Neil Tsutsui
@neiltsutsui.bsky.social
#RESIST
Professor-UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Director-UCB Central Sierra Field Stations
President-El Cerrito Democratic Club
Elected delegate to CA Dem Party
Insect behavior & genetics. Wildland protection and management.
Professor-UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Director-UCB Central Sierra Field Stations
President-El Cerrito Democratic Club
Elected delegate to CA Dem Party
Insect behavior & genetics. Wildland protection and management.
Nice! Now on to the midterms.
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Nice! Now on to the midterms.
Earthquake on the day of the Great Shakeout. Perfect!
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Earthquake on the day of the Great Shakeout. Perfect!
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my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
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We're hiring! My lab is seeking a 2-yr Postdoc in 🌊 marine ecology + 🛰️ remote sensing. You'll work with a big team (including @albertruhi.bsky.social @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social) to study the impacts of changing rainfall on marine freshwater plumes + coastal organisms. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05114
Postdoc Scholar - Marine ecology – ESPM The Coastal Climate Resilience Lab - MCECO - ESPM Ecosystem Sciences Div - Carlson Lab
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We're hiring! My lab is seeking a 2-yr Postdoc in 🌊 marine ecology + 🛰️ remote sensing. You'll work with a big team (including @albertruhi.bsky.social @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social) to study the impacts of changing rainfall on marine freshwater plumes + coastal organisms. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05114
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The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
Attention entomologists! (and others) Here is a 4th very cool search in ESPM at UC Berkeley - Assistant Professor in Forest Health 🧪 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05082
Assistant Professor - Forest Health - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Attention entomologists! (and others) Here is a 4th very cool search in ESPM at UC Berkeley - Assistant Professor in Forest Health 🧪 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05082
A third search at UC Berkeley this year is an open rank position in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A third search at UC Berkeley this year is an open rank position in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
We're hiring for a second position in my department this year! Assistant Professor in Environmental Geochemistry. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05078
Assistant Professor - Environmental Geochemistry - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We're hiring for a second position in my department this year! Assistant Professor in Environmental Geochemistry. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05078
Job alert! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084
Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Job alert! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084
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In 2023, Cleveland started a program that provided solar panels to low-income residents, which resulted in a 60% decrease in their energy bills. Solar policies benefit both climate & communities! Shoutout to mayor @justinmbibb.bsky.social & the Office of Sustainability & Climate Justice☀️ #cities
Cleveland pilot project provides rooftop solar for low-income residents • Ohio Capital Journal
The new year is bringing energy bill savings to Kassy Allen and others in Cleveland’s first rooftop solar program designed specifically for low- and moderate-income families.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In 2023, Cleveland started a program that provided solar panels to low-income residents, which resulted in a 60% decrease in their energy bills. Solar policies benefit both climate & communities! Shoutout to mayor @justinmbibb.bsky.social & the Office of Sustainability & Climate Justice☀️ #cities
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The proposed ordinance, which could take effect next year, would require certain projects to include plans for replacing gas utilities with all-electric ones to get a permit.
S.F. may soon ban natural gas in homes and businesses undergoing major renovations
The proposed ordinance, which could take effect next year, would require certain projects to include plans for replacing gas utilities with all-electric ones to get a permit.
bit.ly
July 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The proposed ordinance, which could take effect next year, would require certain projects to include plans for replacing gas utilities with all-electric ones to get a permit.
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🌍🤔What do we want to accomplish by 2030?
• Cut or store 3 gigatons of CO₂ yearly
• Help 100M people facing climate disasters
• Conserve billions of acres of land, rivers & oceans
• Back 45M local stewards protecting nature daily
Every goal brings us closer to a thriving planet. 🤝🌿💧
• Cut or store 3 gigatons of CO₂ yearly
• Help 100M people facing climate disasters
• Conserve billions of acres of land, rivers & oceans
• Back 45M local stewards protecting nature daily
Every goal brings us closer to a thriving planet. 🤝🌿💧
TNC 2030 Goals
Our planet faces interconnected crises of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss. The TNC 2030 goals aim to help slow and reverse these trends.
www.nature.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🌍🤔What do we want to accomplish by 2030?
