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Stephanie Carlson

@fishteph.bsky.social
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Fish ecologist at UC Berkeley. Working towards better futures for rivers, fish, and their people. Queer. Web: nature.berkeley.edu/carlsonlab/about

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Commercial fishing for salmon is set to resume along the California coast for the first time since 2022. After a three-year shutdown, regulators plan to allow a fishing season with strict limits. I spoke with people who fish for a living about what it means: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Commercial salmon fishing set to resume along California coast after 3-year shutdown
Commercial salmon fishing is set to resume along the California coast this spring for the first time since 2022. Fishery regulators plan to allow a fishing season with strict catch limits.
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Reggie's Service Human @satterwill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
California WaterBlog ran a story on our paper (Emily Chen lead) on juvenile life history differences between natural- and hatchery-origin winter Chinook californiawaterblog.com/2026/03/29/l...
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Life history differences between natural and hatchery-origin winter-run Chinook present opportunities and challenges for managing the endangered species - California WaterBlog
By Emily Chen, Katherine Lumahan, Rachel Johnson, Corey Phillis, George Whitman, Anna Sturrock, Will Satterthwaite, and Stephanie Carlson . . . Wild Pacific salmon and trout exhibit complex variation ...
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use
Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Read the full story here -> aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to the the International Associated Laboratory "MacLife" for funding! CC @matbuoro.bsky.social @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social
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Prolonged low flows and non‐native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“To recognize rivers as life-giving forces & as rights-bearing presences is a profound & hopeful position. It offers philosophical grounds for resistance to the present administration’s…drive to gut environmental regulation & reduce the natural world to dollar value” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s War on Nature Is Up Against a Powerful New Resistance Movement
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“It’s proven difficult to track the drift of eggs, baby fish, and sometimes adults over long distances...” The same is true in freshwater and greatly limits our understanding of why fish populations fluctuate as they do
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TAKAO★WATANABE🌿10/23-28Exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The undersea current quickly changed from horizontal to vertical. The whales rose to the surface all at once. What in the world happened at the surface of the sea...? #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This threat represents an immeasurable loss to community-driven research and to the training pipeline for the next generation of collaborative conservation leaders
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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Reminder that comments on the Endangered Species Act's recission of the "harm" definition are due TODAY! esa.org/esablog/2025...
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ESA Action Alert: Comment on proposed rescission of the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm” – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts
Some senior scientists at a federal research center in Seattle are calling it quits after leading some of the region's most important scientific breakthroughs.
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
At my final exam today, a student told me that she is the third (!) sister in her family to take my Fish Ecology class! Her sisters recommended it 😭
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Incredible love story
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Science isn’t like tap water, you can’t just turn it on and off. It’s like an oyster: it builds over time until it eventually creates pearls. This sort of senseless destruction is going to haunt us for a long time.
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Super neat study showing stream-swapping by coho salmon! Expands our view of juvenile rearing habitat to include multiple drainages esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta‐nurseries that connect rivers via the sea
Conventionally, juvenile salmonids are thought to migrate unidirectionally from freshwater systems to marine systems and therefore only inhabit natal drainages. Although scattered evidence suggests j....
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise atmospheric river storms. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms. CA scientists fear these scenarios, and more, are possible under the Trump admin’s recommendation to reduce NOAA’s budget by $1.7B. Gift link:
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Surprise atmospheric rivers, toxic seafood: How NOAA cuts could impact California
California research institutions could lose access to millions of dollars, which could impact atmospheric river forecasts and Coast Guard rescues.
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When the habitats that species rely on are destroyed, the species will disappear. Someday, and I hope not too late, we’ll understand that when we lose a species, we lose so much more. Their fate is intertwined with our own. www.hcn.org/articles/tru...
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Trump administration plans Endangered Species Act rollback - High Country News
Revisions to the law center on ‘harm,’ which would allow far more mining, drilling and other development that threatens critical habitat.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Wrecked by another note from a colleague at NOAA-Fisheries announcing their premature retirement (they are coming daily now). I weep for my colleagues and friends, for the fish they dedicated their lives to, and for the people who will be most impacted by these actions
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Pam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“It was a reminder of the importance of conserving diversity within populations to give these [salmon] populations options in the face of variable and extreme conditions,” Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social told @sfgate.com
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NPR @npr.org · 11/04/2025
The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
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Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🧪 are you a trans entomologist? arachnologist? parasitologist? malacologist? carcinologist? diplopodologist? vermeologist? 🐛🐜🪱🦗🕷️🦀 if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes" "ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites" "closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"
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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 10/04/2025
A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and how they made a comeback. 📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 08/04/2025
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/...
