Haylee Hatton

Look, I don’t want to run for office, but I do want a politician who tweets fish facts.

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

Thanks Anna! Wishing you an amazing new year 🤗

Started my masters today! I’m equally nervous and excited 😭

Congrats Julia 🎉

Microplastics in ballast water and limiting movement in the global aquatic environment: A case study Approximately 98 % of microplastics (MP) entering the marine environment originate from human activities on land, such as untreated wastewater dischar…

🚢 New study highlights the importance of #microplastic release via ship ballast water and found a mean of 26 particles per litre (5 ships, ATR-FTIR). Assuming an mean ballast water volume per ship of ~36,000 m3, the total release could be 936 million particles.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PFAS chemicals tied to weight loss difficulties in teens - UPI.com "Forever" PFAS chemicals might hamper a teenager's ability to drop excess weight, even if they've undergone weight-loss surgery, researchers said in a study.

"PFAS are a modifiable risk, which is why protective policies are so important to reduce exposure and safeguard public health -- especially for vulnerable populations."
www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater A small team of researchers at Tongji University, working with a colleague from the Shanghai Academy of Landscape Architecture Science and Planning, both in China, has found that growing plants on roo...

Growing plants on roofs can serve as an effective way to remove microplastics from the air.

Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater phys.org/news/2025-06... via @physorg_com

For western Hudson Bay, break-up is advancing rapidly. Some polar bears have crossed over to landfast ice. This is an early breakup. Consequences for the bears are unknown until fieldwork in August starts. In contrast to 2024, it's not looking good for the bears.

The ocean forecast is in… and it’s alarming.

Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are pushing our ocean to the brink. Protecting it means protecting all life on Earth.

Join our #WorldOceanDay call for greater efforts to #SaveOurOcean.
www.unep.org/topics/ocean...

CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time.

That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years.

The global RATE of increase is off the chart.

It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!

Our animal facility at @ualberta.bsky.social is officially a Green Lab! Now, #sustainability has become a large part of our daily work, without compromising science or animal welfare. I had the wonderful privilege of presenting our initiatives and impact to our team last week 🌎🐬📈

Talking to other scientists on here. Do you wake up everyday more frustrated? Or is that just me?

Incredible shrinking clownfish beats the heat Shrinking down to size boosted clownfish survival rates up to 78 percent during heat waves.

Incredible shrinking clownfish beats the heat. Shrinking down to size boosted clownfish survival rates up to 78 percent during heat waves. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of April in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest over ocean areas.

Visualizing changes in April temperatures across the #Arctic region during the last four decades...

Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...

New study detects #microplastics in 35% of 🐟 cod muscle samples, i.e.❗filets❗from western Norwegian waters with a mean particle count of 1.55 ± 2.75 nMP/100 g, mostly polypropylene (33%) & polyethylene (30%) and mostly (86%) fragments sized 32-100 µm (u-FTIR).
www.oaepublish.com/articles/wec...

Nature always finds a way

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

Here's a little nugget of #climate news to help take your mind off all that scary Trump tariff stuff. I'll be discussing this later today on the Last Word on @todayfm.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Existing research may have underestimated the scale of microplastic pollution, study finds A new study suggests that existing research may have considerably underestimated the scale of microplastic pollution, as a result of laboratory extraction processes falling short of recovering certain

A #NewStudy suggests that existing research may have considerably underestimated the scale of #microplastic #pollution: pml.ac.uk/news/existin...

Lead author @hmcilwraith.bsky.social - PhD researcher here at PML and the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

So far we are using glass pebbles to act as substrate within the tank which gives Zebrafish foraging opportunities. We also have stickers on bottoms of tanks that are different colores and gravel types.

There is a difference between 1) having emotions about the state of the world and 2) trying to convince people that it’s too late to act on climate (a false premise that assumes climate change is pass/fail when it’s a matter of degrees).

Impeding climate action is complying in advance.

Canada's managed forests emitted about as much CO2 in 2023 as Russia's national economy did from fossil fuel combustion that same year.

Detection of sex chromosomal aneuploidy (XXY) in a southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) using read depth and coverage from whole genome sequence data Click on the article title to read more.

Eau10b, it turns out, is the first intersex southern right whale identified by science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Whenever I make a mistake at work now, I just blame it on the spoonful of plastic in my brain.

Chewing gum releases microplastics into your mouth, scientists warn Both natural and synthetic gums were found to release similar quantities of microplastic particles.

New study from UCLA finds that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your saliva, regardless of whether it's synthetic or natural. Over a year, this could mean ingesting around 30,000 microplastics. #microplastics #plasticpollution

One excellent study comes from Illinois.

A bonus of this study is one of the locations (NW Illinois) was actually a field site of my master's thesis research.

I wasn't involved in the linked paper, provided below. (Scroll to bottom of website)

news.illinois.edu/microplastic...