• Cut or store 3 gigatons of CO₂ yearly
• Help 100M people facing climate disasters
• Conserve billions of acres of land, rivers & oceans
• Back 45M local stewards protecting nature daily
Every goal brings us closer to a thriving planet. 🤝🌿💧
• Cut or store 3 gigatons of CO₂ yearly
• Help 100M people facing climate disasters
• Conserve billions of acres of land, rivers & oceans
• Back 45M local stewards protecting nature daily
Every goal brings us closer to a thriving planet. 🤝🌿💧
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Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
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In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on the Big Oil sponsorship that now unites the Dodgers and Giants, and also the Houston Astros: www.latimes.com/environment/...
June 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on the Big Oil sponsorship that now unites the Dodgers and Giants, and also the Houston Astros: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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data.wastewaterscan.org still shows what's going around in many communities across the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
WastewaterSCAN Dashboard
WastewaterSCAN Data Dashboard tracks infectious diseases across the US via wastewater surveillance.
data.wastewaterscan.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
data.wastewaterscan.org still shows what's going around in many communities across the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
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Five gray whales have died in the greater Bay Area over the past week, bringing the region’s 2025 whale death toll to 14, officials announced. nbcbay.com/HZElrGx
May 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Five gray whales have died in the greater Bay Area over the past week, bringing the region’s 2025 whale death toll to 14, officials announced. nbcbay.com/HZElrGx
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Four months after the most devastating wildfires in L.A. history, Mayor Karen Bass wants to shut down the city's climate emergency office to save $700,000.
It's not hard to figure out that climate action isn't a high priority for Bass. My latest column: www.latimes.com/environment/...
It's not hard to figure out that climate action isn't a high priority for Bass. My latest column: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Commentary: Climate change is cooking Los Angeles. Does Karen Bass care?
The L.A. mayor wants to eliminate a city office that protects people from deadly extreme heat.
www.latimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Four months after the most devastating wildfires in L.A. history, Mayor Karen Bass wants to shut down the city's climate emergency office to save $700,000.
It's not hard to figure out that climate action isn't a high priority for Bass. My latest column: www.latimes.com/environment/...
It's not hard to figure out that climate action isn't a high priority for Bass. My latest column: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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We have a big win to celebrate! Thanks to California's bold leadership in enacting #SB54, we can say goodbye to plastic foam takeout food containers. The statewide ban took effect because producers didn't reach a 25 percent recycling rate by Jan. 1. #PlasticPollution #ActOnPlastic #CircularEconomy
April 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
We have a big win to celebrate! Thanks to California's bold leadership in enacting #SB54, we can say goodbye to plastic foam takeout food containers. The statewide ban took effect because producers didn't reach a 25 percent recycling rate by Jan. 1. #PlasticPollution #ActOnPlastic #CircularEconomy
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Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
March 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
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OK who's ready for some science?
Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you:
Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies"
Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you:
Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies"
Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
March 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
OK who's ready for some science?
Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you:
Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies"
Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you:
Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies"
Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally.
If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo
If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo
March 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally.
If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo
If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo
The simple, powerful, and true case that all academics and scientists should be making.
youtube.com/watch?v=qqfk...
youtube.com/watch?v=qqfk...
University research is the "invisible hand" in advancing innovation
YouTube video by Dr. Michael M. Crow
youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The simple, powerful, and true case that all academics and scientists should be making.
youtube.com/watch?v=qqfk...
youtube.com/watch?v=qqfk...
I’m happy to report the new album from The Devil Makes Three is excellent, from start to finish open.spotify.com/track/4ynn3H...
Spirits
The Devil Makes Three · Spirits · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I’m happy to report the new album from The Devil Makes Three is excellent, from start to finish open.spotify.com/track/4ynn3H...