Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD

Did the democracy thing. You can and should do it too.

Arthropods eventually become crabs, marine vertebrates eventually become sharks.

It finally happened.

This is the end result of any social gathering in eastern North Carolina.

"I’d milk it for all it was worth. Sharks don’t drink milk. They’re born alive like mammals, but their mothers don’t nurse them, not even Nurse Sharks. Baby sharks are left to fend for themselves... That’s the kind of shark-based factoid I’d work in at cocktail parties."

Dusky sharks have been a prohibited species in US fisheries since 1999. These big adults are a sign that policy is working. A fully grown dusky shark can reach 14 feet in length and stand toe-to-toe with white sharks in the food web.

Jimmy Eat World has managed to keep putting out new material that feels like it’s growing along with me while I never seem to outgrow their older work.

Meet the bull shark we hired as security to keep the ne’er-do-wells out of Coral City 😤🐂🦈 #bullshark #sharkweekiseverydayincoralcity #sharksofcoralcity #coralcitycamera

Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” obviously.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

This might be the coolest origin story of any music genre.

It's Out! To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea: thehill.com/opinion/nati...

Hartford? The Whale? They only win the Stanley Cup once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

US science for the next few decades.

Well this is all horrible. 🧪

I got a whole MSc by looking through non-lethally collected dogfish shark stomach contents. More commonly known as puke.

Dusky sharks, an apex predator similar to great white sharks, are expected to be active off Cape Cod this summer amid a historic comeback for the species, experts say.

This seems relevant to @panic.gay’s interests.

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

New scene in Avengers: Endgame. This is canon now and ties into Doomsday.

From NC? Join me in writing. NC has 4 National Forests: Croatan, Uwharrie, Nantahala and Pisgah — and they are are full of wild places to hike, hunt, camp, raft and fish.

The music hill I’m wiling to die on that a lot of people don’t expect is that the Dave Matthews Band is good, actually.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

Mark it on your calendars, fellow elasmo-nerds! Also if you’re planning on joining in on the bony fish and herpetology sides of JMIH 2026.

After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Psyched to be a co-author on this new paper led by @shannonbarry.bsky.social that uses genetics to prove that North Carolina’s baby bull sharks used to be Florida’s. 🦈🐟🦤🧪🦑 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

Do you have any idea what NOAA could be if it had a $200 billion budget?

The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF

Highly recommend starting a group chat about a niche hobby and including one person who does not do that hobby.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Warren Buffet also appears to be objectively happier and less of a miserable ghoul desperately begging for accolades on his own social media platform than some the others on this list. Makes you think.

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

At work, we often anaesthetise, perform surgery on, and tag juvenile fish. We wanted to find out if these procedures impact their oxygen consumption in the following days. Good news, we didn't find cause for concern! 🙂 Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Decline is not inevitable. Where fishing mortality has been reduced — through catch limits, retention bans, or spatial protection — shark and ray populations are stabilizing or recovering. Recoveries documented for wide-ranging and restricted-range species @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

An advantage that Trumpy Republicans have is that it's very difficult to accurately describe what they're doing without sounding like you're a deranged hyper-partisan! Example: "They're no longer considering the impact of environmental regulations on saving human lives, only the cost to industry"

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

🦈 #shark The #Greenlandshark is famous for eyeball parasites, but it seems the still have better vision than expected "Our findings support the presence of a preserved and functional visual system in the adult Greenland shark" share.google/e0a3anPICaO5...

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

As an American, I fully endorse this sentiment.

So everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels. publications.gc.ca/collections/...