Julie Robidart
@robidart.bsky.social
Technological design to interpret signatures of ocean biology and biogeochemistry, at scale. Specialisation in omics, eDNA and microbiology
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What a day for it! Blue skies & calm seas for our team, who have brought in our Autonomous Scientific Buoys for maintenance and upgrades. PML's John McDonald said: "Great to see some of the younger PML team getting hands-on with the more challenging tasks - all good experience, & they smashed it π"
June 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What a day for it! Blue skies & calm seas for our team, who have brought in our Autonomous Scientific Buoys for maintenance and upgrades. PML's John McDonald said: "Great to see some of the younger PML team getting hands-on with the more challenging tasks - all good experience, & they smashed it π"
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π¦ Why are five booby species showing up in the California Current Ecosystem? Using data from CalCOFI, eBird and more, Scripps Oceanography alumna and postdoc Tammy Russell uncovered the major shift.
π Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh
π Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh
June 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
π¦ Why are five booby species showing up in the California Current Ecosystem? Using data from CalCOFI, eBird and more, Scripps Oceanography alumna and postdoc Tammy Russell uncovered the major shift.
π Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh
π Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh
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This chart shows that in the City of London (the tiny historical part of London in red), bicycles have overtaken cars to become the most common vehicle. Let's make this throughout Greater London!
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
May 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This chart shows that in the City of London (the tiny historical part of London in red), bicycles have overtaken cars to become the most common vehicle. Let's make this throughout Greater London!
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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@bopplaurent.bsky.social kicking off #LiegeOcean25 with a talk about the state of the climate and potential need for COβ removal (CDR).
The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1Β°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. π
The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1Β°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. π
May 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
@bopplaurent.bsky.social kicking off #LiegeOcean25 with a talk about the state of the climate and potential need for COβ removal (CDR).
The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1Β°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. π
The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1Β°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. π
Windy day bike tricks
May 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Windy day bike tricks
This is a super unique senior role on our technology team, during an exciting time for technology investment in the UK π
Our team is looking for a new senior colleague with experience leading the development of new marine sensing technology. Have a look! You'd join a highly-interdisciplinary team of great people developing novel instruments from concept to field deployments.
careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/prin...
careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/prin...
Careers | National Oceanography Centre
careers.noc.ac.uk
May 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is a super unique senior role on our technology team, during an exciting time for technology investment in the UK π
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Honored to be among the 24 global recipients of the #BezosEarthFundβs #AI Grand Challenge for Climate & Nature. PML's Prof Kerry Howell has been awarded a $50,000 grant to support using #artificialintelligence to radically improve our understanding of #deepsea ecosystems: pml.ac.uk/news/project...
Project to revolutionise deep sea understanding using AI awarded pioneering grant from Bezos Earth Fund
The grant supports innovative AI-driven solutions to tackle urgent environmental challenges
pml.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Honored to be among the 24 global recipients of the #BezosEarthFundβs #AI Grand Challenge for Climate & Nature. PML's Prof Kerry Howell has been awarded a $50,000 grant to support using #artificialintelligence to radically improve our understanding of #deepsea ecosystems: pml.ac.uk/news/project...
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Go see the #OceanFilm with David Attenborough (happy 99th birthday!).
Iβd like to have a word with the scientific advisors. Among other things, phytoplankton doesnβt remove 1/3 of our COβ emissions (the ocean removes 1/4, but itβs abiotic) and the ocean doesnβt produce half the Oβ we breathe.
Iβd like to have a word with the scientific advisors. Among other things, phytoplankton doesnβt remove 1/3 of our COβ emissions (the ocean removes 1/4, but itβs abiotic) and the ocean doesnβt produce half the Oβ we breathe.
May 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Go see the #OceanFilm with David Attenborough (happy 99th birthday!).
Iβd like to have a word with the scientific advisors. Among other things, phytoplankton doesnβt remove 1/3 of our COβ emissions (the ocean removes 1/4, but itβs abiotic) and the ocean doesnβt produce half the Oβ we breathe.
Iβd like to have a word with the scientific advisors. Among other things, phytoplankton doesnβt remove 1/3 of our COβ emissions (the ocean removes 1/4, but itβs abiotic) and the ocean doesnβt produce half the Oβ we breathe.
