Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

Scientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.

NOAA has been told to alter maps etc to say Gulf of America. Its Scientific Integrity Policy page is currently down, to be scrubbed of "diversity" mentions and such. Climate science is under attack. All international collaboration—interpreted broadly—must be run by political appointees. My latest:

In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter

www.ices.dk/community/gr... ICES Workshop on the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic Ecosystem 📅10-14 February 2025 - for ecologists, biologists, oceanographers, social sciences, economists etc. with knowledge relevant to the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic

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I have a story in the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of MIT Technology Review magazine featuring ship movement data visualizations I made using NOAA AIS data. This originally ran in my @beautifulpublicdata.com newsletter. Always fun to see this in print!

New article in PLOS Climate led by @raquelruizdiaz.bsky.social looking at the future of cod, snow crab, & yellowtail flounder on The Grand Banks 🇨🇦 Warming benefits cod but not snow crab or yellowtail @fcyr.bsky.social @marineinstitute.bsky.social @plos.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

OK this is the mind-blowing image of the week for me: the total global biomass of mammals. Wild animals are a tiny proportion. From a paper by Ron Milo Lab at Weizmann Institute, via a great Oxford lecture by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hi lovely people! Would you mind boosting my Salish Sea marine science art? My contract job is going on an unexpected hiatus until sometime in July so I'd really appreciate the support. Here's some of the prints on the site: shop.noncompliantcyborg.com 🐙🦑🪼🌿🧪 #nudibranch #BSNM

Great news for sustainable fishing and ocean conservation- an updated and impoved standard to ensure that shark finning isn't happening on certified sustainable fishing vessels, from the world's largest sustainable fishery certification body (and my former employer) 🧪🦑🌎

New ancientDNA paper out discussing the oral healt of Mesolithic Scandinavian HG's as well as the animals and plants they chewed 🦷 Led by Emrah Kirdök. I was happy to be one of the archaeology co-authors, working with a international and multidisciplinary group of fantastic colleagues.

The main points of the paper in the Conversation:

Another great way to start off 2024 is by checking out this new, INSPIRING special issue in @TOSOceanography's journal, the FIRST ever on Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Ocean Sciences, #openaccess at tos.org/oceanography... We all wrote our own autobiographies! 🦑🧪

How much carbon are the fish in one of the planet’s most unexplored ecosystems cycling from the ocean’s surface to the deep sea? Probably a lot. By the fab duo of writer Moira Donovan & editor @toughcitywriter.bsky.social 🦑 🌍 #biodiversity #conservation #geosky hakaimagazine.com/features/all...

Follow our @exetergses.bsky.social MSc alumnus @jamesgrecian.bsky.social who has just landed in Antarctica sampling fossilised stomach oil deposits of snow petrels to understand millennial-scale change in the Southern Ocean ecosystem. He will share here as he goes! 🌏 🧪 🦑 #ExeterCEC #Exetermarine

📝Eleven strategies for making reproducible research & open science training the norm at research institutions. Writen in collaboration with 50+ researchers involved in promoting open science after a virtual brainstorming event -was lots of fun ! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

iScience Seeing a Bayesian Ghost: Sensorimotor Activation Leads to an Illusory Social Perception www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Do you clean data in R? Stop renaming, reordering, or dropping variables manually. Automate the work with your data dictionary. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dict_cl...

Why do Atlantic salmon suffer from sea lice so badly while Coho salmon don't? 🐟 At Edinburgh university Blue Health Symposium, @salisburyfish.bsky.social explained how scRNAseq🧬🖥️ revealed that while both species have the same types of cells, these cells respond differently to lice!

We here in Norway are the world's highest per-capita exporter of fossil fuels - and among the highest earners from those sales. We are also the second least worried about climate change impacts in Europe. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

In our "GIS for Climate Action MOOC," it's time now in Week 3 to talk about climate-related hazards, including sea level rise! Don't miss out! By popular demand, @EsriTraining has extended registration to Sunday, November 12 at 11:59 p.m. PT esriurl.com/climatemooc

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

A good overview (in Swedish) on the risks involved with allowing a continued high fishing pressure on weak herring stocks in the Baltic. The EU Council of Ministers neglected the suggestion for drastic decreases in quotas by the Commission.

The effect size and confidence interval guide has now been reformatted into a Quarto book. This guide contains all the equations and code you will need to compute effect sizes and their confidence intervals. It will be constantly updated and maintained! #stats

Climate change exacerbates nutrient disparities from seafood: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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☀ Good morning! Sleep well? Ready to get stuff done? Sleep and the hypothalamus 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Reviews the roles of sleep neurons of the hypothalamus in the homeostatic control of thermoregulation or goal-oriented behaviors during wakefulness.

Also the Baikal seal eats the planktonic ones 😭🧪

I'm going to have to delete all these drawings from the exam.

So proud of my wife/partner in crime who got that beautiful story out. I've been lucky enough to see that project progress over the years! "Community composition and the environment modulate the population dynamics of type VI secretion in human gut bacteria" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting development. The EU Council of Ministers and the Swedish government taken to the EU Court for deciding on herring quotas that go against EU:s fisheries and environmental legislation. Suggestion from EU COM 1000 tons ended with a decision by the Council on 55.000 tons.

“America’s other Grand Canyon is finally getting its close-up.” 🧪🦑 www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

🐋 Life near deep-sea hydrothermal vents can be pretty metal…literally. DNA reveals an unusually high number of genes geared toward protecting cells from heavy metals www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-...