Kiva Oken
@kivaoken.bsky.social
Quantitative ecologist and fishery scientist | I like puzzles, nature, and self-propulsion | Views my own | She/Her/Dr.
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@thewaroncars.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social excited to see you in Seattle on Weds! I’m attending with folks from @sngreenways.bsky.social and we’d love you to get word out about www.fixballardbridge.com
Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds!
Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds!
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social excited to see you in Seattle on Weds! I’m attending with folks from @sngreenways.bsky.social and we’d love you to get word out about www.fixballardbridge.com
Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds!
Fun fact, the Ballard Bridge is over 100 years old and is bad for bikes + peds!
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
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In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
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If you haven't seen it yet, it's a good night to watch FISH WAR, the award-winning 2024 documentary about Northwest Tribes defending their treaty fishing rights through years of civil disobedience protest.
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If you haven't seen it yet, it's a good night to watch FISH WAR, the award-winning 2024 documentary about Northwest Tribes defending their treaty fishing rights through years of civil disobedience protest.
As a Ballard resident who takes Amtrak to Portland often, SDOT's refusal to make the Ballard bridge anything but absolutely miserable to bike over during repaving is increasingly glaring with the new bike path on Alaskan Way and improvements to the Elliot Bay path. #seabikes @seattlebikeblog.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As a Ballard resident who takes Amtrak to Portland often, SDOT's refusal to make the Ballard bridge anything but absolutely miserable to bike over during repaving is increasingly glaring with the new bike path on Alaskan Way and improvements to the Elliot Bay path. #seabikes @seattlebikeblog.com
This article would have been better if it had been able to quote NOAA staff. 😭
Beyond disrupting the ocean’s food web and fisheries, the underwater heat wave, known as "The Blob," can alter weather on land thousands of miles away.
Return of The Blob: Heat wave spans Pacific Ocean
A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California.
www.kuow.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This article would have been better if it had been able to quote NOAA staff. 😭
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
Happy to report I am dominating my family's fantasy football league by... letting ESPN draft for me using its secret sauce of probabilistic algorithms and making zero changes.
Also pleased to report those algorithms netted me the future Mr. T. Swift.
Also pleased to report those algorithms netted me the future Mr. T. Swift.
September 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Happy to report I am dominating my family's fantasy football league by... letting ESPN draft for me using its secret sauce of probabilistic algorithms and making zero changes.
Also pleased to report those algorithms netted me the future Mr. T. Swift.
Also pleased to report those algorithms netted me the future Mr. T. Swift.
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I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Prioritizing qualitative, ecosystem-based risk assessments to maximize impact in single-species fishery management
Accelerating environmental changes are altering the landscape of risks associated with marine resource management. Risk assessment approaches are gain…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Prioritizing qualitative, ecosystem-based risk assessments to maximize impact in single-species fishery management
Accelerating environmental changes are altering the landscape of risks associated with marine resource management. Risk assessment approaches are gain…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is 🥜 compared to a modern-day gestapo, but the bottom *70%* of NOAA employees are now capped to 1% performance raises. Not because of limited budgets. Because they want *all* money going to the top 30%. Guess rewarding the top at expense of everyone else is the same as their tax policy. 🤷
September 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is 🥜 compared to a modern-day gestapo, but the bottom *70%* of NOAA employees are now capped to 1% performance raises. Not because of limited budgets. Because they want *all* money going to the top 30%. Guess rewarding the top at expense of everyone else is the same as their tax policy. 🤷
Trump cuts 100% hit young scientists hardest. It’s also incredibly elitist to focus this article on Harvard, a university that gives out an absurdly tiny fraction of graduate degrees in the U.S. And I would venture to say that things are much worse at most flagship state unis (even in blue states).
“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard
More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trump cuts 100% hit young scientists hardest. It’s also incredibly elitist to focus this article on Harvard, a university that gives out an absurdly tiny fraction of graduate degrees in the U.S. And I would venture to say that things are much worse at most flagship state unis (even in blue states).
A thing I like about this article is it acknowledges this is a problem that predates Trump, but also describes how Trump has made it worse. This is true for like 90% of the issues with the U.S. bureaucratic state.
These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A thing I like about this article is it acknowledges this is a problem that predates Trump, but also describes how Trump has made it worse. This is true for like 90% of the issues with the U.S. bureaucratic state.
It's obviously a bad time in history for the fall of democracy, rise of military states, rollback of civil rights, weakening of government institutions, etc. It is also truly an abysmal time to shop for women's jeans.
August 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's obviously a bad time in history for the fall of democracy, rise of military states, rollback of civil rights, weakening of government institutions, etc. It is also truly an abysmal time to shop for women's jeans.
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These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.
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A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
August 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
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Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly ocean mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.
The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it.
www.kuow.org/stories/scie...
The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it.
www.kuow.org/stories/scie...
Scientists crack the case of the melting sea stars. It only took a decade
Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.
www.kuow.org
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly ocean mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.
The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it.
www.kuow.org/stories/scie...
The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it.
www.kuow.org/stories/scie...
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We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
August 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
Happy national whistleblower appreciation day to all who celebrate! 🙃
July 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Happy national whistleblower appreciation day to all who celebrate! 🙃
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This is why I turned off the AI results in my Chrome browser: tenbluelinks.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is why I turned off the AI results in my Chrome browser: tenbluelinks.org
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In honor of today's Supreme Court decision
A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
July 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In honor of today's Supreme Court decision
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The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪
How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
July 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪
How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
Way number 366894 they are impounding congressionally appropriated funding without saying they're impounding: offices are not receiving their 2025 budgets until all deadlines for major spending for the year have past.
June 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Way number 366894 they are impounding congressionally appropriated funding without saying they're impounding: offices are not receiving their 2025 budgets until all deadlines for major spending for the year have past.