"I’d milk it for all it was worth. Sharks don’t drink milk. They’re born alive like mammals, but their mothers don’t nurse them, not even Nurse Sharks. Baby sharks are left to fend for themselves... That’s the kind of shark-based factoid I’d work in at cocktail parties."

Silver Linings of Being Bitten by a Great White Shark

“If I were bitten by a great white shark, I’d work it into every conversation I ever had for the rest of my life.” 7/10/24 7/28/26

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Dusky sharks have been a prohibited species in US fisheries since 1999. These big adults are a sign that policy is working. A fully grown dusky shark can reach 14 feet in length and stand toe-to-toe with white sharks in the food web.

SharkScience@sharkscience.bsky.social · 5d ago

A New Apex Predator In Cape Cod Waters: Dusky Sharks Another Reason For Boaters, Swimmers To Be ‘Shark Smart’ 🦑🦤🐟🦈 www.capecodchronicle.com/articles/487...

Jimmy Eat World has managed to keep putting out new material that feels like it’s growing along with me while I never seem to outgrow their older work.

inthefade@ihavethatonvinyl.com · 2w ago

what band/artist do you think has never made a bad song? for me it's the strokes and spoon

Meet the bull shark we hired as security to keep the ne’er-do-wells out of Coral City 😤🐂🦈 #bullshark #sharkweekiseverydayincoralcity #sharksofcoralcity #coralcitycamera

Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” obviously.

Becky Tyler@beckytylerart.bsky.social · 2w ago

What song did the Sirens sing in The Odyssey? Wrong answers only.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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This might be the coolest origin story of any music genre.

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

It's Out! To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea: thehill.com/opinion/nati...

To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea

If we fail to take this clear and concrete action to restore trust in maritime safety and security, soon there will be no one willing to pull us from the sea.

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Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have an OpEd coming out Monday that is simultaneously the wonkiest thing I have ever written and the most personal story I haven't told publicly. But it matters to the larger point. This one took me a long time to write. Almost a year, really.

Hartford? The Whale? They only win the Stanley Cup once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

US science for the next few decades.

Well this is all horrible. 🧪

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2mo ago

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

I got a whole MSc by looking through non-lethally collected dogfish shark stomach contents. More commonly known as puke.

Laura Hollister @xenolith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Has anybody seen living sharks puke anything up? I’m not asking this because I doubt you. I’m just curious.

Dusky sharks, an apex predator similar to great white sharks, are expected to be active off Cape Cod this summer amid a historic comeback for the species, experts say.

After 40 years, these sharks are returning to Cape Cod waters. Here’s what scientists want you to know. - The Boston Globe

Because the sharks prefer warmer waters, they could be particularly active off Cape Cod this summer, one expert said.

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This seems relevant to @panic.gay’s interests.

Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In part, we wanted to invite people to get curious. Look at the weird stuff this fish is doing! Why is it doing that?! This is a paper I would absolutely love to talk to your eight-year-old about. So reminder: although science is serious and important, it’s also often incredibly weird and fun.

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

New scene in Avengers: Endgame. This is canon now and ties into Doomsday.

a group of people are holding lightsabers in a room

Alt: GIF of Mace Windu (played by Samuel L Jackson) igniting a lightsaber with three other Jedi around him.

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Glendon Mellow@flyingtrilobite.com · 4mo ago

New scene in Avengers: Endgame This is canon now and ties into Doomsday

From NC? Join me in writing. NC has 4 National Forests: Croatan, Uwharrie, Nantahala and Pisgah — and they are are full of wild places to hike, hunt, camp, raft and fish.

teabelly@teabelly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✅ Share this message with others. actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...

The music hill I’m wiling to die on that a lot of people don’t expect is that the Dave Matthews Band is good, actually.

Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · last yr.

Everybody hates Dave Matthews but he's a pacifist quaker that renounced his South African citizenship rather than have to join the military in opposition to apartheid (being active against it), gives a lot to charities and causes, and has been pro-palestine anti-netanyahu for years and years, so

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

George Pearkes@peark.es · 4mo ago

Gibberish closely related to war crimes

Mark it on your calendars, fellow elasmo-nerds! Also if you’re planning on joining in on the bony fish and herpetology sides of JMIH 2026.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Friends, if you are planning on presenting at the American Elasmobranch Society conference this summer in New Orleans, you have until 4/10 to submit your abstract! (We are assured that this deadline won't be extended again). 🧪🌍🦑🦈

After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act

In its first meeting in three decades, the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.

washingtonpost.com

Psyched to be a co-author on this new paper led by @shannonbarry.bsky.social that uses genetics to prove that North Carolina’s baby bull sharks used to be Florida’s. 🦈🐟🦤🧪🦑 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

Do you have any idea what NOAA could be if it had a $200 billion budget?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5mo ago

$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.

The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF

Highly recommend starting a group chat about a niche hobby and including one person who does not do that hobby.

Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Me, @dogfishwalker.bsky.social, and @whysharksmatter.bsky.social have a long running Warhammer group chat, except David doesn't play Warhammer, so he just randomly get bombarded with painted minis and weird, context-free lore. It's great.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Warren Buffet also appears to be objectively happier and less of a miserable ghoul desperately begging for accolades on his own social media platform than some the others on this list. Makes you think.

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...