e.g. at Deyrolle in Paris it's a narwhal horn in the taxidermied unicorn!
Pic: www.instagram.com/p/C9nAABqsH27/
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Trevor A. Branch
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Professor at Univ of Washington @uwsafs.bsky.social I run models and synthesize data, love R graphics, and do research on the status of marine fisheries, fishing quotas, and blue whales @bluewhalenews.bsky.social
@trevorabranch.bsky.social@trevorabranch.bsky.socialYeah but unicorns were only named after seeing the tusks of narwhals, so they should have been called narwhalhorses... ;)
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialNot as bad of a mood as the UW Huskies after 3 losses in a row...
@joeymaier.bsky.socialReposted by @trevorabranch.bsky.socialLocal governments in #Greenland consider culling #Greenlandshark in an effort to prop up an ailing #halibut fishing industry
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To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark | Sharks | The Guardian share.google/Uur9OMYHkqyB...
@trevorabranch.bsky.social@trevorabranch.bsky.social... the new estimates show three times more individuals for the key impacted dolphin species than previously estimated, which implies they were much less depleted by tuna fisheries than previously thought. Good news for dolphins!!!
Jay Barlow et al. doi.org/10.1111/mms....
@trevorabranch.bsky.social... but a new re-analysis of enormous ocean surveys (equivalent of circling the earth 7 times) during 1986-2006, now correcting for school size, and for Beaufort sea state (visibility due to waves), and using new modern methods of analyzing such data...
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialThe tuna-dolphin problem was when 4.8 million dolphins were killed during tuna fishing, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s before a suite of regulations and changes reduced deaths to low levels. It has long been thought that some dolphin populations were very reduced by this. Now though...
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.socialReposted by @trevorabranch.bsky.socialI use this example in classes as showing how DNA sampling is very good at answering "who touched this sample", but not necessarily "and who therefore committed this crime"
@hollybik.bsky.socialReposted by @trevorabranch.bsky.socialThe more we sequence, the weirder it all gets…
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialRay Troll is a national treasure.
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialNew plant species with leaves big enough to see from space...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialI like how you included a cabuGARet pun just for @solomonrdavid.bsky.social
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialThis is brilliant: the acknowledgement section of PhD dissertations...
"Thank you to the friends who simply knew not to ask."
"I know I was the reason you bought that Roomba"
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@rebeccarhelm.bsky.socialReposted by @trevorabranch.bsky.socialBlue button jellies float on the waters surface. They’re related to true jellies, but they’ve got a dry top that feels a bit like a fingernail, and is filled with air-trapping chambers to keep the jelly above the waves This float also means they slide on the water like hockey pucks 🏒
@bluewhalenews.bsky.socialReposted by @trevorabranch.bsky.socialHey everyone, last chance to sign up as a member of the American Cetacean Society and get a hard copy of the upcoming Whalewatcher issue (136 pages of amazing blue whale goodness edited by yours truly)
acs.memberclicks.net/membership
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialTwo papers accepted within minutes of each other after a long review process!!!! Must be a record for me.
@scottdoney.bsky.socialReposted by @trevorabranch.bsky.socialThe record breaking magnitude of this year’s El Niño highlights the need to take action now to protect marine ecosystems and put in place resources for future events that will be supercharged by further ocean warming 🌊
@trevorabranch.bsky.socialIt's always The Stranger doing the good reporting. Why the ferry outages from sick-outs? Because ferry engineers are routinely expected to work 7 day weeks and accrue 1500 hours of overtime a year (i.e. nearly 70-hour weeks).