@villesci
PhD Candidate, UNH - I study marine heatwaves and their impacts on marine invertebrate population dynamics. Playing in the outdoors and bluegrass music enthusiast. villesci.github.io | https://linktr.ee/villesci
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
I’ll take a link! Congrats in advance!
This is really exciting! I look forward to testing it out
"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." 🤪
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
Pleased to have contributed to this special issue on #marineheatwaves - more to come!
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. 🌊🔥👇
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🚨 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
I hope #UNOC will deliver for the world’s climate and oceans and foster the international collaboration needed to tackle the pressing issues of climate change, pollution, habitat destruction, and resource overexploitation. #oosc #ScienceForTheOcean
While the United States government dismantles its (formerly) world class scientific program, harasses scientists, and retreats from evidence and truth, it has been heartening to see France and the EU embrace international collaboration and science to solve the world’s biggest problems.
I joined ten other US PhD students, and toured French laboratories, including La Maison de l’Océan, IFREMER in Brest, and IMEV in Villefranche sur Mer. It’s been a true privilege to meet so many passionate people in France dedicated to the study and protection of our oceans.
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
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
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.
This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...
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!!
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.
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.
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…
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
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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
Definitely time to download whatever data you think you need from NOAA 😡
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.”
🔥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!
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Art by Keating Shahmehri
#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication
"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.
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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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