Andrea Loya Castillo

The High Seas Treaty is officially in effect! 🌊🎉🌎

TODAY, the UN’s #BBNJ Treaty becomes international law, protecting areas of the global ocean beyond any nation’s control.

👉Learn more about the road to protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030 and #60toGlobal from the @highseasalliance.bsky.social!

San Diego's beaches are bouncing back after El Niño Scripps researchers say it's good news about the health and resilience of our coasts.

📈Good news for California beaches! 🏖️

Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985.

@axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️

Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people

Satellite Imagery

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COME WORK WITH ME!!!

Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!

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An eclectic encounter: ticks feeding on an electric eel and the untapped potential of natural history collections Abstract. Parasites are quite likely the most diverse guild of species on earth. Nevertheless, they remain under-documented despite their impact on the hea

🎃🕷️Tick or treat?

Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections.

Not even the fish are safe!

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...

Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes Insects can adjust their behaviours through learning and memory, but this rather costly capacity is often impacted by stressors. Here, we address how …

How #stress shapes #insect minds: hormones and neuropeptides alter learning and memory in complex, surprising ways. 🪰 ➡️Review 📝 Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch

This line from Mary Oliver ❤️

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

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Funnels are working well to reduce small mammals mortalities in pitfall traps 🐁 just cut the narrow end shorter and you can even drop a sample pot with solution into the cup for easy collection 🪲

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”

Barely made it to the top because it was so slippery, but it was very majestic #mountgreylock

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@birdblerd.bsky.social the post you’ve been waiting for

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OEB Spring Party 🌱🐥