Can you do bottom trawling for shrimp in Sweden's "strongest nature reserve" (MPA) ?

#GEOMARJobs 🌊 Postdoctoral scientist position (m/f/d) on the ecosystem modelling of climate and MPA effects on fish 🌊 Postdoctoral position (m/f/d) “Seagrass-pathogen interactions under global change” 🌊 Studentische Hilfskraft (m/d/w) & Ausbildungsplatz (m/w/d) 🔗 www.geomar.de/karriere-cam...

Did you know that beavers can achieve one of the hardest parts of river restoration work reconnecting a waterway to its floodplain, in some cases faster than humans can. Hear Dame Joanna Lumley explain how beaver damming can restore incised streams. [1/5]

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

These are all spectacular, but my favorite is the crab riding the jellyfish. Micromobility for the win!

Fix cells, or shut down metabolism, and the gradients collapse. Which tells you immediately: this is active physiology, not an imaging artifact. 10/n

And we found something chemically heretical: Spatially organized pH gradients within single organelles. 8/n

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

There’s no tipping point beyond which ocean acidification kills corals, new research shows. With every creeping bit of acidification, corals just continue to die off. 🧪🌊 eos.org/articles/cor...

Great text... Everyone is tired but some are angry enough to continue shouting. "I understand that my activism is a problem for you. Please know that your inactivism is similarly problematic for me. It’s part of the reason I am as angry as I am. (...) I’d rather not be doing this either."

Sea surface temperatures across the northern Atlantic were still warmer than any years since the mid-1800s in December, but they remain well below their recent peak... a good reminder of both climate change and variability. Graphic using NOAA ERSSTv5 data (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...) 🌊

🤩 planktonic larvae for the win

What a surprise.

11/ Until we name that, this argument will keep looping. I find myself cautious when interpreting these trends: progress exists, but limits are real and urgent, and much more could be done to reduce unnecessary harm.

8/ Taken together, these graphs show why the debate doesn’t resolve. Optimists tend to read the data dynamically: Are things moving in the right direction? Are reinforcing effects kicking in? Pessimists read it physically: Are we within limits? Is change fast enough to avoid irreversible harm?

9/ This matters because climate communication often treats disagreement as a knowledge problem. But many people aren’t confused about the data. They’re weighting momentum vs limits, trends vs risk, improvement vs sufficiency, differently.

5/ Renewables as a share of total energy Opti: This is early exponential growth. As renewables scale, substitution will accelerate. Primary energy understates progress: much fossil energy is wasted Pessi: The denominator matters: fossil energy isn’t shrinking. Additive growth isn’t displacement

Another Teuthowenia pellucci maybe. Bonk @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 896 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

Another sea star species likely not seen since its description by Hubert L. Clark in 1916-Nymphaster pentagonus! -it has long spindle like arms with a broad flat bottom side. possibly to help spread out on soft bottoms! #coraseafrontiers thanks @oceancensus.bsky.social @drtimohara.bsky.social

Recently described "cookie" star Plinthaster australis from the #coralseafrontiers expedition! Originally known only from New Caledonia!

Birds in Brittany glued in petroleum. This brings back memories from 26 years ago. It is possible that this is also petroleum from 1999 Erika, that lies in 2 pieces, 50km from the coasts, at 120m depth. Winds have been very strong and weather has been rough this past month.

Important study in @nature.com how climate change could impact malaria transmission in coming decades. An increase in malaria cases of over 100 million by 2050. The authors emphasize a need for climate resilient malaria countering measure. Climate change is real. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends. I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad. Send them a valentine. It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...

my gosh - of all the terrible but avoidable things, this graph...

Women Science finally on the Eiffel Tower 🗼 72 Scientist will join the already written names of 72 male scientists (Ampère, Lavoisier, Cuvier...) on the first floor : Irène Joliot-Curie, Anita Conti... all portraits here : 10ca8303-b3dc-4a91-9dcc-2d2b91792b47.usrfiles.com/ugd/10ca83_5...

C'est un schéma malheureusement connu : comme d'autres services publics, celui-ci tient grâce à la bonne volonté de personnels passionnés et engagés qui le portent à bout de bras, au détriment de leur propre santé. À tous les échelons de la hiérarchie. 3/4

🥶 If you don't mind the (extremely) cold, we're hiring! @esa.int is looking for its next biomedical research doctor at Concordia station, Antarctica 🇦🇶 ⏰ Apply by this Saturday 31 January 👇 ideas.esa.int/servlet/hype... 📸: ESA/IPEV/PNRA/S. Gaier

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Another crazy day in AUSTRALIA with 49.2C in New South Wales,48.5C in Queensland and 48.3C in South Australia Several records broken 48.7 Tibooburra and 48.4 Hay But also on mountains 30.8 Perisher Valley 30.5 Falls Creek Record high Minimums 21.1 Mount Buller 19.8 Mount Hotam Hotter tomorrow !

This December, scientists used drones to count seal populations at sites affected by bird flu. The drone has a thermal camera which makes spotting the seals much easier! (Spoiler, sorry, we don't have new numbers to share yet) 🧵 4/5

“We can’t eliminate SARS.” We can, and we did. “Well poor countries can’t do it.” Poor countries eliminate bad diseases all the time, with some outside help in the past. Yeah. Even airborne ones. The only reason we have COVID-19 circulating is because rich countries said so.

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

"When I get into these funks, it’s like I start believing that climate change is something separate from state violence—and it’s not. The climate chaos we’re experiencing now, and what we will continue to experience, is a direct, conscious choice by the state to allow certain people to die."

Cannot reccomend this strongly enough. For me personally so many elements of fascism whenever it emerges in the world seem to have a seed in the fossil fuel economy, the outrageous lies of climate denial. Fighting against fossil fuels = fighting against the tools of fascism.

Temperature anomalies by latitude band for every month of 2024... Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = x-axis (not scaled by distance). Note that there is coarse data (e.g., flat line ends) at the poles (GISTEMPv4 data). Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

83 years ago is not that long ago

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This is a fascist technology that fundamentally -by its core design and characteristics as a technology- serves the goals of bigots, racists and bloodthirsty white supremacists It has no role in progressive or left advocacy, no matter how much time it saves you. When you use it, you're helping them

Trump et la projection #Mercator, une partie du problème... "J’adore les cartes. Et j’ai toujours dit : 'Regarde la taille de ça -(Trump parle du Groenland). C’est énorme. Ça devrait faire partie des États‑Unis."

That has a human cost: Melbourne’s airport saw temperatures top out at 44.4°C on Jan 9 and one hospital reported a 25% spike in emergency admissions. Heatwaves kill more Australians than all other natural hazards combined. 4/6

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

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NEW | India is forging a different #energytransition path to China 🇮🇳⚡ Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut — using cheap solar to meet rising demand, relying far less on fossil fuels, and electrifying transport earlier. https://loom.ly/UFDLamw

as much as I complain about some scientific names, some of them are very nice. the species name of this jellyfish is "punctata" meaning spotted. that is a good name that soothes me.

Not sure if this is identified correctly-but dang! Australian snake stars are CRAZY! www.inaturalist.org/observations...