making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

This. Rules.

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Trump’s economy:  Gas:📈 Electricity:📈📈 Grocery: 📈📈📈 Housing: 📈📈📈📈 Health care:📈📈📈📈📈 Trump is leaving us worse off — and it’s very clear to all who is to blame.

Millions of women, children, and families are hurting as vital programs disappear. The more we can tell these stories as Jewish advocates, the more we can reframe the public conversation. 💬 SHARE your story to help us show the real impact of these cuts. www.ncjw.org/act/action/w...

As of last October, total spending in last week’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention election had topped $14 million, making it one of the nation’s most expensive retention elections ever.

"To continue protecting birds in an age of chaos is an act of defiance against cynicism" An important and very relevant opinion: theornithologist.org/in-defence-o... 🪶🌎 #ornithology #conservation

Sooooo happy to see my new book WELCOME TO #FLORIDA included in this "The Revelator" list! Thanks, John!

I choose to do things not because they are easy, but because I also have a manuscript to review, and I'm just not in the mood for that, so now I'm on the moon I guess.

A hill I will die on is that this is a stupid reason to go to the moon.

Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows news.mongabay.com/2025/11/seag... 🧪🦑🌎

📢We’re hiring a Conference and Training Support Officer Join a team dedicated to coordinating events that inspire progress toward a sustainable ocean future. 📍Copenhagen, Denmark ⏰Apply by 14 November! 🔗 https://www.ices.dk/about-ICES/Jobs-in-ICES/Pages/2511conferencetrainingsupportofficer.aspx

Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study

Further proof that the internet is culturally Philadelphia

🦤🧪🌐 🐢 Concern about nesting #flatback #turtles on Delambre Island, Western Australia. Despite natural cycles, population currently appears to be dropping. Monitoring and adaptive management are vital to understand and protect this unique population. bit.ly/esr_58_287

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Keystone coral species population collapse after unprecedented heat stress www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🧪🦑🌎

During the "Unintended Consequences" panel at #EEA2025 I discussed our paper led by @captbeth.bsky.social that found MPAs globally are: 1/4 unimplemented 1/3 poorly designed 2/3 remote (colonies) www.americanprogress.org/article/beyo...

I still find LinkedIn to be the most useful social media network for professionals Colleagues post papers, news stories, conference updates, professional milestones, and other helpful announcements I get a little of that on this app, but not enough

About 15 years ago, a relative gave me $500 and said "this is so you can put a down payment on a house" That's what the conservation funding world feels like We appreciate the money It's a lot of money But it's 100x too small to achieve the impact you're asking

"the average American benefits significantly from environmental regulations — and stands to lose a great deal if the contrary view prevails"

Why We Need Environmental Regulations • The Revelator

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Chuck stands to pull an epic prank here, as the character walks from their cabin to a small research vessel to go tag some sharks...

Opportunity open to: Scientists, aquarists, non-profit advocates, agency staff, environmental journalists, etc. If you have a science-adjacent career, you have interesting thoughts on careers to share with my students.

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but I still think it should be bigger news that a recent former head of NOAA has become a full-fledged UFO guy.

For teachers, environmental educators, and D&D dorks! In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession. www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...

“We expected to lose state senate seats in Mississippi, and statewide races in Georgia, and statewide races in Pennsylvania, and local contests in Charlotte, Orlando, Bucks County … all deep blue places!”

Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea

Deep-sea mining plumes could starve life in Pacific’s Twilight Zone oceanographicmagazine.com/news/deep-se...

New Research Shows How Seabed Mining Disrupts the Food Web

First study of its kind finds deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone' phys.org/news/2025-11...

New from Nature: Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...

the jerk store called. the cost of jerks has doubled due to trumps tariffs

The global abundance and ecological significance of Stomiiformes fish, "including contributions to the biological carbon pump, underscores the need to resolve their phylogeny amid escalating threats from climate change and human activities." 🦑🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Let's talk about death-ball sponges, because what the hell, ocean? I thought we had a deal, you'd stop making Hooked Horrors of Which We Dare Not Speak, and we'd stop dumping trash in you..... Oh. Right. Carry on. 😔 Okay, the death ball sponges are genus Chondrocladia, the "ping pong sponges."

For the full ocean funding report: oursharedseas.com/funding/ 🌊

"Even with notable gains in fluency, GPT-5 is still prone to hallucinate, break rules, and exhibit latent capabilities that raise safety and biosecurity concerns" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Caspian Seal is the Caspian Sea’s only marine mammal. Each year adults head north to gather on ice and pup, molt on northern islands, then disperse to central & southern basins. Slow-reproducing and commercially exploited, they are listed under CMS Appendices I & II: www.cms.int/sites/defaul...

"the results underscore the potential of ecolabels to incentivize sustainable practices, with dual certification enhancing credibility and consumer trust amid increasingly complex certification systems." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🦑🧪🌍

How Scientists Can Stand Up for Democracy

GARtwork contest ends Friday 11/7 at 10 am Central!

During Gar Week 2025, between Tuesday and Wednesday, offer your name ideas for the hybrid gar! #GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #GarLab #FishSciComm #SciComm

The guy who cut me off in traffic yesterday then flipped me off like I did it to him?

Tied between right whale and Elon Musk. Oh, choices choices.

What will keep this lighthearted is being paralyzed by having way, WAY too many choices to choose between…