W. Sean Chamberlin

Fluffy cinnamon colored cat.

Sometimes you just need a cat photo.

Science has a trust problem. How to solve it? Don’t be condescending As science misinformation takes hold in the White House, those seeking to set the record straight need to meet people where they are

Talking science? Tread lightly. “People feel that science is this powerful source that is jerking them around and telling them what to do and making them feel stupid.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2025 inscribed in the sand at Crystal Cove State Beach, California.

Happy New Year. May your 2025 be happy, healthy, and harmonious.

Castle made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

Santa Ana visited last night and I dreamt I was in a tempest at sea.

My new email signature. “The best time to call me is text message.” #wititudes

“We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.”

- Joni Mitchell

Reading it now, the third book of his I’ve read. I’m more of a student and admirer than a practitioner. But I find some very useful ways of thinking and acting in his work. I look forward to learning more.

Practice resurrection. - Wendell Berry

“When we look into our own bodily formation, we see Mother Earth inside us, and so the whole universe is inside us, too.” Love Letter to the Earth, Thich Nhat Hanh.

Christmas decoration of empty Santa suit and a sign that says “Gone to the beach.”

The story of my life, minus the red suit.

The book cover with a coil of sweetgrass.

Happy Native American Heritage Day. I just started reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A message for the soul. www.robinwallkimmerer.com/books

A coffee cup, a sprig of lavender, and Wendell Berry’s book, The Peace of Wild Things

The peace of wild things on a quiet holiday morning. #thanksgiving #gratitude #poetry

Happy Thanksgiving to you Zac! You're always a breath of fresh air in a blue sky.

Watercolor illustration of two shorthaired cats, one black and one black and white, both standing inside a large window. Both cats are mesmerized by the sight of a cute little brown squirrel snacking just outside the window in front of them.

Gosh dang squirrels!! From ‘The Cat and the Kitten’ by Berta and Elmer Hader, 1940.

I guess. People are strange.

WTF. That’s appalling.
So sorry you have to see that sh$@ even once. Better days ahead.

Kind of like my toaster. Hotter in some spots than others.

Tis the sparkleball season. #christmas2024

Welcome to Bluesky.. 🦋

#bluesky

A giant eye peers at two copepods from the objective of a microscope and one says to the other, "There it is again! I told you we're being watched."

Happy birthday to John Vaughan Thompson, the inventor of the plankton net! In 1816, Thompson lowered a muslin hoop net and collected many previously “invisible” marine animals. (e.g., Winsor 1969; Wheeler 1975; Young 1990; Damkaer 2016). Illustration by Nicole Shaw for WSC.

Cartoon of a woman on a surfboard riding a wave.

Surf long and prosper.

Earth, the Anthroposphere, surrounded by the six natural spheres.

The Seven Spheres. What's your favorite? Illustration by Fiona Martin for WSC. CC By 4.0

Cartoon of a research vessel.

"Yo ho, yo ho, the oceanographer's life for me."

French angelfish at night in the Florida Keys.

Image: A bedroom at night, a face is lit up by the glow of a phone screen displaying cat memes. On the book-cluttered bedside table, three books look on angrily. The lead book waves a large knife and says: "Nobody needs to get hurt... Let's just put the phone down, nice and slowly..." Caption: Bedside reading pile turns nasty

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…

Great to see so many marine scientists already on Bluesky - to help get you find some of them here is a starting list list of a few marine biologists

If you want to be added (or deleted), or know other I have missed (many for sure) - just contact me and I'll sort it

go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv

I’m compiling a reading list of books that speak on anti-science, anti-intellectualism, and similar refrains. Casting my net wide to also include books that bring solace in these times, such as Wendell Berry’s “Peace of Wild Things.”

What are your favorites and suggestions?