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I appreciate this series, sometimes putting names to faces I know from email lists!

YES THIS

I'm giving a lecture soon to library/informatics students on "what do oceanographers do/how oceanographers use data". Ocean colleagues, what should I put in it? (I have lots of thoughts about python, the copernicus data service, and, of course, the autonomous pinniped bathythermographs)

Calcification (i.e., formation of shells by marine organisms) uses bicarbonate and releases CO₂, leading to a net flux of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Conversely, dissolving corals will enhance ocean uptake of atmospheric CO₂.

I read the guardian piece and was like wait I know (of) that guy!

For him it is.

(Forgive the snippy tone. It has been hard to watch the work of America's scientific community -- done by people who are motivated by trying to do interesting/constructive work -- be dismantled by people who are motivated by ego/money/the AI arms race/seeing how far they can deregulate the USA.)

A reminder that the techbros running agentic drone strikes with their LLMs or whatever cannot replace decades of careful scientific inquiry. If the weather affects your life, the dismantlinfg of one of the best weather and climate research centers in the world should be of grave concern.

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@clequere.bsky.social is a professor at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social who studies climate change and the carbon cycle. She's the founding president of France's High Council on Climate and a member of @thecccuk.bsky.social. She's a Fellow of @royalsociety.org, and not amused about our CO₂ emissions.

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@frediotto.bsky.social works on the important topic of attributing extreme weather events to human-caused climate change at @wwattribution.bsky.social.

@tjarnikova.bsky.social is a marine biogeochemical modeler at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Her research focuses on the physical and biogeochemical controls of the ocean carbon cycle, including how variability in AMOC affects the biotic and abiotic controls on the North Atlantic carbon sink.

sorry! I didn't mean to be annoying/contrary. Also, I really liked your poster yesterday.

I'm on the left and I'm not sure I am. Decarbonization >> mCDR! (But I think decarbonization itself involves lots of cool tech innovation, or can)

tomato+watermelon+feta+basil!

I'm from central/eastern europe, and it's (much) harder there to combine research and parenting, if you're a woman. Attitudes still need to change, in this year of our lord 2026, but we also need infrastructure. I'm grateful to benefit from this real, concrete support.

I'm also very lucky to work at @ueaenv.bsky.social! It's an inspiring place, and we've done interesting, and hopefully useful, work in the time I've been here. But I've also gotten good parental leave, an EXCELLENT nursery on campus, and funds for my baby + partner to come to this conference.

Really excited to be at #OSM26 with colleagues from around the world and also this small baby. I really appreciate @schmidtocean.bsky.social sponsoring childcare -- this sort of infrastructure makes the difference between letting people, especially women, do science and not.

and 200 ways to make it wrong? (signed, a white kid from Eastern Europe)

It’s living, not “training a human”. Best case, all the energy used to build and run AI models is in addition to what people need to live and completely unnecessary. Worst case, they’re taking or competing for resources - energy, water, land - that people need to live.

ah damn. well, still here, still in science! :)

Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.

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these people are easy to ignore. What do you tell the "we have to do geoengineering otherwise we're cooked" people? It's mostly silicon valley "I have thought of everything" types, and they seem very convinced that they're right.

Met Office? More like WET OFFICE, amirite?

(Sorry, it had to get out somehow.)

aw bless! my trashplots are alive and well, this one is also a bit carpet-y:

I feel like this has been shown so many times at this point...

🌊 Unlock the Ocean’s Hidden Chemistry!
Excited to announce #argopy 1.4.0! 🎉
Now predict nutrients (NO₃, PO₄, SiOH₄) and carbonate variables (AT, DIC, pHT, pCO₂) with CANYON-B and CONTENT models—directly from your #argofloats data. Perfect for @bgc-argo.bsky.social users !
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A picture is worth 1000 words...

This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.

Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.

Chapeau!

Tato implicitní pozice -- vše co není USA není úplně opravdové nebo existuje jen v relaci s USA -- je hrozně otravná a kvazifašistická. A hrozně v USA rozšířená. Vím, říkám to už jen asi po dvacáté osmé. Nevím odkad' to mám, asi MK, ale "power is the privilege not to have to learn".