Do you see what's happening to the volume of #Arctic sea ice? More graphics at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Signal users should pay attention to this.

People are also taking this opportunity to change their browser with @vivaldi.com and @firefox.com being particularly popular options. Link to start your own journey: purchasewithpurpose.io

Google are losing users: DuckDuckGo installs are up 30%, and Kagi is seeing 3X growth These numbers exclude Ecosia, Brave, Qwant and StartPage, which have all seen similar results. Keep it up and spread the word. No better time to make an impact.

I'll be in London from June 4-7. If any climate folks are around and would like to chat about Nature or climate science in general feel free to get in touch. I'm rarely on socials so probably best to try email.

This is such an extraordinary 🌎 Check out this octopus swimming around How 🆒 is that? Why are we destroying everything? So little is left #WarOnNature #Metacrisis

The tripod fish or tripod spiderfish (Bathypterois grallator), is a deep-sea fish that "stands" on the ocean floor using elongated rays from its pelvic and caudal fins, resembling stilts. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.

So, just for general information, one reason that there are less single author publications in some fields nowadays is that we started crediting (and including in the writing) students, research assistants, local experts/guides, and the rest of the people who did most of the work. #AcademicSky

A ban on non-essential use of PFAS is being considered in the EU. Manufacturers are fighting this tooth and nail. Until restrictions are in place - we will continue to be exposed to PFAS throughput our daily life. share.google/rPAe3lEQU2u0... 6/6

I’m not sure if we’ve become desensitised or what but there are high res models showing 35-36C on Tuesday. “It’s just summer” apparently in final spring month. The much touted 1976 summer never got hotter than 35.9C in early July. We are in May….

If you were to, hypothetically, ask a woman in the 7th month of pregnancy about the weather she would like to be experiencing... It. Would. Not. Be. This.

A giant in the field. 🌊 www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...

Witness the breathtaking speed of the Pacific Sailfish, the fastest fish in the world. Watch it glide through the ocean and encounter a playful sea lion.

This is how extraordinary our planet is Look at the size of a sperm whale .... Why are we destroying it? #WarOnNature #Metacrisis

One of the reasons why I'm using KeePass 😁

I use Qwant, Brave Browser/Vivaldi. Ente Photos and Proton Mail, best decision I have ever made. (Also, throw Microslop/Crapple in the trash and switch to Linux Mint/ZorinOS). 😁

#WeekendReading: Yang et al. on the strange decupling of Li isotopes (a weathering proxy overall) and uplift-driven weathering over the last few million years, despite the Himalaya keep doing its thing. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71407-x​

Sea cucumber uses its frills to catch plankton and other small particulate, and then feed it in to its central vent (which it also poops from). youtube.com/shorts/EGwBU...

Sehr gut! Das könnte im besten Fall das Ende der nervigen Support-Chatbots sein! www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/urt...

A new species of siphonophore, recorded at 897 m during the #DesigningtheFuture3 expedition. ROV pilots were able to carefully zoom in on this animal’s nectophores, or swimming bells — these are the group of medusae responsible for propulsion. (Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DYiP_eB...)

Part of the reason why it actively makes you worse at it.. And dumber (simplifying) arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

🐝 Über 560 Wildbienenarten leben bei uns – viele winzig, viele spezialisiert. Sie brauchen blühende Vielfalt, offene Bodenstellen und ungestörte Stängel. Weniger Ordnung hilft ihnen am meisten. Oft summt keine Honigbiene, sondern eine Wildbiene. #Wildbiene #Sachsen #BUND

This is going to come across as pretentious and unhelpful, but I really recommend reading books. Reading a book is the only thing I do where I feel like I'm nourishing my attention span, rather than sanding it down. The trick is to just read whatever you enjoy — not what you feel like you should.

It's really crazy to me what Trump and his enablers are trying to do to vaccines and public health. Child mortality used to be 50%(!). As recently as 1950, 25% of children died globally. Now it’s 4% globally and 0.3% in some rich countries, largely due to better public health and vaccines.

Donnie Dania took this brilliant photo in 2025. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Goodnight

We supported the Girls’ Day organized by the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy to inspire girls to pursue physics. 💪🏻💃🏻 🗞️ News item: www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/en/girls-day... 🎥 Video of Lisa during a typical day working on her master’s thesis:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=j17T... What a fun day!

🌊 GEOTRACES Online Seminar #2 Topic: Trace metal input in polar environments 📅 26 May 2026 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 💻 Zoom 🔗 geomar-de.zoom-x.de/j/6365773349... 🎤 Talks by Jon Hawkings & Laramie Jensen Moderator: Stanley Tian Join us & spread the word! @scor-int.bsky.social @unoceandecade.bsky.social

The fabulous folks at @ourworldindata.org have created an simulation model where you can plug in different fertility, mortality, and migration rates to see how population size and composition will change in the future at different levels. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

Undergrad @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social field trip to Oxford's local coral reef (sadly 150 million years past its heyday)!

slay sagen die kids heute oder

Librarians literally saved my life

Mobilization finished! We’re off soon. 👋

New data, new App! oakern.shinyapps.io/palveg_v2/ Explore vegetation reconstructions 🌲🌳 (pollen- and model-based) for the Last Glacial ❄️ in Europe and see how much they can differ. This affects our perception of Last Glacial landscapes during crucial migration 🚶‍♀️ and extinction events 🦣

Nach Bautzen geht’s weiter in Hoyerswerda. 📍 Hoyerswerda, Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 5 📅 20. Mai 🕖 ab 7 Uhr Irgendwer muss ja hier sein. #konrad #tvbunt #ostsachsen

✨Open PhD student position✨ I'm looking for a PhD student in biogeochemical modelling of past abrupt changes. The PhD candidate will explore interactions of rapid ocean circulation changes with marine biogeochemistry during past abrupt climate change. Apply by 31 May. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Der Facharbeiter, der angeblich unter einer Erhöhung des Spitzensteuersatzes leiden würde, fehlt in fast keiner Diskussion über die Einkommensteuerreform. Doch mit der Realität hat das nichts zu tun. Mein Text über die diversen Irrtümer dieser Debatte (keine Paywall): table.media/berlin/talk-...

Gerade kam ein neuer Report von @unicef.org zum Thema #Kindeswohl raus. Untersucht wurden körperliche & mentale #Gesundheit sowie #Bildung & soziale Skills. Nur zur Info: Als 3. reichstes Land der Welt liegt D auf Platz 25 der 37 gelisteten Ländern. #Ungleichheit www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...

In 30 Jahren 80% der Insekten verloren reicht nicht - Bundesrat möchte: * Pestizide unbefristet zulassen * verbotene Pestizide leichter neu zulassen * EU-Pflanzenschutz schleifen * Umweltbundesamt entmachten Hallo Grüne, ihr regiert in 7 Ländern mit, wie kann das? #Klimakatastrophe #Artensterben

Seit 1994 ist der Schutz der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen im Grundgesetz verankert, seit 2021 hat Klimaschutz in Deutschland Verfassungsrang. Scheinen viele gerade zu vergessen.

Der Chef der Nationale Normenkontrollrat (NKR), Lutz Goebel bezeichnet den Gesetzentwurf zum Heizungsgesetz als eines der "handwerklich schwächsten und praxisfernsten Vorhaben, die dem Nationalen Normenkontrollrat in den vergangenen Jahren vorgelegt wurden" 🫳 🎤

In your face, Deutsche Bahn.

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz ist die erste Sicherheitsbehörde des Bundes, die Palantir ablehnt und zur Datenanalyse die Software eines europäischen Unternehmens einsetzt. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Es schockiert mich, wenn in seriösen Medien so plump die Erzählung d. Wirtschaftslobby aufgegriffen wird, die gesetzl. Regeln zur #Arbeitszeit seien zu unflexibel. Das entspricht schlicht nicht der Realität: Es gibt 10, 12-Stunden-Tage, mobile Arbeit, Zeitkonten, Arbeit auf Abruf…you name it! Das..

A timeline of our rapidly changing planet (through 2025)... I've now added this visualization permanently to my climate change indicators webpage (at the bottom): zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... Check it out there, as it looks much better in its full resolution!

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

🌊🧪 So our P atom makes 100 round trips of 1000 years each during its stay in the ocean. It then becomes part of the sediment, where it remains for about 100 million years until it is uplifted and exposed again to continental erosion. The life of a typical P atom is, by human standards, indeed

- Some of the strongest links to Reform vote share 🚗 Drives to work: r=0.80 💻 Works from home: r=-0.63 Commute vs WFH - an underrated fault-line of British politics?