Peter Flood

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Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

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Photographing ‘All the Sharks’ Leads to Victory When “All the Sharks” premiered on Netflix this summer, Brendan Talwar, a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, emerged as a local fan favorite.

🚨SPOILER ALERT🚨

📸 🦈 Brendan Talwar is a Scripps Oceanography postdoc, shark expert, and can now add winner of @netflix.com's "All the Sharks" to his impressive resume! @ucsandiego.bsky.social shares more about Brendan, his research, and experience on the show. ⬇️

PhD position with great supervisor!

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Interestingly, I have noticed a reticence to consider options other than population control when managing invasive species. We wrote about it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a.... 🌐 #bioinvasions

Why funding "silly" science research leads to billion-dollar breakthroughs From studying desert lizards to breakthrough weight loss drugs, discover how seemingly 'silly' scientific research leads to world-changing innovations

Boing Boing wrote about my American Scientist essay on the importance of federal funding of basic research.

boingboing.net/2025/07/29/w...

Check out @climatecentral.org's new interactive tools for monitoring ocean heat around the world: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Using the Ocean CSI system, you can find the influence of human-caused climate change on daily sea surface temperatures and around the paths of tropical cyclones.

Dr. Hopper on stage showing some mussels from Louisiana on screen

Enjoyed hosting @lsu.bsky.social #LSUsciencecafe with speaker Dr. Garrett Hopper who spoke about freshwater mussel diversity and conservation in Louisiana. These filter feeding friends trick fishes into hosting the development of their larvae on their gills. His website … www.lsu.edu/agriculture/...

Went to the DC Zoo yesterday.

Me - Let's take a picture

My daughter (probably) - Dad how could I turn around at a time like this?! There's a huge arapaima right there!!!

#TeamFish 🐟

Slowly losing my mind from how much Mendeley is lagging for me in Word today...

Global Change Asymmetrically Rewires Ecosystems Understanding how global environmental change affects food webs remains a key challenge. We synthesise empirical studies to reveal a general pattern of asymmetric rewiring, where anthropogenic pressu...

Global change asymmetrically rewires ecosystems

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#booksky

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Marine and freshwater organism energy densities integrated across previous sources Energy is the currency of exchange within ecosystems which defines the strength and influence of interactions, particularly between predator and prey. The ability to estimate the productivity of an e....

New data paper in Ecology - For his first PhD chapter, Dr. Nathan Hermann compiled >3800 records of energy density from freshwater and marine organisms. The data are freely available to use.

@esajournals.bsky.social @unhresearch.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Here's Why You Should Care About Sharks Many sharks are apex predators, but they aren’t the fearsome threat often depicted. A marine researcher shares his favorite shark facts.

Here's Why You Should Care About Sharks| In honor of Shark Week, here’s my NPR Science Friday interview

Met Office: Extreme weather the UK's new normal The UK has a notably different climate compared with just a few decades ago, the Met Office says.

This 'new normal' framing is everywhere, but it's dangerously misleading

There is no new normal while we continue to make the problem worse

So long as we maintain business as usual, conditions now are a brief moment in an ever-worsening descent

Flyer from CSU Long Beach advertising for the position of Assistant Professor of Elasmobranch Biology. The flyer has a picture of a white shark in the banner. Application deadline is September 03, 2025. Christine Whitcraft can be contacted for details at Christine.whitcraft@csulb.edu Full job description can be found here: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/873/lb/en-us/job/549205/assistant-professor-of-biological-sciences-elasmobranch-biologist

The Biology Department at CSU Long Beach is now advertising for an Assistant Professor of Elasmobranch Biology. Refer to the attached flyer for details. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwmarinebiology.bsky.social @misselasmo.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @official-bweems.bsky.social

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.

This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

As Interest in Deep-Sea Mining Grows, Scientists Raise Alarms About the Possible Ecological Consequences Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain

As Interest in Deep-Sea Mining Grows, Scientists Raise Alarms About the Possible Ecological Consequences

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Robotic rabbits deployed to fool invasive Burmese pythons Wildlife researchers in Florida have tried lots of methods to remove Burmese pythons from Florida’s ecosystems. The latest trick relies on the snake’s ability to find a delicious-lookin…

The latest technology in the battle against invasives: robotic rabbits.

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www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/17/r...

Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes? Limiting resources are often unevenly distributed among competing consumers, as larger, more aggressive, fast growing, early emerging, or rapidly reproducing species disproportionately exploit food o...

Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes? - George - 2024 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Please check out our paper! Share too! #invasivespecies #ecology #foodweb #conservation

Also a highlight by Carol Thompson in the Detroit News www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

🙋🏼‍♂️ incredible idea, thank you!

It’s 2025. Why do so many scientific journal articles still display weird when shared on social media? Social media is, despite it’s challenges and limitations, an incredibly powerful (and widely used) professional tool for scientists. One common use of social media is to share one’s res…

Since I pubilshed this rant about scientific journal articles not being optimized for sharing on social media, I am pleased to report that the editors of three (3) journals told me they'd look into it.

Far more productive than my usual rants.

www.southernfriedscience.com/its-2025-why...

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US agency bows to pressure from farmers after concealing crucial info from public: 'Blatantly unlawful' The USDA will restore previously removed climate data following pressure from farmers and environmental groups.

www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵

Join me and a panel of ocean science and conservation experts as we watch the new David Attenborough Ocean movie and post thoughts in real time!

8:30 P.M. eastern on 6/26, use #OceanChat

I'll make a starter pack of participating experts, and I'll repost anyone sharing on the hashtag 🧪🦑🌎

Oceans cannot become 'wild west', warns UN chief UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke at the start of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France.

“The ocean is not for sale. We're talking about a common shared good," President Emmanuel Macron said.

"I think it's madness to launch predatory economic action that will disrupt the deep seabed, disrupt biodiversity, destroy it."

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