Doing a bunch of planning for the winter and spring campaign season, so I put together a little primer on my favorite source books for teaching with Dungeons & Dragons. Teaching with D&D: My favorite source books for running a great Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

Carbon Footprint is literally a propaganda campaign from BP, so...

If anyone has been keen to build their own OpenCTD, we have 5 Rev7 kits back in stock and ready to ship. oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com

One of my many weird environmental education projects was publishing The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a Dungeons and Dragons campaign that sends you on an adventure through the Feywild to uncover the environmental changes that have reshaped a magical forest.

For teachers, environmental educators, and D&D dorks! In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession. www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...

My Patreon subscribers fund a tremendous amount of ocean science and education programming, including the OpenCTD, the smart buoy, and some very weird ocean and environmental education projects. And subscribers get cool stickers!

A quick and dirty non-comprehensive write-up of my comments during my congressional briefing on deep-sea mining last Friday. www.southernfriedscience.com/9-quick-ques...

Super excited to unveil the next artist for my Jaunty Ocean Critter series, @cageyratfish.bsky.social! We're kicking off the haunted season with a Halloween Humboldt Squid. Only one way to get yours, subscribe! www.patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler

A good, short primer on what the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction means and what comes next. The US has signed, but yet ratified the treaty. Ratification requires a 2/3 votes in the to the US Senate. Add ratification of the High Seas Treaty to your regular constituent call.

A rarely mentioned contribution to this phenomenon is that nordic countries are already set up for engine block warming, which means 230v outlets within easy reach of parking spaces. They had the charging infrastructure before the cars.

Listen, I am being absolutely unironically serious here: The kids fucking love cottage cheese. Full stop.

Amazing news! The United Nations High Seas Treaty has crossed the required 60-country ratification threshold, meaning that the agreement will enter into force in January. This is a major win for ocean conservation. Congrats to all of those involved in making this happen! #bbnj #highseas2024

The Internet belongs in a single large beige cube in the family room where everyone can see what you're doing and you should have to wait for your mom to get off the phone before you can check your email.

Well, so much for international faculty at US universities.

Great afternoon briefing congressional staffers on the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining.

New Otter just dropped. www.earth.com/news/scienti...

If for some weird reason you can't get your head around "don't put your name on a list" regarding RSVP-ing for protests, than maybe consider not RSVPing as a tactic to drive headlines about how much bigger the protest was than anyone expected.

Tired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the biodiversity of tropical rainforests. Wired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the combined biodiversity of the entire rest of the planet.

The new South Park didn't air last night, either. Parker and Stone put out a statement that they "didn't get it done in time" which sounds a hell of a lot like they refused to make last minute changes.

Can I offer you an otter eating a crab in these trying times?

I doubled up on flu and COVID vaccines yesterday and whew buddy they are kicking my butt today. Feel like I got run over by a truck.

Had a pretty cool meeting this afternoon with our local blacksmith. We've got some very fun, very ridiculous projects queued up.

Curious about deep sea mining? Check out this fantastic 20-min short on the subject by @fieseler.bsky.social, Jason Jaacks, and team. 🧪🌊

After a long day of discussing future field work to study #DeepSeaMining, this short documentary was a welcome reminder of the why - there is still so much we don’t know about the deep sea! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...

Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪

So, I'm reviewing the transcripts of the first Transatlantic Cable from 1858 for my book and I regret to inform you that we have always been pretty bad at social media. Lord Kelvin should have let the sea take it. We were the kraken all along.

Another spoon finished. Slowly improving. Cherry.

A big rooster.

Super secret 3D printing project on the way. Takes up my entire large format printer. Make your guesses. Hint: it's vaguely deep-sea mining related.

A juvenile osprey gives me the stink eye by the UMCES boat basin.

This summer, I sent several OpenCTDs to colleagues in Ghana and South Africa. The Ghana team was gracious enough to do some side-by-sides with their commercial Valeport CTD. Valeports are great CTDs, but cost thousands of dollars and require commercial calibration.

The OpenCTD can be built for as little as $400 (I know, it used to be $350, tariffs are really hurting the small technology fabricators) and can be built, calibrated, and maintained by the end user. Learn more at Oceanography for Everyone: oceanographyforeveryone.com

We're coming down the home stretch of OpenCTD version 8, the finest DIY oceanographic instrument ever made. A few final hardware validations and I'll be ready to launch. This update has been entirely supported by Patreon. Help us make the tools of ocean science accessible to everyone!

Shipping out the Whale Shark stickers at noon, so if you want some, you've got an hour to subscribe!

Good morning Bluesky. Be delightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB...

Can I tell you a cool story to replace the old "The Soviets used Pencils" gag? We like big boats. We like launching big boats. We like the ceremony of launching big boats. We like smashing bottles of hooch to launch a big boat. When I was a post-doc, the UK launched the MV Britannia.

Can I tell you a cool story to replace the old "The Soviets used Pencils" gag? We like big boats. We like launching big boats. We like the ceremony of launching big boats. We like smashing bottles of hooch to launch a big boat. When I was a post-doc, the UK launched the MV Britannia.

I'd like to think that Jeffries and Schumer are strategically playing the heal to get people excited about a new generation of Democratic candidates free of party baggage that challenge the old guard. I mean, they aren't. But I'd like to think that.

After hanging a, frankly, absurd amount of drywall, I launched into revisions for Tidewater, my near future, relatively optimistic novel of climate change and adaptation on the DelMarVa peninsula and added a tight little scene that ties the third act together. Now sitting at about 90,000 words.

Because log cabins have weird geometry, we have this 45 foot long triangular crawl space that runs across the entire side of the house and was never properly insulated. Last winter, it was really noticeable, so we decided to fix it. I hung a lot of drywall this weekend.

Seems like the bigger problem for the "celebrity chefs" is that actual good cookware lasts forever while non-stick coatings even if properly cared for, start to wear out after a few years, so you have to buy more.

Good things happening alert: Field School is running our 5th annual Drag n’ Tag event (drag queens+shark research). We run this event to raise funds for local LGBTQ+ youth org Pridelines. Enjoy these photos and donate to support their work here! donate.misselasmo.org/event/drag-n...

The internet existing within a giant beige box in the middle of the family room that everyone shared was probably the right call.

I think one of the most powerful things that happened on BlueSky is how quickly we turned the shame hose on anyone with Posters Madness as soon as they became A Problem.

Please enjoy these turtles, sitting on a log, in a pond full of duckweed, near Harper's Ferry.

I think about this article a lot. newrepublic.com/post/191746/...

The boat is it stuck yes. Yes! The boat is stuck,

4% recovery of wasted domestic manganese would exceed all US imports.

US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals. There’s enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste to power 10 million electric vehicles. grist.org/science/us-m... #EV #Climate #Science #Mines #Batteries #LithiumBattery #Lithium

BATHYNOMUS IN THE HOLE! its just like a cat! From the UNCW ROV dive in the Gulf yesterday on the Pt. RV Pt. Sur #giantisopod via FB www.facebook.com/UNCWUndersea...