Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

#MarineLife #SciArt 🦑🌊🐡🦀

Dictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday

Mother in the nest with her chicks. Cladonia #lichen with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #botany

Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...

I hear that the bird of the day is groups. Surf scoters, a few thousand, floating into Imperial Beach, CA in early November 2023. A day I’ll never forget.

I’m trying to send holiday cards, but Sephy has other ideas 🐈‍⬛🎄 #Catmas

This looks incredible and I ABSOLUTELY will be going to see it

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459... Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l... I'll try to follow along live.

Published!📖 Population loss of a key foundation species at its trailing range edge will have significant impacts on temperate rocky shore communities on both wave-exposed and sheltered shores🌊 Read more:https://buff.ly/mZttcjw

Another shrimply silly nature drawing for #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡

Oarorboros 🤌🤌🤌 #marinelife🦑🧪

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

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

NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky

We’re getting lots of new Bluesky friends! Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑

Cladonia #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Fun collab w an awesome group of ecologists, led by Jenn Williams and Tom Miller! Linking Climate and Demography to Predict PopulationDynamics and Persistence Under Global Change dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Meet the R/V Neil Armstrong—A ship designed for discovery, innovation, and ocean exploration! Owned by the Office of Naval Research, we operate ARMSTRONG on behalf of the nation’s scientific community. Exploring the Atlantic since 2016, ARMSTRONG supports ocean research through @unols.bsky.social.

This is a really neat paper highlighting how urban juncos have different beak shapes from their wild counterparts and that urban birds’ beaks reverted to the “wild” shape during COVID lockdowns on the UCLA campus. 🪶 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!

Well, scientists, I have good news and I have bad news for you. The good news is now you only get one reviewer. The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Hard to overstate how concerning this is. There are over 46,000 people, a school, and a hospital in the flash flood warning area. Washington communities have been bracing for levee failures as another round of atmospheric rivers arrives to full rivers and saturated soils.

Kelp at Ogden Point

#Caturday 🐈‍⬛💕

Working on an intro / break for “Katy Daley.” 🪕 #BanjoFeed youtube.com/shorts/9_0wc...

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Egregiously egregious *Egregia*. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

Wow! Way to help the #kelp! #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

"Fatigue" by artist John Brosio #crustmas

🩶 Wonderful news this week: A new bundle of joy, or shall we say a new calf, has been spotted traveling with K-Pod in Puget Sound! #pnw #orcas #Washington #killerwhale #orca #pugetsound www.king5.com/article/news...

#tidepooling My first ever Stearn's aeolid nudibranch (Austraeolis stearnsi), photographed an hour before my cousin's wedding rehearsal dinner in Laguna Beach (socal) last month. 🦀🦑

Skagit County has issued a GO NOW evacuation order for all residents in the 100-year flood plain. Find out if your home is affected: www.skagitcounty.net/Maps/iMap/?m...

#MarineLife #Invertebrate #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

On a roll, so I'll keep going. The Antarctic isopod Ceratoserolis trilobitoides. Amazing animals, some quite large (~5cm or so!) found all around the Antarctic continental shelf. C. Held took this amazing photo for our team on a cruise (LMG 13-12).🦑🧪🌎🐧🇦🇶

Melibe aka hooded nudibranchs amongst bull kelp blades #nudibranch #melibe #kelp #bullkelp #pnwscuba #pnwwildlife #washingtonwildlife #uwmacro #uwmacrophotography #kelpforest #olympicpeninsula #olympustg6

The Striped Sun Star (Solaster stimpsoni) is another PNW native that typically has 10 arms and feeds on sea cucumbers and sea pens. It is commonly eaten by its cousin the Morning Sea Star (Solaster dawsoni). How rude! #marinelife

Hi US science folks, NSF has released some policy changes to the document I know you’ve memorized: the PAPPG. Take a look, send me your questions, I’ll add them to our own and try to get some answers. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Monsanto scientists ghostwrote this paper claiming the company’s proprietary glyphosate & roundup herbicides had no risk to human health. 25 years & 1300 citations later, it has finally been retracted — 8 years after the collusion was exposed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Union Pacific rail line through Elkhorn Slough, between Watsonville and Salinas. Totally submerged during #KingTides on Dec. 5, 2025.

In 2020, more than 70,000 tons of rock was placed onto the ocean floor in carefully engineered mounds to restore the rocky reef habitat that fish, kelp, and countless marine creatures need to survive. Today, that effort is paying off in unexpected ways #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/12/09/n...

Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology

We’ve had some stunning sunsets recently 😍🌅🌊 #TidesOutTuesday

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