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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Apr 13

Not a new sketch but new to #sundayfishsketch. Design idea for a future linocut print “Salmon death cycle”

Four panel sketch of a decomposing salmon carcass and its scavengers (heron, fish, crayfish, bear)

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Apr 11

Using old maps and survey notes/data to reconstruct environmental histories (specifically about rivers) #gischat

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Apr 11

Putting radio tags in those suckers was my entry into freshwater science! (Almost exactly 25 yrs ago.) We caught them by swimming over them and scooping them with a salmon dip net. Some migrated as far as from Troy, OR to Lewiston, ID

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Apr 8

I own 2 copies of DS, so I won’t reply

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Mar 25

Why am I so excited about COMPASS Pathfinders Program?

It's based on Wilburforce Fellowship in Conservation Science. I was in 2015 cohort. It was extraordinary -- I still benefit from the targeted training, generous network, & powerful collaboration.

Apply!
www.compassscicomm.org/compass-path...

COMPASS Pathfinders: Conservation Leaders | COMPASS

www.compassscicomm.org

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 17

For reasons that don’t need elaboration, things have been unusually busy so if you’ve followed me recently and you’re a fisheries/climate impacts/aquatic biodiversity/etc acct and I haven’t followed back yet, thanks for your patience!

a drawing of a teddy bear with the words bear with me below it

ALT: a drawing of a teddy bear with the words bear with me below it

media.tenor.com

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 12

Somehow this short statement captured all that’s true

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 8

You have my attention. What’s the alternative? What’s the non slide rule thing you bring to this gunfight?

Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 6

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (skip the movie)

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 6

It is, thanks, those are good examples. And so many other things too, programs, safety networks, whole frigging systems that were not 100% efficient (nothing is) but worked more or less to provide for folks in so many ways

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 5

Inspiring!

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Mar 3

Introducing my first substack, Rising Rivers, where I explore the science and culture behind rivers and fisheries intended for non-academic audience. First article is "Abundant Rivers" with the thoughts on the role (and risks) of salmon hatcheries open.substack.com/pub/sethwhit...

Abundant Rivers

What role can hatcheries play in recovering harvestable salmon abundance while protecting wild populations?

open.substack.com

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 22

@lizneeley.bsky.social I quoted your post but just now realized I called out the same quote as you - I jotted it down while listening to the interview! Fantastic interview, kudos to Ed, and looking forward to upcoming book

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 22

Listening to this now!

"Much of the world is hidden from us, that we don't perceive it and we don't understand it. And that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand."

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Feb 22

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

www.nytimes.com

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 22

Could this be the best news @elenavox.bsky.social heard all week?

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 21

Just checking your numbers!

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 16

EA would be proud

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Jenni Prokkola @jmprok.bsky.social · Nov 2

I was always hoping there was a way to find the salmonid scientists on here easily. Now there is! Please comment to be added, it is (very) incomplete 🙏
#salmon #FishSci

go.bsky.app/GSn7fKy

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thanks! We thought so too ;-)

Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 12

I'm forever a fan of getting a nature fix, but I reject for the sole purpose of being more productive

"The boost to cognition lasted 30 minutes after leaving the natural setting, which may help you plan the best time for mentally demanding work."

Thanks, but I'll keep that 30 min for myself

Forests Forever @forestsforever.bsky.social · Nov 28

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.

Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic

Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity

www.theguardian.com

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 11

When baby salmon emerge from the gravel, how far do they disperse to summer rearing grounds? We haven't known until now (at least at the population scale), because they're too small to tag. In a paper just out, we answered this question using parentage-based (genetic) tagging! tinyurl.com/39b2sfjd

Watershed-scale dispersal patterns of juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) revealed through genetic parentage analysis - Movement Ecology

Background For many aquatic taxa, juvenile dispersal from spawning locations to rearing habitats is a critical process influencing individual fitness and population dynamics. However, our understandin...

movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 4

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but our lab's new website comes equipped with a "Carc Gallery" (a collection of photos of salmon carcasses that died of natural causes, after spawning).
www.fishbehaviorscapeslab.com/carc-gallery

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 4

Hrrray group, pls can you add me? Thx!

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Seth White @occupyrivers.bsky.social · Feb 1

Feeling proud of our small but mighty team... Say hello to the Fish Behaviorscapes Lab!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 23

One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.

Dr. Robert D. Bullard (@drrobertbullard.bsky.social)

Scholar, author of 18 books, co-chair of @NBEJN1, @EJHBCU Climate Change Consortium, Director of @BullardCenter and father of environmental justice. #HBCU

drrobertbullard.bsky.social

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