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Hi! My name is Jessie.
I started this blog years ago and it was once exclusively about sharks. Now it's more of a general marine bio blog, with sharks being heavily featured.
This is a secondary blog, so the url you’ll see if I follow you or interact will be jessie-lou.
I also run wild-special-interests, which is about all kinds of animals.
Anyway, feel free to message me about whatever!
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The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
“More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And ‘consolidated’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research—the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations—will be snuffed out.
You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end. The partnerships with universities that took generations to build collapse. And the institutional knowledge of the scientists who ran those programs walks out the door, because the administration damn well knows most of them won’t follow a forced relocation to a single consolidated office that has nothing to do with the ecosystems they’ve spent their careers studying.”
Nine regional offices. 57 research labs. 193 million acres. An interactive map of what was lost.
Call your senators. Both of them. Tell them the Forest Service reorganization is proceeding without the congressional approval required by Section 716 of the Agriculture Appropriations Act and Section 421 of the Interior Appropriations Act. Use those numbers. Say them out loud. Staffers write down what they don’t recognize, and these are the provisions their bosses voted for.
If your senator is a Republican, the question is simple: you voted for a law that requires USDA to get committee approval before reorganizing or relocating any office. USDA didn’t get that approval. Their own lawyers declared your law unconstitutional. What are you going to do about it?
If your senator is a Democrat, the question is just as simple: the legal basis for stopping this already exists. Where are the subpoenas? Where are the hearings? Why is USDA’s general counsel allowed to declare a duly enacted law unconstitutional by internal memo and face no consequences?
Make them answer. Make their staff write it down. Call back next week and ask what happened.
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A group of coelacanth hide in a crevice. Filmed in Indonesia. From Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth (2025).
Gymnothorax undulatus
Undulated Moray
Image source
Status: Least concern
Distribution: Widely found in the warm, tropical waters of the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean all the way to Central America.
BLUE PLANET II 2017・1x04 Big Blue
Pelagia flaveola
Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48703035
A VALENTINE'S POEM FOR YOU
Roses are red Coelacanths are blue It's Coelacanth Saturday We have to make do
How an ancient seafloor turned Arkansas into ‘Sharkansas,’ a shark fossil hotspot
An ancient, hostile seafloor turned Arkansas into “Sharkansas,” preserving rare 300-million-year-old shark skeletons that almost never fossilize.
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ancient-seafloor-arkansas-sharkansas-shark.html
THE EXTREME ANTI-VOTER SAVE ACT HAS PASSED CONGRESS
Contact your Senators and tell them to OPPOSE the SAVE Act!
The SAVE Act (H.R. 22 / S.128) would require citizens to present documentary proof of citizenship like a birth certificate or passport in person just to register to vote.
69 million women who have taken their spouse’s last name do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name.
Trans people who change their name to reflect their gender identity may be denied updated passports or birth certificates.
For many disabled people, traveling to an office to register in person is difficult or impossible.
Use the 5 Calls script to tell your members of Congress to oppose the SAVE Act:
https://5calls.org/issue/save-act-voter-suppression/
Don't like calling? Prefer to send a message? Use this link to fill out a prewritten letter to send to your representative!
i’m so glad i’m alive in this era because we’re starting to actually linguistically study sperm whale language and may soon be able to translate it
The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows.
i saw this headline and wanted to take my shirt off and dance on a table
How to use internet properly
Use it to read about marine invertebrates
Use it to look at images of marine invertebrates
Use it to discuss marine invertebrates
hope this helps
Today, at 29years old I learned that Coelacanths are still around and that there are two known species. Hello new hyperfixation for the next 24-48 hours.
Today’s sea slug is Nembrotha cristata, commonly known as the crested nembrotha.
Image source: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/photos/55864
¡Preciosa de rosa! 🪼💗
Esta viajera de las profundidades es una belleza, con sus preciosos colores rosa y morado.
Pero ojo, ¡no te acerques demasiado! Esos largos tentáculos y bultitos en su campana tienen una picadura potente para protegerse y paralizar a sus presas.
¡Aprende más sobre esta medusa tan hermosa como peligrosa!
EN: Pretty in pink! 🪼💗
This drifter of the deep is a stunning sight with its gorgeous pink and mauve hues.
But don’t get too close! Those long tentacles and bumps on its bell pack a powerful punch to help the mauve stinger protect itself and stun prey.
Learn more about this stinging stunner on our website!
A seahorse clings to vegetation. From The Mating Game (2022). Filmed in Portugal.
A persian carpet flatworm. From The Mating Game (2022).
🦈 Voyage autour du monde: . Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1825-1830 [i.e. 1838]. Original source Image description: Illustration of a blue-gray shark identified as “Squale Maou” (Squalus maou) from the 1825-1838 French work “Voyage autour du monde.” The shark is shown in a lateral view with a streamlined body, prominent pectoral fins, a tall tail fin with a distinctive forked shape, and small dorsal fins. The image features subtle shading to indicate texture and depth, with delicate details around the gills, eyes, and fin edges. The overall style is scientific and precise, aimed at documenting marine life during historic explorations. The background is plain, focusing attention solely on the shark.
