Scientist friends, please read the thread & share your thoughts (Doesn’t have to be public, you know how to reach me!) re:blast radius question, we have a survey out right now trying to get a handle on overall impacts, how close labs are to funding cliff & coping strategies

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · last mo.

US scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1

A case of Mini-me DOGE. The Carney government has been firing scientists and researchers. Now they are asking some of them to come back to help figure things out. We risk a great deal in losing research expertise in agriculture, climate, fisheries/oceans. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/n...

Feds ask fired scientists to advise on Canada's future research

Officials at Canada's agriculture department are asking scientists who were abruptly fired earlier this year to help the agency decide its future research goals, Canada's National Observer has found.

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How are proposed federal regulatory reforms reshaping major project approvals & what does this mean for biodiversity and species at risk? Join WCS Canada’s Dr. Justina Ray for this timely webinar! Date: August 11, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM MST Learn more & register: https://www.actws.ca/webinars/

This is great news! Thank you to everyone who helped to sound the alarm or contacted their reps to fight this. I’m no sure what will happen to the sensors already pulled from off the coast of Washington, but the rest of the network is saved for now. Keep fighting! It matters!

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 3mo ago

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring. Gift link: nyti.ms/4oC3U25

Theres a bit of good news for coral reefs, writes the @nytimes.com. A study, led by WCS and presented at #OurOcean, identified 5,800+ square miles of climate-resilient ocean in 72 countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...

There’s a Bit of Good News for Coral Reefs

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Two former advisors to the federal government called out Prime Minister Mark Carney for slashing environmental rules and ignoring experts in climate science and policy. thenarwhal.ca/carney-canad...

Carney is ‘shredding’ environmental rules, ‘misleading’ the public: experts | The Narwhal

The government shut out its own climate science and policy advisors, they say, while gutting Canada’s environmental protections in favour of oil and gas

thenarwhal.ca

UPDATE: The deadline for public feedback has been extended to July 22. More info in the thread ⬇️

Aerin Jacob, PhD@aerinj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.

Decisions about roads, mines, ports, railways, and energy infrastructure shapes ecosystems for decades. In many cases, negative impacts are difficult --or impossible-- to reverse. Public consultation on the federal government's proposed major-project reforms closes June 7. Make your voice heard!!!

Elbows Up for Nature  | Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Speak up for nature in Canada. Oppose weakening environmental protections in fast-tracked projects. Public consultation open until June 7.

cpaws.org

The federal government's plan to fast-track major infrastructure development is at odds with its new $3.8-billion strategy to protect 30% of Canada's lands & waters by 2030, say UBC, UVic & U of T researchers. ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-major...

Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.

ca.news.yahoo.com

Grad school on your vision board to 2027? Check out this list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for the 2027-2028 academic year! tinylink.net/XtVsW #ResourceWednesday

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027 (Responses)

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Dr. Carly Kenkel@drcarl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Please read Dr. Ginexi's summary of the OMB proposal linked below and submit your *personalized* public comment by July 13! The @standupforscience.net portal makes this incredibly easy: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

Stand up for Science

Stand up for Science

fight2win.standupforscience.net

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

This thread gets longer and longer. People are speaking up about the risks and consequences of weakening -- some say "eviscerating" -- environmental protection in Canada.

Aerin Jacob, PhD@aerinj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

scim.ag

Global coral reef collapse is not inevitable

Global coral reef collapse is not inevitable

Coral reefs are gravely threatened by climate change and other anthropogenic stressors. However, global coral reef collapse is not inevitable, and the status of coral reef tipping points is…

cell.com

... and there it is. The Canadian gov't has officially cut the rate of increase in the industrial carbon price by 75%, matching the deal with Alberta. Sadly predictable. You let one province weaken a federal policy, and it reverberates nationally. www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action. PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place. A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @sethdklein.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein

While Canada may be clinging to fossil fuels, much of the world is moving on

theguardian.com

TLDR: this agreement does not maintain a path to net zero by 2050

Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦@shastingssimon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Alright, lets do another live skeet react to the actual text in the Canada Alberta agreement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

The "regulations vs. the economy" framing is doing a lot of work in Ottawa right now. Friday's fast-track proposal would compress federal reviews to a year and let the Cabinet exempt projects from any environmental law. WCEL's reaction is worth a read. www.wcel.org/media-releas... #Canada

RESEARCH: Pacific salmon and cumulative injustices in Canada and the USA. Co-authored by Dr. Sara Cannon @surlyscientist.bsky.social, Jared Connoy & Dr. Andrea Reid. (Online access has been shared by the author(s) via @springernature.com) rdcu.be/fgU5Y (art credit: movement74.ca)

In its economic update, the Canadian govt expanded its Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage investment tax credit to include "enhanced oil recovery": pumping carbon dioxide in the ground to increase oil extraction. This is deeply cynical for two reasons... (1/3)

New paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity! We describe how colonial mismanagement has compounded into cumulative injustices for Salmon Peoples & what transformative justice in salmon governance could look like. rdcu.be/fgU5Y Art: movement74.ca @ubcoceans.bsky.social @salmonscience.bsky.social 🐟🧪🌎🦤

Tuesday, May 5, marks National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Day, a time when Native communities and organizations across the country come together to spotlight the #MMIP crisis and pay tribute to those most affected.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day Events Near You

Tuesday, May 5, marks National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Day, a time when Native communities and organizations across the country come together to spotlight the MMIP cri...

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New paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity! We describe how colonial mismanagement has compounded into cumulative injustices for Salmon Peoples & what transformative justice in salmon governance could look like. rdcu.be/fgU5Y Art: movement74.ca @ubcoceans.bsky.social @salmonscience.bsky.social 🐟🧪🌎🦤

Iakwe from the Marshall Islands! Today we visited the giant clam farm on Majuro. Swipe to see how colourful these beauties are! 😍🤩🥰 🧪🌏

You aren't imagining things... summer is starting earlier and lasting longer. Here's @climate-ted.bsky.social describing our new research on how summer is changing around the world. youtu.be/I0SANexZUbg?...

Why summer weather is hotter, arriving earlier and lasting longer

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.

Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

haymarketbooks.org

For non-scientists, LTER programs run for decades, so scientists can learn how ecosystems change over time. These programs cover ecology, evolution, systems biology, and it includes animals, plants, even microbes, and more. We learned so much about how our world works with LTERs. This sucks :(

Mike Kaspari@mikekaspari.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.