Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/anchovy-sex-is-a-force-of-nature/

by sohkamyung • 2 years ago

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lebean• 2 years ago

We can learn a thing or two from these magnificent creatures.

euroderf• 2 years ago

Like, how to keep your roommates from eating the pizza you left in the refrigerator.

shinobs11• 2 years ago

wonderful article, both entertaining and educational. helped to pass the time during my hour-long stand-up.

felideon• 2 years ago

This finding suggests that in shallower water, the ruckus produced by plentiful piscine participants procreating all at once might be more powerful and more important for ocean mixing than previously thought.

And, of course, fantastic use of alliteration.

helboi45• 2 years ago

This is a question I want to know - is anyone actually paying attention to everything during standup? It seems some people are, because they occasionally have insightful comments. Even when I'm not distracting myself, I totally zone out in meetings and have no idea what was being said.

The only times where I can actually pay attention is in meetings where I have the right to (and it is conducive to) constantly interrupt with questions. Then my brain suddenly sees the information as useful because I'm looking for opportunities to say something.

piva00• 2 years ago

Depends on the stand-up.

For the past 10 years I'd say most of my standups have been painless, quick, and productive, but I've both selected good jobs and/or worked with the team for that to be the case.

Mine usually don't last more than 10-15 minutes, no one has to read ticket by ticket and give detailed status updates, we simply look at 2 columns on the board (for what's in progress and what's in waiting/blocked) and ask: "anything someone want to bring up about these tasks?" to have a sanity check if everything is alright or if someone needs help, or if someone wants to share some quick information. After there's a general question "anything else you want to bring for the standup?" for the stuff we don't have a ticket for, or quick updates from PMs/EMs about things outside of our current scope/context.

Any further discussion is taken after the standup, if some topic starts to grow into a discussion we are strict about bringing it for discussion with the interested ones right after the standup. Those discussions never last more than 20-30 min, if they need more time we schedule a meeting with proper agenda, etc.

Whenever I worked at a place with dysfunctional ones I either managed to help correct course, or quit the job.

To me teams with good standup hygiene will very likely have meetings/processes hygiene as well, and is a very good signal of a well functioning team.

ben_w• 2 years ago

Depends how they're done.

I try to push for people to actually stand up during a stand up, because that encourages the meeting to be short and to the point, not an hour of pointless waffle (and if it's an hour long meeting, waffle is probably an apt description).

sublinear2• 2 years ago

If you find that people need to discuss so much that it takes too long and people aren't paying attention, those discussions need to go into another meeting.

Having a good product owner is important for coordinating meetings in general. Standups should be for tracking progress on tasks and nothing more. If someone is blocked they should briefly state why and follow up ASAP, but after the standup.

someotherperson3• 2 years ago

* Alternate different people at random to run the standup

* Control people who talk for too long or go into detail that's not worthwhile

* If you have a board, run through each ticket in progress/in review for a casual update, record it as a note

* Have an icebreaker (1 minute) before or after, ie "fun fact of the day" or something and randomly choose people to do it

* Ends with a section on anything else to add, if anyone is blocked, whatever, and have people break out into their own meetings if necessary

* If it spills over 15 minutes then continue to trim down on the update complexity

ecf• 2 years ago

In my personal experience I’ve found stand ups are incredibly easy to sidetrack. One dev starts going into too much detail about a troublesome aspect of their ticket instead of simply stating what the problem is and then organizing a time after the standup to meet with the colleague best suited to assist.

Standups shouldn’t be a rubber duck session with the entire team.

p1necone• 2 years ago

Imo standups shouldn't have more than 5 or 6 people in them. If there's more than that you're probably not all working closely enough for the standup to provide much value - find some nice cutting point in the project, split into smaller teams.

giantg23• 2 years ago

"during my hour-long stand-up."

And I thought my organization was dysfunctional.

dmd• 2 years ago

hour-long
standup

what

jdewerd• 2 years ago

Every place I have worked at has remained seated for the "standup" because it's tiring to stand for that long.

(For those who aren't looped into the irony: the entire reason why it is called a "standup" is because you are supposed to stand up to create subtle pressure against long unnecessary meetings. Sitting down for a stand-up isn't just a quirky paradox of jargon-meets-reality, it is a fundamental rejection of the entire premise while cynically parroting the terminology itself.)

alistairSH• 2 years ago

Exactly.

My stand-ups are 10-15 minutes, usually. When they use the full allocated 30 minutes it's because somebody wanted to dig into a specific topic (and anybody not interested in that topic is free to leave).

This is a normal agile development team - 1 manager (me) and ~6 engineers. We do the quick round-robin update, I'll make any announcements or ask for clarification, then if there's something that requires it, a deep dive (as deep as you can get in the remaining time).

mcherm• 2 years ago

The POINT of calling it a "stand-up" was supposed to be that we STOOD up during the meeting in order to ensure that we wouldn't let the meeting run too long. 10 mins was a reasonable time for most team sizes when the idea was first created.

throwanem• 2 years ago

Reminds me of the grunion, really.

irrational• 2 years ago

produced by plentiful piscine participants procreating... powerful

perfect

thaumasiotes3• 2 years ago

Weird title, since as the article takes the time to note, anchovies don't have sex.

dfxm12• 2 years ago

I don't think being playful with the use of "sex" in the headline is weird. The article is more infotainment than hard science. Its audience might not necessarily know about spawning, and for all intents and purposes, using "sex" to mean "reproduction" generically as a figure of speech isn't really a stretch.

dang• 2 years ago

We've taken sex out of the title and made it as boring (in that respect!) as possible.

(To do this, btw, I found a representative sentence from the article text.)

lmc• 2 years ago

:-(

pvaldes2• 2 years ago

If the article really claims that anchovies don't have sex, then you have saved me ten precious minutes of my life. Thanks.

thaumasiotes3• 2 years ago

The article mentions it in passing. This isn't a controversial claim or anything; it's very common in fish.

a_gnostic• 2 years ago

Whelp, time to ban anchovies for climate change…

emmelaich• 2 years ago

Dunno about that, they use carbon to grow, and if the bodies drop to under around 800m depth after, the carbon is sequestered forever.

I say let the turbulent titillation continue!

Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers

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