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Seth Bushinsky

@sethbushinsky.bsky.social
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Biogeochemical Oceanographer: oxygen and carbon cycles, air-sea gas fluxes. Associate Professor at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. He/him bushinskyoceanlab.org

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Ivy Frenger @ifrenger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📝 New study lead by Haichao Guo pointing to ventilation biases in climate models: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Systematic Ocean Ventilation Biases in Climate Models Indicated by Chlorofluorocarbon‐12
Representation of ocean ventilation in climate and ocean models is evaluated with an observed and simulated anthropogenic abiotic tracer Current models systemically overestimate ventilation in th...
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 01/10/2026
Beyond the classroom, Jennifer D. Small Griswold helps students discover their curiosity, recognize their potential, and find their path. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor & chair is the recipient of the 2027 Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award. Read more: bit.ly/3TZTdeG
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Jennifer Small Griswold: Inspiring the Next Generation
For Jennifer D. Small Griswold, teaching atmospheric science has always been about more than conveying scientific knowledge. It is about helping students discover their curiosity…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From a discussion of updating a department website...
A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"
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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're hiring a tenure-track faculty member in geochemistry & climate at Brown! apply.interfolio.com/193121
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @lamont.columbia.edu · 24/09/2026
🌟 Congratulations to @lamont.columbia.edu oceanographer/carbon cycle scientist @oceancarbon.bsky.social, elected a Fellow of @agu.org for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements! ➡️ www.agu.org/user-profile?cstkey=79e…
Galen McKinley, elected 2026 AGU Fellow for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements.
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to all awardees & especially new Ocean Science AGU Fellows 🌊 Claudia Benitez-Nelson USC Dan Costa UCSC Carolyn Ruppel MIT Pat Glibert Horn Point Lab Galen McKinley LDEO Will Berelson (the other) USC Will Burnett FSU
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Roberta Hotinski @hotinski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GO-BGC has nearly completed deploying our global biogeochemical float array, but our future is uncertain. Join us for an OCB-hosted webinar on GO-BGC's status and role in ocean observing on Wed.,Sept. 23 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. tinyurl.com/bdct692k @usocb.bsky.social @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social
Map of GO-BGC floats
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️
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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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 14/09/2026
📣 Calling all post-docs and recent PhDs! 🧑‍🔬 We’re currently seeking applicants with background in math, engineering, economics, policy, and physical and biological sciences for 18-month appointments with a WHOI advisor. 📲 Find out more and apply by Oct. 15: go.whoi.edu/pdscholarship
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to the newly elected members of the Royal Society of Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social especially my oceanography 🌊 colleague Prof. Katja Fennel @dalhousie.bsky.social
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🌊 Ocean science community: NSF requests input on ocean observing priorities by 9/30/26. Importantly, this is not just about the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)! This request for input also includes GO-SHIP (repeat hydrography) and BGC-Argo. Your input matters. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
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Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/08/2026
It’s a point that has been made before: These people are here without authorization only because the administration revoked it. It is as if Trump were somehow to strip citizenship from every Democrat.
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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 18/08/2026
Join Eco-DAS XVII in Honolulu, Hawai`i from 21-25 September 2026. The Eco-DAS Symposium is designed for early career researchers to help them build valuable connections and boost their professional journey! Applications are due August 21, 2026. www.aslo.org/call-for-app... #EcoDAS #ECR
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 13/08/2026
Although the Office of Management and Budget grantmaking rule is not final, the National Science Foundation is updating its guidance to align with it and requesting public comments. Researchers: speak up and submit comments on the impact of this rule. 🔗 Take action: spklr.io/63329ERRJX
Graphic that reads: Help stop NSF from implementing harmful grantmaking changes
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That's an amazing amount of pomegranates. I love their blossoms. Hoping our tree produces more as it gets older.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our seem to take several months to get ripe and are usually a very deep red on the outside. The inside is still sometimes a bit lighter than I expect, but they've tasted great. We've had a pomegranate tree for ~4.5 years now and have had 6-8 fruit, so by no means an expert. Good luck!
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌊 Job Alert in Argo! @euro-argo.eu is looking for a Technician for Argo float operations! Join the team supporting one of the world’s leading ocean observing programmes. 📅 Apply by 1 September 2026 👉 www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting... @argofrance.bsky.social #OneArgo #Argofloats
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Hah! I read this and was thinking "wow, that's a long time ago" and then realized it's been 18 years since I traveled there the summer before grad school.
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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@soccomproject.bsky.social @bgc-argo.bsky.social @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social 🌊The commentary by Dove et al (bit.ly/4fd2whZ) on the future of Argo comes at a critical moment for US Argo. GO-BGC, the major US BGC-Argo project funded by NSF completes all float deployments in 3 months. 1/3
A map of latest location of all 580 BGC-Argo floats with 5 or 6 BGC sensors (O2, nitrate, pH, chlorophyll, backscatter, irradiance) that have reported in the last 30 days. 481 of these sensors were deployed by US programs.
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🌊 Every day, ~4,000 Argo floats observe the world’s oceans. They provide essential, open and freely available data that improve weather forecasts, early warnings systems, and climate predictions. Behind this network: more than 30 yrs of scientific effort. Thanks to all those who keep Argo alive!
