoptimism; The reefs around the #Philippines and #NewGuinea may be more resistant to temperature changes

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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

#Coral #coralreefs
#oceantemperature

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian share.google/rGIAnYIIpBED...

Oldest living animal ever found suggests Atlantic Ocean is close to tipping point, say scientists | Discover Wildlife share.google/NXytMlpoWaEp...

Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves Clams reveal North Atlantic destabilization in the early 20th century and at present.

Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves | Science Advances share.google/WZ4JxPNgKIkE...

“The Pink Effect” Pink salmon populations are leaving visible fingerprints across ocean ecosystems.

#salmon
"These findings (and many others showing similar patterns) led Ruggerone to conclude that pink salmon can cause food web-scale effects, triggering what amounts to a “trophic cascade"

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Further coverage, this time from ABC news

New species of Jurassic-era 'sword dragon' marine reptile discovered - ABC News share.google/qm3EysbtV28h...

🚨 BREAKING: All oceanic devil rays are now Critically Endangered.

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

This looks very, very bad 😳

"The proposal states that it would make changes such as lowering population goals for marine mammals from “maximum productivity” to the level needed to “support continued survival.”
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#ROV

Popular press coverage of bubble gum pink lobsterettes filmed by @schmidtocean.bsky.social on their expedition to Mar Del Plata Canyon near #Argentina

Scientists Find Rare 'Barbie-Pink' Animal Living In Deep Underwater Canyon - The Dodo share.google/fhXlmqeE0VzS...

Help the America the Beautiful for All Coalition and the National Ocean Protection Coalition (NOPC) protect our marine national monuments

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Speaking for myself and the advice I've given my students, I would simply not do an interview about a preprint until it was accepted after peer review.

Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 2, mechanics of the interview By  David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness o…

Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share!

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Florida's Mote Marine Laboratory relocates hundreds of marine animals to new $130M facility River otters, manatees, sea turtles, penguins and sharks are among the marine animals getting a new home in Florida.

Source: AP News
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A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosauria) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany) Eurhinosaurus is a European Lower Jurassic longirostrine ichthyosaur, characterized by its remarkable overbite. Despite the long history of the genus, the taxonomy of Eurhinosaurus is still under deba...

#Fossil #paleontology

A new Jurassic #ichthyosaur species has been described from specimens in Mistelgau clay pit in Bavaria.

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Land-based whitefish heavyweight set to double production, boost retail push A portion of the company’s expanded capacity will be dedicated to serving Spanish retail giant Mercadona.

Land-based #aquaculture for consumers in #Spain

Land-based #sole farmer ramps up convenience range amid retail push | Intrafish share.google/oY7OmgKA9Yks...

Etmopterus westraliensis, a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Western Australia, with redescription of Etmopterus brachyurus Etmopterus westraliensis is described as a new species based on six specimens collected from Western Australia, eastern Indian Ocean. The new species is assigned to the Etmopterus lucifer group due t...

Hey folks,

Good news, we've got newly described species of #shark. I'm hoping Etmopterus westraliensis has the same #bioluminescence as the other #lanternsharks; there's always room for more glow-in-the-dark sharks.

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"The West Australian Lanternshark is a small shark, the largest known specimen being only 407 mm in length, with large eyes to help it see in the ocean depths."

New species of deep-sea shark and crab discovered off Western Australia share.google/ag2mOdlJcuYp...

There is *another* nes species of shark that was just described from CISRO's 2022 expedition:

"This is the third new shark species described using specimens collected on the same 2022 voyage, joining the Painted Hornshark and Ridged-egg Catshark..."

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Etmopterus westraliensis, a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Western Australia, with redescription of Etmopterus brachyurus Etmopterus westraliensis is described as a new species based on six specimens collected from Western Australia, eastern Indian Ocean. The new species is assigned to the Etmopterus lucifer group due t....

CISRO, Australia's national science agency, had an expedition in 2022 that continues to yield interesting results. Last month a 3rd new species of #shark was described.

Everybody, say "Hi," to Etmopterus westraliensis, the West Australian #Lanternshark

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Worms could help save Chesapeake Bay’s blue crabs

#bluecrabs #VIMS #VIRGINIA

"...the worms are likely to infest crabs throughout their adult lives, confirming their potential as biomarkers for reproduction. "

Worms could help save Chesapeake Bay’s blue crabs | National Fisherman share.google/RR1LtgOgH2i2...

The mother of Colombian corals Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" to help save endangered reefs.

At the age of 75, she is still #scubadiving and researching #coralrestoration on the #coralreefs of #Columbia

Mother of coral: The Colombian scientist breeding hope underwater : NPR share.google/HaMToGfsmfy4...

Indonesia's shrimp industry suffers after radioactive case, association says Indonesia's shrimp industry suffered a 30-35% drop in processing absorption after a radioactive contamination was detected in a batch of shrimp shipped to the U.S. in August, the country's shrimp farmers' association said on Friday.

Source: Reuters
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Unique videos show how trawling restrictions bring back life to the sea Trawling restrictions not only benefit fish and shellfish; anemones and corals are also becoming more common, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg. Twenty-six years of underwater...

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Article quotes University of Miami professor Andrew Baker

Scientists are using corals from other countries to save Florida's dying reefs The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, using coral from other countries.

@npr.org has an update on the attempts to breed heat tolerant strains of #coral from #Honduras with coral from #Florida. The plan is to use these "Flonduran" hybrids to restore The Florida reef tract

How corals from Honduras could help save Florida’s reefs : NPR share.google/6xSoxPI9YW0Q...

Rare Creature Spotted Leaping from the Ocean Off Japan's Coast A stunning, once-in-a-lifetime moment was captured off the coast of Japan when a rare and mysterious creature leapt from the ocean.

White Orca filmed off the coat of #Hokkaido #Japan

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