Some very curious humpback whales 🐋 spy-hopping to check out the ship while we were coring in the southern Great Barrier Reef 🪸 🌊

100 years of July sea surface temperature anomalies... you'll see important patterns of regional climate variability as the animation evolves, but ultimately, the story behind the long-term trend toward record warmth is driven by human-caused climate change. Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv6. 🌊

Some review/response letters I see as a reviewer/editor are really long, 40+ pgs. This usually happens when a reviewer wrote lots of major & line-by-line comments. I'm not sure this is ever useful. When there are >10 major comments, maybe just bullet point those and let authors rewrite #peerreview

When we interview candidates for university, standard questions tend to get similar answers from all candidates. So, each year I think of a new question which might reveal something. This year's worked well: "How much do you use #AI in your studies and how has this affected your intelligence?"

Count Binface, a guy dressed as a bin, is one of the wittiest politicians standing for election in the UK. Apparently, he's also one of the sharpest intellectually which says a lot really 😆👍

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y ago

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵

The harassing of Dr #Fauci is a circus, an appalling spectacle of "libertarian" politicians with anti-vaccine agendas publicly abusing a public servant for providing fact-based policy advice. This was not a hearing, it was tirade of irrelevant, misleading and often fabricated nonsense.

Politico@politico.com · last wk.

BREAKING: Former Covid czar Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right at the Senate hearing on the pandemic.

If you’re interested in working at Asiaq (Greenland Survey), our sister organization is currently looking for a data specialist, with special attention to cryosphere and climate competencies. 🇬🇱 asiaq.career.emply.com/en/ad/data-s... Closes August 16th. ⤴️

Drone shows in #Shenzhen are something else, this is a casual regular event over Shekou

Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》

If you're a journalist reporting 4 Palestinians were killed after "an attack on Israeli civilians who were hiking" in the west bank... then you are in fact not a journalist. Do you go hiking with guns into other people's villages early in the morning? No? Me neither... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Four Palestinians and two Israelis killed in West Bank shooting

Palestinians say villagers came under attack by settlers, while the Israeli military says a Palestinian stole a weapon and opened fire on hikers.

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Behold the workhorse of ocean science — the CTD Rosette! One cast. Thousands of meters. A snapshot of the water column from surface to seafloor 🌊🚢🧪 RCA OOI cruises primarily use CTD casts to measure ocean properties and take verification water samples near the Shallow and Deep Profiler Moorings.

A critical ethical problem with gene editing: If a lab takes donations to gene edit children, should this be noted as a potential conflict of interest when reporting related results? If you think "Of course- it is a direct conflict of interest", then some labs and hospitals disagree with you...

Exclusive: A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public

Illustration: Daria Lada An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch has uncovered details about a clinical trial that resulted in the death of its sole patient: a 6-year-old girl with a rare …

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This male pufferfish spends 7 to 9 days carving a perfect geometric circle in the sand, just to impress a mate.

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

The International CLIVAR Project Office is seeking a Staff Scientist based in Qingdao, China. Join us in supporting international climate science collaboration through scientific coordination, community engagement, and communications. Deadline: 17 August 2026 www.clivar.org/news/positio...

I really don't get professors (esp. older ones) who push students straight to GenAI models for data analysis, saying, "Yes, it makes mistakes, but you can quality-control the output." And how would a student who doesn't have the foundations is supposed to do that? #AcademicSky

Aseel, 16, has lived through the horrors of the war in Gaza. She has been displaced multiple times and lost many loved ones. Through it all, she hopes for a Gaza where she can enjoy her rights as a child. Share to show your support for Aseel’s dream.

This is the kind of idiocy you get on Threads. I think the main purpose of pursuing a PhD is to develop your thinking, research, and communication skills, which you can't do in 45 minutes on Claude.

America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders

America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders

For more than half a century, the United States treated the protection of habitat as part of protecting endangered wildlife. The Endangered Species Act prohibited killing protected wildlife, and the…

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Yup. Canadian wildfires are expected to worsen in the future, as our warming climate increases their frequency and severity. This is pretty much a statement of fact. Sadly.

Kevin Anchukaitis@thirstygecko.bsky.social · 3w ago

'Our findings indicate that more severe fire effects are expected in Canada because of the warming climate' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌊 Thoughts on where geochemistry is headed and the role of ocean observatories in ocean stewardship @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @oceannetworks.ca youtu.be/3-dOJzF_UeY?...

From Ocean Data to Climate Predictions — Jay Cullen on Where Geochemistry Is Headed

YouTube video by Targeted Film

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I have always had a lot of respect for colleagues in Greenland 🌊 🐻‍❄️

RoseMarie@rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the Arctic island's leading environmental and natural-resource research centre, is halting new collaborations with US partners to protect its data and scientists. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?

The International CLIVAR Project Office is seeking a Staff Scientist based in Qingdao, China. Join us in supporting international climate science collaboration through scientific coordination, community engagement, and communications. Deadline: 17 August 2026 www.clivar.org/news/positio...

There is still time to submit your abstract to XMAS-2027, which will take place in Xiamen, China, in January. The extended submission deadline is 21 July 2026. For abstract submission and more details visit: mel-xmas.net

The latest #NSF regulations on China seem to have been widely misreported. The bans mainly cover companies and only appear to name about 30 universities or research institutes mainly in defense, aerospace, electronics and materials science. For context, there are about 3000 universities in China.

Eos@eos.org · 3w ago

Last week, the National Science Foundation announced a new policy barring NSF funds from being used for collaborations with entities determined by other U.S. agencies to be threats to national security, including nearly all Chinese research institutions. 🧵👇 www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

Sadly, it’s no surprise that climate change is making El Niño events more ferocious. 🌊 Here’s IPCC AR6 Box 11.4 saying that extreme El Niños occur more frequently in a warming world. ⤵️ Still, the exceedance magnitude of this summer’s event beyond all previous events is eye opening. 👀

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3w ago

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

The death of every child is a tragedy. Mohammad was 9. He was not killed as an 'accidental' casualty of "counter-terror operations" in Gaza, he was shot by an Israeli soldier as he played football on his school playground in the west bank. This is monstrous. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq

Mohammad was shot after going to play football – and we joined the 54 families in the occupied West Bank whose children were killed by Israel in 2025 alone, says Palestinian mother Aliyah Abdel Majid ...

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