Jamie E. Thompson

✨First post here on Bluesky to announce that our team effort paper is now out in
@globalchangebio.bsky.social! We found that 🌡️temperature is driving 🌱 #seagrass recovery rates in the Western Atlantic. Nutrient enrichment in combination with high grazing pressure can reduce seagrass recovery.

Ever discovered a new species during an international flight? Smithsonian Postdoc Paula Rodríguez-Flores has!

Using Oyster Shell Reefs To Counter Sea Level Rise In Louisiana Tribes’ historic lands on the Gulf Coast are being lost to the sea. To slow it down, one tribe has turned to oyster shells.

Rising seas are submerging tribal land along the Gulf Coast. One tribe is building protective reefs out of bags of recycled oyster shells.

Deciphering a natural super glue Horizons - In brief

Since my undergraduate invertebrate zoology class I took almost a decade ago I have forgotten that velvet worms have oral papillae that shoot slime. I got to relearn it yesterday, and it was magical! 🧪

Smithsonian to close diversity office after Trump order The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to in-office work, according to an email sent by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III.

IT'S BAD

The Navy's experimental underwater habitat While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live and work on the deep seafloor.

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live and work on the deep seafloor.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Have you guys been seeing this crab everywhere? He was collected as part of efforts to restore the Gulf of mexico seafloor! Follow the link to learn more! ocean.si.edu/conservation...

Not all underwater reefs are made of coral − the US has created artificial reefs from sunken ships... Artificial reefs are structures that humans put in place underwater that create habitat for sea life. A new study shows for the first time how much of the US ocean floor they cover.

New study provides the first-ever estimate of how much of the sea bottom in US waters is covered with artificial reefs, and some of the crazy things they're made of theconversation.com/not-all-unde...

Learning they named the most recently discovered whale species (described in 2021) after a person