Dr. Catherine Macdonald

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Marine scientist and teacher Field School & University of Miami. Director of sharktagging. NatGeo Explorer. Shark & ray ecology, biology, conservation. She/her.

A black box. No light. No people. Quiet, calm. Just the crushing pressure of depth and the knowledge that each day that passes is as little as 0.0005 percent of your life.
A human leg with circular injuries that look like extreme rug burn.
A headline reads “hammerhead sharks vulnerable to catch and release fishing”
A photo of a shark, showing the claspers and the splayed clasper spurs. Picture from Jones et al. pictured in Hamlet et al. 2005
A photo of a shark, showing the claspers and the splayed clasper spurs. Picture from Jones et al. pictured in Hamlet et al. 2005.
Gru shows a chart and looks excited. First panel: “de-extinct dire wolves” second panel: “get lots of media coverage” third panel: blank fourth panel: “conservation?”
Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo says “I wish all [GRAD STUDENTS] a very pleasant [THERE IS NO MERITOCRACY]”
Meme with the Rock driving a car. He asks the passenger in the back seat what her favorite shark is. She says “sandbar shark”. He slams on the brakes and looks at her incredulously, because sandbar sharks are very medium. This meme format is from a movie, but I have no idea which one.
The meme format that includes Johnny Depp sitting on a bench with a kid. I don’t know what movie it’s from, honestly. It looks a bit old time-y. The kid asks “are sandbar sharks the best sharks?” In the next frame, Johnny Depp says “no” with a compassionate look on his face. In the final frame, he embraces the grieving child, who is now aware of the truth of how mediocre sandbar sharks truly are.