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Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · Jul 5

Get Congress involved.

Call. ☎️

Write: @resist.bot

resist.bot/petitions/PW...

Support EPA Employees Declaration of Dissent - EPA Must Do Its Job

Text SIGN PWYNYA to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jul 4

This is what retaliation looks like. I'm proud of all who signed.
🌏🦑🌿 #EPA #toxins #deregulation

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’

Letter from workers, which EPA claims is ‘unlawful’, says agency is no longer living up to its mission

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jul 3

Very impressive accomplishments.

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jul 3

These and vorticella from a local brackish-water pond were some of the first ciliates to fascinate me as a kid and I've never gotten over them!🥰

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wow, quite a find and good sampling!

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jul 1

Everyday another deregulation for water, emissions, and now this. 🌎🦑🌿 #toxins #deregulation #EPA
www.science.org/content/arti...

EPA employees accuse Trump officials of undermining the agency’s mission

“Declaration of Dissent” denounces partisan messaging, rollback of environmental regulations, and dismantling of science office, among other concerns

www.science.org

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 30

Let's face it. Humanity has treated the oceans like a sewer since the dawn of mankind, yet eaten the resources that are poisoned. A positive feedback loop that does not end well for humanity unless broken.

Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 30

Nice photo and certainly is huge. Wonder what lucky fish is the host?

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Jun 28

Welcome to the "gold standard" for medievalism. #NOAA announced yesterday that the Climate.gov site will no longer be updated.
🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #weather #scicomm #science #climate #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Screenshot of the home page of NOAA's Climate.gov web site, June 28, 2025.

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 25

No surprises here...just a reminder of what the state of knowledge is and how it will influence management. 🌎🦑🌿
#biodiversity #ocean #management
www.cmscoms.com?p=44462

Global assessment reveals stark biases in ocean biodiversity data - Ocean and Coastal Futures

Ocean and Coastal Futures - We’re all about connecting people – organising events, creating communications and promoting job opportunities.

www.cmscoms.com

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 24

What a nightmare...I hope efforts to eradicate are reorganizing and deployed as soon as possible.

Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 23

This is more than disturbing...it is out of the scope of mindful language. The are diverse assemblages of plants and animals that thrive in old growth forests and no where else. How is this destruction allowed?

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · Jun 21

Trump's budget bill includes the sale of up to 3.3M acres of public lands + the sale of 258M acres more over 5 years = 40% of our public lands. @biologicaldiversity.org makes it fast/easy to tell your U.S. senators NO sale: act.biologicaldiversity.org/EvF--pvAkkeM...? #birds #wildlife 🌎

Stop the Largest Public Lands Sell-off in History

It’s the largest attack on public lands in U.S. history: Senate Republicans have proposed selling off nearly 3 million acres of these lands as part of their tax bill. Urge your senators to oppose any ...

act.biologicaldiversity.org

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 20

Divorcing Climate Science from Policy - our new EPA doing the utmost for our health and well being 🌎🦑🌿 #climate #EPA #policy
undark.org/2025/06/17/e...

The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.

undark.org

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 13

A perfect choice. Thanks!

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last week, the MBL Ecosystems Center celebrated 50 years of ecological research and education.

“The center is about science, but it’s also about outreach, education and policy,” said Director Anne Giblin. “There is no place I’d rather be.”

Read about it here: bit.ly/3Hw37hH

The MBL Ecosystems Center Celebrates its Golden Anniversary  | Marine Biological Laboratory

Many stories were told, a few tears were shed, and abundant insights, memories and predictions were shared at the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the MBL Ecosystems Center on May 29-31 in Clapp Auditori...

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 10

We need more like this! 🌎🦑

Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · Jun 10

”If you’re a fish lover, you want to protect #HudsonCanyon,” says Vinny Milburn, owner of Greenpoint Fish and Lobster Co. in Brooklyn, NY.

For World Oceans Month, seafood markets in NY and NJ will wrap seafood in butcher paper with language in support of protecting the canyon.

🌎 bit.ly/3ZRWSuQ

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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · Jun 7

There’s a lot of corporate friendly puff pieces out there supporting deep sea mining. The Economist has called for it. But the sums simply don’t add up:

time.com/7287891/deep...

The Economics of Deep-Sea Mining Don't Add Up

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than the seafloor.

time.com

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · Jun 3

For a change, some hope. 🌎🦑🌿
www.cmscoms.com?p=44235

US pioneers deep-sea restoration in Gulf of Mexico - Ocean and Coastal Futures

Ocean and Coastal Futures - We’re all about connecting people – organising events, creating communications and promoting job opportunities.

www.cmscoms.com

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · May 31

We need more like this. 🌎🦑 #mining #deepsea

Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · May 30

The UN aims to turn urgency into action as oceans face stress from acidification, overfishing, rising sea levels, plastic pollution, and deep-sea mining concerns.

France doubles down on deep sea mining caution ahead of UNOC3

The UN aims to turn urgency into action as oceans face stress from acidification, overfishing, rising sea levels, plastic pollution, and deep-sea mining concerns.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · May 29

Warming waters, coral and kelp die off spawns ties between Nanavut and South Korea 🌎🦑🌿 #Arctic #Climate #Coral
oceansnorth.org/2025/05/26/m...

Melting Sea Ice and Drooping Corals

As the ocean warms, soft corals near the subtropical island of Jeju, South Korea, are melting in an eerie parallel to the vanishing sea ice of the Arctic.

oceansnorth.org

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · May 14

On the Chopping Block: Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument 🌎🦑🌿
www.nationalfisherman.com/trump-to-reo...

Trump to reopen Northeast Canyons to commercial fishing

www.nationalfisherman.com

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · May 7

I hope so too, Amy. As good as they 'say' the technology is, mining will be like fishing around in the dark causing widespread damage to sensitive, highly diverse, and vulnerable ecosystems.

Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · May 7

Trump's deep sea mining order raises eyebrows of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) 🌎🦑🌿 #deepseamining

www.cmscoms.com?p=43923

Head of intergovernmental body raises concerns over Trump's deep-sea mining order - Ocean and Coastal Futures

Ocean and Coastal Futures - We’re all about connecting people – organising events, creating communications and promoting job opportunities.

www.cmscoms.com

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Tom Trott @gammarus.bsky.social · May 5

I wasn't very clear about why I wrote the intro to that article. If the US did contract US companies, where would all of the material be processed? Plus, plants like those take years to complete.