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Lily Dove

@solilyquy.bsky.social
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Oceanographer and climate scientist 🌊 | Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech 🐝 | MIT/Caltech alumna 🦫 | Penguin enthusiast 🐧

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tapio Schneider is one of the scientists I look to most to distinguish AI-useful from AI-hype in climate science world. His thoughtful post on the Navier-Stokes blowup is a great example - AI is useful when experimental verification and data density can substitute for physical understanding... 1/2
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Headlines and inside stories: understanding and trust in AI for mathematics, science, and engineering - CliMA
[This post was prompted by the recent discussions about the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem and is cross-posted from Terry Tao’s blog. It lays out the reasoning behind how we use AI at CliMA.] ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feeling proud (and also short?) in the company of these two awesome undergrad researchers who are presenting at Georgia Tech Space Week! 🛰️ Jerry and Kaelyn are both using NASA satellite data to investigate how ocean dynamics shape distributions of ocean biology.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate! 🐻 Polls are open now for the first matchups. explore.org/fat-bear-week
July and September picture of Bear 910, a brown bear in Katmai National Park.
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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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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Walked through the OpenAI Navier Stokes breakthrough in my graduate-level Ocean Dynamics class today and ended on this slide. We had a super thought-provoking and respectful conversation with a huge range of opinions. Georgia Tech students rock! 🐝
Three quotes: 

1) “While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from [Buckmaster & Alpöge] usage of our products helped improve our models⁠.” 
OpenAI statement

2) “I am not happy about the presentation quality in [our] papers. Ideally, we would have preferred to spend weeks turning the LLM generated proofs into something readable from the very first page. This level of care is what these problems and the community devoted to these problems deserves.”
Prof. Tristan Buckmaster, NYU-Courant

