Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Galapagos penguin Kagu Red Sea anemonefish Florida cottonmouth Water ouzel

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Neat new paper by colleagues here at the NWIFC

NWIFC is seeking internal candidates for the open role of Biometrician III with the focus on Shellfish Population Dynamics and Modeling. This role is integral to the Fisheries Services team and will be responsible for assisting in the development and application of harvest management and population…

NWIFC is seeking candidates for the role of Oceanographer. This position is integral to the Environmental Protection team and will focus primarily on changing ocean conditions and associated impacts to species of interest, specifically as they relate to tribal ocean fishery resources.

Ever wonder what role corals play in tropical reef ecology? Find out by taking up the mantle of Team Coral 🪸! Cover the reef with colonies clad in sturdy calcium carbonate 🧪 and fend off dastardly, quick-growing algae! What is your favorite #reef creature you’d love to see in #benthosgame?

It’s a late night, but I had to jump on the “art advent calendar” bandwagon as an excuse to carve out more drawing time ;) Thanks for modeling sweet Pika! #artadventcalendar #digitalillustration

I don’t know if something similar is already a thing, but, inspired by #ArtAdventCalendar, I figured it’d be fun to do an #iNatAdventCalendar with some of my favorite iNaturalist observations. This year I’ll use a theme to celebrate my imminent return to the PNW!

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #bluejay

'The secret lives of trees: the theory collapses'. Common mycorrhizal networks exist but we are far away from making conclusions on its function. It's great to see so many people interviewed in this article and challenge a story ahead of the science. www.epsiloon.com/tous-les-num...

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very cool! www.inaturalist.org/stats/2024/r...

The Panda’s Thumb. I loved ‘science’ before I read that, probably in early high school, but it was Gould’s books that really got me excited about science as a process and a career; an ongoing debate about theory and concepts and meaning and relevance, rather than a collection of immutable facts.

🌊 GOOD NEWS: The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have reacquired a 27-acre section of Cape Foulweather on the Oregon Coast, between Newport and Lincoln City. #Oregon #Oregoncoast #Indigenous #SiletzTribe #Ocean #PNW #GoodNews #LandBack #KelpForest #Kelp #Conservation

Super fun survey for a research to understand what people find beautiful in plants and why. I learned about my own preferences too while answering it:) 🪻🌾🌼🌸🪷🌷 www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) about to move across the country with a baby and dog 2) has anyone thrown those echinoderm-killing ciliates at a coral yet

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

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Bonjour void! I am getting ready to pivot to a new role as a fisheries ecologist soon, and am stoked to learn all about the science and the people. My previous work focused on theory and statistics of host-microbe evolution and ecology, with lots of Stan and BEAST and taxonomy and novel HTS methods.