Cat McClure, Ph.D.
@cat-mcclure.bsky.social
Aquatic Ecologist 🌱🐟| Postdoctoral researcher @ColoradoStateUniversity and @USGS | @ultrarunningmag & @runinrabbit 🏃♀️➡️ | She/Her
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🌎 What can 18th-century experiments on air teach us about today’s climate challenges?
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
On Experimentation, Air, and Human Health: Considering Priestley’s Scientific Legacies | American Philosophical Society
Join the American Philosophical Society and Scripps Research Institute for a public conversation with atmospheric chemist Dr. Kimberly A. Prather (APS 2022) on how early observations about the “air” c...
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🌎 What can 18th-century experiments on air teach us about today’s climate challenges?
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
Join Scripps Oceanography atmospheric chemist @kprather.bsky.social and @amphilsociety.bsky.social for a conversation on how science, climate & society are connected.
📅 Nov 11
🔗 bit.ly/4nFCmGW
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If you're not a biogeochemist but curious about why metal concentrations can double throughout a single sunny day (spoiler: photochemistry is wild), & how that affects rare earth elements (the stuff in your phones/EV batteries), I just wrote a plain language summary of our recent paper! #SciComm 🧪⚒️
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If you're not a biogeochemist but curious about why metal concentrations can double throughout a single sunny day (spoiler: photochemistry is wild), & how that affects rare earth elements (the stuff in your phones/EV batteries), I just wrote a plain language summary of our recent paper! #SciComm 🧪⚒️
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! We're Scripps Oceanography and we'd love to connect with people who are interested in:
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! We're Scripps Oceanography and we'd love to connect with people who are interested in:
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
🔬 Marine Science
🌍 Earth Science
📈 Climate Change
⚠️ Hazards
💊 Biotechnology and Biomedicine
🌊 Oceanography
🪸 Coral Reef Ecology
🌧️ Atmospheric Science
➗ Geophysics
⚛️ Bioscience
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Halloween costume ideas for birders.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
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Looking for a way to support the #2026SFS Annual Meeting?
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
SFS 2026 Annual Meeting and Membership Survey
Thank you for taking a few moments to complete this brief survey. We seek to understand the extent to which members would like to attend the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting in Spokane but may be unable due to...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Looking for a way to support the #2026SFS Annual Meeting?
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3
This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance.
We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.
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Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the IAGLR Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/4opgLTT
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the IAGLR Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/4opgLTT
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If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica.
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
Wildlife Biologist (Macquarie Island)
Survey wildlife on Macquarie Island, monitor avian flu, collect samples, manage data, plan field trips, and support reporting in a remote team.
jobs.antarctica.gov.au
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica.
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎
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Yolo Bypass tour during #ISRS2025 Carson Jeffres of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Jacob Katz of @caltrout.bsky.social explain how field behind them is great habitat for juvenile chinook…just add water & turbocharged food web produces “floodplain fatties” as in poster @riversociety.bsky.social #WaterYear
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Yolo Bypass tour during #ISRS2025 Carson Jeffres of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Jacob Katz of @caltrout.bsky.social explain how field behind them is great habitat for juvenile chinook…just add water & turbocharged food web produces “floodplain fatties” as in poster @riversociety.bsky.social #WaterYear
Had a wonderful time at my first International Symposium on River Science meeting at UC Davis last week! Met many researchers from around the world who share my love of river ecosystems 🐟🌊🌱
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Had a wonderful time at my first International Symposium on River Science meeting at UC Davis last week! Met many researchers from around the world who share my love of river ecosystems 🐟🌊🌱
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
@riversociety.bsky.social @ucdaviswater.bsky.social #ISRS2025
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Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
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🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
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RALLY WITH US 💪‼️
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
RALLY WITH US 💪‼️
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com
WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park
MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos
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ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper.
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
I’m offering a free online crash course in scientific writing and publishing. Here’s how to join!
The world of scientific writing and pubilshing is complex and confusing, and it can be hard for early career scientists to master. But don’t worry! I am an experienced and award-winning scien…
www.southernfriedscience.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper.
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.
🧪🦑🌎
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Join AFS for our next Fisheries Community Check-in! This month's session will be held on September 3 at 1 pm ET. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/63b250...
September 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Join AFS for our next Fisheries Community Check-in! This month's session will be held on September 3 at 1 pm ET. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/63b250...
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Check out this great article about developing our STEM workforce in a way that accounts for multiple ways of knowing, major life events, and different entry points -- just like a braided river!
Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River:
eos.org/opinions/rei...
Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River:
eos.org/opinions/rei...
August 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Check out this great article about developing our STEM workforce in a way that accounts for multiple ways of knowing, major life events, and different entry points -- just like a braided river!
Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River:
eos.org/opinions/rei...
Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River:
eos.org/opinions/rei...
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New blog from our colleague Dr. Delta Merner.
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability."
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability."
The US Undermines Science While the World Demands Climate Justice
Thousands of peer-reviewed studies conducted over decades show that burning fossil fuels is driving climate change, with devastating consequences for people and ecosystems. That consensus is not in qu...
blog.ucs.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New blog from our colleague Dr. Delta Merner.
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability."
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability."
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FEMA staffers warn Trump administration policies weakening disaster response thehill.com/policy/energ...
SIGN ON TO KATRINA DECLARATION HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
SIGN ON TO KATRINA DECLARATION HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
thehill.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
FEMA staffers warn Trump administration policies weakening disaster response thehill.com/policy/energ...
SIGN ON TO KATRINA DECLARATION HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
SIGN ON TO KATRINA DECLARATION HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers!
I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈
I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈
August 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers!
I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈
I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈
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These job ads have now been posted! 🎉
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
August 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
These job ads have now been posted! 🎉
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020
Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054
Please spread the word!
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One of the most promising areas of cancer research is CAR T therapy, in which a "living drug" is made by modifying a patient's T-cells.
Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration.
Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.
Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration.
Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.
August 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
One of the most promising areas of cancer research is CAR T therapy, in which a "living drug" is made by modifying a patient's T-cells.
Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration.
Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.
Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration.
Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.
Reposted by Cat McClure, Ph.D.
Thank you to Friends of the Everglades for standing up against “Alligator Alcatraz.”
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ challenged in federal court hearing
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ challenged in federal court hearing
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thank you to Friends of the Everglades for standing up against “Alligator Alcatraz.”