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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · 2d

A flash back to an earlier, better time ...

youtu.be/6A8TiUpKDVg?...

(2013) Obama responds to hecklers at speech

YouTube video by CNN

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · 4d

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 5d

Attorney General Pam Bondi came before the Judiciary Committee today.

But she refused to answer a raft of important questions.

On Tom Homan's bribe.

On Donald Trump's new luxury plane.

On January 6th pardons.

On illegal strikes in the Caribbean.

On Epstein.

The stonewalling was staggering.

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic biography from Dr. Bruce Robison, a midwater researcher and one of the founding scientists of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

What's down there?

Abstract. My career has been a series of adventures and occasional misadventures that have been both physically and intellectually challenging. I suspect t

academic.oup.com

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · 24d

The 6th Marine Imaging Workshop will take place in Gibraltar from 19-21 May 2026.

Topics include:
- Imagery collection and processing
- Still and video annotation
- Machine learning approaches
- Image and video data management
- Applications in marine research and conservation
…and much more.

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · 27d

MBARI has released a benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video.

- Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03499
- Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/MBA...
- Workflow: docs.mbari.org/benchmark_ev...

#machinelearning #deepsea

DeepSea MOT: A benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video

Benchmarking multi-object tracking and object detection model performance is an essential step in machine learning model development, as it allows researchers to evaluate model detection and tracker p...

arxiv.org

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here ... take my pity. 😉 Also, get well soon.

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Aug 31

Will do. I actually have ton of your articles bookmarked; the articles and documentation for Quarkus are fantastic. Just FYI, here's one of my public apps that uses Quarkus on the back-end: database.fathomnet.org. More info at www.fathomnet.org

FathomNet Database

database.fathomnet.org

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Aug 30

Timely article. I was just digging into how to do this in quarkus early today. Keep the articles coming!

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Aug 27

I just rolled out major updates to both the front-end and back-end of database.fathomnet.org. 😱 Most users may not notice much but it sets the stage for much faster development cycles in the future.

#quarkus #vue3

FathomNet Database

database.fathomnet.org

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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · Aug 22

Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack | Discussion

MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

For years, developers have been stitching together multiple protocols for real-time media, trading latency for scale and simplicity. Media over QUIC (MoQ) is a new IETF standard that resolves this conflict, creating a single foundation for sub-second, interactive streaming at a global scale.

blog.cloudflare.com

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Aug 12

www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_b...

A groundbreaking underwater science camera is helping researchers study how deep-sea octopus move.

Explore how the EyeRIS camera reveals insights into deep-sea octopus mechanics, aiding research with groundbreaking 3D imaging at depths of 4,000 meters.

www.montereycountynow.com

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Aug 8

Proutic Haripotator?

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 28

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Jul 28

I should clarify .. carbon steel. Not stainless

Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Jul 28

My go-to is induction with a high end steel pan.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jul 27

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone

A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

theconversation.com

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Jul 26

We've got a new paper out: "Assisting human annotation of marine images with foundation models". www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

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Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 21

Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all mainline aircraft, FAA says reut.rs/4f0jq2Y

Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all mainline aircraft, FAA says

Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all its mainline aircraft, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) status page said on Sunday.

reut.rs

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Jul 17

Timeline cleanse youtu.be/9DBSCkga_W0

Dancing deep-sea clams thrive on the seafloor off Southern California

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

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Brian Schlining @schlining.bsky.social · Jul 11

The White House Office of Management and Budget has announced a plan to shut down 41 NASA space missions including somewhere they've already built the spacecraft. There's a list of missions to be cut at www.planetary.org/articles/bil...

New NASA budget would shut down 41 space missions

Proposed NASA cuts would cancel dozens of space missions — including spacecraft already paid for, launched, and making discoveries.

www.planetary.org

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Jul 8

OMG I have learned there is a place called the Susami SHRIMP AND CRAB AQUARIUM in Japan! 🦀🦐

Here are a couple of articles about how it is tiny but locally beloved 🤩

@crabspromenade.bsky.social @k-hermit.com have you been?

english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/5...

Japan’s Shrimp, Crabs on Display in ‘Picture Book Tanks’; Aquarium in Wakayama Pref. Shows Off Diversity of Local Crustacean Life

<p>WAKAYAMA — An aquarium in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, has created a buzz by unveiling what it calls “picture book tanks.”</p>

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · Jul 8

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · Jun 30

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.bsky.social · Jun 25

You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)?

They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely.

Sea ice extent uses it too.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 25

Awful. More horrible science news

"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

Screenshot from NSIDC that says: "Dear Colleague:

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for the following NSIDC DAAC-produced data sets, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025:"

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