Brian Schlining

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

... my spelling is really atrocious today :-(

I changed it to "Streamlined" :-) My mail feed is WAAAAY too much to read and gets very repetitive.

Short of "Simplified feed". People I enjoy reading. I really do need to change the name don't I??

The US is quitting 66 global agencies: what does it mean for science? Nature - The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation. Affected organizations...

The US is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation

go.nature.com/4pQDJ6R

Trump’s push to mine deep-sea battery metals draws ire from allies At U.N. talks in Jamaica, allies blasted the U.S. bid to unilaterally mine the high seas. Some made an unusual move to side with America’s economic foe:…

Deep-sea mining CEOs testifying on Capitol Hill right now saying U.S. needs to mine the high seas now before China does.

It's not true.

China is waiting for an international frameworks to take shape. America is the one going rogue. And that's driving U.S. allies closer to China. My reporting 👇

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

I ❤️ my 2011 manual fit too.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info | Discussion

Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

The R/V David Packard at 5AM in its berth in Moss Landing, CA. The ship is self-lit against a dark sky.

An early morning photo of the R/V David Packard

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.

It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.

www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Abstract submissions for the 2026 Marine Imaging Workshop in Gibraltar is now open; the deadline for submission is January 30th, 2026. miw2026.org

This international Workshops assembles scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of marine imaging.

YouTube video by Nic Laporte How to Build a Cycling City

I just got back from Victoria, BC. A city I visit often. I'm always impressed by how many people commute by bike there. And it's not an accident, the city has invested in an amazing biking infrastructure that other North American cities could learn from: youtu.be/FKMDMekErQ0

Open Data Opens New Opportunities | FathomNet

MBARI and FathomNet collaborated with Meta on their new Segment Anything Model (SAM 3). Meta produced 294K segmentation masks for FathomNet data. More details at www.fathomnet.org/news/open-da...

#machinelearning #FathomNet #MBARI

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Meet the engineering team behind one of MBARI’s new underwater imaging systems

Meet the engineering team behind one of MBARI’s new underwater imaging systems 🤖🔧

Our scientists and engineers work side by side to develop cutting-edge tools that track ocean health in real time and help us visualize the ocean like never before.

Learn more: youtu.be/Kqo4MhthIkQ?...

Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…

The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.

Using Boolean logic, the answer is "true"

YouTube video by CNN (2013) Obama responds to hecklers at speech

A flash back to an earlier, better time ...

youtu.be/6A8TiUpKDVg?...

Profile photo of William Adama, Rear Admiral of the Colonial Fleet in the TV show Battlestar Galactica. Overlaid is his quote: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

What's down there? Abstract. My career has been a series of adventures and occasional misadventures that have been both physically and intellectually challenging. I suspect t

Fantastic biography from Dr. Bruce Robison, a midwater researcher and one of the founding scientists of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

The 6th Marine Imaging Workshop will take place in Gibraltar from 19-21 May 2026.

Topics include:
- Imagery collection and processing
- Still and video annotation
- Machine learning approaches
- Image and video data management
- Applications in marine research and conservation
…and much more.

DeepSea MOT: A benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video Benchmarking multi-object tracking and object detection model performance is an essential step in machine learning model development, as it allows researchers to evaluate model detection and tracker p...

MBARI has released a benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video.

- Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03499
- Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/MBA...
- Workflow: docs.mbari.org/benchmark_ev...

#machinelearning #deepsea

Here ... take my pity. 😉 Also, get well soon.

Will do. I actually have ton of your articles bookmarked; the articles and documentation for Quarkus are fantastic. Just FYI, here's one of my public apps that uses Quarkus on the back-end: database.fathomnet.org. More info at www.fathomnet.org

Timely article. I was just digging into how to do this in quarkus early today. Keep the articles coming!

I just rolled out major updates to both the front-end and back-end of database.fathomnet.org. 😱 Most users may not notice much but it sets the stage for much faster development cycles in the future.

#quarkus #vue3