A small, deep example of the old saying that all things are connected: “Krill defecation at depth reduces carbon flux attenuation in the Weddell Sea euphotic zone,” Florence Sarah Atherden, Emily Rowlands, Gareth Flint, Sophie Fielding, Katrin Schmidt, Elaine Fileman, Angus Atkinson, and Clara Manno, prerint egusphere-2026-988, 2026. (Thanks to Bieito Fernandez Castro for bringing […]
Lots of big ideas about brine shrimp and lots of other stuff are on display in this paper: “Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’, ” Ewelina Jarosz, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, vol. 38, no. 1, 2025. (Thanks to Ron Josephson for bringing this to […]
Prozac has varying effects. Peter Fong and colleagues contributed to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac (for which Fong was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 1998). However, National Gerographic News reports, about shrimp, that: To mimic conditions in the wild, scientists exposed the estuary-dwelling shrimp Echinogammarus marinus to the antidepressant fluoxetine at […]