Hunger is a policy choice. Or, as we have seen during 2025-26, policy choice after policy choice after policy choice.

As a #seafood expert, I can confirm this is stupid. Thank you for your attention. 😒 www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Excited to share our new OA paper exploring the scales and quantitative drivers of 'blue transitions' (aka fishing🎣 ➡️ aquatic farming🌊🚜) using California as a case study #aquaculture (1/10) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

New metaphor just dropped

LA. You got this.

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

How to further weaken US science and hinder scientific progress…

Complete madness. NSF once again stops giving out grants to the best universities in the US. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So here's what happened to my lab (and @viralemergence.org). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For the people in the back 📢

🌊 The ocean absorbs >90% of Earth’s excess heat, and our ability to track it depends on a fragile global network of floats, ships and sensors. New research warns that cuts to the Global Ocean Observing System could make climate signals indistinguishable from noise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ooft. Two rejections on my first big EU grants. At least some things stay the same no matter the country 🥴

“The UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the US – which is the world’s biggest historical emitter – among the small group opposing it” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Finally we are recruiting a physical geographer in the school of the environment at the university of Queensland, Australia. Looking for researchers who are passionate about teaching. Keen for people working in hydrology, geomorphology, climate modelling. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare...

Favorite post. Ever.

Happy Mother’s Day! Sharks get a whole week.

My move to Finland has made headlines in the Nordics. My decision was not easy, and the transition is very hard (no shock there). But long term, I’m looking for joy in science again and societal support for my daughter 🇫🇮: www.hbl.fi/finland/amer...

Just talked to a federal science agency program officer about why no money is going out the door despite congressional appropriations. To award funding, they have to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Those aren’t being approved. And funding over $100k has to be approved. They aren’t.🤬

@dochfroehlich.bsky.social intervjuas i Hufvudstadsbladet. Nice interview in one of the national newspapers! We really should try to attract even more U.S. academics here, even if the reason many are moving is lamentable.

📉 In 2025, around 90% of the continent had fewer cold stress days than average – a record low. 📈 41% of Europe saw more ‘strong’ heat stress days & parts of southern Europe had up to 30–40 more tropical nights. Get more insight ⬇️ @ecmwf.int @wmo-global.bsky.social #CopernicusClimate

Seven years later and the last paper from my Sea Grant project has finally been (provisionally) accepted 🥳

Update from #Finland: socialized healthcare is amazing. Got super sick (yay new Nordic viruses!), went to a private clinic (closest Doc) and it was $150 out the door. Mind you, my health insurance hasn’t even started. Oh, and everyone spoke English and was very nice 🇫🇮

Every school in the US needs a ballroom.

This seems right Academic freedom slides globally, as it takes a nosedive in the US www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi...

While Finland has amazing transit (been my favorite part so far!), it also has winter. So, we will be buying an EV (duh).

Just gonna put this right here… fortune.com/2025/01/29/f...

I’m in Finland now and I can confirm America looks nuts from the outside too.

Proposed cuts to US science funding (tens of billions of dollars) will shrink the US economy by $1 trillion over ten years. Because investing in science results in multiple returns. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

We made it! #Finland 🇫🇮

Yesterday, I overheard a woman praising the Artemis II launch and in the next breath concluded there is no way we went to the moon 50 years ago because of how complicated it looks.😑

Good news everyone! Science still matters for space travel.

Honestly, not shocked. One study found most of the microplastics we consume come from our own clothes…so now you all have to sit with that too, I guess.

Math is the universal language after all.

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m... Very strong article by @dwallacewells.bsky.social on the transition problem: it's easy to see a future world that's better than the one we have but getting there can be messy and v. hard.

Our stuff is being picked up and put on a barge today! Less than a week until our departure 😱🇫🇮

Astonishing: US taxpayers to pay out $1 billion to cancel a wind farm and pump more oil and gas. Removing an affordable source of electricity when prices are rising. Adding to global warming. Pushing up the cost to the US economy. Polluting more. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Social services, public trust, a competent president, and saunas are cool and all, but perhaps #Finland is the happiest country in the world for 9 yrs running due to the highest number of metal bands per capita? 🤘🏻

Hello Ricker curve 👋🏻

This! 1000 times this!

So sad 📉 - they're just gone. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Things are apocalyptic for science in the US. It might not seem that way to everyone because many academic scientists have tenure and get to keep their jobs (for now), and most grants last three years, so many scientists still have funding. But it's going to get way worse.

#aquaculture " #RhodeIsland -based Newport Mussels announced Friday that its offshore project is designed to produce over 12 million pounds of blue #mussels a year in federal waters." Proposed offshore mussel farm would be US' first in North Atlantic | Intrafish share.google/klyr2zHEF9cV...

It is really too bad the Sacramento Pikeminnow, and its relative the Northern Pikeminnow, are blamed for declining Salmon populations. On the West Coast, Salmon and Pikeminnow are clearly co-evolved. Salmon are declining primarily because of habitat issues.

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

This article tells the story of what researchers have been going through over the past 14 months. As funding dries up, professors struggle to keep people employed and to keep doing the work. The Trump Administration is destroying so much science in this country. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

I wonder how our parallel universe is doing after voting in a woman…

Some people who think RFK Jr. is crazy wrong on vaccines (he is!) believe he's some kind of north star on food because he says "eat real food" - which EVERYONE in food has always said. He's mostly crazy wrong about food, too. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social explains. www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-ken...