Grant Haines
@gehaines.bsky.social
evolutionary bio postdoc at Hólar University.
fish stuff mostly, but not exclusively.
Skip emeritus of Colgate University curling team.
Formerly: McGill, W&M, Colgate
Bethlehemite (PA)
gehaines.weebly.com
fish stuff mostly, but not exclusively.
Skip emeritus of Colgate University curling team.
Formerly: McGill, W&M, Colgate
Bethlehemite (PA)
gehaines.weebly.com
There is no sense in which RFK Jr. is “In Science”.
The extent to which The Atlantic has self-immolated over the past decade is absolutely baffling
The extent to which The Atlantic has self-immolated over the past decade is absolutely baffling
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
There is no sense in which RFK Jr. is “In Science”.
The extent to which The Atlantic has self-immolated over the past decade is absolutely baffling
The extent to which The Atlantic has self-immolated over the past decade is absolutely baffling
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American Rivers is announcing its disapproval of the EPA’s new proposed definition of the WOTUS provision of the Clean Water Act.
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
American Rivers is announcing its disapproval of the EPA’s new proposed definition of the WOTUS provision of the Clean Water Act.
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways.
Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...
Meromictic lakes are terrifying
Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Meromictic lakes are terrifying
Hey @governor.pa.gov, this sucks
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hey @governor.pa.gov, this sucks
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
It seems self-evidently dumb to follow the strategic instincts of a guy who just voted for the Trump-endorsed candidate to be his own mayor.
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It seems self-evidently dumb to follow the strategic instincts of a guy who just voted for the Trump-endorsed candidate to be his own mayor.
Plague transmission back and forth, forever
Behavioral #plasticity: First documentation of systematic predation on #bats by #rats.
Gloza-Rausch et al 2025 Global Ecology and Conservation. Active predation by brown #rats on #bats at urban mass hibernacula in Northern #Germany: Conservation and one health implications
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Gloza-Rausch et al 2025 Global Ecology and Conservation. Active predation by brown #rats on #bats at urban mass hibernacula in Northern #Germany: Conservation and one health implications
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Plague transmission back and forth, forever
Ok, so now that baseball is over, can we do curling? 🥌
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ok, so now that baseball is over, can we do curling? 🥌
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Fellow fish nerds, I'm sharing a link to a free PDF of "The Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia". This new book provides a summary of the taxonomy, distribution, and biology of all freshwater fishes between the Bosphorus, Azerbaijan, Yemen, and Iran. 🐟
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Fellow fish nerds, I'm sharing a link to a free PDF of "The Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia". This new book provides a summary of the taxonomy, distribution, and biology of all freshwater fishes between the Bosphorus, Azerbaijan, Yemen, and Iran. 🐟
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Any lawyers should be aware that these programs are probabilistic and can only test images against images already in a training set. Setting aside the workings of the models, any changes in appearance (e.g., aging, injuries, cosmetic surgery, facial hair, etc.) can reduce match certainty
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Any lawyers should be aware that these programs are probabilistic and can only test images against images already in a training set. Setting aside the workings of the models, any changes in appearance (e.g., aging, injuries, cosmetic surgery, facial hair, etc.) can reduce match certainty
A thing that would be good for PoliSci majors to have is a required statistics course. This would fix a lot of problems.
I am begging people to include the uncertainty interval on their regression plots
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A thing that would be good for PoliSci majors to have is a required statistics course. This would fix a lot of problems.
Half of Jeff Bezos’s wealth could fund all of SNAP for over a year without its loss having any appreciable effect on his lifestyle.
Literally one guy.
Literally one guy.
Almost 42 million Americans rely on SNAP to purchase food, according to the USDA.
SNAP Funding Has ‘Run Dry’ For November, Trump Administration Says—Here’s What To Know
Almost 42 million Americans rely on SNAP to purchase food, according to the USDA.
www.forbes.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Half of Jeff Bezos’s wealth could fund all of SNAP for over a year without its loss having any appreciable effect on his lifestyle.
