Years ago we (@zoedoubleday.bsky.social) told scientists to stop creating new acronyms because people find them hard to read elifesciences.org/articles/60080. Now there's another reason, the machines find them hard to read too. If you want your work to be in LLM searches, then quit the TLAs.

Meta-Research: The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature

A study of 24 million articles has revealed that scientists have created more than 1 million acronyms since 1950, most of which have been used fewer than 10 times.

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Thank you @lauraweyrich.bsky.social for talking about your standout research and entrepreneurship, and how it could transform oral health outcomes for people worldwide. #oralmicrobiomes #paleomicrobiology #seminarseries

Proud to see our study come out into the world, which was a beautiful collaborative effort with @mtchung.bsky.social and many others. The goal: putting an obscure isotope system into the limelight for marine biologists @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Day 1 of my first ESA conference. I’ll be chairing and speaking in the aquatic science session this arvo. #ESA25 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Great talk by @arielitristao.bsky.social using Nd isotope in cephalopod studies at CIAC2025. with @zoedoubleday.bsky.social

Thank you, @zoedoubleday.bsky.social. May we save this wonderful animal and nature spectacle. All power to all involved! theconversation.com/the-giant-cu...

The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all

The SA government has convened an emergency meeting today to discuss taking cuttlefish eggs from the wild, due to the impending threat of the algal bloom which could wipe them out forever.

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As the SA Government convenes an emergency meeting to discuss the threat of the toxic algal bloom to the Giant Australian Cuttlefish in the Spencer Gulf today, we asked cuttlefish expert @zoedoubleday.bsky.social about the population and why it is so special. #oceans #nature #cuttlefish #marine

In case you missed it, here’s what to know about the giant cuttlefish mating migration, the risk SA’s algal bloom poses to the population, and what the SA government must consider when investigating safeguards for the species. @zoedoubleday.bsky.social @aunz.theconversation.com

The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all

The SA government has convened an emergency meeting today to discuss taking cuttlefish eggs from the wild, due to the impending threat of the algal bloom which could wipe them out forever.

theconversation.com

Let me introduce you to @louisehosking.bsky.social, a new PhD student in my lab and an ATSE Elevate Scholar. Here she is undergoing shark dissection training with her wonderful co-supervisor Bonnie Holmes. Lou will be developing geochemical methods to better understand #sharks.

@alaskapublic.org with #KUCB reports on the "the first documented case of harmful algal blooms #HABs leading to a marine mammal die-off in Alaska". #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑

Harmful algal blooms linked to die-off of fur seals in the Bering Sea

Ten fur seals and hundreds of fish washed up dead on a Pribilof beach last year. New research links the die-off to warming oceans.

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A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.

Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches

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Sea foam is a health hazard. These bacterial smoothies can contain more harmful pathogens than a sewage treatment plant – and you wouldn’t go swimming in sewage.

Dozens of surfers fell ill after swimming in seas that turned into a ‘bacterial smoothie’ of sea foam. What was in it?

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It’s my love of recycling that drew me into the world of sclerochronology… Excerpt from my blog curated by South Australian Science Teachers Association.

Taking the recycling ethos into the lab to collect much needed data on our aquatic environments

Zoë Doubleday – Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of South Australia As an environmental scientist, I’m an avid recycler at home. But I also apply the “reduce, reuse, and recycle” etho...

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"Abortion was made legal underwater nearly 50 years ago in Salmon Roe v. Wave, yet there is still a stigma attached to what is no more serious a procedure than allowing a goby fish to clean the parasites from my gills." theonion.com/if-fema...

