Julie Lockwood

The science is clear. The stakes are real.

AGU condemns the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding — a decision that rejects the overwhelming evidence and undermines climate accountability.

We will continue to defend science and advocate for evidence-based policy.

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Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

"You can simply decide to forget progress. Disease is caused by miasma, insufficient beef tallow, corn syrup, the evil eye. You can simply decide to burn coal and witches and books again."

Excellent essay from @petridishes.bsky.social

We are stepping up to support climate science, solutions, and public service.

Announcing the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship program!

A Response to the Decision to Rescind EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

Thanks to the American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org for their responsible statement in response to the harmful decision of the USA to rescind the EPA endangerment finding. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

RCEI affiliate Onur Bilgen, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, elected to spend his 2025 spring semester sabbatical at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology’s (AAiT) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering...

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UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.

Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.

Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.

Biased evidence isn’t an accident. It’s a feature of a broken system. | Matthew Grainger "It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science."

«It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science.» @sinisavilaakso.bsky.social, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social
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Estimating Organism Abundance Using Within‐Sample Haplotype Frequencies of eDNA Data Environmental DNA (eDNA) provides powerful insights into species presence and community composition but remains limited in its capacity to infer species abundance or population structure. Here, we sh...

🧬 My haplotype paper is out!

We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample.

No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics.

#eDNA #PopGen

A/S/L? 3 year old gray wolf, female, around LA County. Seeking a mate who loves to travel, dine on fresh meat, and is ready to start a family. 🐾💕

This far-roaming lone wolf known to biologists as BEY03F, nicknamed Valentine by some of her adoring fans, has captured the hearts of many.

HISTORICAL NASA DOCUMENTS ARE BEING PURGED USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO TO STOP IT WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Losing the historical, irreplaceable documents of the Goddard Space Library would be detrimental to space science. You can help save the library by visiting this link below!

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Large‐Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program Transforming recorded sound into meaningful ecological insights requires carefully designed methodologies. This workflow diagram describes the steps of our analysis (contained within circles labeled ...

New research from #Newfoundland shows that adding #eDNA to acoustic and video seafloor maps significantly improves understanding of #biodiversity, especially for sessile species 🌍

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#MarineEcology

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their co...

More than mitigation: role of forests in climate adaptation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Researcher/Senior Researcher in Benthic Ecology at the Greenland Climate Research Center at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources The Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) invites applications for a position as researcher/senior researcher within the field of marine benth...

We are hiring a benthic ecologist at the researcher or senior researcher level 🧪🌍🦑

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is an excellent place to work, with friendly colleagues, support, and teaching opportunities.

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After the Outbreak - bioGraphic A northern gannet colony devastated by avian influenza is slowly recovering—and so are the researchers who witnessed the virus’s wrath.

New by me! I spoke to Northern Gannet researchers in the UK about what it was like to see HPAI rip through seabird colonies there and how things have gone since. 🪶🌎🧪 www.biographic.com/after-the-ou...

Handwritten note saying: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear.

Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...

So, hang in there, #academicsky!
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ApexRMS at #INVASIVES2026 🧪🌍️

Our Systems Ecologist, Leonardo Frid, is speaking tomorrow at the INVASIVES 2026 Annual Forum & AGM on the growing ecological and economic impacts of invasive species in BC, and new work updating provincial cost estimates across invasive plants and animals.

Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs - Nature Using nitrogen isotopes from ancient and modern fish otoliths and corals, the study shows Caribbean reef food webs are now 60–70% shorter and functionally less diverse, indicating human-driven trophic simplification and increased risk of collapse.

The food chains on modern Caribbean coral reefs may have shortened by up to 70% compared with those on their prehistoric counterparts, according to research in Nature. The findings suggest that modern reefs could be increasingly vulnerable to external stressors and ecosystem collapse. 🌍 🧪

Job opportunities...

Newly launched Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three collaborative postdoctoral fellowships. Best consideration date 3/14.

Full Details:
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British Ecological Society event: "Nature-based Solutions: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?" on 29-30 June 2026, York.

We’re inviting researchers, practitioners and policymakers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to submit a presentation aligned to one of three themes: who benefits, who decides, and who pays – a symposium exploring the evidence, equity and real-world impact of NbS.

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data - Nature Ecology & Evolution Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lawsuit Challenges Failure to Protect East Coast’s Saltmarsh Sparrows WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to make a preliminary decision on whether to protect the saltmarsh sparrow, birds native to th...

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Image of a paint wooly bat (a striking orange and black bat). Its wings are spread wide in flight. In the upper-left corner of the image, text reads "I'm a painted woolly bat, not a wall decoration."

Wildlife belongs in the wild, not hung up on walls as decoration 🦇🦇

That's why we're urging #Amazon to stop selling painted woolly #bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong.

Join us ➡️ bit.ly/4alANJt

RCEI affiliate Corday Selden, assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has been selected to receive The Oceanography Society (TOS) Early Career Award. The honor ....

Read and learn more about Seldon's work at tinyurl.com/5n8c87bu

Identifying Priorities, Targets, and Actions for the Long-term Social and Ecological Management of Invasive Non-Native Species - Environmental Management Formulating effective management plans for addressing the impacts of invasive non-native species (INNS) requires the definition of clear priorities and tangible targets, and the recognition of the plu...

If interested, check our own related papers: Identifying Priorities, Targets, and Actions for the Long-term Social and Ecological Management of Invasive Non-Native Species link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Realizing and assessing social successes in invasive species management Each year untold numbers of land managers and volunteers work individually and collectively to manage invasive plant, animal, and insect species. Whether such efforts are deemed successful depends on...

Realizing and assessing social successes in invasive species management 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy - Carbon Brief The "undervaluing" of nature by businesses is fuelling its decline and putting the global economy at risk, according to a major new report.

IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy

nature loss is one of the most “serious threats” to businesses, but “it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it”

www.carbonbrief.org/ipbes-four-k...

Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.

Important from Arne Duncan and David Pressman:

"There is little effort among university leaders to coordinate a political response to attacks on academic independence by the administration. Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Historical eDNA unlocks clues of Australia’s wildlife past Innovative new research project aims to shed light on the historical ranges of some of Australia’s most threatened species.

Awesome to be working alongside the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and several other partner organisations on this exciting new project. www.australianwildlife.org/news-and-res...