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Savings from slashing science and medical research and firing government employees are not even detectable on the proposed budget compared to extending tax cuts and slashing Medicaid, food for the poor etc. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Uncertain United States seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis By @dochfroehlich.bsky.social @jagephart.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Remember all the way back in 2008 when they tried to track down the researcher who isolated the gene responsible for the glowing jellyfish nobel prize and he was a bus driver, now. www.npr.org/2008/10/09/9...

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

NSF proposal rejected. Heart and soul poured out into this, and already published two papers on the proposed ideas since submitting. The funding rate is so small on these proposals (<10%), which is why it is so devastating to see the admin propose enormous cuts to NSF.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

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Anyone interested in blue whales and want to apply for a Simons Fellowship (due 31 July)? Do let me know, I have some projects in mind. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

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‘Have you ever had black cod at a fancy restaurant when it’s soaked in miso? It’s really good. This is what I’m talking about’ <- Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski speaking up for fisheries science www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

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Do you work with aquatic eDNA applications for rare species? @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social is hosting a special feature and we're asking for proposals for papers now: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Deadline end of June (just for proposals not the papers!).

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The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

In case you couldn't bear to read all the way to the end (understandable), here is the proposed picture for the BIO Directorate.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now theonion.com/fish-at...

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 239 comments

I just reached 10,000 followers! That seems like a lot. Thanks all for making this social site a fun place to be, and for replacing the former site as a great place to learn about facts and science and truth and stuff.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

When you try and use google to find more information on an obscure whale stranding, and the top (and only) result is a paper you yourself published 18 years ago.

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So very proud of my student Zoe Rand for winning the Dean's Graduate Medal for top student in the entire College of the Environment! Anyone looking for an incredible quantitative postdoc?

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A public talk by me 30 June in Seattle: "Whales fear orcas, changing their songs, migration and growth"

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 8 days ago • 81 comments

An all out assault on higher education. Authoritarian. Sickening. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Rented something from Men's Wearhouse, and got no fewer than six advertising emails from them in three days. Good grief. Never give them your email address. @menswearhouse.bsky.social

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Google Translate is amazing, but for some documents it just does not work at all... Any suggestions, @googletranslate.bsky.social ?

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Judge grants Harvard restraining order against Trump for banning international students www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Seems like a reason to increase funding of weather forecasting, not cut funding. But what would I know, I'm not an economist...

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AHH I GOT THE ADVANCED COPIES OF MY BOOK! I CANT WAIT TO SHARE WITH YOU!!

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

(U.S.) protip when searching for a MS or PhD opportunity. Before emailing the professor, check their website, for details on the kind of work they do, expectations of prospective students, and materials to send to them (e.g. writing sample, transcripts, CV etc.) Mine is: fish.uw.edu/faculty/trev...

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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

If only there was a handy summary of each article up front. Maybe people could write that and call it an "abstract". Just an idea. Maybe too radical and ahead of its time.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

We interrupt your doomscrolling for a brief rant about scientific journal publishers apparently still not realizing that lots people share scientific journal articles online. Please enjoy "why do so many scientific journal articles still display weird when shared on social media? 🧪

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

In this month's Wired, a detailed interview with @jay.bsky.team:

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9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s... 🧪

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Redefining "harm" in the Endangered Species Act could undo decades of habitat protection for threatened species. The public has until May 19 to comment on the Trump Administration proposal to exclude habitat destruction from the definition. An ecologist and a law professor explain: buff.ly/RIZKUJh

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🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments