Emily Knight
@emilyknight.bsky.social
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Emily Knight
@emilyknight.bsky.social
· Dec 15
🦑 Special edition newsletter announcing virtual public listening sessions for our Ocean Biodiversity program in Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound. Join us to share local needs around better stewarding ocean biodiversity for people and nature.
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🦑 Join us and please do share with your networks. To diversify ways people can participate, we will also issue a request for information in mid-January... we want to hear from you!
🦑 One the most important aspects to successfully fund research that advances management is in a word - listening. Listening to managers, stakeholders, researchers, Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders. Come inform the direction of our Ocean Biodiversity program.
🦑 Today we'll have our first listening session for the Chesapeake Bay region. But we also currently have out a written Request for Information - if you are unable (or even if you're able) to attend any listening session you can still share with us your perspective!
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January 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
🦑 One the most important aspects to successfully fund research that advances management is in a word - listening. Listening to managers, stakeholders, researchers, Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders. Come inform the direction of our Ocean Biodiversity program.
Trained to murder.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good "followed his training." Local officials want ICE to leave, but Noem says she's open to sending more officers. n.pr/4qJGJ5x
What we know one day after the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good "followed his training." Local officials want ICE to leave, but Noem says she's open to sending more officers.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Trained to murder.
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🦑 From Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean - Richard Dacosta on the importance of community exchanges. When people can learn from each other, our challenges seem more solvable and less daunting.
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
December 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🦑 From Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean - Richard Dacosta on the importance of community exchanges. When people can learn from each other, our challenges seem more solvable and less daunting.
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...
🦑 Join us and please do share with your networks. To diversify ways people can participate, we will also issue a request for information in mid-January... we want to hear from you!
🦑 Special edition newsletter announcing virtual public listening sessions for our Ocean Biodiversity program in Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound. Join us to share local needs around better stewarding ocean biodiversity for people and nature.
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🦑 Join us and please do share with your networks. To diversify ways people can participate, we will also issue a request for information in mid-January... we want to hear from you!
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🦑 "It's not just what you do, it's how you do it." - Jake Kritzer, NERACOOS
You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.
You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🦑 "It's not just what you do, it's how you do it." - Jake Kritzer, NERACOOS
You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.
You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.
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🦑 TODAY: Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. At our first (Nov 7), experts like Sarah Lester provided her vision for what is needed next.
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🦑 TODAY: Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. At our first (Nov 7), experts like Sarah Lester provided her vision for what is needed next.
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
🦑 To manage MPAs in changing oceans - you have plan long-term alongside take immediate steps. Fostering resilience over time requires us to move on both fronts.
🦑 Expert Laurel Field on creating hotspots of refuge as well as acute impacts, enabling managers to act now to target protections and areas of sustainable use. Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean tomorrow (Thurs) at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🦑 To manage MPAs in changing oceans - you have plan long-term alongside take immediate steps. Fostering resilience over time requires us to move on both fronts.
🦑 This model is absolutely replicable. In this project, the national government was so impressed with the collaborative nature of the research and the knowledge exchange between communities they want to do it in other parts of the country.
🦑So many insights from Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean... it can be done, and these researchers are showing us how. We'll host a final webinar tomorrow at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT.
📅 Register for Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎦 Recording from Nov 7: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
📅 Register for Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎦 Recording from Nov 7: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🦑 This model is absolutely replicable. In this project, the national government was so impressed with the collaborative nature of the research and the knowledge exchange between communities they want to do it in other parts of the country.
🦑 Join us on Thurs - there is so much great learning from this portfolio that applies to many management areas. As Fresia says - engagement is necessary through the whole project, not just at the beginning! Also, here's the recording from the first webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
THURS: Final webinar on our Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. We're now featuring insights from experts like Fresia Villalobos Rojas who is working among communities to link actionable research with management in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Register for Thurs: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for Thurs: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🦑 Join us on Thurs - there is so much great learning from this portfolio that applies to many management areas. As Fresia says - engagement is necessary through the whole project, not just at the beginning! Also, here's the recording from the first webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
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🦑 TOMORROW! Join @jasonlandrum.bsky.social and @emilyknight.bsky.social for the launch of our Ocean Biodiversity program. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🦑 TOMORROW! Join @jasonlandrum.bsky.social and @emilyknight.bsky.social for the launch of our Ocean Biodiversity program. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I love this song and I love this cover of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wibo...
