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Karen Yip

@kbyip.bsky.social
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Geo! Enviro! Oceans! weather! STEM! 2YC! wildflowers! Anti gun violence, pro gun safety. she/her

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 5h
Rice University invites applications for multiple tenured and tenure-track positions at the senior and junior levels in #EnvironmentalHealth. Join our team! apply.interfolio.com/193813
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This has shaken me to my core bsky.app/profile/whys...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/09/2026
Good morning! Monthly climate change indicator update time... 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through August 2026. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 428 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1939 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 340 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA GML. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ENOUGH Enough. We’ve witnessed and been crushed by too many of these events already. Enough!
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Students Demand Action @studentsdemandaction.org · 25/09/2026
We are tired of having our lives stolen in this preventable way. Text STUDENTS to 644-33 to join us in the fight to #EndGunViolence.
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kilauea has a great spattering eruptive style this morning. www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZ...
Night view of erupting cone at Kilauea. Glowing orange lava flow coming down right side and toward view, glowing orange blobs flying out of cone in spray pattern.
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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 23/09/2026
Across the country, Moms Demand Action volunteers are making our voices heard in support of Gun Sense Candidates. It’s going to take all of us to elect them. Text ELECT to 644-33 to join a Week of Action event in your community! etwn.us/4xFRDwe
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok well 115 so far today. Not bad not bad. Not 500! But it's not yet 3pm.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just emailed 26,000 people about snail facts advent calendars. This better result in 500 snail sales. Snales. Wait that just sounds like snails. Is that a good omen?? Get a calendar here: SquidFacts.net
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please share what kind of kooky errors can happen in radar that it shows big area of heavy rain over our neighborhood but I’m outside looking up at partly cloudy skies and no drops. Yes real big storm over SW Houston is real. @spacecitywx.bsky.social ?
Weather Radar image of Houston area. Red patches over southwest & west side of town. Another red/orange area north of downtown where “home” dot is Photo of partly cloudy sky and tops of trees (view over my house now)
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 18/09/2026
The numbers speak for themselves: 18-to-20-year-olds commit gun homicides at triple the rate of people over 21. This is just the Trump Administration’s latest effort to gut critical federal gun safety laws.
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Everytown for Gun Safety Condemns Reckless Department of Justice Opinion Greenlighting Handgun Sales to Individuals Under 21
NEW YORK – The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel today released a dangerous legal opinion claiming that the life-saving federal law prohibiting individuals under the age of 21 …
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 18/09/2026
If you’re not old enough to buy a beer, you shouldn’t be able to buy a handgun. But today, Trump’s Department of Justice released a dangerous opinion claiming that the life-saving federal law that stops people under 21 from buying handguns is unconstitutional and shouldn’t be enforced.
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm carrying this energy into the next meeting.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's how totally f***ed up this administration is: RFK Jr. is raising an alarm about completely fictional chemicals in the atmosphere, while he and the rest of the Trump administration are calling the chemicals that ARE literally changing the planet's #climate a "hoax."
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Does anyone else have a package stuck at the UPS center in Carrollton TX? I have 2 different packages from 2 companies ordered a week apart both stuck at this UPS facility 🧐
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Coral reefs currently face bleaching threats as the Texas Gulf Coast endures some of its hottest weeks of the summer and ocean temperatures in the Gulf trend about two degrees warmer than normal.
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Coral reefs face bleaching threats as Texas Gulf trends warmer
With Gulf waters warming at about twice the rate of the rest of the ocean, coral reefs face bleaching threats. When water is too warm, corals can lose their color, turning white from the stress — a process known as “coral bleaching.” 
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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
John Anderson's recent talk at the UT Institute for Geophysics on how rapidly melting ice in Antarctica is bad news for the Gulf Coast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlOD...
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Spring 2026 UTIG Seminar Series: John Anderson
YouTube video by University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
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Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NSF has funded over 80% of the world's BGC-Argo floats via GO-BGC, which ends in October 2026, so the global array will start shrinking. NSF is asking US researchers to weigh in on future ocean observing priorities: www.go-bgc.org/nsf/nsf-requ...
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Andy Whitmore @more-whit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Last year, Trytten and a colleague concluded that deep-sea mining is “highly unlikely” to become commercially viable within the next 15 years because of “substantial economic and technological uncertainties.” A 2025 Rand Corp. study came to a similar conclusion" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Companies Trying to Cash In on Trump’s Deep-Sea Gold Rush
Entrepreneurs are racing to secure seabed mining permits. Then comes the hard part.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Whatever they say about it, it’s clear that this is indoctrination,” said @andrewdessler.com, a Texas A&M University atmospheric sciences professor who has taught a climate change course that regents recently voted to remove from the core curriculum. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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How University Core Curriculums Are Getting Political (Gift Article)
Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are core requirements. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.
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U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling @us-sciod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A recent Ocean Networks Canada expedition to the Cascadia Basin caught sight of multiple octopuses lounging on CORKs, which were installed on IODP Expedition 327 in 2010. 📷 Stills from the ONC Dive Log, and the same CORKs in 2010. Spot the “Octopus parking only” sign!
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Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Get to know @jon-rosenthaltx.bsky.social- because there's only one candidate in this race who's fit to serve, and it sure as hell isn't Bo French.
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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...
