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Kiva Oken

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Quantitative ecologist and fishery scientist | I like puzzles, nature, and self-propulsion | Views my own | She/Her/Dr.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Excited to see @pacificfmc.bsky.social closing its X/Twitter account and using an in house notification system!
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Former 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.
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John Ryan @heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Washington 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...
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Ocean observatories go dark off Pacific Northwest coast
The Trump administration has quietly removed an array of floating ocean observatories from waters off the Washington coast, KUOW has learned.
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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Science 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...
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Earth Day reminds us science is stronger when it starts with communities | Op-Ed
Science 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
U.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." 🤣
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The 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
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Ian G. Taylor @iangtaylor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Four NOAA #fisheries #stockassessment jobs opened today 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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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Or, when you are furloughed during peak fall gardening season, you sign your hopefully-future-will-almost-certainly-get-it paycheck.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
As 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.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/02/2026
NSF 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
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Ian G. Taylor @iangtaylor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This link seems helpful in providing guidance for upcoming NOAA #Fisheries #stockassessment jobs: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...
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NOAA Fisheries Is Hiring: Positions Coming Soon
Find details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries.
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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...
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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...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Research 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/31352
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Cornell 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
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Writing 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.
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a 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 .
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Randall Smith @rksmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Advice 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
4 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. 😑
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Lee (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!
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
NOAA 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.
A map image from the Flight Radar 24 service shows the flight track of a NOAA P-3 Orion aircraft flying over the Caribbean Sea, where Hurricane Melissa threatens to bring catastrophic rain and flooding to Jamaica and Haiti. Most other aircraft appear to be steering clear of the area.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
In 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.
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OPB @opb.org · 18/10/2025
For 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.
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Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If 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.
Poster for the documentary, "Fish War," highlighting its selection at several film festivals.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
As 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
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This article would have been better if it had been able to quote NOAA staff. 😭
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today 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/3IWXbiE
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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Please 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/
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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Happy 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I 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...
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Prioritizing qualitative, ecosystem-based risk assessments to maximize impact in single-species fishery management
Accelerating environmental changes are altering the landscape of risks associated with marine resource management. Risk assessment approaches are gain…
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I 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.com
Prioritizing qualitative, ecosystem-based risk assessments to maximize impact in single-species fishery management
Accelerating environmental changes are altering the landscape of risks associated with marine resource management. Risk assessment approaches are gain…
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This 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. 🤷
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Trump 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).
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
It'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.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025
A 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.
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John Ryan @heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Researchers 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...
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Scientists crack the case of the melting sea stars. It only took a decade
Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Happy national whistleblower appreciation day to all who celebrate! 🙃
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is why I turned off the AI results in my Chrome browser: tenbluelinks.org
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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
In honor of today's Supreme Court decision
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Way 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.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
You can get the same produce any day of the week for less money, no crowds, and a far superior vibe at Top Banana.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I 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%
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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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cstawitz.bsky.social @cstawitz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thinking of all of the amazing federal scientist moms who have left recently.
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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Meanwhile 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. 🫠
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Jessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Funding 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...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships - Washington Research Foundation
Fellowship 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 […...
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