If Females Could Get Pregnant, There’d Be An Abortion Clinic On Every Coral

Despite the tide of aquatic opinion flowing in favor of reproductive rights for all, marine society still gives male seahorses very little say over what happens to their own bodies. Instead, we are treated as passive baby-making machines. Meanwhile, if it were the female seahorses who could get pregnant, there’d probably be an abortion clinic […]

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Congrats Erica Durante for publishing amazing research (+ your 4th PhD paper!). Erica developed methods to extract estrogen & progesterone from cephalopod beaks. Now we can get lifetime reproductive data from species we know little about! @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦑 It's #Crinoids Day! (plus a sneak little shrimp.) Crinoids should be much more popular what the variety of colors and entirely extraneous number of legs. #Bohol #Philippines

Our one-year anniversary issue is here! As we celebrate our first year as a journal, we reflect on the incredible multidisciplinary research we've had the privilege to publish, all striving to tackle today's grand challenges #sustainability www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Swanning around on a sticky-hot long weekend. #birdlife #wildoz

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m so grateful for my achievements of 2024, but this one holds a special place in my heart. Being part of FIISA while doing a PhD is challenging at times but I had a great team with me helping all time, including for PhD work + FIISA committee. Thanks to everyone involved behind the scenes 🙌💜

Zoe Doubleday@zoedoubleday.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations @arielitristao.bsky.social for winning our Institute’s student award for your leadership as President of the PhD student association and stellar research on radiogenic isotopes (for biological applications)!

Congratulations @arielitristao.bsky.social for winning our Institute’s student award for your leadership as President of the PhD student association and stellar research on radiogenic isotopes (for biological applications)!

I'm loving my new @bsky.app community, so here's a little about me: science, history, culture, and travel feed my curiosity; nature and gardening give me peace; and effective writing and communication always keeps me thinking. I run a marine science lab in Australia and this is what we do:

The more we learn about parasites the more we’re amazed. I wrote about them. theconversation.com/mind-bending...

Mind-bending, body-snatching, blood-sucking: parasites are bizarre yet vital for life on Earth

An ecologist shares his passion for parasites. From their vital roles in nature, to strange super powers and extraordinarily complex life cycles, parasites are natural wonders worthy of protection.

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I've somehow made it onto @crikey.com.au's "2024 Shitstirrers Index Honourable Mentions"! Thanks for the nominations – what a Xmas pressie! 💩🥄 "For giving researchers across Australia info that the ARC could totally tell them, but chooses not to." [$] www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/20/r...

Rex Patrick, Rick Morton, Jacqui Lambie: Who were readers' picks for shitstirrer of the year?

Some fan favourites did not make our esteemed list of shitstirrers this year. There will be no recount!

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Here's a starting list of #biodiversity #conservation & #ecology scientific journals (including multidisciplinary journals publishing in these areas) with @bsky.app accounts Quite a large number still without an account Know any accounts I've missed? Please tell me bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm loving all the food, climate, open data & other science starter packs showing up recently. Let's build up the fisheries, aquaculture & aquatic foods community here 🐟🍤🎣 Suggest folks to add below! go.bsky.app/EeZv5UT

Brand new review paper that sums up the thing I do. In short, there is a whole lot of overlooked chemical data ready and waiting inside aquatic taxa that can be used to monitor the environment and support species and ecosystem health. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'll go back to the early 1990's to a paper that showed that a small species of Australian shark fertilize their eggs and then pause embryonic development for 7+ months. The picture is a section through the resting blastodisc stage embryo. First time every reported in a shark doi.org/10.1071/MF99...

Can farmed seaweed stop climate change!? No. But, has potential to help make #aquaculture carbon neutral 🐟 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Blue Growth Potential to Mitigate Climate Change through Seaweed Offsetting

Carbon offsetting is a contentious but growing market for mitigating climate change. Aquatic farming of seaweeds is a growing sector that may provide a new form of offsetting in the oceans. Froehlich et al. find large-scale global mitigation through CO2eq sequestration unlikely but local to regional applications more feasible.

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Science friends 🧪🌎🦑, @altmetric.com tracks Bluesky posts now! Quote or reply to this post with a link to the paper you’re best known for or most proud of, and a brief plain-language summary of what you found and why it matters! Let’s fill Bluesky with SCIENCE!

a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!

ALT: a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!

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