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Friends in the DC area: I will be giving a Profs and Pints talk about the science of sustainable seafood. It's based on my upcoming book on the topic. Please share with interested folks! Get tickets here: profsandpints.ticketleap.com/net/ 🧪🦑🌎🐟

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

I have been trying to formulate some rules for giving good talks and fundamentally it’s this: tell a story. People like stories, and they will listen to you if they trust you are telling them.

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For folks in the DC area, this is going to be on Sunday, and it will be worth attending

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Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

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Dropping some #anglerfish factoids: Anglerfish teeth are curved backward. So if something tries to escape, it just shoves itself deeper into the mouthal abyss of doom. 🌊🦑 #Anglerfish #Evolution #Science

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I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the return and actions of wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the coup by Musk if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here's the story the US should be writing this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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These people protected US forests and lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump

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Literally the best selfie I have ever taken. No notes. #nudibranch #tidepools

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

In some countries they call it a soccerfish

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We're all collectively crying over the Anglerfish and Howie right now, right? 😭 RIGHT? They weren’t JUST any fish and any crab—they were resilience, light, and a reminder that even the smallest lives can touch millions. [ #art #design #anglerfish #crab ]

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Swimming smarter, not harder: fishes exploit habitat heterogeneity to increase locomotor performance Di Santo & Goerig 2025 Cool new commentary that "synthesizes existing research to offer a perspective on how fishes actively exploit complex environments to enhance their locomotor efficiency"

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Coral City Camera is always a great place to take a break and have an extended doom scroll safety stop. You should check out their live stream!!

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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way

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1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

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Growing up in the early 1990s, the ozone hole was a big environmental problem we all learned about. The world took action and the problem is receding. See also, US air and water pollution pre-EPA. Climate change is obviously a much harder problem to solve. But we can. And we must.

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Update

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Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting specific, clear examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

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Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

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It’s probably a good day to explain to your non-scientist socials that graduate students are not merely the next generation of academic science, they are an important component of the current scientific labor force. Feel free to mention that this is cut rate labor as well.

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌎

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This is entirely preventable. Science solved this problem more than 60 years ago.

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Frontiers | Decarbonizing Arctic shipping: governance pathways and future directions https://buff.ly/3QvFQxC 🦑🧪🌎

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Such a key message to get to the public & Congress on why the delays in science funding is important: "The discoveries that aren’t made — you can’t point to them, because they will never be made," @jeremymberg.bsky.social as quoted in new WaPo article. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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In case you live in a red state and feel like your voice doesn't matter--it does. Keep the pressure on.

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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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This AM I have re-posted stories from WaPo, the NYT and NPR. The NYT story has multiple bylines and is a thorough factual debunking of an official government communication. You can argue about headlines and stay mad about past errors or you can realize institutional journalists are doing the work.

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Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

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"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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HIMB researchers discover 10 new sponge species in Kāneʻohe Bay | SOEST 🧪🦑🌎

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Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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Remember: just because you pelican does not mean you peli-should. Photo by Mark Smith

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