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Dr. David Shiffman

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David Shiffman Scientific and Environmental Consulting, INC. is conducting a review of the biology, ecology, and conservation of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus. In addition to a formal literature review,

Yesterday I received a question about sustainable bottom trawling that I'd like to attempt to answer today. I'll tag the colleague who asked it at the end so as not

I see some of my faculty friends fretting about teaching online. I'm now teaching a designed-to-be-online course for the third time, so here's how I think about some of these

Time for great white serial killer. Wait are they talking about white sharks killing sea otters? I wrote about this for @sciam https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-one-protected-species-kills-another-what-are-conservationists-to-

And now it’s time to grade the Mike Tyson #SharkWeek show. I expect to...not enjoy this one as much. As a reminder I grade on science/nonsense, diversity of experts featured

Hey scientist friends! Let’s fill folks’ feeds with neat science facts! What’s your go-to fact from your discipline to get people to say “wow” and want to learn more? My

Here’s some helpful professional academia advice I received that I’ll pass on to y’all. Jobs are competitive, you won’t get most of the ones you apply for. Our worlds are

One time my dad called me from the office and said “you’re a nerd, who was Grima Wormtongue?”I replied “oh he’s an evil advisor who corrupts a good king in

I watched the tiger show and I am angry about it. I’ll watch trashy reality TV about awful people all day, but that was an irresponsible glorifying of wildlife abuse.

(This thread inspired by an excellent question I got from a first grader this week. It turns out that yes, it is totally possible for a human to get a