Miriam Goldstein
@miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
Ocean scientist turned federal policy wonk. Executive Director of the National Ocean Protection Coalition. Views my own, especially the salty ones. Account on hiatus as I take a social media break.
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🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
Haunting read by my friend @oceanhoptimism.org
"I whisper the only apology that matters: You were beautiful, and we should have slowed down for you." https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) • The Revelator
What will the loss of coral reefs cost the planet — and humanity?
therevelator.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Haunting read by my friend @oceanhoptimism.org
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"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty."
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) https://therevelator.org/ghost-reefs/
Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color (A Speculative ‘Fiction’) • The Revelator
What will the loss of coral reefs cost the planet — and humanity?
therevelator.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty."
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.
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DEATHBALL SPONGE 💀
WILD: Just in time for Halloween, scientists have discovered 30 new species in the Southern Ocean — including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge that traps prey with tiny hooks.
An incredible reminder of how much more there is to learn about the deep sea. https://bit.ly/49bF17R
An incredible reminder of how much more there is to learn about the deep sea. https://bit.ly/49bF17R
Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitat
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
DEATHBALL SPONGE 💀
"What's happening right now is exactly what I was working to prevent." A former NOAA director explains why opening our Marine National Monuments to industrial fishing is a disaster for conservation. Some places are too precious to risk: tinyurl.com/mr6tyjsw
Protect marine national monuments from destruction | GUEST COMMENTARY
The Trump administration is working to open some of America’s protected natural treasures to industrial fishing and oil drilling, writes Lauren Wenzel.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"What's happening right now is exactly what I was working to prevent." A former NOAA director explains why opening our Marine National Monuments to industrial fishing is a disaster for conservation. Some places are too precious to risk: tinyurl.com/mr6tyjsw
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President and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences, Jasmin Graham, shares how she's defying stereotypes and telling her own story. 🦈
Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/
Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
President and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences, Jasmin Graham, shares how she's defying stereotypes and telling her own story. 🦈
Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/
Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/
Come join me at the @womensaquaticdc.bsky.social and @nationalacademies.org Speed Networking event on October 22! Register here:
www.womensaquatic.org/events/speed...
www.womensaquatic.org/events/speed...
Speed Mentoring 2025 — Women's Aquatic Network
Join us and the National Academy of Sciences Ocean Studies Board on Wednesday, October 22nd for our annual Speed Mentoring event.
www.womensaquatic.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Come join me at the @womensaquaticdc.bsky.social and @nationalacademies.org Speed Networking event on October 22! Register here:
www.womensaquatic.org/events/speed...
www.womensaquatic.org/events/speed...
What do more than 230 scientists and 53 ocean conservation organizations have in common? They just told the Trump administration to protect our marine national monuments. Read more about our work to protect our monuments from industrial fishing: tinyurl.com/4d9xaa6e
E&E News: Groups urge NOAA to keep commercial fishing out of monuments
They also said the Trump administration has not used a transparent process for getting input from the public.
tinyurl.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What do more than 230 scientists and 53 ocean conservation organizations have in common? They just told the Trump administration to protect our marine national monuments. Read more about our work to protect our monuments from industrial fishing: tinyurl.com/4d9xaa6e
“It is not our right to fish every inch of ocean… If we fail to safeguard Papahānaumokuākea, we risk losing not only a globally unique seascape but the wisdom it carries for managing our shared future.” Read more from Kanoeʻulalani Morishige in @CivilBeat (& sign the petition!) tinyurl.com/3jd4tt7m
Safeguard Papahānaumokuākea: The Future Of Our Oceans Depends On It
It’s a sanctuary and a global model of ocean protection grounded in Native Hawaiian leadership.
tinyurl.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“It is not our right to fish every inch of ocean… If we fail to safeguard Papahānaumokuākea, we risk losing not only a globally unique seascape but the wisdom it carries for managing our shared future.” Read more from Kanoeʻulalani Morishige in @CivilBeat (& sign the petition!) tinyurl.com/3jd4tt7m
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Trump’s Exec. Order on seafood threatens decades of marine protections by opening national monuments to industrial fishing. Gear like trawls, gillnets and longlines devastates habitats and both targeted and not species. Tell NOAA to protect ocean ecosystems! secure.everyaction.com/cvNZk5i6cUaE...
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Trump’s Exec. Order on seafood threatens decades of marine protections by opening national monuments to industrial fishing. Gear like trawls, gillnets and longlines devastates habitats and both targeted and not species. Tell NOAA to protect ocean ecosystems! secure.everyaction.com/cvNZk5i6cUaE...
Pausing my hiatus because this is important! Please sign and share.
Help us show the Trump administration how unpopular their plans to open our protected areas to industrial fishing are
Please sign and share our petition
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Please sign and share our petition
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October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Pausing my hiatus because this is important! Please sign and share.
