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Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
The Gam (conversations from the ocean-podcasting world)
Speak Up for the Blue with two great recent episodes.
Cuttings (short and sweet): Follow Katelyn Heman, a marine conservation biologist working at the Georgia Aquarium, on twitter! What this walking fish can teach us about evolution. By Sarah Gibbens, for National Geographic Fish forego sleep thanks to this molecule in their brain. From Nature’s Animal Behavior news. Microplastics pollute even the most remote parts of … Read More “Walking fish and microbe warfare: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, February 15, 2018” »
For all our US-based Readers: Happy President’s Day! For everyone else, this is the reason none of you USian colleagues are answering e-mails. Unless they are, in which case, *grumble grumble grumble* *something about work-life balance*
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
Southern Fried Science has at the forefront of trying to debunk fake news, such as faux documentaries about mermaids or giant sharks. In their article “Fish tales: combating fake science in the popular media” Andrew Thaler and David Shiffman asked that:
“scientists familiarize themselves with common sources of misinformation within their field, so that they can be better able to respond quickly when factually inaccurate content begins to spread”
Read More “Sifting the fact from the false in an internet full of fake ‘news’” »