Seth Bushinsky

How does oxygen get from the ocean surface layer to the ocean's intermediate depth and bottom waters? 🧪🌊

I wrote a brief overview of the processes involved and the key regions of ocean ventilation:

denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/1...

#ocean #oceanography #oxygen #popularscience #science

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

In the 1st half of 2025, @climate.noaa.gov 's staff were terminated, shutting down daily operations.

Now, former members have joined w/ nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us, where climate info can be safeguarded from politics.

Check out our website and join the effort today.

My @ternbicycles.com GSD may be the best purchase I have ever made in my life. It's hard to overstate how much I enjoy riding it with my kids. We've been able to avoid getting a second car as well, which is a huge financial help. It was my first ebike and I'm convinced everyone should try one.

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy.

I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

Putting up a sunscreen over large aquaculture ponds

Using beer kegs to make an indoor incubation facility

Students taking a break from lining aquaculture ponds to make them water tight

The sunset over a clear sky in Daya Bay

"Negative CO2 emissions" became a hot topic in oceanography. Yet there are many concerns about potential side-effects of trying to manipulate the C cycle. With partners from across Guangdong & Hong Kong we've developed a coastal site to investigate side-effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement 🌊 🐠

A title slide with an image of antarctic sea ice, logos for NASA and the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program, and the words: "Resolving Seasonal to Annual Marine Net Community Production Using Biogeochemical Argo Float Observations, Shannon McClish PhD Defense"

My first PhD student, Shannon McClish, successfully defended last week. She's been at the leading edge of research into the linkages between surface production and biological carbon export. Couldn't be more proud of her and her work. Its nice to have something to celebrate these days.

Rock Creek park. Absolute war zone

American climate solutions scientists? Want to move to a beautiful place, work with great people, and be based in Canada?

Here’s a good opportunity!

Important to note that what they mean by ebike injuries usually means being hit by a car while riding an ebike.

Also, cars have killed 46 people in the county of Honolulu already in 2025. 46! Ebikes have killed no one.

Hah, I climbed that crack in the last picture with my now wife, something like 8 years ago. Crazy, feels like a different life at this point. Loved that place, thanks for the flashback.

Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow Scotland from 22 to 27 February 2026. The Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: processes, observations, and change. Call for contributions open now. Deadline: 20 August 2025.

Submit your #abstract ✒️ for the Southern Ocean-themed session at #OSM26 organised by TRICUSO colleagues, exploring the drivers, variability, and long-term evolution of the #SouthernOcean #carbon #sink

❗️Deadline: 20 August

More info: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.

The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

Reporting on the NOAA Fellow furlough, from the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪

How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This Ramblin' Wreck is heading to Georgia Tech! 🐝

I'm thrilled to share that I am starting as an Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, investigating Earth's amazing oceans. 🌊 I'll be using my new position to advocate for science and scientists everywhere. 🧪 I hope you'll join me.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.

You Can't Win a Debate You Refuse to Have: Why Democrats Shouldn't Stay Silent on Trans Rights Playing defense without offense is how you lose both the messaging war and elections

I know there's lots of other stuff going on, but honestly, nothing has disgusted & disillusioned me in recent years more than the Democratic establishment's utterly cowardly response to the right's demagoguing on trans issues. Just profoundly, profoundly depressing.

So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?

NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.

NASA: $24.875.

NIH: $47.7 billion.

Fund science, not cruelty.

And 5 times the NSF budget, except we get fascism in return instead of scientific leadership, innovation, and education

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq.

The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for.
He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction.

He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

Happy SOCAT Release Day to all who observe!

Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.