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April 26, 2013

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11:00 AM | The Incredible Shrinking Cups: on the absence of giant tube worms
It’s true! There are no giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) at the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center (but there are smaller tube worms). No Tubes. What all this about?
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9:34 AM | As a marine biologist, which math do you use more often, calculus or statistics?
I used stats mostly, but I’m sure other marine biologists use both - anyone got any comments...
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9:33 AM | Hi! I've been interested and fascinated by sharks almost my whole life. (but I'm only in high school so thats not that much of an accomplishment! Haha! x) ) But whenever I think of what I really want to focus on in the area of shark research, I just drew a blank...But recently I realized I want to focus and study their behavior, do you know if there is a specific name for that sort of job?
Shark Behaviourist I think.  But you might want to google that with the American spelling. I just...
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9:14 AM | "Not all those who wonder are lost."
“Not all those who wonder are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
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9:14 AM | "Not all those who wander are lost."
“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien [Edit - Typo correction. Shameful]
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5:20 AM | astronomy-to-zoology: A Prince Axel’s Wonderfish...
astronomy-to-zoology: A Prince Axel’s Wonderfish (Thaumatichthys axeli) blinking its lure. Video source
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12:08 AM | The increasing value of privacy
The motivation for this blog post is the acceptance of one of my papers at an international conference.  All was good until I hit the photography/video waiver.  A condition of attendance is that you can be photographed or videoed, and these images used by the scientific organisation for their purposes. I am very uncomfortable with [...]

April 25, 2013

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10:45 PM | Blue Pints returns Monday 4/29 at 6:00 P.M.
I am pleased to announce the return of Blue Pints, our Google+ hangout discussion series ! Join us at 6:00 P.M. EST on Monday 4/29! The Southern Fried Scientist will be discussing the Sea Leveler and other DIY projects related to ocean instrumentation, and I’ll be talking about ScienceOnline Oceans! We’ll share the link [...]
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9:26 PM | Institutional Ethics for Research in a New Academy
I’ll be around Morehead City this year for the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, finally with some post-dissertation time on my hands – and decided to finish a project looking at shifting baselines. Part of this investigation is to find out what people think about trends in the tournament since its creation in 1957 – [...]
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6:40 PM | wtfevolution: Evolution likes worms that look like...
wtfevolution: Evolution likes worms that look like tiny disembodied floating butts, and it cannot lie.  (via Deep Sea Fauna… with Googly Eyes)
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3:33 PM | I swear, I saw the closest thing to a Smurf penis today. Nudibranchs forever <3
I swear, I saw the closest thing to a Smurf penis today. Nudibranchs forever <3
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8:00 AM | opticoverload: Feeding Whale
opticoverload: Feeding Whale
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5:20 AM | cephalopodlovesong: fuckin’ cutie. right there.
cephalopodlovesong: fuckin’ cutie. right there.
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3:57 AM | Roy Spencer’s Peculiar Prescription
Roy Spencer, one of the few better-qualified naysayer climate scientists, has come up with an intriguing suggestion, in the hypothetical event that he is wrong and everybody else is right, i.e., that CO2 accumulation really is a serious problem. In that case, he says, we would need to burn even more of it.
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2:41 AM | underthevastblueseas: by Saeed Rashid
underthevastblueseas: by Saeed Rashid
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2:28 AM | The Good News
CNN reports a silver lining to ongoing midwestern flooding.
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12:22 AM | Elbow crab and ladybug
I thrill at finding new Monterey Bay creatures (new to me) and learning about them. This morning I found this beauty on the beach. While taking photos, I spotted what looked like a dead crab or carapace. When I flipped … Continue reading →
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12:00 AM | guardian: Returning from the hunt… Dozens of images made it...
guardian: Returning from the hunt… Dozens of images made it through to the final round of the Nature Photographer of the Year 2013 competition, organised by the Society of German Nature Photographers (GDT). Here’s our gallery of some of the best. Photograph: Michael Lohmann

April 24, 2013

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9:20 PM | griseus: Heteropod (Atlanta peronii ) a marine free swimming...
griseus: Heteropod (Atlanta peronii ) a marine free swimming gastropod! Photo by Alvaro E. Migotto 
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6:40 PM | derangedbutterfly: Black and white underwater photography by...
derangedbutterfly: Black and white underwater photography by Hengki Koentjoro
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6:22 PM | Facing Ridiculous Claims
In the **The Daily Show: John Oliver Investigates Gun Control in Australia**, John Oliver shows a good way to solve the problem of facing ridiculous claims. In the first part alone, he does it twice: the first occurence is at 3:44, the second at 3:58. What John Oliver does is brilliantly simple.
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1:53 PM | Squee!
Squee!
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1:00 PM | Cheater Cheater Mucus Eater: Simple Mechanisms Drive Cleaner Wrasses To Cooperate
On the surface, cleaner wrasses seem like real nice fish. They set up their little cleaning stations on patches of reef, offering to eat any external parasites that other fish might have picked up. It’s a pretty sweet deal for both sides — the cleaners get a tasty meal, while the other fish get rid [...]

Gingins S., Werminghausen J., Johnstone R.A., Grutter A.S. & Bshary R. (2013). Power and temptation cause shifts between exploitation and cooperation in a cleaner wrasse mutualism, Proc. R. Soc. B , 280 (1761) DOI:

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11:06 AM | Making the BHL-Africa a Reality: The BHL-Africa Launch and Workshop
BHL-Africa logo at Pretoria National Botanical GardenOn April 15, 2013, BHL-Africa officially launched. BHL-Africa's mission is to provide open access to the valuable biodiversity literature found within African libraries and institutions. The African consortium is hard at work identifying partners throughout the continent to sign an MOU and commit to working towards this noble objective.The three-day BHL-Africa launch and workshop was hosted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute […]
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11:00 AM | The Incredible Shrinking Cup: Majestic Vents
We visited some truly majestic hydrothermal vents. A visit to some majestic vents What’s all this about, anyway?
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10:40 AM | The sting from a Portuguese man-of-war hurts like hell, so most...
The sting from a Portuguese man-of-war hurts like hell, so most people avoid the jellyfish-like creatures. Not Aaron Ansarov — he and his wife don rubber gloves and collect them when they wash up on the beach near their home in Delray Beach, Florida.They take the creatures back to their house and Ansarov photographs them on a makeshift light table and then mirrors the image in Photoshop. He shot dozens of them this past winter and the result is a unique, psychedelic portfolio. Brave Art
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10:26 AM | Hi! I would love to start diving and I was wondering how the course (it's a type of course right?) works?
Yup it’s a course. You have a choice of several! They vary in their approach so have a look at...
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10:15 AM | Is it possible you can explain what the cuttlefish was using to hunt with from the gif? It looked like some sort of tongue or tentacle but I'm still not sure exactly what it was.
The incredible Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) has two feeding tentacles tipped with a...
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1:37 AM | Can the surge in elephant killing be stopped?
The CITES meeting in Bangkok (March 2013) highlighted once more the wavering fortunes of wild elephants. We are forced to recognise that poaching has been on a steady increase for over a decade, and that all steps to prevent this so far has failed.At the policy level, the conflict remains one of whether a strict international ban on the trade in tusks will succeed, or whether a regulated trade will work instead. The skepticism about the international ban approach (which dates back to the 1989 […]
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12:45 AM | Weird Month in Duluth
There has been an extraordinary snowfall in Duluth Minnesota this month.
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