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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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
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This link seems helpful in providing guidance for upcoming NOAA #Fisheries #stockassessment jobs: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...
NOAA Fisheries Is Hiring: Positions Coming Soon
Find details about positions to be posted on USAJOBS.gov at NOAA Fisheries.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
January 22, 2026 at 3:28 AM
This link seems helpful in providing guidance for upcoming NOAA #Fisheries #stockassessment jobs: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...
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📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...
January 21, 2026 at 3:57 AM
📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...
📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...
January 21, 2026 at 3:57 AM
📣Job alert!📣 Working as a federal scientist is complicated right now, but we are actually hiring. One *permanent* stock assessment position on my team at NOAA NWFSC will open for 7 days in early-mid Feb. Will be a shared ad across several science centers. Get those usajobs resumes polished...
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Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352
Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
Job #AJO31352, WDR-00056101 Senior Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Bridgeport, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352
Writing grants as a federal employee:
This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.
This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.
a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a wall with a picture of a field and the word government on it .
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a wall with a picture of a field and the word government on it .
media.tenor.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Writing grants as a federal employee:
This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.
This money must be obligated in the next nine months. But also, wherever it goes, no way can they pay for your travel once work actually begins. That's unethical.
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Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.
4 people: spend combined dozens (100s?) of hrs getting quarto PDFs 508 compliant. (No thanks to Posit here.)
Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you?
Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮
If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑
Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you?
Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮
If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
4 people: spend combined dozens (100s?) of hrs getting quarto PDFs 508 compliant. (No thanks to Posit here.)
Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you?
Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮
If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑
Adobe AI: would you like me to summarize that document for you?
Adobe add accessibility tool: 🚮
If you're going to shove this crap down our throats, at least do something useful. 😑
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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.