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Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 15h

Total clickbait for you Ben

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 16h

Many of us buy animal toys for kids, but have you considered the beaver?!

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 1d

There are many recalcitrant barriers, but we can do it! Good leadership, talented people, and hard focus will go a long ways!

Marc Peipoch @marcpeipoch.bsky.social · 1d

Very inspiring. I only regret feeling that I'd have been more hopeful if I'd read this five years ago than I did today. I despise my own pessimism, but it's getting hard to see how some of the issues mentioned here can get actually solved.

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you can read my latest essay on why the biological sciences needs resynthesis now more than ever. We've been stuck in old ways of thinking for far too long!

🧫 🧬 🪲 🪰 🪱 🪻 🏔️ 🌍

#CenturyOfBiology #ConvergenceScience #Biology #SystemsBiology #Science

tnature.substack.com/p/what-comes...

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 1d

Hey - thanks for the read & for sharing. Don't give up - it's gonna happen! The tools are all there, but the biggest missing ingredient is leadership.

If I was being pessimistic about anything, it's how we increasingly live in a science & tech society, but people know little about science & tech.

Marc Peipoch @marcpeipoch.bsky.social · 1d

Very inspiring. I only regret feeling that I'd have been more hopeful if I'd read this five years ago than I did today. I despise my own pessimism, but it's getting hard to see how some of the issues mentioned here can get actually solved.

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you can read my latest essay on why the biological sciences needs resynthesis now more than ever. We've been stuck in old ways of thinking for far too long!

🧫 🧬 🪲 🪰 🪱 🪻 🏔️ 🌍

#CenturyOfBiology #ConvergenceScience #Biology #SystemsBiology #Science

tnature.substack.com/p/what-comes...

What Comes After Reductionism in Biology?

Why the science of life needs to be resynthesized

tnature.substack.com

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 1d

I'd be willing to review a few.

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 1d

Def a manifesto! 😂👇

Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 2d

Cool manifesto Andrew!
I appreciate the shoutout to the late great Dr. Peter Yodzis who was happy to write one paper a year.
And hoo boy there were some great ones! All beautifully constructed and written. He was my post doc mentor and I miss him.

Less a fan of Leibig, who sold a lot of fertilizer.

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 1d

That was the word I was using with my partner when she kept asking what I was pecking about on. It is def a kind of manifesto! Dang - did not know you were a Yodzis protege. But, this makes sense given how dynamic and theory-driven your work is. Obviously an intellectual vein there! LOL on Liebig!

Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 2d

Cool manifesto Andrew!
I appreciate the shoutout to the late great Dr. Peter Yodzis who was happy to write one paper a year.
And hoo boy there were some great ones! All beautifully constructed and written. He was my post doc mentor and I miss him.

Less a fan of Leibig, who sold a lot of fertilizer.

Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 2d

🌱 "If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves." —Steve Irwin

Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay to the real MVPs.

Maven's Notebook @mavensnotebook.com · 8d

Putah Creek, the 85-mile long stream that forms the border between Solano and Yolo counties, just had a record breaking year for salmon. #cawater www.capradio.org/213734

25 years of revitalization efforts, leads to a record-breaking salmon spawn in Putah Creek

Thirty years ago salmon were extinct in Putah Creek and it was all but dried up. Last year, after decades of revitalization efforts, the creek saw a record number of salmon return to its waters.

www.capradio.org

Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 9d

Ducks Unlimited sends a promotional sticker of a…mandarin duck?

DU’s work has benefited a lot of waterfowl species but the mandarin duck (an Asiatic duck often kept in aviaries) isn’t one of them.

Conservation communications should be done by real people, with real natural history knowledge.

Ducks Unlimited sticker with a drake mandarin duck.

Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 11d

New paper led by former postdoc @psaff.bsky.social in @esajournals.bsky.social ! 🎉

Can we use flow-ecology relationships from the past to inform future management? Enter 40 years of data on the endangered Longfin Smelt in the San Francisco Estuary
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Time‐varying flow–ecology relationships for an endangered fish population: Longfin Smelt in the San Francisco Estuary

Major estuaries globally are experiencing fast-paced changes in hydrology and ecosystem dynamics. However, connecting alteration of river flow regimes to estuarine fish population dynamics remains a ...

