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Cody Carlyle
@finstacodes.bsky.social
PhD student finding right whales from space | Master of seals | Interested in marine predators and technology used to study them | 1st Gen | (he/him)

http://codygcarlyle.squarespace.com
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Stoked to see @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social tonight in Saint John! His music and message seems so fitting for a city and province that has been subject to the Irvings and had to struggle against an anti-union, anti-mutual aid, extractivist agenda for so long. Hope tonight is inspiring for all!
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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We're concerned about the SRSR motion requesting 25 years of disaggregated tri-council data. While we understand the data is intended to be anonymized, this wasn't explicitly stated in the motion – and the specific information requested could still enable re-identification when linked together.
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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For #marinemammal lovers, @UBCBookstore now has #seal water bottles for sale! Very cute
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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In New Brunswick, seclusion rooms are used instead of intensive care units because of inadequate healthcare funding—this is what happens when ‘public safety funding’ is prioritized over collective community care.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Psychiatric patients assaulted while restrained, left soiled in seclusion, N.B. ombud says | CBC News
New Brunswick's ombud says Restigouche Hospital Centre staff have been restraining and secluding psychiatric patients improperly.
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Too many people confuse convenience with freedom.
August 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Colleagues at Hatfield Consultants also put together a beautiful story map summarizing the novel use of #satellite #technology for #whale #conservation: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/849a...
smartWhales SBDS
The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.
storymaps.arcgis.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Happy to announce our new article in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social on finding #rightwhales in satellite imagery using machine learning. Great collaboration with academia, industry, and conservation @cwf-fcf.bsky.social. #whalesfromspace #NARW

Link:
share.google/CNepFK2pf0iU...
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Updated abundance estimate of the eastern Beaufort Sea #beluga population! I participated in the aerial survey in 2019 as part of my masters project. The last estimate was from 1992.
open-science.canada.ca/items/6fadae...
Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) abundance estimate from aerial surveys of the Eastern Beaufort Sea population in 2019 - Federal Open Science Repository of Canada
Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) of the Eastern Beaufort Sea (EBS) population represent the second largest beluga population in Canada. The last abundance assessment for this population was con...
open-science.canada.ca
June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'm all for proven #rightwhale conservation measures that keep harvesters fishing but CBC probably should not talk about low breaking strength "whale-safe gear" without mentioning a right whale (EG5132) is currently entangled in Canada in low breaking strength gear

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Right whale detection in Gulf will mean restrictions for some P.E.I. lobster boats | CBC News
The P.E.I. Fishermen's Association says the latest detection of a North Atlantic right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region will mean some lobster fishing crews on the North Shore will have to rem...
www.cbc.ca
June 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
June 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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New paper on #rightwhale conversation by Cole & Brillant

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
"...annual entanglement risk to right whales from the GSL snow crab fishery is estimated to have been reduced by approximately 62 ± 3% (mean ± SE) relative to pre-closure"
🐳🌍🦑
June 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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How migrating marine megafauna tracks with conservation | Science very proud to be a core @MegaMove_Org author of this very important paper lead by @AnaMMSequeira - we need a dynamic approach to marine conservation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...
www.science.org
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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It would be cool to get a list of all the plants they have on sale at Lowe’s/Home Depot & make a @montereybayaquarium.org seafood-watch-style “best choice/good alternative/avoid” list for creating native gardens. Would need one for each region of course

Don’t reply before you read the whole thread.
May 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Was at the Saint John show on Saturday and it was truly special to watch legends @posplugwon.bsky.social and @talibkweli.bsky.social perform their classics like Stakes Is High and Get By together. Thank you for coming to Canada and the Maritimes!
May 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This one hurts. I wouldn’t have a PhD, or have had some of the best experiences in my life, or made some of my best friends #WithoutNSF & without the PGC. I was employee #1 of an organization that grew into an indispensable part of Polar Programs. And it’s being dismantled for literally no reason
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May 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
May 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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From @uswhalesorg.bsky.social : Endangered Species Act protects species AND their habitat from harm. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are proposing to remove habitat from this definition. The impacts will be devastating…
May 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Secrets of the Penguins is out today! Go watch on NatGeo TV and tomorrow on Disney+ and Hulu.

I can tell you for sure, the first episode is adorable, you will love it.
🧪🌎🦑🦉
April 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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New harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) features **1720** new awards with significantly increased values compared to historic Tri-Agency awards. 🇨🇦 🧪 #PhDsky #academicSky #NSERC #CIHR #SSHRC

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC:

"What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?"

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March 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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LAST DAY TO SIGN! Science is under attack, and the impact goes beyond U.S. borders. Senator Stanley Kutcher is calling on Canadians to take a stand.

Sign the #StandUpForScience letter now: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Science must be protected, funded, and free from political interference.
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So sad to see this. I've enjoyed Zach's Arctic climate change and sea ice graphics since I started my MSc back in 2018. In a sea of bad news that starts to feel normal, this is one of those things that hits very close to home.
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
March 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM