Lisa Beal

🌊🧪🌏 Let’s get nerdy-poetic about the ocean to start our week off right! I love that the ocean is full of contradictions. It is one and many, it is constant and forever changing, it is serene and wild, it is known and unknowable, it is vast and empty and full of life. It is ocean and it is Earth!

We have enough natural energy on this spinning planet to fuel humanity. The science, math, and tech turned out to be the easy part. Overcoming our fear and standing up to entrenched money and power have turned out to be way more difficult.

🌊🌏 #OSM26 How are western boundary currents changing with climate change?

Beal Lab at #OSM26! We miss our colleague Dr Nate Dossa who could not come due to visa issues. Down with fear and division. Up with freedom of movement which supports science, society, and mutual understanding.

Are you at #OSM26? So are the JGR-Oceans editors! Catch us at the publishing workshop tomorrow or at the editor rapid reviews on Thursday.

The Trump administration is eroding vital climate data American citizens are left vulnerable

The Trump administration is dismantling America’s climate databases, firing expert staff and deleting key reports and analyses. Such actions will make important modelling harder

Got ocean science you’re excited about?Want to support 🌊community programs? Looking for editors and reviewers who care? @jgroceans.bsky.social

Can I verify I am human once and for all?

Postdoctoral Associate - Ocean Science in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami Apply for Postdoctoral Associate - Ocean Science job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami

🌊🌏🧪Postdoc position in my lab!

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social I am MTL, ocean scientist, and displaced Londoner. I just saw the strange and wonderful Bi Gan’s Resurrection and my head is exploding with profound, interwoven narratives: History vs state of mind, linear vs cyclic time, loving (our planet?) to death. What do you see?!

Jane Eyre, the Timothy Dalton BBC version from I think the 90’s. Loved it so much as young adult I can quote all the scenes between Jane and Mr Rochester. Very true to the book. A near perfect adaptation. And Jane really is plain and little.

VOICES FOR SCIENCE SUBMISSION WINDOW 15 DECEMBER - 15 FEBRUARY We are accepting applications for the 2026-2027 US cohort, and we encourage all applicants to have a specific outreach goal in mine when they apply.

Want to work with the AGU SciPolicy Team? Voices for Science participants conduct regular outcomes-focused outreach to make a tangible impact at the local, federal, or global level. Applications for the U.S. cohort are open Dec 15 – Feb 15 buff.ly/BHStsrh

In science, as in life, fear and stress dull creativity and drive poor decision-making.

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

The rise of in-class devices could be responsible for an alarming decline in performance in reading and other subjects, long-term trends suggest

Genius rapper and MIT prof Lupe Fiasco in Dots and Lines quotes meteorologist Lewis F Richardson (1922), Weather Prediction by Numerical Process, p66: “Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity.” 🌊🌀❤️‍🔥

High Seas Treaty enters into force: A milestone for ocean conservation The High Seas Treaty, formally known as the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), enters into force on 17 January 2026.

A smidgeon of good news for the ocean.

High Seas Treaty enters into force: A milestone for ocean conservation The High Seas Treaty, formally known as the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), enters into force on 17 January 2026.

oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/high-se...

Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

New study by Hu et al. reveals #IndonesianThroughflow’s nonlinear response to #CO2, with a rapid decline after crossing a #TippingPoint. The first point may be approaching, signaling a potential climate #Tipping element with implications for global #climate.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our hedonism and material wealth comes at great cost to the natural world that sustains our bodies and souls. This tension is almost unbearable. So why don’t we ease it? Give up fossil fuels, formalise the monetary value of nature, and embrace greater global equity.

Photo of a lightning strike. "Scott's Bluff" by Isaac Schluesche was a finalist in the AMS 2024 Photo Contest

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk.

For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

The old becomes the new! Thanks for the share. Loving this album.

The universality and wonder of science and nature bring people together. The ocean community is worldwide, transcending nationalities, politics, and religion.

Thanks Sang-Ki. Happy new year to you.

Happy New Year!

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

ICE’s “Alligator Alcatraz” is where thousands of “profiled” people are being caged and tortured only one hour from my home in Miami. We cannot accept this.

LTL. Quifftastic displaced Londoner. Unhealthy dependency on Kermode recs. Just heard Mark’s rant on Jay Kelly. His shortened temper schlepping to Finsbury Park indeed coloured the review. This film is about the cost of success, to self and others, and about rediscovering what truly matters in life.

Keith Haring