Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD
@dogfishwalker.bsky.social
Marine ecologist, shark nerd, and extremely part-time musician. Working my way toward being a broken man on a Halifax pier.
He/him/y’all.
He/him/y’all.
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Decline is not inevitable.
Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering.
Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering.
Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Decline is not inevitable.
Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering.
Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering.
Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
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An advantage that Trumpy Republicans have is that it's very difficult to accurately describe what they're doing without sounding like you're a deranged hyper-partisan!
Example:
"They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"
Example:
"They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"
January 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
An advantage that Trumpy Republicans have is that it's very difficult to accurately describe what they're doing without sounding like you're a deranged hyper-partisan!
Example:
"They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"
Example:
"They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"
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'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality.
I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
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next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
January 17, 2026 at 2:18 AM
next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
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🦈 #shark
The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected
"Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark"
share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...
The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected
"Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark"
share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...
The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark - Nature Communications
The Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate, inhabits the dim, frigid depths of the Arctic Ocean. Despite its extreme lifespan, this study finds that its vision remains intact and well-adapted ...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:51 PM
🦈 #shark
The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected
"Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark"
share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...
The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected
"Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark"
share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...
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You have to look past the fact that this is an attempt to project confidence and power and see it for what it is: an open admission of weakness and desperation.
Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.
Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.
Noem accuses Renee Nicole Good of "an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents -- an act of domestic terrorism."
January 8, 2026 at 2:16 AM
You have to look past the fact that this is an attempt to project confidence and power and see it for what it is: an open admission of weakness and desperation.
Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.
Strong people don’t act like this. Weaklings who wish they were strong do.
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This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Recovery of Paleodictyon patterns after simulated mining activity on Pacific nodule fields - Marine Biodiversity
Since the late 1980s, various experiments have been conducted in polymetallic nodule fields of the Pacific Ocean to assess the potential environmental impacts of future mining, specifically in two are...
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January 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
As an American, I fully endorse this sentiment.
This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability
January 7, 2026 at 2:01 AM
As an American, I fully endorse this sentiment.
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So everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels.
publications.gc.ca/collections/...
publications.gc.ca/collections/...
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
So everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels.
publications.gc.ca/collections/...
publications.gc.ca/collections/...
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The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Still ruthlessly promoting this, so start 2026 off with some shark rock! Available on a bunch of streaming services and buying yourself a copy on Bandcamp directly supports the making of more of this kind of music. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
chuckbangley.bandcamp.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Still ruthlessly promoting this, so start 2026 off with some shark rock! Available on a bunch of streaming services and buying yourself a copy on Bandcamp directly supports the making of more of this kind of music. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
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"Let's Look Back on 2025: Year in Review" wow no thank you, once was plenty
December 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Let's Look Back on 2025: Year in Review" wow no thank you, once was plenty
On both personal and professional levels 2025 has mostly been a major unplanned and unwanted reset, but here’s a thing I managed to accomplish that I’m very happy to get out.
I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
chuckbangley.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
On both personal and professional levels 2025 has mostly been a major unplanned and unwanted reset, but here’s a thing I managed to accomplish that I’m very happy to get out.
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“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.
I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
chuckbangley.bandcamp.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.
Tradition, 2025.
Every year @banglespaints.bsky.social and I make “improvements” to the family nativity scene.
Every year @banglespaints.bsky.social and I make “improvements” to the family nativity scene.
December 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Tradition, 2025.
Every year @banglespaints.bsky.social and I make “improvements” to the family nativity scene.
Every year @banglespaints.bsky.social and I make “improvements” to the family nativity scene.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is a perfect engine, an eating machine. All it does is swim, and eat, and make little sharks.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was immortal. From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, now has a machine gun. Ho. Ho. Ho.
December 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is a perfect engine, an eating machine. All it does is swim, and eat, and make little sharks.
“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.
I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
chuckbangley.bandcamp.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” was released on Christmas Eve Eve. Therefore “A Bigger Boat (You’re Gonna Need It)” is a Christmas song.
I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
A Bigger Boat (You're Gonna Need It), by Chuck Bangley
track by Chuck Bangley
chuckbangley.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I don’t post as often as I shoud about that “extremely part-time musician” part of my profile, so here’s a song I made with some Halifax open mic friends that’s kind of about Jaws. Also available on a whole mess of streaming services. chuckbangley.bandcamp.com/track/a-bigg...
Transphobia is the “break glass in case of emergency” policy position for this administration. Absolutely ghoulish.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Transphobia is the “break glass in case of emergency” policy position for this administration. Absolutely ghoulish.
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I wrote a Hallmark Christmas movie about BOEM's attempt to mine the sea floor near the Mariana Trench
I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean
www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...
I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean
www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...
Saipan Blue: The Spirit of Christmas
Angelo Villagomez Saipan Mariana Trench Guam Ocean Conservation Culture Chamorro Indigenous
www.angelovillagomez.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I wrote a Hallmark Christmas movie about BOEM's attempt to mine the sea floor near the Mariana Trench
I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean
www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...
I believe the Spirit of Christmas can remind us all of how important it is to protect the ocean
www.angelovillagomez.com/2025/12/saip...
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Going with a less-obvious shark-related option.
Going with a less-obvious shark-related option.
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Going with a less-obvious shark-related option.
Going with a less-obvious shark-related option.
Amazing footage. Imagine going fishing and getting your catch depredated by a giant squid.
🦑🐟🦤
🦑🐟🦤
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Amazing footage. Imagine going fishing and getting your catch depredated by a giant squid.
🦑🐟🦤
🦑🐟🦤
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
White shark
Bull shark
Blue shark
Great hammerhead
And most importantly spiny dogfish
White shark
Bull shark
Blue shark
Great hammerhead
And most importantly spiny dogfish
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Blue whale
Aardvark
Pel's fishing owl
Platypus
Velvet worm
Blue whale
Aardvark
Pel's fishing owl
Platypus
Velvet worm
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
White shark
Bull shark
Blue shark
Great hammerhead
And most importantly spiny dogfish
White shark
Bull shark
Blue shark
Great hammerhead
And most importantly spiny dogfish
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Mysterious deepwater sharks, killed to make cosmetics, are granted new trade protections in ‘watershed moment’ 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.cnn.com/science/deep...
Mysterious deepwater sharks, killed to make cosmetics, are granted new trade protections in ‘watershed moment’ | CNN
A proposal to regulate international trade of gulper sharks could help to save the species.
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Mysterious deepwater sharks, killed to make cosmetics, are granted new trade protections in ‘watershed moment’ 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.cnn.com/science/deep...
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🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now
ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.
ShoalBase.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.