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Mother of marine worms (nemerteans) and Eddy. Biology professor and invertebrate zoologist in Seattle.
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What To Know About NOAA http://theonion.com/...

Have two intro bio 1 classes left. I think I need to teach them how to specifically interpret vaccination data. This is crazy times. Stand up for science 🧬

The amount of data that US science agencies collect, the fact that they share them, and the way they share them make US science second to none. The way Trump is destroying the science enterprise in the US will affect everyone in the world. Just check out what you can do with this tool from NASA.

When do the myriad of protests coalesce in large national protests? Hopefully sooner than later! We can’t wait much longer.

Waking up to further environmental catastrophes that could be avoided. Losing my mind watching the environment be destroyed.

Mao’s great leap forward killed 50 million people. But most experts think that Elon’s will kill many fewer.

❗ALERT❗ There are 3 congressional seats up for election (FL-1, FL-6, NY-21), 2 with voting starting in 3 weeks (links below). Media has been strangely silent on this 🤔 Congress is 218 R, 215 D. If we pick up 3 seats, we gain control of the House. A major step towards stopping Trump’s agenda

🧪🌊🧵 Despite having his job at NOAA terminated @zacklabe.com has still brought his visualisations that show the alarming recent trend in Antarctic sea-ice extent up to date. zacklabe.com/antarctic-se... 1/2

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

Mother 🤬ers

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

A reminder of the value of the Endangered Species Act, including success stories. -Bald Eagle -American Alligator -Green sea turtle -Piping plover -Peregrine falcon -Channel Island fox -Humpback whale -Puerto Rican parrot -Robbins’ Cinquefoil -Whooping Crane -Brown Pelican -California condor

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

Here’s a good project 2025 tracker and oof are we in trouble. www.project2025.observer

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Hundreds of protestors have disrupted JD Vance's planned vacation in Vermont. #3E #EndImpunity #StandWithUkraine

Red states-pay attention, because you’ll get hit hardest! They’re gutting NOAA to privatize weather forecasting. Knowledge is power—forecasting is knowledge. Fossil fuel execs rake in billions while the planet chokes—folks keep guzzling gas & won’t notice the climate crisis while the world burns.

I’ve been following their subReddit for years. My heart is broken by so many things that are happening, but this one really sucks for science and the hard work that noaa scientist do.

Is everyone else having a “what the fuck “morning too?

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

I really hope we’re able to have elections in 2026 and 2028. The suffering is only going get much worse during this administration.

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

trump administration is disgusting.

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

Massive protests need to erupt across America against Trump after this disgraceful PR stunt against Zelensky.

Just saying.

hat tip to @theliamnissan.bsky.social

Letter to researchers at UW from Vice Provost of Research. Just infuriated by the waste fraud and abuse caused by doge/dogshit musk

Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social @squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

The embrace and protection of Andrew Tate at the highest level of US government tells you everything you need to know about this rotten administration. They worship at the altar of abusing women and girls. Their version of morality supports sex trafficking under the guise of camming

Without healthy oceans, we wouldn’t just be facing hardships, we’d be facing existential collapse. The loss of oxygen, food, climate stability, water cycles, and biodiversity would make the planet uninhabitable for humans within a few generations. If the oceans die, we die. This. Is. Extinction.

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

Yikes! Exposures at Bellevue square mall and Seattle Children’s www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

Excited to share our recent paper, which is one of the first phylogenomic analyses of copepods 🧪 TLDR: the order Harpacticoida should be split, with 2 families forming their own new order—Canuelloida doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

One night after leaving my friend’s house after a game of dominoes, we found this gorgeous Leafy Spurge Moth by her porch light., Imported from Europe to North America to help control leafy spurge a noxious invasive Eurasian weed. #MothMonday

This is a fancy, diurnal, clear-winged moth sipping liquid from a leaf. Moths in this family often resemble stinging insects, but this species didn't get the memo. It went for jungle air-shrimp instead. #Inverts #MothMonday (Euryphrissa sp.) Tatama National Park, Colombia

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers Johnson et al. 2025 Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...

The impact the NSF has in each state (at least until DOGE shuts it down). Let your representatives know how valuable NSF is, and why it mustn’t be destroyed. #NoKings

X is for Xylopagurus. This hermit crab, found at depths of 170-475m, is WEIRD! Instead of a shell, they tunnel a hole into fallen bits of wood (how did it get down there?). Then they plug the end with their own butt (6th abdominal segment that is heavily calcified). #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

Stephen Feinberg is the nominee for second-in-command at the Pentagon. His “qualifications”? -No relevant government or military experience -Major conflicts of interest through his investments in defense contractors -Drove 8 Massachusetts hospitals to bankruptcy

“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo