Dr Vincent Raoult

*partially funding 12%

A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.

We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.

I don't understand how this is acceptable. Other nations have similar security checks but they still provide outcomes within 6 months of applying. This shouldn't be taking an extra 3 months in the first place! As they said themselves, this only affects a small number of applications.

We don't have the resources in place to do this. This basically requires a whole lot more face-to-face assessments (written or oral), and it's basically impossible to assess a lot of skills like this.

An analogy I use with my students that seems to land:

At the gym, you could use a forklift to move all the weights around. But you don’t actually get any benefits unless you lift them yourself.

PhD opportunity at the University of the Sunshine Coast: Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics of Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in Southeast Queensland

💰 stipend of $15,000/yr for 3.5 yrs (+ RTP scholarship)

Dr Bonnie Holmes: www.unisc.edu.au/staff/dr-bon...
Dr Matt McMillan (DPI, Queensland)

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Part of me thinks this is just a ploy so AI algorithms get access to all teaching information so they can resell it. There's no way this ever benefits students.

companion.ai/einstein

There's massive data access issues with this. You'd be breaching your agreement with most universities giving another party access to your account.

AI will save the world eh? More like make sure the next gen of doctors haven't learned any of their basic anatomy, the next gen of engineers don't understand physics...

Congrats!

This but in Australia. Get rid of one of the submarine orders we'll never get anyway and triple the ARC budget (just under $1B) for the next 15 years.

I knew there was a reason my SI talk didn't get accepted!

Light-colored peppered moths right now

Don't think I'll have that issue for sea cucumbers...

Researchers test device designed to keep sharks off anglers’ lines A U.K. company called Fishtek developed a device called "SharkGuard."

🦈 #shark #depredation

A new study out of Mote Marine Laboratory suggests a small electronic device could help solve a frustrating problem for anglers...
sharks successfully took the bait 92% of the time when the device was off — but only 46% of the time when it was on.

baynews9.com/fl/tampa/new...

Let's get this straight.

Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.

After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.

Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Underwater cameras reveal the behaviours and interactions of marine wildlife around demersal shark fishing gear.
We saw an overall low incidence of detrimental (gear capture) marine wildlife interactions
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mZKbbiU28...

🦈 Ep 3 Athletes of the Reef is out! New research led by Joel Gayford shows tonic immobility isn’t universal in sharks - for some species, “playing dead” may be a fatal mistake.

🎙️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/05xT...
📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#SharkScience #MarineBiology
📸 Rachel Moore

Looks like a fab place for a wedding! Hope it was epic

A hugo winner willing to work for $40 an hour hahahahah

$40 an hour for a Nebula winner rofl

Oooooh so AI will lower the cost of timber?

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Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age

The teeth of white sharks are not static weapons but living records of a shark’s changing lifestyle.

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish.

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🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

Taxonomic differentiation of catch. FAO (United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization) on the percentage of catch reported to the species level worldwide.

What’s driving the decline?

The crisis isn’t just fishing — it’s invisible fishing.

Much shark & ray catch is under-reported, aggregated, or mislabeled, masking real mortality & delaying management.

What we don’t measure, we don’t manage.

@cgmull.bsky.social
@nathanpacoureau.bsky.social

Bending back the biodiversity loss curve of sharks and rays. The loss of sharks and rays to date has involved serial depletion of the largest, most evolutionary and functionally distinct species, and the increasing prevalence of smaller-bodied species that have benefited from release from predation.

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss;
Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9
@sfu.ca
@sfubiosciences.bsky.social
@earth2ocean.bsky.social

Oh noooooooooooo...

Culls have been happening to the point bull shark populations are more likely to be declining along coasts than increasing. What's more, we have plenty of evidence that short of eliminating sharks (which would cost a fortune!), culls won't reduce shark bites at all.