Hey teachers! Do you talk about the ocean in class? For Science, Geography, Maths, English, History, Art...? Anything else?

Overheard in the street: "Huh? What the bloody hell is a 'Rapture'? Do you get Tesco Clubcard points for it?"

Starting a 3-month pilot today with the BBC’s brand-new satellite data team! We'll be focusing on using remote sensing data for news stories and longer-term investigations 🛰️ 🌍 Got tips, an upcoming paper or data, or just ideas you'd like to share with us? DM or email me at [email protected]

After all the rain we have had over the last few days it's not surprising that the River Ouse in York has flooded (a little bit). A similar soggy outcome happened nearly 10 years ago but with a far more serious outcome for the Hall. Join us as we tell you about the 2015 Boxing Day floods.

If you feel earthquake shaking or receive an earthquake alert you should drop down to the ground, take cover under a sturdy object, and hold on until all the shaking has stopped. www.shakeout.org/california/d...

This is "mass deportation" being talked about for people here legally, settled into communities, who have done nothing wrong but have simply made the UK their home - our friends, family members, colleagues and neighbours. Utterly vile.

Media: LETS TALK ABOUT SCHOOL SMART PHONE BANS Schools: Here's the app on which you can order your lunch. Here's a consultation from the bus service about phone-based ticketing. Here's the online homework site. Parents: Can we go back to talking about cheap IT for kids please?

It’s often when you have the fewest seconds to reach the Metro before it leaves that you find a puddle, a sunrise, and a tree all in the same view. But you have no choice. Freewill is an illusion. Bergkrystallen, Oslo 2025-09-21

Look at the difference between the cabinet and the shadow cabinet...

Clatterbridge Cancer Charity Glow Green Night Walk is back www.birkenhead.news/clatterbridg...

Please appreciate merseyrail's dedication to demonstrating going arse over tit on a wet floor. And also the passive-aggressive swipe at network rail!

Big old dunes (10cm dunes formed in 20cm flow depths 🤓)

¡Allá! La Restinga (La Laja bus stop) on the island of El Hierro, the end of the longest point-to-point journey you can make in the Schengen Zone by surface public transport. 5650.2km from Vardø Havn. 192hrs 31 mins. Now excuse me while I go and find my room and shower and I’ll be back. #Schengen200

Our intrepid travellers Jo & Mrs Turtle approach the end of their mission to cover the furthest points of the Schengen area of Europe by public transport in 200 hours...

This. Obviously you don't want to mute "kirk" forever, because qhat if there's Star Trek news? But hopefully a few days will do.

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

Was it an island in Roman times though? Further north Sweden has definite post-glacial rebound, so was rising out of the sea, I'm not sure about the south west though. 2000 years ago? 🌊

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

What I don’t really understand in Norway is the exactitude of the moose warning signs, to a decimal place. How do they know there are exactly 1.6km of moose? I don’t trust pollsters who do decimal places, and I’m extending that to road sign designers. #Schengen200

DRAMA from the local owls. If you told me there's an extremely angry small sheep, muffled, in the top of the nearest big tree i wouldn't *exactly* believe you but it's almost plausible.

I really adore how silent these LPG/battery powered ships are. As we plough along at 13 knots, the only sound at the bow is the whir of the radar scanner and a slight rustle of the bow through the water. Not a sound from the propulsion. We could almost be sailing. #Schengen200

Arctic Vardø is the most easterly town in Norway. Due south is Russia. I’m east of Kyiv and Istanbul. Closer to China than I am to Portugal. And from here to the most distant point in Schengen reachable by public transport is in excess of 5,500km as the crow flies. That’s a lot of 🚆 🚌 ⛴️ #Schengen200

@politicanimal.bsky.social and the Travelling Turtle are embarking on another public transport travel challenge across Europe, and are about to reach the start if you want to follow along ..

