Great article in Scientific American on Freshwater Mussel conservation. Many amazing friends and colleagues are featured along with the mussels!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
I should have co-authored this…was totally scooped 😜
And if Congress won’t do their duty members of the military still loyal to the Constitution must. If that fails, the people need to shut the country down - martial law be damned!
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Long-term biodiversity erosion: limited co-existence of the Eurasian zebra mussel and native mussels in a North American river after 25 years | Zwarych et al, including @ecoinvasions.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1139/cjz-... Free access for this month
The 🔪🗡️ are out 🩸
If NSF-DEB funded…time to close up shop and look for positions outside of US.
This cannot stand.
Ibuprofen can affect fish hatching, diclofenac impacts fish livers, flea treatments kill off the insects fish & birds eat - a cocktail of meds, pesticides, cleaning products, road runoff is poisoning our rivers - no wonder fish numbers are plummeting.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our (finally) funded project on the population genomics of Yellow Lampmussel (Lampsilis cariosa) in collaboration with the #USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center.
www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc...
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Dr. Dave Strayer kicking off concurrent sessions at #FMCS2025 highlighting Great Lakes context of this meeting in Ypsilanti and challenges
Ms. Phyllis Davis opens the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society conference with Robin Wall Kimmerer quote: “We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live…
At least it isn’t retroactive and only applies to new grant.
every day seems to be a 'hold my beer, watch this...' type of moment in science....wow. 🧪
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NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it theconversation.com/noaas-vast-p... by @cires.colorado.edu @cwiedinm.bsky.social
This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry
Harvard responds to the Trump administration: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.. . . ." www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
Not just NIH doing this.
The fear and rationale for boycott are justified.
We’re seeing this fear (and boycott) for our upcoming conference. Several cancellations and questions about refunds if they cancel.
Insider trading for thee, but not for me. So-much-corruption!
We were hoping the contract would have been written up before Jan 20, but it wasn't. Now it has been in "additional" review since with no updates or timeline given.
Has anyone had a contract approved through a CESU (Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit - Dept. of Interior) since January? We submitted a bid in early Dec 2024 on a subaward for collaborative work with USGS (funding already in place - FY2024).
Estimate of 800-1000 for the #Handsoff march in Mount Pleasant MI. Impressive turnout for our sleepy college town. Let’s keep this going!
Why would a foreign student want to come here and pay thousands of $ only to have their visa revoked part way through a program?
While clearly another vile and racist attack by our Dear Leader’s Regime, I also see this as another avenue for destroying higher ed. Many US schools are dependent on foreign student tuition for revenue (at much higher rates than domestic).
Apparently this has been discovered at universities across the US over the last few days.
www.cm-life.com/article/2025...
See you May 12-16 for #FMCS2025!
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