in the field for #sturgeonsaturday ive spent the last 2 yrs investigating what is killing BC white sturgeon unfortunately, these deaths continue & we’ve had over 50 adult sturgeon die in the fraser river in the last ~6 weeks every fish i sample is another step closer to solving the mystery🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

"...ferocious fire in recent years, fueled by climate change, has proved fatal to the trees that experts once thought were impervious to flame. An estimated 20% of the world’s mature giant sequoias have died in the last decade due to severe wildfires..."

I led a “punk science” activity for our incoming freshman biology majors at our orientation event. They made zines and fliers on any topic they chose. Here’s a sample:

In the coming weeks, the Trump regime plans to mobilize 1,700 National Guard troops to 19 states—most of which are Republican-controlled—to support ICE, their domestic terrorist organization. They’re targeting these states: AL, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, LA, NE, NV, NM, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WY

hiiiii i’ve been mia for a bit but im back with looooots of field work photos - we’re doing some really cool sturgeon science this summer!! here i am, in my element holding my fave creature, trying to save the dinosaurs one sturgie at a time 🫶🏼 #sturgeonsaturday everyday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🐟🌎🌐

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

All of the conservation-related, science-based elements of the Forest Service are to be terminated or cut to the bone, while remaining functions to be centralized and narrowly focused on one goal -- timber production. This is an irreversible national disaster in the making.

out of pure rage for the obliteration of science funding i made a sticker cuts are disproportionately impacting EC scientists & women~particularly Black women and women of color 25% of proceeds will go to @standupforscience.bsky.social to keep fighting! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎 plz share widely tinyurl.com/5n7kjbwt

UPDATE: Workers at FOUR of the most important US science agencies have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership. After initially delaying their letter due to fears of retaliation, NSF workers have gone ahead anyway, and joined their colleagues at NIH, EPA, and NASA in speaking up.

These members of the NIH Council of Councils are voicing serious concerns about NIH grant terminations, restructure, and budget cuts go.nature.com/46Vr8t2

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 National Science Foundation Letter of Dissent Against the Administration's Actions

Within the last 6 months, 402 attacks on science have been counted. “Attacks on science” include actions, statements, or decisions from an elected official in a federal agency that results in the censoring, manipulation or misinforming on science data/results/conclusions conducted w/in the govt.🧪

Hey my sci-peeps! Just an FYI- this take true courage. Lend your voice. Tell you office of research to fight back. If we don’t #StandUpForScience who will? 🧪🧬🦠🌎🔬🔭🥼

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

i was recently interviewed by @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social about my phd, science, art, really all things 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🐠🌎 still over the moon i got this award, sometimes i am still reminding myself that i did a phd 🥲 check it out! 👇🏼 blog.csz-scz.ca/2025/06/30/s...

the horrors persist, but so do closeups of baby sturgeon everyone say hi to the cutest fish alive!! #sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

There's a lot of talk about medicaid in the big awful bill but hardly anyone talking about how it will turn ICE into the largest law enforcement agency in the country and world's largest jailer. This is the equivalent of the enabling acts and will be the start of an ethnic cleansing campaign.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

"Our results suggest that MHWs will become very frequent and extreme under global warming, probably pushing marine organisms and ecosystems to the limits of their resilience and even beyond, which could cause irreversible changes" #ClimateCrisis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

everyone! look at this baby sturgeon! literally the cutest creature to ever exist but unfortunately we have less and less of them in BC with juvenile recruitment issues it’s always so awesome to find lil untagged bbs - this trip 5/14 of our sturgeon were untagged! #sturgeonsaturday everyday🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

we’re so back baby!! an excellent start to the sturgeon field season today :) here’s a 7ft sturgeon being released #sturgeonsaturday everyday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑

getting ready for field season, prepping a lot of tubes…. have yall ever seen something as unhinged and excessive as single packaged eppendorf tubes!!??!! why do these even exist!! 😅😫🙇🏻‍♀️ 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Crab-apple 🦀🍎 (🧑‍🎨: Rob Foote, 'Samples from the Lab', www.robfoote.net)

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

fuuuuuuuuck

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Interesting new paper that very much goes against the idea that older trees stop sequestering carbon. "Delaying harvests of healthy large trees in these forests would likely enhance wood production and undoubtedly carbon sequestration and storage." 🌎🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

7/ The take away is that that we'll see climate impacts sooner than previously predicted. We therefore need to redouble efforts to phaseout fossil fuels, whilst at the same time investing in adaptation We must avoid a doom-loop where the impacts of climate chaos derail our ability to cut emissions

5/ This pre-print by Foster an @rahmstorf.bsky.social shows that this acceleration in global warming means we will breach the 1.5C goal in 2026! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

3/ Scientists now believe this rules out lower #climate sensitivity estimates Which "means that increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases likely will cause even more warming than most current models predict." Our carbon budgets are smaller. Meeting the Paris goals is harder.

2/ The Earth is absorbing energy faster than climate models had predicted... "Observations from space of the energy imbalance shows that it is rising much faster than expected, and in 2023 it reached values two times higher than the best estimate from IPCC"

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Seeing Brad Lander, NYC's comptroller and a mayoral candidate (also my former neighbor and city councilman) violently arrested by trump's immigration gestapo is making me sick to my stomach.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

May 2025 breaks an unprecedented long sequence of months over 1.5ºC above pre-industrial 🌡️ May 2025 was the second warmest May globally 📈 May 2025 was 1.40°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average 🌊 SSTs were the 2nd highest on record for May, with an extreme marine heatwave in the North Atlantic

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

Earlier today we were at B.C. Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix’ office with our friends at @wildernews.bsky.social ‬to deliver a petition with 10,000+ names calling on him to reject FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG expansion. Read more: bit.ly/43ZW88k #BCPoli #TilburyLNG 📷 Dani Costelo

BREAKING: The British Columbia government just granted the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline a designation permanently securing its environmental approval, paving the way for construction to start this summer. Conflict on the ground could soon follow thenarwhal.ca/prgt-pipelin...

have yall ever seen a 1day old sturgeon?? right out of the egg? WELL NOW YOU HAVE barely any eyes, no gills, just vibes & yes that tube is their beating heart 💓 (microscope vid so plz forgive the lighting) #sturgeonsaturday everyday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎 (p.s. get some sturgie stickers tinyurl.com/3dd65s4p)