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The same in Zürich- big city, yet most intersections are uncontrolled and it all works because it's designed to prioritize trams and pedestrians. So much nicer. Even my kids noticed how different it is.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Everything about this makes me so, so, angry and so very sad. I hate that we just accept cyclist and pedestrian deaths, that we force ourselves to live in a world where this happens with such fucking regularity. It doesn't have to be like this.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Can you imagine the uphill battle facing new PIs? Postdocs? PhDs finishing and looking for a job? "[The memo] directs the section’s 15 program managers to stop seeking funding for any proposals... “until we are able to provide more details.”
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Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas @socatco2.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
SOCAT v2026 is released today, with 2.8 million new observations! Download the new version from socat.info/index.php/ve... The annual poster summarising the key points of the release (including the continued decline in observation coverage) is available: socat.info/wp-content/u...
Partial thumbnail of the SOCAT v2026 release poster. Link to the PDF is in the main text.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🌊 For 77 years, CalCOFI has been taking the pulse of the California Current, creating the world’s longest-running marine ecosystem monitoring program & one of science’s best ocean archives. @rosannaxia.bsky.social of LA Times shares more about the crucial program. ⤵️ lat.ms/4vqAw1v
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This hidden gem in ocean science unlocked the secrets of El Niño
Nowhere else on the planet has such a large swath of ocean been studied as thoroughly and for so long, and much of our modern approach to oceanography can be traced back to this hidden gem.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!
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Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta
On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support
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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
As many know, there was a massive fire at USF CMS. The building held offices, labs, equipment, etc and is a total loss. We are most concerned about the finanpcial losses of our students. Please consider donating to the official go fund me supporting our graduate students.
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Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta
On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I would not be where I am now if not for him. His impact on ocean biogeochemistry cannot be understated. He is and will be missed.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ah! That hits too many sweet spots for me
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
So sorry to see this Patrick. If there are ways the rest of the ocean community can help, please let us know.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/04/2026
Still on pace: one death roughly every six days in ICE custody. Reminder: gov't thugs are plucking innocent migrants -- often legal ones! -- off the street, kidnapping them, putting them in concentration camps, & allowing many of them to die. On our watch, in our names, with our money.
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ICE Reports 15th Detained Death of 2026 at Miami Correctional Center in Indiana
Tuan Van Bui, the son of a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, died in detention on April 1. He is the second person to die at Miami CC this year and continues the morbid pattern of one ICE death every 6.0 days.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As someone who studies gas exchange and has tried to develop new parameterizations of under ice gas exchange, this was incredible to see. I was sad when we were finally over land, which of course was also beautiful. What a marvel. It took a long time before I could see inside the plane again.
An ice covered coast next to ice covered sea. Northern Canada / Nunavut lands.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Originally there were a few small ice bergs and massive numbers of smaller ice in between, with large gaps of open water. As we moved closer to Northern Canada / Nunavut lands the ice was more solid, with fewer leads and only small gaps between large masses of ice.
View of sea ice from an airplane with many leads and small ice bergs between a few massive ones.View of sea ice from an airplane, with only a few small leads visible.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Flying from Zürich to LA yesterday we followed a great circle route north over Greenland. I happened to look out the tiny window in the door and saw this awe-inspiring view of Baffin Bay. I've never before gotten to see sea ice during this melt period - leads forming, water exposed.. 🌊
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Being a graduate student has always been hard, but seems even more difficult these days. Please consider supporting UH Mānoa Oceanography students: give.uhfoundation.org/schools/Univ... @uhmanoa.bsky.social
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Friends of Oceanography
Join me and make a gift for UH Giving Day!
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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) @usocb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Registration is now open for the @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social Float Data Workshop this Aug. in Seattle! Learn more and apply by end of April: www.go-bgc.org/news/float-d... @bgc-argo.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social 🌊
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GO-BGC Float Data and Science Workshop | GO-BGC
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
And you know what makes the world a better, safer place? Because it isn't a frivolous war with no way out
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...
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Program on Climate Change (PCC) Postdoctoral Scholar Program 2026 | Program on Climate Change
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Private money cannot replace public funding of science" Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol
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Private money cannot replace public funding of science
Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Trump said to select Thiel protégé as NSF director President Donald Trump is planning to nominate a libertarian protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel with no research experience to be the next National Science Foundation director, according to reports today in the New York Times and elsewhere. 1/7
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
An independent agency with a budget of nearly $9 billion, NSF has been led for the past 10 months by Panchanathan’s chief of staff, Brian Stone. During that time, it has lost 40% of its PhD-level staff of senior managers and program officers. 5/7
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Directorate for Geosciences 5/11
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Geosciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
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Seth Bushinsky @sethbushinsky.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Hah, I'd been working to convince my dad he'd love your podcast with no apparent success until last month he brought up one of your episodes to me, recommending I listen! Just when you think they're beyond learning new things..
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Colleen Durkin @cadurkin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Our new instrument, the SINKing Ecology Robot (SINKER) was highlighted recently in the Monterey Herald. I love how this story highlights the contributions of the diverse team require to make these kind of advancements in ocean science. www.montereyherald.com/2026/01/09/t...
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The snow below: New MBARI technology measures ocean carbon like never before
“If we can find ways to more realistically represent these processes in the models, then our understanding of what’s going to happen in the future should be more accurate.”
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Casey Schine @caseyschine.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hi, folks! I'm new to BlueSky. I'm a polar oceanographer looking at the drivers of primary production in the Southern Ocean.
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