🧑‍🔬 The Scientist | The Science 🔬 Becca Beutel, Physical Oceanography In this series we are showcasing some of the incredible graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the EOAS department, along with a taste of what they're working on right now.

We’re in danger. Climate deniers are no longer on the fringe. They are shaping U.S. policy, protecting polluters, and pushing us deeper into crisis. Stand Up for Science with us: zurl.co/NUlsN zurl.co/t85ux #Climate #ClimateChange #SaveScience

particularly pretty rainbow csv moment today @vscode.dev

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

This seafloor community, 1,073 meters (3,520 feet) beneath the Ocean surface, was filmed during the #ArgentinianDeepSeeps expedition. Scientists were searching for cold seeps. While exploring, they observed beautiful scenes like this and stunning biodiversity along the country’s continental shelf.

I learned to much and has so much fun at #OSM2026 - thank you to everyone who came to chat at my poster and to Cara for being my conference buddy The new (I think) session on connecting large scale ocean circulation to marine ecosystems was particularly cool imo

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missing the @tjarnikova.bsky.social #trashplot series - my attempt this morning has so many points that its beginning to look like a shag carpet (scatter was not the right choice after all)

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs https://theonion.com/melting-ice-caps-expose-hundreds-of-secret-arctic-lairs-1819571016/

Great photo summary by MEOPAR on some of what I learned this fall participating in a BATS cruise with @biosstation.bsky.social Thank you to the awesome scientists and crew who made this such a fun and fruitful learning experience! Info on the program and MEOPAR funding here: hubs.li/Q03XN5jJ0

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

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My paper with Susan Allen, @jilian0717.bsky.social, @jaytcullen.bsky.social, & @tiaanderlini.bsky.social is out! We show how Pacific source waters shape property flux into the Salish Sea, and separate dynamical vs property-driven change—useful for understanding coastal conditions in a changing ocean

Bill Gates astounded climate advocates by publishing a manifesto arguing that the climate crisis is less urgent than other major problems that humanity faces go.nature.com/4qXJDEO

@eoas.ubc.ca and @pme.ubc.ca are hosting Volcano: A science comedy show by Ben Miller this Wednesday evening! Tickets are FREE but there are only a few left so get yours while you can - www.eventbrite.ca/e/volcano-a-... Be prepared to "erupt" with laughter 🌋🔥

Be careful out there. They're putting RCP8.5 in candy bars.

A deep dive on high-impact #ClimateAction from #BBC! As I told Jocelyn Timperley, "Hopefully people going through the jointheshift.earth guide will have a bit of an aha moment, realising, 'wait a minute, I have more power than I thought, and there's more that I can do'." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Ginalina, @swsocean.bsky.social, and I look so happy because the Future Science Leaders students ask the BEST questions. Thank you to Science World Vancouver for a great career cafe! Check out FSL: scienceworld.ca/futurescienceleaders/

I was worried about night shift - but the inherent loopy-ness really grew on me Thank you to all the fantastic scientists and crew who took the time to teach me while aboard the Tully for the Aug/Sep La Perouse! It was a dream first research cruise 🦈🐋🦑

This one feels deeper than normal (pun intended)

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

Perk of teaching students about coastal oceanography at @eoas.ubc.ca?: great field trip settings are a walk away 🦀 #TowerBeach #VancouverSummerProgram

Thank you @hakai.org for hosting me for a talk this week! I had a great time presenting in a yurt, having rewarding chats about carbonate chemistry and habitat viability thresholds, picking huckleberries, and working with an insanely gorgeous view 😍

shark week is part of what got me excited about ocean science.. pretty sure "great white sex battle" would have scared 11 yo me away 👶 lol

I'll note that the estimate Sam Altman quotes falls between our estimates for the smallest and largest text models that we looked at. (For more, our full story is here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...)

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Impressive wave and tide cut sandstone at Mallaspina Galleries, Gabriola, BC also pictured: my best barnacle impression #RipCurl

Really excited to join in this effort. I'll be talking about the OpenCTD and Oceanography for Everyone on Friday at 6PM.

Amazing sharkface. No notes.

People sometimes think of Antarctica as being barren and devoid of life, but the ocean surrounding the continent is incredibly rich with wildlife and biodiversity. Photos of new discoveries and insights from our wonderful Australian colleagues… 🧪🥼❄️🌊🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

is "seafloor squish" the technical term? (and if not.. can it be?)

“After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.” — Sir David Attenborough. Ocean with #DavidAttenborough (out May 8) spotlights the devastating impact of bottom trawling Read more: www.bbc.com/news/article...

In parallel to the "Sailing the Sonic Sea Event" (Salish Sea, Victoria BC June 5-8), we are launching a CALL FOR COMPOSITIONS based on Ocean Network Canada's underwater bank of sound recordings! A selection of the compositions will appear on the album curated by EarthSonic Project!

New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Cake replica of a Soliense FRR fluorometer for DOCTOR Yayla Sezinger's #PhD defence today! Led by Cara James with a little help from Claire Parrott and I 🎂- I promise it was much more delicious than the grey icing suggests #IsItCake

does anyone else get a dopamine rush when they write a juicy (information rich) sentence in a paper draft..? Me staring at a transition I'm proud of for far too long:

Reef crabs help heat-stressed corals survive: A branching coral under pressure from heat and physical damage appears to gain crucial support from a particular reef-dwelling crab. #ReefCrabs #CoralRescue #MarineEcosystems #ClimateAdaptation #OceanConservation #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

@ruth-moore.bsky.social has mastered #scicomm through cake pictured: Claire Parrott's thesis cake on glacier-ocean interaction and freshwater dynamics in the Canadian Arctic 🧊-🌊 interface with rock candy marzipan 🐻‍❄️ & ⛵ stratified ocean cake layers with a green sprinkle phytoplankton 🐛 AND DELICIOUS

Trump pauses NOAA collaboration with 'foreign nationals'. "[Scientists] depend on collaboration," Dr. Villy Christensen said. " We stand on the shoulders of giants, they walk with us – and cooperation is absolutely a requirement." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/07/n... via @nationalobserver.com

My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

As Florida learned, this kind of nonsense doesn't delete climate change in real life.

Did you know by reducing ship speeds by just 10%, we can decrease energy use, significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce underwater noise pollution? 🚢 This practice known as "slow steaming" benefits the environment, enhances vessel safety and reduces operational costs.

Sam Stevens and I had the opportunity to lead students in Science World's Future Science Leaders program in prototyping sub-surface floats 🛟🌊👩‍🔬👨‍💻 Linked is our paper on reproducing this activity (and why we think you should!) tinyurl.com/mvyn7wrm

Scientists have long thought that horseshoe crabs only spawn on beaches. Now, new research shows that salt marshes also make good habitat—a discovery with important implications for these economically important species. 🐎👟🦀 By Lydia Larsen hakaimagazine.com/news/horsesh...

Excited (and intimidated) to be part of a panel tonight with Dr. Cardinal-McTeague and UBC iGEM on making research spaces more welcoming to LGBTQIA2S+ folks (spoiler: I think that increased visibility through webinars like this one are a huge part of the answer) us02web.zoom.us/j/8892980984...

Are you queer and in Marine Sciences? Then we need your help! Take this survey to gauge how a professional society could support the needs of the LGTBQIA2S+ community. -Your Salty Queer Organizers 🌈🌊 tinyurl.com/QueerInMarin...

Thrilled to announce that my first first-author paper was published today! Susan and I explored the Pacific origins (and seasonal and interannual variability) of Salish Sea inflow: doi.org/10.1029/2023... #Oceanography #PhD #Lagrangian 1/4