3) “[This situation] extremely damaging to mathematics; it convinces decision makers that human mathematicians are obsolete, and it convinces young people that their passion for mathematics has no future.”
Prof. Michael Harris, Columbia University
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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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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 18/08/2026
"What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic." Twila Moon, a senior research scientist at NSIDC and CIRES, spoke with PBS News Hour about the importance of the Arctic Report Card. www.thirteen.org/programs/pbs...
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Trump administration ends funding for Arctic climate report
The Trump administration said it would stop funding the Arctic Report Card, the longstanding effort to collect research on how the fastest-warming place on Earth is changing. It's the latest in a series of moves by the administration to curtail scientific research into the impacts of climate change. William Brangham discussed more with glaciologist Twila Moon, the Arctic Report Card's editor.
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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: NOAA to end support for Arctic climate change report
The authors were informed Monday of the action, which jeopardizes public dissemination of the report on the fast-changing region.
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🌊 Read our new analysis of how climatic changes are reshaping Southern Ocean phytoplankton, and will in future, with major consequences for Southern Ocean ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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From White to Green to Blue? Trajectories of Phytoplankton Communities in a Warming Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is experiencing warming, melting of ice, and increasing wind. Predictions of increasing phytoplankton biomass associated with warming and declining glacial and sea ice are supported...
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Soundtrack for the day re: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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See It While You Can (National Parks Song) - Mason Via
YouTube video by Mason Via
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Eos @eos.org · 16/07/2026
The loss of the United States’ contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System would significantly degrade researchers’ ability to track changes to ocean heat content, a critical variable in weather and climate predictions. eos.org/articles/cha...
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Changes in Funding Could Tank Quality of Ocean Heat Content Data - Eos
An uncertain funding landscape threatens the longevity of an ocean observation system critical to projecting tropical storms, sea level rise, and more.
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Today is our 8th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase in GT Polar. Stick around to read about some exciting early career scientists! 🐝 🧊 🐝 🧊
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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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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm proud to announce a commentary from the Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis panel of @usclivar.bsky.social about the necessity of the Argo program. 🌊 🧪 You can check it out here: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
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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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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🎢 Oceanographers have mapped currents with dramatic ups-and-downs like a rollercoaster, in a giant whirlpool spinning off the polar front in the Southern Ocean. These cyclonic eddies are important for the transport of heat, carbon, nutrients and oxygen. 🌊 aappartnership.org.au/rollercoaste...
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‘Rollercoaster’ currents in Southern Ocean mapped by satellite and robot gliders - AAPP
Intense vertical currents in cyclonic eddy stronger than previously thought
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our last Ice-T talk from postdoc Dr. Paul Summers 🥲 where he imparted sage wisdom to students and summarized his very successful two years of work with myself and Becca Jackson at Tufts. He is off to a position @sandialabs.bsky.social!
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I am an active learning fangirl and my husband is continually horrified by my creativity used to “torture my students”. Introducing Oceanography Bingo! Also known as how I’m going to get 15 students from 8 different universities to talk to each other for the first time. 🌊
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🌊 New article: For the first time from space, we can infer vertical velocities at the ocean's fine scales! 🛰️ 🌀🎢 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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The three-dimensional structure of fine-scale, vertical velocities in the Southern Ocean inferred from space - Communications Earth & Environment
Persistent velocity cores in Southern Ocean narrow frontal zones extend to 1000 m depths with vertical velocities that frequently exceed 100 m/day, according to a vertical velocity reconstruction meth...
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Watching Masterchef while writing proposals is dangerous because it leads to you repeatedly typing "dumplings" instead of "density" in your Very Serious Document. 🥟
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Our earlier story on this and why it matters: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court
Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Join me at prime time on Monday night for my keynote talk for the Weather & Climate Livestream...then stick around for 50 hours of amazing science enabled by U.S. federal investment! 🌊 🧪 ☁️ 🌴 @wclivestream.bsky.social
The Weather and Climate Livestream is back! wclivestream.com/watch. 50 hours for our future. Stream from Mon. June 1st to Wed. June 3rd on Youtube.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"This stance is based on an implicit belief that Indians are somehow more ‘adapted’ to air pollution. Such arguments are pervasive and have gained legitimacy from the political denial of the air pollution problem" ☠️ excellent reporting from @rishpardikar.bsky.social on the clean air crisis:
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🌊 The ocean absorbs >90% of Earth’s excess heat, and our ability to track it depends on a fragile global network of floats, ships and sensors. New research warns that cuts to the Global Ocean Observing System could make climate signals indistinguishable from noise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🚨 The Weather and Climate Livestream is back, June 1st - 3rd 2026!! We're streaming 50 hours for our future in the face of a new round of proposed budget cuts and attacks on science. Want to speak at the event? wclivestream.com/volunteer/
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do other scientists ever get a rush of "I have the coolest job ever" after a fun research meeting or an awesome presentation by a mentee? In this uneasy scientific environment, it's so wonderful to be reminded why we do this work. 🌊 🧪
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Ethan C. Campbell @ethan2sea.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"In the 1980s, Sarmiento [was] one of the first... to discover the importance of the Southern Ocean in controlling the atmosphere's CO2 levels." 🌊 "[He] mentored an extraordinarily large number of young scientists, who thrived under his mentorship..." RIP, Jorge. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
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Remembering Jorge Sarmiento, a ‘giant’ in climate studies
Climate scientist Jorge Sarmiento was Princeton's George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, and a professor of geosciences, emeritus.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
By the way, if somebody tries to tell you climate change is only a concern of "educated and affluent" liberals, you can show them this map. At least half the people in *every* US state, even the deep red ones, worry about it
Map of the US: Estimated % of adults who are somewhat or very worried about global warming (nat'l avg. 63%), 2025

