Boosting for our partners! The University of Michigan Water Center is facilitating a #GreatLakes horizon scan: take this brief survey to help identify emerging water-related opportunities and risks in the Great Lakes watershed and better prepare for what’s ahead. umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

Are you a grad student/recent grad interested in the places where Great Lakes science, policy, and community meet? Become a Great Lakes Fellow! We're filling two positions alongside @ijcsharedwaters.bsky.social, @glcommission.bsky.social, and GL Sea Grant Network. Apply by June 20: buff.ly/6B4TyUj

I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.

This Pride Month, we’re celebrating the beauty of diversity above and below the surface. Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish.

The Narcisse Snake Dens were a real highlight of this trip!

Thanks to everyone who came by to chat about the #GLANSIS Social Science Data Hub at tonight’s poster session! I’ll be co-chairing tomorrow morning’s session on #InvasiveSpecies research and communication (and yes, the lamprey will be there too.) #IAGLR26

Greetings from Winnipeg! #IAGLR26

Welcome to the first day of the IAGLR & SCAS-SCSA 2026 Joint Conference! An exciting week of science and time with colleagues awaits in Winnipeg. For more information: https://bit.ly/4tZr4R4

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

A friend got me this plush sea lamprey “for emotional support” and you better believe this guy will be coming with me to Winnipeg next week for #IAGLR26!

Join us for the 2SLGBTQIA+ Social at the IAGLR & SCAS-SCSA 2026 Joint Conference! Connect, unwind, and build community beyond the sessions. All are welcome—come as you are. Go to the Four Waves portal for details (Things To Do/Social Events tabs). #connectedwaters26 #iaglr26

The #GLANSIS team will be attending and presenting at #IAGLR26 hosted by @iaglr.bsky.social in Winnipeg, Manitoba in late May -- be sure to attend our session #19 on #InvasiveSpecies and come chat with us at the poster session. We'd love to share more of what we've been up to! #GreatLakes #scicomm

I’m presenting a poster on the new social science hub at #IAGLR26! My graduate work was based on secondary analysis of #GreatLakes social science data, so I know exactly how valuable it is. Got some you wanna share? Drop me a line!

One new #GLANSIS feature is a HUC8 watershed lookup that allows users to find and generate a printable map of their own #GreatLakes watershed -- a great tool for place-based learning! Explore the Huc8 Lookup tool at the link: www.glerl.noaa.gov/glansis/HUC8...

#GLANSIS got a facelift, go check it out! My whole team will be at #IAGLR26, so if you want to talk #GreatLakes invasive species data and where to host it, come find us in person in Winnipeg!

🚨 4 fellowship opps w/ the U.S. EPA #GreatLakes National Program Office! 🌊 Gain hands-on experience in #GreatLakes monitoring, restoration, field sampling on the R/V Lake Guardian, #scicomm, data analysis & more. 📍Chicago, IL ✍️ Apply by May 29 🔗 zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

Want to learn your Michigan aquatic plants? Like, really learn them? There are still openings in "Aquatic Plant Identification", a 2-day lab and field course at Kellogg Biological Station, June 17-18. Check it out: www.canr.msu.edu/events/aquat...

Going to @iaglr.bsky.social and @scas-scsa.bsky.social meeting in Winnipeg later this month? Come to the 2SLGBTQIA+ Mixer on Wednesday night, hosted by @inclusivescience.ca! see program page for details: event.fourwaves.com/iaglr-scas26...

I’ll be there!!

#FoodieFriday When it comes to these invasive fungi, if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em -- potentially as a delicious New Orleans-inspired po'boy sandwich! New post from @helloellower.bsky.social on Freshwater Feasts: buff.ly/aocJ99U

These flower-killing hard freezes in April like the one we’re about to get bum me out so profoundly. The world’s hard enough right now without having all the flowering trees turn brown overnight! 😭

The first article in the Journal of Great Lakes Research special section on Science Communication is now in-press! yayyyy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s been a hell of a week. Highly recommend staring into your local vernal pool for a while to regain some perspective (and look for fairy shrimp!)

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

We are deeply concerned by the federal budget proposal for its sweeping, reckless cuts to the agencies and programs that protect the #GreatLakes, enforce #CleanWater laws, and safeguard the drinking water of more than 30 million Americans across the region. Read our full statement: buff.ly/eG8ecFV

Happy spring! It may be gross and rainy out and too cold for bees, but the spring ephemerals of Eastern North America all seem to be out east of the Mississippi! Come meet some friends in the woods near you! 7c140796.flowpaper.com/ephemerals/#...

The president's announcement last week that he's working to save the #GreatLakes from invasive carp comes as his administration has paused funding already appropriated by Congress for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project that aims to stop their spread www.wpr.org/news/trump-w...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just to be clear, invasive carp do pose a significant threat to the #GreatLakes and we need to continue taking action to prevent their introduction, but they're not yet "rapidly taking over Lake Michigan" as the president claimed in a social media post yesterday www.woodtv.com/news/michiga...

🌊 Happy #GreatLakesDay! The #GreatLakes hold ~20% of the world’s surface freshwater & support millions of people & ecosystems. Cheers to the lakes that connect us all! 💙 Learn more about our collaborative #science & partners around the region: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/resources/fa...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

We're bringing in advocates from across the Great Lakes region to D.C. this week for Great Lakes Day! You can learn more about what we're talking to Congressmembers about at HealthyLakes.org/latest-news #GreatLakes #CleanWater

Have to share this on Blue Sky so I hit all the platforms. No better way to celebrate #NISAW2026 than knowing that boaters who are aware of Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers and Clean Drain Dry are more likely to perform AIS prevention actions. SAH! SAH! SAH! SAH!

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Keep it Shrimple

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science! It is a privilege to work with a small but mighty team at the @iaglr.bsky.social where 86% of our staff and contractors is made up of woman in science. #WomenInScience

Help us protect new water bodies and access points from aquatic #invasivespecies by applying for funding for this summer's #GreatLakes AIS Landing Blitz! This annual event unites partners to prevent the spread of AIS at boating access sites. https://ow.ly/E4Xi50Ych2m#invasivespecies#GreatLakes#GLAISBlitz

If you write primarily about nature and environmental issues, it can be hard to see the value of your work during times like these. I wrote about this a bit in my introduction to @biographic.bsky.social's weekly newsletter.

Since January 20, 2025, the #GreatLakes region has lost 19,450 federal jobs including at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (which lost 20% of its workforce) + US Fish & Wildlife Service, threatening scientific research and ecosystem protection www.nemw.org/trump-admini...

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

I’m one of the panelists in this session — tune in if you can!

More delays for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project which aims to prevent invasive carp from entering the #GreatLakes “The federal investment currently is on hold without justification and additional contracts for the project cannot be awarded due to the funding pause" www.mlive.com/environment/...

"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November." It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.

been thinking a lot recently about that story of the bald eagle found dead, next to the body of a loon chick, with a hole in its heart the size and shape of a loon's beak

The Senate passed a package of appropriations bills, sending them to the President’s desk. The bill increases funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and rejects proposed cuts to NOAA and the EPA. Read NEMWI’s Great Lakes analysis here: buff.ly/UlAZcJh

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...