Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Excited to see @pacificfmc.bsky.social closing its X/Twitter account and using an in house notification system! 011
Reposted by Kiva OkenMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Former NSF Graduate Research Fellow here: the idea that promising students will succeed without the support of diverse, federally funded, academically independent institutions of higher ed is absurd. Science doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Thriving research universities enable scientific success. 519863
Reposted by Kiva OkenJohn Ryan @heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Washington state is ahead of the curve, you might say: Oregon and other states are set to lose their federal ocean-monitoring buoys soon. WA's were yanked out of the water back in Sept. www.kuow.org/stories/ocea...kuow.orgOcean observatories go dark off Pacific Northwest coastThe Trump administration has quietly removed an array of floating ocean observatories from waters off the Washington coast, KUOW has learned. 34432
Reposted by Kiva OkenPhil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Science is essential—it helps us understand change and guide decisions. But how we do science is expanding: more collaborative, more connected, more inclusive. When it starts with communities, it leads to solutions that last. My Earth Day op-ed is out www.seattletimes.com/opinion/eart...seattletimes.comEarth Day reminds us science is stronger when it starts with communities | Op-EdScience is essential. But the story of how we practice it has expanded over the decades to be more connected to real-world decisions and outcomes. 05520
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 11/04/2026U.S. government science safely sent a woman, a black man, a single dad, and a Canadian to the moon and back. 🤯 Upon returning to earth, they were like, "Can you tell the boats we can hear them but they can't hear us? We're gonna try a restart. Yep, we think we are pushing the right buttons." 🤣 010
Reposted by Kiva OkenMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The beauty of a failure is it can be a solution to another problem. With AI, you lose the most precious part of discovery: gaining deep understandings of failures. Incorporating them. Drawing upon them later. 12/n 1216
Reposted by Kiva OkenIan G. Taylor @iangtaylor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Four NOAA #fisheries #stockassessment jobs opened today www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...fisheries.noaa.govNOAA Fisheries Is HiringFind details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries. 047
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Or, when you are furloughed during peak fall gardening season, you sign your hopefully-future-will-almost-certainly-get-it paycheck. 1121
Reposted by Kiva OkenPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders. 18348109
Reposted by Kiva OkenNoam Ross @noamross.net · 02/02/2026NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter 6165200
Reposted by Kiva OkenIan G. Taylor @iangtaylor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This link seems helpful in providing guidance for upcoming NOAA #Fisheries #stockassessment jobs: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...fisheries.noaa.govNOAA Fisheries Is Hiring: Positions Coming SoonFind details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries. 032
Reposted by Kiva OkenKiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 21/01/2026📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished... 363
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 21/01/2026📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished... 363
Reposted by Kiva OkenTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment Job #AJO31352, WDR-00056101 Senior Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Bridgeport, New York, US 03237
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Writing grants as a federal employee: This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.media.tenor.coma man with a mustache is sitting in front of a wall with a picture of a field and the word government on it .ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a wall with a picture of a field and the word government on it . 020
Reposted by Kiva OkenRandall Smith @rksmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades. 440423
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 05/12/20254 people: spend combined dozens (100s?) of hrs getting quarto PDFs 508 compliant. (No thanks to Posit here.) Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you? Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮 If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑 221
Reposted by Kiva OkenLee (in his 40s) Stetson @leestetson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025@thewaroncars.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social excited to see you in Seattle on Weds! I’m attending with folks from @sngreenways.bsky.social and we’d love you to get word out about www.fixballardbridge.com Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds! 1168
Reposted by Kiva OkenJeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown. 251225578
Reposted by Kiva OkenBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/10/2025In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility. 20251571556
Reposted by Kiva OkenOPB @opb.org · 18/10/2025For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon. opb.orgSalmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague riversJust a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin. 121255429
Reposted by Kiva OkenMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14/10/2025If you haven't seen it yet, it's a good night to watch FISH WAR, the award-winning 2024 documentary about Northwest Tribes defending their treaty fishing rights through years of civil disobedience protest. 26421
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 12/10/2025As a Ballard resident who takes Amtrak to Portland often, SDOT's refusal to make the Ballard bridge anything but absolutely miserable to bike over during repaving is increasingly glaring with the new bike path on Alaskan Way and improvements to the Elliot Bay path. #seabikes @seattlebikeblog.com 120