Neko Case - "Sleep All Summer" (Full Album Stream)
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I love this song and I love this cover of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wibo...
🦑 Join us to launch this portfolio - which will include community listening sessions, engagement grants, and network building to build serious momentum behind ocean biodiversity sustainability.
🦑 We created an event page for our upcoming Launching Ocean Biodiversity webinar. Check it out and register: www.linkedin.com/events/73947...
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🦑 Join us to launch this portfolio - which will include community listening sessions, engagement grants, and network building to build serious momentum behind ocean biodiversity sustainability.
🦑 I and @jasonlandrum.bsky.social will answer your questions... to the extent we can as this portfolio will be ground up with communities and the relevant management context defining our scope. Listen. Support. Engage.
🦑 On Dec 3 at 3pm ET/12pm PT come learn our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. This is an invitation to the start of a conversation - with communities - about how ocean biodiversity shows up in your life. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🦑 I and @jasonlandrum.bsky.social will answer your questions... to the extent we can as this portfolio will be ground up with communities and the relevant management context defining our scope. Listen. Support. Engage.
I was in high school... I found most grunge waaayyyy too broey... sad dudes singing about heroin w/ these deep guttural voices. Then The White Stripes came... Here's to Jack and Meg, getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today...
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Hello Operator
YouTube video by The White Stripes - Topic
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November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I was in high school... I found most grunge waaayyyy too broey... sad dudes singing about heroin w/ these deep guttural voices. Then The White Stripes came... Here's to Jack and Meg, getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...
Shark party! www.yahoo.com/news/article...
'Sharknado' or shark party? Researchers spotted a school of 400 sharks off Block Island
A SyFy movie might call the school of 400 sharks off Block Island a "Sharknado," but the RI Department of Environmental Management wasn't so dramatic.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Shark party! www.yahoo.com/news/article...
🦑 A great takeaway from the portfolio is that if managed for climate change explicitly (alongside other objectives), MPAs can confer resilience. We have to not avoid it... rather we must face it. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reminder - join us for Part 1 tomorrow at 11am ET for a webinar on all we've learned from the Lenfest Ocean Program's support of a portfolio of projects on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🦑 A great takeaway from the portfolio is that if managed for climate change explicitly (alongside other objectives), MPAs can confer resilience. We have to not avoid it... rather we must face it. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 I'm so excited to do this - please join us and share with your friends, families, and colleagues!
🦑 Join us tomorrow night for The Nature of Our Times poetry reading! Let's celebrate the power of words to capture the beauty of our lands, waters, and wildlife. This is particularly special as we embark on a new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🦑 I'm so excited to do this - please join us and share with your friends, families, and colleagues!
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Our co-executive director Heather Mannix had a great time at #OceanFloorExplore last week!
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our co-executive director Heather Mannix had a great time at #OceanFloorExplore last week!
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🦑 Our October newsletter has arrived! Key highlights include an invite to our upcoming virtual event to launch our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio as well as a blog by Dominique Kone about his key takeaways from attending #WIOMSA2025.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🦑 Our October newsletter has arrived! Key highlights include an invite to our upcoming virtual event to launch our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio as well as a blog by Dominique Kone about his key takeaways from attending #WIOMSA2025.
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Trump hosted 'Great Gatsby' Halloween party hours before SNAP funding lapsed
President Donald Trump has come under fire after he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed Halloween party just hours before millions of Americans lost their SNAP benefits.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
🦑 To get to more sustainable solutions in any marine and coastal management (or any area really), you have to think about the pathway there. Here @compassscicomm.bsky.social highlights that in the course of research, ongoing collaboration and communication are essential ingredients.
🦑 Great blog post by @compassscicomm.bsky.social. There is much interest out there in co-production and transdisciplinary research to improve management and policy outcomes. This piece breaks down just what those terms mean in practice.
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www.compassscicomm.org/transdiscipl...
Transdisciplinary Research: Embedding Communication & Collaboration into the Full Research Cycle | COMPASS
Effective communication is reciprocal. It’s not just about getting your message across; it requires a back-and-forth between parties, where shared understanding and mutual commitments develop as both...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🦑 To get to more sustainable solutions in any marine and coastal management (or any area really), you have to think about the pathway there. Here @compassscicomm.bsky.social highlights that in the course of research, ongoing collaboration and communication are essential ingredients.