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JP
@jppaine.bsky.social
Life long science student
Enviromental Chemist 🧪
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January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Happy New Year! ✨🌊

We’re starting 2026 with the Ocean Awareness Contest 2026 - inviting young creatives worldwide to use art, storytelling, and media to speak for our ocean and planet.

Here’s to a year of bold ideas and powerful youth voices.

🔗 bowseat.org/programs/oce...
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Happy 2026 Storytellers! Here’s hoping your New Year is full of health, happiness and, of course, whales!
🎨 Maria Rose
#WhaleTales
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Wellll well well if it isn't a new year.

Join us for a semester of connecting classrooms w/science!

We'd love to get 1000 volunteers into the database before our first match (at 582 now).

Scientists, sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Educators, here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam
Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam
A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore yellow polka dots like a party dress, while an orange fish with bulging…
news.mongabay.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:

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Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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Stand Up for Science: "What we need is your people power. When we put out a petition, sign it. When we host a protest, attend it. When we say, “call your Congress Critters,” call them. When we call for volunteers, sign up. When we ask for financial support, pitch in."
2025 sucked.
In 2026, we are taking back our science!

We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.

open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
January 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Delaware County approved a local ordinance protecting LGBTQ+ residents from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, becoming the third of Philadelphia’s collar counties to enact such protections #NOH8
December 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him. We applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same!

Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"... we aim to follow Jesus, who taught us to catch stones thrown at vulnerable people, not throw them ourselves.”
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Some Magnapinna from a couple months ago! youtu.be/7UvSF6t3zQg?...
Rare Bigfin Squid Spotted in Deep Sea of Cook Islands | Nautilus Live
YouTube video by EVNautilus
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December 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Scientists discovered a rare deep-sea habitat where hydrothermal vents and cold seeps occur together at Conical Seamount, Papua New Guinea. The unique conditions support highly specialized life – another reminder of how much of the deep ocean remains unknown.

Read the study: https://bit.ly/4jpbnPy
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws
December 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hi, hippopotamus expert here! You might think this is cute or funny, but hippos only mug for the camera like this when they are super sick of hearing a terrible holiday song about them that should have been taken off the radio 70 years ago. Do better
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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When Canadian Girl Scouts come to sell you cookies, you goddamn buy cookies.
December 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I gripe a little bit about the ambiguity of the word "day" — astronomically speaking, of course — and also present you with a *gorgeous* Hubble shot of a face-spiral galaxy that turns out to be part of the puzzle that tells us how the universe expands.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/happy-sols...

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Happy solstice, and a gorgeous galaxy with which to measure the Universe
The longest night is now behind us, and a Hubble image of a galaxy used as a ruler
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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In the 13.7 billion year history of the universe, you just happen to live in the incredibly brief sliver of time in which bits of that universe congealed into beings who managed to discover that the universe is in fact 13.7 billion years old.
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Separation of Church and Hate
A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
An Unconditional Yes | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/find...
An Unconditional Yes
A powerful practice is saying, "Yes, now what?" instead of "Why did this happen to me."
www.psychologytoday.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.

Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Your artwork could go on an ocean adventure aboard #EVNautilus! Students ages 5 to 18 can submit artwork for consideration for the official Nautilus Expedition Season Stickers and Patch to be worn and displayed by members of the #CorpsofExploration: Learn more: bit.ly/47LODnm
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM