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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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You know what I would do? I would award every single person on the planet a Nobel Peace Prize immediately.

Cartoon for @airmail.news

“The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws — not woke ideology.” Harmeet Dhillon, head of Civil Rights division of DOJ on why they won't investigate the murder of Renee Good.

A little timeline cleanse...

Whoever came up with the term "trumped-up charges" was remarkably prescient.

Today, as planned, I got my Covid shot but I also got the flu shot just to spite RFK Jr.

I'm so sick of AI search results. I search "person" "city,state" and get back "person" is likely a misspelling of professional wrestler "not person". While "not person" has no known affiliation with "city, state", here are six paragraphs of irrelevant details about "not person" Sigh.

Gotta love John Oliver.

A friend asked about the recent onslaught of storms fueled by "atmospheric rivers." They are not new phenomena. The term was coined in 1992, to describe a structure that was frequently observed in the atmosphere. Only recently, did the term become popular. Like the term "polar vortex" in the 2010s.

Fathomverse, a new Citizen Science app from MBARI:

I long for the return of the days when doomscrolling was figurative and not literal.

I'm sensing a trend....

If George A Romero were an entomologist. This is fascinating and horrifying. Pseudoscorpions work together to take down a yellow jacket many times their size. Seeing them attacking through the gap in the wood like that reminded me of a scene from Night of the Living Dead.

A guy sporting a bandana rudely knocked into me upstairs at the Limelight. I muttered to my date "dude thinks he's Axl Rose" Narrator: In fact, it was Axl Rose.

👁👄👁(Macrourid) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 889 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

A little bit difficult #science joke.

I implore you. We've only got 5 days left. If the last 10 years has taught us anything, stop saying things like, "I'm glad this year is over. Next year can't be any worse." Just politely nod farewell to 2025 and make a genteel, reserved wave hello (you know, like the Queen used to do) to 2026.

I had to check that this isn't AI. Female Lycidae.

The problem with baked goods start-ups is they often begin with a decently crafted niche product (e.g. cookies, cupcakes). Then success demands more $$$ = appeal to the general U.S. audience. Before long there’s more frosting than product. Why not just shortcut to a “Cup O’ Frosting” chain?

Spectacular Cranchiidae!

On a related note, @paleojim.bsky.social has been searching for this fossil coelacanth specimen for *years* and would appreciate any information on its whereabouts All he needs is a good CT scan of it to help understand fossil coelacanth relationships

First day of winter mammatus.

You allow a defendant to be his own Special Master. What could possibly go wrong?

Payback for not pardoning Tina Peters? Congress must be rolling over in its grave.

SCOTUS: Hold my beer...

A bright spot in the unending litany of doom.

This morning I almost collided with a car driven by a woman who had a 5-6 year old child in the front seat and made a late left turn through a red light, across oncoming traffic. I gave them a blast of my horn and both the woman and the child flipped me the bird. Felt like I was back in Brooklyn.

July 2025 www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202... Ken Langone, co-founder of The Home Depot, says he has “never been more excited about the future of America” than he is under President Donald J. Trump. December 2025:

Words of advice from someone who's been around. If anything, be it health care, streaming services, software, etc., promises “more choices, more opportunities, more value” it's a big red flag that you're going to get screwed.

I'm just going to assume this series takes place in the year 90210

Seven years ago, today, watching the SSO-A launch carrying the SeaHawk cubesat and Fox-1Cliff. The HawkEye instrument on SeaHawk provided high-quality 120m ocean color imagery until October of 2023. Fox-1Cliff, AO-95 or AMSAT OSCAR 95 is an American amateur radio satellite.

The racoon or the drunken rampage?

This study used the Sentinel-3 Cyanobacteria Index (CI-cyano) products, that we generate at NASA, to assess impacts of varying observational frequency on data distributions and trends.

When I see these "cat returns after X years/ 1000 miles" posts. I always think "there are a lot of similar looking cats". This one was chipped!

This is a developing story: Apparently the Pope has forced his way onto Air Force One.

Oreosomatidae have incredibly long lifespans. Otolith dating has identified some species that live longer than 200 years. It's not just a pet, it's a commitment.

So, you think the guy who bought a handgun and perpetrated a mass shooting did NOT assimilate to US culture?

So Thanksgiving was a success and to continue a 25-year tradition, today I put my brain on 50% setting and the only energy I expend is to run the dishwasher and nuke some leftovers. Viva the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Now that is a dorsal fin!

I stopped by the clean room assembly bay today, to check the progress on the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope. It is currently expected to be launched to a Sun–Earth L2 orbit some time between the fall of 2026 and May 2027. #NASA #GSFC

Incredible

No words....

NASA continues to lie and obfuscate when pressed by Congress on the destruction occurring at GSFC.