Of the awardees, 5 are part of our #URIGSO community: 🔹 Teagan Cunningham, M.S., Oceanography 🔹 Frankie Lopez, Ph.D., Oceanography 🔹 Malachy McCaffrey, M.S., Oceanography 🔹 Justin Sankey, Ph.D., Oceanography 🔹 Mackensie duPont Crowley, M.A., Communications & GSO Public Engagement staff

Thanks to URI’s Coastal Institute for naming me an Emerging Coastal Leader! 🌊

BREAKING: Brown University says there is an active shooter on campus in Rhode Island.

Love the feral energy of a college campus during finals week

Very disturbed by the idea of Starbucks protein lattes

My team celebrating my URI mag byline. Very cute

Some awesome scientific method happening here! New research reveals a limitation in how we measure organic carbon in coastal wetlands, and an opportunity to collaboratively refine the methods for better #bluecarbon estimates.

Me in my 6-9pm class on Tuesdays after working 8-3 and hitting class 330-5 💤

Someone who’d experienced food insecurity told me that being able to season their basic donated pantry items was the only thing that made them feel human 🌶️ If you’re donating this season, consider adding small comforts like spices, coffee, tea. They nourish more than just the body!

🎃 🌊 Happy Halloween from #URIGSO! Still searching for a last-minute costume? Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. ⤵️

This is some of the best work of my career

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

📌 #NEOSEC’s 2025 #OceanLiteracy Summit in Freeport, Maine, where I presented research about how Rhode Island newspapers have framed sea level rise over the last decade, & share some ideas about how they can expand that coverage to contextualize it within the lived experiences of their communities.

It’s light and love to everyone until I start to browse my hometown’s Facebook community forum

“It’s not my job to feed someone else’s kids.” It kind of is. That’s what you do when you’re part of a social species, dude.

Baby’s first research poster

#NoKings 13 miles offshore on Block Island, Rhode Island. 200~ people showing up to represent the smallest town in the smallest state!

I was catching strays in the Taylor Swift album review chat last night, too bad my millennial ass was fast asleep

The gen-z-ification of the State Dept

In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as “disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.” #AAUPvRubio @knightcolumbia.org

If you voted for him, you've done this.

If you are doing any kind of #engagement, this new guide helps you to examine your work and teaches you how to make it more equitable and inclusive. #SciComm @big-stem-network.bsky.social

Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This history of #RVEndeavor Storymap has been my child throughout the last few months. This ship has seen things!

Our media has collapsed. Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.

For University of Rhode Island ocean engineering student Jake Bonney, remotely operated vehicles keep him anchored to the sea, even as he navigates his own uncharted waters.

“You’re in graduate school to learn to skim like a motherfucker” -my new dream professor

Brown University Professor @timmonsroberts.bsky.social said his students found that groups fighting offshore wind “have chosen to get in bed with some of the most anti-environment and anti-climate actors.” He called the letter “strategic harassment to shut me up." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Back at work after a week of vacation & 3 days concussion recovery

"Climate change is the signature global challenge today... the most ill-suited people available, rich and coddled and insulated from the impacts they are already unleashing, stand on its figurative beachhead, urging the seas higher and higher."

All enlightenment leaves my person during a long car ride with my mother. Did the Buddha have to drive with his mother? Who did not believe in a blinker? And always thought she was in the slowest lane of traffic?

Taylor said I shot up in the middle of the night and said “phytoplankton…. Something fuzzy…” 3 times ☠️ I need a vacation

This tree rules

Current mood going into the weekend…

Tyler Childers giving us all permission to be little freaks this summer 🦖

Spotting myself in the crowd behind a happy MJ Lenderman at Newport Folk Fest is so pleasing

Darren Beattie, fired from the Trump White House in 2018 after it was revealed he attended a white supremacist conference, has just been appointed acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to the State Department.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

🦈 Can someone tell me if this is a spiny or smooth dogfish #sharkeeek #SOS 🆘

🪸 So many cool things about this study (like how it challenges long-held assumptions about reef resiliency) but maybe the coolest part? The PI developed a novel isotope analysis technique that finally let him analyze fish tissue samples he collected 15 years ago as a postdoc. Check out my story ⤵️

You’ve heard of Market Basket

Kerr County’s tragic flood wasn’t an outlier. It was a preview. Mounting evidence shows no state is safe from the flooding that ravaged the Texas Hill Country. Your community could be next. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Climate #Environment #Weather #Floods #Flooding #TX #Disaster

With the Trump administration calling to eliminate EPA's ORD, it’s worth revisiting this piece by @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social on how cuts would impact our EPA lab in Narragansett, threatening local jobs & vital environmental research. Rhode Islanders, this isn't abstract, it's incredibly local. 🌊

Martin Johnson Heade (U.S., 1819–1904). Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island Sound) (1868, oil on canvas).

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Why is sending out my IRB-approved recruitment letter so embarrassing

Academics - your university comms professionals love to hear that you received funding, and that you have a publication coming out. PLEASE tell us what you are up to in the 3 years between the two milestones 🙏