🌊 Job Alert in Argo! @euro-argo.eu is looking for a Technician for Argo float operations! Join the team supporting one of the world’s leading ocean observing programmes. 📅 Apply by 1 September 2026 👉 www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting... @argofrance.bsky.social #OneArgo #Argofloats

@soccomproject.bsky.social @bgc-argo.bsky.social @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social 🌊The commentary by Dove et al (bit.ly/4fd2whZ) on the future of Argo comes at a critical moment for US Argo. GO-BGC, the major US BGC-Argo project funded by NSF completes all float deployments in 3 months. 1/3

🌊 Every day, ~4,000 Argo floats observe the world’s oceans. They provide essential, open and freely available data that improve weather forecasts, early warnings systems, and climate predictions. Behind this network: more than 30 yrs of scientific effort. Thanks to all those who keep Argo alive!

Can you imagine the uphill battle facing new PIs? Postdocs? PhDs finishing and looking for a job? "[The memo] directs the section’s 15 program managers to stop seeking funding for any proposals... “until we are able to provide more details.”

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last mo.

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

SOCAT v2026 is released today, with 2.8 million new observations! Download the new version from socat.info/index.php/ve... The annual poster summarising the key points of the release (including the continued decline in observation coverage) is available: socat.info/wp-content/u...

🌊 For 77 years, CalCOFI has been taking the pulse of the California Current, creating the world’s longest-running marine ecosystem monitoring program & one of science’s best ocean archives. @rosannaxia.bsky.social of LA Times shares more about the crucial program. ⤵️ https://lat.ms/4vqAw1v

This hidden gem in ocean science unlocked the secrets of El Niño

Nowhere else on the planet has such a large swath of ocean been studied as thoroughly and for so long, and much of our modern approach to oceanography can be traced back to this hidden gem.

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🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!

Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta

On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support

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📢 Job Alert; open-ended post!! We are seeking an observational oceanographer, with a keen interest in instrumentation and fieldwork in the polar regions. Please share and help connect us with the right candidate! fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Observational Oceanographer

British Antarctic Survey | Open-Ended Appointment | Cambridge |

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As many know, there was a massive fire at USF CMS. The building held offices, labs, equipment, etc and is a total loss. We are most concerned about the finanpcial losses of our students. Please consider donating to the official go fund me supporting our graduate students.

Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta

On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support

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Still on pace: one death roughly every six days in ICE custody. Reminder: gov't thugs are plucking innocent migrants -- often legal ones! -- off the street, kidnapping them, putting them in concentration camps, & allowing many of them to die. On our watch, in our names, with our money.

ICE Reports 15th Detained Death of 2026 at Miami Correctional Center in Indiana

Tuan Van Bui, the son of a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, died in detention on April 1. He is the second person to die at Miami CC this year and continues the morbid pattern of one ICE death every 6.0 days.

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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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Flying from Zürich to LA yesterday we followed a great circle route north over Greenland. I happened to look out the tiny window in the door and saw this awe-inspiring view of Baffin Bay. I've never before gotten to see sea ice during this melt period - leads forming, water exposed.. 🌊

Being a graduate student has always been hard, but seems even more difficult these days. Please consider supporting UH Mānoa Oceanography students: give.uhfoundation.org/schools/Univ... @uhmanoa.bsky.social

Friends of Oceanography

Join me and make a gift for UH Giving Day!

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Registration is now open for the @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social Float Data Workshop this Aug. in Seattle! Learn more and apply by end of April: www.go-bgc.org/news/float-d... @bgc-argo.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social 🌊

Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB)@usocb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

SAVE THE DATE! Aug. 2026 @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social Float Data Workshop in Seattle! Get the deets & submit expression of interest here: www.us-ocb.org/go-bgc-float... 🌊

And you know what makes the world a better, safer place? Because it isn't a frivolous war with no way out

Max Boot@maxboot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war

That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

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$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war

That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

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Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...

Program on Climate Change (PCC) Postdoctoral Scholar Program 2026 | Program on Climate Change

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"Private money cannot replace public funding of science" Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

Private money cannot replace public funding of science

Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

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Trump said to select Thiel protégé as NSF director President Donald Trump is planning to nominate a libertarian protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel with no research experience to be the next National Science Foundation director, according to reports today in the New York Times and elsewhere. 1/7

An independent agency with a budget of nearly $9 billion, NSF has been led for the past 10 months by Panchanathan’s chief of staff, Brian Stone. During that time, it has lost 40% of its PhD-level staff of senior managers and program officers. 5/7

Directorate for Geosciences 5/11

Our new instrument, the SINKing Ecology Robot (SINKER) was highlighted recently in the Monterey Herald. I love how this story highlights the contributions of the diverse team require to make these kind of advancements in ocean science. www.montereyherald.com/2026/01/09/t...

The snow below: New MBARI technology measures ocean carbon like never before

“If we can find ways to more realistically represent these processes in the models, then our understanding of what’s going to happen in the future should be more accurate.”

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Hi, folks! I'm new to BlueSky. I'm a polar oceanographer looking at the drivers of primary production in the Southern Ocean.

Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society &the American Academy of Underwater Sciences offer two scientific diving internships. Intern applicants can be students from colleges and universities with an interest in science and diving. The program runs primarily from mid-May through August.

From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America. President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless. We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is so disgusting.

"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity. I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.

What's interesting as the Thanksgiving Holiday arrives? The first @bgc-argo.bsky.social profiling floats begin to emerge from under Antarctic sea ice each year. Float 5905383 is the first @soccomproject.bsky.social float for 2025/26. It has spent 7.9 years operating under ice. #argofloats #oneargo