Does it count as kleptoparasitism if it’s not a prey item? Genuinely curious. Either way… ew!!! 🤣

Brandon Moore, PhD@rando.insalubrio.us · 3w ago

Kleptoparasitism occurs when one animal deliberately steals food from another. Marine biologists repeatedly observed this behavior in a bottlenose dolphin named Bubbles, which chases Bigeye Trevally until they vomit, then devours the regurgitated food! 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oh my gosh, literally discovered! Like “we found this weird cat” and not “we had to reclassify it” 💕🥹

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 3w ago

New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

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The VICAR lab is hiring! 🤖🪸 🧪 We are looking for a full-time Autonomous Systems Research Specialist to join the Virgin Islands Center for Autonomous Research (VICAR) in St. Thomas, USVI. Join the first robotics and AI lab in the US Caribbean. Apply by Sept 30: careers.uvi.edu/postings/9159

If you care about Earth science in the US, please sign up for the NSF GEO virtual office hour Sept 15 with GEO directorate head Joydip Kundu! NSF leadership needs to hear directly that people care and are concerned about GEO. Maxxing out their Zoom tier sends a message. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences

Join directorate leadership for updates and information.

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My dive buddies Abi and Addy on our first unsupervised dive as newly certified megalodon rebreather helitrox decompression divers! 45m / 148 ft 🤙🏻 🤿 #technicaldiving #girlsthatscuba

Space sugar!!! 🍭

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 3mo ago

Research in Nature Astronomy identifies a type of sugar made of four carbon atoms, called erythrulose, near the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The finding indicates that complex, biologically relevant molecules can form in space. go.nature.com/4vZvbOB 🔭🧪

And environmental conservation!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The folks who are simultaneously claiming that AI will wipe out all jobs AND that they’re going to build it anyways need to do better than vaguely gesturing at how it might improve medicine. Otherwise, unsurprisingly, everyone will attempt to stop them!

Hey Fable, I’m a MARINE biologist 😭

Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years. The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly

This is a phenomenal distillation of what I and many others have been trying to work out! Great guidance too. Will be following.

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

🆘 Can someone help or advise on boosting to major outlets? I live in a US territory with a failing power grid. Daily outages, misleading communications and lies, yet our governor wont declare state of emergency. The community is screaming for help. Some posts from “what’s going on st thomas” on fb:

Design document growing larger. I need to code some more core functions, like type checking and test coverage. But I'll get this bird online.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I am coding again. Very pleased with this ugly ASCII workflow graph

Your sunscreen doesn’t matter for coral reef health. (Reef safe sunscreen is a scam)

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

UVA’s Antonios Mamalakis breaks down how climate models—powered by petaflop supercomputers—help us understand future risks. These physics‑based simulations guide real decisions on heat, flooding, and resilience: https://ow.ly/JIlB50YmtuJ

"Citizen scientists have discovered what they believe is one of the largest coral colonies ever documented on the Great Barrier Reef. The coral spans approximately 111 metres in maximum length and covers an estimated area of 3,973 sq m – about half the size of a soccer field."

Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’

Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census

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Know anyone interested in coral reefs, AI, and robotics? 🤖🪸 And grad school in the Caribbean? The VICAR lab is seeking masters students interested in applying autonomous systems to marine science @the-vicar.bsky.social apply by March 1 ‼️ learn more about VICAR and MMES: tr.ee/vicar 🧪 🌊 🌱 🌎

What if your dplyr pipelines ran on GPU? That's what I built with cuplyr! A CUDA-powered backend for #rstats data manipulation. Looking for testers and feedback! github.com/bbtheo/cuplyr

GitHub - bbtheo/cuplyr: GPU powered dataframes in R

GPU powered dataframes in R. Contribute to bbtheo/cuplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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What if animals emerged by installing a new biological operating system that repurposed what already existed, much like the rise of the smartphone? Here's our new paper in @embojournal.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @melisupf.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧵 1/?: Switching a Research Desktop to Linux (Intro & Prehistory) 1/ This is the first in a series of threads/mini-tutorials I'll be posting on switching a real academic research & development desktop to Linux. Not a “open source rocks” 🧵— this is about doing actual science. #ChemSky #AcademicSky

Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

That’s not a barrel, that’s a tower!! Awesome picture.

Deep Down, We’re a Family@deepdownafamily.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Large barrel sponge in front of the Mister Bud shipwreck. #scuba #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #roatan #honduras

Last night, I watched one of the best nature videos I have ever seen, from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I have been in love with hornbills since I lived in Indonesia and Malaysia and saw them every time I went out in the jungle. You really owe it to yourself to watch this.

Islands of the Hornbills

YouTube video by Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Now that we have the most powerful computer on our lil’ campus… let’s do some marine science 👏 🧪 🪸 🖥️

Building a robotics and AI lab on a Caribbean island certainly has its challenges, but we are settling into our new home quite nicely! 👉🏻 follow @the-vicar.bsky.social if youre interested in robotics and AI for ecological conservation 🧪 #NSFfunded

someone should make a website for liberals who don’t hate technology

If you're lucky enough to be financially stable and have a few bucks to spare, now would be a really good time to donate to America's food banks. They've already lost a ton of funding this year and with SNAP on the line, more are going to need them in the coming weeks.

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports... This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

Day 1 of NSF sponsored Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis time series in Brewers Bay, St Thomas, USVI with @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt at UVI. After months of planning it was time to figure out what makes sense from