Hank Baker
@hankbaker.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist and conservation biologist with an affinity for freshwater and anadromous fish. Postdoc at UC Berkeley.
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Hank Baker
@hankbaker.bsky.social
· Feb 25
Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Stability but Is Threatened by Drought
We show that intrapopulation variation in juvenile movement and rearing strategies enhances population stability in endangered coho salmon near their southern range limit. However, variation in reari...
doi.org
Delighted to share our new paper in Ecology Letters:
Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought.
With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski.
#rivers #fishes #salmon
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doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought.
With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski.
#rivers #fishes #salmon
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doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes?
Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
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Appreciated this paragraph on the emotions that motivate conservation, from @nijhuism.bsky.social's newsletter. Agree that love—of place, wildlife, community—is the more powerful force, especially now, when everything seems rather, well, hopeless.
conservationworks.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
conservationworks.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Appreciated this paragraph on the emotions that motivate conservation, from @nijhuism.bsky.social's newsletter. Agree that love—of place, wildlife, community—is the more powerful force, especially now, when everything seems rather, well, hopeless.
conservationworks.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
conservationworks.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
Thanks to @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social for having me up for their seminar series. I had a great time hearing about the exciting science going on at Bodega Marine Lab, and what a beautiful place to work!
Join us for the Bodega Marine Lab Seminar Series! On 7/30, @hankbaker.bsky.social, a postdoc in the Dept of Environmental Science Policy and Management at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, will present “Causes and consequences of variation in fish movement strategies”
ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Thanks to @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social for having me up for their seminar series. I had a great time hearing about the exciting science going on at Bodega Marine Lab, and what a beautiful place to work!
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Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
July 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
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A niche request but I bet my Bluesky peeps got me: Seeking great papers and sources on the topic of Appalachian fish biogeography. What are the factors that make this region so wildly diverse, and what are the geographic & geologic forces that led to the radiation of darters, shiners, etc.? Thanks!
May 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A niche request but I bet my Bluesky peeps got me: Seeking great papers and sources on the topic of Appalachian fish biogeography. What are the factors that make this region so wildly diverse, and what are the geographic & geologic forces that led to the radiation of darters, shiners, etc.? Thanks!
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I find it astounding that SF Bay, a water body millions of people rely on and surrounded by extreme wealth, may close its only dedicated marine research station. Many of my colleagues got their start at Tiburon. Its impact is enormous. It's a bargain.
www.kqed.org/news/1203861...
www.kqed.org/news/1203861...
San Francisco Bay’s Only Marine Lab on Verge of Closing, Threatening Decades of Coastal Research | KQED
San Francisco State University’s Estuary and Ocean Science Center will soon phase out operations after failing to secure funding.
www.kqed.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I find it astounding that SF Bay, a water body millions of people rely on and surrounded by extreme wealth, may close its only dedicated marine research station. Many of my colleagues got their start at Tiburon. Its impact is enormous. It's a bargain.
www.kqed.org/news/1203861...
www.kqed.org/news/1203861...
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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
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A study of the 2012–2016 California drought chronicles how low river flows during the breeding season caused Chinook salmon to shift downriver and caused steelhead and coho salmon to fail to breed entirely in some tributaries and watersheds. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A study of the 2012–2016 California drought chronicles how low river flows during the breeding season caused Chinook salmon to shift downriver and caused steelhead and coho salmon to fail to breed entirely in some tributaries and watersheds. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
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“Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost … something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose whole purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion across the polarities that increasingly divide … us” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities
Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost … something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose whole purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion across the polarities that increasingly divide … us” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Senate confirms Trump’s nominee to run NIH
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed health researcher Jay Bhattacharya as the next leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bhattacharya was confirmed on a party- line vote, 53 to 47. …
thehill.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
March 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
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The Trump admin illegally impounded Congressionally-appropriated taxpayer $$ to extort a private university to deprive Americans of their civil liberties, jobs, & educations. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social capitulated.
Other universities, you’re next. Time to decide if you want to keep existing.
Other universities, you’re next. Time to decide if you want to keep existing.
Columbia is giving into President Trump’s demands in a battle over federal funding. School to ban masks, empower police and rein in controversial academic department
Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Trump admin illegally impounded Congressionally-appropriated taxpayer $$ to extort a private university to deprive Americans of their civil liberties, jobs, & educations. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social capitulated.
Other universities, you’re next. Time to decide if you want to keep existing.
Other universities, you’re next. Time to decide if you want to keep existing.
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The most immediate problem for the professoriate right now is that its vision of the university has no political advocates. Democrats really don't care about anything but universities as job training centers, and are proposing massive budget cuts at the state level dailybruin.com/2025/03/13/u...
UC faces over $270M in proposed budget cuts, threatening personnel and programs - Daily Bruin
Experts said Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget cuts to the University could harm student enrollment and education quality. The UC is facing over $270 million in budget cuts for the 2025-26 fiscal ye...
dailybruin.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The most immediate problem for the professoriate right now is that its vision of the university has no political advocates. Democrats really don't care about anything but universities as job training centers, and are proposing massive budget cuts at the state level dailybruin.com/2025/03/13/u...
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University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies.
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
University of California sets hiring freeze in anticipation of Trump cuts
The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.
www.reuters.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies.
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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'Goal is destruction': Fired Calif. NOAA scientists warn of dire global consequences #cawater www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
Fired California NOAA scientists warn of dire global consequences
NOAA scientists fired without explanation from the Monterey, California, office explain how their work is important to the continuation of life on this planet.
www.sfgate.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
'Goal is destruction': Fired Calif. NOAA scientists warn of dire global consequences #cawater www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
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Columbia is a test run to see what they can get away with, using federal grants as a tool for political retribution. It’s happening, and there’s a good chance that any other university is next.
DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million (government press release) www.gsa.gov/about-us/new...
DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that through their coordinated efforts they would i...
www.gsa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Columbia is a test run to see what they can get away with, using federal grants as a tool for political retribution. It’s happening, and there’s a good chance that any other university is next.
Coyotes hunt seal pups and preferentially consume the head and brain 🤯
really interesting paper about coyotes hunting seal pups- by my friends Frankie Gerraty & Sue Pemberton, and other fine folk! check it out:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Coyotes Hunt Harbor Seal Pups on the California Coast
Click on the article title to read more.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Coyotes hunt seal pups and preferentially consume the head and brain 🤯
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The Trump-Putin Pact already exists, and we should act accordingly. There are some things we will never change with nice words or smart clothing. If you are worried about those things, you should understand where Trump's tactics come from. From Russia.
A thread. 🧵1/14
A thread. 🧵1/14
March 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Trump-Putin Pact already exists, and we should act accordingly. There are some things we will never change with nice words or smart clothing. If you are worried about those things, you should understand where Trump's tactics come from. From Russia.
A thread. 🧵1/14
A thread. 🧵1/14
Some good news
Endangered California coho salmon experience record-breaking spawning season on Mendocino Coast #cawater
mavensnotebook.com/2025/03/05/n...
mavensnotebook.com/2025/03/05/n...
NOAA FISHERIES: Endangered California coho salmon experience record-breaking spawning season on Mendocino Coast
From NOAA Fisheries: Last winter, Central California Coast coho salmon returned to Mendocino Coast rivers in the highest numbers since monitoring began. The overall numbers remain low compared to the ...
mavensnotebook.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Some good news