Cat McClure, Ph.D.
@cat-mcclure.bsky.social
Aquatic Ecologist 🌱🐟| Postdoctoral researcher @ColoradoStateUniversity and @USGS | @ultrarunningmag & @runinrabbit 🏃♀️➡️ | She/Her
Someone needs to hold FIFA accountable for this -- the World Cup is about bringing the world together through sport. Limiting attendance to only those with the financial means to pay exorbitant ticket prices only highlights how corrupt FIFA continues to be
Many national associations are furious about World Cup ticket prices, with some already five times higher than Qatar, as Football Supporters Europe calls for immediate halt
with @jbraidwo
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
with @jbraidwo
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Fifa accused of ‘betrayal’ as England fans face £5,000 bill for World Cup tickets
Football Supporters Europe has called for an ‘immediate halt’ to ticket sales after it was found that prices are five times higher than the last World Cup
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Someone needs to hold FIFA accountable for this -- the World Cup is about bringing the world together through sport. Limiting attendance to only those with the financial means to pay exorbitant ticket prices only highlights how corrupt FIFA continues to be
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I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
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“If I had a wish, I wish everybody could put on a mask & snorkel and just sit there and watch fish.” @julielovesfish.bsky.social is making conservation more human and more heard. See more in #TomorrowsCatch: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...
Julie Claussen - Tomorrow's Catch
Julie Claussen is transforming science communication in fisheries by making research more accessible by bridging science, storytelling, and conservation.
contentwithpurpose.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“If I had a wish, I wish everybody could put on a mask & snorkel and just sit there and watch fish.” @julielovesfish.bsky.social is making conservation more human and more heard. See more in #TomorrowsCatch: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...
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You better not cry, you better not trout, ‘cause Salmonid Claus is coming to town! 🎅🐟
On Day 10 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head to Arizona's White Mountains to meet the Apache Trout (Oncorhynchus apache), whose recovery isn't a #Fishmas miracle, but a result of over 50 years of people working together
On Day 10 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head to Arizona's White Mountains to meet the Apache Trout (Oncorhynchus apache), whose recovery isn't a #Fishmas miracle, but a result of over 50 years of people working together
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
You better not cry, you better not trout, ‘cause Salmonid Claus is coming to town! 🎅🐟
On Day 10 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head to Arizona's White Mountains to meet the Apache Trout (Oncorhynchus apache), whose recovery isn't a #Fishmas miracle, but a result of over 50 years of people working together
On Day 10 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head to Arizona's White Mountains to meet the Apache Trout (Oncorhynchus apache), whose recovery isn't a #Fishmas miracle, but a result of over 50 years of people working together
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The Army Corps and EPA's new Reckless Water Rule would slash federal safeguards for critical waters, including headwater streams and wetlands, that are an integral part of drinking water sources for 117 million Americans.
🔊 Speak up today! act.americanrivers.org/page/91637/a...
🔊 Speak up today! act.americanrivers.org/page/91637/a...
ACT NOW to tell EPA and the Army Corps to keep strong clean water protections in place.
Weakening the current water rules means more polluted rivers, more flooding, and more costs for communities and water-dependent businesses. It’s time to speak up.
act.americanrivers.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Army Corps and EPA's new Reckless Water Rule would slash federal safeguards for critical waters, including headwater streams and wetlands, that are an integral part of drinking water sources for 117 million Americans.
🔊 Speak up today! act.americanrivers.org/page/91637/a...
🔊 Speak up today! act.americanrivers.org/page/91637/a...
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This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions.
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
Additionally, it appears that all of EPA's previously extensive "indicators of climate change" pages have been scrubbed entirely. The pages no longer exist; there are numerous dead links on the current/live EPA site, and no indication they have been moved to a new URL.
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions.
