My water boasts only two stickers. “Friend of Garak” is one. (High quality - has survived many runs of the dishwasher.)

We keep to the old ways here

"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few." This read is always a 🎯

Skybrain: what is up with the two trees on either side of my condo building entrance? In theory they should be getting enough water because there are annuals planted around then that get regularly watered. Could it be a legacy of oversalting the sidewalk? Location: DC.

for the #stopfundingoverfishing & #fisheries crowd, a summary from @drdanielskerritt.bsky.social (@oceana.bsky.social) & Rashid Sumaila (@ubcoceans.bsky.social)

single best thing help the oceans: eliminate the harmful subsidies given to fishing fleets that make catching the last fish still profitable @wto.org "Fish 1" agreement starts toward that but it's the first step in a journey of many miles - find out why 👇 theconversation.com/what-the-wto...

timeline cleanse

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

with all the Disney/Jimmy Kimmel/Star Wars chatter, allow me to offer an image posted by the Roddenberry Foundation a few days ago

INT. BOARDROOM Sweating Disney execs sits around a table staring at Hulu/D+/ESPN subscription cancellations. EXEC 1: How do we get out of all this criticism that we're caving to authoritarian pressure? Exec 2: ...more Baby Yoda? Exec 3: (Pushes Big Red Button) Dear god, I hope this works.

On the one hand, this is very good news (gift link). On the other, @nytimes.com gets two of the most important points wrong. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Tired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the biodiversity of tropical rainforests. Wired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the combined biodiversity of the entire rest of the planet.

Sarah runs a science education nonprofit (in Philly but also sharing globally). She rocks.

This is a thing my team is leading at work! Heading to Ghana soon.

A new global treaty just dropped 🌍

Who is going to Dr Dog tonight? Besides me, that is.

Reminded by @acollierastro.bsky.social's latest video that I need to update my greenwashing habitable zone to rename the top right corner as "The Altman Expanse"

New art experience in Philly opening!

Skybrain: what is up with the two trees on either side of my condo building entrance? In theory they should be getting enough water because there are annuals planted around then that get regularly watered. Could it be a legacy of oversalting the sidewalk? Location: DC.

If you live in: California New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Virginia The deadline to register to vote in the November elections is coming up. Check your registration now: IWillVote.com.

It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!

color me surprised "out of nearly 12,000 GtCO2 of theoretical #carbonstorage capacity in sedimentary basins, just 1,460 GtCO2 can be considered robust for #climate planning purposes...This is an order of magnitude less than commonly-cited figures." www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

“Who me? As a tripod fish, I deal with stress and fear by transforming into an eyeless abyssal predatory elder god. What about you?” 🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.

🌊 Plastics aren’t just polluting the ocean, they might be messing with the marine carbon cycle too. A new study argues plastics could disrupt how the ocean captures and stores CO₂. A hidden climate risk? 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ICESASC25 attendees, a conference for your calendar next year! It's different (more diversity of topics, geographies) but super fun and engaging.

Finishing a week of fish with anchovies. Safe travels #ICESASC25 friends.

yo #cetacean biologists, #whale scientists, wildlife/remote sensing nerds -- what's the track record of attempts to use satellite imagery to spot whales? eg www.spacewhales.de. Null results don't get shared; I'm trying to understand how much of a fool's errand this is vs no it's possible now! 🌊🦑

I will be at #IMCC8 - will you??

Yikes from the negotiating group chair: he “unfortunately did not see any indication, nor pick up any signals, of a possible pathway” for concluding...Fish2. No further meetings to discuss the quagmired second half of the agreement are scheduled." news.mongabay.com/2025/09/24-y...

for the millionth time - this is NOT solving any kind of plastic problem "if only someone gave us $7.5B we'd clean up all the plastic in the Pacific" a) no, no they wouldn't b) this is terrible ROI for $7.5B futurism.com/the-byte/oce...

While J-Pod is making an early season extended visit to Puget Sound, we've had no shortage of Bigg's killer whales in the central Salish Sea. Yesterday we got on the water with over a dozen whales from four different family groups: the T36A1s, T60s, T99s, and T123s! #orcas #whalesky

The paper: the genetic program that enables digit formation in limbs is derived from the system that drives cformation of the cloaca. Me, the headline writer:

good lord

"such ‘shares without clicks’ constitute around 75% of forwarded links" note: I did click the link and read the abstract, but the article is paywalled

DC residents have all the obligations of American citizenship, pay federal taxes, serve on juries and register with the Selective Service, yet Congress denies them full local self-government and voting representation in Congress.   The remedy is #DCStatehood.

because Americans were so good at it before 🫣

Big new report from EJF on #squid #fisheries in SW Atlantic. There's all the things: #IUU, #shark finning, #humanrights abuses, marine mammal hunting... Interviews with 169 former fishers from 110 squid jigging vessels. Wild stuff. 🌊🌏🦑🎣

September's theme: Children's Book Illustration FLOTSAM by David Wiesner. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. (For ages 3+). The wordless book shows the story of a boy who, while beachcombing, finds a barnacle-covered underwater camera that has washed up upon the shore. #arthistory #art #childrensbooks

New research from China suggests that oysters can be good at removing carbon dioxide from oceans, making the bivalves both an important food source and a potential tool in the fight against climate change and ocean acidification.

The Environmental and Regulatory Scrutiny Elon Musk’s Companies Have Faced — ProPublica | The world’s (now second) richest man would like to be able to pollute your drinking water and destroy endangered species habitat more easily.

Marine biodiversity is thriving beneath offshore mussel farms in the UK. Eating locally grown mussels is not just part of our #FoodSecurity but is environmentally beneficial. Great keynote from Llucia Mascorda-Cabre at #ICESASC25.

I am missing normal science life 😓

Nothing to see here, just taxpayer dollars wasted on bringing randos with day jobs all the way to DC to stand around in the nice neighborhoods freaking us out with giant guns. Pics by me over the last 24 hours around Georgetown and West End while walking my dog after work.

Curious about deep sea mining? Check out this fantastic 20-min short on the subject by @fieseler.bsky.social, Jason Jaacks, and team. 🧪🌊

Gift link to a great column from @willbunch.bsky.social @inquirer.com share.inquirer.com/9bw4K3

Actively recruiting! If you know any strong leaders in #Ghana who have a track record of successful campaigning for change, please share this with them. Any discipline (comms, law, science, organizing) and any background (environment, ocean, human rights, public health, etc) welcome!

Our Philadelphia Phillies, your 2025 NL East Overlords 🫡