@chrisfrazier.bsky.social
Aquatic ecologist, dad, and PhD student at the University of Nevada, Reno. I study bugs and other stuff going on in streams, wetlands, rivers, reservoirs, and lakes
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The Trump administration just unveiled a plan to significantly narrow which bodies of water qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act. They proposed a new definition of what counts as a “water of the United States,” a change that would
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Trump administration just unveiled a plan to significantly narrow which bodies of water qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act. They proposed a new definition of what counts as a “water of the United States,” a change that would
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dramatically reduce which waterways fall under federal pollution safeguards. Under the proposal, groundwater would be excluded entirely, and interstate waters would no longer receive automatic protection.
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
dramatically reduce which waterways fall under federal pollution safeguards. Under the proposal, groundwater would be excluded entirely, and interstate waters would no longer receive automatic protection.
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The rule also removes protections for ephemeral streams (waterways that flow only after rain or snow) despite their importance to downstream water quality. In short, this proposal rolls back long-standing protections and leaves millions of acres of waterways more vulnerable to pollution.
EPA & Army Corps Unveil Clear, Durable WOTUS Proposal | US EPA
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle, today announced a proposed rule that would establish a clear, durable, common-sense definition of “waters ...
www.epa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The rule also removes protections for ephemeral streams (waterways that flow only after rain or snow) despite their importance to downstream water quality. In short, this proposal rolls back long-standing protections and leaves millions of acres of waterways more vulnerable to pollution.
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Often overlooked, small water bodies - streams, damp ditches, small bogs, ponds - support more rare species compared with larger habitats while high-quality ponds support about 2/3 of all freshwater plant + animal species in a landscape.
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Often overlooked, small water bodies - streams, damp ditches, small bogs, ponds - support more rare species compared with larger habitats while high-quality ponds support about 2/3 of all freshwater plant + animal species in a landscape.
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
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Alpine lakes among the dramatic peaks of Kings Canyon Nat'l Park grace Ecosphere's October cover. New research shows how introduced trout have impacts that ripple through the food web and reshape bird communities
Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
October 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Alpine lakes among the dramatic peaks of Kings Canyon Nat'l Park grace Ecosphere's October cover. New research shows how introduced trout have impacts that ripple through the food web and reshape bird communities
Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
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Our peer review system for scientific publishing
-we pay to publish our MSs
-pay to read other’s MSs
-and donate our time to review MSs
is bad enough without passive aggressive review reminders, touting the “quality” journal’s rapid turnaround time and asking why you are setting back science.
-we pay to publish our MSs
-pay to read other’s MSs
-and donate our time to review MSs
is bad enough without passive aggressive review reminders, touting the “quality” journal’s rapid turnaround time and asking why you are setting back science.
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our peer review system for scientific publishing
-we pay to publish our MSs
-pay to read other’s MSs
-and donate our time to review MSs
is bad enough without passive aggressive review reminders, touting the “quality” journal’s rapid turnaround time and asking why you are setting back science.
-we pay to publish our MSs
-pay to read other’s MSs
-and donate our time to review MSs
is bad enough without passive aggressive review reminders, touting the “quality” journal’s rapid turnaround time and asking why you are setting back science.
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New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.
Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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September 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.
Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world.
Gift link.
Gift link.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world.
Gift link.
Gift link.
How do i explain germ theory to my 4 month old so he knows to only put clean toys in his mouth
August 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How do i explain germ theory to my 4 month old so he knows to only put clean toys in his mouth
Love that Reno has this diatom themed facade on a highway underpass
August 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Love that Reno has this diatom themed facade on a highway underpass
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The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and cattle industries.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4mm6mrB
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4mm6mrB
Kansas lesser prairie chicken loses endangered species act protections after Texas court order
The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and...
lawrenceks.news
August 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and cattle industries.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4mm6mrB
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4mm6mrB
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The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN
Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.
www.cnn.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
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A quick clip from my Dragonfly Life Cycle video - a timelapse of the metamorphosis of a Willow Emerald nymph into an adult
Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V...
#bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V...
#bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A quick clip from my Dragonfly Life Cycle video - a timelapse of the metamorphosis of a Willow Emerald nymph into an adult
Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V...
#bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V...
#bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.
This federal program helps track America's ecosystems. Trump's budget would gut it
The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.
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June 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.
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NONE in Life science?! NONE?!
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NONE in Life science?! NONE?!
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In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food
Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it
scim.ag
June 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
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4 Democrats didn’t vote and another 3 Democratic seats are vacant due to member deaths
Four Democratic absences (Correa, Beatty, Randall and Norcross) and the deaths of Grijalva, Turner and Connelly left the Democrats down 7 votes as the bill passed by 2.
Two Republicans also didn’t vote.
Four Democratic absences (Correa, Beatty, Randall and Norcross) and the deaths of Grijalva, Turner and Connelly left the Democrats down 7 votes as the bill passed by 2.
Two Republicans also didn’t vote.
June 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
4 Democrats didn’t vote and another 3 Democratic seats are vacant due to member deaths
Four Democratic absences (Correa, Beatty, Randall and Norcross) and the deaths of Grijalva, Turner and Connelly left the Democrats down 7 votes as the bill passed by 2.
Two Republicans also didn’t vote.
Four Democratic absences (Correa, Beatty, Randall and Norcross) and the deaths of Grijalva, Turner and Connelly left the Democrats down 7 votes as the bill passed by 2.
Two Republicans also didn’t vote.
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The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges & universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
Via @propublica.org
lawrenceks.news/4kVtKeu
Via @propublica.org
lawrenceks.news/4kVtKeu
Trump wants to cut tribal college funding by nearly 90%, putting them at risk of closing
The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students d...
lawrenceks.news
June 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges & universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
Via @propublica.org
lawrenceks.news/4kVtKeu
Via @propublica.org
lawrenceks.news/4kVtKeu
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
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How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
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Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Sign up now to be part of our Michigan-wide Aquatic Invasive Species bioblitz! Help build the biggest-ever snapshot of invasions statewide to support research and management.
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May 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sign up now to be part of our Michigan-wide Aquatic Invasive Species bioblitz! Help build the biggest-ever snapshot of invasions statewide to support research and management.
www.micorps.net/events/micor...
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"We are already losing vital data...without them, municipalities and organizations can't access real-time alerts about water toxicity from algal blooms." ~ Jérôme Marty, IAGLR executive director
To read more: https://bit.ly/3SkT69k
To read more: https://bit.ly/3SkT69k
Trump’s cuts to Great Lakes research threaten freshwater for Ontarians
Trump’s cuts to Great Lakes research threaten freshwater for Ontarians.
bit.ly
May 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"We are already losing vital data...without them, municipalities and organizations can't access real-time alerts about water toxicity from algal blooms." ~ Jérôme Marty, IAGLR executive director
To read more: https://bit.ly/3SkT69k
To read more: https://bit.ly/3SkT69k
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USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week www.hcn.org/articles/usg... via @highcountrynews.org
USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week - High Country News
Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.
www.hcn.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week www.hcn.org/articles/usg... via @highcountrynews.org