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“Motherf-cking wind farms.”
That’s the gist of Samuel L. Jackson’s viral ad for Swedish clean energy developer Vattenfall.
It’s a prime example of how comedy can bring climate change information to everyday audiences — if it’s not silenced under the Trump administration.
That’s the gist of Samuel L. Jackson’s viral ad for Swedish clean energy developer Vattenfall.
It’s a prime example of how comedy can bring climate change information to everyday audiences — if it’s not silenced under the Trump administration.
Can climate comedy still work? This offshore wind ad suggests it can.
The satirical video starring Samuel L. Jackson pokes fun at offshore wind disinformation right as the Trump administration is targeting both comedy and…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“Motherf-cking wind farms.”
That’s the gist of Samuel L. Jackson’s viral ad for Swedish clean energy developer Vattenfall.
It’s a prime example of how comedy can bring climate change information to everyday audiences — if it’s not silenced under the Trump administration.
That’s the gist of Samuel L. Jackson’s viral ad for Swedish clean energy developer Vattenfall.
It’s a prime example of how comedy can bring climate change information to everyday audiences — if it’s not silenced under the Trump administration.
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If anyone has been keen to build their own OpenCTD, we have 5 Rev7 kits back in stock and ready to ship.
oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com
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Oceanography For Everyone
Supply Depot for the OpenCTD and Oceanography for Everyone. Here you can find custom PCBS, stickers, OpenCTD kits, and other OpenCTD accessories.
oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If anyone has been keen to build their own OpenCTD, we have 5 Rev7 kits back in stock and ready to ship.
oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com
oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com
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Every night, billions of tiny fish rise from the deep in Earth’s largest migration. A new @jexpbiol.bsky.social study confirms what scientists long suspected: mesopelagic fish help lock carbon in the deep sea for centuries. Small fish, big climate impact.
🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW
🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW
September 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Every night, billions of tiny fish rise from the deep in Earth’s largest migration. A new @jexpbiol.bsky.social study confirms what scientists long suspected: mesopelagic fish help lock carbon in the deep sea for centuries. Small fish, big climate impact.
🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW
🔎 More: https://bit.ly/4goVkiW
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A good point & one I bring up in my drone talks. Not being able to SCUBA doesn’t preclude one from being a marine scientist. Some of the first drone pilots in my lab were individuals who couldn’t dive due to medical conditions. We need to highlight the different ways of being a marine scientist.
I've just returned from the largest annual conference in my field, and while I confess I missed a few talks, I didn't see any that relied on SCUBA diving for data collection.
If you learn about my field just from Shark Week, you'd think that's all we ever do. And some people medically can't SCUBA.
If you learn about my field just from Shark Week, you'd think that's all we ever do. And some people medically can't SCUBA.
July 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A good point & one I bring up in my drone talks. Not being able to SCUBA doesn’t preclude one from being a marine scientist. Some of the first drone pilots in my lab were individuals who couldn’t dive due to medical conditions. We need to highlight the different ways of being a marine scientist.
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Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting?
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
July 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting?
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Join marine researchers @UBC (ubcoceans.ubc.ca). CERC in Ocean Ecological Modeling (research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...). $8M to work at the intersection of oceanography, fisheries, ecology, biodiversity, etc, in the context of environmental change, ecosystems, biogeochemistry & living marine resources.
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POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
Deadline: September 12, 2025
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
research.ubc.ca
July 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
POSTING: @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca are recruiting for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Associate #Professor or Professor, with tenure.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
Deadline: September 12, 2025
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
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If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
Chicago-based Asian carp dog treat helping save Great Lakes from invasive fish
Dogs are taking the bait! A Chicago-based pet food company is offering up an Asian Carp dog treat.
abc7chicago.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you can't beat 'em, have your dog eat 'em? A Chicago-based company is using invasive silver carp from the Mississippi River to make dog treats abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
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🧪🧪 *Checks math* This looks right....
June 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🧪🧪 *Checks math* This looks right....
