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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 4d

I went to a conference on “climate-smart agriculture” in 2014 where seven (7) types of meat and fish (mostly meat) were served at the fancy welcome dinner.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7d

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7d

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

www.nytimes.com

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 8d

Book marking to read.

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 8d

Thought provoking piece by my colleague #Charlie Tyson
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

Can Academic Freedom Survive the Surveillance State?

Two weeks in a Boston courtroom underscore the perils of intellectual life in America.

www.chronicle.com

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8d

Exactly. Your tofu is not driving deforestation in the Amazon. If anything, eating more soy products directly (and eating fewer animals that eat soy as feed) would *reduce* overall demand for soybeans and pressure on tropical forests.

Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · 9d

Soybeans are overwhelming used for feed. 80% of protein produced on Brazil's croplands is used to feed animals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....
The recent tariff issue is a prime example of how the world's taste for meat (not soy) is shaping distant landscapes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 12d

In this week's #FishyFriday, @jeffkopaska.bsky.social discusses the 2024 winner of Best Paper in Marine and Coastal Fisheries - "Ecosystem‐level reference points: Moving toward ecosystem‐based fisheries management": fisheries.org/2025/09/best...

Best Paper in Marine and Coastal Fisheries - American Fisheries Society

Ecosystem‐level reference points: Moving toward ecosystem‐based fisheries management, by Wendy E. Morrison, Stephanie A. Oakes, Melissa A. Karp, Max H. Appelman, and Jason S. Link

fisheries.org

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12d

Headline: The fascist conservative justices on the Supreme Court voted to allow Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid that congress had appropriated.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid

www.nytimes.com

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 11d

I'm pretty and I'm petty as f… applies nicely

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d

I am not anti-fishing.

I am not anti- shark fishing.

But hammerheads in particular are species of significant conservation concern, and one of the worst candidates for “catch and release” of any known fish species.

And it’d be nice if media coverage *of hammerhead fishing* mentioned that

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d

It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this”

www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t... 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐠

Giant hammerhead shark reeled in at Corpus Christi beach

It was the third-largest hammerhead shark the Texas fishing guide caught this year.

www.mysanantonio.com

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 12d

this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.

Mr. Wright falsely claimed that critics of an Energy Department report — written by five researchers who reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet — did not dispute any of the report’s data or facts.

“They just didn’t like that the conclusion of our report was, climate change is a real physical phenomenon that’s unfolding, it’s just not the crisis it’s often sold to be.”

In fact, 85 scientists submitted a sweeping critique of the report detailing a litany of inaccuracies, including claims that sea level rise is not accelerating; that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will help plants grow; and that computer models exaggerate future temperature increases. The American Meteorological Society, a leading science organization, also outlined what it called “foundational flaws” in the report. And the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the nation’s leading scientific advisory body, also contradicted the Energy Department report, saying the evidence that greenhouse gases threaten human health has only grown over time.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 14d

Ray Troll is always happy to present salmonid life history. 🧪🌎🐟

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13d

It me.

🧪🦑🌎🐟 #SciComm

American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 13d

“The science is clear—we can have sustainable seafood and healthy oceans.” — @whysharksmatter.bsky.social‬

Watch this film on why saving the sea doesn’t mean giving up seafood.

🎥 Explore more from #TomorrowsCatch: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...

David Shiffman - Tomorrow's Catch

Discover why sustainable seafood and ocean conservation go hand in hand in this film with Dr. David Shiffman, where science leads the way in protecting marine ecosystems and livelihoods.

contentwithpurpose.co.uk

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 13d

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 13d

I’m finishing up revisions to an #aquaculture paper with a bunch of amazing scientists, but can’t shake the feeling of doing a very normal thing in such an abnormal time in the States. Vibes are off, to say the least. Anyone else??

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 13d

📖Published📖

In their new research article, Williams et al. conducted extensive simulations to evaluate modelling approaches for handling dependence in effect sizes and sampling errors in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 13d

This is the type of content I wish was flooding my feed.

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 15d

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15d

Eating food is woke

Exclusive | USDA Puts Food Researchers on Leave

The move comes days after the Trump administration abruptly canceled an annual Agriculture Department report that measures hunger in America.

www.wsj.com

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 15d

Marking to read.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 15d

So glad to see this made accessible again!

Climate.us @climate.us · 15d

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15d

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20d

If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments

ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing

www.theguardian.com

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 23d

Well, this is reassuring: "We find no significant difference between the climate strategies of companies that purchased carbon offsets and those that did not" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies - Nature Communications

This study of 89 multinational firms finds no significant link between voluntarily offsetting emissions and decarbonization speed. Firms spend little funds on carbon credits, and emission offsetting i...

www.nature.com

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

Thank you!

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

My first PhD student successfully defended here dissertation and graduated! Huge congratulations to Dr. Claire Gonzales 🎉🎉🎉🎓🎓🎓 If you have social-ecological questions about co-location of clean energy and #aquaculture, ask her 🐟

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