New in PNAS today: we projected how climate change will reshape the body size of marine life across the entire ocean. 23,329 mollusc species, every ocean basin. The headline everyone expects is "life shrinks." The real answer is far stranger. 🧪 #marinelife www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nonuniform resizing of marine life under climate change | PNAS

Global warming is often predicted to drive universal declines in animal body size, but empirical evidence remains equivocal. This is particularly t...

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That’s a wrap on my 3rd year co-teaching @eoas.ubc.ca's Vancouver Summer Program! From 15 students in year 1 to 42 this year, from all over the world and varied programs, + developing a new Sustainability course — it’s been a great way to develop my teaching 🧑‍🏫🌎 Exhausting, but very rewarding.

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

It's not just soccer fans visiting Vancouver — more whales are showing up in local waters. 🐋 UBC researchers explain what’s behind the surge and how to spot them safely. ⤵️ news.ubc.ca/2026/06/how-...

Why so many whales are in Vancouver waters—and how to (legally) spot them - UBC News

UBC researchers explain what species you’re seeing—and how to watch them safely.

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🧑‍🔬 The Scientist | The Science 🔬 Becca Beutel, Physical Oceanography In this series we are showcasing some of the incredible graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the EOAS department, along with a taste of what they're working on right now.

We’re in danger. Climate deniers are no longer on the fringe. They are shaping U.S. policy, protecting polluters, and pushing us deeper into crisis. Stand Up for Science with us: zurl.co/NUlsN zurl.co/t85ux #Climate #ClimateChange #SaveScience

Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’

Trump’s EPA chief Lee Zeldin’s presence shows how much influence climate deniers now have, experts say

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particularly pretty rainbow csv moment today @vscode.dev

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

This seafloor community, 1,073 meters (3,520 feet) beneath the Ocean surface, was filmed during the #ArgentinianDeepSeeps expedition. Scientists were searching for cold seeps. While exploring, they observed beautiful scenes like this and stunning biodiversity along the country’s continental shelf.

I learned to much and has so much fun at #OSM2026 - thank you to everyone who came to chat at my poster and to Cara for being my conference buddy The new (I think) session on connecting large scale ocean circulation to marine ecosystems was particularly cool imo

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UBC EOAS@eoas.ubc.ca · 7mo ago

PhD candidate Becca Beutel @bbeutel.bsky.social is presenting her research at #OSM2026 🌊 Her work explores how water mass dynamics shape inflow into semi-enclosed seas at the northern edge of the California Current System. 🗓️ Wednesday 24th February | 4–6pm 📍 Poster PI24D-1526 | Hall 4

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Origami Organelles@origamiorganelles.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When you think about it, #waves don't transport water, they transport energy. Learn how #ocean waves form & the different types with our paper model! Find out more here: buff.ly/vi1ofR9 #EduSky #destructivewave #constructivewave #oceanography #oceans #geography #earthscience

missing the @tjarnikova.bsky.social #trashplot series - my attempt this morning has so many points that its beginning to look like a shag carpet (scatter was not the right choice after all)

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs https://theonion.com/melting-ice-caps-expose-hundreds-of-secret-arctic-lairs-1819571016/

Great photo summary by MEOPAR on some of what I learned this fall participating in a BATS cruise with @biosstation.bsky.social Thank you to the awesome scientists and crew who made this such a fun and fruitful learning experience! Info on the program and MEOPAR funding here: hubs.li/Q03XN5jJ0

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

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UBC EOAS@eoas.ubc.ca · 10mo ago

Join PhD Candidate in Oceanography Becca Beutel @bbeutel.bsky.social for her first research cruise on the La Perouse biochemical survey! Spotting whales, dolphins, squid, pteropods... sounds like a pretty great first research cruise experience, even if we agree the night shift sounds a bit scary!

My paper with Susan Allen, @jilian0717.bsky.social, @jaytcullen.bsky.social, & @tiaanderlini.bsky.social is out! We show how Pacific source waters shape property flux into the Salish Sea, and separate dynamical vs property-driven change—useful for understanding coastal conditions in a changing ocean

Water property variability into a semi-enclosed sea dominated by dynamics, modulated by properties

Abstract. The biogeochemistry of the Salish Sea is strongly connected to its Pacific Ocean inflow through Juan de Fuca Strait (JdF), which varies seasonally and interannually in both volume and proper...

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Bill Gates astounded climate advocates by publishing a manifesto arguing that the climate crisis is less urgent than other major problems that humanity faces go.nature.com/4qXJDEO

Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction

People do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action.

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@eoas.ubc.ca and @pme.ubc.ca are hosting Volcano: A science comedy show by Ben Miller this Wednesday evening! Tickets are FREE but there are only a few left so get yours while you can - www.eventbrite.ca/e/volcano-a-... Be prepared to "erupt" with laughter 🌋🔥

Be careful out there. They're putting RCP8.5 in candy bars.

A deep dive on high-impact #ClimateAction from #BBC! As I told Jocelyn Timperley, "Hopefully people going through the jointheshift.earth guide will have a bit of an aha moment, realising, 'wait a minute, I have more power than I thought, and there's more that I can do'." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Care about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take

Care about climate change? Here's what the evidence shows are the most effective things you can do.

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Ginalina, @swsocean.bsky.social, and I look so happy because the Future Science Leaders students ask the BEST questions. Thank you to Science World Vancouver for a great career cafe! Check out FSL: scienceworld.ca/futurescienceleaders/

I was worried about night shift - but the inherent loopy-ness really grew on me Thank you to all the fantastic scientists and crew who took the time to teach me while aboard the Tully for the Aug/Sep La Perouse! It was a dream first research cruise 🦈🐋🦑

This one feels deeper than normal (pun intended)

Out of Context Tracers in the Sea@tracers-in-the-sea.bsky.social · last yr.

🌊🧪 They travel only as far as the currents can carry them before reaching the sea floor. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

Perk of teaching students about coastal oceanography at @eoas.ubc.ca?: great field trip settings are a walk away 🦀 #TowerBeach #VancouverSummerProgram

Thank you @hakai.org for hosting me for a talk this week! I had a great time presenting in a yurt, having rewarding chats about carbonate chemistry and habitat viability thresholds, picking huckleberries, and working with an insanely gorgeous view 😍

shark week is part of what got me excited about ocean science.. pretty sure "great white sex battle" would have scared 11 yo me away 👶 lol

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

Shark Week bills itself as pro science and conservation and says they don’t promote fear. One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest. Guess which is real. 1 Great white assassins 2 Great white sex battle 3 Great white invasion 4 Florida’s death beach Lolz all real