🌊🌏🧪🌀 Eddies are like weather systems of the ocean. They carry important fluxes of heat and carbon. Even as part of the AMOC!

The advancement comes from two years of continuous moored measurements in the Agulhas Current combined with decades of satellite data.

This is very interesting work! For the physical interpretation, there is new understanding about Agulhas dynamics since Beal et al (2011): The Agulhas current-leakage anticorrelation is not robust. Leakage responds to winds rather than STF latitude (Durgadoo et al., 2013; Le Bars et al., 2012).

I’ve led over 20 expeditions to the open ocean, chasing how currents are changing as our climate warms, only to find the answer lies at the smallest, most chaotic scales. Eddies are reshaping even the mightiest currents and bringing more extremes to coastal seas. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More eddying of subtropical western boundary currents boosts stratification and cools shelf seas - Nature Climate Change This work shows that increased eddies accelerate surface warming in the Agulhas Current while also boosting hidden upwelling that cools the current, and adjacent shelf seas, at depth. Similar trends a...

🌊🧪🌏🌀 @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social check out my new research! We are proud of this one www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 My new paper with Kathryn Gunn comes out in Nature Climate Change tomorrow! We find that more eddying in the ocean is boosting hidden upwelling in western boundary currents, which is cooling and accelerating shelf-slope circulation and potentially straining coastal ecosystems.

🌊🌏🧪 @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social excellent new paper out by Rosenstiel colleagues on possible AMOC weakening. Could also reflect onshore shift of western boundary flow? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌊🧪🌏 When was the last time you reviewed for @jgroceans.bsky.social? Our success relies on authors like you submitting quality manuscripts and, in turn, giving back with thoughtful reviews.

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The ocean gives me work, joy, health, and life! I’m so grateful. Video credit: @everglades.mike

🌊🧪🌏 Let’s get nerdy-poetic about the ocean to start our week off right! I love that the ocean is full of contradictions. It is one and many, it is constant and forever changing, it is serene and wild, it is known and unknowable, it is vast and empty and full of life. It is ocean and it is Earth!

We have enough natural energy on this spinning planet to fuel humanity. The science, math, and tech turned out to be the easy part. Overcoming our fear and standing up to entrenched money and power have turned out to be way more difficult.

🌊🌏 #OSM26 How are western boundary currents changing with climate change?

Beal Lab at #OSM26! We miss our colleague Dr Nate Dossa who could not come due to visa issues. Down with fear and division. Up with freedom of movement which supports science, society, and mutual understanding.

Are you at #OSM26? So are the JGR-Oceans editors! Catch us at the publishing workshop tomorrow or at the editor rapid reviews on Thursday.

The Trump administration is eroding vital climate data American citizens are left vulnerable

The Trump administration is dismantling America’s climate databases, firing expert staff and deleting key reports and analyses. Such actions will make important modelling harder

Got ocean science you’re excited about?Want to support 🌊community programs? Looking for editors and reviewers who care? @jgroceans.bsky.social

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@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social I am MTL, ocean scientist, and displaced Londoner. I just saw the strange and wonderful Bi Gan’s Resurrection and my head is exploding with profound, interwoven narratives: History vs state of mind, linear vs cyclic time, loving (our planet?) to death. What do you see?!

Jane Eyre, the Timothy Dalton BBC version from I think the 90’s. Loved it so much as young adult I can quote all the scenes between Jane and Mr Rochester. Very true to the book. A near perfect adaptation. And Jane really is plain and little.

VOICES FOR SCIENCE SUBMISSION WINDOW 15 DECEMBER - 15 FEBRUARY We are accepting applications for the 2026-2027 US cohort, and we encourage all applicants to have a specific outreach goal in mine when they apply.

Want to work with the AGU SciPolicy Team? Voices for Science participants conduct regular outcomes-focused outreach to make a tangible impact at the local, federal, or global level. Applications for the U.S. cohort are open Dec 15 – Feb 15 buff.ly/BHStsrh

In science, as in life, fear and stress dull creativity and drive poor decision-making.

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

The rise of in-class devices could be responsible for an alarming decline in performance in reading and other subjects, long-term trends suggest

Genius rapper and MIT prof Lupe Fiasco in Dots and Lines quotes meteorologist Lewis F Richardson (1922), Weather Prediction by Numerical Process, p66: “Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity.” 🌊🌀❤️‍🔥

High Seas Treaty enters into force: A milestone for ocean conservation The High Seas Treaty, formally known as the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), enters into force on 17 January 2026.

A smidgeon of good news for the ocean.

High Seas Treaty enters into force: A milestone for ocean conservation The High Seas Treaty, formally known as the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), enters into force on 17 January 2026.

oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/high-se...

Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

New study by Hu et al. reveals #IndonesianThroughflow’s nonlinear response to #CO2, with a rapid decline after crossing a #TippingPoint. The first point may be approaching, signaling a potential climate #Tipping element with implications for global #climate.
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Our hedonism and material wealth comes at great cost to the natural world that sustains our bodies and souls. This tension is almost unbearable. So why don’t we ease it? Give up fossil fuels, formalise the monetary value of nature, and embrace greater global equity.