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Great for the James River, which has one of the larger populations of Atlantic Sturgeon -- but there's wild variation between subpopulations. We've found that the Chesapeake's Nanticoke River on the Eastern Shore of MD/DE may have a population of <100 individuals, and have NEVER caught a non-adult 😬

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🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a quarter million people 🧵 on some highlights...

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Behold! My most complex animated project to date! I learned a lot about Deinonychus and NPR rendering through this, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. What else can we do with this style? Stay tuned! #animation #sciart #Blender3D #Paleoart

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USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week www.hcn.org/articles/usg... via @highcountrynews.org

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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

submitted 13 days ago • 51 comments

The worst part of science reporting right now is chronicling the expertise that will be lost. My latest piece for @nature.com

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Today marked my first day as a postdoc @unl-snr.bsky.social! I'll be working with Dr. Mark Pegg on spatial risk assessment modeling of silver and bighead carp movement in the Platte River basin under various climate and hydrologic scenarios. Everyone here has been so welcoming. Go Big Red! 🌽🐟

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☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️ 🫵 WHO: You + all our friends 🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts. 🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community 🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th 🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

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Inspired by Vietnam-era activism, Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of teach-ins around the USA this summer, focusing on the importance of science and science funding. I’m doing one May 30th in Silver Spring. Many of you should consider doing one too, and I’m happy to help you plan it 🦑🧪🌎

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2008; learned about grad school and research, decided it was my thing 2012; started MS 2018; finished PhD 2018-Sept 2024; postdoc, soft $ PI positions Sept; offered dream job, fed research scientist Dec; offer rescinded a week before start May '25; federal research killed. ...fuck man

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#sturgeonsaturday all week! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🌎 because there are no larvae surviving in the Nechako river, the mandated hatchery releases 2 y.o. sturgeon to increase the population it took trial & error in deciding what size to release sturgeon, turns out small sturgeon are otter snacks 🦦 3 y.o. sturgie 👇🏼

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“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months”

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Sunday afternoon was not the best upper air observation cycle for Alaska. "X" are places that would normally have had weather balloon launches three months ago. #akwx #weather #NOAA @climatologist49.bsky.social @coweatherman.bsky.social @brunota2003.bsky.social

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Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the United States. Image: National Institutes of Health

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This is BLM not FWS, but it seems likely to be coming to our way. Endangered species protections are being glossed over. “These lands serve as habitat for 23 federally endangered species..” This is not good for anyone. This is not efficient. Illegal crossings in these areas are at historic lows.

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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

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Loved this post from a postdoc who lived through the Bolsonaro years in Brazil: "The best 'fuck you' to fascists? Thriving. Publish that paper. Build that collaboration. Laugh with labmates. Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight." www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

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My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...

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Paying taxes with tears in my eyes knowing what they're paying for - disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. What have we become?

submitted 49 days ago • 1244 comments

If you love your library, listen up…

submitted 49 days ago • 185 comments

Any international academic society hosting a meeting in the US in 2026 is making a very clear choice about what they think is important.

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Good morning. Summary of my week: 1) people who have dedicated their life to conservation took the fork and have to be gone by next Friday. 😭 2) everyone is planning for cuts without knowing anything about what needs to be cut. 3) one program is being absorbed by other programs. Science is bad?

submitted 52 days ago • 13 comments

"Just move to another country to do your science" 1. There's no planetary science jobs in other countries, and places like Canada have preferential hiring policies to hire Canadians so the jobs that do exist will NOT go to me 2. Doing so is extremely expensive 3. I don't want to move!!!!!

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New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the first paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

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Quote: "Scientists seek truth in experiments and data analyses...By contrast, the public is often focused on the experiences of people they know personally or vicariously. These experiences are taken as evidence and often carry more weight than peer-reviewed research." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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More than 50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 have been wounded — two-thirds of whom are women & children. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed. Much of that devastation has been done with bombs that the U.S. supplied to the Netanyahu war machine. We are complicit.

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It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 55 days ago • 785 comments

Back to work today trotlining for pallid sturgeon monitoring on the Missouri. Up until my reinstatement last week, I'd been worried that this would be my first year without a field season in a decade. I could be laid off again any day now (legally this time via RIF), but it's good to be home.

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There is simply NO rational justification for this other than the wholesale destruction of all national environmental and health protections and the protection of polluting industries. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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April showers bring sewer overflows: When heavy rains overwhelm Chicago's combined sewer systems, sewage can end up in the Chicago River. Researchers are now studying how fish move in response to these events www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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As someone who has lost multiple loved ones to Alzheimer's and is now watching her grandmother, a brilliant former nurse and nursing professor, lose her speech and slip away to this horrible disease, I find this unforgivable. Research into new meds and cures gives loved ones hope while caregiving.

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It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

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Once widely found across the #GreatLakes region, wild rice (manoomin) has largely disappeared due to colonization and environmental degradation - but a new stewardship plan is centering indigenous knowledge to restore + preserve wild rice for future generations www.bridgedetroit.com/groups-fight...

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Trump take ferret. coloradosun.com/2025/03/07/d...

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did you know that it can take white sturgeon over 20 years to spawn?? this is one of the reasons sturgeon populations are threatened ~ it takes longer for them to bounce back! 🧪🌎🌐👩🏻‍🔬 #sturgeonsaturday

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Trophic Ecologists - new pkg alert - {trps} (pronounced ‘tropes’): Bayesian Trophic Position Models using 'Stan'. Estimates trophic position using equations from Post (2002), Vander Zanden & Vadeboncoeur (2002), & Heuvel et al. (2024). benjaminhlina.github.io/trps/ #rstats #ecology #foodwebs

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Alligator Gar is… Icon. Legend. Moment.

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Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share! www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm

submitted 76 days ago • 16 comments

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

submitted 77 days ago • 53 comments

Our friends at Illinois RiverWatch + @prairieresearch.bsky.social are holding an online workshop tonight March 18 at 7 PM CT on identifying crayfish in Illinois and submitting data to iNaturalist. The training will be recorded - more details/registration here: events.lc.edu/events/AdGXD...

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Clearing up probationary employees info: FWS got notification that all probationary employees will be able to return to their positions. They will be working, not on administrative leave (moving forward). Admin leave is being granted for the time that has lapsed and until they can return to duty.

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They're placing probationary employees on paid administrative leave and giving them back pay. Basically, taxpayers are paying for a bunch of federal employees to do nothing for a month and counting. I don't have an MBA so maybe someone can explain to me how this improves efficiency.

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I assembled a team of experts to write this how-to guide for how scientific professional societies can improve their diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. It's structured around my society's budgets and bylaws, but is broadly applicable. Please share. 🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

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The ad-hoc termination of training grants, PhD fellowships, and center grants at Columbia is catastrophic and sends a message. The WH will: * Seek revenge at all costs * Destroy science & higher ed, if it can * Risk lives, careers and the economy. Rest assured: they will not stop w/Columbia

submitted 84 days ago • 24 comments