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 11d

Everything uses wetlands, sharks too.

Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 11d

Salt marshes are well-known for providing habitat for shellfish and birds.

They're also important as nursery areas for sharks.

A research effort in New Jersey seeks to understand how sharks use salt marshes.

Seeing the Salt Marsh for the Sharks

Shark tagging in New Jersey’s salt marshes reveals migration patterns and shows how restoring wetlands strengthens vulnerable coasts.

blog.nature.org

Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 11d

Salt marshes are well-known for providing habitat for shellfish and birds.

They're also important as nursery areas for sharks.

A research effort in New Jersey seeks to understand how sharks use salt marshes.

Seeing the Salt Marsh for the Sharks

Shark tagging in New Jersey’s salt marshes reveals migration patterns and shows how restoring wetlands strengthens vulnerable coasts.

blog.nature.org

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 14d

That is a toad of a sauger!

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 14d

Did you know?

bhamnow.com/2026/01/22/d...

Did you know one of the world’s top fisheries programs is right here in Alabama? | Bham Now

🐟 SCHOOL FOR FISH: Ever heard of a degree in fisheries? Here's why this Alabama school has one of the best programs around. NowPartner #bham #auburn #agriculture #fisheries #aquatic #conservation GH

bhamnow.com

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 16d

It was an interesting tidbit to learn that you could've gone to a Sacramento 'saloon' in the early 1800s and chased your bourbon with some thicktail chub!

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Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 17d

Five freshwater fishes that went extinct.

How it happened. Why it matters.

tnature.substack.com/p/five-cool-...

#Extinction #Freshwater #Biodiversity #Conservation #EdgeEffects #NatureWriting

Five cool fishes that went extinct

An essay on extinctions you’ve probably never heard of.

tnature.substack.com

Steve Carpenter @steve-carpenter.bsky.social · 17d

Ecosystem experiments: How does rate of forcing affect resilience, early warnings and critical transitions? Brock and others in ECOSYSTEMS rdcu.be/eZXqb or
DOI 10.1007/s10021-025-01042-y

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 18d

Academic leaders - I encourage you to pay close attention to perspectives like that below.

If our life-changing field experiences/courses aren’t accessible, or affordable for those without means, we’re the ones gatekeeping.

open.substack.com/pub/indoorou...

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 19d

It's amazing how one can still find great music from years gone by that you somehow missed in earlier days.

The latest one: Slim Dunlap, better known as the guitarist for the Replacements.

California Rice Commission @ricenews.bsky.social · 23d

A rice field after harvest, alive with snow geese. This is what winter flooding looks like on working farmland.

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 29d

"The challenge is not whether we manage landscapes but how? Can we learn to work w/ the dominant ecology rather than continually against it? Can we design systems that remain profitable, while leaving a softer footprint on the land? Can we preserve biodiversity?"
tnature.substack.com/p/americas-g...

America's Ghost Lake

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.

open.substack.com

Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · Jan 8

"...the ghost of Tulare Lake has much more to teach us than its existence alone. Tulare Lake wasn’t drained because it failed. It was drained because it worked, precisely as nature intended." @andrewrypel.bsky.social writes on America's Ghost Lake tnature.substack.com/p/americas-g...

America's Ghost Lake

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.

tnature.substack.com

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · Jan 8

"Across eras and cultures, we all choose the landscapes and species we are willing to lose. And when we do, we absolve ourselves of the act, usually in the name of progress. But the natural world does not vanish cleanly. It leaves a stain."

tnature.substack.com/p/americas-g...

America's Ghost Lake

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.

tnature.substack.com

Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · Jan 7

Thank you so much! It is an incredibly interesting and unbelievable story. There is so much to learn from it!

Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · Jan 6

Historical PFAS trends in the Great Lakes using four decades of archived fish.

#GreatLakes 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Analysis of the fish archive revealed that total bioaccumulative PFASs in predator fish peaked around 2008 and have since been decreasing.

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