After I successfully defended my Ph.D., and as I and packed up my belongings to move across the country for a new job (more on…
View More A field guide to privilege in marine science: some reasons why we lack diversityAuthor: Miriam Goldstein
Sunday song: Little Octopus Climbing Over Rock
The Deeplings have been fans of Parry Gripp ever since his smash hit “Lazy Harp Seal Has No Job.” Now, Parry brings us “Little Octopus…
View More Sunday song: Little Octopus Climbing Over RockLOST: large tub of scallop guts
The annals of Scientific Mishaps has another chapter. From the Ellsworth, Maine police department: were you driving a Blue 4 Door Chevy Car with State,…
View More LOST: large tub of scallop gutsGuest post: The March…OF SCIENCE
This is a guest post from Sam Musher. Sam is a middle school librarian and children’s lit blogger. A steady diet of post-apocalyptic fiction made…
View More Guest post: The March…OF SCIENCEInvitation to my doctoral defense
I’ve been mostly absent from the internets lately (with the exception of my very favorite procrastination method, Twitter), but I have 250 pages of a…
View More Invitation to my doctoral defenseIn the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last long
If you haven’t seen the VENUS deep-sea observatory’s pig-in-the-ocean experiments, you’ve been missing out. I saw them present this work at a conference a couple…
View More In the deep sea, bacon doesn’t last longSatellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experiment
News of an rogue iron-dumping experiment off British Columbia, Canada, broke in the Guardian on Monday, and was followed up by the New York Times, the…
View More Satellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experimentPlastics expedition departs for North Pacific
My tall-ship-sailing buddies at Sea Education Association are headed out for a special Pacific plastics cruise tomorrow aboard the 134-foot brigantine SSV Robert C. Seamans. (Disclosure: I am…
View More Plastics expedition departs for North PacificScience Cafe in Fresno CA: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This Monday, I’m giving a talk at the Central Valley Cafe Scientifique. Many thanks to Madhu Katti and Kaberi Kar Gupta for arranging this. And…
View More Science Cafe in Fresno CA: The Great Pacific Garbage PatchWatch helplessly from a mussel’s shell as it is slowly & inexorably consumed
This may be the coolest sea star predation video of all time. Watch helplessly from the mussel’s shell as the sea star’s stomach extrudes and…
View More Watch helplessly from a mussel’s shell as it is slowly & inexorably consumed