and the winner for best usage of "large adult son" on the internet for 2023 goes to... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/science/orcas-sons-mothers.html
@KevinTConnor
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15+ years working to protect the ocean. Currently director of comms @ Monterey Bay Aquarium. #Baltimore diaspora, so there’s gonna be a lot of #Orioles nonsense. Also cat pics too.
#SciComm #ocean #conservationist he/him
Judd Legum@[email protected] @[email protected] 6. This massive increase comes after decades of rapidly accumulating wealth for billionaires.
Freshwater fish caught in the US have been found to have an astounding amount of forever chemicals in them - often 400,000x the amount the EPA says is safe for consumption in drinking water. The problem is particularly bad for fish caught and consumed near marginalized communities. #freshwaterfish #PFOs #PFAs #foreverchemicals https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/17/health/freshwater-fish-pfas-contamination-wellness/index.html
Locally caught fish are full of dangerous chemicals called PFAS, study finds
Freshwater fish caught locally contain dangerously high levels of PFOS, short for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, a known synthetic toxin phased out by the federal government, according to a study of data from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
TFW you call a temporary halt to your blood feud to share the last sliver of sunshine we’ll get for a week #sleepycats #catsofmastodon
USF St. Petersburg gets a bigger boat
#MBARI’s research boat is getting a second life as a teaching vessel that will also help #FIO increase #STEM participation for historically underrepresented groups
https://stpetecatalyst.com/usf-st-petersburg-gets-a-bigger-boat/
USF St. Petersburg gets a bigger boat
Thanks to the generosity of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, an $11.7 million research vessel will soon make the trek from California to its new home in St. Petersburg. The University of South Florida Board of Trustees unanimously approved accepting the Research Vessel Western Flyer’s title during Monday’s governance committee meeting. The ship will [...]
We’ve been trying to get him to quit but have you ever tried telling a 15 y/o cat to do anything?! Plus he’s right… it does make him look cool.
David HoThe most sobering thing to me about #ClimateChange is that we used to talk about #future impacts but now we talk about current impacts.
