joeymaier 🌊
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They pay me to talk about anatomy and biology, but these posts are mine. When I grow up, I want to live in Sea Base Alpha 🌊🐬🦈🐳🐟🦑🪸🐚🦀🐠🐙
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Article quotes author Peter Buston:

“Historically, anemones have bleached relatively little compared to corals, but now we’re getting up to levels where the anemones are bleaching, and that results in a catastrophic breakdown in the mutualism with the anemonefishes that everybody knows and loves”
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Popular press coverage from MongoBay about new study in Nature Biodiversity describing how rising #oceantemperature caused #bleaching and death of #anemones and their resident #clownfish

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach share.google/50D2BgHewygr...
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Popular press coverage from MongoBay about new study in Nature Biodiversity describing how rising #oceantemperature caused #bleaching and death of #anemones and their resident #clownfish

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach share.google/50D2BgHewygr...
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We hear a lot about #coralbleaching, but high #oceantemperature effects other animals, too.

New study of #RedSea reefs

"Across all reefs, we observed a sequence of 100% anemone bleaching, 94.3–100% anemonefish mortality, and 66.4–94.1% anemone mortality."

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Near complete local extinction of iconic anemonefish and their anemone hosts following a heat stress event - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Near complete local extinction of iconic anemonefish and their anemone hosts following a heat stress event
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joeymaier.bsky.social
I would imagine that the troll limit on Twitter was reduced after they changed owners and began their re-nazi-fication program
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Okay so earlier today I posted some Grim sounding stuff about #coralreefs (see below.). Now we'll try for a little bit of #oceanoptimism; The reefs around the #Philippines and #NewGuinea may be more resistant to temperature changes

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Oldest living animal ever found suggests Atlantic Ocean is close to tipping point, say scientists | Discover Wildlife share.google/NXytMlpoWaEp...
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#salmon
"These findings (and many others showing similar patterns) led Ruggerone to conclude that pink salmon can cause food web-scale effects, triggering what amounts to a “trophic cascade"

“The Pink Effect” share.google/YSIwwY4yrgf4...
“The Pink Effect”
Pink salmon populations are leaving visible fingerprints across ocean ecosystems.
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Further coverage, this time from ABC news

New species of Jurassic-era 'sword dragon' marine reptile discovered - ABC News share.google/qm3EysbtV28h...
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🚨 BREAKING: All oceanic devil rays are now Critically Endangered.

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#ROV

Popular press coverage of bubble gum pink lobsterettes filmed by @schmidtocean.bsky.social on their expedition to Mar Del Plata Canyon near #Argentina

Scientists Find Rare 'Barbie-Pink' Animal Living In Deep Underwater Canyon - The Dodo share.google/fhXlmqeE0VzS...
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Help the America the Beautiful for All Coalition and the National Ocean Protection Coalition (NOPC) protect our marine national monuments
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Speaking for myself and the advice I've given my students, I would simply not do an interview about a preprint until it was accepted after peer review.
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"The West Australian Lanternshark is a small shark, the largest known specimen being only 407 mm in length, with large eyes to help it see in the ocean depths."

New species of deep-sea shark and crab discovered off Western Australia share.google/ag2mOdlJcuYp...
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There is *another* nes species of shark that was just described from CISRO's 2022 expedition:

"This is the third new shark species described using specimens collected on the same 2022 voyage, joining the Painted Hornshark and Ridged-egg Catshark..."

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