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Shark Whisperer is lying to you: a look into the harmful effects of Ocean Ramsey and shark influencers — Dr. Jack A. Cooper Ocean Ramsey is undoubtedly one of the most well-known “shark influencers”, whose videos show her free diving and touching wild great white and tiger sharks as she swims right up alongside them. Those...

A well articulated and utterly thorough examination of the influencer savior-centered film. No science here.

www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...

It must be fought tooth and snail.

Have you ever been looking closely at a bumblebee and seen her lift one leg up in the air?

This is called the "disturbance leg-lift response", and is a "go away" warning signal from a bee who feels threatened!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#bumblebee #animals #beehaviour

First male white-tailed eagle to breed in Ireland in over a century found dead in Co Clare While white-tailed eagles don’t often die from poisoning, a ‘disturbing’ increase in poisonings has been observed over the last three to five years.

1. All eagle deaths, esp in a small population, are a loss but some are harder to take than most. Sadly, our 1st breeding male, released in 2008, was recently picked up dead. This bird deserves a proper obituary to put his life (and death) in context

www.thejournal.ie/investigatio...

As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern faculty feel th...

Students may not be real any more and AI is a complete disaster for community colleges voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a...

Me: Discussing meerkat enclosure design and describing the Kalahari desert.

Them: "Isn't that some sort of squid dish?"

My soul.