Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
@hmorzaria.bsky.social
Marine Ecologist
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Climate change is increasing the risk of bird flu for marine mammals
“Before 2023, it was impossible to think that a healthy population like the one in Peninsula Valdés could become endangered from one year to another," says biologist Valeria Falabella…”This is a warning," she adds, noting that climate change brings additional risks and uncertainties for the species”
'It was a horrible scene to witness': How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations
The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal species has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ecosystems shaped by these majestic animals.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Climate change is increasing the risk of bird flu for marine mammals
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It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
New study on the last glaciation shows the Gulf Stream is likely more resilient to climate change than expected but melting North American ice sheets drove rapid sea level rise
The findings from a Tulane University-led study overturn decades of conventional wisdom about how Earth emerged from its last great freeze, and could reshape how scientists view the risks of climate change in today’s warming world.
Read more about their study: https://bit.ly/4oLNvHa
Read more about their study: https://bit.ly/4oLNvHa
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New study on the last glaciation shows the Gulf Stream is likely more resilient to climate change than expected but melting North American ice sheets drove rapid sea level rise
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual science advocacy training on how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy. Thursday, November 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET.
How Scientists Can Stand Up for Democracy
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual science advocacy training on how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy. Thursday, November 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET.
act.ucsusa.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual science advocacy training on how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy. Thursday, November 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET.
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EUROPE EXCEPTIONAL NOVEMBER WARMTH
An extraordinary warm spell is affecting all North Africa and Europe,only excluding Italy.
42C in Mauritania, 39 Algeria,>25 in the Balkans (mins up to 19C).
Next days hundreds of records with up to 34C in Turkey.
An extraordinary warm spell is affecting all North Africa and Europe,only excluding Italy.
42C in Mauritania, 39 Algeria,>25 in the Balkans (mins up to 19C).
Next days hundreds of records with up to 34C in Turkey.
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
EUROPE EXCEPTIONAL NOVEMBER WARMTH
An extraordinary warm spell is affecting all North Africa and Europe,only excluding Italy.
42C in Mauritania, 39 Algeria,>25 in the Balkans (mins up to 19C).
Next days hundreds of records with up to 34C in Turkey.
An extraordinary warm spell is affecting all North Africa and Europe,only excluding Italy.
42C in Mauritania, 39 Algeria,>25 in the Balkans (mins up to 19C).
Next days hundreds of records with up to 34C in Turkey.
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Not reporting is not going to make climate change imapcts go away
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Not reporting is not going to make climate change imapcts go away
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
🌎 ¡Thriving Earth Exchange en la #RAUGM2025! Esta semana, Marina Cox, coordinadora de proyectos hispanohablantes, participa en la Reunión Anual de la Unión Geofísica Mexicana 🇲🇽.
🗓️ Miércoles | 10:30 a. m. ET
🔗 lite.spr.ly/6003M2lR
#CienciaComunitaria #AGU
🗓️ Miércoles | 10:30 a. m. ET
🔗 lite.spr.ly/6003M2lR
#CienciaComunitaria #AGU
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🌎 ¡Thriving Earth Exchange en la #RAUGM2025! Esta semana, Marina Cox, coordinadora de proyectos hispanohablantes, participa en la Reunión Anual de la Unión Geofísica Mexicana 🇲🇽.
🗓️ Miércoles | 10:30 a. m. ET
🔗 lite.spr.ly/6003M2lR
#CienciaComunitaria #AGU
🗓️ Miércoles | 10:30 a. m. ET
🔗 lite.spr.ly/6003M2lR
#CienciaComunitaria #AGU
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
The MAHA plan was ALWAYS intended to undermine vaccines.
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The MAHA plan was ALWAYS intended to undermine vaccines.
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising #sea levels – life on the #climate-change frontline theconversation.com/thai-village... via @us.theconversation.com
Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising sea levels – life on the climate-change frontline
Thai villagers are not giving up on saving their homes from coastal erosion.
theconversation.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising #sea levels – life on the #climate-change frontline theconversation.com/thai-village... via @us.theconversation.com
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
“Through the first six months of this year, disasters across the United States caused more than $100 billion in damage, the most expensive start to any year on record, it found. Fourteen disasters each caused at least $1 billion in damage through the first half of the year, the researchers found.”
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes on Pace to Break a Record
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“Through the first six months of this year, disasters across the United States caused more than $100 billion in damage, the most expensive start to any year on record, it found. Fourteen disasters each caused at least $1 billion in damage through the first half of the year, the researchers found.”
