Welcome to CONCACAF, England.

Holy ****, the corruption-angle actually worked.

Tl;dr, very credible rape accusation from this past Spring in NZ where the Cape Verde Captain assaulted the team's translator. Let's remember to stop treating humans as heroes for solely being able to kick a ball well.

Many are saying that the FIFA peace prize winner also gets a super special get-out-of-suspension-free card to give out.

Getting that "Manuscript Accepted" email 11 months and 2 revisions after submission.

It is absolutely magical to watch a GK that is in the zone. (completely not biased opinion from a life-long GK)

From my hometown: ~2k racists sign petition for vote to repeal County anti-discrimination law, throw tantrums when Council uses their Supreme Court affirmed rights to publicly release names related to a public referendum.

Maybe the expanded number of World Cup teams isn't such a bad thing, after all.

So great to see people excited to learn about algae

If I read the word "dynamics" one more time my head is going to explode. Please be more specific than a catch-all term for everything.

Saw some job/post-doc stuff this weekend that made me re-think what I'm capable of doing, in an expansive way. Maybe being a plankton jack of all trades across the size spectrum will pay off after all.

The USA broadcast last night said, "And that's the end of the first QUARTER" at the first water-break of the USMNT-Paraguay match. I think I had an aneurism.

I recommend this documentary/podcast series on "The Codfather" of the IRS-takedown of a fishing fleet owner in the cod-industry in the USA. By a public radio station in the Boston area. It comes off quick as a crime thing, but rapidly evolves into details about history of NE USA fisheries.

The USMNT World-Cup roster (leaks) are great because my hopes are let down early. I'm not convinced that a midfield shorter than 5'9" on average is a good idea; it's not like our technical players are best in world. Not playing to strengths, trying to play to Euro-ball....USA is out in Groups.

In an extremely small subset of ROI, imaging methods can capture gelatinous zooplankton fecal pellet production in situ. Nowhere near enough observations for rigorous analysis, but potentially enough for fun "informed" envelope estimates.

Sometimes you get one single ROI that drives you crazy, like this doliolid phorozooid (b/c buds + organs) that looks like it has salp (Thalia democratica-esque) "horns".

"Oh, I just read the LLM response" is not the get-out-of-jail card for confidently stating false information that some people think it is. (1) You tried to hide that you "knew" something (2) You refuse to take responsibility for falsely stating something (3) Everything you say is now in question.

AHHHHHH! New doliolid terminology! "Purple waves"!

Play this on a loop for every enthusiast of this slop in higher ed.

Had my car broken into last night and my birding backpack stolen. The Sav-PD just returned my bag with entire contents. What just happened, the police just solved a petty crime.

I'm allowed to be salty about having to address "reviewer #3 comments" after I submitted a "minor revision" 3 months ago. It's not my fault someone went MIA.

I love mm-sized hydrozoans because I genuinely know nothing about them, struggle to find research on them, but their tentacle morphologies clearly suggest different evolutionary-functions.

The emperor and king penguins were how myself, a 7-year old in a landlocked state, developed a special interest in our planet's oceans. That led to my passion for the complexities of biological oceanography. I have no other input besides the obligation to share that Emperor penguins jumped 2 stages.

Oceanography students would benefit from improv-classes. It genuinely is always, "Yes, and..." when considering the interactions between physics, chemistry, and biology. Learning to roll the conversation topic depending on the audience is a learned skill.

My favorite new hobby is topping up my gas tank every other day because it's inevitable my country will continue to fuck over the entire world's fuel supplies. /s

Biological data: very fun to talk about, very not-fun to write about.

I'm impressed that a phyllosoma (spiny/slipper lobster larva, can't tell 100% which by the angle here) can capture a siphonophore. Those things chug along at a high velocity for their size! Gelatinous zooplankton are far from a trophic dead-end.

Some doliolid phorozooids (the asexual life stage of an asexual life stage) are absolute beasts. Each budding gonozooid (the final sexual stage) is also actively feeding during growth as a bud. This is counted as "1 phorozooid ROI" in calculations... but in reality is more complicated.

I *think* these are all the same Appendicularian/Larvacean species (images from same sampling tow). Pro's and Con's of shadow imaging, I have 3 images from many-thousands that are my best shot at ID'ing a small organism.

Salp chains constantly are the bane of my existence. At least doliolid chains are smaller so it's easy to say "just the colony". Sizes matter (& number of zooids). For functional traits in a community, a big colony is not equal to a small colony, but 1 ROI = 1 ROI. Biovolumes may provide the keys.

The Canadian broadcast displaying a bunch of "Canada is not for sale" signs in their hockey pre-game is quite a bit more... moving than the USA's "once in the 1980's we beat the Soviets".

I am definitely too emotionally invested in the story of Punch the baby Macaque.

Writing goals were not met today b/c: I drove past a fatal accident caused by ICE on my way to my cubicle. Can't quite compartmentalize today.

Trying to schedule PhD committee meetings with Oceanographers is one of the more annoying dissertation hurdles to jump over.

So that Yale Prof. that bragged about recommending his undergrad to Epstein is also the Yale Prof. that The Unabomber tried to blow-up with a mail-bomb. That's.... you can't make that up.

This is insane. Under absolutely no circumstances should a prof ever discuss the physical appearance of a student in a rec letter! I can’t believe I even have to say that!

Today I learned there is a thing called "writing/screen apnea" and that quite a few people have trouble breathing regularly while writing at computers.

Some weeks it feels like you make years worth of progress.

I chuckled so hard at this post in a local aquarium group. Maybe I should come in and undercut the market hahaha

One of my Oceanographer friends (and OSM roomie way back) formed a band in Tampa, FL to let out some angst (of being NOAA-employed). It's sludge/metal so a very select taste, but I still feel the need to share. Yes, the lyrics are Oceanography adjacent.

Some great examples of "ChatGPT and LLMs show you what it thinks you want to see" from the Soelberg trial evidence. (That's the former Yahoo exec murder-suicide).

My biological data is giving me some tight linear relationships.... I'm scared, that never happens.

"You have to enjoy the process" is the best advise I have been given that I am trying to make into a routine, again. One of my personal joys is producing a clean figure that condenses quite a lot of raw observations. (Not giving context b/c WIP)

Shark Whisperer is lying to you: a look into the harmful effects of Ocean Ramsey and shark influencers | This quotes me and is very thorough. Check it out.

If the Giants can fire their leader, does that mean there's hope for Democrats?

It's so weird that when I ask AI about subjects I have zero understanding in, I get great help. Yet, when I ask about subjects I'm familiar with the answers are dogshit. /s

Hyping up one of my favorite plants I keep, the Yaupon holly. It is the only native NA plant to contain caffeine (tea plant) and grows densely on the SE-USA coastline. The strong and fibrous root systems are an under-appreciated guard against soil erosion.

Really, really tired of trying to tune out the neon-flashing signs of "fascism is here, now" so I can finish a dissertation. Thankful for therapy.

Saxsquatch, the only sasquatch playing sax and mixing with EDM, is playing 1 & 1/2 hours from me in a few weeks. Genuinely my favorite artist to have on playlists, hear people like, then be able to state, "Yea, that's a dude in a Sasquatch costume".

"Consider the influence of two tropical systems on each other's trajectories" is a crazy final exam hypothetical that I'm enjoying watch play out in the model-predictions. Either hitting Florida or east of Bermuda, beautiful uncertainty.