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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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Daniel Karp @dskarp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am recruiting a PhD student next year! If you want to work on conservation in working landscapes, consider applying. If interested, please fill out this Google Form in lieu of an email inquiry (forms.gle/1pMESJ5ME8uK...). Check out our website to learn more about us: karp.ucdavis.edu

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

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Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

From the Freshwater Ecology track in our #OpenAccess journal "Ecosphere" ⤵️

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Got this email from UConn Office of Vice President for Research, reminding us of the new NIH policy that any co-authorship with foreigners needs to have *prior approval* from NIH. It should be disclosed in advance in the grant proposal, or approval requested if collaboration arises later. What BS

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta

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Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes?

Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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...

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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!

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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...

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Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

✨ 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 blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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!

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 05/05/2025

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...

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San Francisco Bay’s Only Marine Lab on Verge of Closing, Threatening Decades of Coastal Research | KQED

San Francisco State University’s Estuary and Ocean Science Center will soon phase out operations after failing to secure funding.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025

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

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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/...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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/...

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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...

Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,

The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning. We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher

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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/04/2025

“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...

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Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities

Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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...

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Senate confirms Trump’s nominee to run NIH

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed health researcher Jay Bhattacharya as the next leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bhattacharya was confirmed on a party- line vote, 53 to 47. …

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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

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Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/03/2025

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...

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UC faces over $270M in proposed budget cuts, threatening personnel and programs - Daily Bruin

Experts said Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget cuts to the University could harm student enrollment and education quality. The UC is facing over $270 million in budget cuts for the 2025-26 fiscal ye...

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Yuen Huo, Ph.D. @yuenhuo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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...

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University of California sets hiring freeze in anticipation of Trump cuts

The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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.

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

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Gabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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. A thread. 🧵1/14

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is not about efficiency. It is about making it easier for the administration to promote lies about the economy.

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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 04/03/2025

Looking for a job in aquatic science? Check out our job board! You don’t have to be an ASLO member to browse opportunities, from research positions to to post-docs and even industry roles. Explore now and take the next step in your career! aslo.users.membersuite.com/community/ca...

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Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

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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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

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Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute

How to contribute a Story

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

WHOA -- this is soooo cool and very needed!!! I hope this takes off. Contribute local stories about federal cuts for a Tracking Map to go live next week. Contribute here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More context here: www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

Tracking Federal Cuts Mapping Project
This form allows you to contribute to the Tracking Federal Cuts Map with local stories about how the cuts are impacting your community.

The goal of this is to better inform the public about the impact the firings of civil servants, withdrawal of funding, and termination of programs may have on everyday Americans across every state.

The intent of this project is informational. With things moving so fast on so many levels, it is hard to know how changes made in Washington, D.C. will impact us. We hope this map will help put a face to these changes.
We are a group of grad and PhD students working on collecting stories from across the country and need your help!

What impacts are being reported where you are?

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yes, it's not obvious why that is. It could be that predictability of downstream conditions is lower, that downstream passage is restricted, and/or that cues to initiate downstream movement are absent in low flow years. Hope to learn more about it with future studies.

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This work was funded by NOAA's Restoration Center as part of some great ongoing restoration work in Willow Creek and other parts of the Russian River. Data collection was spearheaded by co-author Mariska Obedzinski @caseagrant.bsky.social and continued by Sonoma Water. (8/8)

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Interestingly, we found no evidence that non-natal rearing is driven by competition in the natal habitat, as previous earlier work indicated, suggesting instead that non-natal rearing is volitional. (7/8)

Scatterplot with the number of juvenile coho salmon on the x axis (a proxy for intraspecific competition) and proportion of non-natal rearing on the y-axis, showing no relationship

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Importantly, non-natal rearing was not expressed during very flow years, suggesting that as drought becomes increasingly common with global climate change, impacts on fish may be compounded by losses of critical phenotypic variation. (6/8)

Scatter plot with mean daily flow (cfs) on the x axis and the proportion of fish non-natal rearing on the y axis, showing a non-linear increase in the proportion of non-natal rearing as flow increases.

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This effect may be mediated by differences in growth rate and emigration timing between groups. The non-natal rearers have more variable growth rates (only 1 yr of data), and more variable but earlier emigration timing than natal rearers. (5/8)

Raincloud plot with rearing strategy on the x axis and water year day of emigration on the y axis showing more variable but earlier distribution of emigration timing for non-natal than natal rearing fish.

Raincloud plot rearing strategy on the x axis and daily growth (mm) on the y axis showing more variable distribution of growth rates (with higher maximum and lower minimum) for non-natal than natal-rearing fish.

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Hank Baker @hankbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This distinct, but somewhat subtle, form of phenotypic variation had important effects on population dynamics: The early downmigrants (non-natal rearers) returned as adults at a higher rate and with 1.6x greater stability through time than their natal rearing counterparts. (4/8)

Proprtional bar graph showing that natal rearing is more common among juvenile salmon, but that non-natal rearers comprise a greater proportion of adult returns.

Graph with rearing strategy (natal, non-natal, and both together) on the x axis and stability of adult returns on the y axis showing that non-natal rearers are more stable than natal rearers by 1.6x, which makes the aggregate population more stable by 1.4x relative to the natal rearing group alone.

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