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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD

@villesci.bsky.social
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Postdoc, Friday Harbor Labs, UW. I study marine heatwaves and their impacts on marine invertebrate population dynamics. Playing in the outdoors and bluegrass music enthusiast. villesci.github.io | linktr.ee/villesci

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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When are the tides good enough for field work? Wonder no more! I built a tide app for creating calendar files of low tide work times for intertidal ecologists! Happy to hear any feedback folks may have. 01a0c633-84db-74c3-25ac-3c08d83ba41c.share.connect.posit.cloud
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Posit Connect Cloud
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
PhDone! Last Friday, I successfully defended my PhD in Marine Biology from the University of New Hampshire. I am so grateful to my advisor, Easton White, and my committee members for their years of mentorship and support as I worked towards this degree.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I will be defending my PhD dissertation in Marine Biology at the University of New Hampshire on Friday, June 12th from 10-11 ET! If you are interested in attending, send me a DM for the meeting link (redacted QR code b/c I don't trust the internet).
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/12/2025
If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
agu.quorum.us
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18/08/2025
"Under discussion are plans to hold a public debate about climate science, write a line-by-line rebuttal of the National Climate Assessment and ready a counterattack against climate scientists critical of last month’s Energy Department report." 🤪
eenews.net
Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science
The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
My first @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social conference was fantastic - great conversations with fellow ecologists, and many new connections and directions to look into. Great to share the experience with QMEL lab @eastonwhite.bsky.social
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Pleased to have contributed to this special issue on #marineheatwaves - more to come!
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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In this SF, published across the @animalecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social y.social and @funecology.bsky.social we present a collection of 13 studies that address some of the most pressing knowledge gaps in MHW ecology. 🌊🔥👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL 🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
For the past two weeks I’ve been participating in the French-American Doctoral Exchange program organized by the US Embassy of France to meet students and researchers across France and attend the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, the scientific program before the United Nations Ocean Conference
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Excellent week at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative conference at Virginia Tech! EFI is a really fun and inclusive community, come join us for 2026 @ecoforecast.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Some atrocious proposed changes to the ESA to remove habitat modification from the definition of a 'take' of a protected species. Here is the docket: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06746.pdf Submit your comments tomorrow when it is live!!
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
science.org
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Julian Reyes @julianjonreyes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm devastated and heartbroken. Staff at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) got the ax. Most likely means the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6) is also cooked. USGCRP was the glue across the Federal family on all things climate - reducing duplication and making efficiencies.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A long list of universities are seeing their international students' visas get revoked, and the reasons are as opaque as you'd expect from this administration www.chronicle.com/newsletter/d...
ozens of international students have had their visas revoked in the last few days alone. Since the start of Friday, revocations include — but are by no means limited to — cases at:

    Central Michigan University: Several current and former students’ visas were stripped without notification, MLive reported.
    Columbia University: Four international students’ visas were revoked, the Columbia Spectator student newspaper reported.
    Harvard University: Three students and two alumni saw their visas yanked, according to WCVB.
    Kent State University: One current student and three recent graduates working under the Optional Practical Training program had their visas yanked, President Todd Diacon wrote.
    Northeastern University: “Several” students and recent graduates were told by the Department of State that their visas were revoked, the university posted.
    Ohio State University: Five students’ visas had been revoked as of Friday, The Columbus Dispatch reported. One reached out to the university, which then discovered others’ immigration statuses had also been changed.
    Stanford University: Four students and two recent graduates had their visas yanked, according to KRON.
    University of Idaho: Two students had their visas revoked this month, a spokesperson told The Spokesman-Review.
    University of Kentucky: A “small number” of graduate students had their visas pulled, the institution’s president announced.
    University of Michigan: Four students’ visas were revoked by the Department of Homeland Security, a spokesperson told WWJ.
    UC Davis: Seven students and five recent graduates lost their visas without explanation, Chancellor Gary S. May said.
    UCLA: Six current students and six graduates had their visas revoked, Chancellor Julio Frenk said.
    UC Santa Cruz: Three students’ visas were terminated without advance notice, Chancellor Cynthia Larive said.
    UC San Diego: Five students’ visas were terminated without warning, the chancellor’s o…
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
recruit.ucsc.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marine Ecology
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Definitely time to download whatever data you think you need from NOAA 😡
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down. “Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🔥Feel the heat 🎙️Podcaster Cameron Ghalambor went on the road to the Universidad de Granada in Spain where he spoke about his own research in the Predictive Ecology in a Warming World. Listen to full episode! www.bigbiology.org Art by Keating Shahmehri #science #scicomm #sciencecommunication
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
youtu.be
‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
YouTube video by MSNBC
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 27/03/2025
Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪 @earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting. Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025 🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE
An announcement image for Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 featuring a vibrant close-up photo of a multicolored chameleon on a branch against a blurred green background. The text describes EJN's grant program offering €10,000-12,000 to organizations for biodiversity reporting projects. The deadline "APPLY BY MARCH 30, 2025" appears in white text on a green banner. The Earth Journalism Network logo is visible at the bottom. The image combines professional typography with nature photography, using a green color scheme that complements the biodiversity theme.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Ana Silverio 🐟 @anasilverio.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My REU in 2019 was the very first time I told myself “me? a scientist? I can do it.” It introduced me to my research interests, to knowing how to approach graduate school and what NOAA even was. Without it I would not be where I am today. This is devastating.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Trump Administration has abruptly pulled $4.5 million in Maine Sea Grant funds (via NOAA), which were used to protect Maine’s working waterfront and ocean ecosystems. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
pressherald.com
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...
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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 01/03/2025
🚨ALERT🚨 Sorry to ask, but P2025 had years to prep; we have <30 days to #resist. First they came for our staff, now they’re after our laws. Please take a moment to comment today on this truly brazen attempt to evade environmental laws on the books since 1960. www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...
National Environmental Policy
Act Implementing Regulations
Posted by the Council on Environmental
Quality on Feb 25, 2025
三 Comment
Comment Period
Ends:
Mar 27 at 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hey intertidal ecologists! Did you ever wish you could automatically add all the low tides that were actually *good* for field work during a long field season into a calendar? For the few of you who said yes, I spent my morning writing a blog entry to tell you how to do just that!
villesci.github.io
When is it time to do intertidal fieldwork? – Andrew Villeneuve
A workflow and code to add tidal fieldwork to a digital calendar
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Interested in Ecological Forecasting, but don't know where to start? The @ecoforecast.bsky.social Early Career and Student Association is hosting two seminars for anyone interested in this field to learn about forecasting research and how to create forecasts using NEON data. Please share widely!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
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Kaitlin Van Volkom @kvanvolkom.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Welp. The non-proft I sit on the board of got told to pause all work. No coastal flooding and resilency assistance or education for you!
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Recently joined my advisor @eastonwhite.bsky.social to help co-teach an R for data science course at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. We were hosted by my former mentor at NMNH Cheryl Ames, who I interned with over 15 years ago in high school! Small world, and so grateful for all of my mentors
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
CNN has now confirmed this. www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...
cnn.com
Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Amazing collective problem solving in ants:
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Watching some oyster heart rates with the @electricbluecrl.bsky.social Pulse unit for our overwintering experiments. An amazing tool! @eastonwhite.bsky.social
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My latest post. Six of the nine planetary boundaries have been crossed and it turns out most of the contribution towards these transgressions is from the wealthiest 10% of consumers. I discuss a recent paper that uncovered these results and some of the potential to turn things around.
predirections.substack.com
The wealthy contribute disproportionately to planetary decline
But they can also have the greatest role in turning things around
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Another salvo to the senses from Area X warms the cockles of this biologist’s heart! Such a fun (and by that I mean creepy) read @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 01/12/2024
Yeah not super great that a journal dedicated to ecology is happily using AI art when the environmental costs of generative AI is now a well known, widespread issue 🫠
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm no molecular ecologist, but was very cool to collect a lot of these samples and contribute to this new paper from my old MS lab working on the invasion genetics of the ever-charismatic marine snail Urosalpinx cinerea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Successful Invasion Into New Environments Without Evidence of Rapid Adaptation by a Predatory Marine Gastropod
Invasive species with native ranges spanning strong environmental gradients are well suited for examining the roles of selection and population history in rapid adaptation to new habitats, providing ...
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Sacha Spector @sachaspector.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Those efforts developed into the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative - check them out here: envirodatagov.org
envirodatagov.org
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) analyzes federal environmental data, websites, institutions, and policy.
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
With the upcoming administration change, I'm worried if critical climate and ecological datasets from NOAA, EPA, and other agencies will be removed. In 2016 (year of the article below) there was a mass effort of "guerilla archiving" - can we do this again, and what lessons did we learn?
washingtonpost.com
Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
“People have felt a call to arms. We need to be outspoken.”
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Dr. Torrance Hanley @torrancehanley.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Many of the (great) starter packs focus on faculty in different fields. In an effort to help #EarlyCareerResearchers in #marine biology, ecology, evolution, & related fields (re-)connect, here is a list of ECRs. Please give them a follow (and reply to be added or suggest people). go.bsky.app/KhWvT4u
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Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
LOTS of new people following, so a reintroduction! My name is Drew, I am a PhD candidate at the University of New Hampshire. I am interested in predicting the impacts of heatwaves and other extreme events on marine organisms using ecophysiology and modelling techniques. 🌡️🦪🌊🪸
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