Jamie Pierson

Global distribution and temporal coverage of DO profiles. (a) Changes in the number of profiles from major data sourcesduring 1950–2024. (b–c) Spatial distribution of decadal-mean profile counts for 1960–1980 and 2000–2020, computed on a 1°× 1°grid, showing a transition from predominantly Northern Hemisphere sampling to much denser coverage in the SouthernHemisphere. The color bar indicates the decadal-mean number of profiles per grid cell (log scale).100

A new database to open the week with. One of the things that worries some of us about climate change is the loss of oxygen in the ocean. This database tracks long-term dissolved oxygen globally, and seems a handy tool study how things have changed. 🧪🌊

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Minnesota Nazis YouTube video by NOFX - Topic

Here is another one: NOFX rewrote some lyrics to their song “Huntington Beach Nazis”, and named the new version “Minnesota Nazis”.

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The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵

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The next lines of that Wikipedia article are also interesting, that initially, NOAA was going to be in the Department of the Interior but because of a personal and/or political feud it was placed in Commerce.

Nixon also was in office when NOAA was created.

Picture of a shark taken through a porthole at the Fish Eye marine park in Guam.

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A couple of years ago, a good friend who was a chef made ceviche with a freshly caught 15-17 inch snakehead, and it was absolutely delicious.

I found you on social media because I enjoy your books, and then followed because I enjoyed the content, literary, guitar based, and otherwise.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

surf rock is only going to become more relevant as sea levels rise