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Denis Gilbert 🌎 @denis-gilbert.ca · 19d

How does oxygen get from the ocean surface layer to the ocean's intermediate depth and bottom waters? 🧪🌊

I wrote a brief overview of the processes involved and the key regions of ocean ventilation:

denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/1...

#ocean #oceanography #oxygen #popularscience #science

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Climate.us @climate.us · Sep 8

In the 1st half of 2025, @climate.noaa.gov 's staff were terminated, shutting down daily operations.

Now, former members have joined w/ nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us, where climate info can be safeguarded from politics.

Check out our website and join the effort today.

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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · Sep 3

My @ternbicycles.com GSD may be the best purchase I have ever made in my life. It's hard to overstate how much I enjoy riding it with my kids. We've been able to avoid getting a second car as well, which is a huge financial help. It was my first ebike and I'm convinced everyone should try one.

Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · Sep 3

This is why I wrote down a cost breakdown of my ebike versus a car a year ago - because I was tired of people saying my Tern was expensive 😂

But also I'm so thrilled that brands like Aventon (even with their issues) have long tails under $2k

viktorkoves.com/2024/09/21/y...

Your First EV Could Be A Cargo E-Bike | Viktor Köves

EVs are here, but I want to show you that your first EV could just be a cargo e-bike that can replace most car trips, and save you a boat-load of money!

viktorkoves.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 3

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy.

I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

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Mark Hopwood @markinchina.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Negative CO2 emissions" became a hot topic in oceanography. Yet there are many concerns about potential side-effects of trying to manipulate the C cycle. With partners from across Guangdong & Hong Kong we've developed a coastal site to investigate side-effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement 🌊 🐠

Putting up a sunscreen over large aquaculture ponds

Using beer kegs to make an indoor incubation facility

Students taking a break from lining aquaculture ponds to make them water tight

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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · Aug 29

My first PhD student, Shannon McClish, successfully defended last week. She's been at the leading edge of research into the linkages between surface production and biological carbon export. Couldn't be more proud of her and her work. Its nice to have something to celebrate these days.

A title slide with an image of antarctic sea ice, logos for NASA and the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program, and the words: "Resolving Seasonal to Annual Marine Net Community Production Using Biogeochemical Argo Float Observations, Shannon McClish PhD Defense"

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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · Aug 11

Rock Creek park. Absolute war zone

A man on a cargo bike with two young children, riding on a road through Rock Creek Park surrounded by lush trees.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Aug 6

American climate solutions scientists? Want to move to a beautiful place, work with great people, and be based in Canada?

Here’s a good opportunity!

Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · Aug 5

Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn...

You: world class scholar, looking to make a move

Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy

Pls share widely!

Canada Excellence Research Chair - University of Victoria - University of Victoria

Find information about applying to be Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Victoria

www.uvic.ca

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 1

Important to note that what they mean by ebike injuries usually means being hit by a car while riding an ebike.

Also, cars have killed 46 people in the county of Honolulu already in 2025. 46! Ebikes have killed no one.

khon2news.bsky.social @khon2news.bsky.social · Aug 1

Click below for back-to-school e-bike safety advice from Honolulu Emergency Medical Services:

Honolulu EMS warns public on e-bike safety ahead of return to school

In the last year and a half, Honolulu Emergency Medical Services responded to 86 incidents involving injured electronic bike riders under 18 years of age.

www.khon2.com

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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hah, I climbed that crack in the last picture with my now wife, something like 8 years ago. Crazy, feels like a different life at this point. Loved that place, thanks for the flashback.

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TRICUSO @tricuso.bsky.social · Jul 14

Submit your #abstract ✒️ for the Southern Ocean-themed session at #OSM26 organised by TRICUSO colleagues, exploring the drivers, variability, and long-term evolution of the #SouthernOcean #carbon #sink

❗️Deadline: 20 August

More info: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow Scotland from 22 to 27 February 2026. The Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: processes, observations, and change. Call for contributions open now. Deadline: 20 August 2025.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jul 10

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.

The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · Jul 10

People are talking about the imminent brain drain of US researchers to other countries but that’s not the only way it’s going to look. There is going to be a brain drain out of science and into other US sectors. There are a lot of non-science things you can do with a Ph.D.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Jul 9

Reporting on the NOAA Fellow furlough, from the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

www.nytimes.com

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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪

How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Jul 7

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...

cpaess.ucar.edu

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · Jul 2

This Ramblin' Wreck is heading to Georgia Tech! 🐝

I'm thrilled to share that I am starting as an Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, investigating Earth's amazing oceans. 🌊 I'll be using my new position to advocate for science and scientists everywhere. 🧪 I hope you'll join me.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jul 2

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

www.thelancet.com

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Jul 1

It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jul 1

I know there's lots of other stuff going on, but honestly, nothing has disgusted & disillusioned me in recent years more than the Democratic establishment's utterly cowardly response to the right's demagoguing on trans issues. Just profoundly, profoundly depressing.

You Can't Win a Debate You Refuse to Have: Why Democrats Shouldn't Stay Silent on Trans Rights

Playing defense without offense is how you lose both the messaging war and elections

www.readtpa.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Jun 30

So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?

NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.

NASA: $24.875.

NIH: $47.7 billion.

Fund science, not cruelty.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · Jun 29

And 5 times the NSF budget, except we get fascism in return instead of scientific leadership, innovation, and education

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jun 29

This is a bonkers amount of money. It’s ~three times~ the annual budget of NASA.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 28

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jun 25

THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq.

The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for.
He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction.

He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.

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