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Anna Armitage
@marshdispatch.bsky.social
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Professor and wetland ecologist immersed in coastal life, from soils to plants to snails to birds. Restoration, climate change, salt marshes, mangroves. Views mine.
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marinemicrobes.bsky.social
Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social is now accepting applications for our 30th summer internship program www.mbari.org/about/career...
Internships • MBARI
Applications for the 2026 MBARI Summer Internship program will open in fall 2025. This 10-week internship allows college students and educators to work on a research or outreach project at MBARI.
www.mbari.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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aaup.org
Join the AAUP and other allied organizations across the nation on October 18 for a day of peaceful and impactful protest as we come together to make clear: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people!

#NoKings #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation #DefendHigherEd #Education
October 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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ayanaeliza.bsky.social
In 2021, I was a guest on Jane Goodall’s podcast. Today, I’m re-airing that conversation to share her voice, her wisdom, her abundant soft power, with you.

🐒 🌿🕊️ Listen here (wherever you get your pods): www.getitright.earth/podcast
October 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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skypeascientist.bsky.social
Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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cerfscience.bsky.social
🌊 It’s National Estuaries Week! From September 20-27, help us celebrate the beauty, value, and wonder of #estuaries! Share what you love about estuaries all week long! 🌊 #EstuariesWeek #WadeIn
Photo collage. Center: Salt marsh with National Estuaries Week text. Clockwise from upper left: Birds flying, mesh bags with oyster shells, two kayaks, person standing in water measuring depth, an egret in a marsh, three people sorting oyster shells, people in a marsh with an airboat
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS

Comment period ends September 29th

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
September 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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ecoevolab.bsky.social
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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cerfscience.bsky.social
🚨 Now accepting late-breaking abstracts!

Share your latest findings through in-person poster sessions at #CERF2025 in Richmond, VA. Deadline: 28 August 2025 — don’t miss your chance!

Learn more and submit at ow.ly/nwSQ50WCcxa

#CERF2025 #CallForLateBreakingAbstracts
August 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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twernberg.bsky.social
Impacts of marine heatwaves on biodiversity and ecosystem services: our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity is out!
doi.org/10.1038/s443.... @natrevbiodiv.nature.com @uwaoceans.bsky.social @filbeek.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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wolfgangcramer.net
Just out: "Climate change risks on key open marine and coastal mediterranean ecosystems" rdcu.be/evGGx

@jpgattuso.bsky.social www.medecc.org

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title, authors and abstract of the paper Climate change risks on key open marine and coastal mediterranean ecosystems Abed El Rahman Hassoun1, Meryem Mojtahid, Mohammad Merheb, Piero Lionello, Jean-Pierre Gattuso & Wolfgang Cramer Mediterranean open marine and coastal ecosystems face multiple risks that impact their unique biodiversity, with climate change representing a major ongoing threat. While these ecosystems are also under pressure from non-climatic anthropogenic drivers (e.g., overfishing, pollution), this study primarily focuses on risks related to climate change. To assess these risks and evaluate their confidence levels, we adopt the scenario-based approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), relying on a review of literature projecting changes in Mediterranean Sea ecosystems. The main drivers of environmental change are sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification. Similar to global conditions, all Mediterranean ecosystems face high risks under all climate scenarios, with coastal ecosystems being more strongly impacted than open marine ecosystems. For these coastal ecosystems, risk levels are expected to become very high already once global warming exceeds 0.8 °C with respect to the 1976–2005 period. A few Mediterranean ecosystems (e.g., coralligenous and rocky coasts) are relatively more resilient compared to others, probably because of their long evolutionary history and the presence of a variety of climatic and hydrological conditions. However, high-emission scenarios in specific sub-basins, in addition to acidification impacts, could reduce this resilience, decreasing both habitat extent and ecosystem function dramatically. Overall, due to the higher observed and projected rates of climate change in the Mediterranean, compared to global trends, for variables such as seawater temperature and pH, marine ecosystems (particularly coastal) are projected to be under higher risks compared to the global ocean.
July 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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janousekwild.bsky.social
Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
Support Sea Grant Funding – Sea Grant Association
sga.seagrant.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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brandontbishop.bsky.social
NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar starting in less than a minute....

Will live post as things come up....
June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
June 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!

The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.

Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...
the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous
June 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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johnmoralestv.bsky.social
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.

2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ayanaeliza.bsky.social
In the spirit of graduation season, sharing the commencement speech I gave at Middlebury College in 2023. It’s a message I stand by 2 years later.

Go where there is need and where your heart can find a home.
Be tenacious on behalf of life on Earth.
ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/be-tenacio...
Be Tenacious on Behalf of Life on Earth
My 2023 commencement speech 🎓 at Middlebury College
ayanaelizabeth.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
marshdispatch.bsky.social
And a similar outcome in CCISD, a large district in the Houston/Galveston region! communityimpact.com/houston/bay-...
May 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...

Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that!

My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social

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Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service)
Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.
blog.ucs.org
April 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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feesmulders.bsky.social
✨First post here on Bluesky to announce that our team effort paper is now out in
@globalchangebio.bsky.social! We found that 🌡️temperature is driving 🌱 #seagrass recovery rates in the Western Atlantic. Nutrient enrichment in combination with high grazing pressure can reduce seagrass recovery.
April 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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cerfscience.bsky.social
CERF 2025 Registration is NOW OPEN! Join us November 9–13, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia for an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with fellow coastal and estuarine science professionals. #CERF2025

🔗 Secure your spot today at conference.cerf.science
March 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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mangrove-nerd.bsky.social
I had a very small part in this series, near the beginning. So happy with what Wetlands International produced here.

Great for a non-technical audience to understand that for #mangroves restoration solutions are in addressing drivers of loss or habitat degradation, not in planting.
unep.org UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Mar 14
As interest in mangrove restoration grows, it's crucial to use the best methods.

This video series highlights why inclusive ecological approaches, backed by science and local community involvement, are the key to success.

Watch: www.decadeonrestoration.org/how-effectiv...
The image shows young mangrove trees in water with bright green leaves and exposed roots. White text reads “HOW TO EFFECTIVELY RESTORE MANGROVES.” The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right.
March 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM