Wanna Seem Some Killer Tweets?

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, how I simultaneously love and hate you. A garden of thoughts and research from some of the most brilliant minds, scientists, writers, and organizations alike! But beneath that it is a cursed nest where uninformed opinions, cancel culture and social division comes to roost. Alas, let's get into the feed this week:

The most interesting tweet I saw this week was from conservation biologist Gene Helfman sharing about killer whales being one of the few animals that experience menopause! Seeing this surprised me and had me thinking: Wait, do killer whales have periods? I managed to find this tweet from simply typing "killer whales" into the search bar and scrolling through results. I also used the hashtags #orcas #killerwhales to look for more tweets!

The most interesting account I followed this week was conservationist Erich Hoyt's account. Hoyt shares great info not only on killer whales but on whales in general! His profile's pinned tweet is a video of a pod of killer whales approaching and inspecting his research team's boat while studying them in Russia!

And the Oscar for My Best Tweet This Week goes to...

My tweet with my self-made meme about not there being a killer whale emoji!!! For context, before this, I made three threads with each one briefly introducing one of my Big 3 research studies and what they're about and what I got from them. For all of them I wanted to include a respective emoji, but was disappointed to find only regular whale and regular dolphin emojis. And yes, I indeed counted the number of emojis the mentioned animals had to make the meme. After a stream of more serious tweets, I just wanted something more lighthearted that hopefully my classmates will probably like. On the educational side though, if I had to pick a "best tweet" it would in fact be my Big 3 Threads! If you're curious: Big 3 Thread #1 Big 3 Thread #2 Big 3 Thread #3

This week I reviewed Kayla Gomez's annotated bibliography! Cool enough, like me, Kayla's research involves dolphins (yes, killer whales are in fact dolphins)! First of all, I liked Kayla's website's theme. I feel like I picked a very simple, but bland theme for my website while hers was very aesthetic, cool and modern feeling! There was a big ol' illustration with marine life right on the front page and it felt obvious what she'd be talking about. I think she had some great sources and my only criticisms were for the annotations needing to be more fleshed out and specific, because I thought on source's annotation seemed vague and another felt unclear regarding how it was going to connect with the other two sources she had. Other than that, I'm sure her LR has potential to be a cool paper (can't go wrong with dolphins).

Well that concludes this blog and may we meet in the next episode. As the Romance languages say: Au revwell~!