Busy several days with lots of different interconnections and differed news emerging. Realizing I'm still missing many of the "social network" connections I'd have used in the past to talk about these though. Many collaborators to shout out but I haven't found them yet!

Popping into bsky to find a few folks I met at the NSF CoPe Virtual Awardee Conference. Somehow I thought that I'd be more active on the new platform than the old platform, but it's been 4 months between activity.

Just learned from my students taking @rmcelreath.bsky.social online "Rethinking" course about the brewsy history of the t-test. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

🎉🚨 🧪 Huge congrats & thanks to @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker @itchyshin.bsky.social for leading this important paper Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"

Alexander von Humboldt was an incredible naturalist who transformed how we see mountains. Now, he has inspired a collaboration between art & science that transforms how we visualize seamounts. So excited to share this beautiful piece with the world… on a newly explored seamount in US waters!

Defunding NOAA, which Republicans call a source of the "climate alarm industry," was proposed in Project 2025. (NOAA monitors hurricanes, by the way.)

"The quasi-religious faith that economic growth will just continue is baked into not only climate economics but also climate policymaking. So-called “mitigation pathways,” models that game out cost-effective policy options, also assume economic growth as a given."

#EnvironmentalJustice was NOT birthed in government or government programs. It sprang from people striving to make America more just for everyone. I'm hopeful and I have faith. But, "faith without work is dead." | Scientific American subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene.... @BullardCenter

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

Temporal changes in taxon abundances are positively correlated but poorly predicted at the global scale https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07195 #TimeSeries #GlobalData #Taxonomy

This is a heck of a logo, and while you're there check out the opportunities to do some active marine stewardship while you dive! www.lionfishinvitational.com

🦋🦫, 🌱 And it's up! I'm excited to share for two big-picture reasons. (1) It addresses an issue I've grappled with in my work with empirical dynamic modeling for a long time, and (2) it underpins a very interesting real world study coming later this year. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kicking off the New Year with a new pre-print! ... but looks like a link will have to wait the weekend for bioarxiv screening. Stay tuned!

What is a species "shadow distribution"? This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers. We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes. 🌐🌎 #macroecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I now have a new favorite play ground. At Pier 25 in Manhatten, two enormous sturgeons have been constructed for the purpose of play and education. The kids demanded we return the next day.

The #climatecrisis is not a cliff edge It is a slow motion disaster Every tonne of CO2 is worth fighting for Because every tonne saved reduces human suffering

In our toughest battles for marine stewardship, the resilience of our spirit may well become a critical component of the resilience of the natural systems where we work. Lisa and Fragments of Hope are on the front line. Please read her World View peace below: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🪸New study: Scripps Oceanography scientists have provided a first-of-its-kind glimpse into coral “bleaching” responses to stress. Using imaging tech, they pinpointed coral survival rates following multiple bleaching events off of Maui from 2014-2021. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/3d-mode...

Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025! PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share!

I’ve just ordered volumes 1 and 2 of David Krakauer’s new edited volumes of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, published under the auspices of @sfiscience.bsky.social. Volumes 3 and 4 to come this summer. The tables of contents for both volumes look great! 🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱🗃️🧠 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Grant submitted! Means I finally had a minute to repair this fellow:

Exciting news to announce! Prof. Suchi Gopal and I have been named Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center. We'll be leading a Coupled Human And Natural Systems investigation into the future blue economy of the Gulf of Maine as driven from the bottom-up as . www.bu.edu/pardee/commu...

"It's not just that the global-average sea surface temperature has been record-breaking every single day… but it's the absurdly-large margins by which the records have been broken." www.axios.com/2024/03/19/w...

+1 for society journals (again). Got a very nice note from an editor for a review I wrote in the fall. Maybe just me but it's nice feeling appreciated instead of exploited (:

Last Friday I had the privilege of visiting @jebyrnes.bsky.social and the Biology Department at UMassB for seminar. Thank you for all the great discussion. In case whoever asked about it is on this humble little platform, the paper I mentioned in Q&A is: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Hey folks! We are kicking off a crowd funding campaign to raise the marine environmental awareness of Nicaraguan youth by delivering a brand new textbook on the aquatic ecosystems of Nicaragua to schools and children. [1/2] crowdfunding.bu.edu/campaigns/ra...

Jazzed to announce BU Biology's 2024 Emerging Scholars in Global Change Biology! Are you an amazing postdoc looking for an awesome professional development activity! Please check this out! Plz repost! I don't know how to reach everyone on here so any help appreciated! www.bu.edu/biology/emer...

Huge excitement and props to BU Prof and Biogeosciences avatar, Lucy Hutyra, on being named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow! www.macfound.org/videos/2023-...

“It is a fantasy that any human product could be free of human values. And science is a human product. It’s a wonderful, glorious human product.”

In related news, I'm now (website) officially affiliated with the BU Biogeoscience Program. Hurray! www.bu.edu/bio-geo/facu...

Great BU www.bu.edu/bio-geo/semi... yesterday with John Zobitz! Unfortunately the search feature on this app continues to seem largely useless to me and I have no idea if he's on 🟦 yet to @.

Much has been made of the "end of clout" for the biggest Tweeters, but for independent journalists, Twitter was a vital utility. Its swift decline has been a real loss for small and medium-sized media outlets, indie writers and academics, and the public overall.

“This is probably the single, collectively the most successful coral restoration individual project in the world at this time. It’s phenomenal,“ Dr. Les Kaufman of the Boston University Marine Program said about the Laughing Bird Caye reef restoration work. climatespotlight.com/seeing-is-be...

Replied to this thread originally, but then was inspired to do more. I discovered "brick therapy" last Spring. Unfortunately, Lego is not terribly sustainable in a financial or plastic-generating sense. This weekend I tried something vaguely similar to me in the abstract: cable knitting. Stay tuned?

Today is official quitting twitter day. Anyone else want to join me?

Excited to debut a new [introductory R workshop](github.com/BUMP-In-Sili...) for the BU Marine Semester with @daviesswphd.bsky.social and grad students. We adapted the very introductory material from data [carpentry](datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-le...) and will finish with a simple hands-on exercise.

I teach this paper in the Experimental Design grad class in our redesigned grad curriculum. I think it does a great job of teaching students how to articulate and test hypotheses with experiments in an abstract way so that the idea of "experiments" is not necessarily attached to any expectations

Taken from Gabriel Popkin's tweet feed: a great Op in The Washington Post on why a messy yard may be good stewardship. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Continuing to struggle with finding a single person through the search feature. Any tricks to making it useful?

A wealth of underground water helped create the U.S., its vast cities and bountiful farmland. Now, unchecked overuse is draining and damaging aquifers, a New York Times data investigation found, threatening millions of people and the nation’s status as a food superpower.

The sky is blue and the birds are singing. If only it were easier to find people I already know...