Thanks to @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social for having me up for their seminar series. I had a great time hearing about the exciting science going on at Bodega Marine Lab, and what a beautiful place to work!

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop. "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day" Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

A niche request but I bet my Bluesky peeps got me: Seeking great papers and sources on the topic of Appalachian fish biogeography. What are the factors that make this region so wildly diverse, and what are the geographic & geologic forces that led to the radiation of darters, shiners, etc.? Thanks!

I find it astounding that SF Bay, a water body millions of people rely on and surrounded by extreme wealth, may close its only dedicated marine research station. Many of my colleagues got their start at Tiburon. Its impact is enormous. It's a bargain. www.kqed.org/news/1203861...

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

A study of the 2012–2016 California drought chronicles how low river flows during the breeding season caused Chinook salmon to shift downriver and caused steelhead and coho salmon to fail to breed entirely in some tributaries and watersheds. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

“Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost … something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose whole purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion across the polarities that increasingly divide … us” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

The Trump admin illegally impounded Congressionally-appropriated taxpayer $$ to extort a private university to deprive Americans of their civil liberties, jobs, & educations. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social capitulated. Other universities, you’re next. Time to decide if you want to keep existing.

The most immediate problem for the professoriate right now is that its vision of the university has no political advocates. Democrats really don't care about anything but universities as job training centers, and are proposing massive budget cuts at the state level dailybruin.com/2025/03/13/u...

University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies. www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

'Goal is destruction': Fired Calif. NOAA scientists warn of dire global consequences #cawater www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Columbia is a test run to see what they can get away with, using federal grants as a tool for political retribution. It’s happening, and there’s a good chance that any other university is next.

Coyotes hunt seal pups and preferentially consume the head and brain 🤯

The Trump-Putin Pact already exists, and we should act accordingly. There are some things we will never change with nice words or smart clothing. If you are worried about those things, you should understand where Trump's tactics come from. From Russia. A thread. 🧵1/14

Some good news

"It's going to significantly impact our operations." Trump administration dramatically cuts staff at water agency in California. From @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

This is not about efficiency. It is about making it easier for the administration to promote lies about the economy.

Looking for a job in aquatic science? Check out our job board! You don’t have to be an ASLO member to browse opportunities, from research positions to to post-docs and even industry roles. Explore now and take the next step in your career! aslo.users.membersuite.com/community/ca...

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Delighted to share our new paper in Ecology Letters: Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought. With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski. #rivers #fishes #salmon 🧪🐟 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1111/ele....

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

WHOA -- this is soooo cool and very needed!!! I hope this takes off. Contribute local stories about federal cuts for a Tracking Map to go live next week. Contribute here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More context here: www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

Diversity in coho salmon could be key to species survival #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/02/25/u...

Delighted to share our new paper in Ecology Letters: Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought. With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski. #rivers #fishes #salmon 🧪🐟 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1111/ele....

A 12-year-long study led by @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @caseagrant.bsky.social researchers finds that the alternative life histories of coho salmon have made their populations more stable. Read more at the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship site. nature.berkeley.edu/stewardship/...

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

I agree. The reaction is way too muted. I think it is actually time for people to go to the streets and protest against the destruction of public-serving institutions by DOGE, which is nothing but a gang led by a random unelected person. This is f*cked up and it has to stop!

Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

An absolutely scorching OpEd by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, on Trump's destruction of the vaunted US scientific & biomedical enterprise & on Trump's kooky picks to lead the US health & science agencies Gift link to share far & wide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Fire all headline editors except for this one single hero

Historic pact reached on future Eel River water flows into Russian River www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...

We all know how to stop a bully. But when it's a powerful bully, fear takes center stage and people come with arguments saying that resistance is futile or counterproductive. That is exactly what the bully wants. And gives him even more power. And the cycle repeats. Thanks Dorothy for speaking up

In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.

Cool paper showing variable dispersal of juvenile chinook salmon.

If you are a NIH funded researcher and your state is not on this list, you need to be calling your AG office

This, from the president of Wesleyan U, is excellent. “Authoritarians have long known that total control will elude them if they don’t eradicate the autonomous support engendered within civil society by cultural, religious, commercial, and educational institutions.” slate.com/life/2025/02...