Dr. Sharon Homer-Drummond
@shomerdrummond.bsky.social
AAAS Honorary Fellow & STP Alumn; Sci pol & diplomacy, ed & com; EJ & SJ; wildlife endocrinology & physio.; marine mammal biol.; environmental tox & disruption; systems change; conservation standards. Posts solely reflect my own opinions. she/her/hers
A fascinating study of novel problem-solving in bumble bees. lnkd.in/p/edmctMuq
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Picture reaching for something on a high shelf and coming up short. You don’t give up; instead, you find a stool, carry it over, and climb up. Buried in that action is something remarkable: You held t...
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25 years ago so many lost friends, colleagues, family. I had friends at all three sites, and lost many more brothers and sisters since. Today, we will grieve and remember and serve. And I will continue to work in whatever ways I can for a better, more just and peaceful, world.
Some interesting nuances and some opportunities for mitigation. open.substack.com/pub/weareoce...
The Deep Brief #49 | 15 August 2026
Your end of week ocean intelligence, built to inform, agitate, and equip you
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Global fire emissions dashboard. Very well-designed and very sobering. apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissio...
Fire Emissions Watch
Global wildfire emissions, tracked every day — carbon emissions, fire intensity and smoke for every country, from the CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System.
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AOML is monitoring early bleaching at Cheeca Rocks, a very sensitive reef. www.linkedin.com/posts/on-jul...
On July 7, 2026, the NOAA AOML Coral Program observed the first signs of coral bleaching at Cheeca Rocks, a shallow inshore patch reef and long-term environmental monitoring site under the National… |...
On July 7, 2026, the NOAA AOML Coral Program observed the first signs of coral bleaching at Cheeca Rocks, a shallow inshore patch reef and long-term environmental monitoring site under the National Co...
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You had me at whale fall necropolis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
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The June forecast from the NMME ensemble is out for the upcoming #ElNiño. The ensemble mean (thick black line on the first chart) is right around +2.2°C. That's on the roughly same level as the 2015-16 and 1997-98 El Niños, and a bit weaker than the 1982-83 El Niño.
Good article on the complexity & deep uncertainty of the downstream effects of CO2 drawdown using enhanced rock weathering 1/2 ⚒️🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can enhanced alkalinity store carbon durably?
Key questions remain about carbon removal strategies in open environmental systems
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📣 Applications are OPEN for @congressfellows.bsky.social's 2027 Congressional Innovation Fellowship! Technologists: bring your technical expertise to the policymaking process in Congress. U.S. citizens & DACA recipients eligible. Apply by June 25 ➡️ techcongress.io/apply
My MS thesis had a chapter called ‘What’s a Whale Worth?’ where I compared & ground-truthed non-market valuation models for cetacea to argue for ways to incorporate conservation & protection into economic modeling & budgetary processes. This is an appalling inverse of that study.
Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng.@rtmlepage.bsky.social · 5mo ago"If I may, if I may... I urge you to consider the salient question of our times: what is the economic value of an Orca? We need to diversify our economy, and, just as the tree has no value until it is harvested, I propose we bring back whaling to Canada" ~Carney www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Record for UK's hottest May day has been smashed, with temperatures 34C W London It's the hottest May day recorded in Wales, hottest bank holiday Monday in any month in the UK, & last night saw the highest overnight temperature for May Also hottest day of yr so far Scotland
As usual, Angelo’s writing cuts through a lot of noise and draws sharp attention to our failures from within the conservation communities. www.angelovillagomez.com/2026/01/i-am...
I Am Not Your Noble Savage
Angelo Villagomez Saipan Mariana Trench Guam Ocean Conservation Culture Chamorro Indigenous
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If you’re a US Citizen, please comment on these proposed rules changes in the federal registry. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA wants to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
If finalized, the proposal would end the Biden-era restrictions for four toxic PFAS compounds and give utilities two more years to comply with limits on two other compounds.
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This is a perceptive and beautifully written piece on why scientists hold back from acting on climate Hard to disgree with its conclusions: much of the responsibility lies with the research institutions that employ them
Why Do Some Scientists Stay Silent on Climate?
The science is settled. The scientists are not.
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Absolutely worth a careful read. www.patreon.com/posts/149613...
Black Magic and Whites Only Storytelling: A Dark Gaze on the Stories We Write (and Watch) | Sidney Rose
Black Magic and Whites Only Storytelling: A Dark Gaze on the Stories We Write (and Watch) by Sidney Rose on Patreon. Join Sidney Rose 's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Beyond hero and villain narratives in ecology and conservation science 🌎 @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Beyond hero and villain narratives in ecology and conservation science
Abstract. Storytelling is an essential part of science writing. To craft compelling stories, scientists are taught to think of their variables as character
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This is absurdly fun. Write you name using Landsat images: science.nasa.gov/specials/you...
Your Name in Landsat 🛰️
Type your name and see it spelled out in stunning Landsat satellite imagery. Explore Earth from space, letter by letter, with NASA and USGS Landsat images.
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Decadal trends in May sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean - red shading corresponds to areas of thinning ice (yes, that's pretty much everywhere) Simulated by PIOMAS; doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
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NSF Has No Director, No Deputy, No Board: What Researchers Should Know Before Thursday | Paige Amormino | 40 comments
NSF now has no Director, no Deputy Director, and no National Science Board. It is also facing a proposed 55% funding cut, with its Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate slated to be zer...
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We’re devastated. Our ability to fund basic research has been attacked. www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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Evolution of daily sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during 1-22 April 2026 in the western portion of the eastern North Pacific. 🥵
A staggering loss for the US, but hopefully a gain for smaller nations wanting to build innovative STEM ecosystems. geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/21/1...
10,000 scientists gone: Trump’s cuts create an unprecedented brain drain
Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the
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"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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If Mamdani and Obama singing The Wheels On The Bus with a group of tiny kids doesn't spark some sort of joy in you, I've got nothing for you.
I’m back for my third Johns Hopkins Science Diplomacy Summit, and the first panel is doing a fantastic job of addressing both the potential for science and diplomacy to serve society, and the dangers of global disinformation campaigns and anti-expertise messaging.
Look at the year over year drops in active grants going out the door, including 2025. The admin. is illegally strangling appropriated funds through a variety of tactics like pocket rescissions and setting US STEM back decades. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
Funding Curves: Grantmaking over Time by Agency – Grant Witness
Click or move your cursor along the graph to compare data across FY 2021 to 2026.
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It will take us decades to recover. federalnewsnetwork.com/reorganizati...
Interior Dept gives employees third shot at voluntary incentives to leave their jobs | Federal News Network
Interior is looking to shrink its headcount ahead of a “strategic initiative to improve resource management and the delivery of critical resources."
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