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Gator Nation Giving Day 2026 is almost here, but early gifts are already rolling in. If you’d like to support student-driven water and wildlife research in our WILDS labs, you can give any time using our fund page: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... Every donor, every amount helps.

Reminder that one of the nine North American sturgeon species is only found in Alabama. Sadly, that species is on the verge of complete extinction. It is definitely the most imperilled of all these sturgeons.

Happy Year of the (Red) Horse! 🐎 The redhorses (Moxostoma) are a group of some 20 native sucker species found in North America. While they're sometimes mistaken for invasive carp, redhorses are actually indicators of healthy ecosystems

Our capacity to do experimental aquatics research is truly unmatched. Get in touch if you have ideas for cool studies, collabs & experiments!

Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A collaboration with Yushun Chen, Seb Brosse, @sjcfishy.bsky.social and other! @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social

The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family. It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The evidence has not changed. Climate change has not stopped. This is political censorship of scientific evidence. Plain and simple. #standupforscience www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

#Bluecrab #oyster #parasite "Oysters reduced parasite densities in the water...Our results jointly support that oysters benefit adjacent community members through feeding on transmissive stages of their pathogens" share.google/mpaHCGaeSn2K...

Don't lose sight of the good stories. We can make the world better with science and coordinated policy!

Octopuses 🐙 have been wandering in the oceans for 296 million years. They have three hearts and blue blood and are amazing #MondayMorning

This is why we say there can be no science-as-usual now. This passage is from Peter Drucker’s essay in the Atlantic about the crossroads that science stood at during Nazism. Science doesn’t just need funding — it needs the fundamental freedoms that come with democracy. Freedom of speech. (1/3🧵)

Love is in the water! Send these to the fish lover in your life 🐟

The February 2026 Mussel of the Month is Lampsilis siliquoidea But Lampsilis is a Camel. It has been said that, “A camel is a horse designed by a committee.” Learn more and subscribe for free at musselproject.substack.com #MusselOfTheMonth #MUSSELp 🧪 Photo by Graf & Cummings

Our kids are suffering. Some will face lifelong complications, we will lose others. This was preventable. We refuse to standby while the most vulnerable suffer 👇 RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊ March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7 #Standupforscience

What if wildlife isn’t just impacted by climate change, but part of the solution? Read more and share what you learn!

If this makes you mad, you can do something about it: RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊ March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7 #Standupforscience

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

More than 10,000 STEM PhD's have left or been fired from the federal workforce since Trump took office again. NSF, EPA, DOE and USFS hardest hit. www.science.org/content/arti...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

We’ll say it again, ICE is terrorizing our communities. ICE is making us all less safe, less secure, and they are hurting and killing people in our streets. Senate Democrats MUST BLOCK ICE FUNDING this week. Please call your U.S. Senators (202) 224-3121 📞

It has been confirmed that Alex was a lawful gun owner and did not threaten ICE with a weapon. Early video reports indicate the weapon was taken by ICE and shots were then fired to execute him.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Thanks to the White House about half the internet learnt that there are actually no penguins in Greenland. Yay #scicomm! BUT there *is* one 🐧living in the northern hemisphere: the Galapagos penguin, the only species found (just) north of the equator. No, the "penguin" on the WH tweet is not it. 🧪🪶

America is in dangerous territory. The combination of a masked federal paramilitary force being used against civilians, the intentional spread of extremist ideology, and the censorship and use of “science” by the state to harm specific groups of people has never ended well. #ScientistsAgainstICE

Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”

“This is an authoritarian administration,” said UCS’s Rachel Cleetus to @sierramagazine.bsky.social. “It’s a deeply anti-science administration. And the huge range of destructive actions they’ve taken are a direct threat to our health, our economy.”

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." -MLK As always, Dr. King's message is right on time. Today calls on all of us to hear his wisdom and put it into action.

In case you would like to admire the US National Science Foundation mural which has been removed. sayostudio.com/scientific-i...

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

This is the story of the day. Share it. We are all being called to be our highest selves. The cavalier treatment of the Nobel Prize is a disgrace. It represents another way to destroy and defile that which should be precious and revered. We can all make choices to be better.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Four scientific leaders at NIH have resigned & denounced the Trump admin’s political interference: “Not only is our health at stake, but this attack on science is an attack on freedom of speech and thought. What we have seen at NIH is a threat to the fundamental freedoms that all of us cherish.” (🧵)

“Instead of protecting people’s health, however, [EPA’s] new gas turbine standards make clear Trump’s EPA is only here to boost the profits of Big Tech and the fossil fuel interests that serve them.” Read the statement by UCS's Julie McNamara:

In the long list of egregious things that Trump's EPA has done, this ranks as one of the most evil and corrupt. They're proposing to ignore the benefits of environmental regulations and only evaluate the costs. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

We live in St Paul, Minnesota; TONIGHT reports coming from multiple sources that ICE is staging in our grocery store’s old parking lot, going door to door in adjacent neighborhoods weapons drawn. At this point the Civil War movie seems more reality, and current events are the fiction. SMH.

Justice.

In this week’s Talking Climate, I unpack why recent cuts to scientific programs and data don’t only affect climate research in the U.S. They weaken the knowledge infrastructure we rely on to protect public health, manage risk, and make good decisions around the world. www.patreon.com/posts/how-si...

As the calendar year begins, a reminder of the rapid acceleration of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, driving increasingly severe #climate changes. Shown are the past 2000 years of CO2 concentrations. Stop burning fossil fuels.

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

Over the holidays, every single national wildlife refuge, plus some fish hatcheries and marine monuments were directed to conduct a system-wide review. Outrageous deadline of Jan 5 functionally eliminates public input & tribal consultation. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

Exciting!! @lovemussels.bsky.social new book!!

Imagine if scientists could figure out how Earth's climate has varied for hundreds of millions of years, build sophisticated computers to project how humans are now radically altering it, and warn the public, only to have greedy corporations & venal politicians ignore them. Criminal. Immoral. Evil.

“Once they get a foothold, it's really tough to get rid of them.” Katie O’Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social‬ is sounding the alarm and showing how prevention starts with awareness. 🎣 Explore the full #TomorrowsCatch series: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...