🚨🔥 Warmest Christmas on record for the Contiguous U.S.! The average high of 57.9F and the average low of 36.6F each broke the Christmas record by a full 3F. 🔥🚨

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

It’s a green Christmas in Marin. Have a great day !

Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan.

Trump cuts and uncertainties regarding the operation of the UNOLS oceanographic fleet headlines story of unraveling of decades of investment in Earth observations and research and loss of US scientific leadership. Gift link: wapo.st/4jcO6Qp

Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

40 years ago, there would have likely been no birds here because there was no water flooded on these fields in the winter. Farmers help conservation much more than people realize. AND...they often can and want to do more! #ThisIsTheWay 👏

Happy to see our #IODP379 pub post today! Great working with #AmundsenSea and #JOIDESResolution and #IODP #GulfCoastRepository on int‘l collaborative project led by K.Horikawa: Repeated major inland retreat of #Thwaites & #PineIsland glaciers (#WestAntarctica) #Pliocene www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Insane! While pushing offshore oil and gas drilling all around the US, including off both FL and CA where no body wants it, Trump Administration is pausing wind projects off MA, RI, NY, & VA. Even oil shill Erik Milito thinks this a bad idea. Gift link: wapo.st/491swtz

Holiday wishes from @umflbs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3yd...

What makes the Joint ASLO–SIL 2026 meeting unique? A collaborative conference bringing together limnology and oceanography communities to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. 📖 Read the article: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

It's time to apply for PAID summer internships @umflbs.bsky.social ! Note that our internships are open to all and incl field & lab science as well as data science, marketing, environmental law, journalism, & education. Spread the word! attn @umontana.bsky.social flbs.umt.edu/newflbs/educ...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine Scientist Position – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), full-time, permanent Marine Scientist position based in Panama. Application review begins February 15, 2026 (open until filled). Early-career researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. www.stri.si.edu

Trump comes for the oysters. NOAA slashes existing grant in half for @umces.bsky.social Horn Point hatchery responsible for astounding success of world largest oyster restoration here in Chesapeake Bay. Another assault on science, reason & environment. www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)

High frequency of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) driven by global warming Overall, the long-term trajectory of reported GLOF frequency closely parallels variations in global air temperature, exhibiting a lag-correlated pattern on timescales of ~20 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And do we really have to continue pretending that Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer (Blanche) is the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, when everyone in America knows that he never left the first job and never accepted any of the restrictions or responsibilities of the second?

Failure to recognize this moment as part of the centuries long battle against white supremacist oppression is a dangerous denial, and a gift to the American fascist project. @sifill.bsky.social is right on.

This is a cool food tech innovation indeed. #food #agsky

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year

Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration. cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

“The Department of Defense is the Department of Defense, the Kennedy Center is the Kennedy Center, and the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Fun to see the Jessie B, FLBS’ research vessel, featured on @umontana.bsky.social hype video today. #GoGriz

Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

The Roberts Court Unleashed the Worst President in U.S. History open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Just a massive cover up, and Congress would do well to recall that 3/4 of Americans want the Epstein files released entirely. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-1s...

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

1/3-The International Year for Glaciers’ Preservation is 2025. Annual mass balance observations of alpine glaciers are reported to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) by national reps with a Dec. 1 deadline each year, providing an excellent measure of how they did. Here are four examples.

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

This. Thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

It’s called Nutrient Dilution, it’s global, and it’s driving down the decline of Earth’s herbivores. bsky.app/profile/mike...

It’s called Nutrient Dilution, and it’s not just a problem for the human food supply. bsky.app/profile/mike...

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

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

Windy day on Flathead Lake.

Like living in an extraordinarily beautiful place? Excited about world class aquatic research, education, and outreach? Flathead Lake Biological Station is seeking a new Director: apply.interfolio.com/178916

Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule. Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.

This is an intellectual war crime. NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Had a great time connecting with my PhD advisor, the legendary CR Goldman. Recently turned 95 yrs young.

Do you know students who are keen for a transformative summer in western Montana! Our @umflbs.bsky.social summer session field courses are OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT! Please help spread the word. flbs.umt.edu/apps/educati...

Seen at #AGU2025 in New Orleans

Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs. apply.interfolio.com/178804

Due to a combination of widespread anomalous to record-breaking warmth & a mix of low precip (in Rockies/northern Sierra) and heavy warm rain (vs snow, in Pac NW), numerous locations throughout the American West are reporting their lowest Dec 15 snow water equivalents on record.

Looking for a paid summer research experience? Apply to MSU’s Extreme Biofilms REU and work on cutting-edge biofilm science in extreme environments. No prior research experience needed. #MicroSky #PhageSky

Yes, I will be handing over the tiller @umflbs.bsky.social at the end of 2026. Serving as director has been a true capstone for my career.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.