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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈

@rejectedbanana.bsky.social

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Oceanographer, founder of Tini Scientific. She/her 🏳️‍🌈. My goal in life was to throw expensive s**t in the ocean. Then I did it and became a world expert on ocean sensors.

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Nov 26

Just released! Our prototype app that turns your smartwatch into a smartsensor for marine science.

If you love a little DIY, fork our open source code and test our app on your Apple Watch. github.com/rejectedbana...

Not that into DIY? Beta begins testing soon....
@vgwschutte.bsky.social

GitHub - rejectedbanana/BoB: SwiftUI application for environmental monitoring

SwiftUI application for environmental monitoring. Contribute to rejectedbanana/BoB development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 14d

I'll be in L.A. in 2 weeks w @rejectedbanana.bsky.social! It'll be our first demo of the prototype app we're building for our startup. I ordered inflatable drink holders for this today- I think we're going to bring something a bit different than other folks : )

Tickets: luma.com/6886yksx

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · 27d

I like how you put it on the oldest bottle :)

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Aug 19

There’s still time to submit an abstract on ocean technology to #OSM26! Join @fishysounds.bsky.social and share how you’ve been hacking the ocean.

agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Headline at top: Hacking the ocean: open-source technology and tools to train the next generation of ocean scientists. Imagery includes some bubbles behind the text. At the bottom it has the icon for the ocean sciences meeting which is text that says: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow Scotland, 22-27 February 2026.

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jul 28

Tell everyone about your cool new ocean technology! Join @fishysounds.bsky.social and myself at our #OSM26 session, “ED009 - Hacking the Ocean”, highlighting innovative and accessible tools for ocean science and education.

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jun 27

No. Just NO.

New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jun 27

If a vital current in the Atlantic Ocean collapses, it could rapidly cool Europe’s climate by several degrees. Researchers are proposing a bold plan to keep it going with giant parachutes.

The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with giant parachutes

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation moving – but some experts are sceptical

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jun 15

Oh have fun! Be on the lookout for the majestic trash eagles

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jun 6

At Safeway this week, rainbows are “seasonal” and “tie dye”. Is the “tie die” deadly typo a secret code I should be worried about?

Image from the fresh floral shop on the Safeway flyer. On the left is a plant in a rainbow pot labeled “seasonal ceramic pack” and on the right is a rainbow colored rose titled “single stem tie die rose”

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jun 3

Chicken Jockey!

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jun 3

Swift even prints emojis in the output JSON! Not sure how dacs will handle the characters though

Snippet of JSON text with a key of "fileName" and a value of "Chicken emoji, jockey emoji"

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Jun 3

Best part of building scientific software in Swift, you can use emojis as file names.

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Screen shot of iphone software that shows a logbook of scientific files. The list incudes the name, date and location of each file. The name of the first file are the chicken and jockey emojis. Second name, date and time, third name is boops boops

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · May 30

YES! That's the plan. You can share the data just like you would send a photo. Text your besties a JSON!

There's also a neat little map that also shows you where you took the data! I just don't want to show everyone where I live ha ha.

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · May 30

Brainstorming with @yuengdl.bsky.social on what fun educational experiments we can use a smartwatch for.

Here is a quick snippet of water temperature and IMU data I took this morning!

Screenshot from my phone that plots the temperature and pressure data, as well as acceleration and angular velocity from the sensors on my smartwatch.

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · May 23

I heard! Congrats!

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · May 9

This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · May 9

Omg I love this!

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · May 8

Creepy?

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Mar 26

Also I have software that will output the data in real-time as a JSON from the Apple Watch Ultra (or any apple watch) if you want to be an alpha tester.

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yesish with the apple watch Ultra. Depends on whether you are close to wifi or cell service. I've been testing the GPS on my watch and there is a continuous dynamic correction. The best is within 10 feet, but sometimes it puts me on the other side of the street.

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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · Mar 21

“DISCO: A low-cost device-instrumented Secchi disk for water clarity observations”

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Mar 5

I also highly recommend getting scope of work in your inbox! Always some wormhole of random information to fall into.

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Mar 4

Know anyone that needs a consultant to make those sensors work better? Because I am really good at that 🙃

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · Feb 28

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA

Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*

Make that part clear when you ⬇️

Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Feb 28

I’m thinking we should spread this news about the firings at NOAA as far and wide as possible. Like cancer research, weather forecasting seems likely to be broadly popular across the political spectrum. apnews.com/article/nati...

Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.

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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Feb 27

I am Great Salt Lake levels....UNMEASUREABLE.

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Feb 26

Ha ha ha! Yes I kind of love this. They should also make the baby seals wear matching sweatbands on their foreheads.

Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · Feb 25

You are not alone! But you got this. Some of my most impactful work for the sciences was outside of academia.

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