Bro. People are cool as fuck.

Deadline extended - please share and apply! The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center’s Faculty Fellowship Program provides funding and training to scientists who want to learn to work effectively with decision-makers. Resulting projects help inform natural resource management in a changing climate.

Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center@nwcasc.bsky.social · 4w ago

👋 Considered applying for the NW CASC's 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program but ran out of time? ⌛ We have good news for you! ✨ We've extended the deadline to August 31! 🔗 bit.ly/3OIjL1q

🌊✨ Awesome job alert! 🌊✨ NOAA Sanctuaries Resource Protection Coordinator job in Monterey, CA. Applications due soon, on July 23! www.usajobs.gov/job/87690100...

Resource Protection Coordinator

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), with two vacancies in Monterey, CA; ...

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Applications are open for the 2027 Smith Conservation Research Fellowship! This postdoc supports early-career scientists advancing innovative, applied conservation research across the U.S. & territories. conbio.org/publications/scb-news-blog/smith-fellows-2027-call-for-proposals-announced

Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.

This article covers some of the local perspectives on Trump opening protected waters to industrial fishing sentientmedia.org/trumps-fishi...

How Trump’s Fishing Expansion Threatens Pacific Waters

Beyond environmental risks, advocates say the move reflects a continuing pattern of federal authorities disregarding meaningful consultation with local communities.

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Do I know anyone who knows about Marimo (i.e., Cladophora balls)? I have a relative with questions about its ecology...

If you've been in a zoom meeting with me from my home office anytime in the past decade, you probably met my good friend Oscar, who insisted on sitting upon the keyboard. I'll miss him.

Dr. Susanne Brander@smbrander.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oscar, our 17 yr old polydactyl cat who has been with me since grad school, passed away last night 😞 He had 7 toes on each front paw and was a wonderful companion for many years. We’ll miss you Oscar 🐈‍⬛

Obama Center Reflecting Pool

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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If you’re looking for a grounded take on today’s decision to reopen commercial fishing in Pacific marine monuments, start with @taotaotasi.bsky.social. He helped create many of these protections, is from the region, and understands what’s at stake better than most hot takes ever will. 🌊

In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:

🚨 Job alert! We're hiring a TT Assistant Professor in the Fisheries Department at UAF @uafairbanks.bsky.social. Broad search for applicants who focus on evolution, ecology, physiology, management, or social science. No visa support availably. Apply by July 1. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

for those of you who are not familiar with the "Crop Art" genre, I would like to show you some photos I took at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels

Researchers taught rats to drive tiny "ratmobiles" in exchange for food, which helped the rats relax.

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I've posted it several times before, but the hardest I have personally laughed at a tweet.

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4mo ago

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

My wife says this photo is missing Benoit Blanc

Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com · 5mo ago

Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously

“If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.” UCS’s Julian Reyes explains why the Senate should work to block this nomination:

Trump’s Nominee to Run NSF is Unqualified, Conflicted, and a Threat to Science

If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.

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These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

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The draft Nature Record National Assessment is now open for comment! Take a look and tell us what we got right, what we missed, and what changes you’re seeing where you live. Your perspective will help shape the final record of nature in the U.S. naturerecord.substack.com/p/the-draft-...

The Draft is Ready. Now We Need You.

Share your perspective on the state of nature in the U.S.

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FISH JOB ALERT! NOAA Fisheries is looking to hire four stock assessment biologists. These positions can be located at any of our Fishery Science Centers from Seattle to Miami to Woods Hole. Applications are due by March 10! www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

NOAA Fisheries Is Hiring

Find details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries.

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Let's outlaw scheduling meetings without first. I don't care what my university account calendar says, it's not a reflection of my availability, and even if it was, that doesn't give you the right to commit me to anything without my consent, kthxbye.

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking

Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

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My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

"General, you're listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and don't act like one" should be the definitive movie quote for the era we're in.

Make a splash this summer! Join our team as a 2026 summer intern. 🩵🌊🪸🐙🐠🌸🐬🫧🐚🌈🌊 Curious, motivated, and passionate about protecting California’s coast and ocean? We’d love to see your application! 🔗 Apply by March 5: bit.ly/OPC-INTERNS26

2026 OPC Summer Internship Program - Apply by March 5, 2026 - California Ocean Protection Council

The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) is hiring up to four Student Assistants for its 2026 Summer Internship Program (Program). The purpose of the Summer Internship Program is to provide under...

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We are hiring a benthic ecologist at the researcher or senior researcher level 🧪🌍🦑 The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is an excellent place to work, with friendly colleagues, support, and teaching opportunities. naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/...

Researcher/Senior Researcher in Benthic Ecology at the Greenland Climate Research Center at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources

The Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) invites applications for a position as researcher/senior researcher within the field of marine benth...

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Climate change does in fact endanger us quite a lot.