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The Great Ocean Sync: How Melting Arctic Ice Links the World’s Most Powerful Currents This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Evolving synchronization of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension in a changing climate” by Joh et al. (202…

Have you noticed synchronized SST anomalies between the Pacific and Atlantic in global maps? It’s not a coincidence. According to a new study in Science Advances by Joh et al. (2026), this "oceanic handshake" is directly linked to the retreat of Arctic sea ice. 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/03/01/t...

Putin’s friendship has limits — as Iran just found out Leaders in Damascus, Caracas and now Tehran have all discovered that Russian support only goes so far.

Iran has become the latest country after Syria and Venezuela to discover that backing from Moscow has its limits.

Frontiers | Emerging PFAS contaminants PFNA and PFSA amplify epigenetic aging: sex- and age-stratified risks in an aging population Emerging perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), such as perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) and perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA), are pervasive environmental contaminants ...

𝗣𝗙𝗔𝗦 𝗼𝗿 '𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀,' 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 [via Frontiers] 🧪🥼🧓🩺⚕️

"study provides novel insights into the associations between PFAS (PFNA, PFSA) and epigenetic aging biomarkers"

www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...

#American #lifespan #aging #pollutants

Organism-wide cellular dynamics and epigenomic remodeling in mammalian aging To investigate organism-wide cellular alterations and epigenomic dynamics during aging, we constructed a single-cell chromatin accessibility atlas spanning 21 mouse tissues across three age groups and...

𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦-𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 [via Science] 🧪🥼🧓🩺⚕️

"organism-level single-cell #chromatin accessibility atlas [shows] how #aging remodels #cellular composition and regulatory regions of multiple tissues"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#body #atlas

This is a critical story, because it ties in to the pocket rescissions approach that Russ Vought used last year at a small scale. This may be a bigger run at it after Congress passed a roughly normal science budget this cycle. 🧪⚛️

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

*Spits its coffee*

"OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT."

People have problems, a percentage suffers mental issues, and you give them a tool that can increase those problems 🤦, JFC!

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

It's just shiny pieces of glass and collars... just like the Venezuela thing 🤦.

A group of people stand next to some concrete steps next to a seawall. The steps are about 30cm below the wall top, due to subsidence.

A seawall in Jakarta. To the left are fishing boats in the water. To the right, at a lower level than the water, are houses and a pavement.

A group of people round a table in a meeting room.

Five people in a line, making a 'U' shape gesture.

We've been in Jakarta continuing @britishacademy.bsky.social -funded work into evidence-driven policy for seawalls in Indonesia. Visited some very challenging sites on the Jakarta coast, and had the opportunity to meet the Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology to discuss our work.

A series of concrete blocks, which represent trial-scale stepped seawalls.

A large indoor wave tank. There is a model of a breakwater in the middle of the water, and a pile of rubble to the rear.

A small wave tank, with a small-scale model of a stepped seawall, and waves breaking against it.

A group of people in hard hats and high-vis vests stand round a table of small-scale concrete tetrapods and seawalls.

Continuing @britishacademy.bsky.social - supported work into evidence landscape for seawalls in Indonesia, with a visit to Balai Teknik Pantai, a huge test facility for prototyping sea defences for all Indonesia. Thank you for hosting us so well, and for answering all my STS-alike questions 😅

Abstract begins: Recent years have seen a proliferation of knowledge-sharing networks to support place-based just transitions among carbon-intensive regions. Yet, policy mobilities scholarship argues that policy knowledge from some places may be selectively promoted to propagate specific ideas about how regional planning ‘ought’ to happen. Exemplars of good practice circulated within such networks could therefore work against place-based just transitions, if they promote policies that perpetuate existing imbalances between industries and communities. In response, this study uses policy mobilities as an analytical framework to evaluate how the mobility of policy knowledge may enable or hinder a place-based just transition. This question is explored for offshore renewables in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Nagasaki has up to 3400 power sector workers, including two municipalities where power sector workers are proportionally three to four times the Japanese average. An offshore wind capacity of ~440 MW over two sites is planned in Nagasaki. National governments, non-profit organisations and overseas regions all aim to influence offshore renewables policy in Nagasaki, whereas industry organisations promote the region’s success as an offshore renewables cluster. Document analysis, interviews and ethnographic observations are used to assess how circulation, localisation and resharing of policy knowledge may inform a just transition for Nagasaki’s workforce and communities. The study makes three contributions to place-based just transitions literature.

New paper on just transition, policy knowledge + offshore wind in Nagasaki, Japan. I argue that whilst sharing best practice is valuable, it risks undermining just transitions elsewhere if we don't ask who benefits from this knowledge being shared and adopted:

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Woman holding rock with yellow snail egg cases attached to it

Deborah Kelley, UW oceanography prof & director of the NSF OOI-RCA, was awarded the 2026 Wallace S. Broecker Medal on Feb. 24 by The Oceanography Society, recognizing her scientific, educational, and mentorship contributions to marine science. Congrats Deb! 🌊🚢🧪
environment.uw.edu/news/2026/02...

