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Patrick Rafter

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Ocean, carbon cycling, and climate: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 14h
We are looking for a graduate director (level C - senior lecturer) for our new centre of excellence “our future oceans” 🌊 the role will involve working with me to run training and mentoring for phd and Early career tesearchers in the centre. But also opportunities to do research on ocean science.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wearing a backwards fitted makes you 30% more susceptible to scams, online addictions, and other tomfoolery 
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Top of my mind lately… I want to write something on the possibility (probability?) that peer reviews will take longer to write than it took the author/AI agent to generate the study
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Same
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's release day for the new National Academies’ report on marine carbon dioxide removal! It's been a real privilege to work on this report with 19 other experts from around the world. With so many contributors, the report can cover a lot. Here are some of my key takeaways: shorturl.at/wI3CJ
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New National Academies of Sciences’ Report on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Highlights the Need for Governance Reforms - Climate Law Blog
The new Limiting Overshoot report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) paints a grim picture. Global warming is likely to exceed 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels within the next decade ...
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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have an opening for a two-year postdoc at UC Irvine on modeling of Antarctic ice-ocean interactions in new configurations of CESM3 with dynamic ice sheets! Please share here and with anyone in your networks who may be interested! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10422
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Synchronous Ice Sheet-Earth System Modeling
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Melissa Berke @melissaberke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I also recommend writing emails to J. Kundu and B. Stone if you didn’t like what you saw in this (www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-lea...). Tell them what you see in this doc that will not lead to advancements in science. Expressing your concerns to those high up is the only way to change things right now.
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) @usocb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Send us your plenary session ideas for #OCB2027! www.us-ocb.org/ideas-for-oc... 🌊
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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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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/09/2026
remake of Limitless (2011) but the pill that makes bradley cooper smarter also makes him call stuff "Awesomesauce"
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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🌊 Ocean People: have you been thinking about how to respond to NSF's Dear Colleague Letter on Ocean Observing Priorities? Comments are due SEPTEMBER 30. 1/6
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Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Photos via Instagram riverreachconstruction, which has turned into a cat account.
There are four men in the photo, one of which is wearing a safety vest. The man in a safety vest is holding a small kitten, who is wearing a tiny hard hat. The kitten in a safety vest.The kitten in a safety vest and tiny hard hat.
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing. Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) @unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Climate change is becoming a crisis. So we have a choice to make: 1. Pretend it’s not happening and do nothing. 2. See it’s happening, but spiral into “doomerism” and surrender. 3. See it’s happening and get to work fixing it. The third option is the right one. Join us. Drawdown.org
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Project Drawdown drives meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The baddies are at it again. We ride (again) anytime before midnight Aug 24 See prior skeets for deets and here’s some motivation youtu.be/9qbRHY1l0vc
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Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight (Official Video)
YouTube video by Iron Maiden
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/08/2026
“While I did several monologues in voiceover claiming that sea lions have a quiet majesty, they are actually just stinky, slippery wet dogs with fins that are mediocre at best” — David Attenborough
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David Attenborough Admits To Exaggerating Wonder Of Seals
LONDON—Acknowledging that the sea mammals were far from being “awe-inspiring, beautiful creatures or a splendor of nature,” an embarrassed David Attenborough finally admitted this week to exaggerating...
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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Do you work in bioluminescent bays in the Caribbean? Do you love bioluminescent dinoflagellates? Especially Pyrodinium bahamense? Submit abstracts to our session on all things BioBay! Also, this is your reminder to book your biobay tours for after the conference :) 🌊🦠🧪 #oceanography
SS41 Bioluminescent Wonders: Integrating Research and Management to Better Understand and Protect Bioluminescent Bays
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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"I've never seen a feature for a word processor that I said 'That's so cool we should bet the world's economy on it, and by the way, we should probably also put all the writers in a woodchipper now that it exists.'" - @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨ATTN: Paleoceanographers + Paleoclimatologists🚨 There's a new (sub)venue for your short-format papers @agu.org's #PaleoceanographyAndPaleoclimatology! 🌊 Take a look at what type of articles we are looking for:
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Very interesting that, in general, N2 fixation is low when water column denitrification is low. Also interesting that it’s not so straight forward on orbital timescales… I have ideas
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
so wait you basically can’t even use your hands at all unless you’re the weird guy at the end
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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
@tampabaytimes.bsky.social did an amazing job capturing life at @cmarinescience.bsky.social post fire. And, they made my mom’s day ❤️ Support local journalism!
