🌈 🌊 This Pride Month, we celebrate the vibrant contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in ocean science & beyond. Our strength comes from the diversity of our community, and we're committed to fostering a safe, welcoming environment where everyone can thrive, contribute, and belong. #ScienceForAll

#Bloomscroll #Pride

Aquilegia always makes me think of the lovely gardens that were a haven at @wadhamcollege.bsky.social . It took a while as an undergraduate to adapt to city life, trapped by walls and traffic and noise. Working under a tree or chatting to the gardeners about their favourite plants was a refuge.

Tickets for the stage dance adaptation of 'It's a Sin' at Aviva Studios in Manchester will go on sale tomorrow. The show runs February 16-27, 2027. factoryinternational.org/whats-on/its...

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

🌊🏳️‍🌈 Raising the flag for Pride! 🌈✨ Today, we proudly raised the Pride flag across all 4 of our sites at NOC! Honouring and standing alongside our LGBTQIA+ community, we share our commitment to inclusion, equality and respect to all on land and at sea! Happy Pride Month! 🌈

Can I manage a #pride #bloomscroll? The rainbow should be easy at least. Let's see...

Damn. A really good 7-post thread, pictures, alttext. POOOfff into the upload ether. Probably I should reduce the picture file size but effort😭

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I like this. Once you've got the arc of the ecliptic firmly in your mind it becomes so intuitive. (Sun rises in the east, arcs through the southern* sky, sets in the west. Height seasonal & latitude. Stars the same, moon above/below the same arc according to Stuff.) imgs.xkc.d.com/comics/sunbe...

Wow. Dismantling the OOI arrays is a major loss for oceanography. 🧪🌊 oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...

Was at Port of Blyth today, and saw these baskets hanging from the staithes. Does anyone know what they are for? Cheers!

Cleared some foliage overhanging a path and this lass was delighted by the new lunch spot.

A painting. The sea and a big boat arrive in Bury St Edmunds

My safety coordinator at work shared this with me today. youtu.be/3qiI1P1rP6E?...

Coming late to the Bridgerton prequel about Charlotte and Agatha and very much enjoying how well the young actors play the established older characters.

Astonished to learn that game shoots are not licensed.

Moorland streams overflowing? Rill issue.

This is physics-based supernatural indie horror game, Psych Rift, with a seriously scary banana that'll make you one of its 5 a day! Coming to Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4093640/... by indie dev @ablazeinteractive.com

Not a stile, but an aqueduct (Haweswater - Manchester, so 1930s) surveying column above Longsleddale, Eastern Lakes. It's 3m+ tall if I remember correctly.

They must have scheduled this months ago, but... the BBC is repeating my 2018 documentary series "From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature" (online for a few weeks). So if you need some cold to recover from the record-breaking day, here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Continue to think the core problem with “ban the under 16s from social media” is it treats “online harms” as similar to a bottle of Grey Goose when they are far more akin to bathtub moonshine:

You might be wanting the lightning map tab open later map.blitzortung.org#4.25/54.78/-...

Are you too seeing posts about house cooling solutions and needing a little song? Flanders & Swann are there for you. All together now: 🎶Heat is Work and Work is Heat...🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnbi...

Oh yes you are definitely a beautiful but scary wasp with a sting I won't go near you.

As distinct from thw NOAA DART buoys, which protect the US and others from tsunamis. You can't do oceanography without international cooperation because the sea is next to other countries. Isolationism harms everyone, but especially the country isolating themselves.

🌊🐟Fish in a kettle! 🐟🌊 An immersive theatre show set in a house party hosted by the ocean in 2050 📍Fabric Studios L3 8AN 📅25-30 May 🕖19:30 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/labra... #SciArts #climateChange #Merseyside

I know it’s a joke but we do need an underground rebuild at Piccadilly and Andy Burnham is totally right on that. If it unleashes zombies Manchester will just have to come to a deal with the zombies

This is called biofouling. The shipping industry spends *billions* on special paints and coatings to try and reduce it. But many solutions need the ship to be moving so sea life will slide off the coatings before it can flourish. With vessels stuck, that's not happening. www.ft.com/content/28c8...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Another example of the little things Korea does to make life better for folks... These "platform worker" pods are placed in hubs around the city so folks have a place to chill out in massage chairs, nap, get free coffee, and get legal help/counseling between Uber pickups, Doordash deliveries, etc.

As sea level rises, coastal flooding will become more frequent, leaving less time to repair and defend. Not everywhere will be able to hold the line. We will need ways to support more communities who find themselves undefended, and to learn from places already experiencing coastal erosion.

I linked it deep in another thread, so people are just now discovering this old green onion cereal thread. It's wild. Enjoy!

On the strength of this recommendation from a comedy writer we turned off our science heads and went to see P. Hail Mary tonight, and wouldn't you know it he's dead right. It's a daft fun film with some light gags in fine scenery, doesn't take itself too seriously. Just what we needed.

So weird seeing people suddenly on the road to Wigan Pier. Which is a smidgen outside the patch.

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This should be right up Bluesky's strait: collaborative arts & science projects all across Europe. "Crossing coasts, connecting communities, new artistic visions from Europe’s coastlines, seas and inland waters" tidalarts.eu/lighthouse-a... What's happening near you?

Every now and again, it's worth popping quickly onto the Telegraph's website to remind yourself just how hysterically and ludicrously obsessed they are with Ed Miliband and net-zero. Just from the past few days...

The list of facts at the top of this thread are of course lies that came solely from my head but I did once see two herring gulls on some waste ground fighting over who got to carry off an abandoned toaster. The battle was perhaps more intensely fought owing to the fact it was a four-slice toaster.

It’s amazing that all these tiny people are inside any television making it work. Even more amazing with flatscreens.

Apparently they filmed it in one take. Which I think might have helped it avoid the awful cringe that farce often has, because it was all about desperately needing to look good and the actors were genuinely trying not to screw up and also do you still know which cup had got the pea? #Rivals

Would any of the geodesists on here like to have a crack at explaining the diagram in this thread? How to weigh the earth #geodesy

At 8:32:21 a.m. in the early morning of May 18, 1980, a magnitude 5.1 #earthquake strikes 1 mile (1,6 km) below Mount St. #Helens, triggering one of the largest landslides ever witnessed by humans - followed by a gigantic lateral blast ...

That’s deathtrap! You’re missing the chain stay. This reminds me of when a guy 3d rendered people’s drawings of bicycles.

One for the data ledger digitisation people to be aware of too. 👇 Do you know what you automated reader does? How have you tested it?

If you think getting samples from the deep sea is hard, try taking them from an active underwater volcano! 🤖🌋 Thanks to federal funding, WHOI has developed several autonomous vehicles for this exact mission. 👉Take the plunge with this explosive Oceanus story: go.whoi.edu/volcanobots

Council elections 🤝 Danelaw

Well Scottish Grannies are keeping well these days.🙄Reminder that there's lots of bots and misinformation farms out there, keep hitting that block button to stifle them.