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Researching Resiliency Below the Waves By Victoria Bourne Dan Barshis, Ph.D., was a sixth-grader at summer camp in Wisconsin when he first tried scuba diving. He recalls the panic that set in as his mask began to leak when he was fully sub...

ODU put out a cool feature article about our work!
A nice way to celebrate my first official week as full professor!!
www.odu.edu/monarch-maga...

28.07.2025 03:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rule 52: Justifying Biking Investment

Bike infrastructure brings health, equity, & economic gains. Bike commuters have a 41% lower risk of early death & 40% are low income. Bike projects also create 2x more jobs than road projects.

Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

21.07.2025 19:37 — 👍 78    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 1

Center for American Progress hiring Executive Vice President, Policy in Washington, DC | LinkedIn Posted 3:14:36 PM. Reports to: President and CEODepartment: ExecutivePosition classification: Exempt, full…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

If there’s going to be a liberal version of Project 2025, whoever gets this job will be a lead author on it.

Some of you should apply.

15.07.2025 21:09 — 👍 38    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.

Applications now open for the SSE GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 to expand your dissertation work. Submit your proposal by September 15!
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

15.07.2025 21:16 — 👍 36    🔁 47    💬 0    📌 1

'Shark Whisperer' Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me "'Shark Whisperer' claims to honor marine life, but it often confuses reverence with control," writes Kaniela Ing.

Ocean Ramsey perpetuated this common trope in ocean conservation:

Whites are the heroes
Asians are the villains
Black/browns are the victims, and dont know what's best for themselves

time.com/7300868/shar...

10.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance Ordinary people have more power than they know.

"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me."

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know.

Read it + share it with a friend: https://trib.al/pAjBVa2

06.07.2025 14:16 — 👍 211    🔁 81    💬 8    📌 5

a close up of what looks like a tuft of flower buds that are pale blue and pearly gray that are radiating from a thick white base as if it's an unusual stationary sea creature

a heavy white trunk is erupting from a dirty yellow base to support crinkly pink nodules along its stubby arms somewhat like an illustration of a stylized tree

there is a highly irregular, almost velvet-like green palm-shaped surface covered in warts of tissue that seems like it's attached to a sturdy white base as if it was a sea creature that lives stationary on a rock

Scientists have completed the largest survey of soft coral diversity ever conducted. Their results show that soft corals have been radiating in a small corner of what was once a giant sea.

🪸 Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/worl...

Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.06.2025 19:17 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, ocean warming and acidification all pose significant…

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

04.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 46    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.

2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

02.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 53    🔁 77    💬 2    📌 3

Here's our updated speaker list for #Upwell2025

In person RSVPs are almost full -- but we have plenty of space in our virtual room

Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-20...

19.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪

15.05.2025 19:57 — 👍 67    🔁 73    💬 2    📌 0

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

16.05.2025 03:25 — 👍 31925    🔁 10111    💬 363    📌 1024

Thanks for doing this again Carly!!

16.05.2025 03:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know what it’s like to go cold and hungry as a child.

If Republicans were truly concerned about getting women to have babies, they wouldn’t cut SNAP or leave America’s poorest children behind in their CTC proposal.

Our children are worth every dime.

14.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 716    🔁 137    💬 10    📌 3

DAV statement on the proposal to rename Veterans Day: No.

When confronted by Trump, so many people and organizations look to polling for guidance, get paralyzed, talk in circles or just fold like a cheap suit. Disabled American Veterans, on the other hand, has taken the right approach. This is how you respond.

02.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 2144    🔁 596    💬 29    📌 26

There are five categories of climate denial:

1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late

They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.

10.04.2025 23:00 — 👍 71    🔁 29    💬 3    📌 1

Here’s what I teach my students about finding jobs in marine biology and conservation Our field is competitive, some job postings are confusing, and some career advice is contradictory or wrong. Here’s an exercise I have my students perform that I hope can help you. Graphic vi…

I keep seeing heartbreaking stories about people who spend years in grad school, apply to jobs, and only then learn that their dream job needs a skill they didn’t learn during grad school.

Looking at job ads *now*, years before you’re applying, can help identify skills to develop.

🧪🌎🦑🐠

10.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 295    🔁 102    💬 15    📌 8

Let's all take a moment to our mini grant recipients! Congratulations to our five Track 1 recipients! Recipients were awarded up to $1000 USD to support personal expenses.

09.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.

I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race.

I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:

13.03.2025 14:49 — 👍 36829    🔁 5766    💬 1897    📌 530

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”

The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

13.03.2025 15:51 — 👍 24527    🔁 7274    💬 5    📌 477