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Jessica Gephart

@jagephart.bsky.social

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Asst Prof at University of Washington SAFS Globalization of aquatic food systems & sustainable seafood Lab website: http://seafood-globalization-lab.weebly.com/ ARTIS website: https://artisdata.weebly.com/

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Jessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · 15d

Miss you all and am super excited about this collaboration!

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Jessica Zamborain Mason @jzamborainmason.bsky.social · 16d

Leading a HDSI nutrition sensitive aquatic food systems workshop with this amazing group of people! Feeling extremely grateful for them sharing their time and expertise with the group! @christinahicks.bsky.social @james-robinson.bsky.social @chrisgolden.bsky.social Aaron, Nisha, Chris Free & Laura

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Oceana @oceana.bsky.social · 17d

A new study reveals that although they are often overlooked, dried fish are critical to helping feed millions of people across Africa.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4nItEIj

@lancasteruni.bsky.social

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 29d

Oceana #Ghana VP job posting here. Please share with any promising leaders who are ready to build and run campaigns!

oceana.org/employment/v...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Sep 5

Huh.

Unprecedented substitution of seafood species with non-aquatic species was found...Almost 60 % of shark products were identified as pork.

"Face-off: Shark or pork? DNA barcoding authentication and labelling analysis of shark products"

Redirecting

doi.org

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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...

I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · Aug 15

Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT!
tinyurl.com/3enzuubc

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Global Environmental Policy)

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Environmental Data Science @envdatascience.bsky.social · Aug 13

Recently published!

Development of a comprehensive bilateral trade-flow dataset of the environmental pressures of global food production

👉 https://bit.ly/3TPYC4q

By authors from @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social

#climatechange #agriculture #food
‪@jagephart.bsky.social‬

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Jessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's not in there but wouldn't be too hard to do, at least as a back-of-the-envelope calculation!

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UW News @uwnews.uw.edu · Aug 4

Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease

“This is the discovery of the decade for me,” said co-author @drewharvell.bsky.social. "We have studied both the cause and the impacts of this disease for the entire epidemic."

More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · Aug 4

After years of work, a team of researchers with support from The Nature Conservancy have identified the causative agent of Sea Star Wasting Disease! Big implications for my work & an inspiring example of the amazing things we can do w/ science...plus I'm quoted in it ;)
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Giant sea stars are melting away — and now scientists know why

Canadian scientists say they’ve finally identified what is likely causing giant colourful sea stars in the Pacific Northwest to literally waste away: It's bacterium from the same family that causes ch...

www.cbc.ca

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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos.
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

www.biographic.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Aug 1

BREAKING: Donald Trump officially terminated nearly half of all Education Department staff.

This is an all-out assault on our public schools and Americans with student loans.

NPR headline that reads "Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did"

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jul 31

Why should Democrats support a “bipartisan bill” just for Republicans to turn around and delete the parts Donald Trump doesn’t like?

A graphic with photos of Senator Warren saying:

Step 1: Congress negotiates a deal that both parties support and it’s signed into law.

Step 2: Trump tells Republicans what parts of the deal he wants to cancel.

Step 3: Republicans in the Senate bend the knee and follow Trump’s orders to cancel the money.

Apparently, Step 4: Republicans turn around and ask Democrats to negotiate more deals for next year’s funding.

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · Apr 26

Preprint is now up: “Uncertain seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis”, written with the brilliant @jagephart.bsky.social. We identified 4 major differences/escalations of the 2025 Seafood EO order compared to 2020 and review each. doi.org/10.31223/X5G...

Map of cut or frozen USDA funds and 2023 aquaculture sales per state.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Jul 26

The era of climate migration is upon us.

Residents of Tuvalu are slowly resettling in Australia. This is only the beginning…

www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

www.wired.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · May 7

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle

After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

news.cornell.edu

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 23

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 21

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again.

But inside our borders.

David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · Jul 21

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Zamborain Mason @jzamborainmason.bsky.social · Jul 20

open access paper estimating the contribution of aquatic foods, and specific aquatic food groups (e.g., reef fish, pelagic fish, invertebrates) to household nutrient intake and adequacy in Kiribati. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@hsph.harvard.edu
@chrisgolden.bsky.social @jagephart.bsky.social

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Jul 19

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals.

The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

apnews.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 17

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!

An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.

🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants

Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

www.science.org

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · Jul 16

Contracts show that, in at least one instance, resources allocated for the state’s “disaster preparedness” apparatus were diverted to "Alligator Alcatraz" as DeSantis’ office used emergency powers to quickly establish the camp during hurricane season.

Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jul 16

As I say here, “This document was written for the American people, paid for by the taxpayers, and it contains vital information we need to keep ourselves safe in a changing climate, as the disasters that continue to mount demonstrate so tragically and clearly.”

More by @borenbears.bsky.social here:

Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised

The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.

apnews.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jess Fanzo @jessfanzo.bsky.social · Jul 13

After 20+ years of running at full speed in academia, I’m stepping into a new phase—less Bear, more Beef. A reflection on ambition, burnout, and what it means to let go of prestige to make room for purpose. Check out my new post on The Food Archive: shorturl.at/uyVsC

Beef or Bear? On Ambition, Academia, and the Art of Letting Go — The Food Archive

I’m sure many of you have been watching The Bear —the TV show that follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a brilliant young chef who returns home to Chicago to take over his late brother’s gritty sandwic...

shorturl.at

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI!

Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems.

Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...

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