Stefania Klayn

This image features a visual representation of a CDC flu vaccination campaign. It has a vibrant green background with a large text overlay in white that says "A FLU VACCINE CAN TAKE FLU FROM WILD TO MILD." The word "WILD" is accompanied by an image of a crocodile, while the word "MILD" is paired with a smaller, more docile creature—a bearded dragon. At the bottom, there is a "Fight Flu" hashtag and a logo from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reinforcing the message about the importance of flu vaccination.

💉Flu season is here!

Get your flu vaccine, especially if you have underlying medical conditions. This goes for kids too. Last year, 280 kids died from influenza: 56% of them had an underlying condition and 89% were unvaccinated.

#FIGHTFlu

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Keep sharing please - lots of good resources, across the country, for folks who need them and folks who want to support the businesses & orgs providing those resources

Earth hits hottest level in 125,000 years A global study finds 2024 was hotter than the peak of the last Ice Age, with record-breaking heat, ocean warming, and ice loss driving Earth toward irreversible tipping points.

We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...

Experts reveal climate change drove extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas, making burned areas much larger Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts.

Wildfires aren’t necessarily happening more often, but they are becoming more intense.
A new international study shows that hotter, drier conditions are making it easier for fires to spread rapidly once they begin.
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#WildfireResearch

Thermal trace: Decades of heat and cold stress data at your fingertips The new Thermal Trace application, developed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and ECMWF*, allows us to explore, visualise, share and extract over 80 years of thermal stress data in a few...

Read our article: climate.copernicus.eu/thermal-trac...

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution. OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

I use LLMs from time to time when trying to solve issues in R. In this case, LLMs can be useful if you have a good idea about what to do and rough idea of what to expect.

But today I came across my first instance of a *function* hallucination—it simply made up a function from an R package!

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Coral chorus: Scientists are building library of individual fish sounds - Oceanographic Researchers are a step closer to understanding the sounds made by individual fish species thanks to new advances in underwater audio recording

Coral chorus: Scientists are building library of individual fish sounds - Oceanographic

History made for the ocean: #BBNJ Agreement enters into force, protecting high seas & deep seabed, safeguarding life under water.

“Our ocean is the foundation of our very existence. Today we took an important step forward to save our ocean, & to save our future” - ED @ingerandersen.bsky.social

🌊🔬 Grad Student Opportunity!
I’m recruiting PhD students to explore marine biodiversity, body size, and bioenergetics with flexibility to design your own project! PDF of ad link below.
#PhDPosition #MarineBiology #Macroecology #Biodiversity #GradSchool #Ecology #OceanScience tinyurl.com/5n9434wk

Day 2 of #ICESASC25 is off to a great start at LCC International University!
Llucia Mascorda-Cabre​, University of Plymouth addresses the audience with her keynote Ropes to Reefs: A multi-trophic level approach to inform management and policy giving her perspective as an early-career scientist.

We have to be purposeful about ending the use of fossil fuels because they’re not going to end themselves anytime soon. While wind and solar are cheaper, they are not as profitable. Therein lies the problem.

Check out the full DNA metabarcoding dataset we analyzed in our 2024 article on Grey plover diet at the Black Sea coast!

Meet The Marine Biologist Trying to Prevent Deep-Sea Mining "Using deep-sea mining to solve the climate crisis is like smoking to lower your stress," says Diva Amon.

"Using deep-sea mining to solve the climate crisis is like smoking to lower your stress".

@divaamon.bsky.social warns of the irreversible risks & potential harm of the destructive industry on yet-to-be-discovered fragile deep-sea ecosystems. #DefendTheDeep

I would also say at least "two large pelagic fish", and if I was concerned about character limits, I would drop the "exploring".

Why City Pigeons Are Worth Watching — Rosemary Mosco A comic made for The New York Times about why you should keep an eye on your local city pigeons.

Happy #PigeonAppreciationDay to all who celebrate!

Please enjoy this relevant comic by @rosemarymosco.com who has been one of my favorite artist since the 2000s.

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Because I don;'t appreciate her out here often enough, shoutout Diana Wynne Jones, nonpareil

Kelp forest collapse alters food web and energy dynamics in the Gulf of Maine While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in...

Dear climate deniers: Here's why a warming world will kill you:

Kelp is in widespread decline overall due to ocean warming. The energy it provides to ecosystems is being replaced by phytoplankton. Why is this important? Phytoplankton is also in decline globally (about 1%/yr)

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MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

🧵New paper + open database drop!
The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data.
A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Protected Species Passive Acoustic Monitoring Project Application: This application highlights the work of the Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Project and features an interactive map where PAM station locational data can be downloaded.

🎶Division of Marine Fisheries is listening for whales! 🐳

Explore our new data dashboard to learn more about our passive acoustic monitoring network, developed with
@whoi.edu, that will help us understand North Atlantic right whales + inform future conservation efforts.

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Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long.

Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

What a Whale Does Not See - bioGraphic A whale’s grapefruit-sized eye reveals the reason humpbacks keep swimming into fishing gear.

Have you ever wondered _why_ whales get entangled in fishing lines so frequently?

Partly it's down to the lines themselves, of course. But partly, it's because of what the whales can--or more importantly--cannot see.

By @marinacoladas.bsky.social

www.biographic.com/what-a-whale...

This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

Whale Sharks’ Low-Oxygen Advantage - bioGraphic Whale shark babies seem to find safety in dangerous oxygen minimum zones.

Whale Sharks’ Low-Oxygen Advantage

Whale shark babies seem to find safety in dangerous oxygen minimum zones.

by @cgeib.bsky.social

www.biographic.com/whale-sharks...

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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