Abolish ice www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🧪✊🔬 March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC. We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science! Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)

If you need good news: highly endangered North Atlantic Right Whales are having lots of babies suddenly. 21 mother-calf pairs have been recorded so far, double last season! Endangered by fishing lines and ship strikes, less than 400 remain. But this is hopeful news www.wired.com/story/a-nort...

Senators Klobuchar and Smith need to sign on to this immediately.

FIGHT. Show up in any way you can. Call senators. Call congresspeople. Send supplies, donate, protest, make signs, make food, do what you can when you can. Our rights are worth fighting for. #abolishice

#penguinsforsanity 🦉🦑🌍

This is scientists’s version of tearing down parts of the White House.

Minneapolis.

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

Fun fact about Minnesota: It is the largest state in which Trump lost the 2016 primary and all three general elections.

#nowwatching New Year’s Day is for the birds… specifically, emperor penguins! The babies are SO freaking fluffy and cute and the way they all toddle around is RIDICULOUS 🥹😭 #birdsky #mustlovebirbs #natgeo

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Very sad news showing that even world heritage status does not protect from a disease 😔

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Weddell seal pups can be curious if you’re sitting next to them quietly. Here, we were collecting a scat sample and the little one leaned a bit closer to see what I was doing. Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025 🧪🌎🦑🦊

Imagine never showing signs of aging and having zero risk of cancer. This is the reality for some animals, and now, scientists are exploring their secrets. 🐋 🦇

I love Weddell seals so much I will pick up their poop and put it in a small vial just so I can get a chance to be near them and watch them hanging out on the ice. (AMLR permit to LaRue 2025) Also the cute of this pup was TOO MUCH. 🧪🌎🦑🦊

We have deployed satellite tracking devices on all our animals now (10 seals and 10 penguins), plus collected feathers, blood, whiskers, etc., for more information about the animals. ACA Permit 2025-010 🧪🌎🦑🦉

Here are the satellite tags attached to the penguins who will be carrying them for the next several months. Do you have a favorite?! Tell us! AMLR permit to LaRue 2025 🧪🌎🦉🦑

We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of. Cape Crozier remains magical! 🌍🧪🦑🦉

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Hot off the press at Remote Sensing in Ecology & Conservation is Alexandra Strang’s latest paper! Alexandra discovered there’s a caveat in using imagery to detect change at Adélie penguin colonies: Small population change is undetectable 🧪🌎🦑🦉 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One of my favorite sights, Mount Erebus on Ross Island. Seeing it from this vantage point usually means we are in a training (survival, field training) and getting ready to go do some fun things. Cape Crozier, here we come! 🌎🇦🇶

K051 (my “event number”, the unique identifier for each science project) made it to Antarctica! Flew on a C17, only delayed by an hour, too. Thanks US Air Force and Antarctica NZ, now the fun begins. 🧪🦑🦊🦉🌎

This is SUCH an important point. Most people are worried about climate change: but most people feel helpless and think nothing’s being done (so why should they do anything?) This is why my weekly newsletter always includes good news on climate solutions as well as actions we can take!

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Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

New Zealand - Aotearoa folks and otherwise interested folks: The Auckland Council has an opening for a Climate Analyst careers.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/job/Central-...

A Weddell seal mom wearing a hat* and taking a snooze next to her wonderfully-fed pup. They will continue to chill here together until mid-December when the pups wean and mom heads to the ocean to forage and regain mass. *satellite tracking device AMLR permit to LaRue 2024 🧪🌎🦑🦊

Good question, I’m not sure… I know mammals can definitely get themselves into weird situations too… What do you all think? 🧪🌎🦉

This is what Adélie penguins attempting to nest on ice looks like. They aren’t supposed to do that. 🌎🧪🦑🦉 ACA 2019-006

Adelie penguins porpoise because it's efficient and it allows them to breathe while they are hurrying to wherever they are going which in this case was back to the colony at Paulet Island 🧪🌍🦑🦉

Cinematographer Sara Matasick and Producer Heather Cruickshank visited us at UC for a screening of National Geographic’s Secrets of the Penguins & a behind-the-scenes tour of the production. We celebrated Antarctic Season Opening, 25 years of Gateway Antarctica and of course… emperor penguins 🧪🌎🦉🦑

So much this!! Code is so valuable and literally the thing that creates your results. When you include it in your paper it can be such a valuable resource to everyone (plus earn you a couple more citations).

When most of us think of #whales and #dolphins, we imagine elegant blue whales, or striking orcas, but the whale and dolphin family (collectively called #cetaceans) contains over 90 living species; many of them unusual and some stranger than fiction. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

New orca calf brings hope to endangered J pod near Vancouver Island 🦑🌎🧪

When I was on the ice w Nat Geo, we visited the emperor penguins at Atka Bay which is a colony that hops up onto the ice shelf rather than staying only on sea ice. This means that when chicks fledge they have a high-dive of a jump to reach the water. Which they do. With spectacular inelegance. 🧪🌍🦑🦉

Sir, I am not getting the cheese out just for you. I’m not making anything with cheese. Larry: … Me: *proceeds to get cheese out of the fridge just for him, which he ate proudly and then ran out of the kitchen as though he just got away with a crime*

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🌎🧪

I think there are few things funnier than watching fat, fluffy, hungry Adelie penguin chicks chasing their parents for food 🧪🌍🦑🦉

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

Emperor penguins choose to live on sea ice, which is frozen ocean water, instead of being on land. And they’ve done this for millions of years. Incredible birds. 🧪🌎🦑🦉 Photo taken under NZ AMLR permit

Can't wait to get to the ice and see these beauties again... never gets old. Weddell seals are the southern-most marine mammal in the world and live more than 30 years! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

There is still time to apply for our PhD position available at University of Canterbury! 🧪🌎🦑🦉🦊

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

Join Mia Wege and me to study niche partitioning among three Antarctic mesopredators! Fully-funded PhD opportunity at U Canterbury, please email [email protected] if you're interested! Applications will be reviewed until filled.