a bit cloudy, and a lot of light pollution...aurora australis

I first heard rumours about this in September. We're currently without one of our most powerful tools for communicating with spacecraft in deep space, and it's not clear when we'll get it back.

MBARI’s mechanical technicians and engineers collaborated closely to build a titanium frame capable of holding cameras, sensors, and instruments used in the SINKER—SINKing Ecology Robot—imaging system, which collects vital carbon data. 🔧 🌊 🔬 Learn more: youtu.be/6_elP8a1o0M?...

🦝 The mammals of Australia.. London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.. [Source]

“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

The Zoom Earth loop shows the #DustStorm expanding from SE Iran across the Gulf of Oman — dense plumes spilling offshore and diffusing over the Arabian Sea. A clear view of how regional winds redistribute surface dust at scale. 🛰Meteosat @eumetsat.int ✂️Visualized @zoom.earth

🌊 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social 🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p... #Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs

For centuries, millennia, admin work have been killing us.

Western Indian subantarctic phytoplankton blooms fertilized by iron-enriched Agulhas water 🌊 rdcu.be/eMTV2?utm_ca...

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Spooky story about NASA GSFC - story about destruction of NASA's center that is happening under the shadow of the shutdown. www.space.com/space-explor...

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Hurrican Melissa had a central pressure of 892 millibars (about 88% of sea level) when it made landfall, which is incredible; the lower the pressure the stronger the air is drawn in and the stronger the winds. So much power. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

“Dr. Marks is one of a handful of NOAA retirees who have been working on a volunteer basis this hurricane season to make sure that the significant improvements in forecasting capabilities over recent decades can continue despite large staff losses orchestrated by the Trump administration”

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You VERY rarely ever see a satellite presentation like this anywhere in the world. And you certainly don't expect to see it this close to a mountainous island. As of 5am EDT on Tuesday, #Melissa is the 8th strongest Atlantic hurricane on record by central pressure (901 mb).

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

We have a new PhD project to study ozone formation from fires. If interested in atmospheric chemistry, fires, living in Zurich, and studying at ETH, consider applying here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

dear @scalzi.com. as a weekend gift, I wanted to tell you that my 11 yr old son who is dressing up as Spock from SNW for Halloween discovered your books. (We had a conversation about words that are said in books only and we don't repeat them in school), but you have another fan for life.

🌊 #Postdoc position available 📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP). Requirements ✅ PhD in physical #oceanography To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...

Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s. This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice! The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.

Our new satellites are really spoiling us this week - a 2️⃣nd set of first images has landed! IASI-NG - the “hyperspectral Swiss Army Knife” flying on our new Metop-SGA1 satellite - was built for CNES by Airbus Defence & Space and designed to observe Earth’s atmosphere with unprecedented precision. 👌

🌊 a chance to learn how to use a whole pile of amazing NASA Earthdata tools in cloud.

Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud. November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...

#nokings, DC

Toooooons of people in DC #nokings. But, really poor organization, you cannot hear the speeches half a block down so people are wondering and dancing and having a great day.

Any #nativeplants people in #Maryland coming to the Howard County plant and seed share tomorrow? I will be bringing a lot of plants that you should take off my hands. baltimore.wildones.org/welcome/even... 🌱

Just recently, on linkedin, the former director of NASA GSFC said that more than 32% of the Goddard workforce is gone. 32% That is insane. They are destroying us completely.

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so so true. so true.

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Small part of Antarctica. Single-band image taken by Sentinel-2 back in 2023. Lat, lng: -75.2, -106.9

i have blue purple hair. and my left foot pinky toenail has more integrity, intelligence, and decency than you.

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

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always on fkn friday.

🌊 Happy International Coccolithophore Day to y'all!!!!!

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

and it is amazon prime days. one should post the statistics of how many costumes were ordered to Portland region during this time hahahhaa.

Nobel. In chemistry. Two immigrants.

Nobel. in physics. 2 immigrants, one child of an immigrant. youtu.be/z1EYGtPqaqA?...

The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social climate monitoring application #Climate Pulse has been updated. Same climate monitoring data with new features and better layout. 🌏🌊⚒️🧪 User feedback always welcome so let us know what you would like to see updated in the next version: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

We’re on Capitol Hill with 225 Earth & space scientists — including @aas.org and @planetarysociety.bsky.social — urging Congress to reopen the government and protect NASA science. 🚀🌍 Join us: buff.ly/a3YuGgY #ScienceIsEssential #AGU

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Starting this afternoonUVA’s Environmental Institute @uvaenvironment.bsky.social hosts a two-day Environmental Futures Forum with keynote speaker Dr. Jane Lubchenco www.environmentalfuturesforum.org

Today is our Save NASA Science Day of Action! You can take actions online to support the nearly 300 registered participants on the ground with me here in the D.C. planetary.org/dayofaction

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 The 2026 Hollings scholarship is now open until 1/31/26. During the U.S. Govt shutdown, the application will remain open, but staff are unavailable to answer questions or provide assistance. Learn more about the program and check out our resources for applicants: lnkd.in/eE2rfbr7

The government may be shut down, but that won't stop our Save NASA Science Day of Action. Nearly 300 advocates are joining me here in D.C. on Monday to #SaveNASAScience More: planetary.org/dayofaction

Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...