With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

so wait you basically can’t even use your hands at all unless you’re the weird guy at the end

@tampabaytimes.bsky.social did an amazing job capturing life at @cmarinescience.bsky.social post fire. And, they made my mom’s day ❤️ Support local journalism!

Update on how things are going at work www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

How is USF St. Pete’s Marine Science Lab doing 2 months after catastrophic fire?

For the 150 students and faculty housed in the building, the last couple months have been a series of ups and downs.

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🌊 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

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I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

@phillies.com give us more bobblehead nights. also, start posting here.

We have a few weeks yet, but I know you're thinking about submitting an abstract to AGU. If so, you might want to consider our session: GC049 - Establishing the scientific basis for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) Link here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... 🌊🧪

Francois Primeau was a humble, kind, straight-forward, and very very smart colleague. One of the many great people I met in my 10 years at UCI ESS.

It dawns on me that the most significant step the administration has taken towards mitigating climate change is starting the little national mall algae garden

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector

If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...

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Colleague @montereyken.bsky.social quoted here in @science.org about what we risk by not funding ocean observing as climate change continues

Paul Voosen@voosen.me · 2mo ago

My latest for @science.org: There's been a lot left out of stories about Ocean Observatories Initiative, which has long faced questions over its cost. But even with that, no one -- including marine institutes in red states -- wanted NSF to make changes without thorough scientific review.

El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow! Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

US public preferences for how and by whom CDR is deployed aren’t what you might think. Public control? Openness to nationalizing the fossil fuel industry to leverage its (publicly funded!!!*) IP toward publicly accountable CDR? Yes and yes—and, surprisingly, across parties.

Removing carbon, governing deployment: public perceptions of industry and community roles in U.S. carbon dioxide removal policy - Climatic Change

Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) governance are likely to influence its potential as a climate mitigation strategy but remain underexplored. In a nationally representative survey exp...

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Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.

New music genre unlocked by today’s news: Sea Drone 🌊

A new global map of phytoplankton nutrient stress reveals that ocean productivity is tightly linked to the supply of nutrients from the deep ocean. As surface waters warm and stratify, nutrient stress is increasing, providing a physiological link to climate change. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic-to-space measurements reveal large-scale ocean nutrient stress

Satellite, genomic, and hydrographic analyses reveal climate-driven shifts in phytoplankton nutrient stress across the ocean.

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Happy Sunday. Here’s my dog Petey

I need to send mega thanks to @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social and her company #Micropaleoworks for sending us these AWESOME slides. We’re a bit behind on our various summer research projects because of a fire a few weeks back but this is a huge help!

New paper out in the lab from Travis Mellett on how iron impacts organic carbon consumption by heterotrophic bacteria in the mesopelagic www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

It was a (sweaty) week recovering some office items and my long term storage of samples. Hoping to salvage my current research samples this week.

Amelia Shevenell@ashevenell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fire update: thanks to heroic efforts by contractors & USF CMS ops staff, my group got most of our samples. Yesterday books emerged. Waiting for space allocations for prep labs & offices. Instruments & buildings will take longer; advocating for mobile labs in short to mid term. Funding still needed.

These academics—if they are real; who could ever know!!—should be embarrassed

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️

Bottom line: 1. For profit social media was already incentivized to amplify fringe voices to boost engagement 2. In 2025, most owners picked a political side & tweaked their algos accordingly 3. The resulting diversification of platforms has enhanced the bubble effect which boosts polarization 😱

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

OK, so I was at the first court hearing over the NCAR lawsuit this morning in Denver. I, uh, am not a legal reporter so bear with me as I try to recap a few things. You can view all the court documents here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research v. National Science Foundation, 1:26-cv-01061 - CourtListener.com

Docket for University Corporation for Atmospheric Research v. National Science Foundation, 1:26-cv-01061 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open lega...

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"What’s kind of striking is, in general in paleoscience, every time we have improved reconstructions of CO2, we find out that it’s playing the major role in climate.” - @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Ancient ice core could help explain mysterious shift in Earth’s ice ages

Record-setting Antarctic archive reveals sharp swings in carbon dioxide 1 million years ago

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