I create stories about all things ecology from the rainforest to the reef 🪸 🐬 Marine Biologist & Writer 💦 Salty Wave® 🐠 Tag #saltywaveblue 🌴Also @saltywave
#MangroveStories 🌱🩵 Mangrove trees thrive in dynamic coastal environments. But with the gradual rise in sea level globally, how are these forests adapting? #saltywaveblue#mangrove 🌊🌏 https://t.co/A2QKFwwFZJ
Your anxiety didn’t start in adulthood.
It started when you became "The Good One."
You learned to read everyone else’s needs before you could recognize your own.
Years later, you call it your personality.
1/ The “good child” learns to study the room.
Dogs don’t dwell on the past or stress about the future. They don’t expect the worst, become filled with regret, or exaggerate the consequences of their actions. They live in the moment. Here's what happens when we think more like our canine friends. https://t.co/EtH1MHLADW
Gabor Maté warns that being “too nice” quietly wears your body down.
You say “yes” when your body screams “no”—then smile and stuff your real feelings.
6 ways “kindness” keeps cortisol chronically high:
🐸 1.5 million frog records!
Congratulations to Paulina, whose recording of a Crawling Toadlet from #WesternAustralia became #FrogID's 1.5 millionth verified frog record.
Thank you to everyone helping build Australia's largest frog biodiversity dataset, one frog call at a time.
Visited a salty forest today with my dog 🩵🐕🐾 It was lovely to spot shorebirds wading in the shallows & observe tiny shelled creatures going about their business in the sand. Enjoy your day ☀️🌴
📷 Gabrielle Ahern
#saltywaveblue#mangrove#saltyforest
Beneath the sun
Soft winds sigh
Sycamores reach
branches high
Edge of waters
Serene and deep
Nature’s secrets
The Trees do keep
#Friday#Sunshine#tree#poetry
BREAKING: Hurricane Kristy has become a borderline Category 5 Hurricane, with maximum sustained wind speeds at 155 MPH in the Pacific Ocean.
This was originally Tropical Storm Nadine in the Atlantic Ocean. Wow
The sense of smell defines how living organisms survive & navigate their environment on Earth.
A research team explores how the digital transformation of smell testing will impact scientific practices.
Learn more here https://t.co/KRPZ8S2RLy
#smell#nose4science
The Aussie Bird Count is happening this week & there’s still time to take part! Here’s my list of #birds spotted today 🌿🦜🦩🪶 @BirdLifeOz
https://t.co/BkKIDDAtCz #aussiebirdcount#birdlife
“Renewable water desalination without batteries.”
There is no gain in research without effort for Jonathan Bessette. Read his story via Research Communities by Springer Nature.
#behindthepaper#research#desalination#freshwater https://t.co/IuLAtH2EaK
Learn how Federico De Pascalis works to protect European #stormpetrels from a changing world by tracking the movements of this mysterious #stormbird.
#research#birds#birdlife
https://t.co/C0m1tMglkh
A research team have found #colour might play a more strategic role in how #bacteria function as opposed to being a colourful display.
Read the story here.
#sciencealert#science
https://t.co/S9UjdsK4LG
#ParsleyBay is home to a coastal community in Sydney’s beaches & host to endangered #flora & #fauna. The locals want council to rethink a planned sewage plant in the area to save the #environment & its #wildlife. Pls help by signing the petition!
https://t.co/wqIbJXMKtj