Two funded PhD projects (one open to international applicants) with us at @lec-reefs.bsky.social - please pass on to potential applicants

A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues. Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.

UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Friday Harbor Labs is hiring an assistant professor WOT in marine invertebrate organismal biology 🦐🪸🐙 For details and to apply: apply.interfolio.com/178804

In the latest Currents newsletter, you'll find: 🌍 A call for applicants for the Blue Food Futures Fellowship 🌊 Research on actions at port that can help deter illegal fishing 🎣 Insights on how blue foods can support country climate goals & more! Read & subscribe ⤵️ mailchi.mp/oceansolutio...

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Ever notice small scale #aquaculture (SSA) doesn't seem to get much attention? Us too. We ran a semi-quant synthesis of the the literature and found it is poorly defined, missing from the US & Europe, & underrepresented in marine systems (e.g., oysters) dx.doi.org/10.1111/raq....

A recent Science Advances special issue focused on #aquaculture, but seemed to have missed the mark in a multitude of ways. My incredible colleagues and I wrote this sweeping Open Access opinion article (with 80 citations!) in response. Hope it's useful! 🐟 🦐 🎣 doi.org/10.1111/raq....

🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

The Blue Food Futures Fellowship application is now open! Fellows receive 6 mo support at their home institution to address pressing issues in blue food + mentorship from a global blue research network + opportunities to present research at international fora ⬇️ More bluefood.earth/fellowships/

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Only a third of Americans even somewhat support drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Source: @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

There is still time to submit! The special issue "Blue Foods in Local to Global Food Systems" deadline was extended to November 30 🐟 🦐 🍣

If you have some blue foods work that you are looking for a home for, consider our special issue in Environmental Research: Food Systems! Submission deadline extended to November 30

Come work with us!

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Trump’s chaos will punish students. It’s not the billionaires’ kids who will suffer. It's working families' kids who will fall further behind.

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

A new study reveals that although they are often overlooked, dried fish are critical to helping feed millions of people across Africa. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Leading a HDSI nutrition sensitive aquatic food systems workshop with this amazing group of people! Feeling extremely grateful for them sharing their time and expertise with the group! @christinahicks.bsky.social @james-robinson.bsky.social @chrisgolden.bsky.social Aaron, Nisha, Chris Free & Laura

Oceana #Ghana VP job posting here. Please share with any promising leaders who are ready to build and run campaigns! oceana.org/employment/v...

Huh. Unprecedented substitution of seafood species with non-aquatic species was found...Almost 60 % of shark products were identified as pork. "Face-off: Shark or pork? DNA barcoding authentication and labelling analysis of shark products"

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT! tinyurl.com/3enzuubc

Recently published! Development of a comprehensive bilateral trade-flow dataset of the environmental pressures of global food production 👉 https://bit.ly/3TPYC4q By authors from @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social  #climatechange #agriculture #food  ‪@jagephart.bsky.social‬

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease “This is the discovery of the decade for me,” said co-author @drewharvell.bsky.social. "We have studied both the cause and the impacts of this disease for the entire epidemic." More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

After years of work, a team of researchers with support from The Nature Conservancy have identified the causative agent of Sea Star Wasting Disease! Big implications for my work & an inspiring example of the amazing things we can do w/ science...plus I'm quoted in it ;) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

BREAKING: Donald Trump officially terminated nearly half of all Education Department staff. This is an all-out assault on our public schools and Americans with student loans.

Why should Democrats support a “bipartisan bill” just for Republicans to turn around and delete the parts Donald Trump doesn’t like?

The era of climate migration is upon us. Residents of Tuvalu are slowly resettling in Australia. This is only the beginning… www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.

open access paper estimating the contribution of aquatic foods, and specific aquatic food groups (e.g., reef fish, pelagic fish, invertebrates) to household nutrient intake and adequacy in Kiribati. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @hsph.harvard.edu @chrisgolden.bsky.social @jagephart.bsky.social

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

🎉 Check out our new @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social data paper presenting terrestrial and aquatic food flows from producing to consuming countries and the associated environmental pressures. tinyurl.com/food-flow-data

Contracts show that, in at least one instance, resources allocated for the state’s “disaster preparedness” apparatus were diverted to "Alligator Alcatraz" as DeSantis’ office used emergency powers to quickly establish the camp during hurricane season.

As I say here, “This document was written for the American people, paid for by the taxpayers, and it contains vital information we need to keep ourselves safe in a changing climate, as the disasters that continue to mount demonstrate so tragically and clearly.” More by @borenbears.bsky.social here:

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

After 20+ years of running at full speed in academia, I’m stepping into a new phase—less Bear, more Beef. A reflection on ambition, burnout, and what it means to let go of prestige to make room for purpose. Check out my new post on The Food Archive: shorturl.at/uyVsC

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI! Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems. Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

New publication alert 🌊 Blue swimming crab is one of the most important fisheries in #Indonesia and women are leading the way, creating innovative solutions to waste Women's groups building more #inclusive #resilient and #sustainable fisheries ⤵️ doi.org/10.3389/focs... @envdefensefund.bsky.social

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Deadline for the GeoFutures program has been extended to 07-11-25. The program provides travel & mentoring support for geoscience undergrads attending the 2025 SACNAS conference. @accessiblegeo.bsky.social @agu.org @official-bweems.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social environment.uw.edu/about/inclus...

Nice summary and coverage of our recent Marine Policy paper on the new U.S. seafood executive order & other disruptive governance actions: news.ucsb.edu/2025/021937/... @jagephart.bsky.social