Save Science 🧪 , Protect the Health of All People and the Planet 🌳, Defend Democracy ✊. Find a local event to attend near you March 7! If you’re in Knoxville help me plan ours 😆 ❤️ @standupforscience.bsky.social

A fascinating read that everyone should check out! “By looking more closely at the locust, the enterprise can begin to examine how power people, powerful interest, and ideologies affect the landscape of science” @issuesinst.bsky.social issues.org/locusts-fede...

The “Terrible Engine of Destruction” That Inspired Federal Science Funding

What can we learn about the relationship between science and the American public from the story of plagues of locusts in the 1870s?

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The fact that air pollution protections save lives (and thus dollars) has long been an inconvenient fact for those who want polluting industries unfettered. This move is indefensible and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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Honored to volunteer today with #HourOfCode teaching code to 3rd graders! They were excited to learn coding and how I use it daily to study our environment (e.g., monitoring oxygen in rivers for fish)! Thx UT-Battelle for the opportunity @battelleactual.bsky.social @departmentofenergy.bsky.social

Exciting collaboration with colleagues from the US and Frederik de Laender - lead by S. Rumschlag and Mike Mahon - on how climate change has lead to alterations in US fish diversity over the last decades. Paper just out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diverging fish biodiversity trends in cold and warm rivers and streams - Nature

In the past three decades, fish abundance, richness and uniqueness have diverged across cold and warm streams, and the effects on native fish communities of stream warming and increases in introduced fishes have magnified each other.

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Our new report explores the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. health and welfare. Read more: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2923...

Excited to share our new article w/ @drbiogc.bsky.social published in @freshwaterscience.bsky.social on the gravity defying act aquatic insects 🦟 undertake moving themselves and heavy metals from urban stream ecosystems into the waiting mouths of terrestrial predators 🐸🕷️!

One week away from Durham’s BeaverQueen Pagent! Celebrate the diversity of our human and wildlife communities during 🏳️‍🌈 month (& support an awesome watershed association). I’ll be voting (early & often!) from a distance 🦦🏞️

Beaver Lodge Local 1504@beaverlodge1504.bsky.social · last yr.

Who is in the running to be this year's Beaver Queen? Check out beaverqueen.org

USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week www.hcn.org/articles/usg... via @highcountrynews.org

USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week - High Country News

Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.

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Excited to share today at @freshwaterscience.bsky.social #SUSE7 the amazing collaborative effort we undertook at/after SUSE6 to develop a framework of tools and principles to help communities preserve headwater streams!

I’m devastated to hear from EPA researchers that they expect to loose their jobs in the coming weeks as EPA ORD is closed. PLEASE spend a minute today to call your elected officials to share why this research is so important (article below overviews the importance of EPA’s research arm)

Jonny Behrens@jonnybehrens.bsky.social · last yr.

Research funded by EPA ORD gives water managers across the nation the data + knowledge they need to provide safe drinking water to every resident, regardless of zip code. Thanks @newrepublic.com for spending time to talk and for this well written article! newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Research funded by EPA ORD gives water managers across the nation the data + knowledge they need to provide safe drinking water to every resident, regardless of zip code. Thanks @newrepublic.com for spending time to talk and for this well written article! newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Trump’s EPA Cuts Are Going to Poison His Own Voters

“It’s practically inevitable” that people will get sick, a current EPA employee said.

newrepublic.com

Research at EPA ORD inspired me to pursue a career to study/protect our drinking water resources so that every city, regardless of if they vote blue or red, has access to safe drinking water. EPA ORD is one of few agencies that fund research to ensure air is safe to breath + water safe to drink. 💔

Liz Neeley@lizneeley.bsky.social · last yr.

This is terrible news & just one part of a bigger picture. Prepare yourself for ongoing updates about the “reduction in force” this month and more again in April. Talk to your community about it. They may not believe it at first - it sounds unbelievable! But we must bear witness & explain.

The USGS plays a critical role in monitoring rivers nationally. As scientists we rely on the data to understand, for example, how streams that had historic flooding during Hurricane Helene are recovering (& the people who rely on them). Ask your reps to keep them open! ww2.aip.org/fyi/usgs-fac...

USGS Faces Potential Office Closures

At least 30 USGS buildings appear to be on the Trump administration’s chopping block.