*Wakes up to feed the cat*

*Hears people watching news*... so, have the fuckers did the obvious thing we have waited since Monday?

*Hears the names of 3 countries*... yeah those 3 fuckers did it 😒

*Back to sleep*

P.S. THIS is stupid beyond comprehension as much as China and Russia are too 🤦.

Oh, which company needs millions of dollars because they are losing a lot of capital due to not being able to capitalize on their LLM technology?

The same that just got a free contract with the DoD as if by magic!

🤦

Two more #PhycologyFridays to register for the 64th Northeast Algal Symposium (#NEAS) in Salem, MA! 🧪🌊🧙‍♀️🧹🐈‍⬛

🔗 www.e-neas.org/future_ac.php

A yellow surface buoy sits in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Seward Marine Center before being painted.

We are preparing the Gulf of Alaska #OceanAcidification buoy for a turnaround next week. 🧪🌊🦑🛟 #GAKOA #FieldworkFriday

cicoes.uw.edu/2024/04/13/p...

a cat is sitting at a table with cups of coffee on it ALT: a cat is sitting at a table with cups of coffee on it

Even if we had right-wingers, pseudo podcast alpha males, and tech bros raging against the system on my bingo card, this is still surprising… and YET HERE WE ARE!

Cold Bias Stalls Kuroshio Engine for the Powerful Storms Hitting the North American West Coast This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “North Pacific model biases influence Kuroshio Extension atmospheric circulation patterns” by Song et al. (2026). A n…

A GRL paper by Song et al.(2026) shows that cold bias in coupled models stalls Kuroshio engine for the powerful storms hitting the North American west coast: 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/02/27/c...

Student sharing a PowerPoint

Student sharing a graphical abstract

Celebrated #PhycologyFriday in lab meeting with project updates & graphical abstracts. Proud #newPI here! 🌊 🧪

They're selling logging rights out here again.

Getting ready to clear cut whole ecosystems en masse again because we won't tax billionaires.

It is wrong.

I want y'all to inhabit your woods so they have a harder time taking them.

Google disrupts Chinese-linked hackers that attacked 53 groups globally Google disrupted a Chinese-linked hacking group that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries, the company said Wednesday.

42 countries!... that is a lot of targets! On this one, I am with Google!

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula - NASA Science Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula

NASA's Webb telescope observes the Cranium Nebula [via NASA] 🧪🔭🌌

'More #stars and background #galaxies shine through NIRCam’s view, while cosmic dust glows more prominently in MIRI’s mid-infrared.'

science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

#NASA #Webb #space #Cranium #nebula

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms Glimmer sparked by electrical fields detected in nature for the first time

Science is cool....in this case electrifying.... research here is fascinating, especially if you are intrigued by lightning, and could also help to understand lightning strikes more. 🧪⚡

www.science.org/content/arti...

YouTube video by StormCenter Communications | GeoCollaborate Leaf Glow in Thunderstorm Short

This is pretty cool!! Could change the way we warn the public about lightning strikes…maybe. @elprager.bsky.social 🧪

youtube.com/shorts/H4fCv...

Looking north over the harbor in Seward, AK

Wind is coming down but it’s still 🥶. #akwx #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑

We posted a preprint on arXiv about PANGAEA-GPT, a multi-agent system for autonomous data discovery and analysis in geoscientific archives. Plots below are generated by the system, and you can read about the steps system made in the paper. 🧪

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.21351
💻 github.com/CliDyn/panga...

What if your research could clean rivers - and scale your business?

Ximo Silvestre and Sergey Mikhalovsky’s project, funded under MSCA Staff Exchanges, is developing a water purification device to bridge the gap between lab and market.

Read their story: link.europa.eu/gcCV7T

🧪 #SciComm

a cat is sitting on a bench with its eyes closed Alt: a cat is sitting on a bench with its eyes closed

I know, I know; but if we are trying to make compact nuclear fusion reactors that fit in a f16 plane, and we can't get a 800mm lens with the size and weight of tamron 400mm? or even better, tax bastards on top to re-distribute money to the poor to help them into the basics, have we even advanced?

Again, this man must be a jedi or something...

The U.S. Drought Monitor shows areas of the country affected by drought and the intensity of the drought.

The one week change map shows drought deterioration in yellow and improvement in green.

Drought intensified across many parts of the nation, while easing along parts of the East Coast. Drought covered 51.13% of the continental US, a jump of 2.55 points, as spring and planting season approach.

#drought #DroughtMonitor 🧪

droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.a...

Photo Contest — Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council

Our friends at the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council are celebrating their 50th birthday with a photo contest 📸 Have any pics of #fishing, vessels, #marinelife, research, local fishing landmarks or businesses you're proud of? See link and submit by 3/20. 🌊🧪
www.mafmc.org/photo-contest