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#conservationjobs #hiring #greenjobs #sustainabilityjobs | Aerin Jacob | 16 comments [3 October 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in Canada. All postings include salary. I am not involved in these jobs. Please share to help others and post other job ads in the comment...

[3 Oct 2025] Another round-up of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.

Please share so others benefit.

I welcome additional environment-related job ads (as long as salary range is included). You can comment or DM me.

www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

I am pretty happy about the way things are going.

#booksky

That's certainly possible. Weird things during regeneration and I suspect failure happens more than we realize.

Educated guess - maybe early regeneration gone wrong? Or the chelae formation isn't fully developed yet and is waiting for a molt?

Check that enormous, wonderful Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, in the June sector of a 15th century fresco, by Cosimo Tura
Spectacular
(that should be around the begging of the link between crayfish and the Cancer zodiac sign)

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Today’s keynote at #OOSC opened with inspiring words from HRH Princess Lātūfuipeka Tuku'aho, followed by
David Obura ♦️ #Oceanlife
Michelle Bender ♦️ #OceanRights
Takashi Gojobori ♦️ #BlueEconomy

Missed it? Watch the highlights & full session on YouTube!
👉 www.youtube.com/live/7C-FuWs...

a man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade " Alt: A man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade "

🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities"

The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc.

The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

Presenting the documentary evidence of the 16th introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, in Spain
Now, many call it the native crayfish... risks of loosing the historical perspective
In #EEI2025, with Alicia Sempere
@ebdonana.bsky.social

Over 4,000+ signatures already (woohoo!).

But not enough.

Consider that, for NSF alone, there are ~50,000 active PIs/co-PIs. Not to mention grad students, postdocs, other collaborators. Not to mention NIH, NOAA, EPA, etc.

This new EO affects all of science and deserves sharp rebuke.

Is there a publicly available list of the awards NSF has terminated? You can download a list (CSV, 348.6 KB) of terminated awards.

🧪🤓 Data update:

NSF has now posted its own official list of terminated grants: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

It reaffirms the accuracy of the work that @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social have already done here:

grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html

Next post on the differences...

Year to date NSF cuts made by trump Mathematical sciences-72% Physics-85% Astronomy-53% Chemistry-57% Biotech, energy, and health sciences-9% Earth sciences -80%

Thousands of layoffs to hit Interior, National Parks imminently Employees fear diminished capacity after RIFs are tacked on to existing mass exodus.

DOI was notified of competitive areas on April 15. They have to wait 30 days to take action (RIF)- that is next week.

This story validates the concern.

Of our 8000+ employees in January, 1500 have opted into voluntary departures. Another 1000 were removed from FWS and consolidated to DOI.

👇
Things at #NIH are far worse than have been reported.

NIH and NSF have been effectively overthrown by people that hate science. The hostile takeover is complete at the top. The question now is how scientists are going to fight back. This is one step:

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

I don't often come across an article that breaks down the complexity of crayfish related science but this article does a good job of getting the big picture. discoverwildscience.com/how-the-craw...

Thank you. I will follow up via email with some additional questions.

#WithoutNSF DDIG, I wouldn't have the UCEs chapter of my dissertation that I defended 8 yrs ago today or the Plethodon paper currently in press at Herp Review. We would know less about southern redback biogeography & the southern zigzags in Tuscaloosa.

Can confirm: 60 Minutes will be worth watching tonight about #NIH.

Thank you. Out of the proposal rejections from this year so far, this has been the fairest round of reviews. Good feedback, wish there was another year of RoL. With some improvements, I probably would've had a good shot at a 2nd go. Good luck!

Received a decline and reviews last night in Area 2 RoL.

Post from Dept of Gov's Efficiency yesterday reads: Great work by @NSF canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”. See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.

Just got a phone call from an old friend (my college roommate) about the 400+ cancelled NSF grants that DOGE is celebrating in the post below. He’s on it. But they have the wrong grant! 1/6

New data paper @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology:

9 ecological traits for 1374 grassland arthropod species, collected over 10 years 🪲🐝🕷️

The traits cover feeding ecology, habitat requirements, flight capability and size.📏

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

🍂 🧪 NSF Grant Terminations - AAUP Guide for PIs & Others

8. They have some crazy modifications including setae, spines, vibrant colors and patterns. 9. They are an important food source for many fish, mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. 10. They can have as dramatic and important an impact as a beaver dam due to their burrowing, eating, etc.

6. There are tons of resources available to become acquainted with your local species (picture with examples). 7. The U S. isn't the only country to eat crawfish. Many countries have their own recipes and cultures surrounding crayfish. 🧵

4. Crayfish aren't found just in streams, many species love hanging out in the dirt making burrows. 5. They are among the U.S.'s most imperiled aquatic fauna but have a staggering little amount of information to help conservation management. 🧵

2. Astacopsis gouldi, the Tasmanian Giant Crayfish, is the world's largest freshwater invertebrate. 3. There's a crayfish species that has no natural home on the planet. Procambarus virginalis, the Marbled Crayfish, evolved from the pet trade in the 1990s. And they're clonal. 🧵