Well that’s not great. Just for comparison about 269 Million people live in Pakistan, while only about 105 Million people globally own Bitcoin!

At our annual Cranksgiving event 68 cyclists -4yrs to >65yrs- raced 10 miles across town to multiple grocery stores and got items to donate to the local Food Bank. Pretty sure that we reached >1000lbs for the first time, and got a $1k donation! This year more important than ever. @kbtx.com

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

Rolling into the weekend like

The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ends on November 30, but the outlook is very quiet out there, so it very likely ended on October 31 this year. Overall, it was a slightly above-average season with some strange characteristics.

Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms. “It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan. www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...

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And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

The coldest air on the planet - relative to normal - is over FL now! The cold pool is being forced south by overwhelming Arctic warmth. While FL won’t bear the brunt for much longer, the Arctic will become even more off-kilter over the coming weeks. That means weather shenanigans will abound!

I…agree…with…TxDOT!?! „the report acknowledges, needs a variety of ways for people to get around the state without a car to help absorb that growth.“

Looks like the Gulf Coast Repository @tamu.bsky.social is getting a new "toy" today. So exciting, can't wait to see it up and running!

„Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 people every day“ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢 Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain. That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.

You might not think about the Ocean as much as we marine scientists do, but our modern life is enabled by the deep sea. Whether we're watching TikToks, Bluesky, streaming, video call across the globe or get the latest NYT recipe, most of our data are routed through cables on/in the seafloor.

With flights being cancelled all across the country one can only dream how it would be if we would have a decent high speed train network. At times the TSA lines at IAH were twice the time it would take the proposed Shinkansen-style train from Houston to Dallas.

The initial SODCO website is now online and will evolve over time. Keep an eye open for Scientific Ocean Drilling events (looking at you @agu.org Annual Meeting) and announcements about proposals, workshops, expeditions, internships, etc… www.sodco.org

Reminds me of the famous (infamous?) weighing club on R/V Polarstern where the pilots always pay close attention that no one who’s scheduled on a helo-flight exceeds the safety weight limit.

The old joke is that you might not believe in climate change but your insurance company does. Time to update that joke to include the stock market Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nothing to see here, literally! Just 6ft me standing, you read that right, standing upright in front of a truck. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱 The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Via Etienne Berthier

„Global temperatures now predicted to reach 2.3-2.5°C, down from 2.6-2.8°C last year“

Extended hurricane category scale, following Wehner&Kossin, Proceedings of the National Academy 2024: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... If that scale didn't stop at Category 5 for historic reasons, we would have had several Category 6 tropical cyclones since year 2000.

Few yrs ago, approaching the Antarctic Amundsen Sea, we encountered a giant "pumpkin" bobbing in the waves. As we always try to collect trash, we stopped & hauled it aboard. Turned out it was a Chinese buoy that was lost in Prydz Bay, on the other side of the continent, 5yrs before! Happy Halloween!

Up to 59% of Antarctic ice shelves may be at risk of disappearing under high-emission scenarios by 2300, according to an analysis of the effect of ocean warming in Nature. This could result in up to 10 m of global sea-level rise. go.nature.com/47Ag4k1 🌊 🧪

Just wow! @esaearth.esa.int's Sentinel-2 satellite took this unbelievable image of Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa during landfall. Look at these details! Melissa is one of only seven sub-900mb Atlantic hurricanes on record, four of which occurred in the past 20 years!

Just wow! @esaearth.esa.int's Sentinel-2 satellite took this unbelievable image of Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa during landfall. Look at these details! Melissa is one of only seven sub-900mb Atlantic hurricanes on record, four of which occurred in the past 20 years!

Hurricane #Melissa explosively intensified into a Category 5 storm over exceptionally warm Caribbean waters. Here's how climate change amplified this dangerous hurricane—from its rapid strengthening to the catastrophic rainfall ahead ⤵️ youtube.com/shorts/VtbZZ...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Not only is Hurricane Melissa now a Category 5, it is still strengthening. Hurricane hunters are finding the central pressure continuing to drop and the eye continuing to warm. Flight level winds are as high as 180mph.

In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

Hurricane Melissa has developed into a Category 4 hurricane, maximum sustained winds have increased to 140 mph (220 km/h) according to the NHC. Just look at the size of that thing S of Jamaica. Hope people can stay safe. 📸 @noaa.gov

Just began @peterbrannen.bsky.social's new book and already came across this gem 🤌 „If you really wanna have good fun, be a geologist. Geologists often know 2 or 3 languages and they always know the best places to drink.“ followed by a shout-out to IODP, the JR, and Exp399. Promising start! 1/2

Here is our evening update on Melissa, which looks increasingly likely to be a catastrophic storm for parts of the Caribbean. We explain how it should start to get its act together, where it will go, and how much rain we expect to see (a lot).

I was recently interviewed by @drlauraguertin.bsky.social as part of her 'Tales from the Deep' series focused on the people involved in scientific ocean drilling ⚒️🧪⛴️ –– lots of great stories from many others there to check out archive.storycorps.org/interviews/i...

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.

Bikes and climate? Perfect crossover episode!

If only I could figure out why not more people are cycling in town 🤔

How cool is this? A LEGO Argo Float! Thanks for the inspo @mbarinews.bsky.social! "Treated" everyone in the brick store to a 5min ad-hoc talk why Argo Floats are so cool and important. Shouldn't have asked what I'm building 🙃 ✅Permanent Ocean Monitoring ✅Aid weather/climate forecasts ✅Free/open data

It's like getting a super power.

As of October 7th, 73% of the U.S. is considered (at least) "abnormally dry." Climate change doesn't just turn up the heat—it makes the atmosphere greedier, too. 🏜️Let's talk about the link of how we went from a "summer of flooding" to dry, dusty conditions ⤵️ www.youtube.com/shorts/r28rT...

Cool new Exp382 study out in @natcomms.nature.com showing an extreme poleward shift of ACC during the last interglacial. The coolest thing is that it confirms our 2024 results using fast and non-destructive XRF. 🤩 1) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2) publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

Giving a shout-out on @adalovelaceday.bsky.social to the women of scientific ocean drilling. Students/staff/faculty at all career stages have stories about their intro to & involvement with this community. Take a listen at the StoryCorps Archive. 🌊⚒️ #ALD25 archive.storycorps.org/search//?q=&...

For me that's one of the most powerful pics of what sea level rise means and should be a warning to us. There are the remains of terrestrial ecosystems on what's now the bottom of the sea. I once got a baby mammoth tooth from a fisherman who pulled it up from the bottom of the N. Sea. #FossilFriday

Updated a classic.

🚨New publication🚨 A new Exp398 study led by @abigaillily.bsky.social showed that caldera volcanism is associated with rifting on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Santorini and Kos Volcanoes may be coupled by regional lithospheric stresses... #NSFfunded www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

IODP's last expedition, Exp 405 has been recognized by Guinness World records for drilling from a depth of 6,897.5 meters underwater and bore 980 meters into the seabed, meaning its drilling pipe was 7,906 meters long! www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...

Back from a 105mi bike race through the TX Hill Country where the July floods caused unspeakable devastation (race fees went to flood relief). It's hard to directly attribute specific rain events to climate change, but we know that storms like these become more likely as CC worsens. #ShowYourStripes