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Wonderful to see AGU standing up for what is right. As an AGU member and Fellow I could not be more proud! Thank you @agu.org
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trumpβs Executive Order.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trumpβs Executive Order.
May 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Wonderful to see AGU standing up for what is right. As an AGU member and Fellow I could not be more proud! Thank you @agu.org
May 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Donβt destroy your seed corn, says a VC director.
βThe only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
βThe only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research Theyβre Killing
Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Donβt destroy your seed corn, says a VC director.
βThe only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
βThe only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
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The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
For comparisonβ¦.slightly less than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year
apnews.com/article/clim...
For comparisonβ¦.slightly less than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year
apnews.com/article/clim...
The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
A new study estimates that the worldβs biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last ...
apnews.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
For comparisonβ¦.slightly less than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year
apnews.com/article/clim...
For comparisonβ¦.slightly less than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year
apnews.com/article/clim...
π ββ¦transitioning to clean energy mitigates both emissions and pollution-related illness; shifting urban infrastructure away from car-centric design towards active transportationβ¦ fosters physical activity while reducing fossil fuel use; and β¦plant-based diets enhances nutrition and sustainability.β
Glad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change.
@thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Charting a path to health for all at net-zero emissions
Climate change is the defining health challenge of the 21st century, with record-breaking
temperatures and extreme weather events already exacting an unprecedented toll on
human health and wellbeing. ...
www.thelancet.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
π ββ¦transitioning to clean energy mitigates both emissions and pollution-related illness; shifting urban infrastructure away from car-centric design towards active transportationβ¦ fosters physical activity while reducing fossil fuel use; and β¦plant-based diets enhances nutrition and sustainability.β
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Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.
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Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time | Science | AAAS
#marineecology
www.science.org/content/arti...
#marineecology
www.science.org/content/arti...
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time
The enigmatic predator, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time | Science | AAAS
#marineecology
www.science.org/content/arti...
#marineecology
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Scientific report on deep-sea research sees 2025 as a decisive year for ocean health π
Led by Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander of GEOMAR, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on deep-sea research.
π www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
πΈ HROV Ariane, Ifremer
Led by Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander of GEOMAR, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on deep-sea research.
π www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
πΈ HROV Ariane, Ifremer
April 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Scientific report on deep-sea research sees 2025 as a decisive year for ocean health π
Led by Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander of GEOMAR, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on deep-sea research.
π www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
πΈ HROV Ariane, Ifremer
Led by Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander of GEOMAR, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on deep-sea research.
π www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...
πΈ HROV Ariane, Ifremer
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"The results highlight the need for policy interventions to limit the future flow of plastics into natural environments and minimise impacts on ocean ecosystems." π
Find out more here π noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...
Find out more here π noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...
April 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"The results highlight the need for policy interventions to limit the future flow of plastics into natural environments and minimise impacts on ocean ecosystems." π
Find out more here π noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...
Find out more here π noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...
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π’PAPER ALERT! New Capability in Autonomous Ocean Carbon Observations Using the Autosub Long-Range AUV Equipped with Novel pH and Total Alkalinity Sensors
π @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise
For more infoπhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139
π @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise
For more infoπhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139
April 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
π’PAPER ALERT! New Capability in Autonomous Ocean Carbon Observations Using the Autosub Long-Range AUV Equipped with Novel pH and Total Alkalinity Sensors
π @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise
For more infoπhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139
π @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise
For more infoπhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139
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π¬ Science makes our world better, safer, healthier and stronger. Scripps Oceanography scientists joined fellow members of @nationalacademies.org to call attention to the importance of funding science that supports not just the U.S., but our planet. @nytimes.com has more.
Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say (Gift Article)
Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
π¬ Science makes our world better, safer, healthier and stronger. Scripps Oceanography scientists joined fellow members of @nationalacademies.org to call attention to the importance of funding science that supports not just the U.S., but our planet. @nytimes.com has more.
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Awesome @archaeon-alex.bsky.social !
That's dramatic (and cool): "archaea species can also form multicellular tissueβlike structures when compressive forces are applied... ... These results establish multicellularity as a feature of all three domains of life" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Awesome @archaeon-alex.bsky.social !