Coastal steelhead trout in California.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
if you were laid off from NWS or NOAA today and you'd like to talk about your experience with a reporter, please email me: simbler at defector dot com. 🧪
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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Coho are typically thought to rear in their natal habitat for a year before migrating to sea. We found that many fish (44%) leave their natal habitat early and spend several months rearing in the lower portion of the creek before emigrating. (3/8)
Graph with day of water year on the x-axis and count on the y axis, showing multimodal variation in the timing of fish migrating down from their natal habitat (shown in blue lines) and also variation in their timing of emigration (shown in gold lines)
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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Delighted to share our new paper in Ecology Letters: Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought. With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski. #rivers #fishes #salmon 🧪🐟 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Stability but Is Threatened by Drought
We show that intrapopulation variation in juvenile movement and rearing strategies enhances population stability in endangered coho salmon near their southern range limit. However, variation in reari...
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Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources @natureatcal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A 12-year-long study led by @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @caseagrant.bsky.social researchers finds that the alternative life histories of coho salmon have made their populations more stable. Read more at the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship site. nature.berkeley.edu/stewardship/...
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Diversity in Coho Salmon Could Be Key to Species Survival
The Russian River estuary just downstream of the confluence with Willow Creek. New research published today in Ecology Letters from the Stone Center found that coho salmon, one of five Pacific salmon...
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
when the AI red-flags bioDIVERSITY
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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What a good way to ring in the new year! Our new paper is (finally) out in Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.
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Long‐term data reveal widespread phenological change across major US estuarine food webs
Climate change is shifting the timing of organismal life-history events. Although consequential food-web mismatches can emerge if predators and prey shift at different rates, research on phenological...
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Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Re-upping this post. Maybe you or a creative student of yours has a talk/poster that would work in this session. Abstracts are due 28 January.
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Took advantage of a break in the rain for a walk at #SibleyVolcanicRegionalPreserve. Beautiful day with big blue sky, Ghibli clouds, and piercing cries from the red-tailed hawks soaring above
Blue sky with voluminous white puffy clouds in the distance. In the foreground, hues of greens and browns from the varied vegetation stretching across the hillside
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
defector.com/blob-headed-... @sabs.bsky.social ‘s description of this wonderfully weird blob-headed armored catfish is everything. More of this on the TL please. Also, look at the soft swollen snout on this character!
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Blob-Headed Fish Sets New Standard Of Fishy Blobbiness | Defector
In the narrow, highly specialized field of fish with blob-like attributes, one fish has dominated for decades: One would hardly dare imagine a blobbish fish without first thinking of the blobfish. But...
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Amy Fingerle @amyfing.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Klamath Chinook salmon returned home! More than 6,000 fish passed the former Iron Gate Dam site during the second half of October. caltrout.org/news/the-num...
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Back to Lagunitas today for more coho spotting! This video shows a female digging her nest followed by a male encouraging her with a quiver
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Incredible few days at the river watching coho salmon spawn. Amazingly good for my heart and head
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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Grateful to be in a lab that loves watching fish as much as I do. @fishteph.bsky.social @roygbivv.bsky.social @robfour.bsky.social And the rest of the Berkeley freshwater labs crew
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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Very heartening to see so many coho salmon spawning here on the central California coast. 🐟🧪🌎
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is truly one of my favorite episodes of Water Talk to date. There’s so much here on the linkages between disability and the environment, new and evocative ways of thinking about groundwater, and environmental justice efforts in the desert. There’s no way to do it justice without a full listen!
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Post a picture of yourself from a different era (peak confidence in fourth grade)
Young steph in a baseball uniform, holding a batter’s stance, and with eyes fixed on the camera. The uniform includes a light blue jersey with blue and white stripes on the sleeves, a two toned cap with embroidered blue jay, and a single batting glove
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Couldn’t help but weep when I heard Sade’s new song, “Young Lion” - a beautiful and tender apology & love letter to her trans son, Izaak. What an incredible thing to be seen “With such a heavy burden You had to carry all on your own Forgive me, son I should've known” youtu.be/IFMmnMjFiPk
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Sade - Young Lion (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SadeVEVO
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Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
new here! I’m a queer ecologist dedicated to rivers, fish & connected peoples. working to do good work & in a good way. Interests: ecologically & culturally important fishes, habitat mosaics, life histories, interconnections & interconnectedness, justice, music, cooking, gardening & being outside
Photo of Stephanie in front of a lake at sunset. The clouds in the sky are reflected in the lake with hues of blue and orange. Stephanie is smiling and wearing a beanie and a jacket
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