I am not anti-fishing. I am not anti- shark fishing. But hammerheads in particular are species of significant conservation concern, and one of the worst candidates for “catch and release” of any known fish species. And it’d be nice if media coverage *of hammerhead fishing* mentioned that

this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.

Ray Troll is always happy to present salmonid life history. 🧪🌎🐟

It me. 🧪🦑🌎🐟 #SciComm

I’m finishing up revisions to an #aquaculture paper with a bunch of amazing scientists, but can’t shake the feeling of doing a very normal thing in such an abnormal time in the States. Vibes are off, to say the least. Anyone else??

📖Published📖 In their new research article, Williams et al. conducted extensive simulations to evaluate modelling approaches for handling dependence in effect sizes and sampling errors in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

This is the type of content I wish was flooding my feed.

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Marking to read.

So glad to see this made accessible again!

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.

Well, this is reassuring: "We find no significant difference between the climate strategies of companies that purchased carbon offsets and those that did not" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My first PhD student successfully defended here dissertation and graduated! Huge congratulations to Dr. Claire Gonzales 🎉🎉🎉🎓🎓🎓 If you have social-ecological questions about co-location of clean energy and #aquaculture, ask her 🐟

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies. By @juliaradio.bsky.social

with alt-text, which takes literal seconds to do w/images of text. All you have to do is click the icon at the bottom right of the image, hit “copy”, and then paste it in. Make adjustments as needed.

As enforcement continues to ramp up, we’ve be updating this list with federal immigration actions that impact farms, other sectors of the food system, and workers themselves. buff.ly/ycPi135

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

My daughter’s school went on lock down today. She is 3. I raced down to sit and wait with all the other parents in the parking lot to be let in. I can’t explain how angry, sad, and scared I felt. Still feel. People in this country love guns more than children. Living like this is a policy choice.

And in case you need a primer on what to talk about, here is our open access paper on the seafood EO (and the one from 2020 that still stands): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Move to a blue state if you want to live.

Maine #aquaculture, I see you 🦪🦪🦪

Restricting life saving vaccines but not guns…that’s where we have ended up.

A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”

I'm reading about children killed in yet another shooting while sitting in the very campus building in which my department's former head was killed by a man wielding a gun and I am so far from okay I don't know where to start

For the eleventy billionth time: Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere. It means a lot less science for everyone. There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.

Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.

Cracker Barrel was founded in 1969 by a sales rep for Shell Oil, who developed the restaurant + gift store concept as a plan to improve gasoline sales. Locations in the early 1970s leased land on gas station sites near interstate highways for this purpose

A new study reveals a striking pattern: certain shocks, especially those linked to climate, technology, and conflict, are far more likely to strike together. When these shocks collide, they can also amplify one another. Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

In today's article, learn how a chance discussion with the chair of Harvard’s statistics department changed everything about how I think about learning statistics. Click here to read the full article: kareemcarr.substack.com/p/the-hardes...

Dispatches from a Sinking Science Fisheries scientist Holden Harris reflects on being fired from NOAA and what the loss of public science means for our oceans, our climate, and our future. themarjorie.org/2025/08/07/d...

This spring, Donald Trump opened up an important marine protected area to industrial-scale fishing. A judge just blocked that move and for now the area is once again protected. www.courthousenews.com/judge-discon... 🧪🦑🌎🐠

This is sheer madness…the self inflicted dystopia is sickening www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

My NSF subward via UCLA has been frozen by the federal government. This is not normal…

For @biographic.bsky.social, writer @craigwelch.bsky.social followed @hakai.org scientist @rhizalyssa.bsky.social's quest to unveil the the killer that decimated populations of sea stars off the West Coast. It took a few years but the lab's hard work paid off: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

My first PhD student is defending in September. Her dissertation topic? Clean energy and #aquaculture co-location. I think she might have just found her necessary video intro for her defense.

Every time I open LinkedIn, someone from a science agency shares an unplanned (forced) early retirement or RIF. Lately it’s NASA & EPA. In spring, NOAA. I think people have no idea how deep this loss really is. I don’t know what rebuilding federal science looks like, but it won’t be simple or quick.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities - Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...

Apropos of nothing at all ...

This rollercoaster of a @nature.com story is out! I talked to > 20 researchers whose grants were terminated; several were reinstated recently. Most are competing for smaller pots of $ to keep research--often involving marginalized community groups--alive. Advice: “If at all possible, push back.”

For the right person, this is a once-in-a-lifetime unicorn dream job.

Lots of speculation on how/why Colbert’s show was cancelled. I distinctly remember giving a presentation on media capture in early Fall 2024. Audiences were skeptical that my insights from Turkey - or those of my panelists from India and Venezuela - had anything to do with the US. Ah well.

Conspiracy beliefs can undermine social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability by reducing support for public health, social cohesion, environmental protection, and economic cooperation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you need some talking points to share with your elected officials, I wrote some here and got dozens of scientific professional societies to sign on www.ucs.org/about/news/s... 🧪 @ucs.org

Because the actual reality in the USA is too upsetting…