Marianne Porter

Phew! It has been a busy week at #JMIH2025. I gave a talk on mako vertebral column mechanics, attended a board meeting, a speed networking event, and repped a committee for the meritorious teaching award. Thanks to everyone for making it an amazing meeting.

Posing with my title slide

Ready for my AES talk, all about how ocean science and conservation professionals can (and should) adapt to a changing social media landscape!

#SciComm #AES25 #JMIH25 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐠

Have you checked out the candidates for Program Officer elect?
The program officer helps with the programming for the entire meeting and helps to drive the vision for the society.

Read about them & be sure to vote!
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It's that time of year!

Read about the Members at Large Candidates and be sure to vote.
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to see our latest newsletter and meet some of the team
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@jcsplants.bsky.social & more!

Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 2, mechanics of the interview By  David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness o…

Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share!

www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm

Check these out @sicb-spdac.bsky.social @sicb-dab.bsky.social @sicb-dcpb.bsky.social @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb-dedb.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, Organismal Biology Apply now to join FAU on its race to excellence. For more information on everything FAU has to offer, please visit www.fau.edu/jobs. Note: Current FAU employees must apply as an internal applicant by ...

Assistant professors in Organismal Biology and Systems Biology needed!

FAU is hiring two assistant professors, applications are due April 30th. Please find the ads here:
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(Req 19892)

and here:
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(Req 19893)

Sitting at home catching up on email looking at palm trees and I get the auto reply from @kmkocot.bsky.social who is off doing amazing #IcyInvert research in Antartica. Send me a penguin picture, please!

Help SICB member @jmhuie.bsky.social celebrate his defense! You've got this, Jonathan!
& see his phenomenal photos & work via
jonathanhuie.com

#herpetology #science #morphology #biomechanics #adaptations #Phd

🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks:

✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿
✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪
✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀

Deadline: Feb 21st

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Please share widely.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government.

How is this not a coup?

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders : Shots - Health News : NPR

🚨This is extremely bad 🚨

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has cancelled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt.

The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Whether you get voicemail or staff, be polite and brief:
- This is [name] from [city], zip code [NN]
- I'm an [NSF/NIH] supported researcher
- I'm very concerned about disruptions to grant review and research at NSF and NIH
- NSF and NIH help fund [students, research benefits, health security ...]

If you want to go deep I'd suggest jotting down specifics on that last talking point about how grant funding supports education and scientific discovery at your institution or in your community, but it really doesn't have to be a lot — the signal that their constituents are worried is the key

Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science

(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)

The U.S. has one of the best scientific research ecosystems in the world. Freezing NSF panels is how you dismantle that. Slowly, painfully, and catastrophically. Science is not a luxury—it’s our backbone

A screenshot of the Altmetric Attention Score for a recent Policy Forum paper in Science that shows that Bluesky is now added as one of the places that counts toward the Attention Score.

Yeay @altmetric.com you have formally made Bluesky a good space for academics.

ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hi @sicb-dedb.bsky.social @sicb-dab.bsky.social please remember our #SICBElections close tonight. Please vote! sicb.burkclients.com/elections/20...

Greenland shark profile

Reminder to new users here:

Greenland sharks, which can live to be over 400 years old and aren’t considered reproductively mature adults until they’re in their 160s, eat polar bears.

🧪🦑🐡🦈

Bluesky isn't great at threading, so I'm using my favorite article from the last month as a chance to re-up the thread:

A good joint is built to last: archaeologists uncover evidence for the earliest structural use of wood. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/a-good-joint...

Want to know some scientists to follow? Check out the replies to my post below

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

🧪🐙 Grant Writing workshop held by the Minorities in Shark Sciences with @fishguy.bsky.social, Lauren Eve Simonitis and @marianneporter.bsky.social #SICB2024 @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Snow geese fill the sky at sunset in Washington's Skagit Valley.

I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior.

I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336

American Fellowships AAUW American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship
Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000
Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000
Deadline: Nov 15
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#neuroscience
#neurogrants