@jessicayluo.bsky.social is a marine biogeochemist and ecosystem modeler at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), where her work focuses on how marine organisms transport carbon from the surface to the deep ocean, and how these dynamics shift under climate change.

Myself and @davidho.bsky.social are convening a panel discussion at #OSM26 on "Ocean science in a time of political uncertainty". Please join us there!

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please join this town hall at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow that @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social and I are convening, moderated by @helenczerski.bsky.social. We'll discuss what's happening to ocean sciences and what institutions and individuals can do. agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/me... #OSM26

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."

Anyone looking for a short primer on the #CarbonCycle (🌳and 🌊) could do a lot worse than today's #TheLifeScientific programme on #BBCRadio4 with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @pfriedling.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) ... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Life Scientific - Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change - BBC Sounds

Pierre Friedlingstein on the pivotal role of carbon in predicting climate change.

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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

It’s been a while since I shared these, so here we go! If you are new to BlueSky, here are a few 🌊 ocean starter packs 🌊 to help you find who to follow: Physical oceanography go.bsky.app/Eb6xX19 Polar oceans go.bsky.app/851nQgx Organisations go.bsky.app/U1Ei6XY

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

Don’t miss the 12 November closing date!

Prof Alessandro Tagliabue@altagliabue.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

The ethical use case for SRM is one in which governance conditions fail to enable adequately rapid decarbonization, and then there is a revolutionary change in governance that allows effective and equitable management of SRM

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

remember when I said that I’ve always said I’ve been saying it for years

Fortunately the people proposing this disgusting treatment of immigrants and their families are currently in opposition not in government. Frankly I'm ashamed that even a minority-party elected politician of my country can dare say this out loud. Gross attitude to my friends and colleagues.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Conservatives have drafted the legislation. ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked. If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all) The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.

Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 10mo ago

that the upfront costs to come and do scientific research in the UK are too high is a well known terrible fact. perhaps more surprising is that scientific excellence has persisted despite all these hurdles, but this limping cannot go on forever. Soon this fun immigration experiment will break.

The NHS health surcharge is a national embarrassment; and it would be if the affected group were not always perceived as “foreign”, and “privileged” to be here at all. It says right from the start “you will be treated differently here”, and it shows our arse as a nation.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again. They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm. And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group@waderstudy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. Read more here ⬇️ www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

This is absolutely staggering.

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 10mo ago

Record warm ocean temperatures continued in September across the North Pacific Ocean, with a number of consequential impacts (including on downstream weather patterns). This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every September from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.

4. We pay again and again for a failure to raise taxes. It’s a false economy, for which we suffer in multiple ways. Fair Taxation Saves Us Money.

It just seems like, if we really wanted to, we could have solved mass poverty by now.

This, from John, is fantastic. I never really caught that first wave of the internet, but I certainly lament the whirlpool it has become.

John Kennedy@micefearboggis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When the web that we weave is complete diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/w...

Shankle et al. show how a better- #Ventilated #NorthPacific could have reduced the #ocean-carbon upwelled in the #SouthernOcean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on #SouthernOcean biogeochemistry in #GlacialTimes. #ice-ages @earthscista.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Southern Ocean CO2 outgassing and nutrient load reduced by a well-ventilated glacial North Pacific - Nature Communications

A better-ventilated North Pacific could have reduced the carbon of water upwelled in the Southern Ocean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry in glaci...

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🗣️ Come one, come all! Read about connections between North Pacific Ocean ventilation and Southern Ocean carbon release 🌊 This is the first publication from Maddie Shankle’s PhD thesis, with more exciting work to follow!

James Rae@mudwaterclimate.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨New paper on Southern Ocean CO2🚨 Using a suite of Earth system models, Maddie Shankle et al show that better ventilation of intermediate waters in the North Pacific ends up reducing outgassing of CO2 in the Southern Ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🧵 @earthscista.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The weak land carbon sink hypothesis

Satellite-derived time series of vegetation carbon do not support a strong Northern Hemisphere net land carbon sink.

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Last week, our 4th year Environmental Earth Science students were at Loch Etive, getting hands-on experience collecting data for investigating water column profiles & overturning events. Led by Drs James Barnet & @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social & supported back in the lab by @oceanicandrea.bsky.social.

Meet the motley crew of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – ready to kick off the new academic year! 🌍👋 Special mention to our Head of School, Prof. Rob Wilson, who is cleverly disguised a a responsible adult (the T-shirt says it all) 😅🤦‍♂ www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

Moral incoherence is the zeitgeist of our age.

Our finalised paper on flat10MIP is finally up in GMD! This is the experimental protocol which allows for a simple, emissions-driven evaluation of TCRE, ZEC and climate reversibility in CMIP7. Thanks so much to all who ran these simulations as a proof of concept! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

flat10MIP: an emissions-driven experiment to diagnose the climate response to positive, zero and negative CO2 emissions

Abstract. The proportionality between global mean temperature and cumulative emissions of CO2 predicted in Earth system models (ESMs) is the foundation of carbon budgeting frameworks. Deviations from ...

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Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

We had a fantastic research 'away day' at East Sands in St Andrews, where we discussed the future of extreme temperatures as part of GLOBAL-EX project. A lunchtime swim + cheese toasties on the beach was an added bonus! @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...