Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t... 3121744756
Reposted by Thomas KruegerDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells 632227798
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Remarkable. 🚀 @elerianm.bsky.social @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 19529170
Reposted by Thomas KruegerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Hegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things." 8661080294
Reposted by Thomas KruegerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP" 8871775386
Reposted by Thomas KruegerThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.” 25030359
Reposted by Thomas KruegerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." 181349421905
Reposted by Thomas KruegerOcean Opportunities @oceanopportunities.org · 27/09/2026Association spotlight: Society for Women in Marine Science The Society for Women in Marine Science seeks to bring women and marginalized genders together in marine science to discuss, celebrate, and promote their research and experiences. 133
Reposted by Thomas KruegerZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/10/2026The last three months really highlight just how widespread the unusually warm sea surface temperatures are found. In addition El Niño, there are several large marine heat waves, with one of the largest departures still across the North Pacific. Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt... 🌊 415957
Reposted by Thomas KruegerUN Environment Programme @unep.org · 01/10/2026Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas and the dominant ozone-depleting substance from human activities. Better management, from sustainable agricultural practices to nutrient recycling, can cut pollution and protect the planet. More on how to #BeatNitrogenPollution: ow.ly/WYBh50ZTnfm 11915
Reposted by Thomas KruegerGlen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Current [El Nino] forecasts suggest that the 2026 event could push global mean surface temperatures in 2027 to almost 1.8°C above pre-industrial levels" 😱 Good rundown of El Nino impacts via @zekehausfather.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... 14819
Reposted by Thomas KruegerTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/ 322926745
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.” (via Jefferies) 38505182
Reposted by Thomas KruegerSimon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Folks in positions of power and authority need to internalize the fact that climate change, once it happens, is essentially irreversible. Even if we stopped adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere tomorrow, we're still stuck living with the warming to date for centuries. 1126
Reposted by Thomas KruegerSimon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In discussions outside the climate research community, I find that folks often don't realize or appreciate the permanence, on human time-scales, of today's actions and choices. What we do and choose now is vital because it will determine the future of the climate for centuries. 0136
Reposted by Thomas KruegerSimon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Global warming is juicing this El Niño event. Here's a map of satellite-derived surface ocean temperatures anomalies from Sept 21, 1997, the start of the then record-shattering 1997-98 El Niño... and the same map 29 years later. 1164
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 19/09/2026‘The soaring cost of moving oil around the world is making some long-distance crude trades uneconomical, threatening to disrupt flows at a time when fuel markets have never been tighter. The jump is being driven by a shortage of available supertankers.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 519065
Reposted by Thomas KruegerLuke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.” 1121685288
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJun B. Cai @junbcai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Defending my dissertation in five days 🎓🪸 September 11 at 1 PM (PST) In-Person: Cordley Hall 1316 Zoom: beav.es/JunCai YouTube: beav.es/IBLive 095
Reposted by Thomas KruegerBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/09/2026The maker of Tetris criticized a new White House digital game that mimics its classic puzzle by having players build a wall to stop migrants from crossing the US borderbloom.bgTetris Distances Itself From White House’s Wall-Building GameThe maker of Tetris criticized a new White House digital game that mimics its classic puzzle by having players build a wall to stop migrants from crossing the US border. 45322
Reposted by Thomas Kruegersusiemclaren.bsky.social @susiemclaren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Corals internalise algae into their cells to form a symbiosis that underpins reef ecosystems. How does the host integrate symbionts into its body plan? Happy to share our preprint: Symbiont spatial organisation is dynamically regulated within cnidarian host tissues. doi.org/10.64898/202... 263
Reposted by Thomas KruegerThomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...doi.orgThe 100 Diatom Genomes ProjectThis Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th... 09538
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Cover: @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2026... 22492194
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Happy birthday, “Kind of Blue”. Released 67 years ago today. 🎂 “You have to know 400 notes that you can play,” Miles said. “Then pick the right four." [“So What"] 🙏🏼 311282275
Thomas Krueger @coraltkrueger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hi coral community, I am looking for a new postdoc position. While still interested in fundamental coral physiology, I am also ready for applied research approaches in the context of reef restoration or enhanced thermal resilience. Please keep posting job opportunities from your labs. 021
Reposted by Thomas KruegerOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares 31143083958
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"... the Arctic Ocean experiences not only the greatest acidification but also the most delayed benefits from negative emissions" #OceanAcidification 🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s415...doi.orgPersistence of Arctic Ocean acidification under negative emissions - Nature Climate ChangeChanges in the Earth system may persist long after atmospheric CO2 levels decline. This study examines ocean acidification and how it will persist in ocean regions globally, with the Arctic identified... 0137
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/08/2026“For the first time in human history, in Q2, more than 50% of the traffic flowing across Cloudflare’s network was not human… We think in 5 years, nonhuman traffic will be as much as 1,000x as much as human traffic. IOW, humans will be a rounding error.” thetranscript.substack.com/p/08-10-2026... 1014567
Reposted by Thomas KruegerBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/08/2026President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday that would recommend breaking up the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots, according to sourcebloom.bgTrump Plans to Sign Order on Splitting Up Combined Measles ShotPresident Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday that would recommend breaking up the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots, according to a person familiar with the matter. 262013
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Yesterday, 9 August, the monitoring station in the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer recorded the highest temperature ever measured, 29.87°C. In the plot below, the 2013-2025 mean is depicted in black, 2024 in light blue, and 2026 in red. Data courtesy of Frédéric Gazeau and Samir Alliouane. 🌊 0125
Reposted by Thomas KruegerUN Environment Programme @unep.org · 09/08/2026Indigenous Peoples make up less than 5% of the world’s population, yet they protect significant amounts of global biodiversity. These heroes should be supported on today’s #IndigenousPeoplesDay and every day. 04019
Reposted by Thomas KruegerHolly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Freaking finally! A massive compilation of data that sat on various desks for almost a decade is finally out. On the positive side, gave me time to learn expansion microscopy and make Fig 1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgEmergent metabolic parasitism driven by organelle sequestrationChloroplast-stealing ciliates evolve, increasing reliance on their prey for all aspects of metabolism, including photosynthesis. 26320
Reposted by Thomas KruegerTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 392444620
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is a better breakdown, via B of A 315135
Reposted by Thomas Kruegerdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026amazing news, this video is now fully captioned in old english!!! thank god. all the anglo-saxon peasants who use wikipedia are gonna LOVE this 121315191
Reposted by Thomas KruegerNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/07/2026One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP. 27693248
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026".. it reads like a cyberpunk novel .. .. OpenAI created an advanced AI hacker agent and put it in an isolated environment for testing. The AI agent then autonomously hacked its way out .." @mashable.com mashable.com/tech/hugging...mashable.comHugging Face OpenAI hack: Agent went rogue, escaped and hacked everything in its pathThis was not supposed to happen. None of it. 34292112
Reposted by Thomas KruegerBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 21/07/2026Economists say European governments will need to invest billions of euros to protect citizens from increasingly dangerous heat waves that are already cutting productivity, hurting industry and resulting in significant numbers of deaths. Read more: bloom.bg/4wkIIAO 📷️: John MacDougall/Getty Images 53221
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Not 2050. Today in France. Peak Temps. Every pink number is 40C+ (104F+) with many stations at 44C+ (111F+). A previously impossible heatwave, soon to be an annual tradition, only hotter. #heatwave #Europe 24559271
Reposted by Thomas KruegerBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19/07/2026Institutional investors are trying to figure out what it would mean for their portfolios if continually rising temperatures trigger what JPMorgan is calling “climate black swan risks.”bloom.bgPension Funds Try to Come to Grips With the Scariest Global Warming ScenarioInstitutional investors are trying to figure out what it would mean for their portfolios if continually rising temperatures trigger what JPMorgan Chase & Co. is calling “climate black swan risks.” 135124
Reposted by Thomas KruegerShumpei Maruyama @shumpeim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My flight to Auckland got delayed by 24 hours, but I'll make it just in time for my talk at ICRS - Monday at 10:45AM in room 516! This is my first ICRS, very excited! #ICRS2026 1164
Reposted by Thomas KruegerWally Rich @reefwally.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I'm here in Auckland and excited to present on our lastest project at #ICRS2026! Using repeated coral population surveys and 8+ years of in situ temperature data, we find an unexpected trigger of catastrophic mortality in a heat-tolerant species. Check out my talk on Thursday at 2:45, room 505 🌊🧪🪸 092
Reposted by Thomas KruegerMónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The Medina Lab will be at ICRS next week. Below is are schedule of posters and talks. See you all soon! 🪸🦠🌎🧪🌊🧬🌿 0166
Reposted by Thomas KruegerMatt Gibson @mgstowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Postdoc Positions: Coral Cell and Molecular Biology Reach out directly to mg2@stowers.org or follow the link below to read more and apply through the institute portal! Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557 www.stowers.org/careers/post...stowers.orgPostdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557If you have a collection of outstanding people who ask really interesting questions, like each other and push the envelope, important discoveries will… 0810
Reposted by Thomas KruegerDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 18/07/2026🇪🇺President von der Leyen’s proposal to weaken the #EUETS, the bedrock of EU climate action, sends a signal to companies and foreign governments that the Commission will easily cave before EU law might inconvenience them. My piece: davekeating.substack.com/p/faced-with... 12013
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Coltrane, gone 59 years ago today — at the age of 40. “.. I want to be a force for real good,” he said. “I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force.” #RIP 15542142
Reposted by Thomas KruegerMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Trump Media plans to charge trading firms for access to Trump’s Truth Social posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, the FT reports. The product, Truth API, is aimed at firms that rely on ultra-fast data to trade in markets that are often moved by those posts. 70339162
Reposted by Thomas KruegerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026".. markedly different than its approach to creating a potential new $250 bill featuring Trump’s image .." 1629886
Reposted by Thomas KruegerJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/07/2026“It's a very dangerous environment if this all unwinds. The potential for an accident is increasing.” www.reuters.com/legal/transa...reuters.comUS markets brace for renewed funding pressure as leverage risesU.S. equity funding markets remain stretched in the wake of last month's spike in short-term borrowing costs, as near-record stock prices and a frenzy over popular technology shares fuel demand for l... 210842