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Posts by Becca Beutel
particularly pretty rainbow csv moment today
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This seafloor community, 1,073 meters (3,520 feet) beneath the Ocean surface, was filmed during the #ArgentinianDeepSeeps expedition. Scientists were searching for cold seeps. While exploring, they observed beautiful scenes like this and stunning biodiversity along the country’s continental shelf.
I learned to much and has so much fun at #OSM2026 - thank you to everyone who came to chat at my poster and to Cara for being my conference buddy
The new (I think) session on connecting large scale ocean circulation to marine ecosystems was particularly cool imo
come say hi!
I love it - looks partway through the weaving process
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missing the @tjarnikova.bsky.social #trashplot series
- my attempt this morning has so many points that its beginning to look like a shag carpet (scatter was not the right choice after all)
The world feels rough right now
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs theonion.com/melting-ice-caps-expose-...
Great photo summary by MEOPAR on some of what I learned this fall participating in a BATS cruise with @biosstation.bsky.social
Thank you to the awesome scientists and crew who made this such a fun and fruitful learning experience!
Info on the program and MEOPAR funding here: hubs.li/Q03XN5jJ0
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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My paper with Susan Allen, @jilian0717.bsky.social, @jaytcullen.bsky.social, & @tiaanderlini.bsky.social is out! We show how Pacific source waters shape property flux into the Salish Sea, and separate dynamical vs property-driven change—useful for understanding coastal conditions in a changing ocean
Bill Gates astounded climate advocates by publishing a manifesto arguing that the climate crisis is less urgent than other major problems that humanity faces
go.nature.com/4qXJDEO
@eoas.ubc.ca and @pme.ubc.ca are hosting Volcano: A science comedy show by Ben Miller this Wednesday evening!
Tickets are FREE but there are only a few left so get yours while you can - www.eventbrite.ca/e/volcano-a-...
Be prepared to "erupt" with laughter 🌋🔥
Be careful out there. They're putting RCP8.5 in candy bars.
A deep dive on high-impact #ClimateAction from #BBC! As I told Jocelyn Timperley, "Hopefully people going through the jointheshift.earth guide will have a bit of an aha moment, realising, 'wait a minute, I have more power than I thought, and there's more that I can do'."
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Ginalina, @swsocean.bsky.social, and I look so happy because the Future Science Leaders students ask the BEST questions.
Thank you to Science World Vancouver for a great career cafe!
Check out FSL: scienceworld.ca/futurescienceleaders/
Also Great White Shark by Big Thief! (they seem to really like sharks)
I was worried about night shift - but the inherent loopy-ness really grew on me
Thank you to all the fantastic scientists and crew who took the time to teach me while aboard the Tully for the Aug/Sep La Perouse! It was a dream first research cruise 🦈🐋🦑
This one feels deeper than normal (pun intended)
After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf
Perk of teaching students about coastal oceanography at @eoas.ubc.ca?: great field trip settings are a walk away 🦀
#TowerBeach #VancouverSummerProgram
Thank you @hakai.org for hosting me for a talk this week! I had a great time presenting in a yurt, having rewarding chats about carbonate chemistry and habitat viability thresholds, picking huckleberries, and working with an insanely gorgeous view 😍
shark week is part of what got me excited about ocean science.. pretty sure "great white sex battle" would have scared 11 yo me away 👶 lol
I'll note that the estimate Sam Altman quotes falls between our estimates for the smallest and largest text models that we looked at. (For more, our full story is here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...)
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.