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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Sea Otters May Be Small Marine Mammals, But Their Effect on an Ecosystem Can Be Huge

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key habitat for other sealife www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Sea Otters May Be Small Marine Mammals, But Their Effect on an Ecosystem Can Be Huge
Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key habitat for other sealife
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Asexual reproduction in reef-building corals: insights into fragment attachment to improve restoration and predict natural recovery | Royal Society Open Science 🧪🦑🌎
Asexual reproduction in reef-building corals: insights into fragment attachment to improve restoration and predict natural recovery | Royal Society Open Science
Coral reefs are experiencing global decline, and their recovery relies heavily on asexual reproduction through fragmentation, the success of which hinges on self-sustaining attachment to the reef…
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Time is a flat circle

(I'm also convinced this is AI)

www.thecyclingweek.com/post/why-cyc...
Why Cyclists Are Ditching Expensive Recovery Drinks for Chocolate Milk October 31, 2025 By Matteo Chocolate milk isn’t just a tasty treat it could be the most effective recovery drink for cyclists. Discover why science backs this affordable, convenient option over expensive sports powders.
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
newsroom.co.nz
Today from The Detail: A City Councillor and a Marine Science Professor warn that the Hauraki Gulf recovery is at risk after a last-minute fishing carve-out to the new Tīkapa Moana
'Protected' gulf zones – preservation or hollow promises?
newsroom.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
ukceh.bsky.social
The #CaSTCo project shows how community data can drive decisions on river management in England & Wales.

UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science.

🔗 castco.org/impact-report

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Several photos of people and people sampling in rivers, plus the headline Putting people at the heart of river recovery, and four information points: 4.9 million citizen science datapoints shared openly 250k hours donated by citizen scientists, valued at more than £3million 132k locations monitored 35k volunteers, including approximately 18,000 who monitor monthly
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
sussexwildlife.bsky.social
We're at the Ocean Symposium and Marine Exhibition on 15 Nov!

💙We'll be speaking on the Importance of Coastal Communities in Citizen Science
🐟Sussex Kelp Recovery Project stall in the exhibition
🌊Sussex Wildlife Trust marine stall

Book here:https://buff.ly/F0laqTr

📸Corkwing Wrasse©Paul Parsons
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
October research highlights from our journals! From Arctic food webs to beaver-powered fire resilience, biodiversity maintenance & sea star recovery — explore the latest ecological science in our new tip sheet📰

Find it here: esa.org/blog/2025/10...

📷 by Sean Johnson-Bice
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
The Caribbean has been a leader in innovative financing for climate. For Jamaica, aid money funded one disaster insurance bond, and Jamaica paid for a second itself. Both will now deliver $820m for hurricane recovery www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News
Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...
www.cbc.ca
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ianhall.bsky.social
Your science is sound
Your press release says “Reef recovery”
The internet hears “Crisis over”

A study shows how well-intended optimism can fuel climate misinformation.

Context matters...

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Steering Great Barrier Reef climate science narratives through the mediasphere in a time of misinformation - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Steering Great Barrier Reef climate science narratives through the mediasphere in a time of misinformation
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
drelke.bsky.social
Thank you.

#LongCovid
Platforming a recovery story for a treatment that's widely criticized for its lack of scientific plausibility and propensity to exploit Long COVID patients is irresponsible. It risks increasing stigma by suggesting that Long COVID could be cured through positive thinking and brain retraining, rather than acknowledging the complexity of the condition. The segment is patronizing to people living with Long COVID who are trying to manage their symptoms while the condition remains underfunded, public Long COVID clinics are closing, and private providers promote potentially dangerous treatments on the basis of low-quality studies. The reporting presents a simple solution for Long COVID and neglects to mention the strategies that could prevent infection - including improving indoor air quality, masking and vaccines to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. People with Long COVID deserve responsible, science-based coverage.
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
donnag.bsky.social
Cool news about moss species on Haida Gwaii (islands off the coast of British Columbia, Canada), from the "Gwaii Haanas - Islands of Beauty" facebook site
Our terrestrial team partnered with UBC bryologists to complete a flurry of surveys for rare and endemic mosses in central Gwaii Haanas. The primary focus of the fieldwork was a set of detailed surveys for an endangered species, Dalton’s moss, whose entire Canadian population is found within a single inlet in Gwaii Haanas. We found several new populations of the moss and the information from the survey will be vital in defining its critical habitat in the upcoming federal recovery strategy. In addition, new populations of several critically imperilled, red-listed and endemic species were located. Data will be used in part to support species-at-risk listing processes, taxonomic science, and add weight to the formal designation of Haida Gwaii as a “Key Biodiversity Area” in Canada. British Columbia is a renowned global hotspot for moss diversity, recognized with areas such as Southeast Asia, the Northern Andes, and the African Highlands (among others) as being globally significant. Within BC, Haida Gwaii is a vital and rich part of that provincial diversity, with many rare and unique species making their home in our forests. A well-known example is our lush mats of Takakia, considered by many to be the most ancient land plant on earth. Other examples include species that are found only on Haida Gwaii and in the Himalayas; some that only live on Haida Gwaii and in Northern Europe; some species are only found on Haida Gwaii and in the tropics; Some species are endemic and found nowhere else on earth. Four images of mosses from a survey by Gwaii Haanas parks people and UBC bryologists for rare and endemic mosses in central Gwaii Haanas.
November 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
stopgenai.com
Most folks, including people who claim to be Covid aware (😂🤣), say calling Covid/SARS 2 "airborne AIDS" is hyperbole.

