Loving this beautifully crafted tribute to US Federal scientists and engineers who have operated under unprecedented and understaffed conditions over the past year and more esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @esajournals.bsky.social

Calling all ecology enthusiasts: June's "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment" cover is here featuring an American toad mid-call. New research shows how temperature shapes frog/toad calls—and how females use these cues to time breeding as conditions change Browse the issue: tinyurl.com/y9pfk2k3

New research published in PNAS uses smartphone location data to examine how people changed daily behavior during #WildfireSmoke: https://ow.ly/GGTA50Z1hAy A 2024 National Academies workshop explored why smoke impacts require social, ecological, and #PublicHealth planning: https://ow.ly/sgYs50Z1hHp

More on the destruction of US science: Federal science agencies lost more jobs in 2025 (12%) than over the previous TWO decades (8%), including 30% of personnel at NSF, 20% at USGS, NOAA, and NIH. NASA lost 12% (now up to 24% by Jan 2026). (Data from www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...)

Giant otters!!! Tell me more. Wildlife behavioral reactions to giant otter latrines?! Yes please. @esajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

For the first time, we'll be offering a wilderness first aid certification course at #ESA2026! Learn fundamental field medicine, be an asset to your colleagues in the field & earn a prerequisite for more advanced training in the future! Get notified when registration opens: https://ow.ly/Vuir50YYcrY

No idea when I embraced being that dork tracing a science concept thru literature... cancelling my #ASLOSIL26 😭 trip due to illness gave me unexpected time. I traced back use of chlorophyll as an algal proxy, flaws & all. Joy of reading Juday, Riley, Edmondson... UPSHOT: love-hate of chl is timeless

Hatchings of two California bald eagle chicks delight vast livestream audience

New research confirms Paleolithic origins of the stunning Font-de-Gaume cave art using noninvasive imaging and radiocarbon dating—a major breakthrough in prehistoric studies. In Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/Epfl50YEwHJ In PNAS: https://ow.ly/NvfP50YEwzE

New @science.org article this week summarizes a topic very much on the minds of many, many aquatic scientists and engineers... "Wildfire: A growing threat to water security" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From our boating safety training Monday through Thursday, straight out to the field... Lake Tahoe gave us a beautiful day on the water in Emerald Bay on Friday!

The timing of eruptions from two underwater volcanoes in Greece may be linked, new work suggests. eos.org/articles/tra...

Giant BLOBs are pulling the strings of Earth’s magnetic field. eos.org/articles/wha...

A new study by Patrick Sorensen at @universityofri.bsky.social examines what’s going on under the snow in the winter, with comments by @skivlin.bsky.social from @utknoxville.bsky.social, words by @beccapox.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/whe...

Free to student members! On Monday, get this high-level how-to on peer review and why it's important to advancing the science. esa.org/career-devel...

Emerging land & resource managers, this one is for you! Get an intro to managing invasive plant species straight from a professional. Next Wednesday at 3:00 PM ET: esa.org/career-devel...

Some lovely images in this - 2026 Underwater Photographer of the Year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

High temperatures over the ocean can cause more rain to fall over coastal communities, increasing the likelihood of flooding, property damage, and fatalities, according to new research in @natcomms.nature.com. 🧪🌊🌧️ eos.org/articles/mar...

If you haven't registered yet, now's a great time! *From Field to Figure: A Beginner’s Guide to Taming Messy Data in R* is coming up tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET -- get a gentle, hands-on intro to ecological data analysis. https://esa.org/career-development/professional-development-from-esa/#fieldtofigure

Love this new paper from @tjvmajors.bsky.social and colleagues - looking at contributions of chemosynthetic contributions to net primary productivity with a focus on interesting winter dynamics! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The National Science Foundation just had a big reorganization. Here are five things to know. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/4baWBcS

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

I love our ESA journal Ecology's Scientific Naturalist papers! Check out deep sea squid covered in mud with tentacles masquerading as sessile invertebrates (?!!) ... so many discoveries still out there for ecology!! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @esajournals.bsky.social

📰New from our journals!📰 Moths sipping moose tears, deep-sea squid in disguise, coral reef recovery breakthroughs, and more! Explore six fascinating studies in our latest media tip sheet: https://ow.ly/qUrA50XHajr

A space-based wildlife tracking system that could revolutionize the study of animal migrations and behavior is set to get back online with last week’s SpaceX launch.

Great to see how far gut content analysis has come since I tried to do molecular analysis of notonectid guts in grad school! Metabarcoding to "see" what prey items predators actually ate, not just the crunchy bits still visible under microscope... esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#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?...

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note. Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL

Looking to learn more about #eDNA? Join us Wednesday for this webinar on real-world applications and how and where the tech fits within broader environmental assessment and monitoring frameworks. https://esa.org/career-development/professional-development-from-esa/#edna

It takes patience to have a conversation about definitions as a collaboration begins... but it is important! "Trophic state" in lakes is one of those concepts! It really makes a difference which definition we use... @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I feel like this beautiful bot needs the right symphony accompanying it. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Cuts to Great Lakes science have real impacts—on research, policy, and the people behind the science. Our latest Lakes Letter shares stories and findings from our recent survey. Please read and share: iaglr.org/releases/sur...

Rawr! 🐢

Urban wildfires burn through everything, from cars to refrigerators to mattresses, meaning the smoke and ash they produce can present unique respiratory dangers. eos.org/features/whe... Read more in our September issue: bit.ly/Eos-Sept2025

New winter limnology paper by Ozersky, et al. examining how changing winters will differ across latitudes, finding that the light climate of high latitude lakes is much more sensitive to shifting winter conditions than that of lower latitude lakes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

California Senator Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov joins @ucdavis.bsky.social researchers to learn more about the health of Lake Tahoe. Read more. @ucdavistahoe.bsky.social @sehampton.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/schiff-...

Very excited to welcome Senator Schiff, as well as UC Davis Chancellor May and Vice Chancellor for Research Atkinson aboard our research vessel John LeConte to learn more about Lake Tahoe! www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/ar...

🌊🧪 1/ Job Alert! Are you a world-leading researcher in climate change solutions? UVic’s Canada Excellence Research Chair offers 8 years of support for groundbreaking research. Join our interdisciplinary team @seos-uvic.bsky.social Learn more & apply by Aug 29: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

On July 9, 1976, the R/V John Le Conte was christened as the new Research Vessel for UC Davis on Tahoe! Four generations have relied on the JLC - my undergrad advisor Stan Loeb did his PhD working with Charles Goldman aboard the JLC, and I work aboard the JLC with my students now!

Excited to share our new CA WaterBlog post by RypelLab alum Lauren Hitt 🐟 This post digests our Ecosphere paper on natality of Putah Creek salmon. Habitat is everything & it takes a fully engaged community to generate it. Check it out 👇 californiawaterblog.com/2025/06/29/b...

Tomorrow is the last day of Tahoe Environmental Research Center’s circumnavigation of the lake by kayak - an annual education and fundraising event! It has been a lovely week for boating and community building. Start planning for next year, friends! tahoe.ucdavis.edu/events/kayak...

Wonderful description of this work on UV light in Lake Tahoe! I loved this article

The now 1500 grantees is still 25% less than the usual number of graduate fellowships awarded annually, but a development in the right direction.

Hiring a data/lab manager in my research group! Mostly data “wrangling”, data viz, coding for analysis, lots of learning on the job, coordinating our global data projects with many collaborators, oversight of lab operations. 23 June deadline. Job # 78844 jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu

U.S. scientists are considering research opportunities abroad after the Trump administration gutted research funding, imperiled science-related jobs, and stalled the grant-approval process for clinical studies and research centers.

I was a little surprised to see something less studied than winter limnology! But there it is! Great to work with this team led by Faith Ferrato and the @sapnasharma.bsky.social team

In depth reporting from @npr.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social on why we keep doing the same things and expect different results www.npr.org/2025/06/08/n... #ClimateRisk #Flooding #DisasterRisk #Resilience

The nearly full #moon will lie close to the bright red star #Antares on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Antares is the brightest star in the constellation #Scorpius. A few lucky observers will see the moon pass in front of Antares at 11 UTC on June 10. For more, read here: buff.ly/tKK3V2W

Despite covering 66% of Earth's surface, the DEEP ocean remains largely unexplored. @katycroffbell.bsky.social et al. are the first to document that, in decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...