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This article would have been better if it had been able to quote NOAA staff. 😭 082
Reposted by Kiva OkenCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiEnyti.ms 14147041812
Reposted by Kiva OkenJason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/jasonjwilliamsny.github.ioAn Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ProgramAn Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 12225273
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Happy to report I am dominating my family's fantasy football league by... letting ESPN draft for me using its secret sauce of probabilistic algorithms and making zero changes. Also pleased to report those algorithms netted me the future Mr. T. Swift. 000
Reposted by Kiva OkenKiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comPrioritizing qualitative, ecosystem-based risk assessments to maximize impact in single-species fishery managementAccelerating environmental changes are altering the landscape of risks associated with marine resource management. Risk assessment approaches are gain… 072
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comPrioritizing qualitative, ecosystem-based risk assessments to maximize impact in single-species fishery managementAccelerating environmental changes are altering the landscape of risks associated with marine resource management. Risk assessment approaches are gain… 072
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 04/09/2025This is 🥜 compared to a modern-day gestapo, but the bottom *70%* of NOAA employees are now capped to 1% performance raises. Not because of limited budgets. Because they want *all* money going to the top 30%. Guess rewarding the top at expense of everyone else is the same as their tax policy. 🤷 030
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Trump cuts 100% hit young scientists hardest. It’s also incredibly elitist to focus this article on Harvard, a university that gives out an absurdly tiny fraction of graduate degrees in the U.S. And I would venture to say that things are much worse at most flagship state unis (even in blue states). 36011
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/08/2025A thing I like about this article is it acknowledges this is a problem that predates Trump, but also describes how Trump has made it worse. This is true for like 90% of the issues with the U.S. bureaucratic state. 010
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/08/2025It's obviously a bad time in history for the fall of democracy, rise of military states, rollback of civil rights, weakening of government institutions, etc. It is also truly an abysmal time to shop for women's jeans. 040
Reposted by Kiva OkenDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/08/2025These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.nytimes.comWildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 4483120
Reposted by Kiva OkenJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror. 9074503200
Reposted by Kiva OkenJohn Ryan @heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly ocean mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade. The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it. www.kuow.org/stories/scie...kuow.orgScientists crack the case of the melting sea stars. It only took a decadeResearchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade. 044
Reposted by Kiva OkenLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production. I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research. 03110
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Happy national whistleblower appreciation day to all who celebrate! 🙃 000
Reposted by Kiva OkenJustin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025This is why I turned off the AI results in my Chrome browser: tenbluelinks.orgtenbluelinks.orgHow to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default 077
Reposted by Kiva OkenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025In honor of today's Supreme Court decision 262052525
Reposted by Kiva OkenLily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed. 416984
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Way number 366894 they are impounding congressionally appropriated funding without saying they're impounding: offices are not receiving their 2025 budgets until all deadlines for major spending for the year have past. 020
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 10/06/2025You can get the same produce any day of the week for less money, no crowds, and a far superior vibe at Top Banana. 0162
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I was recently talking to a short man about anti-short man bias (they are the comedic relief of many movies, etc., etc.), and that fits into this 100% 030
Reposted by Kiva OkenStephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social · 17/05/2025NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comNOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cutsSome senior scientists at a federal research center in Seattle are calling it quits after leading some of the region's most important scientific breakthroughs. 21910
Reposted by Kiva Okencstawitz.bsky.social @cstawitz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Thinking of all of the amazing federal scientist moms who have left recently. 022
Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Meanwhile I have been offered two modest honoraria this week for participating in review panels later this summer that I will have to turn down, even if I do the reviews. 🫠 020
Reposted by Kiva OkenJessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Funding opportunity: The Washington Research Foundation is accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships with "potential for real-world impact in natural sciences" through June 26. Fellowships must be completed at an eligible WA institution - UW is one! www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...wrfseattle.orgPostdoctoral Fellowships - Washington Research FoundationFellowship Details Fellowships include three years of salary support for the postdoc at an eligible research institution in Washington state. The salary for the first year is $80,000, increasing to […... 027