Dr. Amy King-Henry

The Ocean Equity Index - Nature The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...

🌊 The global community has made ambitious commitments to advancing ocean equity – what is missing is a transparent & replicable way to measure equity and track progress 🐠

📢 Our new @nature.com paper, the #OceanEquityIndex, offers a simple yet robust solution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Frog Fortress: The Ultimate Habitat for Frogs Innovative habitats engineered to attract local frogs to your backyard

I just backed The Frog Fortress: The Ultimate Habitat for Frogs on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

I want to see this drawing though!

COMMENT NOW!!! FDA plans to restrict availability of COVID vaccine to those over 65 and with pre-existing condtions. There is no science backing this decision. Only 2 days to comment.

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!!

Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.

👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.

➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Fossil prep job at the @alfpaleo.bsky.social in Southern California! Full time + benefits!

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ECHINODERM JOB! Collection Manager at the Los Angeles County Museum! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

more on the LACM collection here: nhm.org/research-col...

Exciting application of AI for conservation! I first heard about this project from my cousin, who is part of the team taking this to a for-profit product. Love ti see it getting some buzz!

Happy to share that my first solo-authored paper is now published in the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

📑 Reproducibility in the Classroom
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership

What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.

If you have time in your life to read only one of @jeremymberg.bsky.social’s bluetorials, please read this one

Science at Risk: Protect NOAA Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...

Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well.

secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

A flyer that says "Jobs in conservation" in white text inside a white box, where the background is beautiful mountains with patches of snow, blue sky, and the foreground is green grass, shrubs, and scattered trees.

A thread of #ConservationJobs (and career resources) in conservation-related science, policy, practice, communication, etc.

I'll add to it over time. Focus will be mostly in Canada, with occasional posts for other parts of the world.

Share job ads with me and I'll link here.

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JOB: Conservation Data Analyst, @bcparksfdn.bsky.social

* Full-time, salary $58k-64k/yr
* Based in Vancouver, hybrid
* "... use geospatial technology and other analytical tools..."
* No deadline given and no date posted. I suppose apply ASAP?

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#ConservationJobs #GISJobs

📣 JOB ALERT📣
The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

UC supports legal action against misguided plan to cut vital NIH research funds UC today (Feb. 10) submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit against the federal government in response to new guidance issued by the National Institutes of Health (...

Effective today, new regulations on #NIH grants will gut UC research funding by hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The University strongly opposes this directive and has submitted a declaration in support of California Attorney General Rob Bonta's suit to block these cuts. bit.ly/3QfhNTv

Help us make a textbook

I am excited to announce that my third book will be an ocean conservation science and policy textbook!

If you're an ocean scientist, a frontline conservation practitioner, or an educator, we'd sure love your input on how to make this book as useful for everyone as possible!

See next post

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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Jokes on them, trying to get people to quit science. The exact people who have track record of inhuman amounts of stubbornness in the face of all odds and fear.

I promise at least 74 practicing marine biologists have been colder, wetter, and more stubborn then they could ever imagine

Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH Please click the link to complete this form.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

B.I.O.N.I.C. Lab - NIHExecutiveOrder2025 https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative (use both home and work

Here is a draft you can use to reach out to your Elected Reps about the devastating impact on NIH:
find them here: www.bioniclab.org/news/nihexec...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

I suspect most of my followers know but this is a case where actual scientists calling Congress — both houses, both parties — and making a BIG stink FAST can possibly make a difference. Gonna make my calls as soon as I'm out of lab

The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.

We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's a small weird potentially good thing: The USPS website is still, as of a few minutes ago, processing requests under the free covid test program. No idea when that'll be shut down, but it hasn't been yet.

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Order online with the 20% off code "WAREHOUSE" for in-person pick up on Saturday, Jan 11. ☁️

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