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Christina Toms

@christinatoms.bsky.social
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Coastal wetland scientist, ecological engineer, and climate adaptation policy maker. Jersey fresh, Philly special, and California dreaming. A Piney, from my head down to my hiney. 🌲🚵‍♀️🦅

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Kevin Negandhi @kevinnegandhi.bsky.social · 4h
Lane Johnson has dealt w a lot. Eagles fans know how outspoken he has been about mental health awareness. He was contemplating retirement in the offseason and he tried to give it a go. I admire that. I wish him and his family peace and happiness. He is an Eagles legend.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 7h
wolverine longing for coach stout
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Queen Anne’s Hall (drug/alcohol-free Honors dorm) supremacy, go Terps
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🗺️ The California Geological Survey is hiring 2 positions in our GIS and Publications Unit - a GIS and Publications Supervisor and a GIS Specialist! Spread the world!
A picture of a man and woman sitting in a computer. The words on top say we’re hiring.
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 23h
Quite a control burn near Salmon Creek today! @michaelwara.bsky.social
Purple Air screenshot showing very hazardous air in the Laguna de Santa Rosa region from a control burn near Salmon Creek
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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Since 2020, the Philadelphia Eagles' offense: With Lane Johnson: 49.1% Success Rate 35.7% Pressure Rate allowed 0.06 EPA/play Without Lane Johnson 42.7% Success Rate 41.2% Pressure Rate allowed -0.06 EPA/play Gold jacket caliber player who lifts the Eagles' offense when he's on the field
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
we’re done
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👀👀👀 This is what forecasting while living with uneven observations looks like...
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Average difference between preliminary/verified tides and predicted tides at the NOAA Golden Gate tide gauge (9414290) over the last few months: June: 0.51 ft July: 0.35 ft August: 0.39 ft Sept: 0.58 ft
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pretty sure this is Keyhole Arch at Pfieffer Beach in Big Sur. In the future, perhaps as early as this winter, the cliff edge he’s standing on will fall into the sea.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a week for Philadelphia when the Flyers losing their opening game 7-0 doesn't even make the list of the worst things that happened
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This week, Southern California is “playing with a similar setup” to Hurricane Marie. That storm sent large, destructive waves northward in early September. Laguna & Newport Beach were hit particularly hard. Hurricane Rachel should be squarely in the “swell window“ for SoCal, similar to Marie.
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Southern California to be battered by another hurricane swell — raising risk of rip currents, erosion
Southern California is “playing with a similar setup” to Hurricane Marie, which caused destruction in Laguna Beach and Newport Beach in early September.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 04/10/2026
"Ok explain again." "We have electronic beacons at the edge of the built environment, near the woods." "Right." "And they send data about potential fire conditions." "Ok." "And this new web tool lets you visualize the data and interact with it." "So it's..." "Yes sir. It's a WUI Buoy GUI."
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When "Dolores" the Corythosaurus (first excavated by famous fossil hunter Levi Sternberg) debuted in its Hall of Earth History in 1957, the Academy of Natural Sciences quickly became known among locals as "the dinosaur museum." The Academy is much more, but Dolores remains standing. #FossilFriday
A Corythosaurus skeleton in vintage kangaroo pose, standing in a mid-20th century museum hallThe very same Corythosaurus skeleton, now properly mounted on all fours, in the very same (but now modernized) museum hall
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m sitting in a kiddie pool in my backyard enjoying a giant glass of rosè
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 03/10/2026
get in, losers.
four female stormwater inspectors in a truck to replicate the Mean Girls meme
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I cannot overemphasize that this is a fight we can win, but we need as many voices as possible here. The kids of Philly cannot afford to lose our flagship biodiversity museum. The Philly school district closed 17 schools this year. We need to turn this around for our kids and the culture of Philly.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Post them on social media. Tag Drexel in those posts. Send to President Merlo president@drexel.edu And Trish Wellenbach tw958@drexel.edu The pressure is working and we need to push it over the edge. It’s not enough, but it’s getting better. Please please take action this weekend, academics.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Philly monster just dropped share.inquirer.com/Wrd1yT
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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots
"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our 2017 VW AllTrack is officially dead (pitted piston heads; needs a new engine). Suggestions re: gently used EVs that would fit a family of 3 with a dog, bikes (on a hitch rack), and a canoe (on a roof rack)?
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My neighbor told me the Middle East keeps eating his carrier groups so I asked how many carrier groups he has he said he just goes to PACOM and gets a new carrier group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding carrier groups to the Middle East and then Pete Hegseth started crying.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finally got time to go through the full report and it knocked my socks off. Cohesive argument that housing, insurance, energy, and transportation costs should be thought of as one interconnected issue, and we should tackle as a package by building smarter in low hazard areas at SCALE.
1) Cut red tape specifically to allow homes of all shapes and sizes in connected, lower-hazard
established neighborhoods.
2) Put public land in lower-hazard established neighborhoods to work.
3) Simplify public financing so dollars for income-restricted housing and starter homes go
further.
4) Make disaster-prepared construction the norm.
5) Build lower utility costs into new homes from the start and make homes critical energy
infrastructure.
6) Align utility reforms with housing affordability and grid reliability.
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
attn: bike friends
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still processing the blur of NY Climate Week, but something that's really stuck in my craw is how increasingly rare it is to meet someone in particularly the US context who has any belief that trumps their desire for access to power, validation, etc. When you find an outlier, protect them!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."
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Waiting for the next Mr. Death
I don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 30/09/2026
📣 Calling all marine science and engineering majors! Could the -WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering be your next step? Find out in one of our live virtual info sessions on October 6 and October 28! 📲Get the deets and register at go.whoi.edu/mit-info
Four smiling young adults pose in front of a blue "ocean PAVILION" backdrop. On the left, a man in a black suit and a woman in a dark blazer shake hands with the two people on the right: a person wearing glasses and a dark green shirt, and a man wearing a light blue dress shirt.A medium shot shows a smiling young man with short brown hair and a beard standing at a wooden table in a spacious lab or workshop, looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark grey, long-sleeved athletic shirt. 

