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Rainer Moy-Huwyler
@rainermh.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate studying the bioenergetics of predators on Florida reefs📚🪸🤿

Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab 🐟🦈
Florida International University
FL Sea Grant 2025 Guy Harvey Fellow
Veteran 🇺🇸
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natureportfolio.nature.com
Global shark and ray populations have declined sharply. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity assesses global status, highlights drivers of decline, and outlines the regulatory, market-based and conservation actions needed to reduce mortality and reverse shark and ray biodiversity loss. 🔒
Bending back the curve of shark and ray biodiversity loss - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Global shark and ray populations have declined sharply, driven by expanding fisheries and inequitable gaps in catch, trade and distribution data. This Review assesses global status, highlights drivers of decline, and outlines the regulatory, market-based and conservation actions needed to reduce mortality and reverse shark and ray biodiversity loss.
go.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
Can anyone recommend any solid educational statistics pages to follow on here? I've found a few surprisingly decent communities on Facebook, but since the crowd here is a bit more tailored to the scientific community I figured I'd find some better content.

Drop your recommendations!
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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ubcoceans.bsky.social
(As seen on other Bluesky threads)

You will be visited ny three spirits
a man is touching a fish that is swimming in the water
ALT: a man is touching a fish that is swimming in the water
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
Congratulations Diego! Pioneering an interesting and creative approach to locating endangered species beyond traditional survey methods. Excited to see where this goes next @diegocardenosa.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
I've seen enough, open the pit
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 7
New research reveals cockatoos have 30 unique dance moves—including headbanging.

Learn more: scim.ag/4orvJJW
August 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
Coming soon to a coast near you
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jul 27
A harmful algal bloom, fueled by a marine heat wave, has been choking South Australia's coastline, turning once-colorful ecosystems filled with thriving marine life into underwater graveyards.

Read more: cnn.it/3H9z0wu
July 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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standupforscience.net
Cuts kill & that's the existential equation we're here to solve for together.

Thx @faineg.bsky.social for sharing this life/death angle of how killing agencies like #FEMA #NOAA et al comes with fails.

Resist here
act.standupforscience.net/event_campai...

#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience
July 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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standupforscience.net
🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
rainermh.bsky.social
Everyone stop your doomscrolling and read this cool paper published by my friend @etspencer.bsky.social about how great hammerhead sharks search for prey 🔨🦈, balancing encounter rates with the energetic cost of transport between day and night!
etspencer.bsky.social Erin Spencer, PhD @etspencer.bsky.social · Apr 1
Thrilled to share one of my dissertation chapters is now published in Animal Behaviour!

We used biologgers to quantify 3D search behavior by great hammerheads & asses how the scale and speed of searching changes over the diel cycle. 🦑🌊🧪🐟

Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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petergleick.bsky.social
Washington Post has just defined 1900 top scientists as "several."
April 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
Disturbing, dangerous, and fundamentally against the ideals of expression and intellectual freedom that these institutions claim to support.

How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now
Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil li...
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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sharkscience.bsky.social
Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds
Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound
www.scientificamerican.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
rainermh.bsky.social
A really cool and fun perk of working with live animals in the lab is that they'll take every opportunity to behave in the dumbest way possible to try and confound your results in novel ways...

These fish must think my PhD has been too easy on me 🥲
March 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
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March 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
“The recent employee departures have already affected NOAA’s operations in many realms:

predicting hurricanes and tornadoes, overseeing fisheries and endangered species,

monitoring the changes that humans are bringing about to Earth’s climate and ecosystems. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/c...
More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut
Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
You nailed the feeling - I always thought there was something noble in a life of environmental service. It seems now that America is hellbent on punishing people for doing the right things and trying to make the world a better place for all of us.
divingwsharks.bsky.social Dr. Chelsea Gray @divingwsharks.bsky.social · Mar 8
I was quoted in the AFP yesterday at the stand up for science rally about the attacks on the federal cuts and their impact on me, an early career researcher. #SaveNOAA #standupforscience2025
Chelsea Gray, a 34-year-old environmental scientist working on shark preservation, had dreamed of working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the federal agencies under particular threat over its climate research. Instead, she has begun the process of obtaining an Irish passport. "I did everything right and set myself up for success, and I've watched my entire career path crumble before my eyes," Gray told AFP. "I want to stay and serve the United States as a United States citizen," she said. "But if that option is not available to me, I need to keep all doors open."
March 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
rainermh.bsky.social
A draft-dodging coward and his foreign billionaire handler have deemed veterans’ care to be “wasteful”, while vet suicides continue to trend upwards.

But I guess Republicans sleep easy knowing they’re sacrificing America’s sons and daughters to cut taxes for the wealthy.

apnews.com/article/vete...
Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.
apnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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brookejarvis.bsky.social
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
March 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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vdisanto.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

Fishes don’t just swim harder—they swim smarter. 🐟⚡ In our latest paper in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, Elsa Goerig and I show how fishes use habitat complexity to reduce the energetic cost of swimming. 🧵 🧪
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Swimming smarter, not harder: fishes exploit habitat heterogeneity to increase locomotor performance
Summary: Fishes actively exploit complex environments to enhance locomotor efficiency, revealing sophisticated strategies to navigate diverse hydrodynamic landscapes and highlighting the need for habi...
journals.biologists.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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globalecoguy.bsky.social
We need to see science as a social compact where it serves the larger world, not our own interests.

As a first step, scientists must communicate to the larger world much better.

I wrote an essay about this in 2016, which still holds today.

globalecoguy.org/science-comm...
Science Communication as a Moral Imperative
We need to do a much better job of encouraging scientists to be stronger communicators, and share the wonders of science, and the important…
globalecoguy.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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sharkscience.bsky.social
Seasonal distribution and environmental predictors of the movement of male blacktip sharks Carcharhinus limbatus off the US East Coast. 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.int-res.com/articles/mep...
February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM