Raphael Mazor
@rmaz.bsky.social
Freshwater scientist in California.
Undecided about how much science content I’ll post here. For now mostly art and pretty things.
Undecided about how much science content I’ll post here. For now mostly art and pretty things.
Some of us really work hard to review the papers submitted to our journals….
Thank you to all the reviewers who put in the effort.
Thank you to all the reviewers who put in the effort.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Some of us really work hard to review the papers submitted to our journals….
Thank you to all the reviewers who put in the effort.
Thank you to all the reviewers who put in the effort.
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Applications for student travel assistance to attend the #2026SFS annual meeting through the Instars program are now open.
Undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds interested in freshwater science are eligible to apply. (1/2)
Undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds interested in freshwater science are eligible to apply. (1/2)
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Applications for student travel assistance to attend the #2026SFS annual meeting through the Instars program are now open.
Undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds interested in freshwater science are eligible to apply. (1/2)
Undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds interested in freshwater science are eligible to apply. (1/2)
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Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams.
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams.
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:
www.tu.org/conservation...
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This is a good time to note that many of the Macy's parades from the '80s onwards have been uploaded to YT (often with the ad breaks!) and if you're looking for chill out/doing chores viewing you could do a lot worse.
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is a good time to note that many of the Macy's parades from the '80s onwards have been uploaded to YT (often with the ad breaks!) and if you're looking for chill out/doing chores viewing you could do a lot worse.
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
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This week, joined by her friends and colleagues, we adjourned Council in memory of a true Angeleno — Melanie Winter. Melanie passed away last month after a battle with lung cancer, leaving behind a hole as wide as the river she loved so dearly.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This week, joined by her friends and colleagues, we adjourned Council in memory of a true Angeleno — Melanie Winter. Melanie passed away last month after a battle with lung cancer, leaving behind a hole as wide as the river she loved so dearly.
Apparently fascism has to affect upper class pundits before it can be considered “real”
1. If America were fascist right now, I would not be posting here. Neither would you.
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Apparently fascism has to affect upper class pundits before it can be considered “real”
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“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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The Society for Freshwater Science's non-profit society journal Freshwater Science is committed to supporting first-time authors in the publication process.
Check out these tips from our Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Anderson on publishing research.
What are your best publishing tips?
Check out these tips from our Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Anderson on publishing research.
What are your best publishing tips?
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Society for Freshwater Science's non-profit society journal Freshwater Science is committed to supporting first-time authors in the publication process.
Check out these tips from our Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Anderson on publishing research.
What are your best publishing tips?
Check out these tips from our Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Anderson on publishing research.
What are your best publishing tips?
This point isn’t sufficiently appreciated.
The “right” way to immigrate doesn’t really exist.
The “right” way to immigrate doesn’t really exist.
Functionally, there is no way to enter the US “the right way.” Undocumented people aren’t undocumented because they don’t want to fill out paperwork. It’s because we let in 50,000 people a year in a lottery that privileges countries with fewer migrants.
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This point isn’t sufficiently appreciated.
The “right” way to immigrate doesn’t really exist.
The “right” way to immigrate doesn’t really exist.
I’ve become fascinated by the Ogasawara islands—technically part of Tokyo but you can only get there by overnight ferry. About as far south as Okinawa.
Glad to see a conservation success story there.
Glad to see a conservation success story there.
In 2010-2013, conservation teams on #Chichijima - 1 of the main islands in the #Ogasawara chain - captured & removed 131 feral cats. The goal was to reduce predation pressure on an endangered pigeon. The results were immediate: adult pigeon numbers rose from 111 to 966 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’ve become fascinated by the Ogasawara islands—technically part of Tokyo but you can only get there by overnight ferry. About as far south as Okinawa.
Glad to see a conservation success story there.
Glad to see a conservation success story there.
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Long Beach to push for tighter rules on LA River trash, try to catch more garbage floating downstream lbpost.com/news/la-rive...
Long Beach to push for tighter rules on LA River trash, try to catch more garbage floating downstream
The move comes amid growing frustration that the city is unfairly burdened by other people’s litter washing ashore.
lbpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Long Beach to push for tighter rules on LA River trash, try to catch more garbage floating downstream lbpost.com/news/la-rive...
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Are you interested in an MS position in Stream Ecology?
My lab (www.benjamintumolo.com) is recruiting a Master's student to join us at Northern Michigan University.