In front of him on the table are several items:
- A tall, narrow, rectangular container made of clear acrylic, partially filled with a translucent, light-orange liquid.
- A small, white cardboard box with a colorful circular logo that reads "LED STRIP LIGHTS," with a small black camera lens sitting on top of it.
- An open black laptop displaying a dark screen with software interface elements.

In the background, the room is brightly lit with high ceilings. Two other people are visible but slightly out of focus: a person with dark hair and glasses sitting behind the laptop, and another person on the right facing away from the camera. A bright yellow structure is visible in the middle background.An eye-level medium-shot captures two people on a gray inflatable boat in glacial water. On the left, a person sits facing slightly right, looking ahead. They wear a gray beanie with the word "MITWHOI" in blue letters, an orange and black jacket, and red and black gloves. They hold a small yellow device up to their left eye. A yellow notebook lies open next to their lap. In the center, a person in a green and black jumpsuit and a bright teal beanie with black sunglasses resting on top sits facing right, holding a black camera to their face as if taking a photo. 

They are in a calm, light teal body of water with small ice chunks floating. The water reflects the cloudy, white sky and the mountains in the background. High, jagged mountains line both sides of the water, with patches of snow on them. On the far right is a glacier that extends into the water.An eye-level shot captures two smiling female researchers on a ship’s deck collecting water samples from a CTD rosette. 

On the left, a researcher wearing a blue hard hat with a "NES-LTER" sticker, a black fleece, grey trousers, and brown tall boots squats down. She holds a small, clear sample bottle with a red cap under a tube releasing water from one of several large grey Niskin bottles on the CTD frame. 

Squatting next to her on the right, the other researcher, with blonde hair in a bun, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and red shoes, looks on with a smile. She wears purple protective gloves. 

The background shows the ship's white superstructure, a blue metal barrier on the right, and the wet, white deck.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Second week in a row he’s led a drive like that. Call it pissed-off precision.
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PUSH! THAT! TUSH!!
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t want to talk about “Choosin’ Texas” (it’s bland but fine), I want to talk about how Kacey Musgraves’ “Coyote (feat. Gregory Alan Isakov)” is a masterpiece that would benefit from still more Gregory Alan Isakov
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my feeling about this is that if you reframe "engineering" into "how to responsibly build, manage, and maintain large scale systems essential to public welfare" then it is really obvious why it is essential to a republican model of government
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To all the communities across New Jersey and the region that are getting hit with heavy storms and flooding, please be safe. Pay attention to local announcements, report any power outages, and don't drive on flooded roads. Visit ready.nj.gov for more info and stay safe.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
this is the greatest thing i have ever heard
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Um. The William Penn foundation offered bridge funding to keep the academy of natural sciences open for a year, and the people in charge said “no one is helping things by offering Band-Aids”. Jesus Christ. share.inquirer.com/KXxZTj
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A coastal ecologist friend took these photographs of sea turtle tracks on Alder Creek Beach near Manchester (Mendocino County) back in April. El Niño is bringing some unusual wildlife with it to California!
sea turtle tracks on Alder Creek Beach a close-up of sea turtle tracks with a ruler for scale
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’m having a hard time IDing these fighter jets over SF Bay - I thiiink they’re F-15s but I’m not sure? No ADS-B and it’s too early for Fleet Week.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Add an anecdote if you can, and finish with saying that you do not want the public facing museum to close. Send to tw958@drexel.edu We heard FROM HER that this is important. Now get typing!!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Send heartfelt *not angry* messages about why the Academy should stay open. She needs help demonstrating wide community support. Send your personal reasons why Academy has been important to you and your family, as well as Philadelphia as a whole.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Jim van Belzen @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just out 🧪 Recommendations for the development of erosion-resistant tidal marshes to enhance nature-based flood risk mitigation Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At the end of the day, relatively few of the hundreds of thousands of people who left government were directly fired. Most of them resigned or retired, ostensibly voluntarily, but in reality such resignations felt coerced.
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Matthew Costa @mangrovematt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One species, but a range of nutrient acquisition traits: read the new paper lead by Kristen Rabbitt, "Nitrogen uptake varies regionally in the salt marsh plant Spartina alterniflora" in @estuariescoasts.bsky.social, @randallhughes.bsky.social @bowenlab.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1....
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Nitrogen Uptake Varies Regionally in the Salt Marsh Plant Spartina alterniflora - Estuaries and Coasts
Excess anthropogenic nitrogen is a key stressor in coastal and marine ecosystems, where it can alter primary production, create eutrophic and anoxic conditions, and affect biodiversity, structure, and...
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