Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve

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.

Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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!!

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

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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Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marine Ecology University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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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#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student

"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! 🌍🧪

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Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025

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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.

Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...

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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🚨ALERT🚨

Sorry to ask, but P2025 had years to prep; we have <30 days to #resist.

First they came for our staff, now they’re after our laws.

Please take a moment to comment today on this truly brazen attempt to evade environmental laws on the books since 1960.

www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...

I explain how to download tide predictions from three R packages, as well as a standalone tide program, and wrangle the data so that you can identify tides that are big and long enough for you to work, all the while filtering out those pesky 4AM Sunday night tides (...or maybe keep those in 😅)

Hey intertidal ecologists! Did you ever wish you could automatically add all the low tides that were actually *good* for field work during a long field season into a calendar? For the few of you who said yes, I spent my morning writing a blog entry to tell you how to do just that!

Register using QR codes in flyer. Questions can be addressed to Rachel Torres (email in flyer).

Interested in Ecological Forecasting, but don't know where to start? The @ecoforecast.bsky.social Early Career and Student Association is hosting two seminars for anyone interested in this field to learn about forecasting research and how to create forecasts using NEON data. Please share widely!

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Welp. The non-proft I sit on the board of got told to pause all work. No coastal flooding and resilency assistance or education for you!

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:

Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.

If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite