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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 12 hours ago • 190 comments

Coastal wetlands are some of the most biologically diverse places in the #GreatLakes region, home to numerous fish, invertebrate, reptile, and amphibian species - and that's just in the water! These wetlands are also habitat for birds + mammals, but those are obviously less cool #WorldWildlifeDay

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Appreciate all three of my scientific society homes - @freshwaterscience.bsky.social, @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social, and @iaglr.bsky.social - being signatories on this letter supporting the importance of protecting science for the benefit of all.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

It's the moment you've all been waiting for.... Our Springs newsletter has just dropped! Read it here >>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 682 comments

Sad, unacceptable, and DANGEROUS. Massive cuts to NOAA, including the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) are devastating. Among the critical role it serves to the public (as @drkatfish.bsky.social mentions), GLERL was also the site of my Spotted Gar experiments for my PhD. 😢

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The Labor-led government of New South Wales in Australia promised to gazette a Great Koala National Park. Nearly two years on the park still doesn't exist. What has happened since this promise is an increase in native hardwood logging, forestry experts tell me. My latest for @mongabay.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Talked to an undergrad who got her NASA internship cut - this could derail her career. I wouldn’t be a scientist without my NSF funded REU (research experience for undergrads) to work at the American Museum of Natural History. The future of US science is withering away to save pennies.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This helps to understand what's going on with the REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates): On Feb 13, NSF said: "Although we [had earlier] sent many of you emails expressing our plans to recommend for funding...We deeply regret that we are not going to be able to hold to all of those plans."

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Reposting with ALT text 🐠🦑🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

How do early developmental conditions affect stressor resilience in fish later in life? We investigated this in a new paper lead by @tblanchard.bsky.social! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑 We found that in killifish, sub-optimal developmental temps had lasting negative impacts on hypoxia tolerance later in life 👇🏼

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Water jobs in Michigan!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

CSIRO is here! 🧪🦑🌎🐠

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I did not expect to find #Singapore so green! The Central Catchment Nature Reserve alongside MacRitchie Reservoir was a beautiful and wildlife-filled walk through the island’s remaining forest.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (PDRA) in Freshwater Ecosystem Ecology researching the role of organic matter as a nutrient resource in freshwater ecosystems. A 4.5 year role with great training opportunites in isotope ecology and mesocosm experimental science www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU610/p...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. I know there's been progress on some fronts but in 2025 we've also taken huge steps backwards. Not just in the US. Equality, diversity, and inclusivity programs are under threat (or still non-existent) in many places.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"Fire is a natural process – albeit...as climate change worsens, landscapes like the Grampians will face more frequent, large wildfires. The best action we can take is to pressure governments to seriously address climate change and implement meaningful solutions." theconversation.com/grampians-na...

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

We absolutely should be refusing to review under these conditions. Ask questions when asked to review. Ask about what might have changed. Ask about broader impacts or whatever is relevant to what they want you to do. Make a fuss. Don't just say no, say why.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

submitted 22 days ago • 43 comments

A win for wolves and grizzly bears! We're gonna keep fighting until the #grizzlybear is back in central Idaho! #bears #conservation #idaho

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Federal Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale has upheld her prior decision to prohibit Idaho's authorization of recreational wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat during the grizzly bear non-denning season. Get all the details —> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

I honestly really don’t care about all the false positives from the reported bad word NSF list (yeah, my grants will be hit too). It’s the true positives I worry about. Grants that serve a congressionally mandated bipartisan broader impacts or other need where the work won’t get done.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

📢 Call for Papers 🚨 @conphysjournal.bsky.social is now accepting submissions for a special issue on biologging in freshwater, marine & terrestrial ecosystems. 📝 Guest Editors: @andreafuller.bsky.social & Erika Eliason 📅 Submission deadline: 30 Nov 🔗 More info: academic.oup.com/conphys/page...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The Urban Chapter of the SFS invites you to the 7th Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology (#SUSE7) 13-16 May, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 🗓️Abstracts due: 14 Feb 🗓️Early registration closes: 24 Mar www.urbanstreamecology.org/suse7.html (1/5)

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

🧪 projects that could have been flagged: Fish in the Great Barrier Reef (doi 10.1007/s00227-012-1893-x) Diverse communities of insects (doi 10.1098/rstb.1999.0523) How fast female horses can run (doi 10.2527/jas1980.513582x) Status of glueballs (doi 10.1088/0954-3899/40/4/043001)

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 28 days ago • 1327 comments

I am excited to share our new preprint to help standardize the way we test CTmax in fish 🐟👩🏻‍🔬 CTmax is an incredible metric for understanding the thermal limits of fishes, and how climate change impacts their geographical range 🔥🌏 It is always great to work with this amazing group - thank you!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a journalist. My profession is the only one named and protected in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding fathers understood that if the press was stifled, their new democracy would not survive. Here's how you can help journalists like me preserve democracy: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Hi. Here’s a public update I am very glad to share: “Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests” new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 29 days ago • 537 comments

Apropos of nothing, here are 12 #birds that aren't dismantling the democratic order. #birdsky #1: Acorn Woodpecker Once accused of communism. Even used to be called the "California Woodpecker," amirite? And yet, not dismantling the democratic order.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

hiiiii it’s #sturgeonsaturday!! 🧪🌎🌐🐠👩🏻‍🔬 this video is what i imagine swimming with sturgies would be like 🥹

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: The group organizing a 2026 ballot initiative to restore abortion rights in Idaho is asking the state supreme court to order the attorney general and other state agencies to fix language it says is biased and misleading about what the initiative will do and how much it will cost taxpayers.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

In honor of @wildclearwater.bsky.social joining Bluesky, here are some favorite photos from my time volunteer field monitoring with this great organization 💚🌲 El Dorado Creek, 2019. FOC has fought against logging in this roadless area, particularly the Lolo Insects and Disease timber sales.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Good news! One of the barbaric Montana wolf killing bills—HB 222, which would've created a year-round wolf hunting season with no meaningful limits on the number of wolves that could be killed unless the population dropped below 650—was just voted DOWN by the Montana House 60-40!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

📣POSTDOC wanted: We are looking for a marine ecologist to join our #kelp forest team at IMR in Norway 🌊🌿. The position is focused on impacts of harvesting on kelp and kelp forest #biodiversity. Enthusiasm, strong cv and interest in #fieldwork is required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks: ✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿 ✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪 ✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀 Deadline: Feb 21st utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Please share widely.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments