Emily Knight

🦑 "It's not just what you do, it's how you do it." - Jake Kritzer, NERACOOS

You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.

🦑 TODAY: Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. At our first (Nov 7), experts like Sarah Lester provided her vision for what is needed next.
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...

🦑 To manage MPAs in changing oceans - you have plan long-term alongside take immediate steps. Fostering resilience over time requires us to move on both fronts.

🦑 This model is absolutely replicable. In this project, the national government was so impressed with the collaborative nature of the research and the knowledge exchange between communities they want to do it in other parts of the country.

🦑 Join us on Thurs - there is so much great learning from this portfolio that applies to many management areas. As Fresia says - engagement is necessary through the whole project, not just at the beginning! Also, here's the recording from the first webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...

🦑 TOMORROW! Join @jasonlandrum.bsky.social and @emilyknight.bsky.social for the launch of our Ocean Biodiversity program. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

YouTube video by ANTI- Records Neko Case - "Sleep All Summer" (Full Album Stream)

I love this song and I love this cover of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wibo...

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🦑 Join us to launch this portfolio - which will include community listening sessions, engagement grants, and network building to build serious momentum behind ocean biodiversity sustainability.

🦑 I and @jasonlandrum.bsky.social will answer your questions... to the extent we can as this portfolio will be ground up with communities and the relevant management context defining our scope. Listen. Support. Engage.

Ya! And I’ve honestly come to appreciate Eddie more as I’ve aged…and it truly makes me sad so many of those guys have passed!

YouTube video by The White Stripes - Topic Hello Operator

I was in high school... I found most grunge waaayyyy too broey... sad dudes singing about heroin w/ these deep guttural voices. Then The White Stripes came... Here's to Jack and Meg, getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...

'Sharknado' or shark party? Researchers spotted a school of 400 sharks off Block Island A SyFy movie might call the school of 400 sharks off Block Island a "Sharknado," but the RI Department of Environmental Management wasn't so dramatic.

Shark party! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

🦑 A great takeaway from the portfolio is that if managed for climate change explicitly (alongside other objectives), MPAs can confer resilience. We have to not avoid it... rather we must face it. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 I'm so excited to do this - please join us and share with your friends, families, and colleagues!

Our co-executive director Heather Mannix had a great time at #OceanFloorExplore last week!

🦑 Our October newsletter has arrived! Key highlights include an invite to our upcoming virtual event to launch our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio as well as a blog by Dominique Kone about his key takeaways from attending #WIOMSA2025.
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YouTube video by googly eyes Googly Eyes, August Ponthier & Joy Oladokun - Jesus & John Wayne | Official Video

This song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=crOZ...

Trump hosted 'Great Gatsby' Halloween party hours before SNAP funding lapsed President Donald Trump has come under fire after he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed Halloween party just hours before millions of Americans lost their SNAP benefits.

“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This is very good

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

🦑 To get to more sustainable solutions in any marine and coastal management (or any area really), you have to think about the pathway there. Here @compassscicomm.bsky.social highlights that in the course of research, ongoing collaboration and communication are essential ingredients.

Weird to see chants of “USA! USA!” at these rallies that I was assured were “Hate America” rallies.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Overwhelming Majority of U.S. East Coast Residents Support Stronger Protections for Right Whales North Atlantic right whales are caught in a dramatic downward spiral that began in 2010, having lost more than 100 animals from a population of only around 500. Even with recent births, scientists put...

You can find polls commissioned by conservation groups that show this, but here's a nonpartisan poll about right whales from the Pew Research Center - www.pew.org/en/research-...

Line that stuck out: "Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act..." it's a good example of how something being popular among the public guarantees nothing. Protecting marine mammals is always broadly supported in public polls.

I’m grateful to these prosecutors choosing their integrity over their jobs, and helping to keep this in a news cycle that is already waning on reporting on this.

🦑 Sign up for the newsletter - @blue-convergence.bsky.social is already hosting events and releasing content regularly, and it's only going to grow!

It’s sad we’re so uncommitted as a nation (not just individual states) to taking care of each other in our greatest need, leading to people losing any trust when it never had to be this way. 😔