My newest colleague, Sonia Kwami, the VP of @oceana.bsky.social in #Ghana! We just opened an office in Accra and she is building our team as we speak. I can't wait for us to get started.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDU2...
New work from Oceana on all those industries that enable distant water fishing. Who finances the vessels? Registers & insures them? Provides their crew & comms? Are they useful levers to better control DWF practices? #fisheries #highseas 🦑🌏🌊🧪🎣🪸🐟
oceana.org/reports/behi...
![[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreiakufyngycqogzws43gzq5ei2zayvoozx42wmbmyawywxyjqhw2ua)
[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA
Whoa 🤯
The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
heyyyyyy 👋
felt the longing after i saw all the space sci comm nerds having the best time during this artemis ii era 🤣
*taps mic*
hi is this thing on? 🐟🐠
slowly returning to bluesky after missing the online science/ocean communities
i am feeling re-energized after completing my 2025 knauss year & have since joined a stellar team at Oceana 🌊 Excited to be back doing my favorite fish things and helping our oceans 💙
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.
My REU in 2011 helped me understand I had a path in research. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring several REU’s, many of whom have gone onto grad school or scientific careers. The gutting of these programs will have a devastating impact for many years.
www.science.org/content/arti...
"What has NOAA ever done for me in #GreatLakes?"
NOAA employees in the region help communities become better prepared for challenges like severe weather, coastal erosion, harmful algal blooms, and invasive species www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6y...
One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.
Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit.
A new study shows that exposure to high temperatures adds up to 14 months to older adults' cellular age.
grist.org/health/extre...
#Heat #Health #Wellness #Aging #Climate
There is *a lot* going on right now. My hot take, as I try to keep up wrt our planet:
“These executive orders will make our air dirtier, make people sicker, make energy more expensive, and make our communities less prepared for extreme weather.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...
🧪🌎
NEW REPORT: NOAA has released its final report on 2024 Billion-dollar disasters, with 27 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages, trailing only the record-setting 28 events analyzed in 2023, totaling $182.7 billion... 🧵
How the summer of sharks reshaped our understanding of US presidential elections by me, the not-shark half of the blog team.
www.southernfriedscience.com/how-the-summ...
AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
Climate change is already impacting athletes and sports worldwide. But athletes and teams can be powerful and effective voices for change as well. This pack collects people and organizations who do both!
Re-sharing a thread before I delete it from x because I think it’s a useful one:
In a work email, we had a fantastic thread about the use of "stakeholder" — many collaborators have stated they do not want this term used, and scholarship has supported this.
finally made it over here!! hey everyone, Alyssa Strickland (formally Stasse) over here. I study genomics of eastern oysters response to stressors in NH. expected to graduate with my PhD May 2025 and looking for a postdoc!!
selfie of andy in front of yellow aspen trees and a mountain range. andy is smiling
feels wild to re-introduce myself after so many years on “science twitter” but i am liking the fresh start!
hey y’all, i’m andy (he/they). i study evolution in the rapidly changing ocean. i like going outside to touch rocks and look at bugs.
thank you!
[looking at Bluesky over the past 2 days] So this is what the Cambrian explosion must have felt like
Very useful resource from the "Fisheries" feed. 🦑🌍 🐟bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nb4qtiyq...
#IndigenousPeoplesDay is Monday. My challenge to non-Natives: dig into the history of the people who were displaced from your land, learn about the history of how they were displaced, find out where they are now, and support them financially or by protesting with them. Go beyond platitudes.
Thank you! I'm happy to be finding folks again on here!🌊
I am standing on the railing of a moving boat off the coast of Miami, the water is very blue/blue green, i am holding onto the railing and i am smiling to the left. I am wearing greens shorts, grey shoes, and a blue longsleeve as well as a blue baseball cap on. My hair is in pigtail braids and i am wearing sunglasses. It is a partly cloudy sky
I finally made it over!
same old me -- going to be posting about fish, science, advocacy and life during grad school and the things that make me more than a scientist; my 🇲🇽 culture, fútbol, and movies (SAG still on strike!)
Fellow latino/e/x scientists - I hope we can find each other here too!
