Graeme MacGilchrist

@jessicayluo.bsky.social is a marine biogeochemist and ecosystem modeler at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), where her work focuses on how marine organisms transport carbon from the surface to the deep ocean, and how these dynamics shift under climate change.

Myself and @davidho.bsky.social are convening a panel discussion at #OSM26 on "Ocean science in a time of political uncertainty". Please join us there!

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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Le ψ 😮‍💨

Top quality meme creation. 10/10, no notes.

The Life Scientific - Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change - BBC Sounds Pierre Friedlingstein on the pivotal role of carbon in predicting climate change.

Anyone looking for a short primer on the #CarbonCycle (🌳and 🌊) could do a lot worse than today's #TheLifeScientific programme on #BBCRadio4 with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @pfriedling.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) ...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

It’s been a while since I shared these, so here we go!

If you are new to BlueSky, here are a few 🌊 ocean starter packs 🌊 to help you find who to follow:

Physical oceanography
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Polar oceans
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Organisations
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It’s for good reason that they’re the flagship bird for Wingspan!

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Don’t miss the 12 November closing date!

The ethical use case for SRM is one in which governance conditions fail to enable adequately rapid decarbonization, and then there is a revolutionary change in governance that allows effective and equitable management of SRM

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

remember when I said that I’ve always said I’ve been saying it for years

Fortunately the people proposing this disgusting treatment of immigrants and their families are currently in opposition not in government. Frankly I'm ashamed that even a minority-party elected politician of my country can dare say this out loud. Gross attitude to my friends and colleagues.

It is to the credit of UStA that they cover the surcharge for staff (PDRAs, faculty, fellows), though not currently for students, for whom it’s arguably even more of a burden and access issue. But that is surely a tenuous position in the currently HE financial climate.

I cannot stand the “critics say” framing. What on earth could you call the NHS surcharge — a fee for a service that you concurrently pay taxes for — other than double taxation? It is blatant to the point of absurdity. Dump it in the river.

Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.

The NHS health surcharge is a national embarrassment; and it would be if the affected group were not always perceived as “foreign”, and “privileged” to be here at all.

It says right from the start “you will be treated differently here”, and it shows our arse as a nation.

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

This is absolutely staggering.

Had the same response to the Rumi quote!

Presumably there was a time when many more of our 2nd order relationships existed through our shared commitments (to religion, community, leisure)?

It’s an interesting side note that so many of our second order relationships are about consumption. Our modern lives are steeped in transactions — perhaps then it’s not surprising that, unexamined, these relationships are seen as nothing more than transactional.

4. We pay again and again for a failure to raise taxes. It’s a false economy, for which we suffer in multiple ways.
Fair Taxation Saves Us Money.

It just seems like, if we really wanted to, we could have solved mass poverty by now.

This, from John, is fantastic.

I never really caught that first wave of the internet, but I certainly lament the whirlpool it has become.

Southern Ocean CO2 outgassing and nutrient load reduced by a well-ventilated glacial North Pacific - Nature Communications A better-ventilated North Pacific could have reduced the carbon of water upwelled in the Southern Ocean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry in glaci...

Shankle et al. show how a better- #Ventilated #NorthPacific could have reduced the #ocean-carbon upwelled in the #SouthernOcean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on #SouthernOcean biogeochemistry in #GlacialTimes. #ice-ages @earthscista.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗣️ Come one, come all!

Read about connections between North Pacific Ocean ventilation and Southern Ocean carbon release 🌊

This is the first publication from Maddie Shankle’s PhD thesis, with more exciting work to follow!