Every state is at 50% or above. California and bluer states are at higher levels, but zero states are below 50%.
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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
For those who reached out asking how to help: This gofundme is specifically for graduate students who lost personal items, computers, tablets, etc. in the fire. We were told that these items are not retrievable or reimbursable -an added burden for students during a devastating time. Plz share 🌊💙
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🌊 New paper alert! For the first time from space, two NASA missions enable us to observe plankton community composition alongside the physical processes that structure it. 🛰️ 🦠 🌀 Check it out from @tosoceanography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🌊 It’s a sad day for @cmarinescience.bsky.social A lot of world class scientists (and me) have likely lost their life work as our main building surprsingly caught on fire today. We don’t know the scale of the loss, but it’s certainly very very bad. www.fox13news.com/st-petersbur...
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USF College of Marine Science
Our live waterfront webcam in St. Petersburg, Florida is located at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. This image should refresh every 60 seconds.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thank you @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for giving the inaugural Clough Global Change lecture at @gtsciences.bsky.social!
Dr. Kate Marvel stands at a podium in front of a slide titled “Human Nature: Ways to feel about our changing planet”
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Nick Pizzo @nickpizzooceans.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Our recent paper on using thermal imagery from geostationary satellites to infer surface currents was published! We call the method GOFLOW 🧪🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Nearing the end of semester two at Georgia Tech, and I am so grateful this team who does awesome science. As our group keeps growing, I will always value the work each of them - one amazing postdoc (@yangx309.bsky.social) and the spectacular GATO “undergrad army” - did to help get us off the ground.
Seven people standing for a group photo at Georgia Tech
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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
doi.org/10.1021/acse... Thorough retrospective and touching tribute by John's long time collaborator, Rick Flagan (H/T @ryanward.bsky.social)
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John Seinfeld─The Atmospheric Engineer Who Cleared the Air
John Seinfeld is one of the most important and influential atmospheric scientists and engineers of the last 60 years. As a young chemical engineering professor, who had just defended his thesis on the...
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23/03/2026
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and warm deep water have played a part in this abrupt transition
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Warmer ocean is driving the Antarctic sea ice 'regime shift'
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and warm deep water have played a part in this abrupt transition
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fantastic morning at the Atlanta Science Festival, featuring the President of Georgia Tech stopping by the @gtsciences.bsky.social Earth & Atmospheric Sciences booth to learn about earthquakes and water filtration! 🧪🔬
Grad student Nathalie teaches President Cabrera about liquefaction Grad student Ashleigh talks to a family about water filtration
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
30+ years ago, I learned an analytical technique as a summer intern that set the course of my career. Now, I'm the only scientist in the world still using it. The scientists we don't train today because of funding and program cuts from the Trump regime are the scientists we won't have in the future.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
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Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
One reason I love going to my grad school friends' weddings is because they inevitably play "We Found Love In A Hopeless Place" and the whole group on the dance floor is just like "yeah that's Caltech."
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is the second time Ito has had to step down over his ties to Epstein (first was from leading the MIT Media Lab in 2019). It’s notable he was able to get another leadership position. Really tells you something about how we as a society treat those who align themselves with sexual harassers.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.
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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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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Reconciliation begins with recognition of truths. Well done to the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Text from a sign at the Kelvingrove Museum: “Scotland and
Empire

Between the mid-1600s and the mid-1900s, Britain aggressively developed an overseas empire. People from all over Scotland were participants in, and drivers of, the British Empire both at home and overseas. They were politicians, enslavers, traders, colonial administrators, soldiers, missionaries, voluntary and forced migrants.

Scotland's wealth grew significantly as a result of its involvement in transat antic chattel slavery. This wealth was built on exploitation of, and violence committed against, people around the world. Money from slavery, and subsequently Empire, has been invested in many areas of Scottish society, such as industry, agriculture, railways, buildings and our museums. Resources from former British colonies fuelled several of Glasgow's industries. Many of the countries that were exploited through colonisation remain economically underdeveloped as a result. Racist ideas were used to justify that exploitation, the legacies of which we are still grappling with today.”
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Xiang Yang @yangx309.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thursday at #OSM26, I’ll be sharing our (with my team at @imas-utas.bsky.social ) work on a new approach for describing how sea ice retreat timing impact the spring bloom phenology and thus carbon cycle in the Weddell Sea by using data from @bgc-argo.bsky.social . See you at poster OB44K-0568!
Chla phenologies and climatologies’ means grouped differently according to sea ice retreat times.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Fresh off the preprint server! @maratimes.bsky.social and I show how data from the overlapping SWOT and PACE satellite missions present a step forward in our ability to observe linked biogeochemical-physical processes in the ocean. We look forward to chatting about this with folks at #OSM2026! 🌊
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Biophysical Dynamics of Mesoscale Eddies: Coincident Observations from SWOT and PACE
A document by Lilian Dove. Click on the document to view its contents.
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