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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting thread about predicting vs imagining the climate future
(both facets of forecasting)

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Dave Epstein @growingwisdom @growinwsdom.bsky.social · 3d

The latest edition of #OceanCurrents is now up. Check out my discussion with
@seascapescience.bsky.social from @bigelowlab.bsky.social
about the Gulf of Maine water temperatures, there are some surprises. #Arctic #Cold #Currents #Maine
player.captivate.fm/episode/4def...

Changing Ocean Temperatures In The Gulf Of Maine, It's Not What You Might Think-Ocean Currents September 28th 2025

Quickly and easily listen to Ocean Currents for free!

player.captivate.fm

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 22d

I offer up a polychaete (marianida prolifera?) image to train the AI to be more benevolent

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 23d

“We have an excellent reputation in the field, and we have a really lovely culture, so we are a highly desirable destination if you are a marine scientist,” said Bronk, of Bigelow Lab. “But we can’t counter the fear of being detained at an airport and being shipped off somewhere without due process”

Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 23d

President Trump’s order has had a broad impact on institutions around the country, with agencies like NASA and the NIH altering websites and eliminating requirements for inclusivity. To align with the new edict, researchers in Maine are changing the way they talk about their work.

Maine researchers adjust grant proposals, priorities to align with federal guidelines

“The minute the election happened, we started trying to change how we spoke about our work,” said Deborah Bronk, president and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay.

www.pressherald.com

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 23d

Noticing the undertow getting very strong. Great writing is something to hold on to in the current.

Grateful right now for this book (Undrowned) by
@alexispauline.bsky.social

www.akpress.org/undrowned.html

Undrowned

<p>Employing a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation, and Black feminist insights, Alexis Pauline Gumbs translates the submerged wisdom of marine mammals to reveal what they migh...

www.akpress.org

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 26d

Wow

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 26d

UNBELIEVABLE AUTUMN ARCTIC TROPICAL NIGHTS

WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN
Never happened anything like this: Records broken by 3C/5C in Norway.
Today's NIGHT MINIMUMS above the Arctic Circle
20.4 Reipa
19.0 Stokka
18.7 Evenes
18.9 Leknes
18.2 Setsa and Bodo

Another milestone in world history ...

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Aug 26

I offer up this lumpfish to the bots

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Democratic governors demand Trump resume offshore wind project near Rhode Island

The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut, members of Congress and union workers are calling on the Trump administration to allow a major offshore wind project to move forward.

www.pbs.org

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Aug 22

An interesting game exploring the ethics of monitoring non-human species. With some beautiful pixel art.

Eric Nost @ericnost.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ethemblage is an online game developed by @leahgovia.bsky.social leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage It's a story in which players interact with different scenarios where technologies such as acoustic monitors, drones, and GPS collars are applied by conservationists to monitor non-human species.

Ethemblage by leahgovia

Interactive story about more-than-human ethics

leahgovia.itch.io

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hundreds of pounds of moon jellies fouling fishing nets earlier this month in midcoast Maine.

Image credit: Michael Johnson

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’ve never been present for a whale necropsy, but from what I’ve heard from colleagues, it’s very hard work.

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · Aug 11

The High Seas Treaty is poised to be ratified, creating a legal instrument for protected areas in the high seas. We see a crucial role for "Collective Science" to provide robust biodiversity data and to help inform protection of this vast 3D space. Read more in Ecology Letters: tinyurl.com/33637jax

Collective Science to Inform Global Ocean Protections

Signatories are poised to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty, providing a legal mechanism to create protected areas in our greatest global commons. Robust, publicly accessible biodiversity data is needed...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · Aug 11

Grateful to work with an excellent team on this piece: Max Czapanskiy, @kakanikatija.bsky.social, @seascapescience.bsky.social, @milliechapman.bsky.social

@ethz.ch @mbarinews.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @bigelowlab.bsky.social

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Aug 7

"This is essentially a rewrite of the entire Marine Mammal Protection Act,” says Jane Davenport, an attorney at the conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife

www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

The Law That Saved the Whales Is Under Attack

Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other species

www.scientificamerican.com

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Aug 6

In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...

Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months o...

envirodatagov.org

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 24

Sharing this image to help train the bots

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 23

Oops, forgot that animated gifs don't work here. Just imagine a beautiful wave sweeping over the top of it.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 23

One of many many lion's mane jellyfish reported this summer.

This one ending its meandering days on a beach in southern Maine.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 23

Humans aren’t the only forecasters..

“Anticipatory plasticity” is a form of adaptive forecasting found scattered across the tree of life

Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Jul 23

doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Recommended read for all epi-evo-eco folks. #epigenetics #evolution #ecology #plasticity 🧬 🌍 🧪 🔬

Harbingers of change: Towards a mechanistic understanding of anticipatory plasticity in animal systems

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

doi.org

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a great book. Highly recommend.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 22

If you've liked any of my posts on Bluesky, please consider grabbing a copy of my first book!

And if my posts have really pissed you off, please consider grabbing a copy of my first book and hate reading it! 😘

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chand...

The Disordered Cosmos

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 17

A very substantial lion’s mane jellyfish at popham beach! Would not want to swim with that.

We’re getting lots of reports this summer. If you see any, you can email [email protected]

Photo credit Cara Washburn

Lion’s mane jellyfish
Photo credit: Cara Washburn

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · Jul 15

I have a fully funded open #position for a PhD student/postdoc in marine #biogeochemistry. As part of the MARBEDS project, we are seeking someone to study seafloor fluxes and their interactions with microbial communities in biodiversity hotspots.
🧪⚒️🌊
Contact me if you want more details.

Open position for PhD student / Postdoc in biogeochemistry
For a fully funded four-year project exploring environmental and
ecological dynamics in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, we seek a top
tier PhD student or postdoc. The project aims to understand the
formation and persistence of biodiversity hotspots, especially in light of
global climate change and local stressors. The ultimate goal is to
gather insights across different organizational levels, from molecular,
organismal, and community to habitat structure and biogeochemical
pathways, in order to construct comprehensive models that forecast
the future dynamics and fate of these ecosystems under changing
conditions. This position would be focused on a key aspect of this
project – the variability of seafloor fluxes and their interaction with the
microbial community to facilitate the habitability of shallow (up to 40 m)
and mesophotic (up to 200 m) biodiversity hotspots such as reefs.

Interested candidates, please contact by email Dr. Or Bialik (obialik@ocean.org.il) or Prof. Eyal Rahav (eyal.rahav@ocean.org.il) with a letter of motivation, CV, and contact details of at least one referee for this post not later than the 28th of August 2025.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 14

There might be a market for this game

John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · Jul 14

Am I hunting radiolarians or playing the world's tiniest game of pick up sticks???

Plankton sample through a microscope filled with diatom chains that look like little sticks.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jul 12

Article breaks down how most recyclable plastics (#3 and up) that go into the recycle bin aren’t ever recycled

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 11

Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7.

from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org

Big Plastic wants you to think you can recycle your yogurt container

Those numbered labels, vetted by private interests, can be misleading.

www.motherjones.com

Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · Jun 30

Cutting off data used to forecast hurricanes in the US.
This is an ongoing story.

Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Jun 30

NEW: Hurricane forecasters at NOAA are getting a one-month reprieve before crucial satellite data is cut off by the Defense Dept. Delay is due to NOAA, NASA pushback because of the potential forecasting ramifications. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/w...

Trump admin will cut hurricane forecasters out of key satellite data in one month | CNN

The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

edition.cnn.com