Are you ready for another Godzilla El Niño? laist.com/news/climate...

What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? In this blog post, Ané Cloete goes through aSCR, answering question on what it is, what it needs to work, what data the model uses and what kind of ecological questions aSCR can answer. Read the whole blog here 👇 buff.ly/1q2Ib6F

"What drove the birds to retreat to inaccessible cliffsides was changing human behavior, including desperate Spaniards gathering gull eggs to survive the country’s civil war from 1936 to 1939 and the famine that followed." www.biographic.com/spains-cliff...

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Exciting news for seabird and ocean conservation: governments have formally recognised marine flyways at #CMSCOP15! Read how marine flyways can benefit migratory seabirds in this @mongabay.com article by BirdLife's @tammyedavies.bsky.social and Aline Kühl-Stenzel ➡️ tinyurl.com/MongabayMarFly

$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.

An Ohio jury ruled in favor of the rapper Afroman after a civil trial in which law enforcement officers accused him of causing them mental distress by using footage from their 2022 raid on his home in music videos.

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Just a quick one while I’m on the road this week. March 13 (Yr 2, Wk 11) - follow-ups on measles, sched F, ACIP recommendations - three essays from NIH insiders & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Mar 6 (Year 2, Week 10) - NIH revoking certification of early career workers union - FDA 'chaos' & Prasad out (again) - even more delay & interference in NIH funding & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

During marine heatwaves, the thermal habitat for humpback whales is compressed, increasing the risk of entanglements with fishing gear. New research in PLOS Climate by Jarrod Santora and colleagues 👇 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti... 📸 Anne Smith, Pixabay @ehazen.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/s... It would be a nice time to have invested in mRNA vaccines…

Low counts of overwintering Pacific Monarchs suggests a collapse is likely www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_n...

This is an important step forward in species distribution modelling, enabling researchers and policymakers to better understand marine biodiversity patterns and develop more effective conservation strategies. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Something positive for your scrolling today: Apparently kakapo are having a great year. apnews.com/article/kaka...

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Postdoc Opportunity in the Netherlands! Apply by Jan 26. We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate to work with us on a postdoc at the NIOZ. It is a 2-year position, the NL-gvt-funded Vidi project. Application and details can be found here: workingat.nioz.nl/l/nl/o/postd...

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

Just in time for the holidays, can VMS fleet data be used as ecosystem sentinel information? Why yes it can! And fishing fleets are highly responsive to changing ecosystem conditions. news.ucsc.edu/2025/12/fish...

"Australian MPAs and unprotected areas exhibit similar patterns of exposure to warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and marine heatwaves, suggesting that MPA placement with respect to future climate is no better than random." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌊 World Fisheries Day 2025 🐟 Respect our oceans. Support our fishers. Sustainable seas are our shared future. 🌍💙 #WorldFisheriesDay #SustainableFisheries #BlueEconomy #OneOcean

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Johnston et al (2025) Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 💡🧪🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com (H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)

Important new paper by Allison Cluett highlighting what has happened to the PDO. It's still there, it's just swamped by the global warming signal since 2024. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!! Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today! The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/

Hiring alert: Pacific Fisheries Management Council staff scientist. A good job opportunity! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

New Perspective paper in #npjOceanSustainability highlights that marine spatial planning (#MSP) and marine protected area (#MPA) planning are not the same, but both are key for ocean sustainability in a changing ocean!🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s441... @erc.europa.eu @plantprojecterc.bsky.social

A newly released Global Tipping Points report suggested that coral reefs have passed thresholds beyond which they can't bounce back. Our new study from Fiji shows just the opposite - astonishing, rapid recovery within 4 years of reefs pummeled by a category 5 cyclone. #ForCoral

The U.S. will not attend the annual UN climate summit, COP30, which kicks off on Thursday in Brazil. And that's just fine for those who see the Trump administration’s hostility toward anything related to climate change as a menace to international cooperation.

The current government shutdown is now officially the longest in U.S. history, surpassing the 35-day shutdown of President Trump’s first term. The impact of the shutdown, having lasted 35 full days, has already been felt across the country. nyti.ms/3Xaygvt

Congress’ path to irrelevance did not begin during the #shutdown. It is the result of decades of erosion that created a political culture in which Congress is relegated to second-class status, according to a political scientist. buff.ly/8hYHW3j

Postdoctoral opportunity at UDelaware! careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

“No one would ever ask a cardiac surgeon to stop an operation midstream because something supposedly more important popped up... yet we ask knowledge workers to do something similar multiple times a day because the immediate impact doesn’t seem onerous.” | via @behscientist.bsky.social

Pleased to report that the whale biologist character is back in the new season of Futurama

When radicalization is good, actually. #roadecology

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

UCSC-NOAA cooperative institute glider technician position open for applications. Scroll down to "interested in fisheries work" here: fisheries.ucsc.edu

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s agenda.

✍️ [blog post] rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up 🏆 Our second cohort of Champions completed the program. In this blog post, we share each champion’s projects, their achievements, and outreach activities. Read the wrap-up by @yabellini […]

AMOC is a climate-driven overturning current that supports northern Europe's warm climate. It's collapse would result in a colder Europe. The Gulf Stream is powered by the rotation of the Earth. For it to collapse, the planet would have to stop spinning. That, the physicists tell me, would be bad.

Trying to decide where to submit your presentations at Ocean Sciences by Wednesday? Two I would selfishly suggest... Top predators as sentinels: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr... Scales of prediction in fisheries management: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Really excited that our #causalinference for climate change paper is out today! @dudney-joan.bsky.social, @lauradee.bsky.social , @econservation.bsky.social, @katherinesiegel.bsky.social were such an awesome team, and I hope this is a useful one for researchers in the field!

Excellent new paper from @nimafarchadi.bsky.social highlighting how multiple datasets can improve model forecasting. Read more below!

One of my favorite people highlighted in such an amazing way. Kudos to Noelle Bowlin!

🦈 Heading to Sharks International 2026? Consider applying to our session: 🎯 Quantifying the Chase: New Frontiers in Predator–Prey Dynamics We’re exploring tools, techniques & cross-disciplinary insights. 🌐 si2026.org @sharks-int.bsky.social #SharksInternational2026 #SharkScience #MarineEcology