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
This article highlights how so many scientists gatekeep access to science, and how it can result in people leaving the field or not even pursuing their dreams of being a scientist. Please give this a read to understand how we can all do better to make science more accessible and welcoming:
"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This article highlights how so many scientists gatekeep access to science, and how it can result in people leaving the field or not even pursuing their dreams of being a scientist. Please give this a read to understand how we can all do better to make science more accessible and welcoming:
Exciting news! Our paper reflecting on the experience of learning and implementing community science through a graduate student fellowship program with the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center is now published online!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#climate #communityscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#climate #communityscience
Graduate Student Reflections on Learning and Implementing Community Science Methods to Tackle Compounding Climate Extremes
A fellowship cohort of eight graduate students developed an experiential learning research project using community science methods The cohort provides reflections on team and community science sk...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Exciting news! Our paper reflecting on the experience of learning and implementing community science through a graduate student fellowship program with the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center is now published online!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#climate #communityscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#climate #communityscience
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🌎 What can 18th-century experiments on air teach us about today’s climate challenges?
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
On Experimentation, Air, and Human Health: Considering Priestley’s Scientific Legacies | American Philosophical Society
Join the American Philosophical Society and Scripps Research Institute for a public conversation with atmospheric chemist Dr. Kimberly A. Prather (APS 2022) on how early observations about the “air” c...
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🌎 What can 18th-century experiments on air teach us about today’s climate challenges?
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
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If you're not a biogeochemist but curious about why metal concentrations can double throughout a single sunny day (spoiler: photochemistry is wild), & how that affects rare earth elements (the stuff in your phones/EV batteries), I just wrote a plain language summary of our recent paper! #SciComm 🧪⚒️
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If you're not a biogeochemist but curious about why metal concentrations can double throughout a single sunny day (spoiler: photochemistry is wild), & how that affects rare earth elements (the stuff in your phones/EV batteries), I just wrote a plain language summary of our recent paper! #SciComm 🧪⚒️
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! We're Scripps Oceanography and we'd love to connect with people who are interested in:
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! We're Scripps Oceanography and we'd love to connect with people who are interested in:
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
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Halloween costume ideas for birders.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
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Looking for a way to support the #2026SFS Annual Meeting?
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
SFS 2026 Annual Meeting and Membership Survey
Thank you for taking a few moments to complete this brief survey. We seek to understand the extent to which members would like to attend the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting in Spokane but may be unable due to...
bit.ly
October 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Looking for a way to support the #2026SFS Annual Meeting?
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
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Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the IAGLR Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/4opgLTT
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the IAGLR Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/4opgLTT
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If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica.
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
Wildlife Biologist (Macquarie Island)
Survey wildlife on Macquarie Island, monitor avian flu, collect samples, manage data, plan field trips, and support reporting in a remote team.
jobs.antarctica.gov.au
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica.
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
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Yolo Bypass tour during #ISRS2025 Carson Jeffres of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Jacob Katz of @caltrout.bsky.social explain how field behind them is great habitat for juvenile chinook…just add water & turbocharged food web produces “floodplain fatties” as in poster @riversociety.bsky.social #WaterYear
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Yolo Bypass tour during #ISRS2025 Carson Jeffres of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Jacob Katz of @caltrout.bsky.social explain how field behind them is great habitat for juvenile chinook…just add water & turbocharged food web produces “floodplain fatties” as in poster @riversociety.bsky.social #WaterYear
Had a wonderful time at my first International Symposium on River Science meeting at UC Davis last week! Met many researchers from around the world who share my love of river ecosystems 🐟🌊🌱
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Had a wonderful time at my first International Symposium on River Science meeting at UC Davis last week! Met many researchers from around the world who share my love of river ecosystems 🐟🌊🌱
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
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Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
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🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
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RALLY WITH US 💪‼️
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
RALLY WITH US 💪‼️
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
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ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper.
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
I’m offering a free online crash course in scientific writing and publishing. Here’s how to join!
The world of scientific writing and pubilshing is complex and confusing, and it can be hard for early career scientists to master. But don’t worry! I am an experienced and award-winning scien…
www.southernfriedscience.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper.
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
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Join AFS for our next Fisheries Community Check-in! This month's session will be held on September 3 at 1 pm ET. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/63b250...
September 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Join AFS for our next Fisheries Community Check-in! This month's session will be held on September 3 at 1 pm ET. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/63b250...