“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info | Discussion

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

An early morning photo of the R/V David Packard

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Abstract submissions for the 2026 Marine Imaging Workshop in Gibraltar is now open; the deadline for submission is January 30th, 2026. miw2026.org This international Workshops assembles scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of marine imaging.

I just got back from Victoria, BC. A city I visit often. I'm always impressed by how many people commute by bike there. And it's not an accident, the city has invested in an amazing biking infrastructure that other North American cities could learn from: youtu.be/FKMDMekErQ0

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

MBARI and FathomNet collaborated with Meta on their new Segment Anything Model (SAM 3). Meta produced 294K segmentation masks for FathomNet data. More details at www.fathomnet.org/news/open-da... #machinelearning #FathomNet #MBARI

Meet the engineering team behind one of MBARI’s new underwater imaging systems 🤖🔧 Our scientists and engineers work side by side to develop cutting-edge tools that track ocean health in real time and help us visualize the ocean like never before. Learn more: youtu.be/Kqo4MhthIkQ?...

The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.

A flash back to an earlier, better time ... youtu.be/6A8TiUpKDVg?...

Attorney General Pam Bondi came before the Judiciary Committee today. But she refused to answer a raft of important questions. On Tom Homan's bribe. On Donald Trump's new luxury plane. On January 6th pardons. On illegal strikes in the Caribbean. On Epstein. The stonewalling was staggering.

Fantastic biography from Dr. Bruce Robison, a midwater researcher and one of the founding scientists of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

The 6th Marine Imaging Workshop will take place in Gibraltar from 19-21 May 2026. Topics include: - Imagery collection and processing - Still and video annotation - Machine learning approaches - Image and video data management - Applications in marine research and conservation …and much more.

MBARI has released a benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video. - Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03499 - Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/MBA... - Workflow: docs.mbari.org/benchmark_ev... #machinelearning #deepsea

I just rolled out major updates to both the front-end and back-end of database.fathomnet.org. 😱 Most users may not notice much but it sets the stage for much faster development cycles in the future. #quarkus #vue3

Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack | Discussion

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone

We've got a new paper out: "Assisting human annotation of marine images with foundation models". www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all mainline aircraft, FAA says reut.rs/4f0jq2Y

Timeline cleanse youtu.be/9DBSCkga_W0

The White House Office of Management and Budget has announced a plan to shut down 41 NASA space missions including somewhere they've already built the spacecraft. There's a list of missions to be cut at www.planetary.org/articles/bil...

OMG I have learned there is a place called the Susami SHRIMP AND CRAB AQUARIUM in Japan! 🦀🦐 Here are a couple of articles about how it is tiny but locally beloved 🤩 @crabspromenade.bsky.social @k-hermit.com have you been? english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/5...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)? They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely. Sea ice extent uses it too.

Laguna Seca, home to the Sea Otter Classic, is finalizing its Facilities Master Plan and considering a permanent bike park slalom course. #MountainBiking advocates who enjoy riding in the #Monterey area can sign and share a petition to support this bike park. chng.it/Tc6nkyCgmX

xkcd "what if?" has a YouTube channel now!!!! youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs

Laguna Seca, home to the Sea Otter Classic, is finalizing its Facilities Master Plan and considering a permanent bike park slalom course. #MountainBiking advocates who enjoy riding in the #Monterey area can sign and share a petition to support this bike park. chng.it/Tc6nkyCgmX

Donate to Monterey Off Road Cycling Association (MORCA) and California Mountain Biking Coalition (CAMTB) to support better #mountain bike trails in California. Each $5 donation is an entry to win (almost) any Ibis mountain bike. morcamtb.org/camtb-ibis-d...

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

Atmospheric Carbon dioxide concentration jumped grew by 3.75 ppm in 2024. A 25% jump over the previous record set in 2015. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

8 days left to submit an entry to the FathomNet Kaggle challenge, Navigating the Depths: Advancing Hierarchical Classification of Ocean Life! Show us how you would develop a model that can accurately classify varying taxonomic ranks. www.kaggle.com/competitions...

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

Meet the Manefish, Caristius macropus. Named for their distinctive shape, macropus means large foot. This fish was observed in Monterey Bay 483 meters (1584 feet) deep in August of 2018. #MBARIFromTheVault

If you missed last night's @nationalacademies.org 26th Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture, you can watch it online! Chris Scholin discussed how the advent of robotic, advanced sensing, and computing technologies has transformed ocean exploration. Watch: www.nationalacademies.org/en/event/448...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I've got a lot to say about the deep-sea mining executive order. I'll be rolling it out in digestible chunks throughout the day, starting with this quick primer: Understanding the Executive Order on Deep-sea Mining and Critical Minerals: Part 1, what are we talking about?

We tried deep-sea mining in U.S. waters already -- back in 1970 -- off the South Carolina coast. Scientists returned to the undersea site in 2023 to see what it looked liked now. One told me: "It's like they were there yesterday." My story: pulitzercenter.org/stories/pull... #deepseamining

Mark your calendars. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (aka MBARI) will have an open house on July 12th from noon till 5pm.

The local Monterey paper wrote about FathomVerse, a free game created by MBARI so "citizen scientists" can learn about animals in the deep-sea AND help train artificial intelligence to identify animals. mailchi.mp/montereycoun...

Tariffs https://xkcd.com/3073/ [later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability! Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3073