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We’re hiring #Plankton Analysts! 🌊💼
🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe
🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more
🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts
📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...
🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe
🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more
🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts
📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...
June 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We’re hiring #Plankton Analysts! 🌊💼
🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe
🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more
🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts
📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...
🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe
🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more
🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts
📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...
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Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
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📢 Hot off the press: our new study in Nature, led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social, shows how climate change is redefining what it means to live an "unprecedented life"—facing climate extremes that would have been nearly impossible without human influence.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes - Nature
Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📢 Hot off the press: our new study in Nature, led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social, shows how climate change is redefining what it means to live an "unprecedented life"—facing climate extremes that would have been nearly impossible without human influence.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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✴️ Request for proposals! ✴️
@navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
os.nav.fund/meeting-fund
#OpenScience
@navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
os.nav.fund/meeting-fund
#OpenScience
Open Science Meeting Fund 2025
os.nav.fund
May 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
✴️ Request for proposals! ✴️
@navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
os.nav.fund/meeting-fund
#OpenScience
@navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
os.nav.fund/meeting-fund
#OpenScience
The Spencer Foundation is offering $25,000 bridge #grants to anyone who lost NSF funding and needs money to complete their data collection, writing, or obligations to community partners www.spencer.org/grant_types/.... #science
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering $25,000 bridge #grants to anyone who lost NSF funding and needs money to complete their data collection, writing, or obligations to community partners www.spencer.org/grant_types/.... #science
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Curious about local smol LLMs? The benchmark for our new challenge walks your through step by step getting Google's gemma model running for creating document summaries on your laptop! Check it out and then join the challenge! drivendata.co/blog/whats-u...
Getting started with LLMs: a benchmark for the 'What's Up, Docs?' challenge
An introduction to using large language models via the benchmark to a document summarization challenge.
drivendata.co
April 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Curious about local smol LLMs? The benchmark for our new challenge walks your through step by step getting Google's gemma model running for creating document summaries on your laptop! Check it out and then join the challenge! drivendata.co/blog/whats-u...
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It's Playground Safety Week which means you should look out for these common playground hazards and Megalodon.
April 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's Playground Safety Week which means you should look out for these common playground hazards and Megalodon.
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"With FathomVerse, we aim to provide a tangible way for climate-conscious individuals to contribute to ocean research and expand our collective knowledge about the ocean.” - @kakanikatija.bsky.social
The new and improved FathomVerse levels up ocean exploration. Learn more in our new blog 🔗
The new and improved FathomVerse levels up ocean exploration. Learn more in our new blog 🔗
FathomVerse Levels Up Ocean Exploration
New improvements to the mobile game enhance and expand community contributions to science.
www.fathomverse.game
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"With FathomVerse, we aim to provide a tangible way for climate-conscious individuals to contribute to ocean research and expand our collective knowledge about the ocean.” - @kakanikatija.bsky.social
The new and improved FathomVerse levels up ocean exploration. Learn more in our new blog 🔗
The new and improved FathomVerse levels up ocean exploration. Learn more in our new blog 🔗
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NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today.
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today.
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country?
Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm starting to send mine today.
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
@savenoaa.bsky.social
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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
February 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Are you someone or know a staff member, scientist or meteorologist affected by the NOAA/NWS layoffs in California? Potentially working on a story for @kqednews @kqedscience.
February 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Are you someone or know a staff member, scientist or meteorologist affected by the NOAA/NWS layoffs in California? Potentially working on a story for @kqednews @kqedscience.
Data Rescue Project has a form to capture stories of the impacts of losing federal data and the staff that steward it. www.datarescueproject.org/telling-your...
Telling your data stories
A few journalists have asked about our efforts in the past few days. They often ask why data rescue matters and why the public should care about US federal data and its loss. While librarians can undo...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Data Rescue Project has a form to capture stories of the impacts of losing federal data and the staff that steward it. www.datarescueproject.org/telling-your...
I both appreciate this and have questions about Canadian cod catch limits
February 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I both appreciate this and have questions about Canadian cod catch limits