Newspaper story about laboratory fire at University of South Florida, including a photo of a professor
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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Update on how things are going at work www.tampabay.com/news/environ...
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How is USF St. Pete’s Marine Science Lab doing 2 months after catastrophic fire?
For the 150 students and faculty housed in the building, the last couple months have been a series of ups and downs.
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🌊 Thoughts on where geochemistry is headed and the role of ocean observatories in ocean stewardship @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @oceannetworks.ca youtu.be/3-dOJzF_UeY?...
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From Ocean Data to Climate Predictions — Jay Cullen on Where Geochemistry Is Headed
YouTube video by Targeted Film
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
Screenshot of page 1 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 2 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 3 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 4 of my letter (see link in post for full text).
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 08/07/2026
@phillies.com give us more bobblehead nights. also, start posting here.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We have a few weeks yet, but I know you're thinking about submitting an abstract to AGU. If so, you might want to consider our session: GC049 - Establishing the scientific basis for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) Link here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... 🌊🧪
A description for AGU 2026 Fall meeting session titled: GC049 - Establishing the scientific basis for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
The details are: In addition to being an important mandate for restraining future warming, marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) is an interesting research question for Earth scientists of many specialties. Here, we are requesting abstracts for studies across the research spectrum-from biology to geochemistry-that provide insight to mCDR applications. All lab, field, or model-based research on mCDR is encouraged to submit to our session. Of particular interest are novel methods and results for mCDR applications as well as measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV).
The conveners are Patrick A. Rafter and Mathis Hain
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Francois Primeau was a humble, kind, straight-forward, and very very smart colleague. One of the many great people I met in my 10 years at UCI ESS.
My friend and UCI Earth System Science Professor Francois is standing on stage giving his talk at the 2025 Gordon Conference on Chemical Oceanography
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It dawns on me that the most significant step the administration has taken towards mitigating climate change is starting the little national mall algae garden
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Colleague @montereyken.bsky.social quoted here in @science.org about what we risk by not funding ocean observing as climate change continues
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/06/2026
El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow! Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
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Celina Scott-Buechler @celinasb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
US public preferences for how and by whom CDR is deployed aren’t what you might think. Public control? Openness to nationalizing the fossil fuel industry to leverage its (publicly funded!!!*) IP toward publicly accountable CDR? Yes and yes—and, surprisingly, across parties.
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Removing carbon, governing deployment: public perceptions of industry and community roles in U.S. carbon dioxide removal policy - Climatic Change
Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) governance are likely to influence its potential as a climate mitigation strategy but remain underexplored. In a nationally representative survey exp...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New music genre unlocked by today’s news: Sea Drone 🌊
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A new global map of phytoplankton nutrient stress reveals that ocean productivity is tightly linked to the supply of nutrients from the deep ocean. As surface waters warm and stratify, nutrient stress is increasing, providing a physiological link to climate change. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Genomic-to-space measurements reveal large-scale ocean nutrient stress
Satellite, genomic, and hydrographic analyses reveal climate-driven shifts in phytoplankton nutrient stress across the ocean.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Happy Sunday. Here’s my dog Petey
A black and white dog rests on a deck overlooking the spring green marsh of southern New JerseyA black and white dog rests on a couch with his head on the arm of a sofa
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I need to send mega thanks to @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social and her company #Micropaleoworks for sending us these AWESOME slides. We’re a bit behind on our various summer research projects because of a fire a few weeks back but this is a huge help!
A person holding slides made for micropaleontology (to hold forams) in front of a box that says Micropaleoworks. Also a bundle of pencils
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Randie Bundy @rmbundy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New paper out in the lab from Travis Mellett on how iron impacts organic carbon consumption by heterotrophic bacteria in the mesopelagic www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Iron availability modulates bacteria carbon cycling in the mesopelagic - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Iron availability modulates bacteria carbon cycling in the mesopelagic
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It was a (sweaty) week recovering some office items and my long term storage of samples. Hoping to salvage my current research samples this week.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
These academics—if they are real; who could ever know!!—should be embarrassed
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️
An article on Smalls published in Harper's Weekly, June 14, 1862
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