Alanna Mnich | Marine Biologist
@alannamnich.bsky.social
🎓 Postdoc @ UMass 🐟 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Researcher 🧪 Biogeochemist
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Hi Bluesky! I’m Alanna (@ocean.alanna on Instagram) and this is my first post! I’m a marine biologist and excited to share all of the interesting things I see in my career. Here is a photo of some larval Caribbean reef squid that I took for my undergraduate thesis 🐙
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Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.
February 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.
This publication I’m on came from a grant that has now been deemed too “woke”
See the full list of “woke” grants here www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
See the full list of “woke” grants here www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
February 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This publication I’m on came from a grant that has now been deemed too “woke”
See the full list of “woke” grants here www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
See the full list of “woke” grants here www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Excited to be a new host on the Fisheries Podcast! Looking forward to lots of exciting interviews!
This week we're introduced to new host for the podcast, Alanna Mnich, a postdoctoral researcher continuing research on larval Atlantic Bluefin Tuna among other side projects and interests. We cover her past work with larval cephalopods, low oxygen areas, and developing a new color line of chickens.
February 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Excited to be a new host on the Fisheries Podcast! Looking forward to lots of exciting interviews!
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You won't encounter a less-political and more publicly beneficial organization than NOAA. It's filled with scientists, technicians, and analysts who entered their fields because they love what they do. The competence-to-fat ratio is probably higher at NOAA than anywhere. Destroying it is abhorrent.
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
You won't encounter a less-political and more publicly beneficial organization than NOAA. It's filled with scientists, technicians, and analysts who entered their fields because they love what they do. The competence-to-fat ratio is probably higher at NOAA than anywhere. Destroying it is abhorrent.
I learned this weekend that is it somehow public, Google-able information that I am a Harry Potter fan. I have no idea where or how this information was found, but it is both hilarious and very on brand for me
January 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I learned this weekend that is it somehow public, Google-able information that I am a Harry Potter fan. I have no idea where or how this information was found, but it is both hilarious and very on brand for me
My foster kitty’s quarantine will be over at the end of February and he will be looking for his forever home! 3 legs, former feral, FIV+. Has made lots of progress. Contact me if interested! Based in Massachusetts
January 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My foster kitty’s quarantine will be over at the end of February and he will be looking for his forever home! 3 legs, former feral, FIV+. Has made lots of progress. Contact me if interested! Based in Massachusetts
I have complained about “pay to play” internships on my Instagram in the past, I have a lot of problems with them
Buckle up because this is the most wild pay to play I’ve seen yet
#askacademia #oceanscience #womeninstem
Buckle up because this is the most wild pay to play I’ve seen yet
#askacademia #oceanscience #womeninstem
January 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I have complained about “pay to play” internships on my Instagram in the past, I have a lot of problems with them
Buckle up because this is the most wild pay to play I’ve seen yet
#askacademia #oceanscience #womeninstem
Buckle up because this is the most wild pay to play I’ve seen yet
#askacademia #oceanscience #womeninstem
If you’re a student member of @aslo.org (or thinking about becoming one) check out this L&O Bulletin piece about making the most of your membership in 2025!
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If you’re a student member of @aslo.org (or thinking about becoming one) check out this L&O Bulletin piece about making the most of your membership in 2025!
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Calling all marine ecologists! If you study biodiversity, conservation or related topics, a second 'Marine Ecologists' starter pack is being organized here on Bluesky to connect researchers and practitioners. Reply here or to @drangelborja.bsky.social if interested—we need 6–7 people to get started!
I can organize a second group, but I need at least 6-7 people to start it. Hence, if more marine ecologists, not included in the first pack, want to be added, let me know and I will organize a second one!
#MarineEcology
#MarineEcology
January 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Calling all marine ecologists! If you study biodiversity, conservation or related topics, a second 'Marine Ecologists' starter pack is being organized here on Bluesky to connect researchers and practitioners. Reply here or to @drangelborja.bsky.social if interested—we need 6–7 people to get started!
Looking forward to Bluesky launching Flashes (Instagram replacement) to completely disconnect from everyone in the front row of the inauguration 💙
January 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Looking forward to Bluesky launching Flashes (Instagram replacement) to completely disconnect from everyone in the front row of the inauguration 💙
January 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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A 608-pound bluefin tuna, which is about the size and weight of a motorcycle, has sold for $1.3 million at auction.
Sushi chain pays $1.3 million for motorcycle-sized tuna at Tokyo auction
The 608-pound bluefin tuna fetched the second-highest price ever paid at the annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish market.
www.nbcnews.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A 608-pound bluefin tuna, which is about the size and weight of a motorcycle, has sold for $1.3 million at auction.
Hi Bluesky! I’m Alanna (@ocean.alanna on Instagram) and this is my first post! I’m a marine biologist and excited to share all of the interesting things I see in my career. Here is a photo of some larval Caribbean reef squid that I took for my undergraduate thesis 🐙
January 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hi Bluesky! I’m Alanna (@ocean.alanna on Instagram) and this is my first post! I’m a marine biologist and excited to share all of the interesting things I see in my career. Here is a photo of some larval Caribbean reef squid that I took for my undergraduate thesis 🐙