Cat McClure, Ph.D.

MBARI deep-sea robot films an adorable baby squid in Monterey Bay • MBARI During a scientific cruise in Monterey Bay aboard MBARI’s research vessel Rachel Carson last month, biologists from our education and conservation partner, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, encountered a bab...

Spotted: Adorable baby deep-sea squid! 🥰

During a recent scientific cruise aboard MBARI’s R/V Rachel Carson, biologists from our education and conservation partner, @montereybayaquarium.org, encountered a baby glass squid bobbing along in the water column: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-d...

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream They're taking away the most important weather lab in the US

Why NCAR is important and why we must fight to save it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8d...

@ncar-ucar.bsky.social

Freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing Arctic: An expert horizon scan of key research questions - Ambio Arctic freshwater biodiversity is rapidly changing due to climate warming, resource extraction, infrastructure development, and landscape transformation. To improve understanding, predict future respo...

🌍🧊 New paper out in Ambio!

We brought together Arctic freshwater experts to identify 77 priority research questions to guide biodiversity science under rapid climate change.

🔓 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ArcticScience #FreshwaterBiodiversity

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

I’m truly excited and honored to moderate this conversation with two scientists I deeply admire, whose work has profoundly shaped my research journey. 📢Join us tomorrow!

@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @esalatamcarib.bsky.social #ciencialatina

SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026 Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!

Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.

The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.

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The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Resource gradients create energy trade‐offs in the inducible defense response of Paramecium aurelia Ecological communities are structured by inter- and intraspecific interactions. The stability of communities is governed by the strength and number of species interactions. Therefore, mechanisms that...

The second chapter of my dissertation is now online! Check it out if you're interested in how prey defenses change along two environmental gradients:

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The 2026 Barkley Marathons began with one of the strongest fields ever. The starting field came from 15 Counties as well as 15 States, and included ten women. The course seemed not to care. Over 70% of the field is done. #BM100

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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A pile of valentines, including a gulper eel saying "you make my jaw drop", a grimalditeuthis saying "I find you a-LURE-ing" a whale skeleton at the bottom of the ocean with snailfish and two octopuses making heart arms under the words "I've whale-fallen for you", and an anglerfish saying "You're my light in the darkness", and then two packs of cards that are all nice and tied up

It's Valentine Packing time at Skype a Scientist HQ.

Get your pack at SquidFacts.net

(These support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social !)

Flyer for the Feb 5, 2026 4:30-6PM US Eastern Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology (SUSE) webinar: Carbon in Urban Rivers (CURB) Project: Fresh Results and Syntheses. Features headshots of the four speakers: Dr. Rebecca Hale, Dr. Annika Quick, Dr. Liz Ortiz, and Dr. Stephen Plont.

🏙️ How do cities shape river carbon?

Join the upcoming SUSE webinar with Drs. Rebecca Hale, Annika Quick, Liz Ortiz & Stephen Plont to learn about their work to answer this question.

📆Feb 5, 2026 4:30-6:00 PM US EST

🔗https://www.urbanstreamecology.org/webinars.html

Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Willie Wagtail, Common Myna, Black Swans and Australian Magpies. Seen by a friend in Australia for #BirdsSeenIn2026
Just a reminder that everyone is welcome to join in with this friendly challenge. Just add the hashtag to photos taken this year.

This spring, I’m having my Paleoecology undergrads read one popular science book about a topic related to course themes (the history of life on Earth, any time or taxonomic group). What’s your favorite book in that vein? I’ve got a list of ~20 but want to make sure I’m not missing any good ones!

I second The Sixth Extinction!

second this!

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change - Inside Climate News The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scr...

🔵 ICYMI: A new study led by Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social scientists provides a more complete measure of the monetary harm caused by global climate damages. @insideclimatenews.org shares more. ⬇️

Study Finds Ocean Impacts Nearly Double Economic Cost of Climate Change For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of ca...

For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of carbon— a measure of economic harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions. ⬇️

As Year 2 of Trump 2.0 begins, here’s a refresher on how first-year actions affected climate, energy, public health, academia, and the environment.

Follow the AGU Eos thread below ⬇️

Individual Abstract Submissions — SFS 2026 Annual Meeting SFS 2026 committee invite you to participate in SFS 2026 Annual Meeting by submitting an abstract for consideration as an oral or poster presentation.

🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨 Abstracts for the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA, will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, January 26. Learn more about the conference, register & submit your abstract today: www.sfsannualmeeting.org/abstracts

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.

Registration is open for the 2026 Freshwater Algal ID course at Fordham University! More info here www.fordham.edu/FWalgaeID

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .

Everything feels anxious. Like I shouldn't be in the lab, I should be prepping for the apocalypse. But here I am, trying to do science like everything is ok.

Ink and watercolor sketches of fish. There is a little color pencil on today's Dolly Varden.

Another week in review from #25DaysOfFishmas and today's #SundayFishSketch the Dolly Varden.

The Borax Lake Chub is sporting a Womderbread logo because it is a wonder fish!

Alright scientists! It's that time again!

Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.

Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?

Sign up now 🥰

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Same here! It's great to see this research being done and people talking about potential solutions

Please use your voice and speak up! This is reckless!