Erin LaBrecque (she/her)

If you or someone you know is in want/need of help with Thanksgiving, check these places out and feel free to share this any and everywhere 😊
Here's links too!
www.thepeoplescompass.org/thanksgiving and www.thepeoplescompass.org/holidays
#thanksgiving #holidaygifts #SNAP #nh50501 #50501movement

The best decision I've made recently: rereading Starter Villain by @scalzi.com

GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Unexpectedly high concentrations of forever chemicals found in dead sea otters A paper published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, finds high quantities of toxic "forever" chemicals in sea otters recovered off the Pacific Ocean. The paper is titled "Concentrations of Pe...

🚨 A new study has found alarmingly high levels of “forever chemicals” (PFAS) in dead sea otters along the Pacific Coast, with concentrations more than 3 x higher near urban and shipping hubs.

phys.org/news/2025-11...

#seaotters #seaotter #otter #marinescience #marinebiology #marinemammals

A Statement from NPR on the Pentagon's Press Policy NPR reporters will not sign the Pentagon's rules issued on Friday, September 19

A Statement from NPR on the Pentagon's Press Policy www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Timeline cleanse. Kotzebue sound today, around 4pm

Perspective! Holy...

I don't know if that biggie is going to freak out the dinghy sailors, cause confusion, or insight a race! 😂 Oof, that's a lot of ship.

Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily

You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.

In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!

Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Saving right whales starts with listening — Cape Cod just turned up the volume Cape Cod’s waters now host two high-tech buoys that listen for endangered right whales. How does this help protect these giants in real time?

Listening for right whales: New buoys tune in off Cape Cod, Cape Ann

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Americans Are Protesting Against Trump In All 50 States, Every Day - Rachel Maddow

If you need a little pep in your step.

youtu.be/PmDxy_RDrQA?...

⚠️ A massive harmful algal bloom has impacted Southern California for months, sickening hundreds of marine animals. Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System director & Scripps Oceanography biological oceanographer Clarissa Anderson shares more about the event for @insideclimatenews.org. ⬇️

MMC Proposed for Elimination Email from Marine Mammal Commission Serving the Public for Over 50 Years   Marine Mammal Commission Proposed for Elimination For about 1 penny per American per year, the Marine Mammal Commission conti

The President's budget proposed the elimination of the Marine Mammal Commission 🐳🐬🧪
See Chair's response here:
myemail.constantcontact.com/MMC-Proposed...

Before the fall: Stories behind the Old Man of the Mountain, 22 years on Many of us remember his demise, but how was the Old Man created?

It's been 22 years since the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain, and we’re revisiting a few stories of where he came from in the first place.

He’s a symbol of the state of New Hampshire. Almost all of us know how he fell, but how was the Old Man created?

📍 New maps show dramatic shifts in North Atlantic right whale distribution (2003–2019) 🐋
Built from MGEL’s monthly models, these maps are now live on the MARCO & Northeast Ocean Data Portals—offering fine-scale insights for ocean planning.
🔗 portal.midatlanticocean.org
#SpatialEcology

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

ICYMI, I have a piece in the conversation about President Trump’s disastrous executive orders related to the ocean. No not that one, the other one.

Don't forget to breathe. ☺️

In March, GOBI and the IUCN High Seas Specialist Group co-hosted a 3-day workshop at Duke University, uniting 30+ global experts to advance ecologically representative ABMTs for the high seas and support #BBNJ implementation.

📚 Learn more: gobi.org/newsletter/

Three women doing a cold water dip in a lake still partially frozen. All have warm hats on.

A little self care today with two amazing ladies. They are showing me the ropes of safe ice water dipping in our local lake.

In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.

Parts of America will experience a partial solar eclipse this weekend The partial solar eclipse will be visible in various locations in the U.S. Northeast.

The eclipse will be visible from the Washington, D.C., area up to Maine and parts of Canada and across the Atlantic Ocean to portions of Africa and Europe, according to a map from NASA.

It will begin before sunrise in the U.S. and end shortly after 7 a.m. ET.

🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Sharing Impact & Value: Strategic Communication for Government Workers | COMPASS Strategically and clearly communicate the importance of your work to relevant audiences, without partisanship. Government workers at all levels — local, state, and federal — provide important and nece...

The #scicomm group COMPASS is offering a free communication workshop on April 2 for current or former government workers - federal, state, and local levels www.compassscicomm.org/event/sharin...

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The shapefiles are gone! 🎉

The {spData} package has officially dropped all datasets in the shapefile format, moving toward modern and efficient geospatial data standards. 🚀🌍

Upgrade your workflows with {spData}: https://buff.ly/4htZ5D3

#rspatial #rstats #GIS #Geocompx

Jazz hands 🤗🤗🤗 Also known as HUGS!!!!

Animal movement workshop alert! A line of speakers difficult to beat with John Fieberg, Marie Auger-Méthé, Brett McClintock & Inês Silva and the location is definitely a place that makes you "move" for it: lovely Madeira. 19-23 May 2025. Just after the ECS in Azores. It's PT islands 2025. See you?

We need to have a conversation about wombats! Also, please stop using koalas as a measuring unit. Still the best thing on the interwebs.
@theoatmeal.bsky.social
theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats

Whilst we have had a great field season and have deployed 11 tags in two days on elephant seals 🦭, we can’t ignore the unthinkable amount of plastic in this, one of the most isolated areas of the world.

To all of my 🌊 and 🐕peeps breaking up my feed with cute photos and inspiring science - thank you!

I now have departmental goals! That was solid. Your mom is an inspiration!