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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · 1d

New paper @thefsbi.bsky.social Journal of Fish Biology finds inTŝilhqox Biny (Chilko Lake), bull trout binge feed in response to 2 resource pulses provided by sockeye salmon: spawned eggs in fall + juvenile smolts moving downstream in spring.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
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header of paper published by Dr. Adam Kanigan et al.

Left: stomach contents of a single bull trout collected in spring, with dozens of juvenile sockeye salmon smolts. Right: stomach contents of a single bull trout collected in late fall, full of sockeye salmon eggs.

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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely disappointing that NH music hall cancels annual fundraiser for NH Women's Foundation due to it showing a film on abortion rights. Canceling 6 days prior is not being "neutral", it's a political statement.

nhwomensfoundation.org/2025/10/09/l...

Letter to The Music Hall about Canceling Lovering Health Center Event Rental - New Hampshire Women's Foundation

Canceling an event for a documentary about abortion is not neutral. It is a political decision that is clearly anti-abortion.

nhwomensfoundation.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid.

This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know that you can now bring Google Earth Engine data right into ArcGIS Pro?

Here’s a new storymap with details and a link to the tool on @github.com and thoughts on a possible interoperability of GEE and ArcGIS Pro.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bf22...
#gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

Bring Google Earth Engine’s Data Right into ArcGIS Pro

Access Google Earth Engine's Data Catalog in ArcGIS Pro

storymaps.arcgis.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 10d

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress.

Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump offers Qatar, which gave him a fancy plane, a NATO-like security guarantee

Without bothering to go through Congress, the president signed an executive order this week vowing to defend Qatar in the event of a foreign attack.

www.msnbc.com

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14d

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 14d

White House Funding Cuts to the National Science Foundation Threaten America’s Global Leadership in Science
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/white-hous...

new long-form post joint with @malar0ne.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social and @asinclair.bsky.social

White House FY2026 proposed budget would be lowest funding level in 25+ years.

https://joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/white-house-funding-cuts-to-the-national

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15d

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · 15d

Very proud of our group and the presentations we gave this past week at AIC chapter of @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social meeting in Quebec City.

Lots of telemetry on species including river herring, rainbow smelt, Arctic char, and bull trout

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@oceantracking.bsky.social

Four members of the Furey Lab posing for a picture

Sasha Milsky presenting rainbow smelt research

Greg Kronisch presenting Arctic charr research.

Nathan Furey presenting bull trout research.

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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · 29d

Many of the critters that grow on substrates of the ocean represent lower levels of the food web. We sampled some of them for stable isotope and energy density analysis, to better understand the flow of energy in the Gulf of Maine!

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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · 29d

All of that life growing on the receiver likely decreased its ability to detect our tagged cod (and other tagged animals in the area), but was still getting some detections so didn't completely block it from working!

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 2

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long helped pay for PBS, NPR and 1,500 local radio and television stations and programs like “Sesame Street.

Not just Big Bird: Things to know about the Center for Public Broadcasting and its funding cuts

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long helped pay for PBS, NPR and 1,500 local radio and television stations and programs like “Sesame Street.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · Aug 1

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Aug 1

Me three months ago:

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Apr 17

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · Jul 31

Grateful for commercial diving services that retrieved this acoustic telemetry receiver for us that we have been trying to get back for the last 3 to 4 months.

Quite the settlement plate it became over the last 15 months. Fingers crossed for good data!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Jul 30

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

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Nathan B Furey @nathanbfurey.bsky.social · Jul 23

New data paper in Ecology - For his first PhD chapter, Dr. Nathan Hermann compiled >3800 records of energy density from freshwater and marine organisms. The data are freely available to use.

@esajournals.bsky.social @unhresearch.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Marine and freshwater organism energy densities integrated across previous sources

Energy is the currency of exchange within ecosystems which defines the strength and influence of interactions, particularly between predator and prey. The ability to estimate the productivity of an e....

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jul 23

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 15

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I needed this good news today.

Gov. Ayotte vetoes book removal bill, bathroom ban bill, more Republican legislation

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven New Hampshire bills, many intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking conservative wing of her party.

www.seacoastonline.com

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Roland Pierik @roleo.bsky.social · Jul 14

Paul Noth. in the New Yorker.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 12

Poor and working class students of color ALSO face the bullshit racism from people like Andreessen who use their existence as a shield from a real discussion about social inequality in society and as a mechanism for distributing the psychological wages of whiteness that white solidarity depends on.

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