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Dabble in stream metabolism and attending #SUSE7? We’d love to see you at the urban stream metabolism workshop/working group! Details forthcoming, but we are excited to collaborate with everyone on a synthesis 😁

Society for Freshwater Science@freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

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)

The NSF postdoc fellowship is one of the most scientifically competitive programs that funds the next generation of scientists…the new administration’s policies left them without pay @statnews.com

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

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📣Looking for a postdoc in watershed biogeochemistry? Apply to join the WaDE project and explore 🌳 terrestrial/💦 aquatic links + transport of metals and nutrients! Join a diverse team working at the cross-section of field sampling, lab analyses, and process-based models. jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridg...

For those at #AGU24, looking forward to sharing my research on #PFAS and chemical contaminants in urbanized watersheds at poster H51Q-0944 Friday (tomorrow) morning! 💧🛣️ Come by and say hello 😄

A heads up that this is today at #AGU24! Looking forward to an awesome conversation at 12:30 in Salon B 😄

Jonny Behrens@jonnybehrens.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fellow #agu24 NC/VA/GA/TN/etc. watershed scientists (& friends) - check out this late breaking townhall Tuesday (TH23N) @ 12:30 to brainstorm ways to collaborate and study (from field to satellite) how our watersheds/ecosystems are responding after Hurricane Helene

Fellow #agu24 NC/VA/GA/TN/etc. watershed scientists (& friends) - check out this late breaking townhall Tuesday (TH23N) @ 12:30 to brainstorm ways to collaborate and study (from field to satellite) how our watersheds/ecosystems are responding after Hurricane Helene

Makeup, floss and hair dye use in pregnancy leads to more PFAS in breast milk – study

Makeup, floss and hair dye use in pregnancy leads to more PFAS in breast milk – study

‘Forever chemicals’ pose health threat to developing children and linked with preterm birth, shorter lactation Higher usage of personal care products among pregnant or nursing women leads to higher levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in their blood…

theguardian.com

With Hurricane Helene's devastation to Appalachian communities, we are starting to see how the destruction has changed the landscape, wildlife, and water quality nearby. Satellite images (👀 link) show massive amounts of sediment moved by the flood waters in Erwin, TN. www.planet.com/stories/erwi...

New co-authored article led by Ahmed Monofy & Stan Grant is online today in #AGUAdvances! "Toward a Universal Model of Hyporheic Exchange and Nutrient Cycling in Streams" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 💧🧪🌎 #hydrology #biogeochemistry #hyporheic #OA #AGU

Toward a Universal Model of Hyporheic Exchange and Nutrient Cycling in Streams

Several ubiquitous hyporheic exchange mechanisms can be represented by an exponentially decaying diffusivity The reference diffusivity and mixing depth can be calculated from a stream's permeabil...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Are you or someone you know looking for a funded MS or PhD position in freshwater ecology starting August 2025? Consider applying to work with me & collaborate on a project linking river oxygen dynamics with freshwater biodiversity. More info/how to apply: www.hotchkisslab.com/opportunitie... 💧🌎👩‍🔬

A group of rail, transit, and urbanist advocates are organizing a Zoom call this Thursday at 4pm PT in support of the Harris-Walz ticket. Will you join us? RSVP: tinyurl.com/trainlovers4hw

Excited to 📣 I'll be giving my public PhD defense talk on April 30th @ 3:30 PM (ET)! Hear how urban & forested stream ecosystems move energy (& pollutants) + implications for humans & wildlife! Zoom link coming, for those interested 💦🐛

Duke is closing its legendary herbarium—the oldest and largest ever to be abandoned by its host. the decision is "just appalling" given the "diabolical crisis regarding diversity and climate," the herbarium director said. Hannah Seo on why this matters for all of us, scientist or not 🧪🌎

The Lady Gaga Ferns Are Losing Their Home. It's Surprisingly Tragic for Science and Society.

Duke University is closing its century-old herbarium—a legendary plant collection and training ground—to the outcry of many.

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Join me and AGU scientists to call on Congress to pass a bill to ensure all student & post-doc scientists are financially supported! I wouldn’t be able to pursue my PhD in science without a livable wage - this is what makes science accessible to many. p2a.co/D9WWcmY

Thank your House Representative for Supporting the RESEARCHER Act

I just asked my legislators to support the RESEARCHER Act, helping provide better support to graduate students in the US. Ask your legislators to support HR4002: [@campaign]!

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First post on Blue sky! Excited to connect with people interested in environmental sciences and policy. For fun, a photo of a turtle thriving in the urban stream I study - against all the stress we place on the ecosystem! 💦🐢