Celebrate the positive when it comes along: Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

#AAASmtg in Phoenix was such a treat--talks on primates communicating with gestures; water scarcity in the US; building trustworthy, sturdy data infrastructure; the promises and peril of AI; and so much more. Lots to think about on the way home! And I met so many interesting and kind people.

“The greatest astronomical movie of all time”. — Robert Blum Vera C. Observatory, NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ An image of the sky every 40 seconds for 10 years. They capture the whole sky every 3 nights. #AAASmtg

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Please pass the word... we are hiring 3 different positions in our Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection: - Environmental Science Communicator/Outreach Specialist Also, Water Quality Analyst & Vegetation Specialist www.swinomish-nsn.gov/jobs #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️

Thanks to sponsors of our nonprofit @nswa.bsky.social #science #facts Including: @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social @geekwire.com @oregonstate.edu @outrider.org @alleninstitute.org @kavlifoundation.org Parse Biosciences, Kuwana Consulting, Message Lab + @seattlechildrens.org

Alzheimer’s drug developers accuse clinical trial sites of faking data | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

📣 Job Opportunity | Reintroduction Planning Manager This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon. 🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026 🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/ #NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon

Permafrost (frozen ground) is the backbone of northern ecosystems. Watch this field video for a visual demonstration of what happens when we lose that permafrost to thaw.

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South Africa’s utility Eskom is reassessing 2 coastal sites — Thyspunt & Bantamsklip — for a third nuclear power plant. Conservationists warn Bantamsklip threatens a globally important marine ecosystem, including critically endangered African penguins, & say environmental risks remain unacceptable.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Due to a combination of widespread anomalous to record-breaking warmth & a mix of low precip (in Rockies/northern Sierra) and heavy warm rain (vs snow, in Pac NW), numerous locations throughout the American West are reporting their lowest Dec 15 snow water equivalents on record.

Imagine a state digital service that could step in to provide relatively simple software like this so that vultures don't step in to hold public safety hostage. These problems become so straightforward to solve once we stop demanding for-profit solutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Feverishly working on this

this would prevent any code reform that reduces costs, improves building quality, or increases climate adaptation

I talked to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW about adapting to increasingly strong atmospheric rivers, and that reducing risk ultimately requires tackling GHG emissions. "If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”

People who have seen video of the U.S. military’s first boat strike in September in the Caribbean Sea said two survivors climbed atop the overturned hull and waved to something overhead. The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the strike.

Add that to reports from earlier this year that the weed killer has been detected at high levels in tampons

The United Nations Ocean Decade: A catalyst for international collaboration enhancing ocean monitoring and data | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌊 🦑

The community of the #PNW #science writers only meets once a year - for a party/meeting/election. You don't want to miss it. Happens Jan. 14 at the @seattleaquarium.bsky.social Find out more about joining, details to come nwscience.org

the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.

Two fishermen found the #humpback #whale entangled in their gear Wednesday near Troup Passage, north of the coastal community of Bella Bella, and called for help from Heiltsuk Nation guardians www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... via @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social

New on the podcast - humpback acoustics! Debaran Kelso speaks with Dr. Fred Sharpe whose recent research focuses on aerial whale signals like blows, wheezes, and thrums. 📷: Fred Sharpe #MarineMammals #MarineLife

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.

I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans. > 74 thousand trial participants affected jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/4

One of Brazil's top priorities for #COP30 is to fund the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, which would finance efforts to protect forest ecosystems worldwide. Learn more about why protecting forests is one of the most powerful solutions for people, nature, and climate at: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4o2QWZp

Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from BICAN published in Nature. These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development. 🧪

Came across this 2020 story about sea creatures that not only make "snot palaces" but that also "collectively drop millions of tons of carbon to the seafloor, where it stays, preventing further global warming" apnews.com/article/ocea...

So cool!

B.C. couple captures ‘crazy’ encounter with humpback #whale, right off their dock | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1152556...

Researchers are using AI to decode whale communications. A new paper argues the findings could help make the case for the recognition of whales' legal rights—specifically a right to culture and a right to be free from torture. insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...

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We're getting in the spirit of Halloween by celebrating some Aussie fish with spooky names 👻 🦈 How many can you drop into conversation at a Halloween party? 🎃 Bonus points for going dressed as one 👹 🐟 #Halloween #Australia #fish #science

#ThrowbackThursday to the day 20 yrs ago when my postdoc advisor had to meet w/ me in the teaching lab downstairs b/c he was setting up his decorator crabs for an ABC News segment on Halloween costumes. #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🎃🦀 @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social youtu.be/IYxerHqVPpE?...

We interrupt your feed with breaking news of an Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal sneezing! #marinelife #seal #adorbs #cute #ocean #Maui #love #haha #photography #seascape #mammals #surf #goodmorning #animalvideo

A paper in Nature reports that mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors. #medsky 🧪

Fresh from reading Megan Greenwell's @greenwell.bsky.social riveting book Bad Company, (highly recommend!) when

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

OK, two more things to go with my thread on measures of cognitive decline. 1. Conversation loops in cognitive decline. People with dementia often come back to the same topics repetitively. Yes, we all do this to a certain extent. But it's more extreme and with shorter loops.

As I mentioned before, this year my 88 year old dad moved into a continuing care community, which guarantees “memory care” (ie, for dementia) when needed. And as part of the intake, they make sure all applicants won’t need that care in the short term. They gave him this test. He passed.

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Not fake news. Some serious side effects of COVID mRNA vaccines seem to have been discovered! (Seriously positive side effects.) 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

“Researchers have now used this ambient noise to probe the rising acidity of the ocean. The acoustic technique… could make it easier to measure this key parameter of ocean health across vast distances rather than relying on point measurements.” #scicomm www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