I just started a "Running list of press" doc for my startup, because @rejectedbanana.bsky.social and I just had our first appearance in someone else's blog and I'm dreaming big. Look out, world, someday we will have TWO FEATURES 🏆 Read the blog post here: altasea.org/ocean-startu...

Testing sampling on my smartwatch. Unsurprisingly, in regular mode it's inconsistent, prioritizing memory to do things like receiving texts from my family. In airplane mode, the sampling interval is amazingly consistent and you get double the battery life for ~24 hours of sampling.

Second, longer endurance tests confirms a minimum 12.5 hours of continuous logging! Next step, increasing endurance with low power mode and turning off wireless communication (Wifi, bluetooth, and cellular)

BTW, I’ve made an app that turns your smartwatch into a smart sensor for scientists.

Doing endurance testing on the Bob app today. First rough estimate, 12.5 hours of continuous logging. That’s GPS, IMU, barometer and still receiving texts from my family.

My startup's app lets anyone collect 🦑🧪 data with the sensors in their smartwatch (Co-Founder: @rejectedbanana.bsky.social) A UW Tacoma team designed a 3D printed buoy to enclose a watch & measure water velocity. And got 3rd place in @cerfscience.bsky.social's Student Coastal Design Competition! 🎉

I'll be in L.A. in 2 weeks w @rejectedbanana.bsky.social! It'll be our first demo of the prototype app we're building for our startup. I ordered inflatable drink holders for this today- I think we're going to bring something a bit different than other folks : ) Tickets: luma.com/6886yksx

There’s still time to submit an abstract on ocean technology to #OSM26! Join @fishysounds.bsky.social and share how you’ve been hacking the ocean. agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Tell everyone about your cool new ocean technology! Join @fishysounds.bsky.social and myself at our #OSM26 session, “ED009 - Hacking the Ocean”, highlighting innovative and accessible tools for ocean science and education.

No. Just NO.

Swift even prints emojis in the output JSON! Not sure how dacs will handle the characters though

Best part of building scientific software in Swift, you can use emojis as file names. 🐓🏇

Brainstorming with @yuengdl.bsky.social on what fun educational experiments we can use a smartwatch for. Here is a quick snippet of water temperature and IMU data I took this morning!

This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

“DISCO: A low-cost device-instrumented Secchi disk for water clarity observations” aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for* Make that part clear when you ⬇️

Yes! Build your own CTD!

In all the chaos, I just decided I was going to take some time and send silly valentines to friends. 💘 rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-...

I heard that some of you people prefer to receive your snarky science fact-checking of viral news stories in meme format, and I am here to help.

🌊🧪 The Chemical #Oceanography Gordon Research Conference will be held July 20-25, 2025. Check out the exciting Biogeochemistry of the Coastal Ocean session led by James Moffett (University of Southern California) with invited speakers Kanchan Maiti (Louisiana State University and A&M College)

Impressively mind-boggling: 1 cubic km scale of underwater neutrino telescopes. It's not even complete & already detected a neutrino! Hilariously mind-boggling: the number of times someone hit copy-paste in powerpoint to make this artist's impression of KM3NeT.🌊 www.km3net.org/the-observat...

This deep sea fish with a giant mouth and captivating lure is... **check notes** only 6 inches long. 😆

Plenty of disputed names over there! e.g. Isla de San Pedro also happens to be called South Georgia...

With bonus Falklands/Malvinas Islands easter egg.

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Ocean robot summer school for students attending two-year community and technical colleges! 🌊 I know both instructors and they are very fun and very knowledgable! ncatech.org/mate-floats/

I know everything about blue whales. Literally everything. Ask me anything.

It ALWAYS feels good to be able to write "I am a world expert on ocean sensors". What's your "feel good phrase"? I would love to hear it!

