I have a new preprint up on EGUsphere! We used compound-specific stable isotopes of amino acids to reconstruct plankic foraminifera trophic ecology from foraminifera tests collected in Santa Barbara Basin: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

LTER has been archived for about a year now. It’s normal between solicitations. LTER is still here.

Deep-sea marine snow is on the menu for the vampire squid 🍽️ Instead of chasing down prey, Vampyroteuthis infernalis uses sticky filaments to feed on “marine snow”—a flurry of dead plankton, poop, mucus, and other organic material sinking from the waters above. Dive in: youtu.be/JgytSJNKrkE?...

Fairbanks February snowfall as of 3pm AKST Monday up to 32.4 inches (82.3cm), making this the second highest February snow total on record. Highest is still 43.1 inches (109.5cm) in February 1966. #akwx #Climate #Snow @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social @coyotetrail.bsky.social

Happy Birthday 6️⃣5️⃣ to the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences @uafairbanks.bsky.social! 🧪🌊🦑🎈 #AlaskaSky

These men are a threat to the long term survival of all life on earth

Fantastic zooms on this siphonophore! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

Lots of chatter by two deep-sea mining CEOs on this panel about the urgency to mine seabed for stock piling & natural security purposes. Then @drandrewthaler.bsky.social comes in with.... "... and the cheapest place to stockpile a polymetallic nodule is to leave it on the seafloor.” 💥

Did you spot the aurora earlier this week? This timely edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at what causes the aurora and the science behind the different colours: cen.acs.org/environment/... #PeriodicGraphics#Chemsky 🧪

I have 2 OpenCTD Rev7 Kits left! I am working on getting out the final designs for Rev8, so I don't plan to restock the Rev7s. If you've wanted to build an OpenCTD and have been waiting to jump in, this is your last chance for a while! oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com/product/open...

The West before the West. Our January 2026 issue, Deep Time in the West, dives into geologic mysteries—from ancient rocks and Ice Age survivors to Meteor Crater, plate tectonics, and the landscapes (and people) shaped over millions of years. Out now. buff.ly/cdHIxoi

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

As you plan end of the year donations, please consider the Caleb Scholar's program. It is the only program that I know of that provides Alaska Native students how to use their education to support their community after graduation, mentored & run solely by Inupiaq www.calebscholars.org/donation/

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

🌊 If you want to help Alaska’s small villages devastated by the flooding then this is the best legit site using a QR code. Here’s another legit donation link too from Alaska Community Foundation: Click to donate here: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c... #AlaskaSky #AlaskaFlood

These grants also supported multiple workforce development (aviation, IT) programs and student services on four UAF rural campuses, which are located in primarily Alaska Native communities but open to everyone. It’s a disservice to both students and the future of our rural communities.

I love a good newsletter or blog, but this is exactly why I don’t buy into the Substack- or Patreon-based journalism. I can’t personally support all the journalists I would want to, AND I don’t want reporting that has not been edited by at least one other person.

people are all like oh my god what if the AI robots take over? and listen, I’m not worried because it can’t be worse than men running things

There is nothing inherently wrong with the Earth 400k years ago. The problem is that humans evolved to live in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. The same goes for the animals and plants that we love and love to eat. Climate change is pain for everyone.

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science go.nature.com/4mzL1KV

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting. Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months. Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

I just opened this book and the third epigraph actually made me laugh out loud. I’m excited to dig in!

Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns. To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything. www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...

Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years. www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...

Sharing this as a reminder for myself and other UA faculty

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

The New York Times sided with anti-trans cranks over medical doctors on gender affirming care: NYT Chose Anti-Trans Cranks Over Real Doctors #genderaffirmingcare #mediabias #nytimes youtube.com/shorts/DOFyO...

When AK congress reps say they did something for Alaskans, they usually mean Anchorage and the MatSu valley. This does NOT help rural Alaskans, most of whom are AK Natives, who rely on subsistence hunting and fishing & are more likely to be stuck w/lower paying, unstable jobs.

As someone who was born and raised in Alaska and who has family and friends who will be harmed by this ALL OVER THE FRICKING COUNTRY, I am so fricking pissed at Murkowski. And everyone else who voted for this horrendous bill, but especially her bc she was my rep

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Paleo folks! The fan favorite biomineralizer proxies session will happen at @agu.org in New Orleans this year! Chaired by me, @lauralhaynes.bsky.social, and Zan Stremler. Submit your abstract today! 🐚🦪🪸🦴🦷 PP020 - New and Developing Paleoproxies in Biomineralizers agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

PROTECT TRANS SCIENTISTS 🏳️‍⚧️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Also another angle to this is that since Fairbanks is basically the very tail-end of supply chains, you can't just go buy a fan when you realize you need one, because they are all sold out. I worked at a hardware store during the 2013 heat wave (temps in the 90s) and we couldn't keep fans in stock

There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social

A lot of people that the system has been working just fine for are coming to the realization that most of our institutions are a facade. If you’re new to feeling this systemically unsafe, it’s really scary; it feels like they’ve taken both the guardrails AND the road. And no one is coming to fix it.

What I've seen with the people in my life is really tough. These are people who committed to serving the common good, usually for less pay than they'd get elsewhere. They're often completely invisible to the general public, but do essential work. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I was thinking about this the other day when I heard that some think AI is going to “solve” the climate crisis for us…are there people that think AI will just do our science? Like do they think a computer could design and execute experiments, collect novel data, or make novel observations?

The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

“Perseverance has its limits. The erosion of these institutions’ integrity—and the growing realization that it is impossible to fulfill their missions in good faith—has made the cost of continuing untenable.” time.com/7285045/resi...

What strikes me about the NSF termination data is exactly this: the PIs *doing the work* of making science more inclusive are primarily women, people of color, people with disabilities, and all intersections of those identities.

North Pole, Alaska

So glad to see this. And it’s so smart to use the upcoming 75th anniversary of NSF as the hook. Check out the action items and toolkit. Share widely! www.savensf.com

www.savensf.com/take-action 🧪