Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

A side-by-side composite of two black-and-white photographs of Dr. Dorothy Klenke Nash. On the left is a close-up portrait from the shoulders up. She is looking slightly upward and to the side with a soft expression, her dark hair styled in a voluminous, wavy updo typical of the mid-20th century. She wears a dark, collared shirt. On the right is an almost full-length photograph of her standing outdoors in front of a building. She is smiling directly at the camera, wearing a light-colored, long-sleeved blouse with a Peter Pan collar and a dark ribbon necktie, paired with a long, pleated skirt.

Dr. Dorothy Klenke Nash was the first female neurosurgeon in the US. #NationalDoctorsDay

She began her practice in 1928 & was the only female neurosurgeon in the US for 32 years. In 1960, Dr. Ruth Kerr Jakoby became the second.

#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth

Painting with horizontal stripes of colour in purple red blue and orange giving the impression of a subrise over a flat landscape

Georgia O'Keeffe,
Morning Sky, 1916
#WomensArt

The world’s great fish migrations are collapsing – that’s a problem for millions of people A new report finds 325 migratory fish species in urgent need of help, including some of the world’s most iconic freshwater giants.

🐟 The world’s big fish migrations are disappearing.

Why it matters: These fish help feed millions, and when their routes are blocked by dams and overfishing, both ecosystems and food supplies take a hit.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

The image shows two figures, a and b. Figure a shows a map of Europe with thermal positions indicated by color-coded hexagons, ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. Arrows point to "Reduced negative impacts" and "Increased negative impacts." Figure b shows a scatter plot of effect size vs thermal position with a fish illustration on top. "Biomass change estimates" indicated by circle size.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍

Today is Billy Frank Jr. Day — a day to celebrate Billy's leadership, activism, and dedication to environmental stewardship.

Bright blue-white star Castor centered in a dense starfield with subtle diffraction spikes and a faint halo.

Castor (α Geminorum), ~51 light-years away in Gemini.
What appears to be one star is actually a hierarchical sextuple system: three gravitationally bound binary pairs. The two brightest A-type stars orbit each other every ~467 years.
#astrophotography

Today is #WorldSeagrassDay! 🌿

Seagrass is our ocean's unsung superhero. It feeds marine wildlife, protects coastlines, supports fisheries, improves water quality and SO much more. ✅

🔗 Learn just how important seagrass is and how you can help us work to protect it: https://bit.ly/4l1Vgbj

“we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, / we are so beautiful most people choose / not to see us, for fear of overwhelming / themselves”

- Ariana Brown (@arianathepoet.bsky.social)

voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/m...

Explore Hundreds of Exquisite #Botanical #Collages Created by an 18th-Century Septuagenarian #Artist from dyed & hand cut paper #MaryDelany #Plants #art

Link for an interactive archive of Mary's amazing work, more photos & information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/mary...

Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife The rare giant phantom jelly was spotted during a science expedition off the coast of Argentina.

A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina

Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...

Why, Master Mayor, why stand you in a doubt?

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.

Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

Four images of woven shawls with stylised and symbolic images of animals and birds

Tlingit weaver Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #WomensArt

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

eos.org/opinions/wha...

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir Down in Austin, Texas, music teacher Gavin Tabone leads the Barton Hills Choir, made up of 3rd- through 6th-grade students.

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

this is the stuff (h/t @josephfasano.bsky.social via Instagram)

Joan Brown. Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat, 1970

This is a red billed oxpecker. Arguably the best bird name.

A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊

William Hays (American, b.1956)
"Starlight Shoreline," 2025
Linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

It was not a great year but here we are resplendent at the hope of another turn Half the elm still stands waiting for the bloom

love @zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social’s Chrismzine (readable here: zacsmith.net/zines/MerryC...) & especially this snippet by @indigojackal.bsky.social:

One of my favorite places.

Joyful Noises

Beside the Ocean Reefs bear precious names the ocean gives in to the moon the shore fisherman at low tide comes back carrying green crabs in a creel of dried willow as a girl cries out leave me to my troubles.

the ocean gives in to the moon

Jean Follain, tr. Andrew Seguin

Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.

The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.