We invite you to propose a session for the 2026 joint conference of IAGLR and the Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences. The conference will be held May 25–29, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a hybrid event. https://bit.ly/4lpMJNK #connectedwaters26 #IAGLR26

Really proud to be a co-author on this new paper, led by the brilliant @ulaskimarta.bsky.social Check out the key highlights in this thread 👇

Each Friday, I summarize what happened this week in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 29: - new executive order makes a mockery of peer review - UCLA facing demand for $1 Billion, patents are latest attack on Harvard - mRNA, climate assessments & so much more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper! What we think we know, know we don’t know, and don’t know we don’t know, when it comes to working on environment and climate issues. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Now is the time to take the day off. Then tomorrow, start planning for how you will mobilize people as they start to realize they’ve been fucked over. How will you help people channel their anger into making change? The time is now (after a day off) for working out your answer.

Update: The Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave today and launched an investigation into their signing of an open letter criticizing agency leadership. See our initial reporting. ⬇️

The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

On May 23, President Trump signed an executive order he’s calling a “restoration of gold standard science.” But don’t be fooled, this is not about scientific integrity. It’s about political control. The order gives Trump’s political appointees sweeping power over federal science. They can now:

The application deadline for our second cohort of the Africa-UBC Oceans and Fisheries Visiting Fellows Program has been EXTENDED to June 30, 2025! oceans.ubc.ca/applytoafric...

We are using LinkedIn to promote #Upwell2025 We'd appreciate if you'd share this link www.linkedin.com/events/upwel...

An excellent resource to bookmark: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Join us on Tuesday! Register to get the link.

If a facility emits CO₂ but no one measures it, does it cause global warming?

Please help me get this opportunity in front of as many potential future marine biologists as possible. We have a team standing by to answer their questions but we need questions!

Only 15 vote no. After 18 months of daily photos and testimonies of Palestinians being horribly killed by American weapons and 82 senators vote to keep funding genocide.

Godspeed!

FYI Folks, for a while NOAA's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool was down. It's back up now! Everybody go check it out and then DOWNLOAD the data so that if/when NOAA resources continue to be gutted, we can still use that data. edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. And we need to be real about what that means in 2025. This isn’t just a day of celebration. It’s a day of resistance. Of community. Of standing up for trans people whose rights, safety, and dignity are under full-scale attack.

🚨 Call for Applications! 🚨 The International Fisheries Section of AFS is accepting applications for the 2025 IFS Fellow Award! The Fellow will present at the FSBI-IFM-Queen’s University Belfast Joint Symposium (July 7-11, 2025). Apply by April 25: units.fisheries.org/ifs/ifs-awar... 🐟🧪🌎🦑

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

This street art activism zoom workshop is TONIGHT

The Google map of Stand Up for Science events (March 7th!) listing the Gulf of America as an alternate name for the Gulf of Mexico tells you why such events are necessary...

The Muslim holy month of #Ramadan is beginning – a month of fasting and reflection. For those unfamiliar with the holiday, here’s what you need to know. And for those who celebrate, we wish you Ramadan Mubarak 🕌

Hi community: we have put together a gofundme to support our colleagues who lost their jobs at AOML yesterday. Please feel free to share this across your networks. Thank you for your support 💜 gofund.me/248bb5c1

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌎

I conducted my graduate research under the USGS Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Outdoor enthusiasts, please reach out to your representatives. These infographics were compiled and designed by several fish and wildlife graduate students at the University of Idaho.

Friends, I need y'all to reach out to your representatives and do some advocacy for Tribal College students 🙏 Please see the announcement below. NIEA and AIHEC are also engaging in this Call to Action! Please share.

Super excited that this amazing book is finally available for preorder. It was written by over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world and contains stories, poetry, and critical thought pieces on how TEK is used and extracted from our communities and what folks are doing to protect it.

JUST ANNOUNCED: We are excited to open applications for the 9th year of the NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship. Awards of $3,000 available for students and early-career science communicators undertaking summer internships. Learn more and apply by April 1: www.nasw.org/2025Div...

"Roots & Reverie: Nature Narratives" storytelling in Victoria, BC www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events... * Thursday, April 3 @ 7 pm * Hosted by @royalbcmuseum.bsky.social and Special Bird Service Society * Storytellers Lajah Warren, Sarah Jim, me, and Parker Johnson

#MutualAid for 🔭 affected by the illegal firings and attacks on 🧪 by the Trump-Musk administration! Thanks to all involved in organizing this ✊🏽 www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

This thread aligns what I’ve been arguing & writing about in our weekly debrief (buttondown.com/liminalcreat...) All weekend, I’ve been advising scientists to exert intensified internal pressure now. Power calculations are always shifting: leaders need more than lawyers in their ears.

READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

FRIDAY: Join us online as Dr. Caroline Ferguson Irlanda from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social discusses "Decolonial Partnerships in Fisheries Science". 11 am PT. RSVP required: oceans.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

NSF plans to lay off a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months. www.eenews.net/articles/sci... This reckless move will shatter U.S. scientific leadership and cripple innovation for generations.

For all the cisgender people looking for an instruction manual on what to do next, here you go: medium.com/@sbearbergma... (From the inimitable @sbearbergman.bsky.social )

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

Canadian Researchers*: It's time to get organized** to support research in the next election. *All disciplines. **Support for research is not something we can take for granted. It is not "politicizing science" or anything like that when researchers make the case for the need for research.

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

If you are in the DC area - please show up! Everyone who can get out there and make noise, do so. We need to be on the streets.

Be the woman hitting a nazi with her handbag that you wish to see in the world.

And look, I know you'll probably hate this advice, too, but call. Don't email. Don't use one of those resistbot-style auto commenters. Don't use a generic template. Call and talk about why your representative is failing you, their constituent.

NSF Cancels Grant Reviews to ‘Ensure Compliance’ With Trump’s Executive Orders Scheduled review panels for National Science Foundation grant applications are on pause until Feb. 1. Some researchers believe the pause may be connected to the new... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jxU7qQ

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If you’d like to know more about the extremely valid philosophical basis for this admonition, well… that’s exactly what my last publication was about. Give it a read!