Travel 100 yrs of ocean science, a sneak peek to our '100 Years of RRS Discovery' celebrations starting next week in #Dundee! Our events tell the story of historic ocean exploration and bring us to the present, showcasing modern ocean science and technology. 🔗in bio! #RRS100 #Discovery100

The UK Government will send a test alert to mobile phones on Sunday. This is how to switch it off: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin... Before anyone types before thinking: domestic abuse survivors may need this. If you don’t, just scroll on.

Lots of people understandably keen that I see this result of drawing the GZ curve upside down...

A strong contender for the IgNobel Prize here. [Linked image Alt text: a diagram of a flying gull with a video logger attached to its belly filming backwards, a photo from said logger with shit falling from a gull in flight over the sea, a #datavis of gull excretion events.]

Couldn't sleep and ended up reading @tkingfisher.com at 3am. You wouldn't think horror would be a very good idea at that time but it was surprisingly soothing. Whatever else goes wrong, I don't have to deal with underground zombie children. And even if I did, here's how! Cooperation and friendship.

Here in the UK, following the warmest Spring on record we have now had the warmest summer of record, with the UK mean breaking 16°C for the first time. It has been sunnier than usual and dry. Here is the climate/weather summary for the past year #dataviz #globalwarming #climatchange.

Antimony hardens the lead and prevents shrinkage and deformation when the alloy cools from a melt in a mould to make the moveable type. It meant that high quality clear text could be repeatably printed on mass unlike previous printing that used carved wood blocks that deteriorated quickly /3

Spot the Tall Ship! Snapped from the train in Liverpool.

Hey @germac.bsky.social have you seen you've made the storm list this year? www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Just caught a glimpse of her over the roofs coming in on the train. TALL. SHIP.

For anyone finding the need to explain the British tabloid print media of the 1990s to a bemused teen, this is the transition from part 2 to part 3 of the Princess Diana story distilled and bottled. Serve in your 1981 wedding commemorative mug.

“The tide has again receded over the sand-flats. The remaining framework of a wooden ship is half-sunken in the sand. On one of the ribs a cormorant stands with wings lifted” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Hooray, an @xkcd.com about tides! Although only little ones, round here we can get a tidal range of 10 *metres* . xkcd.com/3135/

Just catching up with John Finnemore - I may never look at Jersey quite the same again. 😂 Thanks @edmorrish.bsky.social et al for lifting the weight off the world for a little while. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

Have you been selected as an Author for the IPCC AR7 and are you planning to attend the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026? Please get in touch! I am convening an IPCC-focused Town Hall and will invite a panel of Authors to address the scientific challenges for AR7 and answer questions from the community

Aussie approach to a 19th century mechanical tide prediction machine: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I can't quite work out how the separate constituents were summed, any ideas?

X invariably fail to remove the most egregiously unlawful content. Nothing changed after Knowsley, when they rejected complaints vs open calls to burn the hotel down. Nothing changed after Southport & Sunderland: the very posts for which users are in prison remain on X to this day!

📣 A reminder that applications for the Thames Environment Fund close this Friday. 🌻 Applications are open to any project ideas that will be of environmental benefit to the tidal Thames. Find out more ➡️ pla.co.uk/thames-envir... #RiverThames #CleanThames #PortOfLondon #London #Essex #Kent

🌊 Swells from hurricane Erin arrived yesterday evening on European shores ... here are the crossing swell patterns around the Aran islands, Ireland. odl.bzh/qNHAZqcQ

Who's on BlueSky AND associated with a museum, gallery or heritage site in Leeds (UK)? I'd very much like to connect with such people! #museum #museums #gallery #galleries #heritage

Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform 🧪

Here's an envelope I illustrated, which will be auctioned with other designs by celebs to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. I'll post details of how you can bid in due course. Reposts appreciated. #caricature #art

Friends...today is World Goat Day. So I drew you a goat. Because you deserve it.

"The distance from Liverpool to Holyhead, from station to station, is 72 Miles, hence there and back 144 miles, and this signal and answer is considered unusually long if it occupies one minute. " bsky.app/profile/jowi...

The moment that weather forecasting began climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-storm-...