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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈

@sharkeye.bsky.social

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Shark eyes and stable isotopes | Lecturer UC Merced | Alaska Department of Fish & Game 🦀 | AK Sea Grant State Fellow | (He/Him)

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Sep 22

Hi bsky sci community! I’m new here, so here’s a Sharky introduction! I’m an ecologist interested in understanding shark movement, diet, and population dynamics in the San Francisco Bay! Hope you’ll join me on this new app journey 🌎 🦈 🫶🏻

Ecologists working with a Leopard Shark on a boat in Tomales Bay, CA

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 15d

A landmark scientific workshop has identified 124 Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRAs) across the European Atlantic, providing the first comprehensive map of critical habitats for threatened species such as Basking Shark, Tope, Spiny Dogfish, Sicklefin Devil Ray, and Angelshark.

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · Jul 22

One like, one clam fact

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 21

One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Jul 21

1 like, 1 housing opinion

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · 18d

Booooooo

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · 19d

Foraged this King Bolete (Porcini) yesterday!

For dinner made a porcini pappardelle (pasta with and olive oil, parsley, and garlic sauce) and porcini carpaccio (raw porcini with parmesan and olive oil) 🤤

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · 22d

It’s like “Yes! I didn’t spend all that time for nothing!” 😅

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · 22d

News story on some of my PhD work…
caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/shark-e...

Shark eyes tell tales

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · 22d

Just took a decade doing science lol

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · 22d

This made me really happy today

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Sep 5

How do I save this to show family at Christmas 😭

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you need Recs, let me know! I’ve lived off and on up here in AK for the last 3 years, but am up here permanently now!

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 25

Can you name the four kinds of mushrooms my partner and I found foraging today? 🍄

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks! Let me know if you’re ever coming up north!

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 24

I live in Cordova, AK now!

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 24

The silvers are coming through!

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 23

I miss working on that boat

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’m sorry Tara… fuck those people

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Amani Webber-Schultz @curlybiologist.bsky.social · Aug 20

I finally did it. My first chapter is FINALLY written and out for all to see. If you’ve attended my talks you 100% know what this is about. If you haven’t attended my talks, shark nostrils are more interesting than we thought. Enjoy! academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Who Nose What Flows: Shark Narial Denticle Morphology and Hydrodynamic Implications

Synopsis. Dermal denticles (scales) are important in influencing the movement of water around a shark’s body. To date, most of the research on denticle mor

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fur Rende is on a level by itself lol!

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 19

Grades turned in! First time being the instructor on record was challenging but really enjoyed it @ucmerced.bsky.social

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m now in the desk rejection club! 🤩

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 15

Go Leila!

Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is really cool Anna!

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Jon Kuntz, PhD 🦈 @sharkeye.bsky.social · Aug 12

Just submitted my favorite chapter of my dissertation (2/5 ✅)

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Dr Vincent Raoult @sawsharkman.bsky.social · Aug 11

Nature giving some good material for your next horror flick as per usual. Barnacles (normally filter-feeding crustaceans) grow INSIDE deep water sharks. Some pretty hardcore piercings...

Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · Aug 10

The shark-sucker barnacle - Anelasma squalicola - is a barnacle with an unusual habit.

Instead of filter feeding on plankton, it has evolved to parasitise deep sea squaloid sharks such as lantern sharks and Greenland shark 🦈
#Invertebrate 🧪
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<i>Anelasma squalicola</i> (revisited)

A few months ago I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology about a newly published study on Anelasma squalicola - a parasitic barnacle that...

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