As Shark Week 2013 comes to a close, I wanted to take a look back at which part of my outreach strategy worked (and didn’t work), as well as what I liked and disliked about Shark Week as a whole. Ever since my “15 important shark conservation and management terms explained with memes” post, I’ve been looking for an opportunity to incorporate more internet humor into a blog post, so here goes…
![While this Shark Week allowed scientists like myself to reach the public on a large scale, most of the content was...troubling.](https://www.southernfriedscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Pepperidge-farm.png)