It absolutely isn't.

Covid *is* airborne AIDS. AIDS timeline suggests that most of population who have been delighted to inhale Covid since 2021 will be incapacitated by 2031. 2/3
cOVID-19 is "Airborne AIDS": provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or Two viruses, two pandemics HIV: Sexually & blood transmitted; decades- long progression to AlDS SARS-CoV-2: An airborne virus & highly contagious; result in Long coVID weeks to months after acute disease recovery something in between? Shared outcomes Immune dysfunction & exhaustion Viral persistence & vulnerability to (opportunistic) infections Systemic inflammation & damage Associated with neurological disorders Conclusion: Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access Public Health & Call to Action Both pandemics marked by stigma, Inequitles, delayed response Lessons from HIV could inform Long COVID strategies: prevention, recognition, causal treatments Reference Salamon Ss, Kruger A, Lupton D, Pretorius E, Ewing AG, Bar-Yam Y COVID-19is "Airborne AIDS provocate oversimpification, emerging scerce, or Something in between? APH 2025
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
princetonupress.bsky.social
In How to Change a Memory, @okaysteve.bsky.social draws on his own memories—of friendship, family, loss, & recovery—to reveal how memory can be turned on & off like a switch, edited, & even constructed from nothing.

Out 4 November. Check out a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez. A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field.
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
mtsuanthropology.bsky.social
Please join us on Wednesday, October 29th, at 6:30 p.m in the Student Union Ballroom for the William Bass-Hugh Berryman Legends in Forensic Science Lectureship! Forensic anthropologist Dr. Eric Bartelink will discuss the recovery and identification of wildfire victims.
THE WILLIAM BASS-HUGH BERRYMAN LEGENDS IN FORENSIC SCIENCE LECTURESHIP PRESENTS "Sifting through the Ashes: Recovery and Identification of Wildfire Victims: Lessons From Paradise and Maui." Wednesday, October 29, 6:30 p.m. MTSU Student Union Ballroom Forensic anthropologist Eric Bartelink calls search and recovery of fire victims one of the greatest challenges in forensic anthropology-especially after large wildfires. Bartelink, a professor of physical anthropology at California State University at Chico and team member of the Human Identification Laboratory there, has assisted in humanitarian recoveries and identifications around the world, such as mass grave excavations in Bosnia-Herzegovina for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and in the World Trade Center victim identification effort in New York City. His expertise is frequently called upon to assist in the identification of victims from wildfires, including those that consumed Paradise, California, and Maui, Hawaii. Free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary. Sponsors: The Forensic Institute for Research and Education, Middle Tennessee Forensic Science Society, Political and Global Affairs, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, Office of the University Provost
October 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
masternewb.bsky.social
As a normie, this should be for the girlies. I can look up the science, the surgery, the recovery, whatever. Only you can explain how you felt, what you experienced, how you feel now, or whatever you think might be relevant for some scared girlie thats thinking twice about doing it.
October 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
chromatowski.bsky.social
Here’s some of what I wrote when NIH sought public comment on the Roadmap in March 2024.

