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Jeff Tracey PhD

@jeffreediver.bsky.social
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- I’m married with two adult children. - I built deep learning models and apply them to ecological research and conservation. - I love the ocean and freediving.

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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... l4gg.docsend.com/view/y9itn49... This needs to be STOPPED NOW. Please take the time to comment.
standupforscience.foundation
OMG OMB! A Brief Overview of OMB-2026-0034 — Stand Up for Science Foundation
Our Policy team reviewed the new OMB proposal so you don’t have to read the 412 pages.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
What f-ing world is Donald Chump living in? Not ours. Lying sack of turds.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
youtu.be/p7RqjlWMC6U Democracy, constrained…
youtu.be
“How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies” | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Who gives a damn
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Idiots
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Not sketchy or creepy at all. From what I read, it has huge security and privacy issues.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... It’s was little devastating, after a 15-year career as a federal scientist to be told your contributions and those of your colleagues aren’t important and to be treated with hostility and disrespect. So, I do appreciate this.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Federal scientists, a great American invention: a letter to our federal colleagues
Click on the article title to read more.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The new robber barons.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Good. Let’s double down.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Must have been the ketamine.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I’m tired of everyone pretending like the things they say aren’t batshit crazy.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Yeah, but the Democratic Party needs new leadership.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I knew Tennessee had a problem when I saw the Trump Superstore. BTW, Tennessee, you’re losing tourists dollars because of the redistricting.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/clima... Ask your representatives to vote no on this terrible bill.
sierraclub.org
Republicans in Congress Push “Climate Shakedown” Bill That Permanently Shields Big Oil From Accountability
Climate advocates say the new bill would give the fossil fuel industry a "get out of jail free card"
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
What worries me are the churches full of idiots who buy into this narrative.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Your voices are working. Our Save the Forest Service site has been updated with the five companies who have spoken out. Patagonia, REI, Columbia Sportswear, Orvis, and Black Diamond. Each one links directly to their post so you can thank them publicly.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is it happening again?
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
What do you expect from a PIG MAN?
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
That’s scary
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’m going to throw a fucking party.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Do we get to see alien bodies? 😂
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru... Awesome, one more step toward a more fu€&ed up world. Good job USA.
cbsnews.com
Trump's EPA revokes the "endangerment finding" on greenhouse gases. Here's what to know.
The Trump administration says greenhouse gases emitted from sources like cars, trucks and power plants will no longer be regulated by the federal government.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NOPE
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Forbes @forbes.com · 03/02/2026
Lemon arrested last week and charged with federal civil rights crimes in a move that triggered criticism from free speech advocates, legal experts and Democratic leaders.
forbes.com
Don Lemon Addresses DOJ Arrest On Kimmel: ‘They Want To Intimidate…Instill Fear’
Lemon arrested last week and charged with federal civil rights crimes in a move that triggered criticism from free speech advocates, legal experts and Democratic leaders.
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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
So the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
www.science.org/content/arti... Yeah, I’m one of them.
science.org
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
They have no respect for the communities they occupy. Is that the right attitude for Federal “law enforcement officers?” That’s how goons behave.
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"14% of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields" stopped working for the US federal gov't in 2025" "10,109 doctoral-trained experts" doi.org/10.1126/science.zw5s0b4
This graphic shows a sharp, across-the-board contraction of the U.S. federal STEM Ph.D. workforce in 2025, compared with 2024, across 14 science-intensive agencies.

The horizontal bars plot **departures to the left** and **hires to the right**, with lighter colors for 2024 and darker colors for 2025. For every agency, the 2025 departure bar is substantially longer than the 2024 bar, while the hiring bar shrinks markedly. There are no exceptions: **all 14 agencies lost far more STEM Ph.D.s in 2025 than the year before**, and all hired fewer.

The **largest absolute losses** occur in the Department of Health and Human Services. The **National Institutes of Health** stands out most clearly, with **over 1,100 STEM Ph.D. departures in 2025**, compared with **about 421 in 2024**, despite being the single largest employer of STEM Ph.D.s in the federal government. The **Food and Drug Administration** and **CDC** show similarly large increases in departures and weaker hiring.

Across agencies, the pattern is not just absolute but proportional. On average, the figure reports **roughly three times more STEM Ph.D.s leaving in 2025 than in 2024**, and **11 times more losses than gains** when departures are compared with hires in 2025. Particularly steep percentage increases in departures appear at **NOAA**, the **Environmental Protection Agency**, and the **U.S. Forest Service**, even though these agencies are smaller than NIH.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One down..,
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I’d rather be a loser in a healthy, sustainable world than a winner in a dystopian one.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
No, they rushed to hire a bunch of incompetent shitheads and racists and are led by psychopaths. Not the victim’s fault.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Let’s do it!
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
No, no. Don’t use force.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump is by far the most incompetent, dishonest president of my lifetime. Seems like it should be easier to remove a criminal from the Whitehouse.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Yeah, only if they follow through instead of caving in like usual.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I am a futurist. But I am sick of futurists saying horseshit like “If we don’t develop technologies like space travel, it will spell the doom of the human race.” This notion is predicated on the belief that we are going to destroy the Earth. If so, we’re imbeciles and get what we deserve.
e.it
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Yep. Learned my lesson. They’re bad people who need to be stopped.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.
theintercept.com
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deporta
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"As Trump reaches the end of the first year of his return to power, he and his lieutenants are demonstrating their willingness to deploy force beyond its legitimate use to achieve their aims. The warning is clear and intentional: We are violent. Beware."
motherjones.com
The Trump doctrine: Violence is us
The message is clear—be afraid.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Murdering” is the correct word. It is obvious she was just trying to flee, not “weaponize her vehicle.” Then Noem and Trump get up there and lie and call it “self-defense” and support the murder of a woman who (presumably) doesn’t support their agenda.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Vote all you want…who is going to physically remove him from office?
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Nice visualizations 🧪 🖥️
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We drove through NM recently, I was amazed by the number of wind turbines that were operational or under construction.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.bnl.gov/newsroom/s4-... I work in AI and data science, so you would think I would be supportive of this concept. But this kind of power in the hands on an emerging authoritarian regime scares the $h!T out of me.
bnl.gov
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Can’t we send them both to Mars?
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The last 100 days have been an unprecedented assault on American science. Our scientists. Our institutions. And the people around the world who rely on it. We must stand united and speak up. Our collective future depends on it. #ScienceMatters www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlu... savesciencenow.org
youtube.com
You Need Science. Now Science Needs You.
YouTube video by Union of Concerned Scientists
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Because nothing in his life prepared him to help another living thing.
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Jeff Tracey PhD @jeffreediver.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
He should. Because he’s a piece of 💩
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