“It is not acceptable to recruit a variety of students into the laboratory, subject them to a variety of stress tests and abuses, and then keep the students who thrive under abuse and get rid of the students who aren't able to thrive in the lab. That's straight-up exploitation.” 👏👏👏

If a politician: -Has never cared at all about whales before; -Is in the pocket of big oil, an industry which has a financial incentive to oppose alternative energy; and -is a well-documented liar, You don't have to take their "we have to stop offshore wind to save whales" claims seriously.

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Dr. Orrick is one of the MOST thoughtful people I know about co-existing with predators. Can't wait for more from this team!!

www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/... thinking more and more about the essential links between unmanaged (if such a thing exists) land and explicitly managed farmland. The connections are so much more important than we realize; as an ecologist, it's impossible to care about one and not the other.

I OBVIOUSLY feel that this work is so cool, and so important! congrats on this publication!!

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🦑🐠

Worked with Dr. @kristymferraro.bsky.social, Tony Ferraro, and Dr. Julia Monk on animal welfare in zoos! Big takeaway for me in the process: interrogate whether we're talking individual care, or population care -- a critical difference when it comes to decision making. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Omg I had the best time talking about #seaweed with Alie Ward this week @ologies.bsky.social We talk evolution, anatomy, cooking, tattoos and more. Let the seaweed love wash over you. www.alieward.com/ologies/macr...

Quoted by @evertlindquist.bsky.social on the intersections between wildlife communities and carbon in the ecosystems they're found in 🦌🌲 Thanks for the wonderful conversation, Evert!

DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

I followed the San Jose State volleyball controversy as it happened, and this detailed account, with the participation of the trans athlete involved, is utterly heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...

Folks, if any ocean scientists, educators, or conservation professionals are interested, I've had some guest spots open up on upcoming shark field work. No cost to you (other than getting yourself to the boat). I invite guests to talk to my grad students about their career paths. That can be you!

For the right person, this is a unicorn dream job Head, IUCN Global Ocean Team

My last PhD thesis chapter is published after three years of revisions, and reframing, to make it clear that it's not a soil science paper; it's not an animal community paper; it's BOTH. Excited for you all to read it! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here’s today’s #OceanOptimism apnews.com/article/lobs...

fucking around hath occurred; finding out has commenced

This *is* illegal, and threatens the very foundations of scientific inquiry. (Not only that, it's the broadest of brushes; so many of these words are just...words you'll find in an average methods section. This kind of complying in advance will shut us all down, whether we're funded by NSF or not.)

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.