The Gay Plant Store made my day

I gave a farewell talk at UCI and said I owe a lot of my scientific career and persistence to growing up in the punk and hardcore scenes of the (later) ‘90s. Skateboarding too.There were a lot of questioning looks… anyway, I immediately bought this book and thought of writing some of my own chapters

🌊 While we are all appropriately enraged about the world right now (well the humane humans are), friend Adam Subhas is getting really nice coverage for his OAE field work last summer! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/m...

Bye bye Maggi! We will check in on Gnasher (and Jamie too)

Planetary precession is cööl

I’ve been seeing Zack’s plots for years now but I wanted to point out the beauty in these two *quite ugly* datasets

🌊🧪 Having an EXCITING Friday night planning my trip to #OSM2026 in Glasgow, Scotland... The Ocean Sciences Meeting is at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) but I want to stay in town and not way out by the conference center. Any advice (besides bring an umbrella) from fellow #OceanSciences attendees?

I laughed so hard at this

Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!

Happy #DecemberSolstice! 🌞 Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming solar radiation during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Dashed line shows the equator This graphic can be found at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

🚨 Calling all geoscientists 🚨 If you or anyone you know is attending #AGU25, please join us and spread the word to #SaveNCAR. More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

This post stuck with me all day today—NSF has to leave *their* custom designed building because of unstated cost savings. HUD will take over the building and there are many rumors about the scheduled “upgrades” including parking spot for the HUD secretary’s 5 cars www.science.org/content/arti...

I want to to receive a Climate Nobel prize. For the prestige! For the prize money! But most of all for what appears to be a chair from the Kingdom of Gondor!!

#NOLA city council has a web portal to report abuse by Trump’s illegal paramilitary forces #ICE could be useful for @agu.org to distribute council.nola.gov/know-your-ri...

Every time I download and open a new PDF, there's a wager underway—does it default to "enable scrolling" or has some monster set the default to single page view only WHO ARE THESE MONSTERS Sure, some people might be using PDFs as a powerpoint-like slides, but that's not the default mode Adobe WTH

Trash in our cities is one of the easiest and most identifiable upgrades we can do. Here we have citizens from “Philthadelphia” taking it on DIY style (we shouldn’t have to do this, people) ps also build protected bike lanes in cities!

I hear that University of Miami is looking for a paleoceanography / paleoclimate scientist: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

New! We are hiring for a tenure-track faculty position in aquatic ecotoxicology—join me at the College of Marine Science jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676280/t...

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, Charlie Brown

Today is the fifth annual SoCal BOOM (biogeochemical ocean obs & models)—this time @ UCLA! Here Daniele Bianchi opens the event with the standard greeting “Hello BOOMers!”

There’s very little I like about my rental car, but it plays the first couple notes of Hall and Oates’ “I can’t go for that” when you start and stop it and I love it

⛺️ up! Drill down! Just another day in paradise looking for Earth’s oldest ice.

Any 🌊 🧪 peeps know about NSF panel delays ?

🚨Out today, acidification of the California Current🚨 Using corals and models we show regionally amplified acidification, due to the combo of CO2 uptake and remineralisation. This highlights potential risks to productive upwelling zones in an acidifying ocean 🌊🧪⚒️📈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

man, there's so much crap going on in the universe, but I swear the thing that's annoying me the most is that Adobe Acrobat is apparently resetting my preferences to "Page Display: Single-page view" and this might be my joker moment UNIVERSAL DEFAULT MODE FOR ENABLE SCROLLING

📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling. ➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)

Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.

President Knick Knack

Wow just wow, I hope this is real—what a cool story about a weird restaurant name (Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse)

friends doing awesome new research 🧐 👊✊😀

Tomorrow is @agu.org "early bird" registration day (Nov 6), and I'm filling out the usual questionnaires. These include:

idk why my brain is like this but: a thread

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

finally. baseball is over. we can only hope it has been defeated forever

I'm really interested in the idea that periodically (?) being super cold can help you live healthier longer. Probably because I grew up surfing New Jersey winters (in very poorly insulated '90s wetsuits). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Work with Al Tag?!? You should!!

💥California marine biogeochemists! So Cal BOOM* is at UCLA on November 22, 2025 (*Biogeochemical Ocean Obs & Models). This is an event for grad student and post-doc marine biogeochemists of all kinds. More senior peeps (like me) are also welcome! 💥 Register here: socalboom.wordpress.com

Someone at @agu.org comms has a good sense of humor eos.org/research-spo...

For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT Register here:

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

"I'm Tony Gilroy, creator of #Andor. I am urging you with everything I have to get out on Saturday for #NoKings day. "Go to NoKings.org and find the location nearest you where you can go out and protest nonviolently. "Democracy is up for grabs, and it's up to us to protect the thing we love."

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18