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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 6h

Do you know what to do if you feel earthquake shaking? If you live in North America and the ground starts to shake the recommended action is to “drop, cover, and hold on”.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 6h

Needlefelted rainbow bee with a christmas hat hanging from a ribbon Posts to UK only woolbotherer.sumupstore.com/product/chri...

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Christmas rainbow bee

Needlefelted rainbow bee with a christmas hat hanging from a ribbon Posts to UK only Please select small parcel for postage

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please appreciate this somewhat dubious artist's impression of the engineer Thomé de Gamond, while diving to prospect the geology of a proposed cross-Channel tunnel, being attacked by eels. (Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ai... )

A rather badly drawn sketch showing (a) a rowing boat, (b) two people in the boat, (c) a man submerged below the boat, wearing a belt of inflated pig bladders and being attacked by two large eels.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello clever people. Can anyone explain what the white lines are that I see on the Tay? I'm assuming it's something to do with the fact it is tidal and how the Tay interacts with the salt water of the sea? But I'm guessing.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lol radio 2 WHAT is going on with Rylan's couch potatoes.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pet theory: the TARDIS has so much difficulty navigating because even a Kardashev Type 4 civilisation can't develop a consistent computational standard for describing time.

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How do scientists measure ocean-emitted emissions? Let's visit @noc.ac.uk's RRS Discovery to find out! _ @pml.ac.uk #earth-science #SciComm 🧪

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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 02/10/2026

Next week, eight of our team are heading to Reykjavík for the Arctic Circle Assembly 2026 ❄️ Find us at the National Oceanography Centre booth throughout the event. 🌊

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Paul van de Vijver @paulvdvijver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Afsluitdijk | Nieuw gemaal geopend 💧Een van de grootste van Europa, elke 9 seconden een zwembad vol water uit het IJsselmeer: nos.nl/artikel/2633... Meer: www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/nieuws/archi...

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway while everyone else is looking at the loud people I'm enjoying Hannah Fry "Dripping with Prefect Energy" #celebritytraitors

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!"

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For fans of analogue tide prediction machines, there's a really nice explanation video here. Tide part from about 2:40. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3...

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The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To the person who allowed their dog to shit on the path and didn't clean it: May slugs infest your bedroom floor and ants live in your knicker drawer.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Homeowners in England urged to check flood risk: ‘A third of people don’t realise’ - Environment Agency warns residents of 6 million properties to prepare for a wet and windy three months ahead #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Homeowners in England urged to check flood risk: ‘A third of people don’t realise’

Environment Agency warns residents of 6m properties to prepare for a wet and windy three months ahead

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The PM backing fish farming at universities, according to the helpful subtitling on the BBC.🤦‍♀️

Prime Minister Andy Burnham giving a speech from conference in Liverpool. Subtitle "scallops [as in shellfish] pouring out of our world-class universities"
It's meant to be scale-ups.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 29/09/2026

Strong winds are in the forecast today and tomorrow, so take extra care particularly if you're near the coast. Here are some tips for staying #WeatherReady 👇 bit.ly/3VZqfqU

Stay safe at the coast
Stay away from cliff edges especially after rainfall
Stay back from stormy seas - the waves can sweep you off your feet
If you see someone in trouble, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard

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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thermohaline circulation drives oceanwater circulation - ocean currents. Salty water sinks, cold, fresh water floats. Inextricably linked to world climate. How many minerals can say that. Vote #halite in the #MinCup26 semifinal

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Mattias Green @mattiasgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New paper by Zhognxiang Zhao et al. on the 18.6 year nodal cycle in internal tides. From satellite! 🛰 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZDHBNX...

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our failure to do adequate managed retreat from shores vulnerable to sea level rise has closed a National Seashore beach in North Carolina: “A significant amount of private beach stairs and boardwalk decking, septic system parts, and wooden and metal debris from houses are littering the beach.”

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Suddenly "You're nicked, sunshine!" shout Gloucestershire's finest anti-terrorist coppers

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is nice. Congratulations to CEFAS, who have a new marine & fisheries research ship promised. Hopefully rather nicer than the crocodilian beast pictured here.

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Clock Tower (now the Elizabeth Tower) at the Houses of Parliament. This ceremony was performed not by a high-ranking dignitary but a 15-year-old from Rochdale. Find out about her: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/f...

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From Rochdale to Westminster: Emily Kelsall and the new Houses of Parliament

This post from our assistant editor Dr Kathryn Rix was first published on the Parliamentary Archives: Inside the Act Room blog, which has many more articles to read on parliamentary history, from t…

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly as good as "poster tube on the way to science conference" season, today is "unfamiliar suits on the way to party conference" spotting day.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Conditions in Glasgow today are “what if a dispiriting mincey meal at the home of a forbidding elderly relative was weather?”

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

please use relevant key words WITHOUT ASTERISKS in your posts for those of us with content filters okay thanks

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hello, it is Friday and I have added these four artworks to my ink and watercolour shop, in case some excellent person or persons would like to buy them. These are watercolour heavy and contain Rarefied Vibes, perhaps. Humid in a good way 🚑 🦊 🐮 ☎️ www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

Small toy like ambulance with mysterious yellow cone atop it and normal red cone in front of it, but enigmatic and very watery watercolour

A brown inky fox looking like a well sound person , some chaos

Arms raised alabaster Minotaur not exactly fierce but textured and vibes

Very watery green rotary phone with surprised receiver

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Working on a new explainer of tidal forces. It is so hard to simplify.

A diagram of tidal forces felt on the surface of the Earth due to the Moon. Each point on the surface is subject to a constantly changing tractive force as the Earth spins.
There are cycles on several frequencies associated with the orbits and positions of Moon, Earth and Sun.
The force due the Moon is shown, (not the Sun) and pulls round the surface towards the nearest point on the Earth to the Moon, and also round the surface towards the furthest point on the Earth from the Moon.

What the water actually does in response to that force depends on the shape of the oceans and how the water is already positioned and moving.

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 25/09/2026

Are you a #ScienceArtist? We're looking for you🫵 to join us at #EGU27!🎨 Applications are now open for EGU’s #ArtistInResidence programme! ⌛ Apply by 28 October 2026. 📝 Submit your application here: egu.eu/2RM4MN 📸: Chaimae Beddad on imaggeo.egu.eu

Image description: a sunflower floats in water. Text reads: ''Apply to be one of our Artists in Residence for EGU27. Apply by 28 October 2026!.''

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A thin brown fox . Ink and watercolour

Wide set eyes sitting gentle box with big reddish brown ink strokes and stormy backdrop with big green areas

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's been a long time in the making, but our new #opensource paper has just been published in Remote Sensing of Environment! 🛰️🎉 "Time and tide: Mapping the changing 3D shape of Australia's dynamic intertidal zone using time series satellite data" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scientific figure showing DEA Intertidal outputs

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TIL the difference between a Fjard and a Fjord. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjard

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Fjard - Wikipedia

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

<Whispers> This site works in England too... Fantastic for "what was under my house before they built it?", "so the road is called Mill Close..." and other local history nerderies.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A slightly murky Equinox sunrise in Cornwall. The Met Office assures me it's brightening up later, though, and they're never wrong. 😁

A view over green fields and hedgerows. The sky is grey, but there's an edge of rosiness at the horizon.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the light of the horrendous behaviour in the English Channel today, sharing this this from the Singapore Strait this week, a reminder of Why You Don't Muck About In Shipping Lanes. Fortunately the fishing boat survived. The bigger ship didn't even stop.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The two #Equinox are the only days when the Sun rises due East and sets due West, everywhere. At the Dec solstice the sun rises in the S-East. At the June solstice it rises in the N-East. As the days pass between the two, the sunrise position slowly changes passing due East each equinox.🤩 🔭🧪

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today I very carefully and precisely, without any spillage, poured cereal into my coffee cup. How's your day going?

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Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a foraminifera sculpture park in Zhongshan, Guangdong, the outcome of the vision of Pakistani-American marine geologist Bilal Haq and Chinese marine biologist Zheng Shouyi, honestly there should be more in more cities

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Life in the ocean is huge and complex, with limiting factors like "is there enough oxygen AND light AND nutrients at this depth?" Not content to measure physics of water, some ambitious folks measure biogeochemistry, with autonomous Argo drifters, that dive down and relay back data by satellite.🌊

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Ocean Acidification Research Center @uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FieldworkFriday #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑 This week we are analyzing seawater samples collected by @uafairbanks.bsky.social oceanographers partnering with the National Park Service to detect #OceanAcidification in #GlacierBay and #WrangellStElias. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

University of Alaska Fairbanks oceanographers deploy equipment to observe seawater properties such as temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen. The vertical sample bottles collect seawater at various depth to later analyze for chlorophyll, nutrients, and carbonate chemistry.

This oceanographic research station is in a glacial fjord in the northeast Pacific offshore Alaska.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh good evening. Anyone got an id for this chonky lass? North West UK, indoors in a tucked away spot. 🕷

Plump shiny black spider with very large abdomen (about 8mm?). Four dimples on the back, no other colours.

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve seen it >100 times, but I’ve never been about to capture it until now. Presumably, it is spawning (but I can’t be positive). But what is the green cloud, and what is the smaller blue squiggly??? #blackwater, #blackwaterdiving #polychaete

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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