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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · 18d

www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Apr 22

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Feb 28

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

NOAA’s work has kept fisheries from collapsing, helped coastal ecosystems survive extreme heat and battled invasive species, among many other tasks essential to coastal economies.

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Feb 20

www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Fearing Trump cuts, NOAA workers in WA hold ‘Save Our Science’ rally

Raincoat- and boot-clad students, scientists and neighbors were among the dozens waving signs outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center early Wed...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Feb 12

Scientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.

A very pig butt looking round marble like animal that is pink. Photo by MBARI.

The “front” of a pig butt worm showing tentacles and a round body. Image by MBARI.

The bottom of a pig butt worm showing it’s odd bilateral butt cheeks. Images by MBARI

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Feb 12

NOAA has been told to alter maps etc to say Gulf of America. Its Scientific Integrity Policy page is currently down, to be scrubbed of "diversity" mentions and such. Climate science is under attack. All international collaboration—interpreted broadly—must be run by political appointees. My latest:

NOAA Is Getting Dragged Down Into the Mud

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · Jan 7

In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree

In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni

Priorities matter

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · Jan 7

Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯

Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast

The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...

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BES-aquaticgroup @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social · Jan 5

www.ices.dk/community/gr... ICES Workshop on the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic Ecosystem
📅10-14 February 2025 - for ecologists, biologists, oceanographers, social sciences, economists etc. with knowledge relevant to the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic

WKONEA

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Jan 5

Bergen 🪄

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · Dec 30

I have a story in the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of MIT Technology Review magazine featuring ship movement data visualizations I made using NOAA AIS data. This originally ran in my @beautifulpublicdata.com newsletter. Always fun to see this in print!

a photo of a story spread in MIT Technology review. "Visualizing the movement of ships at sea"

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Tyler Eddy @thelifeaquatic.xyz · Nov 25

New article in PLOS Climate led by @raquelruizdiaz.bsky.social looking at the future of cod, snow crab, & yellowtail flounder on The Grand Banks 🇨🇦

Warming benefits cod but not snow crab or yellowtail

@fcyr.bsky.social @marineinstitute.bsky.social @plos.bsky.social
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Climate models drive variation in projections of species distribution on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are tools for understanding climate-induced habitat changes, yet their outcomes depend heavily on climate model selection. This study compares biomass projections fo...

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Nov 20

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Rapid predator-prey balance shift follows critical-population-density transmission between cod (Gadus morhua) and capelin (Mallotus villosus) - Communications Biology

This study utilises OAWRS to demonstrate mass shoaling behaviour of predatory cod and their capelin prey in the Barents Sea. The result is a mass consumption event, skewing the predator-prey ratio wit...

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · Nov 10

OK this is the mind-blowing image of the week for me: the total global biomass of mammals.

Wild animals are a tiny proportion.

From a paper by Ron Milo Lab at Weizmann Institute, via a great Oxford lecture by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · May 25

Hi lovely people! Would you mind boosting my Salish Sea marine science art? My contract job is going on an unexpected hiatus until sometime in July so I'd really appreciate the support.

Here's some of the prints on the site:

shop.noncompliantcyborg.com

🐙🦑🪼🌿🧪 #nudibranch #BSNM

a collage of sea creature artworks including, a leaping green and purple amphipod, a hooded nudibranch in front of the crab nebula, two mating leopard dorid nudibranchs, a Euplokamis dunlapae ctenophore, a gossamer worm, a sea angel, a Euphysa jellyfish, a Bougainvillia jellyfish, a Polyorchis penicillatus jellyfish, a Gonionenums vertens jellyfish, a small orange nudibranch, a baby Dendronotus rufus nudibranch, a pink Beroe ctenophore, and a ruby octopus portrait

A collage of several more art works including a thick horned nudibranch on a piece of kelp, some Mnemiopsis leidyi ctenophores in space, Pacific Sea Nettle jellyfish in space, a pink tritonia sea slug on sea lettuce, a close up of a nereid worms holographic skin, a ruby octopus pressed against its own reflection in the water, a Bolinopsis microptera ctenophore glowing in dark water, a nereid worm writhing in an infinity knot, a Beroe ctenophore in the green salish sea, and an Aequorea victoria jellyfish also in seren green water above love blades of algae.

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · May 1

www.highnorthnews.com/en/life-arct...

Life on the Arctic Coast: Ørjan (53) Strives for the Fisheries in Båtsfjord

Båtsfjord (High North News): While several fish plants are struggling or closing down, Ørjan Nergaard from Båtsfjord in Northern Norway is about to establish a new fish producer. "We are a different c...

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Apr 23

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Boops, hums and farts: The mysterious world of fish communication

From mysterious clicking noises in a fish tank in a lab, to humming haddocks and singing toadfish, scientists are discovering the wonder of underwater communication.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 10

Great news for sustainable fishing and ocean conservation- an updated and impoved standard to ensure that shark finning isn't happening on certified sustainable fishing vessels, from the world's largest sustainable fishery certification body (and my former employer) 🧪🦑🌎

How are appropriate performance levels developed for MSC certification? A case study assessing shark finning

Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification is based on an assessment of a fishery’s performance against three levels within the MSC Fisheries Stan…

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Apr 10

phys.org/news/2024-03...

The numbers do not add up for mathematics homework, according to a new study

Supporting kids with math homework is a common afterschool activity. But beyond the basics, new curricula and teaching strategies are making it harder for parents to help and it's taking a serious tol...

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Apr 9

www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Long-term change in a North Sea inshore fish assemblage between 1899-1913 and 2018-2019

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Erin M. Cafferty @erincafferty.bsky.social · Apr 7

www.scientificamerican.com/article/deca...

Decades-old Cans of Salmon Reveal Changes in Ocean Health

Researchers used tinned fish to reconstruct parasitic population change, giving new meaning to the phrase “opening a can of worms”

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Mikael A. Manninen @mamanninen.bsky.social · Jan 18

New ancientDNA paper out discussing the oral healt of Mesolithic Scandinavian HG's as well as the animals and plants they chewed 🦷

Led by Emrah Kirdök. I was happy to be one of the archaeology co-authors, working with a international and multidisciplinary group of fantastic colleagues.

Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals...

Scientific Reports - Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals

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Mikael A. Manninen @mamanninen.bsky.social · Jan 18

The main points of the paper in the Conversation:

DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gathe...

Genetic analysis reveals one of the teenagers probably had advanced gum disease.

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Dr Luis Huckstadt @luishuckstadt.bsky.social · Jan 11

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mass seal deaths in southern Atlantic confirmed as bird flu

Scientists warn further spread could threaten fragile ecosystem, as tests show seals died of H5N1 on South Georgia island

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · Jan 3

Another great way to start off 2024 is by checking out this new, INSPIRING special issue in @TOSOceanography's journal, the FIRST ever on Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Ocean Sciences, #openaccess at tos.org/oceanography...
We all wrote our own autobiographies!
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Jude Isabella @judeisabella.bsky.social · Nov 21

How much carbon are the fish in one of the planet’s most unexplored ecosystems cycling from the ocean’s surface to the deep sea? Probably a lot. By the fab duo of writer Moira Donovan & editor @toughcitywriter.bsky.social 🦑 🌍 #biodiversity #conservation #geosky hakaimagazine.com/features/all...

All the Fish We Cannot See | Hakai Magazine

In a dark, unexplored layer of ocean, a hidden cache of fish might play an unexpected role in our climate’s future. It seems like a bad time for a new fishery.

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