Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve
@villesci.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, UNH - I study marine heatwaves and their impacts on marine invertebrate population dynamics. Playing in the outdoors and bluegrass music enthusiast. villesci.github.io | https://linktr.ee/villesci
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"Under discussion are plans to hold a public debate about climate science, write a line-by-line rebuttal of the National Climate Assessment and ready a counterattack against climate scientists critical of last month’s Energy Department report." 🤪
Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science
The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.
www.eenews.net
August 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Under discussion are plans to hold a public debate about climate science, write a line-by-line rebuttal of the National Climate Assessment and ready a counterattack against climate scientists critical of last month’s Energy Department report." 🤪
My first @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social conference was fantastic - great conversations with fellow ecologists, and many new connections and directions to look into. Great to share the experience with QMEL lab @eastonwhite.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My first @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social conference was fantastic - great conversations with fellow ecologists, and many new connections and directions to look into. Great to share the experience with QMEL lab @eastonwhite.bsky.social
Pleased to have contributed to this special issue on #marineheatwaves - more to come!
In this SF, published across the @animalecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social y.social and @funecology.bsky.social we present a collection of 13 studies that address some of the most pressing knowledge gaps in MHW ecology. 🌊🔥👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
August 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Pleased to have contributed to this special issue on #marineheatwaves - more to come!
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In this SF, published across the @animalecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social y.social and @funecology.bsky.social we present a collection of 13 studies that address some of the most pressing knowledge gaps in MHW ecology. 🌊🔥👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
August 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In this SF, published across the @animalecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social y.social and @funecology.bsky.social we present a collection of 13 studies that address some of the most pressing knowledge gaps in MHW ecology. 🌊🔥👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
For the past two weeks I’ve been participating in the French-American Doctoral Exchange program organized by the US Embassy of France to meet students and researchers across France and attend the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, the scientific program before the United Nations Ocean Conference
June 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
For the past two weeks I’ve been participating in the French-American Doctoral Exchange program organized by the US Embassy of France to meet students and researchers across France and attend the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, the scientific program before the United Nations Ocean Conference
Excellent week at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative conference at Virginia Tech! EFI is a really fun and inclusive community, come join us for 2026 @ecoforecast.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Excellent week at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative conference at Virginia Tech! EFI is a really fun and inclusive community, come join us for 2026 @ecoforecast.bsky.social
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Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress
www.science.org
April 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
Some atrocious proposed changes to the ESA to remove habitat modification from the definition of a 'take' of a protected species. Here is the docket: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06746.pdf Submit your comments tomorrow when it is live!!
April 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Some atrocious proposed changes to the ESA to remove habitat modification from the definition of a 'take' of a protected species. Here is the docket: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06746.pdf Submit your comments tomorrow when it is live!!
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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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I'm devastated and heartbroken. Staff at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) got the ax. Most likely means the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6) is also cooked. USGCRP was the glue across the Federal family on all things climate - reducing duplication and making efficiencies.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm devastated and heartbroken. Staff at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) got the ax. Most likely means the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6) is also cooked. USGCRP was the glue across the Federal family on all things climate - reducing duplication and making efficiencies.
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A long list of universities are seeing their international students' visas get revoked, and the reasons are as opaque as you'd expect from this administration
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/d...
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/d...
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A long list of universities are seeing their international students' visas get revoked, and the reasons are as opaque as you'd expect from this administration
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/d...
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/d...
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it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share—
I'm hiring a postdoc!
it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
I'm hiring a postdoc!
it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marine Ecology
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share—
I'm hiring a postdoc!
it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
I'm hiring a postdoc!
it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
Definitely time to download whatever data you think you need from NOAA 😡
NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down.
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
April 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Definitely time to download whatever data you think you need from NOAA 😡
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NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down.
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
April 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down.
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
“Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”
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🔥Feel the heat
🎙️Podcaster Cameron Ghalambor went on the road to the Universidad de Granada in Spain where he spoke about his own research in the Predictive Ecology in a Warming World.
Listen to full episode!
www.bigbiology.org
Art by Keating Shahmehri
#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication
🎙️Podcaster Cameron Ghalambor went on the road to the Universidad de Granada in Spain where he spoke about his own research in the Predictive Ecology in a Warming World.
Listen to full episode!
www.bigbiology.org
Art by Keating Shahmehri
#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication
March 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🔥Feel the heat
🎙️Podcaster Cameron Ghalambor went on the road to the Universidad de Granada in Spain where he spoke about his own research in the Predictive Ecology in a Warming World.
Listen to full episode!
www.bigbiology.org
Art by Keating Shahmehri
#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication
🎙️Podcaster Cameron Ghalambor went on the road to the Universidad de Granada in Spain where he spoke about his own research in the Predictive Ecology in a Warming World.
Listen to full episode!
www.bigbiology.org
Art by Keating Shahmehri
#science #scicomm #sciencecommunication
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"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
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Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪
@earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting.
Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025
🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE
@earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting.
Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025
🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE
March 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪
@earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting.
Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025
🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE
@earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting.
Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025
🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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My REU in 2019 was the very first time I told myself “me? a scientist? I can do it.”
It introduced me to my research interests, to knowing how to approach graduate school and what NOAA even was. Without it I would not be where I am today. This is devastating.
It introduced me to my research interests, to knowing how to approach graduate school and what NOAA even was. Without it I would not be where I am today. This is devastating.
My REU in 2011 helped me understand I had a path in research. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring several REU’s, many of whom have gone onto grad school or scientific careers. The gutting of these programs will have a devastating impact for many years.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My REU in 2019 was the very first time I told myself “me? a scientist? I can do it.”
It introduced me to my research interests, to knowing how to approach graduate school and what NOAA even was. Without it I would not be where I am today. This is devastating.
It introduced me to my research interests, to knowing how to approach graduate school and what NOAA even was. Without it I would not be where I am today. This is devastating.
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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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The Trump Administration has abruptly pulled $4.5 million in Maine Sea Grant funds (via NOAA), which were used to protect Maine’s working waterfront and ocean ecosystems.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...
www.pressherald.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Trump Administration has abruptly pulled $4.5 million in Maine Sea Grant funds (via NOAA), which were used to protect Maine’s working waterfront and ocean ecosystems.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
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🚨ALERT🚨
Sorry to ask, but P2025 had years to prep; we have <30 days to #resist.
First they came for our staff, now they’re after our laws.
Please take a moment to comment today on this truly brazen attempt to evade environmental laws on the books since 1960.
www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...
Sorry to ask, but P2025 had years to prep; we have <30 days to #resist.
First they came for our staff, now they’re after our laws.
Please take a moment to comment today on this truly brazen attempt to evade environmental laws on the books since 1960.
www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...
March 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨ALERT🚨
Sorry to ask, but P2025 had years to prep; we have <30 days to #resist.
First they came for our staff, now they’re after our laws.
Please take a moment to comment today on this truly brazen attempt to evade environmental laws on the books since 1960.
www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...
Sorry to ask, but P2025 had years to prep; we have <30 days to #resist.
First they came for our staff, now they’re after our laws.
Please take a moment to comment today on this truly brazen attempt to evade environmental laws on the books since 1960.
www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...