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Pierre T.
@arthroleptis.bsky.social
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Marine science & policy. Also environmentalist, birder, diver and occasional wildlife photographer. Views my own... (he/him)
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/pierre_t
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ianhall.bsky.social
🌊 In 2025, global sea surface temperatures were the 3rd warmest on record, ~0.5°C above the 1981–2010 average.

SSTs dipped slightly from 2023–24 as El Niño shifted toward La Niña, but warm oceans still fueled floods and drought worldwide.
January 17, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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andrewdubois.bsky.social
I was delighted to see my photo of an Arizona Tiger Salamander was featured in this Nature Climate Change article, but I don't have access to the journal. Does anyone have a copy they could share with me? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate defines salamander adult form - Nature Climate Change
Nature Climate Change - Climate defines salamander adult form
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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jamesdinneen.bsky.social
MethaneSAT has lost power less than a year and a half after it was launched. Its loss is a major blow to efforts to track and stop emissions of the potent greenhouse gas.🧪🌍🔌💡
A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in orbit
Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane emissions
www.newscientist.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
arthroleptis.bsky.social
Such a cool discovery
theconversation.com/newly-discov...
Newly discovered frog species from 55 million years ago challenges evolutionary tree
The new species is the earliest known Australian tree frog.
theconversation.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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drshepherd2013.bsky.social
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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dochfroehlich.bsky.social
Notably, FW aquaculture appears potentially more vulnerable than marine: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Winners and losers in U.S. marine aquaculture under climate change - IOPscienceSearch
Winners and losers in U.S. marine aquaculture under climate change, C R Fong, J DeCesaro, G Clawson, M Frazier, B S Halpern, H E Froehlich
iopscience.iop.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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honeygirlgrows.bsky.social
Ethiopian wolves are pollinators!!! The wolves lick the sweet nectar from native red hot poker flowers, and their muzzles get covered in pollen, transferring from one flower to another -the act of pollination 🧵
@wildcru.bsky.social made the discovery. 📸Adrien Lesaffre 🌱
gizmodo.com/scientists-s...
The wolf is rusty coloured, with cream neck and chest. The wolf’s head is stretched upward locking the nectar of the yellow tall conical flowers of red hot poker succulent aloe plants native to Africa - the flowers are a similar shape to pine cones, sitting atop thick long grey-brown stems. The tongue of the wolf is visible. There is yellow pollen all over it, the muzzle of the wolf. The wolf looks soft.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
arthroleptis.bsky.social
Kia ora koutou! Any recommendations for accounts to follow on nature based solutions?
November 18, 2024 at 5:17 AM
arthroleptis.bsky.social
This is so cool #frogs theconversation.com/our-frog-sau...
Our ‘frog saunas’ could help save endangered species from the devastating chytrid fungus
Our purpose-built “frog saunas” allow amphibians to warm up in winter and bake off chytrid infections. You can even DIY and build a frog sauna for your own backyard with our step-by-step guide.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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biographic.bsky.social
White-tailed tropicbirds are a conspicuous and beloved sign of spring in Bermuda, where the species returns each year to nest. But long-term records kept by birdwatchers show that the birds have been returning earlier and earlier.

By Rebecca Heisman.

hakaimagazine.com/news/in-berm...
In Bermuda, the Signs of the Season Are Changing | Hakai Magazine
Data collected by birdwatchers reveals that the iconic white-tailed tropicbird is arriving earlier and earlier.
hakaimagazine.com
March 4, 2024 at 6:04 PM
arthroleptis.bsky.social
NZ PCE had just released a report on marine carbon stores and the risks to those carbon stores. Storymap here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0399...
November 16, 2023 at 9:08 PM