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Science as graphic novel, baby eels, anglerfish emoji, drone ocean rescue, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: January 22, 2018.

Posted on January 22, 2018January 21, 2018 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on Science as graphic novel, baby eels, anglerfish emoji, drone ocean rescue, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: January 22, 2018.
Weekly Salvage

Fog Horn (A Call to Action)

  • The US Government is shut down. This is not great news for science (at the moment, my project to train ROV technicians and deliver 5 – 10 observation-class underwater robots to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is on hold pending resolution). Call you congressperson and give them an earful. Call you senator and give them an earful.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Women Writing About the Wild: 25 Essential Authors: A primer on who to start reading and who you’ve been overlooking for too long.
Nan Shepherd. (Wikimedia Commons)
Nan Shepherd. (Wikimedia Commons)
  • This paper: Managing marine socio-ecological systems: picturing the future, which, holy mola, is written in graphic novel format!
Managing marine socio-ecological systems: picturing the future
Managing marine socio-ecological systems: picturing the future.

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Welcome back, U.S. government science and environment agencies!

Posted on October 17, 2013October 27, 2013 By David Shiffman

On October 17th, after a 16 day shutdown, the U.S. government re-opened. Here are what the twitter accounts from U.S. science and environment agencies had to say on their first day back. I’ll continue to update this throughout the day as more twitter accounts come back online

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