Coral Nerd, Ph.D.

our relatively lax laws about sewage discharge from boats (including, & *especially*, US-based cruise ships) is a *huge* factor in the decreasing food safety of Canadian-cultured Pacific oysters.

But urban development in our biggest oyster-farming area is also a huge factor.

A truly beautiful bird that is a light to medium muted pink color who's feathers cover it like a dress or skirt it has black legs and a very long light pink beak

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

From the murderbot community on Reddit: Not the transcription I was expecting to be doing this episode Posted by Logophage_ - 302 votes and 25 comments

You are 100% correct. He apparently ad libbed some great Swedish jokes in there too

www.reddit.com/r/murderbot/...

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

"Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible"

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor.

Do NOT blame #sharks!
www.wired.com/story/say-go...
🌊 🦑

Excellent 🧵 -

Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says - The Boston Globe The announcement comes after months of protest and pushback from Merrimack residents over the proposal.

The announcement comes after months of protest and pushback from Merrimack residents over the proposal, which was part of a $38 billion initiative to establish a “new detention model” for President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, according to records released earlier this month by Ayotte’s office.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

Creatures from the deepest sea

I know OpenAI's CEO is one of (the?) largest Trump donors. Beyond "GenAI is evil," which, you do not need to convince me, I am looking for *specifics* here: what are the ethical ramifications of giving your money to Anthropic that academics should think about when using Claude Code?

Helen Czerski and AGU president Brandon Jones, showing the OSM26 tartan.

Here with AGU President Brandon Jones just after he told me about the official Ocean Sciences Meeting tartan. It’s apparently got the date of the Challenger expedition woven into it. 🌊🌊 Impressed! #OSM26

www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors.

We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.

🌊 #OSM2026 kicks off today in Glasgow!

DOSI is on-site championing #DeepSea science for climate, biodiversity & governance.

📍 Booth #5
📣 Town Hall on Thursday (TH33F)
💡 Deep-ocean sessions all week: www.dosi-project.org/event/ocean-...

#MolluscMonday Dating mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries, nautilus shell cups consist of metal-mounted shells sometimes capped by a small figure of Poseidon. This example on display at the British Museum shows remarkably intricate carving of the shell and septa.

Did…did the wipers get stolen?

BBC Removes BAFTA Film Awards From iPlayer After Initially Failing To Cut N-Word From Ceremony The BBC has apologized after its coverage of the BAFTA Film Awards failed to cut a racial slur shouted by an audience member with Tourette syndrome.

This info was kinda missing from the conversation yesterday.

"The comment, although not clearly audible, was featured in the BBC’s coverage of the ceremony, which was pre-recorded on a two-hour delay before broadcasting on BBC One."

Pre-recorded, two-hour delay. They edited out a "Free Palestine".

The running gag in our house is the “it’s a mimic” joke and this hits on so many levels 🤌

When another species wants to get in on the carcinization

Drawing of a candy bag with the text "KEN'S cuttles FLAVOR BURST." The corner is torn open and several pink and orange cuttlefish are spilling out.

Drawing of a blue octopus at an old-fashioned sewing table. It is sewing a green patch onto a flowery apron.

Drawing of a large red squid teaching three small red squid to make letters with their ink. The teacher's ink spells ABC and each student's ink is making a letter with an error: the A has two crossbars, the B has three loops, and the C is backwards.

Drawing of a large red squid filling most of a swimming pool and playing with a beach ball.

🦑🐙 BIRTHDAY CEPHALOPODS 🐙🦑
I have time and energy to give out cephalodoodles for my birthday again! Reply to this thread today with your request (any cephalopod + anything else) and I'll draw it! Here are some examples from past years:

A chicken walking on the beach the caption is: If you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day

Congratulations everyone

The front page of the Science Under Threat report on cuts in Aotearoa

See for more information: cdn.wildapricot.com/230117/resou...

A figure showing the year to year change in the US federal workforce showing a huge decrease (-~25%) in the year 24-25

A very US (and slightly EU) focussed discussion on Ocean Science in a Time of Political Uncertainty #OSM26 but these cuts are being felt everywhere. The science workforces in Australia and New Zealand have seen huge cuts as well.

That’s really the it, man.

No one is immune to propaganda, and if you believe you are, yr in a very dangerous place.

Marinating in the Nazi stew is affecting people’s brains, and we have actual numbers on that!

An X-ray of a penguin showing the knees much higher up than you'd think

Turns out penguins do have knees. They're just not where you think they ought to be.

(Can you tell I'm trying to distract you from our collective sense of impending doom by putting out the most random content imaginable?!)

This image is a poster for a FathomNet event at OSM26. It features a blue and white design with ocean imagery, including urchins on the left. The text details a Town Hall about accelerating ocean visual data analysis with FathomNet, scheduled on Thursday, 26 February 2026, from 12:45 to 13:45 at Hall 3, The Sound (SEC). Additional presentations, posters, and networking opportunities are mentioned.

Attending #OSM26 in Glasgow? Join us for the FathomNet Town Hall on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 12:45.

We'll demo the FathomNet Database, Portal, and FathomVerse. Come with questions, leave with solutions. See you there!

Save to your calendar: www.fathomnet.org/news/fathomn...

Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home!

"Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell!

Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

Sam Altman would rather have your child starve than turn off his computer a bit

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

These are Very Good ideas about scientific posters. Especially if your paper is already on preprint/ published, you really don’t need all that text!

I also disagree with the “it has to stand on its own” opinion.

A light blue nudibranch viewed from above. It has an irregular black stripe on each side and two small black marks on its back. It is covered in white tubercles, some of which have yellow tops. The rhinopores are also yellow. It is crawling over a sandy seabed. #UnderwaterPhotography #MacroPhotography #Macro #Wildlfie #WildlifePhotography

A nudibranch for you, Bluesky! This is a Phyllidia (I'm not sure exactly what species) from Anilao

#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

Amazon deforestation on pace to be the lowest on record, says Brazil Brazil’s latest satellite alerts indicate that deforestation in the Amazon has continued to fall into early 2026, extending a downward trend that began after a sharp rise earlier in the decade. Data…

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation continues to decline into early 2026, with August–January clearing at its lowest for the period since 2014.

Annual detected loss also fell to a 2014 low, with the Cerrado seeing declines too. Officials credit stronger enforcement, but long-term risks remain.