I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

@phillies.com give us more bobblehead nights. also, start posting here.

We have a few weeks yet, but I know you're thinking about submitting an abstract to AGU. If so, you might want to consider our session: GC049 - Establishing the scientific basis for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) Link here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... 🌊🧪

Francois Primeau was a humble, kind, straight-forward, and very very smart colleague. One of the many great people I met in my 10 years at UCI ESS.

It dawns on me that the most significant step the administration has taken towards mitigating climate change is starting the little national mall algae garden

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

Colleague @montereyken.bsky.social quoted here in @science.org about what we risk by not funding ocean observing as climate change continues

El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow! Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

US public preferences for how and by whom CDR is deployed aren’t what you might think. Public control? Openness to nationalizing the fossil fuel industry to leverage its (publicly funded!!!*) IP toward publicly accountable CDR? Yes and yes—and, surprisingly, across parties.

Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.

New music genre unlocked by today’s news: Sea Drone 🌊

A new global map of phytoplankton nutrient stress reveals that ocean productivity is tightly linked to the supply of nutrients from the deep ocean. As surface waters warm and stratify, nutrient stress is increasing, providing a physiological link to climate change. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Sunday. Here’s my dog Petey

I need to send mega thanks to @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social and her company #Micropaleoworks for sending us these AWESOME slides. We’re a bit behind on our various summer research projects because of a fire a few weeks back but this is a huge help!

New paper out in the lab from Travis Mellett on how iron impacts organic carbon consumption by heterotrophic bacteria in the mesopelagic www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

It was a (sweaty) week recovering some office items and my long term storage of samples. Hoping to salvage my current research samples this week.

These academics—if they are real; who could ever know!!—should be embarrassed

164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️

Bottom line: 1. For profit social media was already incentivized to amplify fringe voices to boost engagement 2. In 2025, most owners picked a political side & tweaked their algos accordingly 3. The resulting diversification of platforms has enhanced the bubble effect which boosts polarization 😱

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

OK, so I was at the first court hearing over the NCAR lawsuit this morning in Denver. I, uh, am not a legal reporter so bear with me as I try to recap a few things. You can view all the court documents here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

"What’s kind of striking is, in general in paleoscience, every time we have improved reconstructions of CO2, we find out that it’s playing the major role in climate.” - @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Henri-Robert Bresil

As many know, there was a massive fire at USF CMS. The building held offices, labs, equipment, etc and is a total loss. We are most concerned about the finanpcial losses of our students. Please consider donating to the official go fund me supporting our graduate students.

Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!

We don’t know what the future holds for our democracy, but we do know that we follow in the footsteps of patriotic Americans who also did not know what the future held and yet they organized anyway. It’s our turn now.

Oh wow another very sad day for oceanography! Jorge has done so much to improve our understanding of the ocean and climate. He trained so many of my friends. I also substitute taught his class a few times @princeton.edu. A really great person and scientist. He will be missed.

Our huge loss makes the international news. Our uni prez: “We will rebuild stronger than ever and my commitment is to do everything we can to move quickly to ensure that we have the best possible facilities to support our world class students, faculty and staff,”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What can a mixed up American mutt do in these crazy times

perfect headline @farfarraway.bsky.social

A lot of co-authors! (Me too.)

🌊 It’s a sad day for @cmarinescience.bsky.social A lot of world class scientists (and me) have likely lost their life work as our main building surprsingly caught on fire today. We don’t know the scale of the loss, but it’s certainly very very bad. www.fox13news.com/st-petersbur...

Your research can drive change 🌊 Submit your paper to Women in Marine Science 2026! bit.ly/blog219sau

Elusive street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new sculpture in central London.

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @repauchincloss.bsky.social The Trump administration appears to continue to try and circumvent Congress’ desire to keep US scientific research independent, or even possible… greatly appreciate your attention to this!

Only a few days left to register for the Phycological Society annual meeting in Juneau, Alaska this summer! Looking forward to seeing all the phytophiles and talking #phytoplankton at my favorite meeting :) #oceanography #microbialsky 🌊🦠🧪 www.psaalgae.org/meetings/202...

I’m in this point and I don’t like it

With sadness, I report a post-humous publication from our friend Markus Kienast, who passed away last year. Significant Southern Hemisphere contribution to the Indonesian Throughflow over the last 800,000 years 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

In 5 days, the crew will be further away from Elon Musk than anyone else has ever been. Goosebumps!

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11