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Dr. Katy Croff Bell
@katycroffbell.bsky.social
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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.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · Mar 13
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 🌊
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An assortment of postcards lying on a hardwood floor, in support of NOAA employees. They are a mix of National Marine Sanctuary poster illustrations of Monitor NMS (a Civil War shipwreck), Channel Islands NMS (sea lion & kelp), and Cordell Bank NMS (octopus on a reef). One looks like a hand-drawn and colored oceany cartoon. The backsides of two of the postcards say "Thank you for all you do for NOAA and the nation" and "Your work is important. You are important" and "HOLD THE LINE."
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 2m
A recent @nature.com depicts life in the Kuril–Kamchatka & W Aleutian Trenches, two hadal trenches in the W Pacific that were explored with submersible Fendouzhe.

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Using Deep Sea Submersibles, Researchers Have Uncovered an Almost Alien World in the Hadal Trenches
Learn more about the Hadal Trenches and the types of life that thrive in the deep.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 5h
Or does he have a problem-free philosophy?
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 5h
At what point do the worries begin?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 8h
🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
Hadal Snailfishes (Teleostei: Liparidae) Extend Across Multiple Trenches: Molecular Insights and Implications for Taxonomic Nomenclature

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Hadal Snailfishes (Teleostei: Liparidae) Extend Across Multiple Trenches: Molecular Insights and Implications for Taxonomic Nomenclature
Hadal snailfish are not endemic to single deep-sea features, as evidenced by multiple documented range extensions of hadal snailfish species. Our data supports the recommendation that Notoliparis sho...
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
Deep-Sea Benthic Biodiversity and Climate Change: Indian Ocean Perspective

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Deep-Sea Benthic Biodiversity and Climate Change: Indian Ocean Perspective
The deep sea, encompassing ocean depths below 200 m which covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, represents one of the largest ecosystem in the planet earth. This expansive and largely uncharted environment is home to an extraordinary diversity of life...
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
Seasonal variability in community structure and metabolism of active deep-sea microorganisms

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Seasonal variability in community structure and metabolism of active deep-sea microorganisms
Abstract. Learning about the metabolic activities and adaptations of deep-sea microbes is challenging, as sample collection and retrieval often cause RNA d
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
Distribution of the Deep-Sea Limpet Genus Pyropelta in the Northwestern Pacific, with the Description of a New Species

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
Trophic ecology of Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea in the Clarion-Clipperton-Fracture Zone (Central Pacific)

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Trophic ecology of Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea in the Clarion-Clipperton-Fracture Zone (Central Pacific)
Abyssal seascapes represent over 50 % of the Planet's surface, but the life history traits of fauna present in these ecosystems remain poorly understo…
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
Confirmation of hard-substrate predictions in the abyssal Vema Fracture Zone

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Frontiers | Confirmation of hard-substrate predictions in the abyssal Vema Fracture Zone
Hydroacoustic mapping has recently challenged the long-held view of a uniform abyssal seafloor by predicting substantial habitat heterogeneity in this enviro...
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
The Sequestration Efficiency of the Deep Ocean

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The Sequestration Efficiency of the Deep Ocean
We introduce an idealized but computationally efficient method to estimate transit-time distributions (TTDs) from climate-model archives In ACCESS-ESM1.5 it takes up to 1300±350 $1300\pm 350$ yea...
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 9h
This week in open-access deep sea research...🌊🧪

For more, subscribe to the @deepstewardship.bsky.social Deep Sea Round Up!
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 11h
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to 3 scientists who uncovered how the immune system is kept in check by tiny "security guards" called regulatory T cells 🧬🥹

Here’s an explainer on what they are & how autoimmune disease & cancer can develop when they become dysregulated

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Nobel medicine prize: how a hidden army in your body keeps you alive – and could help treat cancer
How this year’s Nobel-winning research could make cancer immunotherapy even smarter.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 13h
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is where each new generation accepts a progressively degraded environment as "normal"

This leads to a failure to recognize the true extent of long-term environmental change & underestimation of #biodiversity loss

Here's how big lobsters used to grow just 100 years ago:
Giant lobsters
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 23h
The Nobel Prizes, 5 of 6 having so far gone to US based scientists, are a reminder of why we must stand up for science against this horrid administration. Here are some great Scientist Activists to follow.

go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk
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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d
100% would prefer workshops for men that said "confident women are not bitches/misandrist/pushy.... they're probably right on whatever topic is being discussed and you should be quiet."

Tired of being treated like a shrinking violet by these webinars tbh.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 2d
And harassment...and and and...
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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 2d
Oh, we could go on…

Rather than telling women to “know your worth” how about telling men to pay women equally and not retaliate against them when they ask for what they’re worth?
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 2d
What She Said Tracey Matney GIF
ALT: What She Said Tracey Matney GIF
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 2d
Rather than webinars for women to teach us how to be "confident" and "resilient" how about webinars for men to learn to "listen" and "not be an asshole"?
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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 3d
There's a testimony guide now too! Love my CITY docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 5d
TIL Cindy Lauper sang the Pee-wee's Playhouse theme song!
a close up of a man wearing a bow tie and a shirt .
Alt: a close up of Peewee Herman wearing a red bow tie, white shirt, and grey sport coat. He has a flat top. He turns to the camera with an expression of surprise on his face.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 6d
a cartoon of a man and a woman standing next to each other with the word riiiilight written on the bottom
Alt: a cartoon of a large hunky man and a woman who is terrifying beyond all reason standing next to each other. the man points and says "riiiilight." she looks at him skeptically
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 6d
We're ~60 miles away from Natick. Do they roam that far?? We also have known bobcats in the neighborhood so I'm thinking this one is a local
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 6d
It's a bobcat. In my backyard!
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