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Lisa Beal

@letstalkocean.bsky.social

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Ocean scientist @miamirosenstiel and editor in chief @theAGU @jgroceans. Passionate about ocean swimming, science and art, and diversifying voices in ocean science. Lover of wild life and wild places. Proudly divested from fossil fuels. Displaced Londoner.

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Nov 9

Got ocean science that stands out from the blah blah?! Committed to research with integrity and impact? Want to contribute reviews that count? Interested in supporting early career researchers?

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 23d

Science is facing one of its most challenging moments. There's never been a more important time to understand the current state of federal science funding—and what’s at risk. Watch AGU’s on-demand webinar to get the full picture. 🎥 buff.ly/AIDUCEi

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 23d

AGU's volunteer #PeerReviewers help advance the Earth and space sciences and maintain the integrity and accountability of the scientific record. 🌎

If you are interested in joining the AGU pool of reviewers, please fill out our interest form: buff.ly/ZezWxq4

#PRW2025 #AGUPubs #PeerReviewWeek

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · 23d

Did you know? In Louisiana three new gas plants will be built to power a massive Meta data center. AI needs a lot of power and is accelerating our fossil fuel problem. But we know how to make renewable energy using solar and wind. We need to demand sustainable solutions from our politicians.

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Sep 4

the kids are not alright nature is not alright climate is not alright politics are not alright we have lost our way

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yaas! See you at the AGU emerging scientist’s publication workshop! Where can I get my OSM26 tartan kilt?

AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Aug 23

🌊Heading to Glasgow for #OSM26? Apply for grants and scholarships to help cover your costs! 💵

💰Funding is available for students and early-career researchers to participate in the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026.

💻Explore all opportunities on our website and apply by 27 August➡️ buff.ly/ePloEt0

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Aug 23

🌊🌏🧪🏳️‍🌈🙏🏾📚So proud to be standing up for science and scientists with AGU! I did not ask permission to do what is right. When the laws become unjust, the just must become outlaws.

The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America

This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Aug 19

🚨 It's August Days of Action! Call your reps and tell them: cuts to science hurt communities, climate leadership & research. 

@aguscipolicy.bsky.social makes it easy—click, connect, speak up.

🔗 Take action now: buff.ly/dVHCj8h

 #FundScience #SpeakUpForScience #AGUSciPolicy #AugustDaysofAction

Join me for August Days of Action to support science!

Strength in numbers: Let's make hundreds of calls for science!

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Aug 22

Water quality off Miami Beach is shit—quite literally—with 10x safe levels of enterococci bacteria reported this week, largely due to leaky septic systems in rising groundwaters. If you are local consider contacting Mayor Levine-Cava to demand county sewers. 🌊 @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Aug 7

All of us: Save your submissions and reviews for non-profit society journals run by hand-picked editorial boards (AGU, EGU…) and journals that have professional editors (Science, Nature). Thru societies you are also supporting community with fee waivers, ECR workshops, diversity initiatives and more

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Aug 7

Predatory journals, science fraud, and reviewer burnout are undermining the quality of our science. What can we do? Senior scientists: Evaluate on quality because numbers no longer equate with scientific productivity. Junior scientists: Embrace slow science because your reputation is everything.

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Jul 17

I’m a big beautiful science nerd researching how ocean currents are spinning off more extreme ocean storms and what that means for marine life. Many unknowns come with change, this is just one tiny detail, and everything is changing so fast. With stakes this high, no wonder we humans are divided.

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Jul 12

When we use words, form policies, and take actions against others for the way the world is, we are thinking with our egos and acting on our resentments, instead of thinking with our love and acting on our compassion. The ocean humbles egos and heals resentments.

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Jul 11

@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social undergrads Riley Ames and Jose Solorzano hitting the CTDs and water sampling out in the Gulf Stream for the C-Streams experiment.

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Jul 10

🌊 Smooth seas this July in the Gulf Stream as it passes thru Florida Straits. This is our final cruise of the C-Streams experiment to quantify nutrient and carbon fluxes in the Stream and understand their effect on downstream productivity and anthropogenic carbon uptake. @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Mar 17

Writing your first science paper? Wondering where to start? Write an abstract first to troubleshoot and refine the research question, your main results, and conclusions. @jgroceans.bsky.social @agu.org

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · Jul 4

🌊 New global study challenges the Redfield ratio...

Analysis of >400K ocean samples (1971–2020) shows C:N:P ratios are dynamic, not fixed, shaped by depth, time and (of course) human activity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years - Nature Geoscience

Fifty years of plankton and water samples show that the proportion of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, probably reflecting a reduction in...

www.nature.com

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · Jul 4

Coming to the ocean/atmosphere/climate conference in S. Korea this month? Join me to discover a writing process for effective and concise communication of your science.

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 29

A good mentor is asking questions 90% of the time.

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 13

@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social Just another Saturday morning exploring the ocean!

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 13

🌊 In the water and on the water. The ocean is VAST, more than twice the area of all the continents put together. Plus an astounding 4 km deep, more than 5 times the world’s tallest building. And still, we 8 billion humans are changing every interconnected corner of it.

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 10

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 10

All at sea again! How do we capture km-scale processes and approach within meters of a rocky sea wall at 200 m depth while swept along in the rushing Gulf Stream?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 10

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 10

All at sea again! How do we capture km-scale processes and approach within meters of a rocky sea wall at 200 m depth while swept along in the rushing Gulf Stream?

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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 10

“You have to withstand a profound sense of wrongness if you want to get somewhere new.”Miranda July

Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · May 5

“The negative relationship between meaning and gross domestic product per capita is particularly striking”