🚨ATTENTION🚨 Please look at this angular roughshark. Thank you for looking at this angular roughshark.

This seems to sum up my writing week. Remember, though, progress is not ONLY measured in words! Keep putting one foot in front of the other, and you'll get there... Or, at least that's what I'm telling myself for now 😃 #academicwriting#academicsky

Did my first scientific experiment as part of my degree in Freshwater and Marine Biology; viewing an onion cell through a microscope.

Let's talk about one of the most interesting questions in cancer biology: Why don't WHALES get MORE CANCER? This question is also called "Peto's Paradox" for epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto, who demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer, 1951. So why whales, in particular?

Sharks and rays leap out of the water for many reasons, including feeding, courtship and communication https://buff.ly/3ZzD6VN 🧪🌎🦑🦈

Sharks and rays leap out of the water for many reasons, including feeding, courtship and communication

Breaching is one of the most spectacular behaviors among marine animals. A recent review shows that many shark and ray species breach, and identifies the most commonly hypothesized reasons.

Fishing. Read the full story here: https://buff.ly/4gphcKN#WhaleTales

Happy first day of fall Storytellers! Some of our favourite encounters in the #SalishSea#WhaleTales#KillerWhale#SRKW#ExploreBC

Brb, basking in the glow of this response from a forthcoming @womenofletters.bsky.social interview

When Edith Widder & her team were trying to capture video of giant 🦑, they lured them in w/a flashing blue light called an “e-jelly”. A squid glides into frame to investigate the light w/their arms. It’s so dark that the 🦑’s body dissolves into the inky blackness. #Squidtember

After a storm, on the rocky beach of Batumi, you can find a lot of interesting things - driftwood, walnuts, remnants of algae and broken shells - all mixed with colourful minerals from the local mountains. #art