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Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis | Grist share.google/cvyhSSQ4A0hO...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again? Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.

How Uruguay ditched fossil fuels for renewables - The Washington Post share.google/AcktQCGmjqsm...

Now Hiring: Translational Scientist — SeaDoc Society

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Nations ratify the world's first treaty to protect international waters The first treaty to protect marine diversity in international waters will come into force early next year after being ratified by the 60th nation, Morocco.

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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine share.google/3PLcutCIMRuX...

What AI can never replace Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

What AI can never replace - Big Think share.google/tRYqFXA1h3CP...

Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast A refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of today’s leading and diverse ocean voices. Each half-hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and Vicki Nichols G...

Fascinating journalism on how the Wise Use movement aligned to the Heritage Foundation, which became MAGA driving Project 2025.

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I used NotebookLM to learn a new graphics tool, and it was shockingly effective NotebookLM took the guesswork out of this tool

For my #sciencecommunicator friends out there, here's a really neat workflow for learning the open-source multimedia creation tool @blender.org via #NotebookLM:

I used NotebookLM to learn a new graphics tool, and it was shockingly effective share.google/sAnJZx9foTgM...

Why parents need to talk to their teens about AI — and how to start the conversation Many teens are using artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for everything from homework to relationship advice. Experts say parents must lead the way in helping them understand the technology.

How to talk to your teen about AI www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...

Real Genius Classroom montage (1985) YouTube video by Rik Blok

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I hope so, but who knows!

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Humans have failed the Turing Test on themselves. We have anthropomorphized the stochastic parrots. Glad to see balance in the conversation here:

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia share.google/pEEMXpClg6EX...

#AI #LLMs

Scientists Warn: The Ocean’s Hidden Architects Are Breaking Down Research shows ocean acidification and warming weaken Mediterranean bryozoans’ skeletons and microbiomes, cutting their survival and threatening the habitats they create.

We still don't fully understand the costs of delaying societal & energy systems transformation, but great research is uncovering new insights: scitechdaily.com/scientists-w...

#oceanconservation #marinescience #globalwarming #oceanacidification

UGuides.ai

Great article. Made me think of this really neat product that I'm an advisor for: uguides.ai

Diving into Diversity: Harnessing Neurodivergent Strengths to Transform Aquatic Sciences Click on the article title to read more.

Happy to share #ASLO_ECC article on #Neurodivergence 🌊🪨🧪
This article reflects on the strengths and needs of the neurodivergent community within aquatic sciences. Thank you to the #ASLO_Bulletin for their support along this process

#ActuallyAutistic @aslo.org @geolatinas.bsky.social #Autism #ADHD

'Ghost sharks' are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads | Discover Wildlife Researchers have discovered that the bizarre-looking spotted ratfish has a row of real teeth between its eyes.

Amusing headline for a fascinating finding:

'Ghost sharks' are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads | Discover Wildlife share.google/IRtXislTvL1s...

#salishsea #evolution #sharks

Yes, quite a controversial figure. Also accused of being a mediocre artist who did everything for self-promotion. I don't really have heroes anymore (we are just all humans), but I do appreciate what his whaling walls did for the public wonder of the sea (setting aside his ginormous fortune).

That's refreshing to hear!

Photograph of Classic Cats & Automotive Art in Laguna Beach, CA. The photo depicts one of Robert Weyland's whaling walls, painted originally in the 1990s. A maroon classic car is parked in front of the whaling wall, which depicts a humpback whale breaching a partly cloudy blue sea.

This summer I visited my old childhood haunts in Laguna Beach, CA. I had forgotten about #Weyland's art gallery downtown and the optimism of his whaling walls, painted decades ago. I felt a curious yearning for some way into that kind of hopeful state again. What are the whaling walls of our era?