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Great news that @climatecentral.org has resurrected @noaa.gov’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database after the Trump administration axed it!
U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Climate Central
Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.
www.climatecentral.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Great news that @climatecentral.org has resurrected @noaa.gov’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database after the Trump administration axed it!
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Pacific harbor #seals vanishing from Baja California waters, study finds mexiconewsdaily.com/news/pacific... via @MexicoNewsDaily
Pacific harbor seals vanishing from Baja California waters, study finds
A study led by the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) observed a 61.2% population decline on the Baja California Peninsula from 2016 to 2022.
mexiconewsdaily.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Pacific harbor #seals vanishing from Baja California waters, study finds mexiconewsdaily.com/news/pacific... via @MexicoNewsDaily
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Canadian #ocean research is among the scientific fields that could be vulnerable to foreign e#spionage, theft or misuse because people overlook its value to adversaries, says a report commissioned by the federal government. cheknews.ca/canadas-scie... via @cheknews.ca
Canada's scientific study of oceans may be vulnerable to foreign adversaries: report
Canadian ocean research is among the scientific fields that could be vulnerable to foreign espionage, theft or misuse because people overlook its value to adversaries, says a report commissioned by th...
cheknews.ca
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Canadian #ocean research is among the scientific fields that could be vulnerable to foreign e#spionage, theft or misuse because people overlook its value to adversaries, says a report commissioned by the federal government. cheknews.ca/canadas-scie... via @cheknews.ca
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government.
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
In the Dark: Trump Administration Continues to Cancel and Suppress Information
Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government.
blog.ucs.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government.
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Latest from the dumpster fire that is the USA ...
Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
New rule would shorten the time it takes to review chemicals, and alter the methodology used to assess their dangers
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Latest from the dumpster fire that is the USA ...
Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
Not surprisingly, the guy that heads the federal agency that's been issuing "stop work" orders against permitted offshore wind projects appears to be heavily conflicted, with ties to the oil and gas industries:
www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
House Dems request ethics probe of acting BOEM director
They accused Matthew Giacona of improperly communicating with former clients.
www.eenews.net
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Not surprisingly, the guy that heads the federal agency that's been issuing "stop work" orders against permitted offshore wind projects appears to be heavily conflicted, with ties to the oil and gas industries:
www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
🚨Measles is spreading in U.S. In 2025, there have been 1,563 measles cases in 41 states. This is nearly a 450% increase compared to 2024. Almost all cases are in unvaccinated people.
This is highest incidence of measles in more than 20 yrs. Measles rapidly spreads when vaccine coverage slips.
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This is highest incidence of measles in more than 20 yrs. Measles rapidly spreads when vaccine coverage slips.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨Measles is spreading in U.S. In 2025, there have been 1,563 measles cases in 41 states. This is nearly a 450% increase compared to 2024. Almost all cases are in unvaccinated people.
This is highest incidence of measles in more than 20 yrs. Measles rapidly spreads when vaccine coverage slips.
1/2 🧵
This is highest incidence of measles in more than 20 yrs. Measles rapidly spreads when vaccine coverage slips.
1/2 🧵
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Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“Their data tells a clear story. The ice is forming later, melting earlier and getting thinner each year, and the snow cover is lighter. What was once a glacier 17 years ago has melted into the sea. As the ice disappears, more heat gets absorbed by the dark fjord water, contributing to warming”
Curious Reindeer and Hungry Polar Bears: Warming Is Upending an Arctic Island
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Their data tells a clear story. The ice is forming later, melting earlier and getting thinner each year, and the snow cover is lighter. What was once a glacier 17 years ago has melted into the sea. As the ice disappears, more heat gets absorbed by the dark fjord water, contributing to warming”
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Studies have shown that marine heat waves are being made worse and more frequent by global warming, says Dr. William Cheung ( @ubccoru.bsky.social; @solvingfcb.org ). @science.ubc.cahttps://www.cbc.ca/news/science/heat-wave-climate-change-pacific-blob-1.7652755 via @cbcnews.ca
The Pacific Ocean is overheated, making fall feel like summer | CBC News
Experts say a massive heat wave in the northern Pacific Ocean is the likely reason for the unusually warm temperatures across parts of Canada.
www.cbc.ca
October 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Studies have shown that marine heat waves are being made worse and more frequent by global warming, says Dr. William Cheung ( @ubccoru.bsky.social; @solvingfcb.org ). @science.ubc.cahttps://www.cbc.ca/news/science/heat-wave-climate-change-pacific-blob-1.7652755 via @cbcnews.ca
Reposted by Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Ph.D
“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”
Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.
Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.
Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”
Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.
Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.