Emilee
@seastarmami.bsky.social
Marine scientist 🐚🐙
Lover of critters 🪱🐇
Nerd 🧬📖
Washington state 🌲🌊
Lover of critters 🪱🐇
Nerd 🧬📖
Washington state 🌲🌊
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I read this article yesterday and can't stop thinking about how many millions of people in the United States have been disenfranchised by how reading is taught here. H/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I read this article yesterday and can't stop thinking about how many millions of people in the United States have been disenfranchised by how reading is taught here. H/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Washington's Yakima River Basin is experiencing one of the worst prolonged droughts in modern history. We visited our local partners to better understand the drought's impacts on the communities and agriculture it supports.
Explore what we found: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
Explore what we found: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
Faces of Drought: A Crisis in the Yakima
The Yakima River Basin in Central Washington is experiencing one of the worst prolonged droughts in modern history. American Rivers visited our partners in the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan to witness ...
www.americanrivers.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Washington's Yakima River Basin is experiencing one of the worst prolonged droughts in modern history. We visited our local partners to better understand the drought's impacts on the communities and agriculture it supports.
Explore what we found: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
Explore what we found: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
The best days are unexpectedly finding ~27 floater mussel shells along the side of the lake you’re working at. A bit bummed to not spot any live ones but I’ll take what I can get 🥰
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The best days are unexpectedly finding ~27 floater mussel shells along the side of the lake you’re working at. A bit bummed to not spot any live ones but I’ll take what I can get 🥰
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We join countless voices in honoring Dr. Jane Goodall's remarkable legacy. 🌎
As a tireless advocate for the planet, she spoke out about plastics with a clear message: choose people and the planet over plastic’s false promise of convenience. 🙏🏽
#breakfreefromplastic
As a tireless advocate for the planet, she spoke out about plastics with a clear message: choose people and the planet over plastic’s false promise of convenience. 🙏🏽
#breakfreefromplastic
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We join countless voices in honoring Dr. Jane Goodall's remarkable legacy. 🌎
As a tireless advocate for the planet, she spoke out about plastics with a clear message: choose people and the planet over plastic’s false promise of convenience. 🙏🏽
#breakfreefromplastic
As a tireless advocate for the planet, she spoke out about plastics with a clear message: choose people and the planet over plastic’s false promise of convenience. 🙏🏽
#breakfreefromplastic
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WA's Yakima River Basin is experiencing one of the worst prolonged droughts in modern history. We visited our Yakima Basin Integrated Plan partners to better understand the drought’s impacts on the communities and wildlife it supports.
⬇️ Read our findings: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
⬇️ Read our findings: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
Faces of Drought: A Crisis in the Yakima
The Yakima River Basin in Central Washington is experiencing one of the worst prolonged droughts in modern history. American Rivers visited our partners in the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan to witness ...
www.americanrivers.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
WA's Yakima River Basin is experiencing one of the worst prolonged droughts in modern history. We visited our Yakima Basin Integrated Plan partners to better understand the drought’s impacts on the communities and wildlife it supports.
⬇️ Read our findings: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
⬇️ Read our findings: www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/face...
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If you’re looking for decent news, we’ve seen about 50 monarch butterflies fluttering around today.
September 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you’re looking for decent news, we’ve seen about 50 monarch butterflies fluttering around today.
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My first sighting of The Radiant Sea in the wild, at our local bookshop. If you have any “encounters” I would love to see them. 🙃 #booksky
September 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My first sighting of The Radiant Sea in the wild, at our local bookshop. If you have any “encounters” I would love to see them. 🙃 #booksky
I know I’m not the only one who does a little jig when the @ologies.bsky.social theme plays 🕺🪼🦨🍯🌿
September 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I know I’m not the only one who does a little jig when the @ologies.bsky.social theme plays 🕺🪼🦨🍯🌿
Trying to make headway on advancements in either my career or education.
Life:
Life:
a man with a beard is holding a sword with the words shall not written below him
ALT: a man with a beard is holding a sword with the words shall not written below him
media.tenor.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trying to make headway on advancements in either my career or education.
Life:
Life:
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Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
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Lummi Nation has shown that hatcheries can help prevent salmon from extinction. A new film created as part of the #TomorrowsCatch series showcases treaty tribes' dedication to sustaining Pacific Northwest salmon and their fishing culture.
contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...
contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...
Reviving Salmon Runs Through Tribal Hatchery Leadership
Discover how the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission is restoring salmon in Washington through innovative, culturally-led hatchery practices.
contentwithpurpose.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Lummi Nation has shown that hatcheries can help prevent salmon from extinction. A new film created as part of the #TomorrowsCatch series showcases treaty tribes' dedication to sustaining Pacific Northwest salmon and their fishing culture.
contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...
contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...
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Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
August 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
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💡Until now, no one knew what caused the sea star wasting disease which wiped out populations along the West Coast. But an international research effort including UW scientists has finally revealed the cause: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
‘The discovery of the decade’: Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease
An international research effort, including scientists from the University of Washington, has finally revealed the cause of sea star wasting disease: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.
www.washington.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
💡Until now, no one knew what caused the sea star wasting disease which wiped out populations along the West Coast. But an international research effort including UW scientists has finally revealed the cause: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
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Tell me something you thought you wouldn't have to tell the general public...I'll go first
July 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Tell me something you thought you wouldn't have to tell the general public...I'll go first
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The drought is real. Eastern Washington has been hit especially hard this summer. Franklin County and Grant County received no precipitation at all in June, making this the driest June on record for those counties. We're not totally cooked!
Learn more: ecology.wa.gov/blog/july-20...
Learn more: ecology.wa.gov/blog/july-20...
July 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The drought is real. Eastern Washington has been hit especially hard this summer. Franklin County and Grant County received no precipitation at all in June, making this the driest June on record for those counties. We're not totally cooked!
Learn more: ecology.wa.gov/blog/july-20...
Learn more: ecology.wa.gov/blog/july-20...
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Really proud to be a part of this project with Dr. Shanna Swan and Collab Fertility at Action Science Initiative. We are aiming to reduce the use of plastics in IVF!
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social #humanhealth #microplastics #plasticchemicals
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social #humanhealth #microplastics #plasticchemicals
July 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Really proud to be a part of this project with Dr. Shanna Swan and Collab Fertility at Action Science Initiative. We are aiming to reduce the use of plastics in IVF!
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social #humanhealth #microplastics #plasticchemicals
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social #humanhealth #microplastics #plasticchemicals
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Hakai Institute researchers monitor sea star populations for signs of wasting disease around Quadra Island. A recent low tide at Hyacinth Bay gave them the opportunity to explore the biodiversity tucked into the crevices—including juvenile sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides).
July 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hakai Institute researchers monitor sea star populations for signs of wasting disease around Quadra Island. A recent low tide at Hyacinth Bay gave them the opportunity to explore the biodiversity tucked into the crevices—including juvenile sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides).
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🎆 Nature’s light show doesn’t need fireworks.
While we’re watching light shows in the sky this 4th of July, tiny organisms in the ocean are lighting up the water below.
🤔Have you ever seen bioluminescence? Let us know in the comments! ⤵️
#4thofjuly #bioluminescence #wondersoftheworld
While we’re watching light shows in the sky this 4th of July, tiny organisms in the ocean are lighting up the water below.
🤔Have you ever seen bioluminescence? Let us know in the comments! ⤵️
#4thofjuly #bioluminescence #wondersoftheworld
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🎆 Nature’s light show doesn’t need fireworks.
While we’re watching light shows in the sky this 4th of July, tiny organisms in the ocean are lighting up the water below.
🤔Have you ever seen bioluminescence? Let us know in the comments! ⤵️
#4thofjuly #bioluminescence #wondersoftheworld
While we’re watching light shows in the sky this 4th of July, tiny organisms in the ocean are lighting up the water below.
🤔Have you ever seen bioluminescence? Let us know in the comments! ⤵️
#4thofjuly #bioluminescence #wondersoftheworld
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We will never be silent. The Trump administration has placed 139 EPA staffers on leave after they signed a letter of dissent opposing the agency’s current direction and policies. Silencing experts won’t silence the truth.
July 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We will never be silent. The Trump administration has placed 139 EPA staffers on leave after they signed a letter of dissent opposing the agency’s current direction and policies. Silencing experts won’t silence the truth.
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Alligator Alcatraz was built in 8 days
It took just over a week to create a massive concentration camp that will torture people
Remember this the next time those in power claim they can't house the homeless, feed the starving or provide medical care to the the poor
They can, they don't want to
It took just over a week to create a massive concentration camp that will torture people
Remember this the next time those in power claim they can't house the homeless, feed the starving or provide medical care to the the poor
They can, they don't want to
July 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Alligator Alcatraz was built in 8 days
It took just over a week to create a massive concentration camp that will torture people
Remember this the next time those in power claim they can't house the homeless, feed the starving or provide medical care to the the poor
They can, they don't want to
It took just over a week to create a massive concentration camp that will torture people
Remember this the next time those in power claim they can't house the homeless, feed the starving or provide medical care to the the poor
They can, they don't want to
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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Plastic is everywhere! #Microplastics have been found in 🌬️air, 🍎food & even in 🫀organs & 🩸blood.
The only way to reduce #microplastics are to cut plastic production.
Watch & 🔁 to tell world leaders to deliver a strong #PlasticsTreaty in August!
www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty
The only way to reduce #microplastics are to cut plastic production.
Watch & 🔁 to tell world leaders to deliver a strong #PlasticsTreaty in August!
www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty
June 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Plastic is everywhere! #Microplastics have been found in 🌬️air, 🍎food & even in 🫀organs & 🩸blood.
The only way to reduce #microplastics are to cut plastic production.
Watch & 🔁 to tell world leaders to deliver a strong #PlasticsTreaty in August!
www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty
The only way to reduce #microplastics are to cut plastic production.
Watch & 🔁 to tell world leaders to deliver a strong #PlasticsTreaty in August!
www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty
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Get ready for "bat" girl summer by following these #rabies prevention tips:
Enjoy bats from far away.
If you see a bat on the ground, don’t touch it, it might be sick.
Vaccinate your pets against rabies.
If you touch a 🦇 or a bat bites or scratches you, contact a healthcare provider right away.
Enjoy bats from far away.
If you see a bat on the ground, don’t touch it, it might be sick.
Vaccinate your pets against rabies.
If you touch a 🦇 or a bat bites or scratches you, contact a healthcare provider right away.
June 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Get ready for "bat" girl summer by following these #rabies prevention tips:
Enjoy bats from far away.
If you see a bat on the ground, don’t touch it, it might be sick.
Vaccinate your pets against rabies.
If you touch a 🦇 or a bat bites or scratches you, contact a healthcare provider right away.
Enjoy bats from far away.
If you see a bat on the ground, don’t touch it, it might be sick.
Vaccinate your pets against rabies.
If you touch a 🦇 or a bat bites or scratches you, contact a healthcare provider right away.
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Some scenes from today's "No Kings" protest in Olympia. Photos by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero.
June 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Some scenes from today's "No Kings" protest in Olympia. Photos by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero.