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.)

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

🌊 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

Well done. #NoKings

Usually I’m a solid no to these fund raisers but including this meme along with it… makes me a maybe!

Friend from out of town was visiting campus yesterday. She said hi and that she was on her way to a HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) meeting. I'd like the record to show that I immediately—not 10 minutes later, not 1 hour later, not 1 day later—responded with, "well, HAB a nice day!" very proud

get in losers, we're forming a popular front against fascism

I’ll die on this hill—the @cmarinescience.bsky.social mascot should be a manatee

Wow love this description of modern movies

Any ocean (biogeochemical) modeller wants to be part of this fun crowd for a while? We're hiring a 🧪 PostDoc at @awi.de to assess carbon pathways into the interior 🌊 ocean and timescales of carbon sequestration with Lagrangian tools. jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21... #hiring #scijobs #oceanpeak

Postdoc position open in ocean biogeochemistry modeling with Prof. Judith Hauck @jhauck.bsky.social working on attribution and timescales of ocean carbon sequestration 🌊 at Alfred-Wegener Institute @awi.de in Germany jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...

Let me tell you about a baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies, whose name is Charles Fuggit King He's from Texas, where there must be a long line of people with that middle name—or none at all!

It’s salty. It’s full of carbon. Its upwelling may have helped end the last ice age. It’s…the salty blob! eos.org/articles/how... View more in our March special collection: eos.org/themes/ionic...

I am running a Climate Dynamics reading group for UCI graduate students this Spring and would like to propose a list of accessible papers on "big ideas" in climate dynamics from the 21st Century, prioritizing primary sources over review papers. Any suggestions of papers? (Self-promotion welcome!)

#OSM26 Day 4 For the mega nerd who wants to be in two “silent disco” sessions at once—double headphones!

#OSM26 Day 3 Some insights after 3 days in Glasgow: 1. the accents of local school children (walking to the SEC this morning, for some reason) is cute as hell 2. The local university knows how to set the mood 3. Glaswegians are incredibly nice. Go to Fat Al’s gelato for proof

#OSM26 Day 2 The lighting. We need to talk about the lighting. Very interesting. Like I’m in a spa about to enjoy a nice cucumber and mint drink… I like it