#MarineBioASU
Hey #MarineBioASU students, check out this whale skeleton I saw today at BoneHenge!
November 22, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Welcome to #MarineBioASU , students! I saw these shells yesterday at the natural history society of Maryland. By the end of this class you’ll be able to identify them all on sight.

Lolz just kidding I don’t even know them all. But they’re pretty!
December 1, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Hey #MarineBioASU students, I went to @NMNH (the Smithsonian natural history museum) this weekend. Follow me on a virtual field trip and check out everything they have and how it relates to what we’ve been covering! @asu @asuonline @ASUNewCollege

What do you recognize?
December 1, 2024 at 9:10 AM
#MarineBioASU students, what is the giant fish behind me at @legalseafoods in Boston?

(See, I’m not having a nice dinner with friends, I’m working and this is now a tax write off 😂)
November 22, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Was hoping to be able to livestream live from a shark research vessel for my #MarineBioASU students, but I’m grounded due to COVID and am having them watch this live-at-the-time video from last year
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 AM
I was hoping to actually be in the field and broadcast live to my #MarineBioASU students, but pandemic, so instead they’re watching an old livestream you can watch too
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 AM
My #MarineBioASU students are viewing this live (at the time) stream from a @Field_School shark research cruise I participated in. Check it out: @ASU @asuonline @ASUNewCollege @ASUinDC
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 AM
My #MarineBioASU students are watching this old livestream of me doing shark research this week, and you can too https://x.com/whysharksmatter/status/1161745051661287425?s=12
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 AM
My #MarineBioASU students are watching this live(at the time, in 2019) stream of me doing a shark workup in Florida this week in class. I thought maybe you'd like to see it too.
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 AM
I am not forcing my personal values on my marine biology students, but our biodiversity unit does include a brief discussion on why the sandbar shark is scientifically proven to be the #BestShark and why the haters are wrong. #MarineBioASU
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Want more ocean in your twitter feed? I made this list of ~100 awesome ocean science communication folks/institutions for my #MarineBioASU course but y'all can use it too if you want https://x.com/i/lists/1179471664138076172
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December 5, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Watch out, world, today my #MarineBioASU students start their twitter assignment to follow and learn from real-life marine biologists who tweet about their research! They may ask y'all questions (they aren't required to, that would flood your menshies).
December 5, 2024 at 12:13 AM
This is the first week of my introduction to marine biology course at @asu @ASUNewCollege #MarineBioASU ! This week, my students are learning what marine biology is as a field, and some challenges associated with studying life in the ocean. [Gif: Daily Show on Boaty McBoatFace]
December 4, 2024 at 11:33 PM
This week my #MarineBioASU students are learning about some of the tools in a marine biologist’s toolbox. How can we study organisms that live in an environment hostile to human life? It’s hard!

What marine biology research tools do you know of? (Anyone, not just my students)
December 4, 2024 at 11:03 PM
My #MarineBioASU students are filling the class's online discussion forum with their favorite ocean critters and personal stories of why they like sea turtles and octopuses and stuff and reading it is giving me joy.
December 4, 2024 at 9:32 PM
This week and next week in my #MarineBioASU course, students are learning about marine and coastal ecosystems and what unique challenges each type of habitat poses for organisms.

What’s your favorite marine or coastal ecosystem, and why?
December 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
So my #MarineBioASU students are following ocean twitter as part of an assignment, and are asked to report one neat thing they learned each week. (It's passive observation they don't need to spam y'all)

Things they love so far include:
December 4, 2024 at 4:33 PM
This week, my #MarineBioASU students finished our tour of coastal and marine ecosystems, and were asked what their favorite ecosystem they hadn't heard of before was.

Even split between mangroves, oyster reefs, and the deep sea.
December 4, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Goddammit... another week has passed in which @SolomonRDavid getting excited about gars is one of my #MarineBioASU students' favorite things they saw on twitter.

Nobody tell Solomon about this. 😂
December 4, 2024 at 3:20 PM
This week, my #MarineBioASU students start their survey of ocean biodiversity with marine invertebrates. What’s your favorite marine invertebrate, and why? Bonus points for science-based trash talk of other ocean invertebrates (but be nice to other people).
December 4, 2024 at 3:20 PM
A request, if you’re able to do this *safely* while grocery shopping this week: can you snap some photos of seafood products clearly showing the labels at your store? Frozen or at seafood counter? It’s for my #MarineBioASU class. Send to me with store name and city.
December 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM
This week, my #MarineBioASU students learned all about marine invertebrates, and were asked to pick their favorite group.

Currently jellyfish are in the lead. No one tell @RebeccaRHelm this, please.
December 4, 2024 at 2:37 PM
My #MarineBioASU students learned about taxonomy and the etymology of scientific names, and several reported *LOVING* the Vibranium Wrasse (C. wakanda), which I wrote about here:

(CC @FishGuyKai @CoralReefFish )...
December 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Checked my draft tweets and apparently I never actually shared the original artwork made by an @ASU workstudy student to promote my #MarineBioASU course. I love it!

(The SCUBA diver is *NOT* touching the whale, they're in front of the whale, LOLz)
December 4, 2024 at 1:56 PM
This week one of my #MarineBioASU students’ assignments is to pick a favorite shark and trash talk their classmates’ favorite sharks (attacking the sharks, not each other) and the responses so far are cracking me up
December 4, 2024 at 1:56 PM