We cannot solve supply chain challenges by bulldozing living ocean ecosystems based on incomplete data. The DOI's evaluation process needs rigorous scientific scrutiny. Read @cpaullinva.bsky.social's full coverage in @insideclimatenews.org here: insideclimatenews.org/news/3107202... 5/7

As Trump Promotes Critical Mineral Mining, a Company Eyes the Seafloor in Coastal Virginia - Inside Climate News

A proposed mining project off the Delmarva Peninsula is after minerals in heavy sands. Locals worry it would harm an important ecosystem.

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🌊 Real Economies at Risk: Virginia’s waters sustain a $1.3B seafood industry & thousands of local jobs. Katie Dawson, who has run a commercial fishing biz for 40 years, sums it up: “It totally destroys a way of life that we depend on.” 4/7

🧵 Are you following what could be this year's most consequential East Coast ocean story? Odyssey Marine Exploration is asking the Dept. of the Interior for a lease to mine ~2,500 sq. miles of seafloor off Virginia's coast. Here is why this raises major red flags: 1/7

I cannot move forward drafting Aim 3 without snacks. It appears to be snack run time.

astrovandalism, add that to the trash he leaves in our oceans and the polluted air for poor communities. and the many thousands of people dead, unemployed, or broken because of his actions just in the last 18 months. he's a super villain, and we have no Superman.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 5h ago

Moon's definitely haunted now lol

me cleaning up dog poop from back yard after a heavy rain

The item criminalizing homeless has failed 6-4, with Wright, Fisher, Culpepper and Hamby as the four trying to criminalize it.

I left the commission meeting 90 minutes ago and the meeting is still on item 29. Every time I peek at YouTube of meeting, the commission is being served justice for this shit ever being put on the agenda.

Part of my argument against new @accgov.bsky.social proposed anti-homeless ordinance comes from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social :

argh is submit.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov down for everybody else? was in middle of SRA submission...

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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Escape along the river today. Did have to yell at a driver. Of course.

An advert on BBC.com everything is being enshittified #artificialstupidity

🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4

Published early 2020, Sarah Kendzior's HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, made several top ten bestseller lists. "He doesn't care if Americans live or die. And that might sound harsh and blunt, but that's the truth of the matter." ~ Kendzior in Vogue.

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d ago

Interview in Vogue about HIDING IN PLAIN sight, on sale for only $2.99: “Trump covers up crime with scandal and covers up malice with incompetence. His administration would like you to think that they’re inept, that they’re just stumbling into these situations.” www.vogue.com/article/sara...

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Where have all the bugs gone? Scientists are finding sharp declines | CBC News

Many people remember road trips back in the day that left windshields splattered with insects – and may get the uncomfortable feeling that things have changed. Here's what researchers are finding.

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Throughout the year, and especially today on #MPADay, the team at @montereybayaquarium.org promotes sustainable fishing and aquaculture, helps recovers species like the southern sea otter, and, through science and advocacy, works to protect essential habitats such as kelp forests and seagrass beds.

It's #MPADay, an opportunity to celebrate marine protected areas that protect critical ecosystems, help vulnerable ocean species recover, and support the long-term sustainability of fisheries and other ocean resources. mpaday.org

MPA Day website

Celebrating local actions for global impact 1 August

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I *just* remembered there was a Bigfoot in my dream last night

Those in power told us there was no money to feed hungry children. Only to turn around and immediately spend billions on war.

🫛⭐️ 🌊⭐️ #MarineLife 🦑

Chris Mah@echinoblog.bsky.social · 4d ago

You ever wonder what the genus "Pisaster" means translated out of Latin? The name is latin for "pisium" or PEA, alluding to the bean-like spines! Yes. it means "Pea Star"! #sonowyouknow #seastarsaturday #etymology

August as an academic

H681.4.2 How deep is the sea? At first, knee-deep; further on, waist-deep, neck-deep; and beyond that over the head.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

it’s like I’m vitamin deficient, haven’t seen a damn star all year, help

Listening to Gillian Welch’s The Revelator while sipping a Negroni and prepping a Dutch baby for dinner #FriYay

Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment yanked from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration (as my @kuow.org reporting exposed) in September. www.kuow.org/environment/...

Northwest’s yanked ocean observatories start to return to sea

Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment yanked from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September.

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