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Emily Jonagan
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Fisheries biologist in California ☀️🐟
Fly high sweet Jerry 🕊️
April 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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We don’t need to protect what we have if we can just pay to bring it back later.

I fear on the extreme end, stuff like this will harm conservation. For example if we can clone extinct species, then we can drill all we want and let science build the ecosystem back when we’re done.

Spoiler: we can’t
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Sen. Booker just broke the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history—a record set by Strom Thurmond trying to block the Civil Rights Act. The irony ain’t lost on us. From fighting against justice to fighting for it. This is what courage & being on the right side of history looks like!
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Remember to never again vote for Gavin Newsom for anything unless it’s to be Governor of the Bottom of The Sea
March 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee had Tribal reps, fishermen, industry reps, and scientists all making recommendations on how to best sustain our nation’s seafood resources. Their bios are still up here: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/par...
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Pallid sturgeon: endured the KT extinction, may not survive Trump.
February 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Absolutely terrible.
@lizrenner.bsky.social is an amazing scientist, colleague, and friend. SMFH.

The attacks on our science, public lands, and PEOPLE of this country are real. We will ALL be affected. www.keloland.com/keloland-com...
'Discarded, betrayed:' Yankton federal employee laid off
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – President Donald Trump’s federal employee layoffs have hit South Dakota.  Under the new administration’s attempt to streamline government efficiency, hundreds of thousand…
www.keloland.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Feb 17
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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“Cutting the rate to 15% will destroy science in the United States.”

“This change will break our universities, our medical centers and the entire engine for scientific discovery.”
www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...
Trump administration makes deep cuts to science funding
Cuts to costs, temporary freezes on grants, executive orders that go against the laws grants are supposed to follow — the early weeks of the Trump presidency are already drastically changing science.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Me when they want to talk “trash fish”
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?
February 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I am more sore from a single 2 hour snowboarding lesson than I was after a marathon. How.
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hello @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social (and other scientific societies), take note.
The membership AND the public needs to hear from you reGARding these issues. Thanks for your support!
This is how you do it.

Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
February 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This Sacramento blackfish is definitely going to tell all of its friends about the sunset it saw.
January 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm a little suspicious of this tea towel...🤔@solomonrdavid.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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NEW: OPM has ordered the termination of every DEIA employee across all federal agencies.
January 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Alright, I'm finally here. I study fish, I sometimes draw them, and I occasionally run way too far. Here's my cat Jerry.
January 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM