My first @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social conference was fantastic - great conversations with fellow ecologists, and many new connections and directions to look into. Great to share the experience with QMEL lab @eastonwhite.bsky.social

While the United States government dismantles its (formerly) world class scientific program, harasses scientists, and retreats from evidence and truth, it has been heartening to see France and the EU embrace international collaboration and science to solve the world’s biggest problems.

For the past two weeks I’ve been participating in the French-American Doctoral Exchange program organized by the US Embassy of France to meet students and researchers across France and attend the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, the scientific program before the United Nations Ocean Conference

Excellent week at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative conference at Virginia Tech! EFI is a really fun and inclusive community, come join us for 2026 @ecoforecast.bsky.social

I explain how to download tide predictions from three R packages, as well as a standalone tide program, and wrangle the data so that you can identify tides that are big and long enough for you to work, all the while filtering out those pesky 4AM Sunday night tides (...or maybe keep those in 😅)

Interested in Ecological Forecasting, but don't know where to start? The @ecoforecast.bsky.social Early Career and Student Association is hosting two seminars for anyone interested in this field to learn about forecasting research and how to create forecasts using NEON data. Please share widely!

Recently joined my advisor @eastonwhite.bsky.social to help co-teach an R for data science course at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. We were hosted by my former mentor at NMNH Cheryl Ames, who I interned with over 15 years ago in high school! Small world, and so grateful for all of my mentors

Watching some oyster heart rates with the @electricbluecrl.bsky.social Pulse unit for our overwintering experiments. An amazing tool! @eastonwhite.bsky.social

Another salvo to the senses from Area X warms the cockles of this biologist’s heart! Such a fun (and by that I mean creepy) read @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

We’re looking to hire an intern (paid!) this summer working in oysters, heatwaves, and data science. Feel free to contact me with any questions, application details here: quantmarineecolab.github.io/join/

Met my first sea hare in California! As an invert enthusiast used to east coast mollusks this chonky guy absolutely blew my mind and made my year

Really liking Daybreak as a cooperative board game in the style of Wingspan, but about curbing climate change and promoting resilient communities. Lots of possibilities to explore!

Our lab put out our first oyster biosensors on a partner farm yesterday. We’ll be able to download gaping data sent over cell signal. Really excited to see this work come together and work towards continuous monitoring of oyster farms