Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

If I have endure this earworm, I'm not doing it alone. Mahna mahna....

Gastropod veliger - I wonder what kind? I had to wrestle with the autocorrect to write those two words. It was certain I meant Vtiger.

While Artemis II was making its lunar approach today, I stopped by the clean room to see the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, now fully assembled and being prepared for shipping to the launch site. They are hoping to launch this fall, but the official line is still "no later than May 2027."

Free books to kick off Indie #Booksmaxxing week. If this isn't nice, what is?

PFTs from OCI using HyperPFT, an innovative deep ensemble learning framework for precise phytoplankton functional types retrieval. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The hits keep coming.

Growing up in the city, we never heard the farm advice of not naming an animal that could end up on the dinner table. And that's why I carry the childhood trauma of the time I discovered the bologna in the sandwich I just ate was the one that had not just a first name but a second name as well.

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Too early for April Fools, just Damn Fools.

Driving home tonight, I could see how the local tree population is dominated by the invasive Callery (Bradford) Pear. Some roads are lined on both sides by them. Native trees don't stand a chance. Not surprising, since the first cultivars were developed at the nearby USDA Ag Farm in the 1960s.

Putting on a show for the camera.

That refit was a long sad year for me but well worth the wait in the end!

I have to admit I'm not much of a poetry person. But, there are a handful I truly adore. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" might top that list.

I have a Windows laptop that I use once a month for a teleconference. Every month I spend 30 minutes waiting on the latest Windows Update before I can log on. How is it that Gates is a billionaire and Linux developers are still living in their parents basement?

Death by a thousand cuts....

Last time we saw this was the June 2012 Derecho.

"The Trump administration if forging ahead on its own" How many times has that worked out in the past? What could possibly go wrong?

Today's the day we celebrate Pi And some of you may well wonder why. It's naught to do with geometries Of circles or spheres or ellipses. It's just an excuse to make a case To buy some pie and then stuff your face. 🥧 #PiDay

I'm reading Vonnegut's rant about the "W" administration in "Man Without a Country" and wondering what he would have to say about the current state of affairs. Buddy, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Still a few spots open

What a fantastic shot. Makes me homesick for the waterfront.

It's not pointless. It's targeted to eliminate opposing points of view and clear the path for industrial profits.

As the previous watercolour drawing of the Thames from 1993 received a good response here's another from a similar spot a couple of years later. #watercolour #London #TheThames

Word if advice for anyone with a level of public recognition: never say you’re leaving your post/job/seat to spend more time with your family even if you ARE actually leaving to spend more time with your family.

I wonder how many of today's marine scientists were inspired by this man?

5 Ways You Can Help Whales

Someone recommended this book, so I checked it out. US $108.75 for paperback or eBook. Educational publishers are a scourge.

I heard in a seminar today the US contributions to Argo are being suspended, but I can't find anything on the web that backs the assertion. Can anyone with first-hand knowledge confirm or deny this?

Breaking news: Winter in the Northeast US is colder than Summer in Antarctica.

The Short Form was pretty exciting, but I can't wait to see the Freestyle Booing J.D. Vance event.

Sign the petition: Total ban on bottom trawling in Gullmarsfjorden! www.mittskifte.org/petitions/to...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Onychoteuthid from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 453 East Cortes Basin #designingthefuture2 #MarineLife

Mar a Lago is recruiting

I fatfingered "the" as "yhe" in an MS Teams comment and the suggested corrections were "he" "Yhe" or "she".

3.7 million views on YouTube in 1 day.

Readers & writers alike should get to know Saffron Asteria. Her web site (indiosyncrasy.com) is currently undergoing a total reno, but you can follow her regular interview series (Booked): www.youtube.com/@BOOKEDPOD Meet her in our latest vid: 💙📚👀🖋️ #IndieAuthors #Writers #Authors #BookSky #Books

If all this leads to just another sternly worded statement, then we know we can easily replace Democrat leadership with Outlook’s AI.

Just a reminder for any of their constituents who are feeling outrage over today’s murder.

I had music playing in the background while I was reading, when Émile Waldteufel's "Estudiantina Waltz, Op. 191" began. In my head I heard "My beer is Rheingold the dry beer.", a radio advertising jingle from 60 years ago. It's amazing how things imprint in your memories.

Take a moment to support the NWS presence on Bluesky.

If Medicare truly cared about my health, they would stop including the name of someone who causes me to vomit every time I see his name in their email.

I keep hearing from people that the midterms will save us. They clearly have not been paying attention.

This is fine ...

Feeling very grateful today to be part of this big, thoughtful collaboration. New open-access perspective on deep ocean seascape ecology lays out where the gaps are and how we actually move from concept to practice. Huge thanks to an incredible group of coauthors. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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