Ocean robot summer school for students attending two-year community and technical colleges! 🌊 I know both instructors and they are very fun and very knowledgable! ncatech.org/mate-floats/

#handembroidery inspired by some stormy beach photos

I am really confused as to why Elon Musk, the CEO of a spacecraft company would want to dismantle NOAA. His company can't even launch a rocket without weather and marine forecasts! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Y'all, it's tough out there, but please just take a look at the obit for one of NASA's human computers. She a STEM trailblazer as well as a damn fashion icon (this photo of her was taken in the 80s, when fashion was not flattering for women, and she is killing it). Her other outfits are also 🔥

Interested in our high school O-STEAM Fellowship? Join the info session Feb 6 to learn more. https://seagrant.whoi.edu/k-12/o-steam/ 2025 dates:  🌊 Info Session: Feb. 6, 6pm - 7pm 🔬 App Deadline: March 14 🛶 Fellowship: August 10-16 @whoi.bsky.social @sea1971.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on this week, but @vgwschutte.bsky.social just told me there's a new movie where Kristen Stewart is an ocean buoy who falls in love with a satellite (an ocean observing satellite?! GOES-16?) and all I can think about are the lives of actual ocean buoys. A thread...

Gentle reminder if you frequently forget to add Alt text: go to settings > Accessibility and turn on the setting that requires you to add Alt text to an image before posting

Developing software in a well-developed ecosystem like Apple is simply a treat. I got a new phone, and all the old oceanographic data from my old phone was uploaded to it. BECAUSE IT'S SAVED IN THE CLOUD.

I almost forgot about #CTDappreciationDay! There aren't many aspects of my job that don't rely on CTD data. Here are some photos of our trusted SBE CTD and rosette sampling the Canadian Northwest Passage, the cutest little CTD on a turbulence profiler (made by JFE), and a glider CTD made by RBR.

Happy #CTDAppreciationDay! You are a fabulous tool for ocean observation! 🌊 @planktonteuta.bsky.social @rejectedbanana.bsky.social

What seals with CTDs on their heads are really thinking. #CTDAppreciationDay

One of my favorite CTDs, one of three custom SBE 49s that went to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Rated to 12K meters, with super thick titanium casings, it pushed the limits of sensor engineering & performance. I know because I got to hold them and check out the data! #CTDAppreciationDay

a wonderful news on this dark #CTDappreciationday

It’s our favorite day of the year—Happy #CTDAppreciationDay! 🎉 This shot captures a nighttime deployment of a 12-plume #CTD by MATE Intern Josie Adams aboard the #RVEndeavor from cruise EN719 last summer. Also featured is #URIGSO marine tech Bonny Clarke, who is crucial in supporting these missions!

Apparently it's #CTDappreciationDay, so here is a photo I took of my @dmidk.bsky.social colleagues and out collaborators in #Greenland, waiting for the winch to pull our CTD up through the #SeaIce (Somehow, I always expect a halibut to be entangled in it but […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

My entry to #CTDAppreciationDay: OA data collection in outside Glacier Bay, AK, 2022.

🌊🔬 On this cruise aboard the #RVIBNathanielBPalmer to the Western Antarctic Peninsula, #URIGSO scientists studied krill feeding and swimming behavior during the winter—an often-overlooked season in high-latitude regions. 🦐❄️ #CTDAppreciationDay 📸 @drplankton.bsky.social

#CTDAppreciationDay 🧪🌊🦑🛟 We have Conductivity/salinity and Temperature sensors on our surface moorings measuring seawater carbon dioxide and #OceanAcidification. #GAKOA

CTDs need only a bit of open water for deployment in the sea ice. #CTDAppreciationDay.

#CTDappreciationday even in a bath (trashcan), CTD can enjoy views on the Stromboli 🌋🌋🌋

Happy #CTDAppreciationDay! Here I show you the latest kids on the team: two SBE45 before assembling in our underway equipments. The core 💙 of BOGAR! 🚣🏽

Happy #CTDAppreciationDay! 📷 of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer in east Antarctica when I was doing outreach for @hollybik.bsky.social