The true cost of me doing my PhD on gray seals is that unsolicited gray seals facts are now about 20% of my personality

The reason aerial surveys works so well for gray seal pups is because the pups are completely white (it’s thought that they used to be ice seals), so they stand out super clearly against the rocks

You think people might think finding another good candidate in a state of 1.4 million people would be easier and more palatable than trying to convince people that actually a nazi tattoo isn’t really that big of a deal

OSM being in Glasgow in February was certainly a choice though. Guessing the venue was cheap

Honestly it does seem kind of fun if you have the resources and take away the doomsday part. I wouldn’t mind having an everyday bunker

There's an additional level of weirdness because online sports betting is still illegal in like 17 states

You sure you weren’t accidentally watching a cricket match? Those can last days

With seven years since the last large leptospirosis outbreak compared the the more typical 3-5, I do wonder how much of it is driven by a greater proportion of the population that is immunologically naive. Will be curious to see what comes of it

I’m now contractually obligated to think gray seals are the coolest species of seal, but I definitely have a soft spot for Weddell seals even though I never got to see them in person

Maybe it’s one of them erasable engravings

Nutria

Kind of weird of them to go with a sea otter for the image instead of the actual river otter species

Somehow managed to be more delusional than the English monarchs who kept including King of France in their list of titles all the way until 1802

Very opposite feelings watching this game vs watching the Lynx earlier today

“What the heck even is salinity” feels like a more appropriate name for an intro to physical oceanography class.

I feel like AMOC/Gulf Stream thing is one of the pet peeves that always got brought up in every physical oceanography class I took. Also that practical salinity is unitless

Oh that brings me back. In 2015, we had a severe marine heat wave (‘the blob’) which resulted in an insane number of strandings of sea lions in California along with just about every sort of sea creature. So many people asked about Fukushima even though it was 4 years before and 9000 miles way.

I had a similar moment when I was working in marine mammal stranding and someone on a beach asked me if chemtrails were why sea lions strand. He said he had been watching the skies diligently since 1992. Who am I to argue with that?