Halley E. Froehlich

My NSF subward via UCLA has been frozen by the federal government. This is not normal…

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

For @biographic.bsky.social, writer @craigwelch.bsky.social followed @hakai.org scientist @rhizalyssa.bsky.social's quest to unveil the the killer that decimated populations of sea stars off the West Coast. It took a few years but the lab's hard work paid off: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

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Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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My first PhD student is defending in September. Her dissertation topic? Clean energy and #aquaculture co-location. I think she might have just found her necessary video intro for her defense.

Every time I open LinkedIn, someone from a science agency shares an unplanned (forced) early retirement or RIF. Lately it’s NASA & EPA. In spring, NOAA. I think people have no idea how deep this loss really is. I don’t know what rebuilding federal science looks like, but it won’t be simple or quick.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your ...

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities - Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...

Apropos of nothing at all ...

How your research can survive a US federal grant termination Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.

This rollercoaster of a @nature.com story is out! I talked to > 20 researchers whose grants were terminated; several were reinstated recently. Most are competing for smaller pots of $ to keep research--often involving marginalized community groups--alive.

Advice: “If at all possible, push back.”

For the right person, this is a once-in-a-lifetime unicorn dream job.

Lots of speculation on how/why Colbert’s show was cancelled.

I distinctly remember giving a presentation on media capture in early Fall 2024. Audiences were skeptical that my insights from Turkey - or those of my panelists from India and Venezuela - had anything to do with the US.

Ah well.

How belief in conspiracy theories could harm sustainability - Nature Human Behaviour Conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking are becoming an increasing concern for researchers, politicians and policymakers. In this Perspective, the authors examine the evidence for how conspiracy b...

Conspiracy beliefs can undermine social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability by reducing support for public health, social cohesion, environmental protection, and economic cooperation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you need some talking points to share with your elected officials, I wrote some here and got dozens of scientific professional societies to sign on

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🧪 @ucs.org

Zero at UCSB. In Finland it’s 6 weeks and you have to take it by law. I think we might be getting scammed here…

And the main character is too orange and basic.

Because the actual reality in the USA is too upsetting…

Can confirm 🫠

scientists work like crazy to get tenure, but that kind of pace and lack of work-life balance is not sustainable...

New version 0.3.1 of tidyplots.org now on CRAN 🚀

🍒 Paired comparisons in `add_test_*()`
📋 Selected comparisons in `add_test_*()`
🌍 Global options for all tidyplots
🐣 New `add_ellipse()` function
👀 Functions to rename, reorder, sort, reverse now end in `*_levels()`

#tidyplots #rstats #dataviz #phd

“According to Feeding America, the cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program alone would eliminate 6 billion-9 billion meals annually, roughly the same number of meals the food bank network provided last year. Those food banks would need to double their operations to close the gap.”

The mechanisms underlying seastar wasting disease #SSWD remain elusive, & this new preprint helps to fill this knowledge gap using data from a mosaic of infected & uninfected sunflower stars across Southeast Alaska to evaluate immune & microbial disruption. #Pycnopodia #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊🧪🌎

Sorry, son, but it was important that we take away your life-saving medicine so we could afford to arrest and imprison your beloved babysitter and the guy who picks the fruit you like to eat.

We're all gonna die, quit whining.

Bookmarking 📚 to read

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
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A great paper on the misguided and uniformed 2025 American seafood EO from Trump.

Experts say seafood deregulation could impact sustainability and supply A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists

Nice summary and coverage of our recent Marine Policy paper on the new U.S. seafood executive order & other disruptive governance actions: news.ucsb.edu/2025/021937/...

@jagephart.bsky.social

Text from the 1990 global change research act (see link above).

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.

The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.

In Defense of ‘Silly’ Science Basic research and the value of curiosity.

Basic science is essential. "Most drugs don’t begin with research intended to make that drug. In fact, the results of their study showed that 80% of the medicines on their list led back to a discovery from basic research without any intention of creating a new drug" www.chronicle.com/article/in-d...