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Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI
Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OH WOW. A collection of NEOPILINA! A monoplacophoran! Collected by #Okeanos before in 2017,. east seamount, American Samoa #molluscmonday link.springer.com/article/10.1...
brown snail on deep-sea rocktrack on rock made by brown snail
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow. A Caulophacus glass sponge, 10 FEET LONG! #okeanos east basin American Samoa, 3214 mor so
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
and a little crinoid there
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Last dive of this Okeanos Explorer expedition EX2606. Diving on a seamount only mapped this morning south of Muliāva (Rose Atoll). Currently at 3233m. Dive planned to be on-bottom until ~10:30pm PDT - long last dive! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCq... #Okeanos
white puffy seastar on black rock. Seastar looks like a cookie or a ravioli.NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer - Live Operations Map
Yellow circle with black triangle place marker is ship location. Dashed white & red line is American Samoa EEZ, light aqua square is Rose Atoll Marine National Monument.
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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🌊 I searched the long version of NSF’s letter on “a New Golden Age of Science.“ There is no mention of any of the following words: planet, Earth, ocean, atmosphere, climate, weather, or the stem “geo.”
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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The 'initiatives' summarized: 1. Plagiarism machine/eugenics 2. Made-up stuff to funnel $ to pseudoscience/rich ppl 3. Stuff already funded by companies (i.e. funneling $$ to rich ppl) 4. Eugenics Fuckin hell.
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Chance Ronemus @chance-ronemus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm recruiting M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for funded positions starting winter 2027 for projects in Alberta, BC, Chile, and Argentina. Canadian applicants especially welcome. Details and how to apply: chanceronemus.com/join
Tilted Mesozoic strata behind a modern alluvial fan and braided river system in one of my field areas of Argentina, near Cerro Aconcagua.
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
what say you? BRACHIOPOD Or BIVALVE! 5830 m #okeanos Ultra Deep Basin American Samoa #Okeanos
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A lovely carnivorous or cladorhizid SPONGE! 5865m Ultra Deep Basin American Samoa #Okeanos #spongeThursday!
spiny white sponge on dark rock
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yikes Sorry to say “welcome to the club” from Houston
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One of the few sponges I actually do recognize: Poliopogon. Iridigorgia seen better days, Ramuligorgia militaris, Chrysogorgiidae, half dead & alive sponge, Bamboo coral stalk 2465m #OkeanosExplorer EX2606 dive 5 #MarineLife
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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 28/08/2026
Every year, hundreds of children gain access to unsecured firearms and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. Many of these tragedies can be prevented by taking a few simple steps to secure guns in homes and vehicles.
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Students Demand Action @studentsdemandaction.org · 01/09/2026
We shouldn't be mourning our friends and peers to preventable gun violence, but as the gun suicide crisis worsens, our generation is paying the price. The good news: Disrupting access to a gun when someone is in crisis can be life-saving. Find more ways to raise awareness: buff.ly/DHXJPVp
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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 04/09/2026
Two years ago today, a student opened fire inside Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Armed with an AR-15 and high-capacity magazines, he shot and killed two students and two teachers. Seven others were wounded.
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This sounds like such a cool opportunity! Students- check this out.
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's @nautiluslive.org dive is within sight of Wake Island. Archaeology dive on likely WWII wreckage. ROV Hercules is in the water, descending. Join in for views from the seafloor. Onshore marine archaeologists sharing info for this event. nautiluslive.org
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Nautilus Live | Ocean Exploration Trust
Explore the ocean with us! We seek out new discoveries while conducting scientific exploration of the seafloor and stream live to the world aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus.
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Relicanthus? 1785m @nautiluslive.org NA181 dive 7 #MarineLife
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 01/09/2026
Gun suicide is an urgent public health crisis that claims the lives of nearly 27,000 people in America every year. But there is hope. These tragedies are preventable, and one of the most effective life-saving interventions for someone in crisis is disrupting their access to a gun.
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 01/09/2026
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Learn more, find resources, and help spread awareness: etwn.us/4i6YYB0
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September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, a time for amplifying voices, spreading hope, and providing resources.
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sunday evening - you need a live view of pillow basalt on the slopes of a seamount in the Wake Island EEZ. starting at 2700m and coming upslope soon nautiluslive.org ROV Hercules first dive of the season.
full screen view of stacked pillow and lobate lava making exposed underwater clifflarge white deep sea sponge with highlighter yellow stalk and a red multi-arm brisingid seastar on a slope of pillow basalts
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National Hurricane Center Bot @nhcbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
[1 pm CDT Aug 30] The area of low pressure over the northern Gulf could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm as it drifts generally west-northwestward over the next couple of days. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall... x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/209412280…
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Karen Yip @kbyip.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
10:09pm from Houston on my iPhone. Lunar eclipse
Partial lunar eclipse. Bright disk of moon is ~1/3 in Earth’s shadow
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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New video! Interview with geomorphologist @watershedlab.bsky.social about how he rapidly figured out the source of yesterday's catastrophic flood in Nepal and Tibet. youtu.be/qrUx1qYIW4U ⚒️
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Analysis of the Nepal/Tibet flood: interview with geomorphologist Dan Shugar
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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Dr Robin George Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: Initially, the glacial collapse in Nepal was thought to have been triggered by an earthquake. It turns out that the magnitude 5.2 quake *was* the explosive force of the landslide itself—involving 400 million tonnes of rock and ice. Me + others @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Rock Landslide and Glacial Collapse Likely Caused Floods in Nepal and Tibet, Scientists Say
New satellite imagery added to scientists’ understanding of the events that precipitated the deadly flooding in Nepal and Tibet.
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4832m Benthic siphonophore @nautiluslive.org dive on 8-25-26 #MarineLife
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4983m That's the 1st polychaete I've seen that looks like this. Cool! @nautiluslive.org dive on 8-25-26 #MarineLife
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ophiuroid, Bryozoan, Anemone, sea cucumbers, shark tooth, mucus, sponge @nautiluslive.org dive on 8-25-26 #MarineLife
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