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Halley E. Froehlich
@dochfroehlich.bsky.social
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Mom. University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Professor studying aquaculture, fisheries, and climate change.

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 3d
‘Bootleg 60 Minutes segments’ is what stage of fascism?
a cartoon character is holding a remote control and looking at a screen .
ALT: a cartoon character is holding a remote control and looking at a screen .
media.tenor.com

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 7d
New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...
Special Issue: CONSERVATION GENOMICS ‐ MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Molecular Ecology: Vol 34, No 23
Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Dana R. Fisher, Halley E. Froehlich

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d
Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
A low point
Things will get better....I think
billmckibben.substack.com

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8d
You’ll want to bookmark this thread, for your taste buds, your wallet, your health, and the planet
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d
newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d
I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
wapo.st

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Mónica Medina, Halley E. Froehlich

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 9d
This could be your dream job: working full time at the Friday Harbor Labs on marine invertebrate organismal biology. Nine month salary from an endowment, teaching and research faculty position.

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 10d
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andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11d
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Halley E. Froehlich, Tommaso Jucker , and 1 more

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 10d
Published!📖

This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints.

Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Lesley A. Hall , and 30 more

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11d
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 12d
Frantically texting my colleagues and friends at Brown to make sure they aren’t the victims of yet another school shooting. They and their lab members are safe. I yearn for the day enough people in America love thy neighbor more than guns and we stop this cycle. Not sure I’ll see it in my lifetime.

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Aaron Sojourner , and 1 more

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13d
Head Start is a 60-year-old US Department of Health and Human Services program that, among other things, creates inclusive and accessible classrooms for children with disabilities. But those applying for funding were told by the Trump regime to avoid the words "inclusion" and "disability." 🤡
Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.
www.npr.org

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Halley E. Froehlich

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 14d
“Cities like Los Angeles…use only a small fraction of their states’ water. In California, agriculture accounts for 80% of water used by homes & businesses; in Arizona, it is 74% of all water use total. Across the entire Colorado River Basin, cattle feed alone accounts for nearly half of water use.”

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Simon L. Lewis, Elena Litchman , and 1 more

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Colin Kremer @quant-ecology.bsky.social · 17d
Ecologists recognize the importance of integrating across scales, yet our models often target specific scales. Our new paper presents models of population growth that scale up to explain community-level patterns, including interactions of temperature, light & nutrients. doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
3D figure showing how a family of unimodal, species-level thermal performance curves are collectively bounded by an exponential function across species, uniting predictions of growth rate at population and community levels. From Fig. S4.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 18d
To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21d
Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.

So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.

And people are just throwing it away.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24d
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28d
A little pet peeve. It’s not exactly that tropical rainforests have “gone from being allies in the fight against climate breakdown to being part of the problem.” Forests lose carbon when people cut them (or via fire) and gain carbon when trees grow. It’s that the losing is outweighing the gaining.
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28d
If you want to learn how to use stable isotope analysis for ecological research, my colleague has launched two online courses about this method. One is basic principles and one is R analysis of data.

www.atomicecology.com/courses?fbcl...

🧪🦑🌎
Online Courses | Atomic Ecology
Online training in the application of stable isotopes to ecological and environmental research
www.atomicecology.com

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 29d
I just finished the gravy and yams, then went back to emails….I will eventually learn to unplug.

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 29d
Aaaarrrhghhhhhhhh

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Nov 26
If a politician:

-Has never cared at all about whales before;

-Is in the pocket of big oil, an industry which has a financial incentive to oppose alternative energy;

and

-is a well-documented liar,

You don't have to take their "we have to stop offshore wind to save whales" claims seriously.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · Nov 25
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 23
“Two Black women said they were denied immediate medical attention despite being minutes away from giving birth.

“The incidents, which happened days apart in different states, highlight long-standing disparities in health outcomes for Black women, health experts say.”
Black mothers in Texas and Indiana say hospital staff ignored cries for care while they were in labor
“It was really a horrific situation to be treated like a dog, or not even like a dog, like less than,” mother Mercedes Wells said.
www.nbcnews.com

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Nov 22
“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”

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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · Nov 10
Pressure to publish is rising as #research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
www.nature.com

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · Nov 10
Dr. Claire Gonzales's second dissertation chapter is officially published! She explored the co-location suitability potential of bivalve #aquaculture (mussels) with clean energy (wind & wave) and wild capture fisheries across the California coast. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Nov 9
A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers
A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers
He was sent to sea to watch others. To count the fish, record their fate, and make sure no one took more than they should. The job was meant to be routine: clipboard, samples, and a small bunk on a…
news.mongabay.com

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · Nov 3
I think part of the issue is SSA is poorly defined. SSA absolutely exists in the USA & Europe now, but not formally recognized and thus not supported equitably. Definitely need more research to show its importance in places the want to scale. Notably, many communities want SSA not large = tension.

Reposted by Grant D. Stentiford, Jessica A. Gephart

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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · Nov 3
Ever notice small scale #aquaculture (SSA) doesn't seem to get much attention? Us too. We ran a semi-quant synthesis of the the literature and found it is poorly defined, missing from the US & Europe, & underrepresented in marine systems (e.g., oysters) dx.doi.org/10.1111/raq....