The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

hiiii it’s me!! as a pretty burnt out scientist but i’ve found joy again in making ceramics :) i’m working on my first small batch drop that will be inspired by my love of color and the natural world if you have instagram and want to be friends find me @madart_ceramics 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎🍒🫐🐚💫

hiiii it’s me!! as a pretty burnt out scientist but i’ve found joy again in making ceramics :) i’m working on my first small batch drop that will be inspired by my love of color and the natural world if you have instagram and want to be friends find me @madart_ceramics 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎🍒🫐🐚💫

i’ve been dabbling in pottery to keep some portion of my sanity together and turns out i super love it and want to make it my whole life 💫🥲 is this the scientist to artist pipeline? 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎 here are some to go cups i made recently! hand painted fruits on speckled clay #pottery #ceramics #handmade

happy #sturgeonsaturday yall 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 🌎 Did ya know that during winter sturgeon do a thing i call cuddle puddle? they find a deep hole to overwinter in & hang out cuddle puddling until spring! we are working to identify & protect these areas now support the sturgies, get a sticker: tinyurl.com/2fjnxy7w

Excellent piece by Matz @heatshok.bsky.social and colleagues discussing the dire status of Caribbean reefs, and potential plans and policies that can be implemented if these reefs are to have any chance. Check it out in PNAS!

ice continues to kidnap, torture, and murder human beings across the US and right now, especially in Minneapolis proceeds from this sticker to mutual aid funds in MN abolish ice 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎🦑 🐟 www.madisonearhart.com/product-page...

ice continues to kidnap, torture, and murder human beings across the US and right now, especially in Minneapolis proceeds from this sticker to mutual aid funds in MN abolish ice 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎🦑 🐟 www.madisonearhart.com/product-page...

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

yooo everyone!! will did a super cool study with big implications for salmon!! He was able to create biomarkers using teeny tiny pieces of gills (non lethal) to identify if a salmon is food limited or not this means they can go in the wild and determine if, when and where salmon are starving 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬

New research out in @conphysjournal.bsky.social We use RNA sequencing to identify gill markers for food deprivation in Chinook salmon. academic.oup.com/conphys/arti... We will deploy these markers with panels for other stressors and pathogens to evaluate impacts on survival of wild salmon

newwwww illustration below :) check out this sturgeon paper!!!

What underlies plasticity and persistent enhanced growth following warm temperature exposure? We sequenced lake sturgeon muscle tissue to find out A variety of molecular mechanisms and cellular changes work together to increase muscular development across timescales 🧪🌎🌐🐠 tinyurl.com/mr2n2cvb

sometimes I do field work in the most gorgeous water (Harrison river, BC) and you can see the sturgeon swim away forever 🥹 this is a nice close up of the scutes that cover sturgeon for protection, they have several rows of these bony plates that can be really sharp! #sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

did you know we had ~80 huge sturgeon die this year (that we know of) in 2 BC rivers? These deaths occurred during the summer when the sockeye salmon were returning sturgeon eat many salmon at once, and this may be overloading their metabolic capacity during hot summers 😱 #sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

i'll repost this forever i'm so proud of it

releasing these huuuuge sturgeon and watching them swim away is the best part of my job 🫶🏼 another week in the field complete, and one step closer to finding out what is harming these ancient fish 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑 #sturgeonsaturday

JUST IN: National Guard troops have started their mission in the greater Chicago area, an official says, as court showdowns over deployments loom. https://cnn.it/4q2CJ0s

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Let's check in and see how September temperatures have changed in the U.S. and Canada over the last 75 years. 🔥😢

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

climate change is causing larger temperature variations BUT we know very little about how variable temperatures impact sensitive, developing fish in this new study with @tblanchard.bsky.social & @trishschulte.bsky.social we found surprising impacts during development and after hatch!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 🐠 🌎 🌐👇🏼

Excited to share another paper from work I did during my PhD with @trishschulte.bsky.social and @madisonearhart.bsky.social. We looked at how fish embryos respond differently to constant and fluctuating temperatures! 🐟

#sturgeonsaturday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐 the last 2 years i’ve been investigating why these giant fish are dying across BC and i’ve started to identify the stressors that could be driving mortality!! if you want to learn more, check out this video: tinyurl.com/4m4xxrkh tldr; it’s getting hot out here yall 🥵

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...