Stephanie Carlson
@fishteph.bsky.social
Fish ecologist at UC Berkeley. Working towards better futures for rivers, fish, and their people. Queer.
Web: https://nature.berkeley.edu/carlsonlab/about/
Web: https://nature.berkeley.edu/carlsonlab/about/
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First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use
Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.
www.latimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Read the full story here -> aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to the the International Associated Laboratory "MacLife" for funding! CC @matbuoro.bsky.social @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social
Prolonged low flows and non‐native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams
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July 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Read the full story here -> aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to the the International Associated Laboratory "MacLife" for funding! CC @matbuoro.bsky.social @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed 300,000 people with USAID cuts. A must read in NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed 300,000 people with USAID cuts. A must read in NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
“To recognize rivers as life-giving forces & as rights-bearing presences is a profound & hopeful position. It offers philosophical grounds for resistance to the present administration’s…drive to gut environmental regulation & reduce the natural world to dollar value”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Trump’s War on Nature Is Up Against a Powerful New Resistance Movement
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“To recognize rivers as life-giving forces & as rights-bearing presences is a profound & hopeful position. It offers philosophical grounds for resistance to the present administration’s…drive to gut environmental regulation & reduce the natural world to dollar value”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
“It’s proven difficult to track the drift of eggs, baby fish, and sometimes adults over long distances...” The same is true in freshwater and greatly limits our understanding of why fish populations fluctuate as they do
Where do fish go and why? For many species, nobody knows www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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May 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“It’s proven difficult to track the drift of eggs, baby fish, and sometimes adults over long distances...” The same is true in freshwater and greatly limits our understanding of why fish populations fluctuate as they do
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The undersea current quickly changed from horizontal to vertical. The whales rose to the surface all at once. What in the world happened at the surface of the sea...?
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May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The undersea current quickly changed from horizontal to vertical. The whales rose to the surface all at once. What in the world happened at the surface of the sea...?
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This threat represents an immeasurable loss to community-driven research and to the training pipeline for the next generation of collaborative conservation leaders
USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week www.hcn.org/articles/usg... via @highcountrynews.org
USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week - High Country News
Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.
www.hcn.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This threat represents an immeasurable loss to community-driven research and to the training pipeline for the next generation of collaborative conservation leaders
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Reminder that comments on the Endangered Species Act's recission of the "harm" definition are due TODAY! esa.org/esablog/2025...
ESA Action Alert: Comment on proposed rescission of the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm” – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science
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May 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reminder that comments on the Endangered Species Act's recission of the "harm" definition are due TODAY! esa.org/esablog/2025...
At my final exam today, a student told me that she is the third (!) sister in her family to take my Fish Ecology class! Her sisters recommended it 😭
May 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
At my final exam today, a student told me that she is the third (!) sister in her family to take my Fish Ecology class! Her sisters recommended it 😭
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Incredible love story
PART THREE (of Three)
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Gar Friend PART THREE:
The FINale!
My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium got sick and disfigured.
Ten years later, no one wanted her when it was time to find her a new home...
The FINale!
My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium got sick and disfigured.
Ten years later, no one wanted her when it was time to find her a new home...
May 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Incredible love story
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Science isn’t like tap water, you can’t just turn it on and off. It’s like an oyster: it builds over time until it eventually creates pearls. This sort of senseless destruction is going to haunt us for a long time.
My research portfolio has now lost four federal grants to the Trump administration.
May 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Science isn’t like tap water, you can’t just turn it on and off. It’s like an oyster: it builds over time until it eventually creates pearls. This sort of senseless destruction is going to haunt us for a long time.
Super neat study showing stream-swapping by coho salmon! Expands our view of juvenile rearing habitat to include multiple drainages
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Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta‐nurseries that connect rivers via the sea
Conventionally, juvenile salmonids are thought to migrate unidirectionally from freshwater systems to marine systems and therefore only inhabit natal drainages. Although scattered evidence suggests j....
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May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Super neat study showing stream-swapping by coho salmon! Expands our view of juvenile rearing habitat to include multiple drainages
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
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April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise atmospheric river storms. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms.
CA scientists fear these scenarios, and more, are possible under the Trump admin’s recommendation to reduce NOAA’s budget by $1.7B.
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CA scientists fear these scenarios, and more, are possible under the Trump admin’s recommendation to reduce NOAA’s budget by $1.7B.
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Surprise atmospheric rivers, toxic seafood: How NOAA cuts could impact California
California research institutions could lose access to millions of dollars, which could impact atmospheric river forecasts and Coast Guard rescues.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise atmospheric river storms. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms.
CA scientists fear these scenarios, and more, are possible under the Trump admin’s recommendation to reduce NOAA’s budget by $1.7B.
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CA scientists fear these scenarios, and more, are possible under the Trump admin’s recommendation to reduce NOAA’s budget by $1.7B.
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When the habitats that species rely on are destroyed, the species will disappear. Someday, and I hope not too late, we’ll understand that when we lose a species, we lose so much more. Their fate is intertwined with our own.
www.hcn.org/articles/tru...
www.hcn.org/articles/tru...
Trump administration plans Endangered Species Act rollback - High Country News
Revisions to the law center on ‘harm,’ which would allow far more mining, drilling and other development that threatens critical habitat.
www.hcn.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When the habitats that species rely on are destroyed, the species will disappear. Someday, and I hope not too late, we’ll understand that when we lose a species, we lose so much more. Their fate is intertwined with our own.
www.hcn.org/articles/tru...
www.hcn.org/articles/tru...
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To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!
Wrecked by another note from a colleague at NOAA-Fisheries announcing their premature retirement (they are coming daily now). I weep for my colleagues and friends, for the fish they dedicated their lives to, and for the people who will be most impacted by these actions
April 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Wrecked by another note from a colleague at NOAA-Fisheries announcing their premature retirement (they are coming daily now). I weep for my colleagues and friends, for the fish they dedicated their lives to, and for the people who will be most impacted by these actions
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“It was a reminder of the importance of conserving diversity within populations to give these [salmon] populations options in the face of variable and extreme conditions,” Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social told @sfgate.com
A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and how they made a comeback.
📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
April 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“It was a reminder of the importance of conserving diversity within populations to give these [salmon] populations options in the face of variable and extreme conditions,” Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social told @sfgate.com
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The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
www.npr.org
April 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
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🧪 are you a trans entomologist? arachnologist? parasitologist? malacologist? carcinologist? diplopodologist? vermeologist? 🐛🐜🪱🦗🕷️🦀
if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!
if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!
April 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🧪 are you a trans entomologist? arachnologist? parasitologist? malacologist? carcinologist? diplopodologist? vermeologist? 🐛🐜🪱🦗🕷️🦀
if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!
if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!
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"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes"
"ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites"
"closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"
"ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites"
"closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes"
"ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites"
"closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"
"ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites"
"closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"
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A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and how they made a comeback.
📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
April 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and how they made a comeback.
📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...