If you don’t listen to Trad Attack!, you probably should…

Lol. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not sure if NL is the best place to implement this plan (also a lot of anti-higher-ed sentiment), but would be interesting to find out which 'renowned' Murican university is involved. nltimes.nl/2025/11/13/r...

The lab tape ball has reached a milestone in case anyone was wondering

Send this shit straight to the moon. H-index, impact factors, etc are useless horseshit. This just makes them nuanced useless horseshit. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lol, an old Taihu paper on eutrophication, cyanos, nitrogen, etc., I published in 2007 is actually cited (very much incorrectly) in this paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cool study….and Thad is definitely an experimental musician 😄

A nugget of wisdom from an 'old' paper: "Another implication of this work is to emphasize the difficulty in providing a theoretical framework of phytoplankton dynamics in a changing nutrient environment. A deterministic approach utilized in many types of models has..."

Lol, the Minister didn’t lie….

Prándarjökull, Iceland has lost all of its snow cover in 2025. This will lead to significant thinning and marginal losses in 2025. #glaciology #climatechange glacierchange.blog/2025/08/25/p...

Meteor impact crater pond in Saaremaa - no cyanos in there 🙄

Stop calling it a dead zone.

I did my PhD research in Baie Missisqoui and was harassed more than once by US border gestapos. They were always complete assholes. (I’m a US citizen, not that it matters now or then).

An honor to be in Helsinki for @tomjilbert.bsky.social inaugural lecture as Professor of Environmental Geochemistry.

If you’re in the USA, have or will soon have a MS, like working with high frequency water quality data or modeling, and are looking for a (fully funded) PhD program in the EU to escape the scientific/higher ed destruction — please reach out.

In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.

Lol. These morons have no clue what the LoC actually does.

DM me if you are going to IAGLR and are looking to stretch your legs - and link elbows - all for a good cause!

Ofc it is

Someday the masses will realize that all of the other nonsense was just to distract the sheep from the real goals, which are just about stealing money and making a few people richer. Remember the scene at the end of Die Hard, where Holly figures out that Hans wasn’t a terrorist, just a common thief.

Well, if this turns out to be true, I guess we’ll never have to wonder who the dingo was that ate Marco’s baby….

Fox News attacking Obama for golfing during a market crash but make the footage Trump

I mean, is this take wrong?

The #ElectoralCollege is #DEI for #RedStates

Absolutely spineless. The GOP is doing all of those things anyway. Resign immediately.

Yes, in 2021 JD Vance literally said "[W]e have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... The professors are the enemy." And no, he wasn't joking. The video is chilling. bryanalexander.org/politics/the...

A few recent bangers

When Dougie 'Dollar Beer' Ford is all of a sudden a Canadian hero, you know shit has gone wild. (photo Mervyn Sequeira)

This is okay though bsky.app/profile/mjfr...

Really exciting to be living in a fascist state! Thank you everyone who voted for this!

More than 230,000 Canadian citizens have signed a petition on the website of the House of Commons of Canada to strip Elon Musk of his Canadian citizenship. Details: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Eesti Vabariik!

Bernie Sanders laying down the facts about Russia's invasions of Ukraine and Trump palling around with dictators www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

An X post claimed the number of federal workers grew by about 900,000 during President Joe Biden’s term, a nearly 50% increase. In fact, the number grew by about 5%. buff.ly/3D6MgQv

The N cycle doesn’t stop under ice

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss how Estonia deals with the Russian threat. Estonia’s Internal Security Service (KAPO) published their 2023-2024 annual review some time ago, and it’s packed with insights on Russian hybrid operations in the region. 1/17

Oh Canada! 🇨🇦

You can read the article here www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/20...

Are we great again yet? Kanas center of TB outbreak. www.kwch.com/2025/01/27/k...

Important work here. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Which is important Phosphorus or nitrogen Most Plankton need both We are lucky to have this unique long-running mesocosm experiment in our group. So we can ask Qs like, is N loading important in shaping phytoplankton abundance? @mjmcncycle.bsky.social www.cell.com/the-innovati...

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce an Estonian politician, Jana Toom (@JanaToomEE). She’s best-known for promoting pro-Kremlin viewpoints both in domestic Estonian politics and in the European Parliament. 1/22

it’s a Roman Salute!

I see the mask is off completely now

-5/6C in DC today - I guess it’s the cold day in hell I was warned about as a kid?