@buttondown.com what's going on with the platform this week? previews and search are broken, drafts won't send. is the code already on holiday?

“Motherf-cking wind farms.” That’s the gist of Samuel L. Jackson’s viral ad for Swedish clean energy developer Vattenfall. It’s a prime example of how comedy can bring climate change information to everyday audiences — if it’s not silenced under the Trump administration.

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

Every night, billions of tiny fish rise from the deep in Earth’s largest migration. A new @jexpbiol.bsky.social study confirms what scientists long suspected: mesopelagic fish help lock carbon in the deep sea for centuries. Small fish, big climate impact. 🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW

A good point & one I bring up in my drone talks. Not being able to SCUBA doesn’t preclude one from being a marine scientist. Some of the first drone pilots in my lab were individuals who couldn’t dive due to medical conditions. We need to highlight the different ways of being a marine scientist.

Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting? Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time. Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.

POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure. Deadline: September 12, 2025 research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...

If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

🧪🧪 *Checks math* This looks right....

We’re hiring #Plankton Analysts! 🌊💼 🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe 🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more 🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts 📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK 🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

📢 Hot off the press: our new study in Nature, led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social, shows how climate change is redefining what it means to live an "unprecedented life"—facing climate extremes that would have been nearly impossible without human influence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✴️ Request for proposals! ✴️ @navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation. Deadline: June 15, 2025 os.nav.fund/meeting-fund #OpenScience

The Spencer Foundation is offering $25,000 bridge #grants to anyone who lost NSF funding and needs money to complete their data collection, writing, or obligations to community partners www.spencer.org/grant_types/.... #science

Curious about local smol LLMs? The benchmark for our new challenge walks your through step by step getting Google's gemma model running for creating document summaries on your laptop! Check it out and then join the challenge! drivendata.co/blog/whats-u...

It's Playground Safety Week which means you should look out for these common playground hazards and Megalodon.

"With FathomVerse, we aim to provide a tangible way for climate-conscious individuals to contribute to ocean research and expand our collective knowledge about the ocean.” - @kakanikatija.bsky.social The new and improved FathomVerse levels up ocean exploration. Learn more in our new blog 🔗

NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today. Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country? Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... I'm starting to send mine today. 💙 @noaa.gov 🌊 @savenoaa.bsky.social

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Are you someone or know a staff member, scientist or meteorologist affected by the NOAA/NWS layoffs in California? Potentially working on a story for @kqednews @kqedscience.

Data Rescue Project has a form to capture stories of the impacts of losing federal data and the staff that steward it. www.datarescueproject.org/telling-your...

I both appreciate this and have questions about Canadian cod catch limits

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

A closer look at the extent of sea ice globally that just set a new all-time record minimum, which is due to unusually low sea ice conditions in both the #Arctic & #Antarctic right now. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🧪⚒️🥼❄️

Did you just chime into this fisheries data call with an explanation of your national data policies and how they affect ocean data sharing? 🏆

ANATOMY OF A GOLDEN RETRIEVER —— My new Dogs book is Kickstarting today! Jump in, pals: I’m super proud of this book! Here’s the link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...

If you're in DC tomorrow afternoon, pls celebrate my birthday by fighting for @noaa.gov at the Department of Commerce (not Silver Spring)! 💙🌊 www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...

On Fri 2/7, I'll discuss why #NOAA's National #Weather Service is an indispensable public utility, & the broader risks of "moving fast and breaking things" that are not easily fixable. Plus, thoughts on possible major SoCal storm next week? #CAwx #CAwater www.youtube.com/live...

Anyone else making a #fedvalentine today? @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drandrewthaler.bsky.social

If you reviewed the National Nature Assessment Zero Order draft and/or if you were an author, save that copy as OSTP issued a stop work order for the NNA and the report is now down. www.globalchange.gov/our-work/nat...

2/ There are many videos on Youtube about the menhaden chanteys as worksongs connected to the tradition of African-American worksongs rather than sea chanteys. Here is one, but do look up menhaden chanteys on Google and Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYG0...

Mushrooms turn dead wood into food and medicine which is better than anything any tech start up has ever done

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New workshops out from COMPASS to help you sharpen your science communication skills in 2025 www.compassscicomm.org/events/categ... #scicomm

I'm excited to announce this new Executive Director position at @upenn.edu. Be part of our team, advancing an environmental sustainability agenda whose origins lie* with our founder Benjamin Franklin: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

A few of the maps and graphics I made in 2024. What climate maps do you want to see next year?

Lake Sturgeon are great when they're small AND large! Left is two juvenile sturgeon that we "adopted" at a release event. Hopefully they are still out there swimming around the #GreatLakes. Right are spawning sturgeon in Wisconsin's Wolf River. #25DaysOfFishmas

Still a few days (Dec 20) to apply to advise on government climate services. They're looking for community and local/state gov reps

This thread is the best kind of internet

Well Craig, one of the most fascinating organisms I've seen is Chondrocladia, a type of carnivorous sponge. These incredible deep-sea sponges capture their prey using specialized, hooked shaped spicules, that serve as underwater velcro for tiny crustaceans.

The Secret Shark Highway Of Palmyra: Tracking Their Evening Commute

New NMFS #data confidentiality rule just dropped. It's the first update in the smart phone era (since 1998) and I will definitely have some thoughts once I've read it. Who else is checking it out? www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... @fishecon.bsky.social @trevorabranch.bsky.social #fish

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What: Falkor Expression of Interest for expeditions in 2027 or beyond Collaborative, multidisciplinary research at any time and for any location identified as an area of operation for R/V Falkor (too) Who: Scientists prepared to lead a Falkor (too) expedition Due: Rolling schmidtocean.org/apply/