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

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

Join in today, 7/28 @ Noon for the Secretary Speaker's Series, 'Conserving California: Protecting our Special Places in Turbulent Times' with CA Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot! We'll discuss 30x30’s progress over the last year in California. Register: ca-water-gov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Modelbased for Quick and Beautiful Model Visualization in #rstats imachordata.com/2025/07/25/m... Thanks, @easystats.github.io!

my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.

Breaking News: The White House said it would release $5.5 billion in frozen education funds to states, reversing a decision that had sent school districts scrambling. The money will help train and recruit teachers, give extra support for children learning English and fund arts and music education.

Senate and House propose less cuts than the president's budget but there are still significant cuts proposed. House budget suggests >40% cuts to NASA earth science, >40% cuts to NMFS within NOAA, >40% cuts to NIH. Also, appropriated money may not being sent to agencies to spend.

The Environmental Policy Lab at @ethz.ch is hiring! 🌱 A Postdoc broadly interested in resilient data infrastructure & policy for biodiversity governance 🌱 Two PhD students interested in biodiversity policy and spatial planning more info here: epl.ethz.ch/the-group/op... Please share widely! 🌍

Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science is hiring an executive director: jobs.schmidtmarine.org/companies/bw... Fully remote, pretty good compensation and benefits.

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Assessing predictive accuracy of species abundance models in dynamic systems 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/SlNP97o

Our new paper published today in Current Biology shows that immediate international cooperation is needed to conserve the eastern North American monarch butterfly. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

I love to see my friends killin' it. Alie Ward's @ologies.bsky.social was listed by Time Magazine in the 100 best podcasts of all time! This rocks. Ologies rocks. Funny compassionate science communication rocks. time.com/collections/...

Since I pubilshed this rant about scientific journal articles not being optimized for sharing on social media, I am pleased to report that the editors of three (3) journals told me they'd look into it. Far more productive than my usual rants. www.southernfriedscience.com/its-2025-why... 🧪

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

one signature of human impacts on the planet (esp climate change) is ecosystems becoming less unique—a process called "biotic homogenization". it turns out that isn't happening in the global oceans! colossal new synthesis led by @zoejean88.bsky.social on marine fishes: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Funded by IRA, modular ocean model 6 hindcasts come online for the West Coast.

Really exciting paper from Nerea Lezama Ochoa examining the future of climate refugia and bright spots in the California Current for a number of marine top predators. How are marine sanctuaries likely to serve as refugia in the future? Some more than others!

Two new jobs! PhD and MSc levels. DATA SCIENTIST - CLOUD MIGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA: coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/info/UCSC_CW... Development assistant for satellite-based ocean products: coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/info/CoastWa...

Early-career conservation scientists: The Smith Fellows Program is now accepting applications for 2026 🌿 🔬 2 yrs postdoc support 🤝 Dual mentorship (academic + practitioner) 🎯 Hands-on conservation impact 🤗 Inclusive cohort & lifetime SCB membership Apply by Sept 30, 2025

Exciting new paper on the recovery (and declines) of large whales under climate stochasticity. dx.doi.org/10.1126/scia...

I wanted to provide shout outs to a few recent papers that I've been fortunate to be part of: 1) Amanda Warlick's Paper examining the interaction between US West Coast fisheries and offshore wind against the backdrop of a changing climate journals.plos.org/climate/arti...