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Gaël Forget

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Oceanographer, climate scientist, programmer, digital artist, from Bretagne, France, Europe, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MIT https://gaelforget.net https://github.com/gaelforget https://mastodon.mit.edu/@gaelforget

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Gaël Forget @gaelforget.net · 18d

🚨 Postdoc Opening

My group at MIT has an opening for a postdoc interested in climate tipping points in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and ocean state estimation as part of the POLEMIX program.

(Review of applications to start October 15)

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Postdoctoral Associate, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences - Cambridge MA 02139

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Gaël Forget @gaelforget.net · 19h

I am definitely with you on the need for enforcement. Even police cars commonly park in bike lanes where I am at ...

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Sorry I have not watched the clip. In the strange world where I live (USA) ebike is used equally for things that self propel a bit or fully.

Gaël Forget @gaelforget.net · 2d

So do I, like electric motor bikes and scooters. Especially when they ride with the rest of the motorized vehicles in their lanes, rather than in bicycle lanes or on sidewalks

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15d

Glasgow’s 'Argyle Street Ash' has been crowned Tree of the Year 2025 after being nominated by the public as this year’s wildcard entry 🌳

Stunning Glasgow landmark wins 2025 'Tree of the Year' as wildcard entry

www.thenational.scot

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Gaël Forget @gaelforget.net · 17d

Subtly downgrade a band

Daft Plum

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 17d

Subtly downgrade a band

Cupcake

Jeff Smith @sumisu3.bsky.social · 18d

Subtly downgrade a band

The Rocks at Rest

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Gaël Forget @gaelforget.net · 18d

Postdoctoral Associate, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences - Cambridge MA 02139

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · Sep 6

I found this history fascinating, especially how the US under Bush I a) pushed to create the IPCC to center government representatives, not scientists, in UN climate action; b) used the IPCC to block binding emission targets and carbon taxes on rich countries, which seemed imminent in 1988.

In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise

This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III…

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · May 14

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️

Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Aug 20

Incredible to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
So happy to have worked with the amazing people @visionzerovancouver.ca

visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...

side of a building with a parking lot in front with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too.

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Aug 7

BIG: A new executive order changes fundamentally how the U.S. awards research grants, giving oversight to political appointees in coordination with OMB.

All new grant opportunities are paused until these appointees are in place.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Aug 4

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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Dr. Rowena Lohman @rowenalohman.bsky.social · Jul 30

Let's go NISAR!!! Successful separation - now we wait on the rest of the deployment over the next week or so. #nisar #isro #nasa
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NASA-ISRO’s NISAR Spacecraft Separates From Rocket’s Third Stage - NASA Science

The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) spacecraft has separated from the third stage of ISRO’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket and will

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Jul 7

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · Jun 22

A nice river, somewhere, meandering through a bit of glacial deposits and cutting into Upper Cretaceous shale and sandstone.
High-resolution prints are for sale on request (special edition!).

Digital elevation model of the Grand River, South Dakota, USA. River floodplain in blue (high) to white (low), the rest of the landscape in orange (high) to green (low). The river meanders, the landscape on both sides of the floodplain is eroded with finger-like gullies.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · Jun 14

Press conferences, side events, town halls, talks, posters — #OneArgo was active on all fronts at #UNOC3! Congratulation to the whole community. Your energy and collaboration are already making a difference and shaping the future of global ocean observing.

@wmo-global.bsky.social @unesco.org

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 22

Elizabeth Catlett, Angela Libra, 1972, tribute to Angela Davis, radical educator and activist for US civil rights
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Prjnt featuring a repeated image of a Black woman's head with Afro hairstyle and looking left in different colours

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Gaël Forget @gaelforget.net · Jun 20

"Yet, it’s the marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) method that has sold the most credits so far. 🤷🏻‍♂️"

Dare I say, proof is in the pudding?

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でんか @k-hermit.com · Jun 10

Calappa Fountains 💦
Not a water fight—just gill maintenance. But it totally looks like they’re splashing each other. Cute overload( *´艸`)

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧵 I think artists need to look at the world with fresh eyes & experience the excitement like a small child. This is my nephew & me admiring a Picasso. It’s this fascination that I find so inspiring.

As you can see in this thread my art is about vibrancy, excitement & joy! [1]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jun 13

PARIS CITY HALL EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 21st! I’m proud to join Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, iconic artist Shepard Fairey @obeygiant.bsky.social & local leaders next week to open this conversation-changing EXHIBITION on city leadership in climate action! www.paris.fr/evenements/d...

Paris City Hall Exhibition poster art by famous artist SHEPARD FAIREY of OBEY & HOPE (Obama’s poster) fame.

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Council on Strategic Risks @councilonstrategicrisks.org · Jun 11

🚨 NOAA's climate.gov, a repository of reliable data on the world's climate and the effects, may be in its final days.

The site's dashboards and data are critical for farmers, businesses, and homeowners alike.

CCS's @ccbaxter.bsky.social and Noah Fritzhand explain in detail what could be lost:

What the Nation Stands to Lose Without climate.gov - The Council on Strategic Risks

Climate.gov serves an essential function in American society: it acts as a bridge between highly trained scientists who generate climate data and the general public that needs to understand and use it...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 3

Brittany, France early 20thc, skilled women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring three sirting white women in white hats and dark dresses in the act of creating a huge intricate lace looking textile art in ehite with symmetrical floral motifs which hangs vertically between them

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Jay Joseph Jr @jayjosephjr.bsky.social · May 27

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

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