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P. Sean McDonald
@pseanmc.bsky.social
#scicomm, #invasives, #aquaculture & #fisheries. My hats: faculty (@UWpoe), figurehead (@SciCommSwarm), brain trust (@WAgreencrab), & MC (@ClimateTap). he/him http://about.me/psean
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📚 I'm thrilled to share our team's work with the Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group (PCRG)! Our paper in Fisheries Magazine sheds light on Dungeness crab larvae dynamics in the Salish Sea. Check it out! 🦀🌊 doi.org/10.1093/fshm...

#Sustainability #MarineScience #DungenessCrab #CitizenScience
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🦀 Tracking the population’s advance while probing the inner workings of the European green crab.

Read more in Salish Sea Currents, featuring the work of @waseagrant.bsky.social & @pseanmc.bsky.social👇
fish.uw.edu/2025/09/trac...
Tracking the population’s advance while probing the inner workings of the European green crab
For almost a decade, the Washington Sea Grant Crab Team has been surveilling the advance of the invasive European green crab. In 2015, the team was formed to engage citizen scientists in a search for ...
fish.uw.edu
September 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I spy with my little 👀 some folks I know! Big shout to my capstone students Elena Vega de Soto, Nina Pursai, Alec Baron, Megan Hassi, and Kort Maeda! I’ve also been very fortunate to work with Elyse Kelsey! Congrats to all! 🎉
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🦀 Playing a vital role in the monitoring effort of larval Dungeness crab are @uofwa.bsky.social Marine Biology students.

Check out the story about the Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group (PCRG) effort along the Washington coast, featuring @pseanmc.bsky.social👇
marinebiology.uw.edu/2025/01/28/s...
April 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Shrimp spreading in the Salish Sea... but what impact will it have? Definitely a need for further research! #invasive #InvasiveSpecies
🦀 While conducting early detection monitoring for invasive European green crab, @waseagrant.bsky.social Crab Team discovered a non-native shrimp 🦐. The team were able to monitor the spread and increase of this species across WA Puget Sound. Find out more👇

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
April 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It’s nice to see a bit more news coverage of our 🦀🔬 as we gear up for a new season starting next week! #citsci #DungenessCrab #PugetSound
April 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
And every time he opens his mouth it’s always quite atrocious…. 🎶
📸 @schaller67.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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This EPA employee asked me not to show his face for fear he’d be targeted, a sad statement in itself that testifies to who we’ve become as a nation:
April 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
People posting #Aprilfools “gotchas” need to read the room. I ain’t got patience for this stuff right now.
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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FYI Folks, for a while NOAA's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool was down. It's back up now! Everybody go check it out and then DOWNLOAD the data so that if/when NOAA resources continue to be gutted, we can still use that data.
edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.
edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io
April 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Look what we found! 🔎👀 WSG Crab Team monitoring revealed spread of the non-native shrimp (Palaemon macrodactylus) in Puget Sound.
Our new paper is hot of the presses: doi.org/10.3389/fmar...
#invasive_species #InvasionBiology #Bioinvasions #IAS
March 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The indigenous peoples of the PNW have stewarded waters of the Salish Sea since time immemorial and tribal leadership in Dungeness crab management (and research) continues to be critical
March 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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"Making us less able to fight the biggest problem of the 21st century doesn't make anything more efficient and doesn't make anything great," Shiffman said.

www.space.com/the-universe... 🌎🧪🦑🐠
'Their loss diminishes us all': Scientists emphasize how Trump's mass NOAA layoffs endanger the world
"From our perspective down in the trenches actually working for the government, it feels like the people up top just have no clue about anything."
www.space.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Read this @sabs.bsky.social interview with my friend @co2ley.bsky.social, who was fired at NOAA as the Director of the Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) and later reinstated but placed on administrative leave. Disclaimer: Some of my work on marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) is funded by OAP.
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector
In 2006, by the time scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form shel...
defector.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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"Though most major league baseball teams at the time refused to sign Jackie Robinson because [THEY JUST DIDN’T LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB], Robinson finally became the first [PERSON NAMED JACKIE ROBINSON] to play Major League Baseball in 1947."
American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards
“Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiati...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Stable Isotope Ecology Course coming up next week by yours truly - online and some places still available www.prstats.org/course/onlin...
ONLINE COURSE - Stable Isotope Mixing Models using MixSIAR and SIBER (SIMM11) This course will be delivered live - PR Statistics
www.prstats.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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We are looking for a #PhD student to work on the impacts of multiple stressors on native #oysters as part of the BRICONS Project co-supervised by @annikaclements.bsky.social - contact me for details on how to apply @tcddublin.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
To be clear, this is *academic survival* (which seems like an important distinction)
March 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour
Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Nature is full of surprises.. but Who eats Whom? 🐡🐋Conventionally aquatic food web models are based on simple size-based (allometry) rules but the co-evolutionary arms race betw predators & prey means predators can eat v smaller or larger prey as these authors show ✅

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The complex structure of aquatic food webs emerges from a few assembly rules - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The structure of aquatic food webs does not fit standard allometric predictions. Here the authors explain the co-evolution of specialist and non-specialist predators in aquatic food webs and how this ...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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🚨Permanent job alert🚨 At @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social, we are looking for a new professor in the field of Marine Geology. Check out the job description and how to apply here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
www.uni-bremen.de
March 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM