@oceansinitiative.org
Southern resident killer whales need us to redouble our efforts to restore salmon and habitat—or we will lose them
One point missing from this excellent @seattletimes.com editorial: we also need to invest in orca health monitoring
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...
One point missing from this excellent @seattletimes.com editorial: we also need to invest in orca health monitoring
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...
Southern resident orca numbers show region cannot let up on restoration | Editorial
The Center for Whale Research’s latest census shows just 74 of the orcas remain. They need more food, space and less pollution to grow their numbers.
www.seattletimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Southern resident killer whales need us to redouble our efforts to restore salmon and habitat—or we will lose them
One point missing from this excellent @seattletimes.com editorial: we also need to invest in orca health monitoring
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...
One point missing from this excellent @seattletimes.com editorial: we also need to invest in orca health monitoring
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...
The latest efforts to save Hope, the young #humpback whale stranded on an Oregon beach, appear to have failed. A veterinarian is preparing for euthanasia. Amidst the sadness, it’s been inspiring to see so many people invested in this one whale’s fate 🧵
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Efforts fail to save a stranded humpback whale on the Oregon Coast
Authorities say a last-ditch rescue effort failed Monday morning to pull the stranded whale so it faced the ocean at high tide and could potentially swim to safety. A veterinarian began preparing to e...
www.opb.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The latest efforts to save Hope, the young #humpback whale stranded on an Oregon beach, appear to have failed. A veterinarian is preparing for euthanasia. Amidst the sadness, it’s been inspiring to see so many people invested in this one whale’s fate 🧵
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
The International Pacific Halibut Commission is losing funds for stock assessment surveys just as stocks appear to be near record lows.
Fascinating read on the role of science & scientific debate in resource management decision making
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Fascinating read on the role of science & scientific debate in resource management decision making
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
The International Pacific Halibut Commission is at a crossroads as the fishery hits record lows
The commission has been forced, due to budgetary constraints, to sharply reduce the scope of ocean surveys that help assess halibut populations at a time when stocks appear to be at or near record low...
www.adn.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The International Pacific Halibut Commission is losing funds for stock assessment surveys just as stocks appear to be near record lows.
Fascinating read on the role of science & scientific debate in resource management decision making
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Fascinating read on the role of science & scientific debate in resource management decision making
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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Our new paper, estimating the impact of the bird flu on elephant seals in South Georgia, came out today. The virus caused a decline of 47% of the adult female population 🦭🦑🌎🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses (HPAIV) Associated with Major Southern Elephant Seal Decline at South Georgia - Communications Biology
Arrival of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) at the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in 2023 has triggered dramatic declines in attendance of female southern elephant seals during the 2024...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Our new paper, estimating the impact of the bird flu on elephant seals in South Georgia, came out today. The virus caused a decline of 47% of the adult female population 🦭🦑🌎🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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An amazing success story: the recovery of humpback whales 50-60 years after we stopped whaling on them.
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
An amazing success story: the recovery of humpback whales 50-60 years after we stopped whaling on them.
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🌏 Strengthening marine protection in Southeast Asia.
With the the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, we’re training regional teams to use Marine Manager—co-developed with @donabertarelli.bsky.social —to plan and monitor MPAs through open data and satellite tech.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ovrRak
With the the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, we’re training regional teams to use Marine Manager—co-developed with @donabertarelli.bsky.social —to plan and monitor MPAs through open data and satellite tech.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ovrRak
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌏 Strengthening marine protection in Southeast Asia.
With the the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, we’re training regional teams to use Marine Manager—co-developed with @donabertarelli.bsky.social —to plan and monitor MPAs through open data and satellite tech.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ovrRak
With the the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, we’re training regional teams to use Marine Manager—co-developed with @donabertarelli.bsky.social —to plan and monitor MPAs through open data and satellite tech.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ovrRak
A moving interview with Lynda Mapes on @kuow.org about oil drilling in the Western Arctic.
Joni said it best: you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
www.kuow.org/stories/a-vi...
Joni said it best: you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
www.kuow.org/stories/a-vi...
A visit to the pristine Western Arctic, which faces gas and oil drilling
Lynda Mapes, the former Seattle Times environment reporter, made a trip recently to the Western Arctic, a vast region in the northernmost part of North America. It’s an area that the Trump administrat...
www.kuow.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A moving interview with Lynda Mapes on @kuow.org about oil drilling in the Western Arctic.
Joni said it best: you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
www.kuow.org/stories/a-vi...
Joni said it best: you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
www.kuow.org/stories/a-vi...
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Bipartisan laws for fisheries resulted in greater sustainability and profits in the US. Successes due to fishers, NGOs, and of course the many dedicated NOAA and state scientists collecting data, assessing status, and setting catch levels.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
How America's fisheries rebounded from collapse and over-regulation
An unlikely alliance saved U.S. fisheries from collapse - and made them more profitable.
www.usatoday.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bipartisan laws for fisheries resulted in greater sustainability and profits in the US. Successes due to fishers, NGOs, and of course the many dedicated NOAA and state scientists collecting data, assessing status, and setting catch levels.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Check out this important new open-access paper in #BioScience
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Check out this important new open-access paper in #BioScience
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Check out this important new open-access paper in #BioScience
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Check out this important new open-access paper in #BioScience
Looks like there's still time to buy tickets to watch (virtually) the incomparable @edyong209.bsky.social 's talk, "Becoming a Birder." Tomorrow at 630pm Pacific, via @townhallseattle.bsky.social & @uwnews.uw.edu
www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...
www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...
The Office of Public Lectures presents: Becoming a Birder with Ed Yong
www.washington.edu
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Looks like there's still time to buy tickets to watch (virtually) the incomparable @edyong209.bsky.social 's talk, "Becoming a Birder." Tomorrow at 630pm Pacific, via @townhallseattle.bsky.social & @uwnews.uw.edu
www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...
www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...
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How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry
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Great new work led by @oceansinitiative.org! Proud to be part of it.
She captured exhaled breath of wild dolphins, and cultured the samples for bacteria, fungi, and viruses--including tests for antimicrobial resistance. This work was carried out with wildlife veterinarians @seadocsociety.bsky.social and BC Ministry of Agriculture.
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Great new work led by @oceansinitiative.org! Proud to be part of it.
Broadening disease surveillance to include wild dolphins and killer whales: novel components of One Health.
Dr @erinashe.bsky.social led a study in @aibsbiology.bsky.social's BioScience, exploring pathogens in Pacific white-sided dolphins 🧵
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Dr @erinashe.bsky.social led a study in @aibsbiology.bsky.social's BioScience, exploring pathogens in Pacific white-sided dolphins 🧵
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Broadening disease surveillance to include wild dolphins and killer whales: novel components of One Health
Abstract. We describe a minimally invasive pilot study to characterize the microbiota of exhaled breath from wild Pacific white-sided dolphins. Samples wer
academic.oup.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Broadening disease surveillance to include wild dolphins and killer whales: novel components of One Health.
Dr @erinashe.bsky.social led a study in @aibsbiology.bsky.social's BioScience, exploring pathogens in Pacific white-sided dolphins 🧵
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Dr @erinashe.bsky.social led a study in @aibsbiology.bsky.social's BioScience, exploring pathogens in Pacific white-sided dolphins 🧵
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Is your sleep getting worse?
It's not your imagination. It's climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's not your imagination. It's climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate warming may undermine sleep duration and quality in repeated-measure study of 23 million records - Nature Communications
The impact of rising temperatures on sleep and its components under climate change remains underexplored. Here, authors show that climate warming can significantly exacerbate sleep deprivation, with a...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Is your sleep getting worse?
It's not your imagination. It's climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's not your imagination. It's climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Are you sneezing way more from allergies than you used to be?
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Climate change is supercharging pollen and making allergies worse
Seasonal allergy sufferers are being hit with more pollen over a longer season due to rising temperatures alongside extreme allergy events like thunderstorm asthma.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Are you sneezing way more from allergies than you used to be?
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Have you ever fantasized about getting away from ? Do you have mad #offgrid skills? The wonderful Salmon Coast Field Station is hiring in the beautiful Broughton Archipelago, BC, Canada.
PS the place is full of dolphins!
🇨🇦 ❤️
salmoncoast.org/join-us/work/
PS the place is full of dolphins!
🇨🇦 ❤️
salmoncoast.org/join-us/work/
Work With Us – Salmon Coast Field Station
salmoncoast.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Have you ever fantasized about getting away from ? Do you have mad #offgrid skills? The wonderful Salmon Coast Field Station is hiring in the beautiful Broughton Archipelago, BC, Canada.
PS the place is full of dolphins!
🇨🇦 ❤️
salmoncoast.org/join-us/work/
PS the place is full of dolphins!
🇨🇦 ❤️
salmoncoast.org/join-us/work/
The world has lost a truly great hero today. Dr Jane Goodall inspired generations to study animals as living individuals—and more importantly, to listen to what non-human animals have to teach us.
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.
www.reuters.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The world has lost a truly great hero today. Dr Jane Goodall inspired generations to study animals as living individuals—and more importantly, to listen to what non-human animals have to teach us.
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Continually impressed with the work, innovation, and the leadership at @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
Really proud of our team at Project Drawdown.
We just launched the biggest thing we’ve ever done — by far.
A billion times more data than anyone has ever collected before, providing localized intelligence on 150+ climate solutions.
For free.
We just launched the biggest thing we’ve ever done — by far.
A billion times more data than anyone has ever collected before, providing localized intelligence on 150+ climate solutions.
For free.
Project Drawdown has always been the world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions 🌏.
With the new Drawdown Explorer, we’re moving beyond describing solutions → to spotlighting breakthrough strategies for accelerating climate action.
With the new Drawdown Explorer, we’re moving beyond describing solutions → to spotlighting breakthrough strategies for accelerating climate action.
September 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Continually impressed with the work, innovation, and the leadership at @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years. With an award from Climate Breakthrough, he aims to help the next 50 countries do the same
wapo.st/4gzNqUa
wapo.st/4gzNqUa
He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.
wapo.st
September 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years. With an award from Climate Breakthrough, he aims to help the next 50 countries do the same
wapo.st/4gzNqUa
wapo.st/4gzNqUa
A duck says quack. A cow says moo. What does the fish say?
Terrific article (with video & audio) of the wonderful work of @cornellbirds.bsky.social, @fishsounds.bsky.social at @uvic.ca. (Gift article)
wapo.st/3IAhN03
Terrific article (with video & audio) of the wonderful work of @cornellbirds.bsky.social, @fishsounds.bsky.social at @uvic.ca. (Gift article)
wapo.st/3IAhN03
What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.
Scientists using new ways to eavesdrop on fish have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts in underwater recordings.
wapo.st
September 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A duck says quack. A cow says moo. What does the fish say?
Terrific article (with video & audio) of the wonderful work of @cornellbirds.bsky.social, @fishsounds.bsky.social at @uvic.ca. (Gift article)
wapo.st/3IAhN03
Terrific article (with video & audio) of the wonderful work of @cornellbirds.bsky.social, @fishsounds.bsky.social at @uvic.ca. (Gift article)
wapo.st/3IAhN03
Important news out of the UN today!
The Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) will now enter into force, strengthening conservation & management of 40% of the earth’s surface & 64% of the ocean
www.un.org/sg/en/conten...
The Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) will now enter into force, strengthening conservation & management of 40% of the earth’s surface & 64% of the ocean
www.un.org/sg/en/conten...
September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Important news out of the UN today!
The Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) will now enter into force, strengthening conservation & management of 40% of the earth’s surface & 64% of the ocean
www.un.org/sg/en/conten...
The Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) will now enter into force, strengthening conservation & management of 40% of the earth’s surface & 64% of the ocean
www.un.org/sg/en/conten...
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The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026!
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026!
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference