Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈

Headline at top: Hacking the ocean: open-source technology and tools to train the next generation of ocean scientists. Imagery includes some bubbles behind the text. At the bottom it has the icon for the ocean sciences meeting which is text that says: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow Scotland, 22-27 February 2026.

Tell everyone about your cool new ocean technology! Join @fishysounds.bsky.social and myself at our #OSM26 session, “ED009 - Hacking the Ocean”, highlighting innovative and accessible tools for ocean science and education.

No. Just NO.

Oh have fun! Be on the lookout for the majestic trash eagles

Image from the fresh floral shop on the Safeway flyer. On the left is a plant in a rainbow pot labeled “seasonal ceramic pack” and on the right is a rainbow colored rose titled “single stem tie die rose”

At Safeway this week, rainbows are “seasonal” and “tie dye”. Is the “tie die” deadly typo a secret code I should be worried about?

Chicken Jockey!

Swift even prints emojis in the output JSON! Not sure how dacs will handle the characters though

Screen shot of iphone software that shows a logbook of scientific files. The list incudes the name, date and location of each file. The name of the first file are the chicken and jockey emojis. Second name, date and time, third name is boops boops

Best part of building scientific software in Swift, you can use emojis as file names.

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YES! That's the plan. You can share the data just like you would send a photo. Text your besties a JSON!

There's also a neat little map that also shows you where you took the data! I just don't want to show everyone where I live ha ha.

Screenshot from my phone that plots the temperature and pressure data, as well as acceleration and angular velocity from the sensors on my smartwatch.

Brainstorming with @yuengdl.bsky.social on what fun educational experiments we can use a smartwatch for.

Here is a quick snippet of water temperature and IMU data I took this morning!

I heard! Congrats!

This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Omg I love this!

Creepy?

Also I have software that will output the data in real-time as a JSON from the Apple Watch Ultra (or any apple watch) if you want to be an alpha tester.

Yesish with the apple watch Ultra. Depends on whether you are close to wifi or cell service. I've been testing the GPS on my watch and there is a continuous dynamic correction. The best is within 10 feet, but sometimes it puts me on the other side of the street.

“DISCO: A low-cost device-instrumented Secchi disk for water clarity observations”

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I also highly recommend getting scope of work in your inbox! Always some wormhole of random information to fall into.

Know anyone that needs a consultant to make those sensors work better? Because I am really good at that 🙃

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA

Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*

Make that part clear when you ⬇️

I am Great Salt Lake levels....UNMEASUREABLE.

Ha ha ha! Yes I kind of love this. They should also make the baby seals wear matching sweatbands on their foreheads.

You are not alone! But you got this. Some of my most impactful work for the sciences was outside of academia.

Yes! Build your own CTD!

Thanks for the live stream, I missed it. I just read the PPT and thoughts.....

Yay! Do it. Free the data :)

Wow that's dedication! Admittedly my first thought would have been to just reply "my dog ate my dissertation data".

Valentine's Day for Naturalists — Rosemary Mosco A collection of nature valentines with biology and geology themes, including birds, fossils, bogs, and horseshoe crabs.

In all the chaos, I just decided I was going to take some time and send silly valentines to friends. 💘

rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-...

I heard that some of you people prefer to receive your snarky science fact-checking of viral news stories in meme format, and I am here to help.

🌊🧪 The Chemical #Oceanography Gordon Research Conference will be held July 20-25, 2025. Check out the exciting Biogeochemistry of the Coastal Ocean session led by James Moffett (University of Southern California) with invited speakers Kanchan Maiti (Louisiana State University and A&M College)

Cringing. But I have since learned there are lot of other effective uses for pantyhose by ocean scientists!