Found my new go-to fishing joke!

Out: virtue signaling. In: Vice signaling!

Oh, so now Notre Dame is pro-choice?

My 6yo and I played the closest possible game of Sorry today. He (yellow) pulled the 3 to go out. The next card was a 1.

427.05 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 06-Dec-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Really starting to feel more and more like we scientists are just rearranging deck chairs.

This was the same justification used to authorize the Juvenile Goliath Grouper harvest, too. That one just never made it to court where they had to admit it publicly.

#Florida's first bear hunt in 10 years starts today (despite science saying no hunt should take place). These people won permits to hunt -- but say they won't use them. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

My column this week points out that this #Florida bear hunt flies in the face of science, but the FWC says it doesn't have to follow science. floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/f...

A Florida bear hunt is a sad and pathetic thing. It's a blight on the wildlife commission that approved it and lied about bear populations in the state, which are on the decline due to massive and unwise clearcutting for development. DeSantis and the Repubs in charge are sacks of shit.

Can confirm. Targeting sunfish is a lot of fun, especially with kids.

Travel from the comfort of your own home this #25DaysofFishmas as we explore fishes from all across the US each day in December. Best part? No sleeping on air mattresses in guest rooms! The road trip kicks off with fishes from the southeastern US on Monday Dec. 1!

One of the dumbest #Florida legislators ever elected, Rep. Randy Maggard, is trying again to eliminate all local govt regulations protecting wetlands and water quality, even though the state is doing an abysmal job. floridapolitics.com/archives/766...

Oof.

Thinking about all of my US colleagues today that work for USGS, USFWS, US Parks Service, NOAA and the EPA. From front line environmental practitioners to scientists and policy makers, these folks ensure that waters are swimmable, fish are edible, that natural areas are accessible, etc, etc, etc.

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

423.72 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 21-Sep-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

People, be more careful of your use of conjunctions! For example, "Stealing is bad, but the people who worked at the store were mean," suggests exception to the prior clause, while "Stealing is bad, and the store smelled like wet feet" adds information while retaining the meaning of both clauses.

We need more people reading The Monkey Wrench Gang.

Florida announces plan to reduce the number of children living to adulthood.

True. And always happy to assist.

Well then that was fucking stupid of them.

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

Found 6 of my scientific papers here.

Trump Tarriff Tracker: the fancy French jelly is now too expensive. We have been forced to switch from a Bonne Maman family to a Smuckers family.

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

Friends, I am excited to announce that I am running a version of my graduate-level shark biology and ecology course through Center for Wildlife Studies! There are two versions you can take, both of which can offer graduate course credit or continuing professional education credit! 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

Annie Dillard wrote, "I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees." She sure can write a fucking sentence. AD knows where to put the commas. Could've put one after earth, but what a mistake that would've been. Could've used a word inferior to intricate. Instead, perfect sentence.

Enough of you asked me about this that I wrote some brief thoughts on Ocean Ramsey's particular brand of pseudoscientific nonsense. I believe this addresses almost all of the frequently asked questions I receive, but as always I am happy to answer serious questions asked in good faith. 🧪🦑🌎🦈

Just received a grant proposal result months overdue. Not awarded, but the main takeaway for me was out of 76 proposals, only 7 will be funded!

Fascinating paper on something I never thought of: When we remove big old animals from wild populations (like fish) we might be losing important cultural transmission in species that learn from elders - Essentially culling transmission of collective knowledge onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

NONE in Life science?! NONE?!

Nearly 4,000 federal science grants terminated. A group of volunteers built Grant Watch to track it—now their data is showing up in court. I talked to Noam Ross about how it started and what it means. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... #ScienceIsEssential #GrantWatch #NIH #NSF #ACLU #DataJournalism

Neglecting to consider mortalities can create bias in telemetry studies. The R package 'mort' identifies potential mortalities &/or expelled tags in passive telemetry arrays, filling an important gap in workflows when analysing passive telemetry data🐾👇 buff.ly/YFB55q0

Lucky me, YouTube suggested one of those "classical composer listens to Radiohead for the first time" last night and now I've got OK Computer on as loud as my ear buds will allow, waiting in Key West for an airplane

Toxic to the rule of law, and yet another example of ICE/CBP deliberately *not* looking for all those supposed criminals, drug traffickers, terrorists, etc. They're going for literally the least dangerous, most law-abiding people they can find, the ones following every rule. The easiest targets.

The non-partisan thinktank Energy Innovation calculated the average US household will see its utility bills rise by over $230 by 2035 as a result of cuts to renewable energy investments. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This budget proposal will make your life worse. Call your elected officials and oppose it.

Seems odd that ICE started with the actively employed (and paying taxes! Without receiving benefits!) and those showing up for their court appearances, right?

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

As a recently retired Southeast U.S. NWS MIC, I would instruct my staff and advise partners to not take significant notice of the GFS model tropical cyclones until Days 5-7 and especially if other deterministic and probabilistic models didn't show anything.

Question from a livestream viewer: “How many lives are collectively impacted by [NOAA's] monitoring and rapid response work.” John Cortinas: “I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would probably start by saying the entire population of the United States…"

Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera

Absolutely critical information here:

If you are the PI of an NSF project and have navigated difficult decisions about how to rescope work with regard to Broadening Participation, I'd love to talk offline and confidentially for peer to peer support and knowledge sharing. If that's not you, please ignore this. DMs open, etc.

Or the time when a senior scientist at my org suggested I look into "trophic ecology" and stop working on movement. Because their lab has movement in the name, I should do something else. (I still work on movement ecology)