Dan Holstein, PhD
@drdanholstein.bsky.social
Marine ecologist, coral reefs, PI of the Seascape Ecology Lab. Doodles, sculpture, and dogs, too. www.seascapelab.com
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As a hello to all the new peeps, I want to share this awesome 3D photogrammetric model of the stern section of the RMS Rhone shipwreck in the British Virgin Islands.
They’re just trying the hasten the end times, right?
Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!
www.404media.co/republicans-...
www.404media.co/republicans-...
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
www.404media.co
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
They’re just trying the hasten the end times, right?
Honest question - is calling red state senators doing anything at all?
May 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Honest question - is calling red state senators doing anything at all?
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Nektonic’s “After the Reef” lays it bare: coral scientists are sounding the alarm on climate change. Governments are not acting fast enough if at all. The clock is ticking. If you want reefs to survive, here’s where your time, money, and voice must go.
#OceanOptimism #ClimateAction
#OceanOptimism #ClimateAction
May 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Nektonic’s “After the Reef” lays it bare: coral scientists are sounding the alarm on climate change. Governments are not acting fast enough if at all. The clock is ticking. If you want reefs to survive, here’s where your time, money, and voice must go.
#OceanOptimism #ClimateAction
#OceanOptimism #ClimateAction
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It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
June 1, 2024 at 11:37 AM
It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
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Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts.
24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.
6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.
>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...
24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.
6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.
>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...
March 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts.
24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.
6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.
>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...
24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.
6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.
>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...
Just a reminder that the protestations that the admin's activities have been illegal have proven true. As federal workers are reinstated - even if only before future *legal* RIFs - remember that this was a victory.
March 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just a reminder that the protestations that the admin's activities have been illegal have proven true. As federal workers are reinstated - even if only before future *legal* RIFs - remember that this was a victory.
I think we need to talk about the abuse of the Presidential pardon. There are no consequences for the next 3 years at least.
March 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I think we need to talk about the abuse of the Presidential pardon. There are no consequences for the next 3 years at least.
I will not stand for this BS.
It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.
March 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I will not stand for this BS.
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It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.
March 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.
Utterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.
March 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.
Just terribly sad and wasteful. The major investment in these labs has already been paid by the American people. What we see now are the returns.
New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.
Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Just terribly sad and wasteful. The major investment in these labs has already been paid by the American people. What we see now are the returns.
Right? Schumer’s reasoning here makes no sense to me.
An underrated point. Republicans didn't have to pass a spending bill, they could shut the government down all on their own if they wanted. They voted for this because it achieves their goals. Schumer is helping Republicans achieve their goals.
March 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Right? Schumer’s reasoning here makes no sense to me.
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Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”
Wow.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
March 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”
My god. Are these… DINOs?
The word for what Senate Democrats are doing right now is "betrayal." Not only are they voluntarily surrendering the only leverage they have, the leverage they have spent months promising to use against Trump, they're doing it while lying and pretending they want the opposite.
March 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My god. Are these… DINOs?
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
March 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
This wild press release from the EPA is… something. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
www.epa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This wild press release from the EPA is… something. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13.
I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.
I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.
Predicting El Niño and La Niña is tough, but new research analyzing 20+ years of forecasts finds dynamical models outperform statistical ones, especially for El Niño. La Niña onset? That's been much harder. Read more in our new ENSO blog post! www.climate.gov/news-feature...
February 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13.
I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.
I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.
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I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.