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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 🧪 🌍

Today is Billy Frank Jr. Day — a day to celebrate Billy's leadership, activism, and dedication to environmental stewardship.

Castor (α Geminorum), ~51 light-years away in Gemini.
What appears to be one star is actually a hierarchical sextuple system: three gravitationally bound binary pairs. The two brightest A-type stars orbit each other every ~467 years.
#astrophotography

Today is #WorldSeagrassDay! 🌿

Seagrass is our ocean's unsung superhero. It feeds marine wildlife, protects coastlines, supports fisheries, improves water quality and SO much more. ✅

🔗 Learn just how important seagrass is and how you can help us work to protect it: https://bit.ly/4l1Vgbj

“we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, / we are so beautiful most people choose / not to see us, for fear of overwhelming / themselves”

- Ariana Brown (@arianathepoet.bsky.social)

voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/m...

Explore Hundreds of Exquisite #Botanical #Collages Created by an 18th-Century Septuagenarian #Artist from dyed & hand cut paper #MaryDelany #Plants #art

Link for an interactive archive of Mary's amazing work, more photos & information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/mary...

Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife The rare giant phantom jelly was spotted during a science expedition off the coast of Argentina.

A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina

Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...

Why, Master Mayor, why stand you in a doubt?

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.

Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

Tlingit weaver Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #WomensArt

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

eos.org/opinions/wha...

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir Down in Austin, Texas, music teacher Gavin Tabone leads the Barton Hills Choir, made up of 3rd- through 6th-grade students.

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

this is the stuff (h/t @josephfasano.bsky.social via Instagram)

Joan Brown. Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat, 1970

This is a red billed oxpecker. Arguably the best bird name.

A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊

William Hays (American, b.1956)
"Starlight Shoreline," 2025
Linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

love @zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social’s Chrismzine (readable here: zacsmith.net/zines/MerryC...) & especially this snippet by @indigojackal.bsky.social:

One of my favorite places.

Joyful Noises

the ocean gives in to the moon

Jean Follain, tr. Andrew Seguin

Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.

The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, JACQUELINE DU PRE YouTube video by Allan Marshall

1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...

I want to be sad, but who has the time?

Xin Qiji, tr. Jon Hansen

Indian artist Bharti Kher
"Squaring the circle" 2007
Bindis on painted panel #WomensArt

November 2025 was the 3rd hottest November on record globally, following 2023 (warmest) and 2024 (2nd warmest).

This month was about 1.54°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. The last 12-months have been about 1.49°C above it.

Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...