Nathan B Furey

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
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🪸 Using DNA analyses of gut contents, this study shows that two coral reef fish species can adjust their diet when coral reefs decline.

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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

How did we let our politicians turn us into a society that resents public services, support, and kindness?

How did we let them convince us that human decency and empathy are wrong?

We really need to sort ourselves out before we kill ourselves through selfishness.

Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.

Of course I have.

The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.

Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”

Northern lights seen in southern New Hampshire. Horizon has silhouettes of trees.

Lucky to see some northern lights here in New Hampshire.

There are some days (weeks? years?) you just don't have it. Just keep going. Even by random chance, something good will happen.

Ecological connectivity is how easily wildlife, water, seeds, and nutrients can move from one natural area to another.

New UNCCD & CMS report shows how restoring land and reconnecting habitats can limit degradation and build stronger ecosystems, for people and nature: www.unccd.int/news-stories...

header of paper published by Dr. Adam Kanigan et al.

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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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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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...