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Juan Rodriguez @juanjpg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

fixballardbridge.com

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Didn't they just acknowledge the ocean has changed and the stock will just never be that productive again?

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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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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Agree with the first three. I use stringr more than lubridate. (But both fall under "generally know what they are for and look at cheat sheet any time I actually use them.")

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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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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I also just (finally) replaced a 20 yo 2P tent (that was only moderately waterproof 😆). I got an MSR hubba hubba, though you may be able to find something cheaper (and possibly more durable) if weight is not a concern.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I concur this is not a vomit-inducing use of AI, but might I suggest this useful software called zotero. You might have heard of it. It does not require ungodly amounts of water and electricity to develop and is not getting rammed down your throats by fascist billionaires?

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Reasonable centrist" NYT did not get the memo from "reasonable centrist" Seattle Times that bicycle weekends are out to destroy lives of car users near Seward Park.

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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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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Always! 😆 I will be in CA until Sunday. Feel free to swing by NWFSC and stash them away somewhere on your ride into work. 😁

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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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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

At least once a week I am grateful I got out of academia before the widespread use of generative AI...

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Correct. I was immediately suspicious (it has "that look") and put it through an AI image check. Sure enough...

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I love how the report demands all this extra labor out of people, but then they apparently didn't have the time and resources to put together a report without generating AI slop.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️😭😭😭

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Not to mention the cover page...

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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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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

Personally, I am so excited to get a new team member with new ideas and experiences. It also feels so unfair that brilliant scientists were fired from other teams just under a year ago for no reason other than bad timing.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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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 · 07/12/2025

Yes, I agree. We also edited the tex file so that it gets tagged when you compile it.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

And also: if we couldn't figure out the slick solutions in the amount of time we have spent on this, I would argue those solutions are not in fact very easy.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Any alt text you write for figures is completely missing from the tex file that quarto produces. It only pays attention to that argument for html output. Was not the case for rmarkdown. Maybe there are slick solutions, but we are just post processing the tex file which is fussy.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Yeah, quarto seems to ignore alt text arguments for pdfs. 🫤 We (with really no help from me) have a couple R functions that are not quite fully functional but do some post-processing of the tex file quarto generates: github.com/nmfs-ost/asa... Maybe there is a slicker way. 🤷

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asar/R/add_accessibility.R at tag-tables · nmfs-ost/asar

Partially automate a U.S. stock assessment report. - nmfs-ost/asar

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Hmm, possibly? We are hoping to get automated solutions, as our documents are very long with a lot of figures. One of the biggest issues is quarto seems to entirely ignore alt text arguments when compiling to pdf, so that you have to format and add alt text to the tex file yourself.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Also. FYI. If you care about accessibility and work with an organization that refuses to transition from PDFs to html (i.e., the government), quarto is a MASSIVE step back from rmarkdown and I would strongly advise against it. #rstats

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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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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I use it for code issues where I know with 100% certainty whether it is right or wrong. AI is like that classic jerk who definitely knows more than you, but also knows WAY less than he thinks. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree I guess...

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Yeah, I agree I think it is probably still in the president’s budget. I would be somewhat surprised if they get very far moving NMFS (or even just the marine mammal part of NMFS) to fish and wildlife. They don’t seem very committed. (But one should not underestimate them!)

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

FYI this article is from April.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I don't disagree, but for progressives without children in SPS, where should one go for better candidate information? I didn't entirely buy the stranger endorsements, but had a hard time finding evaluations I did trust.

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I have seen so many random numbers thrown around. This indictes it was 54.6% in Seattle, so has just been topped this morning aqua.kingcounty.gov/elections/20...

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Kiva Oken @kivaoken.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Unfortunately I believe Seattle turnout in 2021 was 54.6%

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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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