Appreciated this paragraph on the emotions that motivate conservation, from @nijhuism.bsky.social's newsletter. Agree that love—of place, wildlife, community—is the more powerful force, especially now, when everything seems rather, well, hopeless.

conservationworks.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

Thanks to @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social for having me up for their seminar series. I had a great time hearing about the exciting science going on at Bodega Marine Lab, and what a beautiful place to work!

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.

"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025

A niche request but I bet my Bluesky peeps got me: Seeking great papers and sources on the topic of Appalachian fish biogeography. What are the factors that make this region so wildly diverse, and what are the geographic & geologic forces that led to the radiation of darters, shiners, etc.? Thanks!

I find it astounding that SF Bay, a water body millions of people rely on and surrounded by extreme wealth, may close its only dedicated marine research station. Many of my colleagues got their start at Tiburon. Its impact is enormous. It's a bargain.

www.kqed.org/news/1203861...

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

A study of the 2012–2016 California drought chronicles how low river flows during the breeding season caused Chinook salmon to shift downriver and caused steelhead and coho salmon to fail to breed entirely in some tributaries and watersheds. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!

Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival

👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

“Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost … something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose whole purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion across the polarities that increasingly divide … us” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people.

thehill.com/policy/healt...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

The Trump admin illegally impounded Congressionally-appropriated taxpayer $$ to extort a private university to deprive Americans of their civil liberties, jobs, & educations. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social capitulated.

Other universities, you’re next. Time to decide if you want to keep existing.

The most immediate problem for the professoriate right now is that its vision of the university has no political advocates. Democrats really don't care about anything but universities as job training centers, and are proposing massive budget cuts at the state level dailybruin.com/2025/03/13/u...

University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies.

www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

'Goal is destruction': Fired Calif. NOAA scientists warn of dire global consequences #cawater www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Columbia is a test run to see what they can get away with, using federal grants as a tool for political retribution. It’s happening, and there’s a good chance that any other university is next.

Coyotes hunt seal pups and preferentially consume the head and brain 🤯

The Trump-Putin Pact already exists, and we should act accordingly. There are some things we will never change with nice words or smart clothing. If you are worried about those things, you should understand where Trump's tactics come from. From Russia.
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Some good news

"It's going to significantly impact our operations." Trump administration dramatically cuts staff at water agency in California. From @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...