Dr. Katy Croff Bell
@katycroffbell.bsky.social
Explorer of oceans, crafter of nifty things, mother of rascals, avoider of COVID
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social Founder & President
@NatGeo Explorer
@aaas.org Ambassador
@theexplorersclub.bsky.social EC50
Posts & opinions mine alone.
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social Founder & President
@NatGeo Explorer
@aaas.org Ambassador
@theexplorersclub.bsky.social EC50
Posts & opinions mine alone.
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NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today.
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Katy Croff Bell
Thanks! Please come join us!
Is Deep Sea Mining Feasible?
feat. @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
A new feasibility report on deep sea mining in American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, underestimated costs, and immature tech.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
feat. @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
A new feasibility report on deep sea mining in American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, underestimated costs, and immature tech.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Pressure Testing: Is Deep Sea Mining Feasible? . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A new report on the technical and economic feasibility of deep sea mining in the American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, undere...
us02web.zoom.us
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thanks! Please come join us!
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BREAKING: Bird Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of South Georgia’s Elephant Seal Mothers as H5N1 Tears Through Top Predator Nurseries
More than 50,000 animals gone in a single season.
More than 50,000 animals gone in a single season.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Is Deep Sea Mining Feasible?
feat. @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
A new feasibility report on deep sea mining in American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, underestimated costs, and immature tech.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
feat. @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
A new feasibility report on deep sea mining in American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, underestimated costs, and immature tech.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Pressure Testing: Is Deep Sea Mining Feasible? . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A new report on the technical and economic feasibility of deep sea mining in the American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, undere...
us02web.zoom.us
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Is Deep Sea Mining Feasible?
feat. @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
A new feasibility report on deep sea mining in American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, underestimated costs, and immature tech.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
feat. @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
A new feasibility report on deep sea mining in American Samoa region finds that the approaches of two leading companies are plagued by flawed financial models, underestimated costs, and immature tech.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Imagine if they spent the same amount of money on taking care of people as they are blowing on "AI."
Just imagine.
Just imagine.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Imagine if they spent the same amount of money on taking care of people as they are blowing on "AI."
Just imagine.
Just imagine.
Reposted by Dr. Katy Croff Bell
Fun fact:
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fun fact:
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
🌋
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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My obsolete cables would like to have a word.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
My obsolete cables would like to have a word.
Reposted by Dr. Katy Croff Bell
Make time for Capybaras.
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Make time for Capybaras.
Bad news. Once you make the challah, you will eat it all and have none left for neither stuffing nor French toast.
It makes two; you can use one for the stuffing and the other for the best french toast of your life.
smittenkitchen.com/2025/05/chal...
smittenkitchen.com/2025/05/chal...
challah french toast
A classic recipe for an impossible to mess up challah french toast plus two dreamy toppings — a quick berry sauce and whipped vanilla bean cottage cheese — that make it better than we can get at a …
smittenkitchen.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bad news. Once you make the challah, you will eat it all and have none left for neither stuffing nor French toast.
That you, Biff?
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
That you, Biff?
Reposted by Dr. Katy Croff Bell
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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What we know we don’t know: impacts of deep-sea mining on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other migratory species. – Southern Fried Science
What we know we don’t know: impacts of deep-sea mining on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other migratory species.
Migratory species depend on a vast, interconnected ocean. Disturbance in the deep-sea isn’t localized, it ripples across a globally-connected ocean and impacts made today may persist long aft…
www.southernfriedscience.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🦑🌏🌊🧪
🐠 A marine fish collection in Puerto Rico has a new home!
Thanks to NSF support and a partnership between UPR and Scripps, thousands of specimens were saved, conserved and integrated into a world-class research collection, fueling discoveries in evolution, biogeography, and conservation. 🔬
Thanks to NSF support and a partnership between UPR and Scripps, thousands of specimens were saved, conserved and integrated into a world-class research collection, fueling discoveries in evolution, biogeography, and conservation. 🔬
The Library of Life - Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R., Ben Frable
YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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COP30 Blue Zone on fire with everyone standing around watching and taking video to post on social media.
If this isn't a metaphor for the planet, I don't know what is.
If this isn't a metaphor for the planet, I don't know what is.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
COP30 Blue Zone on fire with everyone standing around watching and taking video to post on social media.
If this isn't a metaphor for the planet, I don't know what is.
If this isn't a metaphor for the planet, I don't know what is.
Reposted by Dr. Katy Croff Bell
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
Someone, somewhere needs photos of mother sloth Fiona with baby Quint clutching her chest, and nearby father Riley.
Usually the sloths are just asleep in the trees at @rwpzoo.bsky.social, but last week, they were climbing around all over the place!
Highly recommend this level of cuteness 🦥
Usually the sloths are just asleep in the trees at @rwpzoo.bsky.social, but last week, they were climbing around all over the place!
Highly recommend this level of cuteness 🦥
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Someone, somewhere needs photos of mother sloth Fiona with baby Quint clutching her chest, and nearby father Riley.
Usually the sloths are just asleep in the trees at @rwpzoo.bsky.social, but last week, they were climbing around all over the place!
Highly recommend this level of cuteness 🦥
Usually the sloths are just asleep in the trees at @rwpzoo.bsky.social, but last week, they were climbing around all over the place!
Highly recommend this level of cuteness 🦥
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Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of how it can bring about the autoimmune condition
Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus causes lupus
Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of how it can bring about the autoimmune condition
www.newscientist.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Marcela Valladolid
Who was in your high school graduating class, +/- two years, that would be of interest?
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Marcela Valladolid
That was quick
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That was quick
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Just Washington, D.C., and six states — California, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington — earned overall grades in the A range, meaning that their sex ed policies are robust, inclusive and scientifically sound."
"The sex ed you get depends on your ZIP code — and your state’s politics"
19thnews.org/2025/11/sexu...
19thnews.org/2025/11/sexu...
The sex ed you get depends on your ZIP code — and your state’s politics
In some states, students learn about consent and healthy relationships. In others, they get "Baby Olivia" and abstinence-only instruction.
19thnews.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Just Washington, D.C., and six states — California, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington — earned overall grades in the A range, meaning that their sex ed policies are robust, inclusive and scientifically sound."
WHAT??!?
Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
WHAT??!?
I made this last night but didn’t have pecans or oranges so I subbed walnuts & apple cider and it is DIVINE.
Oh I also baked it in a 9x13 pan to cook more evenly and in half the time.
It’s half eaten already!
smittenkitchen.com/2021/11/cran...
Oh I also baked it in a 9x13 pan to cook more evenly and in half the time.
It’s half eaten already!
smittenkitchen.com/2021/11/cran...
cranberry pecan bread
A cranberry pecan bread studded with tart berry gems, orange-zested, and finished with a perfect snowglobe-like crunch on top.
smittenkitchen.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I made this last night but didn’t have pecans or oranges so I subbed walnuts & apple cider and it is DIVINE.
Oh I also baked it in a 9x13 pan to cook more evenly and in half the time.
It’s half eaten already!
smittenkitchen.com/2021/11/cran...
Oh I also baked it in a 9x13 pan to cook more evenly and in half the time.
It’s half eaten already!
smittenkitchen.com/2021/11/cran...
Reposted by Dr. Katy Croff Bell
Next Monday at 6PM I'll be at the Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield talking about how maps lie! Join us, it'll be fun!
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Next Monday at 6PM I'll be at the Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield talking about how maps lie! Join us, it'll be fun!