Forty years ago, Californians stopped an ill-conceived federal plan to open our coast to offshore oil and gas drilling. In the decades since, we’ve taken remarkable steps to safeguard our coastal waters. Now the Trump administration is pushing to undo all we’ve accomplished. bit.ly/3Lo2hWp

well Impossible Metals is so mad about this report that they spent all weekend posting about it on my LinkedIn...so you are definitely going to want to tune in! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

let's take the CAR out of CARCINIZATION

Please join Michael Barnard, Lyle Trytten, and I for a public webinar to discuss their new report on whether seabed mining in the American Samoa region is economically viable and technically achievable. Tues 12/2 at 3 PM ET/12 PM PT/9 AM SST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks! Please come join us!

Haunting read by my friend @oceanhoptimism.org

"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty." An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.

DEATHBALL SPONGE 💀

"What's happening right now is exactly what I was working to prevent." A former NOAA director explains why opening our Marine National Monuments to industrial fishing is a disaster for conservation. Some places are too precious to risk: tinyurl.com/mr6tyjsw

President and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences, Jasmin Graham, shares how she's defying stereotypes and telling her own story. 🦈 Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/

Come join me at the @womensaquaticdc.bsky.social and @nationalacademies.org Speed Networking event on October 22! Register here: www.womensaquatic.org/events/speed...

What do more than 230 scientists and 53 ocean conservation organizations have in common? They just told the Trump administration to protect our marine national monuments. Read more about our work to protect our monuments from industrial fishing: tinyurl.com/4d9xaa6e

“It is not our right to fish every inch of ocean… If we fail to safeguard Papahānaumokuākea, we risk losing not only a globally unique seascape but the wisdom it carries for managing our shared future.” Read more from Kanoeʻulalani Morishige in @CivilBeat (& sign the petition!) tinyurl.com/3jd4tt7m

Trump’s Exec. Order on seafood threatens decades of marine protections by opening national monuments to industrial fishing. Gear like trawls, gillnets and longlines devastates habitats and both targeted and not species. Tell NOAA to protect ocean ecosystems! secure.everyaction.com/cvNZk5i6cUaE...

Pausing my hiatus because this is important! Please sign and share.

Marine monuments protect ocean wildlife and areas connected to cultural and historic traditions. POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY

.@SenateGOP passed their bill to give handouts to fossil fuel companies while cutting funding for coastal communities and saddling American families with trillions more in debt. Thank you to @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats who fought tirelessly for our coastal communities and ocean future.

'Jaws' shark scared us, but we must save this vital species | Opinion

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

Wow. A bright yellow HUGE# Bolosoma glass sponge at 1825 m maybe >50 cm across- you could SIT IN IT!! Paul Seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA #spongethursday

I had the best time ever! 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

Bring back Google Reader then we can talk.

“Like most ocean scientists…” 💀

This post now lives in my head constantly. bsky.app/profile/name...

Endangered species act: You can't "'harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect' plants and animals on the verge of extinction." Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..." Like they don't NEED that forest, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Important thread on the current hearing on deep sea mining 👇🏼

If you read one Science Thing today:

Cf., Kodama? ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kodama

What’s this? What’s this? A sponge made out of glass 🎶

Is…is it Jack the Pumpkin King

ICYMI, I have a piece in the conversation about President Trump’s disastrous executive orders related to the ocean. No not that one, the other one.

"The biggest consequence might be losing entire ecosystems before scientists have a chance to understand them. That would be a loss of the kind of science that can fuel unexpected discoveries, like new drugs or new insights into how life formed on Earth or could form on other planets."

From March: “All of us collectively as the people of Oceania, we have a connection to this ocean, which has inherent responsibility for its care.” - Solomon Kahoʻohalahala www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/digg...

Last night, Trump signed an executive order attempting to fast track deep sea mining permit approval despite the economic, environmental, and social risks. This reckless action could cause irreversible damage to life forms we haven’t even had the opportunity to discover yet. #DefendTheDeep

BREAKING: Trump moves to mine the deep sea. "The ecosystems themselves are really important in the major global cycles that allow the ocean to be productive & to create fish & shellfish & feed people..if we want to mine the deep sea, we have to be willing to give up those ecosystems." -Dr Lisa Levin

Ocean nerds do you need a thread to make you happy? This will make you happy!

Well now I regret reading "What Moves the Dead" thanks @tkingfisher.com

Helpful compilation of the NOAA destruction over the past few months.

‪If you're a researcher with an NSF grant that has been terminated or with a proposal now stuck in limbo, I'd like to hear from you. My signal is kvasquez.12. Anonymity is always an option.

Proposed Trump Cuts to NOAA Threaten Hurricane Hunters and Toxic Algal Bloom Monitoring

Just learned about this for SF Bay area folks! Wish I could join but spread the word.

They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

While the Trump administration is busy cutting research, the latest Decadal study from the US ocean sciences community says that the field requires continued investment in basic, curiosity-driven research, and better efforts towards a unified effort to improve ocean forecasts.

I was extremely confused for a moment there (and ngl very excited) about NH marmots.

1. Trump slashes @noaa.gov’s science programs and cuts 100s of staff positions. 2. This delays regs and shuts down Maine’s scallop industry with up to 300K lbs still available to catch. 3. New exec order says “do better science to support fishermen!” 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️🙈 www.savingseafood.org/news/washing...

evergreen post www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...

POTUS also released an executive order Thursday evening titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness” that risks driving fish stocks into decline and considers allowing industrial fishing in ALL our monuments. @oceanconservancy.bsky.social statement: oceanconservancy.org/news/stateme...

Yesterday, @POTUS opened the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to industrial fishing. This reckless move threatens one of the most pristine habitats in the world, teeming with whales, sharks, rays & birds. See the PIH Coalition press release here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🌊 Our public lands and waters are part of our national identity, and have been for over 100 years. @POTUS’s move to roll back protections in the Pacific and nationwide threatens endangered marine life & culturally significant waterways. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...

@taotaotasi.bsky.social has it right – opening our treasured marine monuments to industrial fishing “sets a dangerous precedent that our public lands and waters are for sale to the highest bidder.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...