Sub-surface ocean temperatures in the Pacific have now reached 9.96°C above average, significantly warmer than the previous record event in 1997. This El Niño continues to set new records. Nobody alive today has witnessed an event of this magnitude.

I feel like xkcd has been getting more into geoscience the last couple of years, and I absolutely love it. Bonus text reads "the administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal." xkcd.com/3284/

Words I never thought I’d post: Bret Stephens is right. I’ve been surprised by the speed of getting things done with AI—even just to grease the wheels of an idea—but even then the ground feels shaky beneath my feet. This convinced me to resist the urge. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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🌊 𝗙𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗣𝘃𝟯 One seawater sample captures one place, one depth and one moment. Combined with millions of others it can help reveal how the ocean is changing. This blog post introduces GLODAPv3 and the work behind this global synthesis 👉 bit.ly/3Rj4K7K

Fifty years of ocean chemistry in one place: GLODAPv3 is here!

Working with marine carbonate-system observations has taught me how much effort lies behind every row of an oceanographic dataset: long hours at sea, careful sampling, laboratory analyses, calibration...

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From record marine heatwaves to a developing super El Niño, UCS climate experts Erika Spanger & @marc-alessi.bsky.social take a closer look at what's happening in our oceans and what it could mean for the months ahead. Tune in tomorrow: youtube.com/live/o4-WMpEpilg

Grateful that our work on individual foraminiferal analyses (and my very first paper!) was featured in this special collection celebrating Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology’s 40th anniversary. Check it and other notable papers below! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Illustrating the breadth of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology at the Journal’s 40-year Anniversary: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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BREAKING: A federal court has blocked the National Science Foundation (NSF) from transferring a major supercomputer away from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Wyoming. This is good news! (🧵👇)

I’m *so* excited to announce that I’ve accepted a tenure-track professorship at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social! I’ll be establishing my own lab, mentoring my own students, and teaching classes on our oceans and planet… all with an incredible view of the ocean from Virginia Key!

“You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’" - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The last time Japanese cherry blossoms were blooming this early: (1) The Western Schism was tearing apart the Catholic Church; (2) The Ming Dynasty deployed the largest ever naval expedition—Zheng He's Treasure Fleet—to extract tribute from nearby countries; (3) Oil painting was invented.

John Bistline@bistline.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

🌊🧪🌏 When was the last time you reviewed for @jgroceans.bsky.social? Our success relies on authors like you submitting quality manuscripts and, in turn, giving back with thoughtful reviews.

Postdoc position in Oceanography and Paleoclimatology at the University of Oxford - shorturl.at/yTblW The role involves exploring the role of ocean circulation in setting and responding to equator-pole temperature gradients over the Phanerozoic. Deadline is 17 April 2026.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BREAKING: University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) files suit against NSF, OMB, NOAA and DOC to halt alleged "violations of the Constitution and Administrative Procedure Act" undertaken by agencies to dismantle Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Breaking News: UCAR files federal lawsuit to stop dismantling of National Center for Atmospheric Research

Lawsuit lists NSF, NOAA, DOC, OMB and their directors as defendents

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Two campus shootings in as many years at my alma mater. Unacceptable. My thoughts are with the two victims in critical condition…

CNN@cnn.com · 5mo ago

Two people are injured and a gunman is dead after a shooting inside an academic building at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to the school. https://cnn.it/3MZRa7b

Incredibly beautiful!

Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

It’s astounding and encouraging that the Met Office put out these long scientific explanations of how our world works. We need more science in the world like this. 👏

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 5mo ago

A positive North Atlantic Oscillation is set to take charge of our weather in the coming days - but what does that actually mean? 🌬️ 🌦️ How will it shape the days ahead? and how long could it stick around? Met Office meteorologist Aidan breaks it down in this week’s deep dive.

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Mark Fishkin@markfishkin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One word HT review for THAT?

Humans have become a force of nature! 20K years ago we emerged out of the ice age. Temps climbed gradually over ~12K years… then stabilized for 10K years. That’s when & why modern humans have thrived. But 150 years ago the rate of change abruptly changed… 1/

📣 Our latest IODP Expedition 361 paper: Southern Ocean carbon stratification across the MPT 🌊 What controlled ice-age CO2? Our new record reveals recurring deep carbon release — and a surprising decoupling after ~0.3 Ma. Check it out 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition

Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...

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#WeekendReading: Edwing et al. on the impact of marine heatwaves on ocean-athemosphere CO2 fluxes (specifically in the US East Coast, but that part is less interesting for me). 🧪🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“I hate every wave of the ocean.” LOL If you snagged a peek at my scratch notes, you’d see a very similar sentiment 😅

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

“One of the fundamental questions in our field was, ‘Where did that CO2 go during ice ages, and where did it come from when the planet warmed?” said @ocnogrphr.bsky.social. His work shows the strongest evidence yet for a clear answer.

How the Rise of a Salty Blob Led to the Fall of the Last Ice Age - Eos

Scientists have long suspected that high salinity levels in the deep ocean were responsible for keeping carbon dioxide locked away during the last ice age. New research finds the strongest evidence…

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Why is life *shaped* like that? How the "interplay of chance and necessity in evolution" carves out a narrow range of body topologies for life on Earth. Quite an incredible paper! 🧪

Ricard Solé@ricardsole.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute@ruclimateenergy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean salty blob. In a groundbreaking study of ancient ocean geochemistry, a Rutgers researcher and a former Rutgers graduate student have found... Read more at tinyurl.com/2s3jyyan

- “I’m Made Of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?” by A Day to Remember - “If You Had Spun out in Your Oldsmobile, This Probably Wouldn’t Have Happened” by Hot Mulligan - “A Convocation of Fauns (A Faunvocation, If You Will)” - The Oh Hello’s

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already. Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)

It’s salty. It’s full of carbon. Its upwelling may have helped end the last ice age. It’s…the salty blob! Thanks to @ocnogrphr.bsky.social for sharing his work with me.🧂🌊 eos.org/articles/how...

How the Rise of a Salty Blob Led to the Fall of the Last Ice Age - Eos

Scientists have long suspected that high salinity levels in the deep ocean were responsible for keeping carbon dioxide locked away during the last ice age. New research finds the strongest evidence ye...

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New postdoc opportunities in my group at Rutgers-New Brunswick, working on sea-level rise projections and/or coastal climate risk assessment & management