🚢 Welcome aboard, Mark Gold! The longtime ocean and coastal champion was recently named as the new director of the renowned oceanographic and marine ecosystem monitoring and research program, CalCOFI. ⬇️🧵

when I was a kid, my mom used to regularly tell me that I was so sensitive to animals solely because I was young 27 now and guess who just spent 10 minutes getting snails off his driveway under the pouring rain to get his car out even though he's already very late

Hubble image of Arp 140, also known as NGC 274 and NGC 275. A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy from an interacting pair. Lenticular galaxies have large central bulges and flattened disks like spirals, but no spiral arms. Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Foley, G. Kober Source

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

I'm not gonna lie, I kind of forgot about bluesky. I forgot how nice it is here, especially compared to some *other* places.

Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! 🥳 Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7 🔭 🧪

A spotted trunkfish goes SKKRRTTT in slow motion #spottedtrunkfish #swimminghandbag #trunkfish #boxfish #skkrrttt #slowmotion #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

Again, birds have a lot to teach us. #birds

Our cover this week.

It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races. This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

A study led by Scripps Oceanography alum and coral reef ecologist Orion McCarthy used a time series of 3D reef models to track change over time in Maui Nui, Hawai‘i. Dive into the study to learn how this research is a game-changer for coral reef management: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

As best you can, ignore him.

I will forgive and forget January 6th when I’m dead.

On today of all days we all have to breathe, take a step back, and remind ourselves that Luffy would never let this happen. Be the Luffy.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

I'm realizing this page is likely going to be a mix of the things I enjoy and my new policy of unrelenting insufferability against anyone who likes the current direction so if the latter half is too much for someone, I understand and I love you. Protect your peace.

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I could be wrong, but I thought y’all might need some Kodi today.

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"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

First post on the Blue Skies :] Dressrosa is the best arc in One Piece I am not biased

Maybe 2025 is the year I actually watch Les Mis.

I said this in November, but PICK UP A BOOK… especially the banned ones!