🌊 Oceanographers and people who care about our animal and microbial friends trying to take a deep breath in the ocean: Read @koelling.bsky.social's great thread/paper about how oxygen enters the surface of the subpolar North Atlantic. And, stay tuned... (1/3)

🌊 Apply for this WHOI postdoc to work with a wonderful team on understanding oxygen and circulation in the Labrador Sea! whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...

I usually can't listen to my voice in a recording, but it was worth it to hear this segment that @askpossibly.bsky.social put together on what the R/V Endeavor has meant to @urigso.bsky.social and oceanography. 🌊

Here's a moving, uplifting story of nature's resilience, but, like usual, the hopeful feeling it gives is tempered by the challenges and uncertainty of the future. So thankful people never gave up on this river. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

If a storm like Melissa encourages you to think about your own disaster resilience, here is my best advice: Your greatest prep strength in a natural disaster is a strong community. Be where you have people; get people where you have to be. Care for each other. Yes, even you; yes, even them.

I'd love an updated deep dive on the topic of replacing the world's nearly 1 billion 2-wheel gas-powered vehicles with electric. One of my favorite @volts.wtf episodes was www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podc.... Where are things at 3 years later?

Okay. New count: Approximately 15k. Largest protest in recent Rhode Island history, if not ever.

The entire state of RI is smaller than the Houston Metro area. There were 8 No Kings protests in the state. I know folks that went to 3 different ones and all reported huge turnouts, high energy

Blocked en mass.

🌊 Before narrative gets out of control, the very high atmospheric CO2 growth rate, while alarming, does not mean the ocean carbon sink is "shutting down." The ocean will take up CO2 so long as the atmospheric partial pressure of CO2 continues increasing, though its efficiency will decline.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 The 2026 Hollings scholarship is now open until 1/31/26. During the U.S. Govt shutdown, the application will remain open, but staff are unavailable to answer questions or provide assistance. Learn more about the program and check out our resources for applicants: lnkd.in/eE2rfbr7

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Revolution Wind can be completed, per a judges injunction against the stop work order! Will bring clean energy to 350,000 homes in our region and avoid stranding an almost-completed set of turbines in the water for no reason.

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I am really looking forward to this conversation with journalists, led by the amazing @metcalfuri.bsky.social.

When I asked the Assistant Secretary of the Interior why he stopped Revolution Wind, he couldn’t answer the question. This is insane. Watch:

I cannot stop thinking about the fact that the Secretary of the Interior thinks that Rhode Island is somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.

Rhode Island PSA: CVS will give you the updated COVID-19 vaccine. When you make an appointment (or probably by walk-in) you have to click that you have one of the qualifying conditions. That's it.

Great Labor Day opinion piece by my @universityofri.bsky.social colleague (and fellow Union member), @erikloomis.bsky.social. Makes a case for strengthening and amplifying union voices. Happy Labor Day, friends! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Could this type of event happen now? Seeing it as a little kid made me believe that people are good and generous, even the richest and most famous among us. We could really use evidence of that right now.

Not the most egregious nonsense in his rant, but did he really say the drones would swarm the wind farm off Rhode Island and threaten the population of the Pacific Northwest?

I see this nearly-completed project on my way to work almost every day and my heart swells with hope for the future each time. Let’s finish the job and let these turbines bring electricity to eager New Englanders

Reposting mainly to highlight the amazing ASL interpreter. She is really channeling all the feelings! 😍

Parents: the experts have spoken…

I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile

I saw the biggest, brightest meteor of my entire life last night. We almost thought we could hear it sizzle. Our atmosphere and planet are such miracles

steveahlquist.substack.com/p/as-ripta-m... Call your reps, call the governor.

Rhode Island friends: call your state rep and the governor. We can’t lose transit for all

🌊 would be nice to see someone who really knows their stuff in a position like this

I wish I could have a 5-minute interview with this guy. I'd ask him to explain to the victims of flooding in Texas or Asheville, the child of an elderly parent killed by heat, the folks inhaling wildfire smoke from Canada's prolonged fire season how CO2 doesn't endanger Americans.

I was moved by the compassion in this piece. A good time to support World Central Kitchen and to tell you Senators and Reps to demand food flow to the starving: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

If the Senate appropriations becomes law, science to study the ocean, atmosphere, climate, ecosystems, fisheries…might live to see another day in the US. How do we push for the Senate version to become law?

Didn't we all learn how to do this from Voyage of the Mimi with Ben Affleck?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=P631...

AI has greatly accelerated my transition from Matlab to Python. But 3 experiences *this week* have alerted me to the potential for mistakes and brain rot when getting too reliant. First, I used it to help me write code to compute lagged correlations between two variables. 🌊🧵1/4

Looks like this invaluable teaching tool is about to go dark

According to this plot and associated thread, satellites already in orbit, providing invaluable views of our ocean and earth will be turned off. Future missions almost uniformly cancelled. It’s almost too destructively insane to believe true. 🌊

Senate, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. So very many expensive mistakes to stop. @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social explains some of the threat to energy abundance (and, incidentally, cleanliness) in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

When I saw the president’s budget requests, I reached out to all the journalists I’ve been in touch with over the years who have science in their beat. They, without fail, were happy to discuss. At least one story is likely to result. Try it too! It works

🌊 NOAA and NSF budget requests would amount to decimation of earth, ocean and atmospheric science in the US.

This is the way www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌊 With all the changes at NSF and the plan to slash funding by half, I'm thinking of UNOLS all the time. What happens to our world class ocean research fleet without a Division of Ocean Sciences? What will it mean for seagoing research with half the funding?

Additional context: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u... But the linked ruling is surprisingly readable. A glimmer of hope to slow the destruction to US science.

🌊 Which cluster funds the projects trying to understand our planet, predict, and plan for the future?

Somehow I don't think he was inspired by the story of Ghandi's grandfather and the pencil stub...If so, I might feel differently about this quote. www.grandfathergandhi.com/wp-content/u...

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There’s some inaccurate NSF information spreading and causing extra panic. New increments on existing awards are paused. But: to the best of my knowledge, drawdown (reimbursement) on existing increments is not paused. ACMS is still accessible. Could change at any moment, though. Please share.

I proudly participated in a double blind, placebo-controlled trial for a Covid vaccine in late 2020. These definitely happened!

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