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Marine monuments protect ocean wildlife and areas connected to cultural and historic traditions.
POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY
POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY
Protect Our Marine Monuments | Notion
🐟 Action #1: Sign the national petition to protect our marine monuments from industrial fishing!
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September 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Marine monuments protect ocean wildlife and areas connected to cultural and historic traditions.
POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY
POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY
.@SenateGOP passed their bill to give handouts to fossil fuel companies while cutting funding for coastal communities and saddling American families with trillions more in debt.
Thank you to @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats who fought tirelessly for our coastal communities and ocean future.
Thank you to @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats who fought tirelessly for our coastal communities and ocean future.
July 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
.@SenateGOP passed their bill to give handouts to fossil fuel companies while cutting funding for coastal communities and saddling American families with trillions more in debt.
Thank you to @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats who fought tirelessly for our coastal communities and ocean future.
Thank you to @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats who fought tirelessly for our coastal communities and ocean future.
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'Jaws' shark scared us, but we must save this vital species | Opinion
My husband wrote 'Jaws.' We need to better protect the oceans he loved. | Opinion
'Jaws' brought sharks and the ocean into the forefront of the public's imagination 50 years ago. Let's use this anniversary to protect it.
www.usatoday.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
'Jaws' shark scared us, but we must save this vital species | Opinion
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NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
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Wow. A bright yellow HUGE# Bolosoma glass sponge at 1825 m maybe >50 cm across- you could SIT IN IT!! Paul Seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA #spongethursday
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wow. A bright yellow HUGE# Bolosoma glass sponge at 1825 m maybe >50 cm across- you could SIT IN IT!! Paul Seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA #spongethursday
I had the best time ever! 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
Thanks to today’s guest scientists!
We caught 9 sharks today: a great hammerhead, a nurse, and 7 bonnetheads! So many that we worked up two at the same time!
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We caught 9 sharks today: a great hammerhead, a nurse, and 7 bonnetheads! So many that we worked up two at the same time!
@vgwschutte.bsky.social @jlesaler.bsky.social @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I had the best time ever! 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
Bring back Google Reader then we can talk.
everything bad about the internet, tv, and every single generation is all on extremely stark display right now. only a race of angelic elder millennials who don't watch videos can get us back on track
April 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Bring back Google Reader then we can talk.
“Like most ocean scientists…” 💀
Some exciting news- for my ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries research, policy, and education efforts, I’ve been named one of the 500 most influential people shaping policy by the Washingtonian! @washingtonian.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Like most ocean scientists…” 💀
This post now lives in my head constantly. bsky.app/profile/name...
appropos of nothing an old sikh uncle once told me at the gurudwara "1/3rd of our people are a disgrace 30% of every community is an embarrassment to the rest" math checks out js
April 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This post now lives in my head constantly. bsky.app/profile/name...
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Endangered species act: You can't "'harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect' plants and animals on the verge of extinction."
Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..."
Like they don't NEED that forest, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..."
Like they don't NEED that forest, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump officials say destroying endangered species’ habitats isn’t ‘harm’
A proposed rule would narrow the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act and could open the door to more mining, construction and other activities.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Endangered species act: You can't "'harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect' plants and animals on the verge of extinction."
Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..."
Like they don't NEED that forest, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..."
Like they don't NEED that forest, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Important thread on the current hearing on deep sea mining 👇🏼
I will be tuning in to the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the NRC hearing on Exploring the Potential of Deep-Sea Mining to Expand American Mineral Production.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s75c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s75c...
Oversight Hearing | Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
YouTube video by House Committee on Natural Resources GOP
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Important thread on the current hearing on deep sea mining 👇🏼
If you read one Science Thing today:
The deep-sea mining news is grim, but I want to talk about why the deep ocean is so exciting and why we still know very little about how the ecosystems function.
Why don't we know more about large, mobile fauna in the deep sea? It's because we are loud and they are fast.
Why don't we know more about large, mobile fauna in the deep sea? It's because we are loud and they are fast.
First live video of a colossal squid highlights one of the most exciting knowledge gaps in deep ocean exploration
www.southernfriedscience.com/first-live-v...
www.southernfriedscience.com/first-live-v...
April 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If you read one Science Thing today:
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Cf., Kodama? ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kodama
Kodama
Kodama (コダマ) are tree spirits appeared in Princess Mononoke. They are children of old trees, and are a sign that the forest is healthy. Kodama have white skin with black and grey, glowing eyes. Each K...
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April 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Cf., Kodama? ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kodama
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What’s this? What’s this? A sponge made out of glass 🎶
April 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
What’s this? What’s this? A sponge made out of glass 🎶
Is…is it Jack the Pumpkin King
April 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Is…is it Jack the Pumpkin King