Stephanomia retracting its curtain of death. Great flying by the pilots. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 937 #deepwonders #MarineLife

Elena Klimenko (Ukrainian Artist, born 1969) "Evening Lights", 2022. Oil on Canvas, 46 × 38 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

i yelled bosnia in a bar full of kids that have never watched a soccer game before in order to improve the atmosphere here. it worked.

Fancy shrimp @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 935 #deepwonders #MarineLife

Ocean models are governed by a series of equations, but those equations aren’t always foolproof. A new technique aims to use machine learning to “discover” equations directly from data. eos.org/research-spo...

RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Spectacular mammatus clouds!

It's been a year since DMSP SSMIS data were abruptly terminated.

Harbor Study No.18 10”x8” oil

Over the course of my 20 year career, Every other nation with major ocean research programs has dramatically expanded their research fleets. The US has net lost 17 ships, mothballed 2 DSRVs plus the Sealinks, and critically underfunded NOAA.

Shimmering through the darkness 🦑✨️⁠ ⁠ This long-armed jewel squid (Stigmatoteuthis dofleini) was observed at 840 meters (2,760 feet) on the outer Monterey Canyon. This species is a close relative of the strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis), but sightings by MBARI's ROVs are much less common.

I owe so much laughter to this man. R.I.P.

Excited that @pyroscience.bsky.social is supporting our upcoming research cruise aboard Gaia Blu! 🚢🌊 We’ll be measuring zooplankton metabolism to explore how temperature shapes metabolic scaling and spatial metabolic patterns across the waters of southern Sicily and the Mediterranean Sea. 🔬🦐🌡️

Another AI Failure: AI Overview: Based on your search for "c katze painter," you are likely referring to the beloved pet cat of the famous Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. In German, Katze translates simply to "cat," and Klimt kept several beloved felines wandering his studio.

And now for something completely different.. Georg Anton Rasmussen (Norwegian painter) 1842 - 1914 Fjord landscape 1898 Oil on canvas

The ocean never stops surprising me. I was wondering why it appeared to be clutching a piece of saragassum weed. The YouTube clip referenced in the caption has more information.

MBARI captured these views of glass squids in family Cranchiidae. I want to talk about some of the unique adaptations these Ghosts of the Midwater have & how they're adaptive to life in the twilight waters of the mesopelagic zone (200 m to 1000 m). (📷: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

Do the poorly educated have too much power?

Wow

Blue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates. But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million. This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other. (📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)

Their eyes are almost nonexistent. Interesting how some deep-water species evolved to have oversized eyes and others lost them. Maybe a function of their preferred depth?

He gets us...

Dive 931 keeps going...

Fascinating

This story has now officially crossed into Coen Brothers territory.

My contract changed and I have new insurance. Both my dental and vision don't have a member ID on the card. They say the provider can look it up with the group id and your SSN # How about "No"? Seriously, WTF?

LXXXVI XLIV Nulli reges sint

"Ghost Gear", when abandoned, discarded or lost, doesn't stop killing. There are miles of drift nets, lost trawls, fish and crab traps littering the oceans and killing millions of creatures.

I'm sensing a trend.

One major red flag needed to get across to voters is for whenever a candidate says they’ll 🚩run the government like a business🚩 Businesses are run to make as much profit off of customers as possible and enrich its leaders. A government should protect & support its citizens, not profit off of them.

Impressive sculptural impasto. You should check out his other plein air work.

Barreleye!

A glasswing butterfly alights on a heliopsis, Mindo rainforest, Ecuador, Dec 2021. Glasswings look fragile but they can carry up to 40 times their own weight #glasswing #butterfly #inaturalist #ecuador #rainforest #mindo #insects #heliopsis #southamerica #wildlife #jungle #naturephotography #nature

Totally gratis, Here’s the status Of my clematis Climbing a mesh apparatus. 🌱🌷📷📸 Happy Friday.

3 things that can help remedy this situation: 1. Books 2. Books 3. Books Aside from that, more books.

Having a secure bunker to protect his life isn't the selling point he seems to think it is.

Programmer humor.

Nightmare fuel....

Recently discovered in Japan, the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt was formally titled 'Clavelina ossipandae' which translates to “little bottle of panda bones.” #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/natureisbe...

Imagine you're a salp, swimming through the ocean, doing salp things, and a Football Octopus (Ocythoe tuberculata) comes up to you and just tells "I live here now. You are my house now." 🐙📷Steven Kovacs

These critters are actually shrimp from the Branchiopoda group. They date back to the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic Era. I may have found a new pet...

Way cool!

Me: These sessions are so expensive. Hehe, how about I pay only half price and in return, you don’t have to listen? Therapist: You have no idea how tempting that sounds.

This was one of my first forays into web site development back in 1995. Seems like a lifetime ago, because it was.

GOP House Science Comittee members lifted their heads from the Big Oil funding trough long enough to accuse the NAS of having potential conflicts of interest with respect to their report: "Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare." doi:10.17226/29239

New PACE paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #NASA #PACE #OCI #HARP2 #SPEXone

I saw an article claiming that Bluesky was failing because traffic was declining. Seriously, how can you expect people to subject themselves to this unending onslaught of stupidity. Following this administration daily is like watching a toddler play with a loaded handgun.

More fun with AI. @tuexplorer1.bsky.social posted a video of a siphonophore dropping some segments, which made me wonder if it was asexual budding. These are two consecutive Google queries:

This is the company that NASA trusts for our in-house AI.

Not AI. I confirmed that they are real moths.