In a warming Arctic, gray #whales struggle to find nourishment oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/06/05/i...
UBC Oceans
Happy #WorldOceanDay 🌏 shipmates!!
In a shameless bit of self-promotion, here's a work-focussed podcast outlining the beaty of the deep and risks from #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️
It's mercifully short and accessible:
www.pew.org/en/research-...
🦑
“”Moss, who described the draft NDA as “ridiculous on its face,” found one aspect particularly troubling: The agreement purports to bind government workers from sharing information not just during their employment, but even after they leave federal service.””
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Julian Jackson
RogueNOAA
RogueNOAA
Skinny whales dying in Pacific Northwest waters during the spring migration signal a population in decline, experts warn.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
“While the federal workforce overall has shrunk by about 12% under the Trump administration, a large portion of those staffing losses, roughly 40%, came from science-related agencies, the report found.”
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
“So, the president’s order directs NOAA and USDA to work together to establish a America First seafood strategy, the intent of which is to promote American consumption of seafood and the consumption of American seafood globally.”
federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
“ In a letter to the Office of Personnel Management, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) warned that pushing feds to sign an NDA would undermine First Amendment protections and legitimate whistleblower activities.“
federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-news...
“Asked for reaction to the proposed governmentwide NDA, a second EPA employee said, “I’m left thinking we’re about to start getting asked to do a whole lot more illegal shit.””
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪🦑🌎
RogueNOAA
Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches booming
Mass mortality from disease epidemics challenges the resistance and resilience of populations and communities. Assessing the impacts and consequences of such events is crucially dependent on long-ter....
Six months ago, Bruce Menge’s team published exciting research — five-legged sea stars were undergoing a significant “baby boom.”
In short, something rare and wonderful was happening on the Oregon Coast:
A proposal to push would-be whistleblowers to sign nondisclosure agreements is part of a bigger effort to hide government secrets.
www.theatlantic.com
Our seafood producers, both in the aquaculture industry and the wild-caught industries, have been asking for this for well over 10 years," said Mike Illenberg.
New research from the Partnership for Public Service finds that many science agencies were cut deeply in the Trump administration’s workforce overhauls.
federalnewsnetwork.com
If civil servants break a proposed nondisclosure agreement — or refuse to sign it — they could be fired by their agencies.
OPM has two weeks to respond to the congressman’s new investigation into the legal and workplace-related impacts of the administration’s proposal.
federalnewsnetwork.com
Meet the “barbie pig,” “gummy squirrel,” and “headless chicken monster”: These fantastical-sounding nicknames belong to real creatures living in the deep sea—one of the most extreme environments on Ea...
