Another reminder of the importance of public funding of science:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
From @naomioreskes.bsky.social
(Apologies if it's paywalled. I don't know how to get around that.)
The image shows two figures, a and b. Figure a shows a map of Europe with thermal positions indicated by color-coded hexagons, ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. Arrows point to "Reduced negative impacts" and "Increased negative impacts." Figure b shows a scatter plot of effect size vs thermal position with a fish illustration on top. "Biomass change estimates" indicated by circle size.
A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍
Klimatförändringens påverkan på den biologiska mångfalden är enorm. Nu har av allt att döma den invasiva blåkrabban nått Öresund. Följderna kan bli katastrofala. www.tv2kosmopol.dk/koebenhavn/k...
The fishing of krill is putting marine wildlife at risk.❗
To protect this fragile ecosystem, the fishery needs to be paused until stronger management and safeguards are in place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
När el- och bränslepriserna steg efter Rysslands invasion av Ukraina 2021 var det miljöpolitiken som var orsaken enligt Busch och kompani. Nu när samma sak händer pga USAs attack på Iran är det tydligen ”en orolig omvärld”… Byggde hela krossandet av Sveriges klimatarbete på en lögn?
omni.se/a/ln3agy
Krigets virus sprider sig och en svensk statsminister svävar på målet
www.dalademokraten.se/2026-03-03/k...
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/ekol...
Colleague Dr. Jon Copley answers some questions about #deepsea biology! news.sky.com/story/marine...
"As whale populations continue to struggle, a decline in whale falls is reported to have reduced the biodiversity of deep sea ecosystems – and has likely contributed to the extinction of species before we ever knew of their existence." @kathla.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar
Huge since true.
"It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar"
And no, that doesn't yet account for that storied Dunkelflaute. Then again, the typical gas LCOE doesn't account for Putin's whims or other geopolitical vagaries.
Rising ocean temps blamed for massive die-off of marine life. "Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 [fish] populations in the northern hemisphere.... They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Proud to have contributed to this study now published in PeerJ w Jon Hestetun, @mucofloris.bsky.social and others, where we show how accuracy of #metabarcoding can be improved by selecting and sequencing marker genes (barcdoding) of taxa missing from taxonomic databases.
peerj.com/articles/208...
"Tekniken är etiskt neutral" - hur kan man, i denna tid, svara så här okunnigt? Den svenska regeringen är en säkerhetsrisk för sig själv. www.etc.se/inrikes/haer...
Years ago I was obsessed with these Antarctic "tulips"-eventually learned they were TUNICATES, Molgula pedunculata #tunicateTuesday Such crazy lookin' things! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Existing underwater fibre optic cables could help monitor tectonic movement on the ocean floor.
MORE on Dr. Marian Pettibone! Global polychaete expert! #Wormwednesday and International Day of Women & Girls in Science womenshistory.si.edu/blog/dr-mari...
This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Yes. That is the scandal in a nutshell.
www.deepseareporter.com/sv/kosterhav...
Har du 11 min över idag så ägna dem åt denna film. Lågmäld men slagkraftig information om en marin jätteskandal.
entering the sponge zone
Visited the Natural History Museum London last week and honestly: collections like this are the backbone of everything we think we know about the ocean. Absolute treasure trove.
Dragon in the deep. 🐉
Dragonfish (family Stomiidae) are cunning predators. Although they are strong swimmers, they prefer to lie in wait and ambush unsuspecting fishes and crustaceans. This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay.
With all the madness going on, a one-holed worm thing with a no brain or any identifiable organs is quietly crawling somewhere on the ocean floor--and it is named after a churro. #xenoturbella_churro
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Great review of historical sustainable fishing in the Baltic and who is to blame (or not) for the current catastrophic state of Baltic fish stocks. @hsvedang.bsky.social
www.su.se/english/divi...
"It is possible that no climate intervention will ever be safe enough to implement on a large scale. But we believe that decision should be guided by evidence – not market pressure, fear or ideology."
— @tyler-rohr.bsky.social et al in @theconversation.com
▶️ theconversation.com/climate-engi...
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
