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...

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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/...

The National Science Foundation (nsf.org) promotes US basic research that both focuses in, and explores big picture, along the way they solving problems facing our nation and expand our possibilities by taking us beyond what has yet been imagined. Thank you NSF! #nsf #susiremoldartthankyous

NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission enables us to map global surface freshwater components including rivers, lakes and wetlands with high-resolution measurements (~200 m). Explore SWOT data and its potential applications in this training series: go.nasa.gov/4jcVk5J

An amazing & productive conference is coming your way, free and virtual!! Registrations still open for the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) Annual Meeting: "Impact at Scale: Creating Lasting Change in the Deep Ocean Community" May 27-29, 2025 on Zoom www.deepoceanobserving.org/pages/2025-a...

The colossal squid, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water. Now, researchers report that it has been filmed in its natural habitat for the first time. Learn more: scim.ag/3GzVNRq

Great introductory video that reminds us what a long journey water makes around our planet through rain and snow, glaciers, rivers, lakes, wetlands, or even a few moments in puddles before going underground or back to the atmosphere.

Biologists Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi are exploring Nigeria’s bat diversity—and trying to save it.

As someone who puts extra effort into visualising the discoveries we make, I’m beyond proud to see my photography featured in the 'ScienceShots' category on @science.org. 🐛🧪

All hail the resilient rotifer! All-female and able to survive 24,000 years on ice - the bdelloid rotifer in the running for The Guardian's 2025 invertebrate of the year! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've nominated the bdelloid rotifer for The Guardian's "Invertebrate of the Year" and out of over 2000 nominations it got shortlisted... WOOHOO! Go see and vote: #InvertebrateOfTheYear #TheGuardian #bdelloid #rotifer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More great work by J. Weitz and colleagues.

Winter lake ice is important for ecology and economies, and also for cultural traditions. People living around Lake Suwa in Japan perform a ceremony around an ice ridge that forms in winter across the lake, but the lake has not fully frozen for 18 of the past 25 yr www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

The moon will cast its shadow on Earth’s surface on Saturday, a phenomenon that people in parts of the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and Africa will get to experience as a partial solar eclipse. Here's how to watch.

Our Observation of the Day is this Bearded Reedling bird (Panurus biarmicus), seen in Belgium by a_delaere! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

In the final stretch of my PhD thesis on nests, I keep thinking about this pigeon's masterpiece. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just done. Let’s do this! 🐦🪶 #PhD #PhDsky 🧪

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of Mesozoic mammal coloration in Science, hinting at their shrouded and nocturnal nature. scim.ag/41sKMZ9

#Narwhals, whales with a long tusk, seem like otherworldly creatures. Researchers said they've used drones to observe them, revealing how they use their tusks to go after prey like Arctic char and engage in play-like behavior. 🐋🌊 buff.ly/mhaxVSS 📸 O’Corry-Crowe, FAU/ Watt, DFO.

Nominations are open for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement - for individuals or organizations advancing science that has had real, measurable, positive environmental outcomes! Nominations due 2 May. www.tylerprize.org

Rule #8: Present Support of Science as a Means to Meet National and Local Goals. www.aaas.org/news/top-ten...

Creative methods for dating birds' nests by examining the anthropogenic materials used, including the pandemic signature of face masks! Published in the always-interesting Scientific Naturalist section of Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️