🌎 What can 18th-century experiments on air teach us about today’s climate challenges? Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected. 📅 Nov 11 🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW

If you're not a biogeochemist but curious about why metal concentrations can double throughout a single sunny day (spoiler: photochemistry is wild), & how that affects rare earth elements (the stuff in your phones/EV batteries), I just wrote a plain language summary of our recent paper! #SciComm 🧪⚒️

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! We're Scripps Oceanography and we'd love to connect with people who are interested in: 🔬 Marine Science 🌍 Earth Science 📈 Climate Change ⚠️ Hazards 💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine 🌊 Oceanography 🪸 Coral Reef Ecology 🌧️ Atmospheric Science ➗ Geophysics ⚛️ Bioscience

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

Looking for a way to support the #2026SFS Annual Meeting? Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3 This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance. We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.

Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the IAGLR Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/4opgLTT

If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica. jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎

Yolo Bypass tour during #ISRS2025 Carson Jeffres of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Jacob Katz of @caltrout.bsky.social explain how field behind them is great habitat for juvenile chinook…just add water & turbocharged food web produces “floodplain fatties” as in poster @riversociety.bsky.social #WaterYear

Had a wonderful time at my first International Symposium on River Science meeting at UC Davis last week! Met many researchers from around the world who share my love of river ecosystems 🐟🌊🌱 @riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26 Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈 👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8 #Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

RALLY WITH US 💪‼️ "Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm WHERE: Waterfront Park MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos

ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper. Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome. 🧪🦑🌎

Join AFS for our next Fisheries Community Check-in! This month's session will be held on September 3 at 1 pm ET. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/63b250...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Check out this great article about developing our STEM workforce in a way that accounts for multiple ways of knowing, major life events, and different entry points -- just like a braided river! Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River: eos.org/opinions/rei...

New blog from our colleague Dr. Delta Merner. "In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability."

FEMA staffers warn Trump administration policies weakening disaster response thehill.com/policy/energ... SIGN ON TO KATRINA DECLARATION HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers! I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.” 🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

One of the most promising areas of cancer research is CAR T therapy, in which a "living drug" is made by modifying a patient's T-cells. Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration. Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.

Thank you to Friends of the Everglades for standing up against “Alligator Alcatraz.”

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants. RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan, Contact

Not a fan of moves like this? Add your name to the #EPA dissent letter. And remind congress we can’t allow retaliation against the #EPA139. www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

As a reminder, PBS NOVA is one of the coolest science entertainment platforms that we have today! If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs

I agree! As an early career researcher I have received some fantastic reviews that have not only helped improve my research, but also provided new perspectives and information that helped me grow as an ecologist and researcher. I applaud these reviewers and hope more folks will take this approach!

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

PSA: It is ok — and necessary — to grieve right now

Wow. The EPA has placed 144 employees on administrative leave after the workers signed a public letter criticizing EPA leadership for disregarding scientific expertise and rolling back environmental and public health protections.

One of the most tragic things is that so many people that will be harmed by the Big Death Bill will be completely unaware about what just happened until it’s way too late and they can’t see a doctor or get a hospital bed in their time of need.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Trump’s budget bill is a disaster for public health. It’s the biggest cut to health care in history. 12 million people will lose health insurance. Hundreds of hospitals will close. 1 in 4 nursing homes will close. Millions more families won’t have enough food.

"You can't afford satellite TV, you can't buy cable, and they're alone. And so it is a lifeline. And what's great about this is that they feel connected," Ferrell said. "Public radio saves lives. The Emergency Broadcast System, without it, people would die." zurl.co/sdvxy #Louisiana

As a recent participant in the program, I highly recommend it!

Join us Saturday, July 19, 2025, for a day of biodiversity fun on Île Perrot to #BlitzTheGap with iNaturalist! 🌿🐟 We’ll be targeting understudied aquatic species—plus there’ll be prizes, food, and great company. We hope to see you there!

Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.

Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA. The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.

The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

AFS joined other science, conservation, and outdoor organizations in a "Statement on Federal Public Lands Transfer, Sale, and Exchange." The current Senate budget reconciliation bill requires federal agencies to sell 2-3 million acres in 11 western states. Read more: fisheries.org/2025/06/stat...

Scientists Say We May Be the Last Generation to See Fireflies Flicker "Several interconnected causes are driving fireflies toward extinction: #habitatloss... #lightpollution... #pesticides... #climatechange..." www.mypunepulse.com/scientists-s...

Great turnout today in Fort Collins for the #NoKings protest!

COVID-19 vaccines may protect patients from severe kidney damage. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were less likely to have severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Climate-driven storms are overwhelming wastewater facilities. This research examines how biofilm-based systems like MBBR and MABR protect key microbial processes during extreme flows, offering a path to more resilient water infrastructure. 🌐🧪

A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous and committed professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding. “I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor. zurl.co/xnJgg @tktk.bsky.social