P. Sean McDonald

@pseanmc.bsky.social

#scicomm, #invasives, #aquaculture & #fisheries. My hats: faculty (@UWpoe), figurehead (@SciCommSwarm), brain trust (@WAgreencrab), & MC (@ClimateTap). he/him http://about.me/psean

I spy with my little 👀 some folks I know! Big shout to my capstone students Elena Vega de Soto, Nina Pursai, Alec Baron, Megan Hassi, and Kort Maeda! I’ve also been very fortunate to work with Elyse Kelsey! Congrats to all! 🎉

UW College of the Environment@uwenvironment.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to our #UWEnvironment Husky 100! 🎉 🥳 🎉 Eight students from around the College of the Environment have been named @uofwa.bsky.social #Husky100 in 2025. environment.uw.edu/news/2025/04...

Shrimp spreading in the Salish Sea... but what impact will it have? Definitely a need for further research! #invasive #InvasiveSpecies

UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences@uwsafs.bsky.social · last yr.

🦀 While conducting early detection monitoring for invasive European green crab, @waseagrant.bsky.social Crab Team discovered a non-native shrimp 🦐. The team were able to monitor the spread and increase of this species across WA Puget Sound. Find out more👇 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

A small white shrimp pictured side on, on a black background.

BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its...

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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

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Read this @sabs.bsky.social interview with my friend @co2ley.bsky.social, who was fired at NOAA as the Director of the Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) and later reinstated but placed on administrative leave. Disclaimer: Some of my work on marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) is funded by OAP.

An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector

In 2006, by the time scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form shel...

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"Though most major league baseball teams at the time refused to sign Jackie Robinson because [THEY JUST DIDN’T LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB], Robinson finally became the first [PERSON NAMED JACKIE ROBINSON] to play Major League Baseball in 1947."

American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards

“Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiati...

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Nature is full of surprises.. but Who eats Whom? 🐡🐋Conventionally aquatic food web models are based on simple size-based (allometry) rules but the co-evolutionary arms race betw predators & prey means predators can eat v smaller or larger prey as these authors show ✅ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The complex structure of aquatic food webs emerges from a few assembly rules - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The structure of aquatic food webs does not fit standard allometric predictions. Here the authors explain the co-evolution of specialist and non-specialist predators in aquatic food webs and how this ...

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🌊 @noaa.gov was a leader on ocean acidification (OA) and marine carbon dioxide removal (#mCDR). This research is decimated by the firings of many outstanding staff, including the leaders of the OA and mCDR groups, my close colleagues Sarah Cooley and Gabby Kitch. #StandUpForScience

After Cuts, Former NOAA Chief Scientist Says U.S. Science Risks Becoming a “Backwater Enterprise” - bioGraphic

With its first wave of firings, the new Trump administration has decimated NOAA.

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