Ryan Freedman

I will not be wasting money on a Market Days Festival “VIP package”. Or really any other VIP package. Those aren’t my people. My people are in the pit, the floor and the mass of sweaty bodies, not excluding themselves from them.

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PI: "this draft is so great, why didn't we write it this way in the first place??"

PhD student: "I did, and then you told me to change it"

I can’t even understand why people are arguing with Karen about this. There aren’t jobs in the rest of the world to sustain American scientists, “American science“ can’t just be transplanted abroad either.

As the attack on marine science and the dismantling of science. Many of us are having a very hard time.

Please do not placate us by telling us how "amazing" our job is. How you wish you could be a marine biologist. Anything that dismisses our current emotions.

Be empathetic but not reductive.

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

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Marine Sanctuaries Staff Cuts at NOAA Jeopardize Nation’s Waters and Local Economies Without public input, America has lost NOAA marine sanctuary scientists, enforcement officers, and conservation specialists who are the backbone of our nation’s marine protections, supporting critical...

Statement from @marinesanctuary.bsky.social: "With zero public input, and no report to Congress or Governors, America has lost dedicated scientists, enforcement officers, and environmental specialists who safeguard our most iconic waters in over a dozen states." marinesanctuary.org/news/marine-...

Trump fires NOAA scientists helping whales and offshore wind coexist Scores of employees working to ensure offshore wind has a low impact on whales, birds, and other wildlife were cut in a major round of layoffs at the…

Yesterday’s NOAA purge ousted two PhD biologists from a team created last year to protect critically endangered whales in the Southeast.

Also, 14 were gutted from the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. Another 14 from the Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

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Work on acoustic telemetry in the North Pacific? Join us and come see where your fish go!

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Great work showing MPAs support recreational SCUBA divers that want to see pristine ecosystems. Check out or paper with Benioff Ocean Laboratory, UCSB, and NOAA Sanctuaries

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Speaker Johnson has big Duggar family energy in the worst way

Ok, blue sky, I’ll bite