🐛🧪🕸️🍂🌊
Please get in contact if you are interested, and pass on this ad to anyone you know that might be!
Apply by Dec 16
My lab (www.benjamintumolo.com) is recruiting a Master's student to join us at Northern Michigan University.
🐛🧪🕸️🍂🌊
Please get in contact if you are interested, and pass on this ad to anyone you know that might be!
Apply by Dec 16
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Are you interested in an MS position in Stream Ecology?
My lab (www.benjamintumolo.com) is recruiting a Master's student to join us at Northern Michigan University.
🐛🧪🕸️🍂🌊
Please get in contact if you are interested, and pass on this ad to anyone you know that might be!
Apply by Dec 16
My lab (www.benjamintumolo.com) is recruiting a Master's student to join us at Northern Michigan University.
🐛🧪🕸️🍂🌊
Please get in contact if you are interested, and pass on this ad to anyone you know that might be!
Apply by Dec 16
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"I see a different future that is possible, and it is a much healthier city. And because it is possible, I feel compelled to fight for it."
— Melanie Winter
www.latimes.com/environment/...
— Melanie Winter
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Melanie Winter, who fought for embracing nature along the Los Angeles River, dies
Melanie Winter led efforts to embrace nature along the L.A. River, touting the potential for a restored river to heal the city's relationship to water. She was 67.
www.latimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"I see a different future that is possible, and it is a much healthier city. And because it is possible, I feel compelled to fight for it."
— Melanie Winter
www.latimes.com/environment/...
— Melanie Winter
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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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...
bit.ly
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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💧Calling all hydrologists💧Montana State University is hiring an assistant professor of water systems science, broadly defined but with connections to groundwater/subsurface processes. Please spread the word! jobs.montana.edu/postings/48829
Assistant Professor of Environmental Water Systems Science
The Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University Bozeman invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor with expertise in E...
jobs.montana.edu
October 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
💧Calling all hydrologists💧Montana State University is hiring an assistant professor of water systems science, broadly defined but with connections to groundwater/subsurface processes. Please spread the word! jobs.montana.edu/postings/48829
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Submit your proposal for workshops and special sessions for the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting relating to the theme “Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities,” or other related emerging topics. Deadline: October 15th, 2025. (1/2)
October 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Submit your proposal for workshops and special sessions for the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting relating to the theme “Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities,” or other related emerging topics. Deadline: October 15th, 2025. (1/2)
Really disappointed at the many ways my alma mater @columbiauniversity.bsky.social has debased itself.
I didn’t include this in last night’s newsletter b/c I remembered that Dartmouth was the only Ivy that did not sign the last open letter.
This seems good but doesn’t actually say no.
I hope Beilock’s next statement is also this short & says “We will not sign. We will not negotiate to sign. No.”
This seems good but doesn’t actually say no.
I hope Beilock’s next statement is also this short & says “We will not sign. We will not negotiate to sign. No.”
October 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Really disappointed at the many ways my alma mater @columbiauniversity.bsky.social has debased itself.
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You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.
Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants
Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.
www.opb.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.
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📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.
Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!
Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!
connect – Openscapes
openscapes.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.
Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!
Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!
Do I have any experts out there who can tell me what’s going on with this lake in the Modoc National Forest?
These islands are each about 40 m across and appears to be made of rock and are vegetated.
The entire water body does not appear on NF maps.
These islands are each about 40 m across and appears to be made of rock and are vegetated.
The entire water body does not appear on NF maps.
September 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Do I have any experts out there who can tell me what’s going on with this lake in the Modoc National Forest?
These islands are each about 40 m across and appears to be made of rock and are vegetated.
The entire water body does not appear on NF maps.
These islands are each about 40 m across and appears to be made of rock and are vegetated.
The entire water body does not appear on NF maps.
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The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago
It’ll take at least 4 hours to drive to San Diego if this happens
Camp Pendleton is an oasis from SoCal urban sprawl. Feds now consider unprecedented development
Camp Pendleton is an oasis from SoCal urban sprawl. Feds now consider unprecedented development
Talks over the 83-year-old base come as the Trump administration looks to raise money from public lands and roll back open-space protections.
www.latimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’ll take at least 4 hours to drive to San Diego if this happens
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💡Have a great idea for SFS?
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
💡Have a great idea for SFS?
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
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Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time
Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...
dx.doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....