Nathan B Furey

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Left: stomach contents of a single bull trout collected in spring, with dozens of juvenile sockeye salmon smolts. Right: stomach contents of a single bull trout collected in late fall, full of sockeye salmon eggs.

New paper @thefsbi.bsky.social Journal of Fish Biology finds inTŝilhqox Biny (Chilko Lake), bull trout binge feed in response to 2 resource pulses provided by sockeye salmon: spawned eggs in fall + juvenile smolts moving downstream in spring.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
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Letter to The Music Hall about Canceling Lovering Health Center Event Rental - New Hampshire Women's Foundation Canceling an event for a documentary about abortion is not neutral. It is a political decision that is clearly anti-abortion.

Extremely disappointing that NH music hall cancels annual fundraiser for NH Women's Foundation due to it showing a film on abortion rights. Canceling 6 days prior is not being "neutral", it's a political statement.

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Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid.

This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.

Bring Google Earth Engine’s Data Right into ArcGIS Pro Access Google Earth Engine's Data Catalog in ArcGIS Pro

Did you know that you can now bring Google Earth Engine data right into ArcGIS Pro?

Here’s a new storymap with details and a link to the tool on @github.com and thoughts on a possible interoperability of GEE and ArcGIS Pro.

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#gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Trump offers Qatar, which gave him a fancy plane, a NATO-like security guarantee Without bothering to go through Congress, the president signed an executive order this week vowing to defend Qatar in the event of a foreign attack.

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress.

Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

White House FY2026 proposed budget would be lowest funding level in 25+ years. https://joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/white-house-funding-cuts-to-the-national

White House Funding Cuts to the National Science Foundation Threaten America’s Global Leadership in Science
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new long-form post joint with @malar0ne.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social and @asinclair.bsky.social

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Four members of the Furey Lab posing for a picture

Sasha Milsky presenting rainbow smelt research

Greg Kronisch presenting Arctic charr research.

Nathan Furey presenting bull trout research.

Very proud of our group and the presentations we gave this past week at AIC chapter of @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social meeting in Quebec City.

Lots of telemetry on species including river herring, rainbow smelt, Arctic char, and bull trout

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Many of the critters that grow on substrates of the ocean represent lower levels of the food web. We sampled some of them for stable isotope and energy density analysis, to better understand the flow of energy in the Gulf of Maine!

All of that life growing on the receiver likely decreased its ability to detect our tagged cod (and other tagged animals in the area), but was still getting some detections so didn't completely block it from working!

Not just Big Bird: Things to know about the Center for Public Broadcasting and its funding cuts The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long helped pay for PBS, NPR and 1,500 local radio and television stations and programs like “Sesame Street.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long helped pay for PBS, NPR and 1,500 local radio and television stations and programs like “Sesame Street.

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

Me three months ago:

Grateful for commercial diving services that retrieved this acoustic telemetry receiver for us that we have been trying to get back for the last 3 to 4 months.

Quite the settlement plate it became over the last 15 months. Fingers crossed for good data!

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

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.

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doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Gov. Ayotte vetoes book removal bill, bathroom ban bill, more Republican legislation Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven New Hampshire bills, many intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking conservative wing of her party.

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I needed this good news today.

Paul Noth. in the New Yorker.

Poor and working class students of color ALSO face the bullshit racism from people like Andreessen who use their existence as a shield from a real discussion about social inequality in society and as a mechanism for distributing the psychological wages of whiteness that white solidarity depends on.

Of course Andreessen's position is racist as fuck but I wanted to directly address what he's avoiding discussing: the actual barriers poor and working class students face to accessing higher education -- including the white ones. Of course poor and working class students of color face the same ones+

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

One of our biggest struggles in the classroom is figuring out how to balance workload against the real world demands our students face: so many of them are working too many hours, in some cases basically full time, to be able to afford tuition and basics. White students, struggling.

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white.

The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country.

We also have a food pantry.

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