The last French MP is out, he did very little for 9 months except some pretty terrible anti-ecology laws : -2.1 billions for the ecological transition, more harmful agriculture, no low-carbon national plan, encourage people to fly by plane... No doubt the new MP will continue this path.

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...

"Le pilotage de la transition écologique s’affaiblit. La publication de la programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie [la feuille de route énergétique de la France] a encore été repoussée [à la fin de l’été], la stratégie nationale bas carbone n’est toujours pas sortie."

📆Save the date for this #EGU science for policy #hangout on Monday, 4 August 2025 at 14:00 CEST. In this session Asmae Ourkiya will explore how #geoethics, an ethical framework rooted in #geoscience, can be enriched by exploring queer, intersectional perspectives. Register here: egu.eu/7L9YUE

What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.

The vast majority of scientists working on the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef view “shading” as ineffective, expensive and distracting. Follow the money. www.theguardian.com/environment/....

another scientist whose work on ocean pH levels billions of years ago says his work has "no relevance" to ocean acidification caused by climate change — but was used in the report to bolster those claims

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

- "It was cold in January!" - Winter is a phenomenon known to science - "We can adapt!" - ok so why aren't you? - "Solutions are expensive!" - drought/flood/heat/sea level rise: not free - "Climate models are imperfect" - yes that's why they're called "models" (still better than making stuff up)

- "CO2 is a trace gas, <<0.5% of the atmosphere!" - your honor, the arsenic i gave the victim made up < 1% of their total bloodstream - "It's the sun!" - if the sun were getting hotter someone at NASA would have noticed - "Life has existed at higher CO2 levels before!" - Life, yes. You, no.

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!" Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere -"CO2 is plant food!" -pretty hard to eat when you're on fire -"Climate has changed before!" -We know, we told you that -"Scientists don't know everything!" - doesn't mean we know *nothing*

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Adding a little zest to your day with the lemon jelly—Aegina citrea. 🍋 The lemon jelly is different from other jellyfish because it has only four tentacles extending from its bell. Although jellies in the genus Aegina are relatively well known, they can evolve unusual forms or colors in deep water.

What if every city that talked about “Vision Zero” actually meant it? #VisionZero

“In Paris, cycling continues to break all records! In 2024, cycle path usage jumped by 34%! Nearly 15,000 cyclists used Boulevard de Sébastopol every day! And we're going to keep going; brand new lanes will be completed by the start of the school year.” — Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social

France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution theconversation.com/frances-plan...

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees. Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.

“Over the last 4yrs, glaciers lost twice as much ice compared to the previous decade... Glacial melt is just falling off a cliff" “If we’re thinking, Well, we have 50yrs before the glaciers are gone, it could actually be 30” - Prof. Brian Menounos, @hakai.org #ClimateEmergency

The poor "Sea Ice Index" nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 😢 See thread for more on this tragic data loss: bsky.app/profile/zack...

There have definitely been some significant changes to the NOAA Climate website "https://www.noaa.gov/climate" in the last 24 hours... For example, removing links and references on the page to 'Climate Ready Nation' initiatives. Stripes are gone too.

23 hours with a 50°F+ dewpoint in #Albuquerque on Tuesday... by far the most so far this year. Today (June 25) will probably max out at all 24 hours. #NMwx

🌎 Now Accepting Abstracts for AGU25! 🔬 This is an unparalleled opportunity for researchers, scientists and professionals to add their voice to the conversation of "Where Science Connects Us." 👉 Submit an abstract by 30 July: buff.ly/XPL56qu

"The institutionalized belief that being paid poorly is an acceptable part of career progression… does not align with the financial realities faced by many… The cumulative financial strain of an academic STEM career often requires years, if not decades, for recovery." Important pice from Craig.

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

And models were wrong (which is what models do but also why we should understand more what models actually do).

L’objectif de 1.5° est hors d’atteinte? Empêchons le développement des EnR. Une canicule quasi impossible il y a un siècle frappe la France? Supprimons les politiques climatiques. Notre boussole c’est la science. Quand elle indique une direction, on part systématiquement en sens inverse.

Des comptes à plus de 300000 abonnés sur Twitter balance des infos sans source, sans contexte, repris par tous les climatosceptiques puisque comme tout le monde le sait, tout se passe bien en Antarctique. En graphique, l'évolution de la calotte glaciaire depuis 45 ans :

Congratulations to @bopplaurent.bsky.social for receiving the CNRS Silver Medal, in recognition of his work on ocean biogeochemical cycles. The medal is awarded based on "the originality, quality and importance of their work, recognised on a national and international level". 🌊

Ice melt in the Siberian #Arctic this summer has been unusually early. Compare the red line for 2025 to the purple lines (conditions in the 1980s, where ice didn't start to melt until mid July). Graph taken from zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data produced by @nsidc.bsky.social.

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? More than half the CO₂ emissions of the Industrial Age have been pumped into the atmosphere since 1990.

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

I’ve been sneaking #coral into my bug #invertefest pictures, but today I’m dedicating the post to my #octocoral. This old Acanthogorgia is being overgrown by a parasitic zoanthid. In another few decades the zoanthid will take over #invertfest 📸 #okeanos (I think)

Exceptional events becoming the "new normal". Having weeks of 32°C in Paris in June (followed by hail storms) is far from "normal". As someone who grew up here and then left for 15 years and came back, my memories of summers are clashing with today's observations. (Great visualisation tho)

It's only June. It's only 2025.

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The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit. "Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.

The Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts invites applications from qualified candidates for a Full-time, Non-tenure Track Assistant Teaching Professor position to start in January 2026. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1...

🚨🔬 Job alert! 🔬🚨 3 vacancies for technical assistants in marine invertebrates at Senckenberg (Frankfurt). Digitisation, collections care, and new species! Deadline 15 July www.senckenberg.de/en/career/jo...

Fancy a postdoc?

Después del episodio de altas temperaturas podemos ver cómo ha quedado. 🥵 Una anomalía de 6ºC situando las temperaturas encima de las medias de las alturas de julio/agosto. #dataviz #meteo

🌊🔬 Great new article from Zaldy Maboloc & James Kar-Hei Fang on sea #urchin #cultivation. Sometimes, because natural seawater is too polluted we resort to try and raise organisms in #artificial #seawater. But it's not great: larvae had increased respiration (+60%!) and decreased growth (-30%!)

Interested in learning more about the effects of climate change on Scottish deep seas? 🤔 Then check out the @mastscot.bsky.social Story Map and Policy Brief! 🌊🪸🐟 Great to see this published today - many thanks to an amazing team! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/11db... masts.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Listening today to talks on coastal cities and hearing about these recent events and the (optimistic) possibilities for some cities, like Alexandria, loosing 1/3rd of their territory by 2050.

[1/5] Dans une interview menée par Marie-Laure Théodule, @jpgattuso.bsky.social, chercheur #CNRS et coorganisateur du congrès #OOSC, alerte sur l'accélération du réchauffement océanique. L’océan absorbe 90% de l’excès de chaleur et sa température augmente 2x plus vite qu’il y a 20 ans. #geography

Today is day 2 of the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC. The highlight will be 3 outstanding keynote presentations. Reminder: all keynote presentations are live streamed: www.youtube.com/live/7C-FuWs...

Cormorans are amazing birds. I did not know they were still blamed for the lack of fish. Is this jealousy ? In 2025, we could adress habitat loss, pollution and overfishing instead.

Each of us is here for a short time. It’s depressing that some choose to use their time grifting and generally making life worse for everyone else, instead of trying to improve the world for those who don’t have a voice, whether people, animals, or other life forms.