I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

OTN was proud to take part in the 2026 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Expo, showcasing how our global tracking tools support the UN Ocean Decade. Thanks to Cass & Dan for representing, and to @dalhousie.bsky.social's Office of Sustainability for hosting! 🌊

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Coming at you from Sturgeon Lab— I mean GarLab, dangit 😅 My Fisheries Science class helped collect data on Lake Sturgeon today!

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “The Govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🔥 Very well said.

3D-printing continues to amaze me. I needed a holder for my new stylus, so this morning I designed something up, made two small test prints to get the sizes right, et voilà, a perfect holder for ~20 cents worth of material. With return info as a bonus. I love these things.

The 2026 spring bloom mission is underway! 🌊 One of our Slocum gliders was deployed in February to monitor the NW Atlantic phytoplankton bloom. Working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, we’re maintaining continuous glider coverage to capture this short but critical event. 📸: Melany Belzile, DFO/BIO

Make marmelada not war.

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Trump: "I want to thank our troops for the masterful job they did in taking the country of Venezuela"

Can fish think clearly in polluted waters? Common antidepressant found in waterways impairs learning in fish… but only in males! Go check it out at: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... 🐟 🧠 💊 Huge thanks to the epic team💙 @Elly Moore @bbmwong.bsky.social @michaelgbertram.bsky.social @jake-m-martin.bsky.social

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

Just tried out this new package and it is very useful! Quick beautiful plots with one line. The code line below was all I needed to make this plot. det_day |> ggauto(date, det_per_tag, SP, ylab = "Daily detections per tag") Looking forward to future compatibility with datetime variables!

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

The U.S. voted against a UN resolution this week to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.” The resolution, which was led by Ghana, urged UN member states to apologize for the slave trade and to contribute to a reparations fund.

Also high meme potential

changing "war with Iran, rising gas prices" to "beat Elvis Presley in a fistfight" is absolutely one of the most unhinged headline edits I've seen from the NYT yet

"The unidentified air traffic controller was in charge of both air and ground traffic. While that's not necessarily out of the ordinary — especially late night — it should be. It meant he was in charge of telling planes in the air, on the ground, and vehicles on the ground where they needed to go."

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

With gas prices looking painful for 18-24mos, I have to lovingly shout this for any car-hunting pals: I *adore* my EV. ⚡️ It’s faster, quieter, cleaner & waking up to a cheap "full tank" every morning is a game-changer. It’s the biggest tech jump I’ve felt since my first iPhone in 2008. I love it!

Coming in R 4.6.0 in April… maybe one of the biggest quality of life improvements to the language in years

OH. MY. GAWD.

New paper! I'm a bit late announcing this one, busy days 😄 Newer, smaller acoustic tags are finally allowing us to tag migrating juvenile sea lamprey. Knowledge of migration patterns would be invaluable for management. But the juveniles weren't overly happy about being tagged; journal link: 1/2

Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Cuba, EMSC says reut.rs/470UFRA

Old intelligence and AI? Behind the deadly attack on an Iranian girls’ school that left 175 dead

Meanwhile in Denmark, I get the feeling some people spend a lot of time in their cars (Clarification, 127.0.0.1 is an network IP sddrees referring to a computer itself, rather than other computers)

Time for a change: British Columbia decides to keep daylight saving time permanently

we in british columbia have collectively voted to never turn our clocks back after tonight and i genuinely wonder how this gonna work but its exciting, we truly have freed ourselves of the clock

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Proud of our neighbours. Portugal should follow Spain's example.

Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade: "We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Babe wake up, the chosen file format just dropped.

Larger respirometers means larger pump controllers! A quick test of the wiring says this box is ready for the final assembly steps 👍

Me from my good old R console (absolutely understand the frustration though)

#photography #slitscan small timeline cleanse slitscan* + panorama of Eberwalder Straße station in Berlin * basically using your camera like a scanner, that scans things passing by, reducing dimensions and perspectives, but catching movement.

House Sparrows. Originally I painted these little guys for my "moving house" postcard. #SciArt #birds #birdart #gardenbirds

Trump EPA: "nothing to see here."

📹 La presa de Montejaque (Málaga) alivia agua por primera vez en cien años de historia. La infraestructura, fallida porque fue construida en terreno poroso, se ha llenado en las últimas semanas por las intensas lluvias. Sigue la última hora del temporal social.elpais.com/aqw…

"You said it feels like there's a barrier between you two, can you build on that?"

The rain in Spain ...floods the plains

File this with all the other climate charts that look like someone plotted the latest data on the wrong axes

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Glad to hear of your higher ideals. Alas, even in the Nordic countries the far right has 20-30% of the vote. Shame folks have forgotten history ..

My homeland dodges the descent into extremism once again. Yet, one in every three Portuguese voted for a far right, US-style president. Democracy holds, but to me this is a sad day nonetheless... Minha gente, passaram 50 anos, e já nos esquecemos?

Ferbruary #oldknees

Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds