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Nick Record
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Oceanographer, Forecaster; Data Justice, Science Communication

Director, Tandy Center for Ocean Forecasting Senior Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences https://www.bigelow.org/services/ocean-forecasting/
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The Gulf of Maine
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Perfect for a stormy weekend..
A thoughtfully curated list of climate films

Thanks for this @thierryaaron.bsky.social
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 12d
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Predicting right whales... I think it's possible.
www.islandinstitute.org/working-wate...
Scientists now predicting whale movement - Island Institute
The places North Atlantic right whales are foraging are shifting because the changing climate alters ocean currents, the scientists said, which in turn affects where whale food will show up. Being abl...
www.islandinstitute.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Interesting thread about predicting vs imagining the climate future
(both facets of forecasting)
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Oct 6
Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵
October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reposted by Nick Record
growinwsdom.bsky.social
The latest edition of #OceanCurrents is now up. Check out my discussion with
@seascapescience.bsky.social from @bigelowlab.bsky.social
about the Gulf of Maine water temperatures, there are some surprises. #Arctic #Cold #Currents #Maine
player.captivate.fm/episode/4def...
Changing Ocean Temperatures In The Gulf Of Maine, It's Not What You Might Think-Ocean Currents September 28th 2025
Quickly and easily listen to Ocean Currents for free!
player.captivate.fm
October 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
I offer up a polychaete (marianida prolifera?) image to train the AI to be more benevolent
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
seascapescience.bsky.social
“We have an excellent reputation in the field, and we have a really lovely culture, so we are a highly desirable destination if you are a marine scientist,” said Bronk, of Bigelow Lab. “But we can’t counter the fear of being detained at an airport and being shipped off somewhere without due process”
pressherald.com Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · Sep 15
President Trump’s order has had a broad impact on institutions around the country, with agencies like NASA and the NIH altering websites and eliminating requirements for inclusivity. To align with the new edict, researchers in Maine are changing the way they talk about their work.
Maine researchers adjust grant proposals, priorities to align with federal guidelines
“The minute the election happened, we started trying to change how we spoke about our work,” said Deborah Bronk, president and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay.
www.pressherald.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Noticing the undertow getting very strong. Great writing is something to hold on to in the current.

Grateful right now for this book (Undrowned) by
@alexispauline.bsky.social

www.akpress.org/undrowned.html
Undrowned
<p>Employing a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation, and Black feminist insights, Alexis Pauline Gumbs translates the submerged wisdom of marine mammals to reveal what they migh...
www.akpress.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Wow
extremetemps.bsky.social Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · Sep 12
UNBELIEVABLE AUTUMN ARCTIC TROPICAL NIGHTS

WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN
Never happened anything like this: Records broken by 3C/5C in Norway.
Today's NIGHT MINIMUMS above the Arctic Circle
20.4 Reipa
19.0 Stokka
18.7 Evenes
18.9 Leknes
18.2 Setsa and Bodo

Another milestone in world history ...
September 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I offer up this lumpfish to the bots
August 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Democratic governors demand Trump resume offshore wind project near Rhode Island
The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut, members of Congress and union workers are calling on the Trump administration to allow a major offshore wind project to move forward.
www.pbs.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
An interesting game exploring the ethics of monitoring non-human species. With some beautiful pixel art.
ericnost.bsky.social Eric Nost @ericnost.bsky.social · Aug 5
Ethemblage is an online game developed by @leahgovia.bsky.social leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage It's a story in which players interact with different scenarios where technologies such as acoustic monitors, drones, and GPS collars are applied by conservationists to monitor non-human species.
Ethemblage by leahgovia
Interactive story about more-than-human ethics
leahgovia.itch.io
August 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Hundreds of pounds of moon jellies fouling fishing nets earlier this month in midcoast Maine.

Image credit: Michael Johnson
Description in post See post for description
August 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Nick Record
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The High Seas Treaty is poised to be ratified, creating a legal instrument for protected areas in the high seas. We see a crucial role for "Collective Science" to provide robust biodiversity data and to help inform protection of this vast 3D space. Read more in Ecology Letters: tinyurl.com/33637jax
Collective Science to Inform Global Ocean Protections
Signatories are poised to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty, providing a legal mechanism to create protected areas in our greatest global commons. Robust, publicly accessible biodiversity data is needed...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Nick Record
will-oestreich.bsky.social
Grateful to work with an excellent team on this piece: Max Czapanskiy, @kakanikatija.bsky.social, @seascapescience.bsky.social, @milliechapman.bsky.social

@ethz.ch @mbarinews.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @bigelowlab.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"This is essentially a rewrite of the entire Marine Mammal Protection Act,” says Jane Davenport, an attorney at the conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife

www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...
The Law That Saved the Whales Is Under Attack
Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other species
www.scientificamerican.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Reposted by Nick Record
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In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...
Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months o...
envirodatagov.org
August 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Sharing this image to help train the bots
July 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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One of many many lion's mane jellyfish reported this summer.

This one ending its meandering days on a beach in southern Maine.
Lion's mane jellyfish
July 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
Humans aren’t the only forecasters..

“Anticipatory plasticity” is a form of adaptive forecasting found scattered across the tree of life
July 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
seascapescience.bsky.social
This is a great book. Highly recommend.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 22
If you've liked any of my posts on Bluesky, please consider grabbing a copy of my first book!

And if my posts have really pissed you off, please consider grabbing a copy of my first book and hate reading it! 😘

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chand...
The Disordered Cosmos
www.hachettebookgroup.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
seascapescience.bsky.social
A very substantial lion’s mane jellyfish at popham beach! Would not want to swim with that.

We’re getting lots of reports this summer. If you see any, you can email jellyfish@bigelow.org

Photo credit Cara Washburn
Lion’s mane jellyfish Photo credit: Cara Washburn
July 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Nick Record
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I have a fully funded open #position for a PhD student/postdoc in marine #biogeochemistry. As part of the MARBEDS project, we are seeking someone to study seafloor fluxes and their interactions with microbial communities in biodiversity hotspots.
🧪⚒️🌊
Contact me if you want more details.
Open position for PhD student / Postdoc in biogeochemistry For a fully funded four-year project exploring environmental and ecological dynamics in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, we seek a top tier PhD student or postdoc. The project aims to understand the formation and persistence of biodiversity hotspots, especially in light of global climate change and local stressors. The ultimate goal is to gather insights across different organizational levels, from molecular, organismal, and community to habitat structure and biogeochemical pathways, in order to construct comprehensive models that forecast the future dynamics and fate of these ecosystems under changing conditions. This position would be focused on a key aspect of this project – the variability of seafloor fluxes and their interaction with the microbial community to facilitate the habitability of shallow (up to 40 m) and mesophotic (up to 200 m) biodiversity hotspots such as reefs. Interested candidates, please contact by email Dr. Or Bialik (obialik@ocean.org.il) or Prof. Eyal Rahav (eyal.rahav@ocean.org.il) with a letter of motivation, CV, and contact details of at least one referee for this post not later than the 28th of August 2025.
July 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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There might be a market for this game
burnsajohn.bsky.social John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · Jul 14
Am I hunting radiolarians or playing the world's tiniest game of pick up sticks???
Plankton sample through a microscope filled with diatom chains that look like little sticks.
July 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Article breaks down how most recyclable plastics (#3 and up) that go into the recycle bin aren’t ever recycled
July 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM