Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why would you do this!? Quick! Somebody call the owls! 🦉🦉🦉

No arguments there! 😂

Ugh @bittelmethis.bsky.social he's going to be even more insufferable now. I hope you know what you've done.

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.

My story looking at last week’s storms

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Digital art of a catlike worm with whiskery protrusions, four dark eyes, and subtle orange and yellow stripes.

Had to draw a very specific worm from the Composetia genus. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#SciArt #Art

I was just about to message you because I can't be arsed to stand up 😂

It's all we can do.

Chris your posts are so calming in this uncertain world. Just the knowledge that you go about your day opening jars and identifying starfish (and getting tasty looking takeaways) is so soothing.

Photograph of an ocean wave seen from above. European Commission logo in the top right corner. Text: „Have your say on the EU ocean policy

The Call for evidence to shape the European Ocean Act is now open!

The aim is effective use of maritime space & ocean resources, structure ocean observation, and simplified reporting.

Deadline: 9/2/2026: link.europa.eu/fbRF83

Have you tried wayback machine for recently cached pages?

Omg. You are true evil. Who hurt you??

a black and white drawing of a stick figure with the words `` c mon , do something ... '' . Alt: a black and white drawing of a stick figure with the words `` c mon , do something ... '' .

Actually spending the morning processing and analysing MY OWN DATA! Woohoo progress.

When someone gets up and says "I'm loud I don't need the mic huh!" I always take one for the team and shout "I'm partially deaf! Use the mic!"

I personally hate using it but just do it people.

Win-win

I want a bench top mixer. But I would also say coffee machine and at this time maybe our air fryer?

That's a good idea

Book cover of The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf

It would be my absolute pleasure to recommend you The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods by my friend @dannastaaf.bsky.social. Thank you for asking and happy learning! Octopuses and cephalopods in general are awesome!

Lol sorry. I keep meaning to post more but I open the app and even a quick doomscroll just puts me off and I go back under my rock.

He's called Duckthulu by the way

This was a present from my brother!

Ah sorry, you're right I should have asked. You are beautiful though. I thought the world should see!

A rubber ducktopus

Their blood uses copper-based hemocyanin (not iron-based like us), making it blue and more efficient in cold, low-oxygen water.

Octopus arm suckers

They have one central brain and eight smaller "mini-brains" (ganglia) in their arms. These allow the arms to act semi-independently for multitasking.
The main brain is also doughnut shaped.

Did you know octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.

Two hearts pump blood to the gills; one pumps to the rest of the body.
The one systemic heart actually stops when they swim, meaning they prefer crawling.

🌊🐙🦑🧪

Being given manuscripts to review without the proper line numbers is my absolute pet-hate. Also use page numbers.

Yoink I hadn't seen this

Yup. But those of us who want to communicate our science on the side still need to pick up some skills.

2025 ✍️

Looool literally it. Some of those chemistry abstracts were impenetrable. XKCD never fails.