Genius rapper and MIT prof Lupe Fiasco in Dots and Lines quotes meteorologist Lewis F Richardson (1922), Weather Prediction by Numerical Process, p66: “Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity.” 🌊🌀❤️‍🔥

A smidgeon of good news for the ocean.

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

New study by Hu et al. reveals #IndonesianThroughflow’s nonlinear response to #CO2, with a rapid decline after crossing a #TippingPoint. The first point may be approaching, signaling a potential climate #Tipping element with implications for global #climate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our hedonism and material wealth comes at great cost to the natural world that sustains our bodies and souls. This tension is almost unbearable. So why don’t we ease it? Give up fossil fuels, formalise the monetary value of nature, and embrace greater global equity.

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

The universality and wonder of science and nature bring people together. The ocean community is worldwide, transcending nationalities, politics, and religion.

Happy New Year!

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

ICE’s “Alligator Alcatraz” is where thousands of “profiled” people are being caged and tortured only one hour from my home in Miami. We cannot accept this.

Keith Haring

Science fraud is on the rise, facilitated by for-profit, open-access journals (Richardson et al, 2025, PNAS). These same journals are accelerating author and reviewer burnout by profiting from quantity while neglecting quality. Choose society journals where reputation and community are everything!

Are you a dynamic, organized ocean scientist and an enthusiastic writer and communicator? Lead and serve your community as an editor @jgr-oceans! Follow this link to apply tinyurl.com/OceansEditors

Ocean mesoscale eddies are the most important agent of horizontal mixing across oceanic fronts. Bashmachnikov et al., investigate the effect of eddies on sea ice cover in the Greenland Sea finding that eddies limit the eastward spread of ice 🧊 🐻‍❄️ 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Science is facing one of its most challenging moments. There's never been a more important time to understand the current state of federal science funding—and what’s at risk. Watch AGU’s on-demand webinar to get the full picture. 🎥 buff.ly/AIDUCEi

AGU's volunteer #PeerReviewers help advance the Earth and space sciences and maintain the integrity and accountability of the scientific record. 🌎 If you are interested in joining the AGU pool of reviewers, please fill out our interest form: buff.ly/ZezWxq4 #PRW2025 #AGUPubs #PeerReviewWeek

Did you know? In Louisiana three new gas plants will be built to power a massive Meta data center. AI needs a lot of power and is accelerating our fossil fuel problem. But we know how to make renewable energy using solar and wind. We need to demand sustainable solutions from our politicians.

the kids are not alright nature is not alright climate is not alright politics are not alright we have lost our way

Yaas! See you at the AGU emerging scientist’s publication workshop! Where can I get my OSM26 tartan kilt?

🌊🌏🧪🏳️‍🌈🙏🏾📚So proud to be standing up for science and scientists with AGU! I did not ask permission to do what is right. When the laws become unjust, the just must become outlaws.

🚨 It's August Days of Action! Call your reps and tell them: cuts to science hurt communities, climate leadership & research.
 @aguscipolicy.bsky.social makes it easy—click, connect, speak up. 🔗 Take action now: buff.ly/dVHCj8h 
#FundScience #SpeakUpForScience #AGUSciPolicy #AugustDaysofAction

Water quality off Miami Beach is shit—quite literally—with 10x safe levels of enterococci bacteria reported this week, largely due to leaky septic systems in rising groundwaters. If you are local consider contacting Mayor Levine-Cava to demand county sewers. 🌊 @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Predatory journals, science fraud, and reviewer burnout are undermining the quality of our science. What can we do? Senior scientists: Evaluate on quality because numbers no longer equate with scientific productivity. Junior scientists: Embrace slow science because your reputation is everything.

I’m a big beautiful science nerd researching how ocean currents are spinning off more extreme ocean storms and what that means for marine life. Many unknowns come with change, this is just one tiny detail, and everything is changing so fast. With stakes this high, no wonder we humans are divided.

When we use words, form policies, and take actions against others for the way the world is, we are thinking with our egos and acting on our resentments, instead of thinking with our love and acting on our compassion. The ocean humbles egos and heals resentments.

@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social undergrads Riley Ames and Jose Solorzano hitting the CTDs and water sampling out in the Gulf Stream for the C-Streams experiment.

🌊 Smooth seas this July in the Gulf Stream as it passes thru Florida Straits. This is our final cruise of the C-Streams experiment to quantify nutrient and carbon fluxes in the Stream and understand their effect on downstream productivity and anthropogenic carbon uptake. @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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🌊 New global study challenges the Redfield ratio... Analysis of >400K ocean samples (1971–2020) shows C:N:P ratios are dynamic, not fixed, shaped by depth, time and (of course) human activity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coming to the ocean/atmosphere/climate conference in S. Korea this month? Join me to discover a writing process for effective and concise communication of your science.

A good mentor is asking questions 90% of the time.

@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social Just another Saturday morning exploring the ocean!

🌊 In the water and on the water. The ocean is VAST, more than twice the area of all the continents put together. Plus an astounding 4 km deep, more than 5 times the world’s tallest building. And still, we 8 billion humans are changing every interconnected corner of it.

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

All at sea again! How do we capture km-scale processes and approach within meters of a rocky sea wall at 200 m depth while swept along in the rushing Gulf Stream?

“You have to withstand a profound sense of wrongness if you want to get somewhere new.”Miranda July

“The negative relationship between meaning and gross domestic product per capita is particularly striking”

Rip current eddy, Miami Beach. @everglades_mike

Attending #EGU25?🌍 Editors from AGU Publications will be available for 15-minute 1-on-1 meetings to offer advice on publishing and finding the right venue for your research. Reserve your spot today! 🔗 buff.ly/JTMjOeW  #AGUPubs #STEM #EarlyCareer #EarthScience #SpaceScience @egu.eu

🌍 Science is global. AGU is reaffirming its commitment to protecting the global scientific enterprise—because collaboration, openness, and shared knowledge are essential for solving the challenges of our time. 📢 Read AGU’s full statement: 🔗 buff.ly/HMkVjmz

Mothers and grandmothers watch this! AI algorithms are gender and race bias. These are the waters our children are swimming in. Women and people of colour are constantly disappeared, objectified, and dumbed down by internet searches.

Sometimes all you need is take in the beauty of nature.

Some defiance for science! 🌊🌏🧪 @agu.org We affirm our commitment to publishing evidence-based Earth and space sciences that is free from political interference We will continue to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific community because it improves the quality of science

To abandon reality and facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true then all is optics and the rich and power-hungry pay for the most blinding lights. Being deceived is not an excuse. Timothy Synder, On Tyranny.

A true patriot has universal values by which we judge a nation, wishing it to do better. Patriotism is concerned with the real world and asks us to be our best selves. Timothy Synder, On Tyranny.

Nationalism (fascism) is to be against others, it is relativist. The only truth in nationalism is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst and then tells us we are the best. Timothy Synder, On Tyranny.