I am getting a lot of questions about the angler in Massachusetts who "accidentally" caught a great white shark and then released it, resulting in lots of viral media coverage. Some quick thoughts here, in no particular order. wbsm.com/nantucket-fi... 🧪🌍🦑🦈
Published my first academic article as a grad student in a very reputable French semiolinguistics journal which suffered from a similar problem.
Thankfully, my work also straddles gender studies so English-speaking colleagues thought I was just very edgy.
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I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC.
Deadline: 8 July 2026
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A 9-foot great white shark off Nantucket? See how this local boat captain safely released the massive beast back into the surf in under 15 seconds.
To my friends in soil science,
If your goal remains sharing your peer-reviewed research papers on social media and disucssing them with the public, I might suggest considering changing the name of this journal.
(Yes, I know what the term means in the context of soil.)
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More on the American Degeneracy hypothesis by Buffon and Jefferson’s mailed moose 🫎
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Of course he decides to display his best colors before I have cleaned the glass… 🐟 #fishkeeping #photography
Two weeks left to apply!
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Reminder that we have a 1-year academic maternity cover Lecturer (Asst Prof) post open; deadline 22 June!
This person could join and collaborate with us at the Structure & Motion Lab! Research output is expected.
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Kevin Stevens
Kevin Stevens
Doug McNeall
Jacquelyn Gill
Three weeks left to apply to our postdoc position on alpine plant resilience!
Us: Three years of funding, an awesome collaborative team, a gorgeous study system, blueberry pie, unionized postdocs.
You: A PhD and experience in ancient DNA, paleoecology, and/or plant genetics and genomics.
Jefferson used the American moose to illustrate that American wildlife was equal, if not superior to, the wildlife of Europe.
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Lecturer in Anatomy to join the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences for a maternity cover (12 months) position. The post is suitable for academics with ...
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660
We provide some guidance and examples to clear up common misconceptions about special relativity. These misconceptions often come from trying to express the truths of special relativity in Newtonian t...arxiv.org
