May has historically been one of the slowest months on the blog. The weather is getting nice and Southern Fried Science readers and writers have other priorities as the academic year comes to a close. We only published 8 articles this month and logged about 11,000 unique visitors.
You were interested in the news that Red Lobster was going bankrupt and it was somehow your fault for eating all those shrimp. You wanted to know what the heck was going on with sawfish and what MSC certifications mean for sharks. And you went back to some classics, including perennial favorites about Shark Week and those weird giant sulfur pyramids in Canada.
- You did not bankrupt Red Lobster by eating too many shrimp.
- Critically Endangered sawfish are spinning in circles until they die. What the heck is going on?
- The world’s leading sustainable seafood certification standard just made some big changes for sharks
- Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine is a fake documentary
- Here’s what I teach my students about finding jobs in marine biology and conservation
- No, a shark did not get a stingray pregnant. But what really happened is pretty cool!
- Alberta, Canada is the proud owner of the largest man-made pyramid on the planet
- International Seabed Authority gears up for a leadership challenge at the July meeting.
- Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!
- I turned my woodshop into a personal solar farm.
I have no special insight here. It was a busy month and I didn’t have a ton of time to write. Fewer posts means less traffic and pretty much always has.
