@gobiusculus
Lapsed marine biologist. Practicing marine librarian Nature, nurture*, wool & cats *Sr Academic Librarian, Bergen, Norway, so nurture naturally includes books, libraries, learning and (digital) information evaluation
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Universitetsbiblioteket arrangerar Kildekritikkens Dag komande fredag
www.uib.no/ub/181317/ki...
CNN put together a video illustrating that while Trump regime officials keep describing the Iran strikes as a "war," Republican members of Congress are using all sorts of euphemisms
Well would you look at that
Uhm, is that George Church of Colossal? "Dire Wolf"-Colossal?
A close-focus wide angle image of over a dozen Coryphella verrucosa feasting on pink hydroids in the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A little preview from my dive at Peirce Island in Portsmouth, NH yesterday. Easily saw hundreds of nudibranchs. More pictures to come!
Captured with my Olympus OM-1 + 8mm fisheye.
#scuba #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #NewEngland #nudibranchs #olympus #om1 📷 🦑
A systemic failure of oversight allowed the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to curry favour with academia. Stronger governance is urgently needed, says Arthur Caplan
go.nature.com/4d48an9
Den forskningsetiske komiteen legger ikke akkurat fingrene imellom i sin siste fellelse av OUS’ forskning på transpersoner.
Jeg er intervjuet, og mener de involverte må fritas fra oppgavene sine inntil saken er ferdig gransket.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the 404 page not found error found on NOAA fisheries websites?
🌙 Graceful and almost otherworldly, the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) are carnivorous, passive filter feeders that consume vast amounts of zooplankton, including crustacean larvae, rotifers and fish eggs.
https://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/detail/2089
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
It’s time for our legislators to take a lesson in courage from eighth graders like Lydia and stand up to the gun lobby.
Därför kan en saltpuls ge liv åt Östersjöns döda bottnar https://yle.fi/a/7-10093402?origin=rss
@fagforbundet.bsky.social og FO er blant organisasjonene som gjerne vil ha rådene om hvordan offentlig ansatte kan møte kjønnsmangfold:
«Å skrinlegge disse rådene vil ikke fjerne behovet for dem. Det vil bare gjøre hverdagen mer usikker for både ansatte og dem som møter tjenestene.»
Second all of this. And even those people who do receive high-level training often find writing to be excruciating. It doesn’t have to be misery!
Whereas in some other mutualistic goby-shrimp relationships, gobies function as seeing-eye dogs ✨
The mysteries of gobies never end 🥰
This Valentine's Day, remember the blind goby (Typhlogobius californiensis), who mates for life. I guess lacking eyes aids in this life-long commitment 🤣 Proof that love is blind!
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What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Peter Thiel og hans selskap Palantir jobber mot demokratiske verdier og er tett knyttet til Trump-miljøet. Det er ikke aktører Norge bør legitimere.
4/ Danish friends have pointed out that halibut is now also protected in the Danish zone of Skagerrak these winter months. The question is then: how is this enforced? And can we trust these bottomtrawlers will not target redlisted or protected species when they have been caught red-handed before?
How can we scaffold that growth rather than admonish students for not having it?
Screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar, 17h) quoting an exchange. Text reads: “DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act? RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger DUCKWORTH: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war? RUBIO: No” Below is a video thumbnail of Sen. Tammy Duckworth seated at a hearing table in a wood-paneled room, speaking into a microphone; a nameplate with “MS. DUCKWORTH” is visible.
Then Trump should rescind the order!
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
Ja, hvor er alle jobbene? Offentlig sektor presses til beinet av kutt, og både offentlig og privat higer etter stadig effektivisering og å kunne kutte i alle ledd. Her mangler ene siden av regnestykket!
The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. Professor Hawkins looks at the threats to coastal seas & asks how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on?
Life on the Rocks with Professor Stephen J. Hawkins 👉 mba.ac.uk/podcast
#TheMarineBiologist #FieldWorkFriday
📚 Lengre ventelister. Smalere hyller.
Folkebibliotekene har i praksis mistet nær 1/3 av budsjettene til bokinnkjøp på 10 år – samtidig som de brukes mer enn noensinne.
I Totalberedskapsåret 2026 er dette alvor.
🔗 klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
#bibliotek #beredskap #demokrati
Haigh's Porcelain Crab (Porcellanella haigae). It's hard to convey how impossibly small this was. It made the sea pen it's clinging to look like a sky scraper. You can see the grains of sand clinging to it. #scuba #marinelife #underwaterphotography
Eg ønskar ikkje vald på følk, men eg skulle ønske kvar og ein på Stortinget som har skamvitet å kalle seg sosialdemokrat vaknar med attergangaren til Odvar Nordli ståande attmed senga nattestid og berre ser på dei så trist, så uendeleg trist, som berre ein hedmarking, og spesielt Odvar Nordli, kan.
