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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Calling is "natural" gas is a pretty neat trick, too...
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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 02/09/2026
Small changes in the ocean can trigger global consequences. 🌊 The new summary from the 2026 US-UK Scientific Forum on ocean tipping points explores how researchers are working to understand, predict & respond to shifts in ocean systems. Read here: royalsociety.org/-/media/abou... @royalsociety.org
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And just wishing just one student will ask why your slide has that photo …
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The fullness of the cup is highly context-dependent
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
this seems like the better solution, although also a lot more work for Trevor
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Morphology is super duper similar to
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Deadline extended - please share and apply! The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center’s Faculty Fellowship Program provides funding and training to scientists who want to learn to work effectively with decision-makers. Resulting projects help inform natural resource management in a changing climate.
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🌊✨ Awesome job alert! 🌊✨ NOAA Sanctuaries Resource Protection Coordinator job in Monterey, CA. Applications due soon, on July 23! www.usajobs.gov/job/87690100...
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Resource Protection Coordinator
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), with two vacancies in Monterey, CA; ...
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Come on, the melted butter bit was funny
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Easily Battlefield: Earth, even though I bought the ticket knowing it would be awful
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just bc Galileo was right when all the experts said he was wrong, does not mean everybody with a bad idea is Galileo
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Plus George Clinton performs
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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Applications are open for the 2027 Smith Conservation Research Fellowship! This postdoc supports early-career scientists advancing innovative, applied conservation research across the U.S. & territories. conbio.org/publications/scb-news-blog/smith-fellows-2027-call-for-proposals-announced
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This article covers some of the local perspectives on Trump opening protected waters to industrial fishing sentientmedia.org/trumps-fishi...
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How Trump’s Fishing Expansion Threatens Pacific Waters
Beyond environmental risks, advocates say the move reflects a continuing pattern of federal authorities disregarding meaningful consultation with local communities.
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Do I know anyone who knows about Marimo (i.e., Cladophora balls)? I have a relative with questions about its ecology...
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ok so agape is the Greek word for God’s love for man, and nothing says that like the Noah story where God says “fuck everyone except this one dude” so this is just perfect all around
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
He was in the Extended Universe (which was stolen from us)
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If you've been in a zoom meeting with me from my home office anytime in the past decade, you probably met my good friend Oscar, who insisted on sitting upon the keyboard. I'll miss him.
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BJCampbell @bj25.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Obama Center Reflecting Pool
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 12/06/2026
If you’re looking for a grounded take on today’s decision to reopen commercial fishing in Pacific marine monuments, start with @taotaotasi.bsky.social. He helped create many of these protections, is from the region, and understands what’s at stake better than most hot takes ever will. 🌊
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Also people can still just walk around the wall
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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two cartoon characters are sitting next to each other and one of them is saying " uh no they 're saying "
ALT: two cartoon characters are sitting next to each other and one of them is saying " uh no they 're saying "
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Love to see a subtle Spiders Georg reference 👏
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Touché
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/08/spy-...
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SPY VS TRUMP: The best Donald Trump moments from Spy Magazine 1986-98 - The Bowery Boys: New York City History
In 1987, Donald Trump released the book Trump: The Art of the Deal, a distillation of the 1980s that looked like a pocket-sized version of the real-estate mogul’s own brass-coated palace Trump Tower. ...
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
You are not alone! What a weird, amazing movie
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Jessica R. Glass, PhD @jessicaglass.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚨 Job alert! We're hiring a TT Assistant Professor in the Fisheries Department at UAF @uafairbanks.bsky.social. Broad search for applicants who focus on evolution, ecology, physiology, management, or social science. No visa support availably. Apply by July 1. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Fisheries - College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences - Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) invites applications for one or more tenure-track faculty positions (9-month annual support) at the Assistant Pr...
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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Different Bik but yes!
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taber @kvetch.gay · 16/04/2026
for those of you who are not familiar with the "Crop Art" genre, I would like to show you some photos I took at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm not complaining, spending his time creeping on Charlie Kirk's widow seems like it would be better for the nation
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Isn’t he supposed to be in Pakistan leading the Iran negotiations?
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
Researchers taught rats to drive tiny "ratmobiles" in exchange for food, which helped the rats relax.
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I've posted it several times before, but the hardest I have personally laughed at a tweet.
A picture of a pregnant Rihanna frowning as a salesman holds up a child-sized beige trenchcoat. @HelloCullen has captioned it "mcgruff the crime dog's pregnant wife finding out he was killed in the line of duty"
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Look if we’re going there, there are also other body parts you should not touch anemones with. But we shouldn’t have to tell people that
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 18/03/2026
My wife says this photo is missing Benoit Blanc
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 17/03/2026
“If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.” UCS’s Julian Reyes explains why the Senate should work to block this nomination:
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Trump’s Nominee to Run NSF is Unqualified, Conflicted, and a Threat to Science
If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 07/03/2026
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
thisweekinworcester.com
Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing
Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.
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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The draft Nature Record National Assessment is now open for comment! Take a look and tell us what we got right, what we missed, and what changes you’re seeing where you live. Your perspective will help shape the final record of nature in the U.S. naturerecord.substack.com/p/the-draft-...
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The Draft is Ready. Now We Need You.
Share your perspective on the state of nature in the U.S.
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I agree with your overall point but I think there is a separate button in there somewhere for adding new refs
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Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄 @cliffordthehutt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
FISH JOB ALERT! NOAA Fisheries is looking to hire four stock assessment biologists. These positions can be located at any of our Fishery Science Centers from Seattle to Miami to Woods Hole. Applications are due by March 10! www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...
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NOAA Fisheries Is Hiring
Find details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries.
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I decided to make that shift this term after a bad experience with my last course, and I'm happy I did. The handwriting has been better than I feared!
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Will White @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass of beer
Alt: The Dude is stirring a White Russian with a puzzled expression
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Let's outlaw scheduling meetings without first. I don't care what my university account calendar says, it's not a reflection of my availability, and even if it was, that doesn't give you the right to commit me to anything without my consent, kthxbye.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”
science.org
NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking
Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves
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