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@buttondown.com what's going on with the platform this week? previews and search are broken, drafts won't send. is the code already on holiday?
“Motherf-cking wind farms.”
That’s the gist of Samuel L. Jackson’s viral ad for Swedish clean energy developer Vattenfall.
It’s a prime example of how comedy can bring climate change information to everyday audiences — if it’s not silenced under the Trump administration.
If anyone has been keen to build their own OpenCTD, we have 5 Rev7 kits back in stock and ready to ship.
oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com
Every night, billions of tiny fish rise from the deep in Earth’s largest migration. A new @jexpbiol.bsky.social study confirms what scientists long suspected: mesopelagic fish help lock carbon in the deep sea for centuries. Small fish, big climate impact.
🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW
A good point & one I bring up in my drone talks. Not being able to SCUBA doesn’t preclude one from being a marine scientist. Some of the first drone pilots in my lab were individuals who couldn’t dive due to medical conditions. We need to highlight the different ways of being a marine scientist.
Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting?
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.
POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
🧪🧪 *Checks math* This looks right....
We’re hiring #Plankton Analysts! 🌊💼
🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe
🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more
🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts
📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
📢 Hot off the press: our new study in Nature, led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social, shows how climate change is redefining what it means to live an "unprecedented life"—facing climate extremes that would have been nearly impossible without human influence.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
✴️ Request for proposals! ✴️
@navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
os.nav.fund/meeting-fund
#OpenScience
The Spencer Foundation is offering $25,000 bridge #grants to anyone who lost NSF funding and needs money to complete their data collection, writing, or obligations to community partners www.spencer.org/grant_types/.... #science
Curious about local smol LLMs? The benchmark for our new challenge walks your through step by step getting Google's gemma model running for creating document summaries on your laptop! Check it out and then join the challenge! drivendata.co/blog/whats-u...
A playground constructed over an ocean full of Megalodon. A group of kids is walking towards it, but they're not really excited to be there. One of the kids, frustrated at the lack of safety in the engineering and eager to identify who is responsible for this unsafe situation, shouts "Who even built this?!" Another kid, trying to look on the bright side and likely an Aries says, "But, these Megalodon look friendly!" A Megalodon, who is probably also an Aries, jumps out of the water and says, "Weeeee!" The text reads: Is your school playground safe from Megalodon and other hazards? Make sure playground equipment is safe: check for sharp points or edges and make sure there's at least 9 inches of impact surfacing (mulch/wood chips). Never play on hot surfaces. Remove drawstrings from any clothing and leave necklaces at home.
It's Playground Safety Week which means you should look out for these common playground hazards and Megalodon.
"With FathomVerse, we aim to provide a tangible way for climate-conscious individuals to contribute to ocean research and expand our collective knowledge about the ocean.” - @kakanikatija.bsky.social
The new and improved FathomVerse levels up ocean exploration. Learn more in our new blog 🔗
An assortment of postcards lying on a hardwood floor, in support of NOAA employees. They are a mix of National Marine Sanctuary poster illustrations of Monitor NMS (a Civil War shipwreck), Channel Islands NMS (sea lion & kelp), and Cordell Bank NMS (octopus on a reef). One looks like a hand-drawn and colored oceany cartoon. The backsides of two of the postcards say "Thank you for all you do for NOAA and the nation" and "Your work is important. You are important" and "HOLD THE LINE."
NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today.
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
A screenshot of a Facebook post from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
I have ordered myself an entire pizza today and will only eat half
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Are you someone or know a staff member, scientist or meteorologist affected by the NOAA/NWS layoffs in California? Potentially working on a story for @kqednews @kqedscience.
@trevorabranch.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Data Rescue Project has a form to capture stories of the impacts of losing federal data and the staff that steward it. www.datarescueproject.org/telling-your...
I both appreciate this and have questions about Canadian cod catch limits
Check out this Today in Tabs post about moving from Substack to beehiiv www.todayintabs.com/p/migration-...
There's also this resource if you want to start archiving on your own, which was created across the main fed data backup efforts docs.google.com/document/d/1...
