Susan Shaw

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When I went to Brazil and the Amazon, I saw another species of Dryocopus. It was so awesome.

Friends, the The Natural History Society of Maryland is building a new museum that will include a shark science and conservation exhibit that I get to help design!

They're hoping to raise $3,000 to fund exhibit materials. Please consider supporting them:

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Frontiers | Sale of critically endangered sharks in the United States In the United States, shark meat is sold in grocery stores, seafood markets, and online. The meat is often mislabeled as another species or generically label...

Frontiers | Sale of critically endangered sharks in the United States

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A Resounding Rejection of the US DOE’s Sham “Climate Science” Report It is rife with inaccuracies and disinformation.

A Resounding Rejection of the US DOE’s Sham “Climate Science” Report - Union of Concerned Scientists

Pope Leo, in climate push, to open Vatican-run ecological training centre Pope Leo will open a new Vatican-run ecological training centre in the Italian countryside on Friday, in an initiative Catholic officials say is meant to encourage world leaders to address global climate change.

It being Sunday, and having been to the #Vatican in support of Pope Francis's environmental work, here's my news to me good news for Sept 7 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

WELKER: Trump said tariffs were gonna spark a manufacturing renaissance but since he announced them the US has lost 42k manufacturing jobs. Is that proof tariffs are failing?

BESSENT: We can't snap our fingers & have factories built

W: The economy added nearly 500k manufacturing jobs under Biden

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded.

These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings

Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30x30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas

Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

Trump talks about ending offshore wind farms cause he cares about the endangered whales there. He says the wind turbines drive the whales "crazy."

But federal cuts just defunded the plane that counts the endangered right whales' numbers every year.

So....yeah. 🐳

Huh.

Unprecedented substitution of seafood species with non-aquatic species was found...Almost 60 % of shark products were identified as pork.

"Face-off: Shark or pork? DNA barcoding authentication and labelling analysis of shark products"

I want! I tried looking for them online at Target but no luck

Sounds Broken and Wild by @dghaskell.bsky.social cover some of this plus sounds on land

I know this is a serious post and a serious mural but all I can think about is the Doctor Who episode where the Statue of Liberty was a weeping angel.

All my elected representatives are in the MAGA camp

These are the 10 most-cited shark science papers of all time Nature recently shared a list of the most-cited papers of all time in any scientific field. That got me thinking: what are the most-cited papers in my field? And do they have any traits in common? …

Nature recently published a list of the most-cited scientific papers of all time.

I decided to repeat their approach for my field of shark science.

I correctly guessed 3 of the top-10 most cited shark science papers of all time. 🧪🦑🌎🦈

www.southernfriedscience.com/these-are-th...

Sir David Attenborough Ocean film 'greatest message he's told' Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.

“After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.” — Sir David Attenborough. Ocean with #DavidAttenborough (out May 8) spotlights the devastating impact of bottom trawling
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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Several years ago while my brother Steve was still working for LucasArts, he was at Skywalker Ranch with his boss and he ended up eating lunch with you and George Lucas who were already there.

Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that!

My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social

🧪🌎🦑🐠

Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries (Gift Article) The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”

Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social has it right – opening our treasured marine monuments to industrial fishing “sets a dangerous precedent that our public lands and waters are for sale to the highest bidder.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA.
Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out
www.science.org/content/arti...

Can confirm. I know more than one NOAA researcher who is bringing their own toilet paper to the office. Because the facilities contracts have not been renewed.

NSF slashes graduate fellowship program The “life-changing” fellowship will go to 1000 fewer students this year

This program funded my PhD. W/o it, I would not be where I am today fighting the good fight against invasive blue catfish to save the Chesapeake Bay. Imagine all the great scientists that will no longer have an opportunity… this anti-science trend needs to turn around b4 we re-enter the Dark Ages

True of direwolves discourse and true of many other things:

If you find that your personal uninformed opinion disagrees with consensus from the world’s leading experts, consider that “all the world’s leading experts know something I don’t” is by far the most likely explanation for this.

NOAA Staffing Cuts Threaten Years of Salmon Harvests In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk.

"But this year, almost a dozen hatcheries in the Puget Sound region are in limbo because a single employee from @noaa.gov was terminated in February, a casualty of cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk’s advisory group known as [DOGE]." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks

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