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March 10, 2024 at 4:10 AM Get serious about PEM The current proposals are not remotely adequate to address the significance of post-exertional malaise (PEM) to ME. Consensus science recognizes PEM as the disease's cardinal symptom and patients universally find it the most disabling of our symptoms, punishing every effort to carry out daily life. Yet the current Roadmap only bothers to mention PEM three times in a list of almost 300 research topics-and only then as subtopics of other, apparently higher priorities. This is gravely concerning about NIH's appreciation of how significantly PEM impacts those of us living with it, and it follows on a disastrous paper from NIH characterizing ME instead as a disease of diminished "effort preference". This is flatly at odds with the lived reality of ME: among the hundreds of ME patients I know, I have never once encountered one who didn't prefer to make a greater effort than PEM allows. This is genuinely remedial knowledge of ME: every ME patient, every single one, recursively does too much activity and has to make a major and conscious attempt to hold back in order to avert the cataclysmic physical effects of PEM, which deliver a deluge of multisystemic symptoms and sometimes a permanently lowered baseline. PEM is the symptom and frankly the disease itself; the aversion is only a (paltry) coping strategy. Focusing on the aversion will coping strategy. Focusing on the aversion will do nothing for ME patients except put us in harm's way: when an ME patient chooses a lower-effort task, it is because we have learned the hard way that greater effort incurs physical harm. The mechanisms behind that harm—the delayed onset of and prolonged recovery from symptoms disproportionate to the preceding exertion-is what we need NIH to study, and no one who persists in believing the coping mechanism is instead the central problem should be allowed near ME research. At this point, NIH is completely botching the study of PEM, and therefore the study of ME, since PEM is its cardinal symptom and dominates the lives of sufferers. The Roadmap will be a failure if this is not completely turned around.
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
danmacnulty.bsky.social
🧪You may have heard that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascades. Our new open-access article explains why that story doesn’t hold up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
pot8um.bsky.social
"Both [the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the current covid] pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access."

American Journal of Preventative Medicine,
October 13, 2025
Infographic with three windows, horizontally aligned. Top text reads COVID-19 is "Airborne AIDS": provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? Left blue window reads Two viruses, two pandemics HIV: Sexually & blood transmitted; decades-long progression to AIDS SARS-CoV-2: An airborne virus & highly contagious; result in Long COVID weeks to months after acute disease recovery Center light pink window reads Shared outcomes Immune dysfunction & exhaustion Viral persistence & vulnerability to (opportunistic) infections Systemic inflammation & damage Associated with neurological disorders Right magenta window reads Public Health & Call to Action Both pandemics marked by stigma, inequities, delayed response Lessons from HIV could inform Long COVID strategies; prevention, recognition, causal treatments Bottom left window reads Conclusion: Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access ALT TEXT CONTD IN THREAD
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ipbes.net
#DidYouKnow ? Shark reproductive rates and recovery potential are known to decline when depth increases & population depletion risks exist, even when exploitation (targeted or incidental) rates are low.
— IPBES #SustainableUse Assessment

Let's protect deep-sea sharks. 🦈
Title page for an IPBES Sustainable Use Assessment report on Deep-Sea Sharks. The image features a silhouette of a shark swimming in deep turquoise waters, creating an atmospheric underwater effect. The main title "Deep-Sea Sharks" appears in large white text at the top, followed by the subtitle "Conservation is crucial for vulnerable shark populations" in mixed fonts. The IPBES logo appears in the bottom right corner, with the text "Science and Policy for People and Nature" beneath it. The overall design uses a deep teal background that evokes the deep ocean environment.
October 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
calmurzeitz.bsky.social
Please consider SMART recovery as an AA or secular alternative based in science, if you or anyone you know wants to explore sobriety or curb unwanted behaviors of any kind
October 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
hey-nunya-business.bsky.social
👆🏼 all this, all day, every day.

The AA model is deficiency-and-shame-based, can impair both recovery and relationships, and is wholly detached from the science of addiction and addictions treatment.

In my opinion, it's a dangerous modality to use as a lone treatment approach...
October 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
spoke32.bsky.social
I wrote about the recovery of the Bronze Age Peebles Hoard a few years ago, which from the outside at least seemed like a best-case scenario. Maybe because the guy who found it (and then spent two weeks sleeping next to it in the rain) was Polish? www.popsci.com/science/scot...
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists
When amateur treasure hunters uncovered a Bronze Age bounty in Scotland, what they did next sets an example for conservationists everywhere.
www.popsci.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
ilianawoah.bsky.social
I think being beaten half to death would speed up my covid recovery actually i don't know the science but i know it'd cure me in other ways so either way.
October 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
looktogod.bsky.social
I know nothing about the science things you're mentioning, but I have the ME and the mito and definitely rely on the simple carbs for easy access energy to help recovery. And constant chocolate cravings.
October 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
anthbyte.bsky.social
Measurement underpins all science. Yet, in microbiome studies, subtle differences in lab protocols can profoundly alter results. In our new study, we compare DNA extraction and library prep methods to assess their impact on ancient oral microbiome recovery. Our results show that no single approach
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM