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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 2h

This is fascinating. Understand real risks to your health

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 2h

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 1d

The moon 🌕 is getting ready to set.

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 1d

Learn how ONC is playing a key role in managing and processing the oceanographic data from the Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition, soon to be available on our open access, data management portal Oceans 3.0 🧊 bit.ly/4h1bfEC

🧪 🌊 #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #DataScience #BigData

UVic-led Ocean Networks Canada shares data from first all-Canadian Antarctic expedition

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making research data from the first all-Canadian-led scientific expedition to the Antarctic publicly available.

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments?
🌎🦠🧪

I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship.

Please reach out if interested!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777

McGill University, Trottier Space Institute

Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA

academicjobsonline.org

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 2d

Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation, a 100% Inuit-owned company is building a community wind turbine and battery 5km from Sanikiluaq: "These will cut the demand for diesel required for electricity by at least 50%" 👏👏👏

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 2d

🌊 Reporting from @cheknews.ca on the Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition (CARE) with colleague @tiaanderlini.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social @katemoran.bsky.social @oceannetworks.ca 🇨🇦 cheknews.ca/victoria-sci...

Victoria scientists chart climate change from Antarctica

Not too many cruises take you to the edge of the map. But for University of Victoria scientist Dr. Tia Anderlini, this was no luxury voyage — it was a full-scale research mission to one of the most re...

cheknews.ca

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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 6d

Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene

Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...

www.science.org

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 5d

What isotopes are being considered and what total activities? How can a story be written on a topic like this and not contain this information?

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 6d

Woke up. Fetched some coffee

Coffee mug with Mean Girls written on it

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 7d

Perfectly normal traffic on a Thursday morning @uvicscience.bsky.social @uvic.ca @seos-uvic.bsky.social

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 8d

Definitely autumn in British Columbia...it is going to get windy and wet in the coming days. Current surface winds in our neck of the woods

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · 12d

🌊 #biogeochemistry for the masses

A biogeochemical model available in #python

(h/t @geotraces.bsky.social )

www.geotraces.org/new-software...

New software enables global ocean biogeochemical modeling in Python – GEOTRACES

An International Study of the Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Elements and Isotopes - Trace Element data available including an on-line Atlas eGEOTRACES

www.geotraces.org

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 13d

Deep ocean microbes are starving but does feeding them fresh carbon make them eat the old stuff?

Our new study shows it doesn’t. The persistence of this carbon appears to come from its chemical stability, not from microbial starvation.

🌊🦠 🧪 #MicroSky #MarineSky

journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Testing the priming effect in the deep ocean: are microorganisms too starved to consume recalcitrant organic carbon?

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 14d

Always been more of an ibuprofen person myself

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 15d

Eggs can also transmit avian flu if not properly handled. If you are arguing and moving goalposts with @effinbirds.com… www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

www.canada.ca

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 16d

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 16d

📢 24-month postdoc starting Jan 2026 at Mercator Ocean & Laboratoire d’Océanographie. Focus: modeling MCDr, ocean alkalinization & CO₂ using BGC-Argo data. PhD in oceanography/climate science required.

🔗 Details & apply : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 17d

I move that the addition of one more Dr. David Ho to this group would represent a Claus of Ho’s

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17d

I met Dr. David Ho!

He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

Two men stand side by side in an office setting. The background features bookshelves filled with books and framed certificates on the wall. One man is dressed in a black blazer over a white shirt, while the other wears a green jacket over a blue shirt.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 Job Alert – Data Manager BGC-Argo

📅 Contract: 12-month renewable (full-time)
💶 Salary: from €2200 gross/month (CNRS scale)
👉 Contact: [email protected]
👉 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 18d

That time of year #Oktoberfest #Erdinger

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JGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 19d

Whilst trace metals influence ocean productivity, there are a paucity of regions where their spatial and temporal variability are well explored. Ortega et al., investigate the drivers of trace metal dynamics in the productive Northern Gulf of Alaska 🌊
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Bathymetric map of the Northern Gulf of Alaska Long Term Ecological Research (NGA LTER) site

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 18d

The Enchanted Owl
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1960

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Denis Gilbert 🌎 @denis-gilbert.ca · 19d

How does oxygen get from the ocean surface layer to the ocean's intermediate depth and bottom waters? 🧪🌊

I wrote a brief overview of the processes involved and the key regions of ocean ventilation:

denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/1...

#ocean #oceanography #oxygen #popularscience #science

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 21d

Did you feel shaking on southern #VancouverIsland at 5 a.m. today?
That was a M3.0 earthquake located 16 km SW of Duncan and 40 km WNW of #Victoria. Shaking was lightly felt across the region.
Details and report shaking:
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/...
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Seismograms showing ground shaking from the M 3.0 earthquake on southern Vancouver Island (40 km WNW of Victoria) at 5 a.m. PT, September 18.

Map showing the location of the M3.0 earthquake on southern Vancouver Island at 5 a.m. on September 18. The earthquake was located 40 km WNW of Victoria and 16 km SW of Duncan.

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 21d

Felt near PKOLS @earthquakeguy.bsky.social. Will report. Very subtle wall rattle

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 22d

My reading too?