Literally one guy.
Literally one guy.
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Postdoc in the Faroes setur.totalview.cloud/recruitment/...
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Postdoc in the Faroes setur.totalview.cloud/recruitment/...
some fun biogeography going on in this region, btw doi.org/10.1139/f78-...
![title and abstract of "Rombough et al. 1978. Life history and taxonomic
status of an isolated population of Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus, from Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Res. Board Can.35: 1537-1541"
last sentence of abstract is highlighted: "It is proposed that Arctic char from Candlestick Pond are descendents [sic] of an aboriginal form of S. alpinus that has been largely displaced along the Atlantic coast of North America."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7twy4ipd4u4pzzge5k2afnln/bafkreiepkzmb6j5hkxwchft5w2zzfxza577e4sla52gbu7uo3f2cc7zjpa@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
some fun biogeography going on in this region, btw doi.org/10.1139/f78-...
Now that I have time to explain this a little more: since 2021, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social and I, and some other folks from @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social's lab have been working in QC's Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata on some odd stickleback populations rapidly evolving in response to stocked trout.🧪🐟
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Now that I have time to explain this a little more: since 2021, @sarahsanderson.bsky.social and I, and some other folks from @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social's lab have been working in QC's Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata on some odd stickleback populations rapidly evolving in response to stocked trout.🧪🐟
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Wishing you could hear me talk instead of reading posts one by one? Here's your chance! I'll be giving a free, online talk next Wednesday from 12-1pm EST for the Microbes and Social Equity working group! I will discuss our microbiome work & my HEU* work
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
Speaker Series 2025
Events will be hosted January – December, 2025, on the last Wednesday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom. After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an i…
microbesandsocialequity.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wishing you could hear me talk instead of reading posts one by one? Here's your chance! I'll be giving a free, online talk next Wednesday from 12-1pm EST for the Microbes and Social Equity working group! I will discuss our microbiome work & my HEU* work
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
No idea where this is, but let me tell you this stream has soooo many stickleback in it.
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
No idea where this is, but let me tell you this stream has soooo many stickleback in it.
Got some new stuff out with @sarahsanderson.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social and Rosalie Morin-Nadeau 🐟 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Evolution of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) defensive traits following the stocking of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Got some new stuff out with @sarahsanderson.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social and Rosalie Morin-Nadeau 🐟 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The article only mentions it in passing, but gutting the IRB is something every member of congress needs to be *pissed* about. Like bipartisan flipping tables in Congress pissed.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The article only mentions it in passing, but gutting the IRB is something every member of congress needs to be *pissed* about. Like bipartisan flipping tables in Congress pissed.
Submissions page for #stickleback collection "Celebrating three decades of stickleback research in the Canadian Journal of Zoology" is up!
Deadline is March 30, 2026 🐟
cdnsciencepub.com/topic/cjz-st...
Deadline is March 30, 2026 🐟
cdnsciencepub.com/topic/cjz-st...
cdnsciencepub.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Submissions page for #stickleback collection "Celebrating three decades of stickleback research in the Canadian Journal of Zoology" is up!
Deadline is March 30, 2026 🐟
cdnsciencepub.com/topic/cjz-st...
Deadline is March 30, 2026 🐟
cdnsciencepub.com/topic/cjz-st...
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Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it
October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it
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Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
As a salmonid biologist from Pennsylvania, it is impossible for me to describe how infuriating this is.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
October 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As a salmonid biologist from Pennsylvania, it is impossible for me to describe how infuriating this is.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
I have emailed the state about undocumented native, wild brook trout populations that they wouldn’t even put on their maps without doing a survey that they were too understaffed for.
Just in case you’re wondering, this is ~9% of the PA state higher ed system’s annual budget
Turns out they could find a spare fifty six million dollars.
BREAKING: Penn State has fired head coach James Franklin, the school announced Sunday.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just in case you’re wondering, this is ~9% of the PA state higher ed system’s annual budget