Woman at a podium speaking
Day 1 #osm26 and my talk on fostering empathy for deep-sea animals thru creative storytelling is complete. Now, I can cheer for others and learn about their work! Phew… #writinglife #scicomm
Jenny, in a black knit cap posing in front of large red fish.
Blue and green tartan flyer with deep sea animal and text promoting a talk.
Glasgow skyline along river
Sign sign logos announcing Schmidt Ocean Institute is sponsoring childcare at ocean science meeting.
I’m in Glasgow with the @schmidtocean.bsky.social team, presenting at #OSM26 — also feeling quite proud our org is sponsoring childcare at the conference!
“Like a firefly in the middle of a field
filled with noise,
its shining, latent light within,
a tiny bell, small and soundless.
I fade away so that you may lose yourself.
I fold myself into my wings.”
Poem by Pedro Serrano, trans. by Don Cellini.
Psychedelic jellyfish, #argentiniandeepseeps, 3804 m
it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children
I love this meditation on winter by Rick Bass in the latest issue of @OrionMagazine.bsky.social
"The willows’ only job now is to simply survive: to hold their code, their green fire, safe beneath the snow, and wait for the change that always, always, returns."
orionmagazine.org/article/what...
This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social here: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/
this essay is just as good as everyone says it is, and imo is a good piece of blanket advice
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A #Taleof2Canyons & an octopus! 186m, Patagonian red octopus, or Enteroctopus megalocyathus, hovering over a patch of sediment, lighter in color than the surrounding area, the cephalopod opened up like an umbrella to feed, likely on a crustacean. Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DQnH14c...
@wyden.senate.gov a wonderful celebration of democracy and resistance in Portland! 🐸
Uhg. Bygone era 😆
In case you’re wondering if Portland is burning, see www.isportlandburning.com for live camera views and something from a bygone ere: facts.
I wrote a small thing about a group of people working together to do big things.
Registration desk at the City of Portland's yard tree giveaway event.
A green sign from the City of Portland noting the exit from it's tree giveaway event, thanking participants for planting a tree.
Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.
Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
The marquis at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, reads “Portland”
Black and white dog looks at camera while laying in front of a pile of firewood
Green tree canopy with blue sky
Sat, 9/27 in “war-ravaged” Portland. I’m stacking firewood & where the husband works today, @oregonsymphony.bsky.social performing Tchaikovsky & Strauss at the Schnitz & Lion King is going full swing at the Keller. Most of #pdx focused on yardwork & last sun before grey & rain. Knitting likely.
Rippled, beige sandy floor of a clear lake beneath a rust colored newt.
Rough-skin newts are pretty cute, but they come equipped with a neurological poison that packs a punch — a handy protective trait for snack-shaped animals. in #mthoodnationalforest
www.instagram.com/reel/DPFeJKr...
How's a girl supposed to get any work done when there's a team of scientists exploring a shipwreck in Uruguay with a robot?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEo...
¡Qué lindo!
Every bit of this south wall in the #MarDelPlataCanyon is vibrant and alive. Read and imagine how a tiny sponge larva or other stationary animal finds a home in a place like this: www.instagram.com/reel/DN37jxs...
A (well-behaved) black and white rescued husky mix sits and stares at the camera expectantly.
Winston runs a tight ship.
“Now the sea
is in me: I am the fish, the fish
glitters in me; we are
risen, tangled together, certain to fall
back to the sea.”
fr Mary Oliver’s, “The Fish,” about catching & eating her first one. ROV pilots filmed this amazing fish more than 2400m deep in #MarDelPlataCanyon #TaludContinental_IV
it is 2025 who the fuck would believe consuming raw milk is sa…
oh right
For everyone paying attention to earthquake & tsunami info, a lot of funding for tsunami & earthquake monitoring comes from NOAA, but the fed gov is cutting their funding. Call your legislators, tell them to fund NOAA & USGS, who in turn funds regional network operators, like AK Earthquake Center
Sometimes workweeks are filled with hard things, but at the end of this one I now have a favorite shark.
I was sent into the Lum Farm store to buy eggs, and I came out with yarn. This happens.
Now, my Orcas Island blanket is well underway! I’m a sucker for natural, sheep-colored fiber, and it’s a treat to get it directly from the source.
#orcasisland #lumfarm #knitting
They made us learn the electric slide in gym class at Girls High. We also learned square dancing, which was a strange thing to learn with a bunch of girls in N. Philly. 💃🏼
I spend my work days imagining myself in a different body, living an entirely different life. It's fun examining how we perceive & make sense of our world & exploring how that might differ if I were a tiny squishy being.
#writinglife #oceanworld #scicomm
A breathtaking poem by @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social gwarlingo.com/2021/conifer...
“Let’s grow fathers from pine, not oak, coniferous
fathers raising us in their shade, fathers soft enough
to bend—fathers who love us like their fathers
couldn’t.”
Black and white rescue dog names Winston in front of container garden with pink and peach dahlia, sedum a jasmine, and a small pond
The cover art for Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr
Is the River Alive by Robert Macfarlane with swirls of river patterns in shades of blue and green
A ladybug on a wet green leaf
Read and reading while gardening, supervised by Winston.
🎶… I get by with a little help from my friends…”🎶
Remoras & rays have a mutualistic relationship, meaning both animals benefit from each other. We hope you find some good friends to hang with this weekend! 🌊
#VentUnderworld, 101m
Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DLsgK10...
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