@wildromi
Postdoctoral Researcher in The Laboratory on Quantitative Sustainability (🌊Oceanography) @ OGS Trieste, Italy. Born @ 354 ppm. Trying to stay healthy, hopeful and helpful in the face of the 🌪🔥doom. 🌱plant based
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Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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Dare I say your tweetorial is really good ;) masterclass in captivating and motivating me to readit
They are not beans. They are also legumes (as are chickpeas, peanuts and beans, correct) but they are not very similar in taste or texture. They have an amazing nutri profile which is high in protein. Exactly, they come readily cooked and prepared to eat :)
Correct, unfortunately 🥺 humans create a living hell gor so many
If it was a badly cooked tofu I'd try it. But *cooking* badly plus torturing sentient beings is one 🤢 too much
She is an amazing rolemodel, not only when it comes to climate change. Let's hope for a safe trip of of the #gazafreedomflotilla #madleen
it’s crazy to think about the amount of money Greta Thunberg would have if she embraced corporate sponsorships & greenwashing.
instead, she follows her moral compass — even when it makes her a threat to capital.
we need more people like Greta.
OCEAN DARKENING ON CNN: PML's Prof Tim Smyth speaking to @cnn.com this morning about his new study with Dr Thomas Davies of @plymuni.bsky.social / @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social that revealed a 21% reduction in sunlight zones vital for life in the sea. More: pml.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
Pride forever
Scary times. Time to act
It's a legume snack eaten in Southern European countries. Actually quite ancient... the Romans were also snacking it
Am I disgusting or a genius? New snack mix of lupini and raisins 🤤
🧪🌊 A lot of research never reaches the majority of people...🧵 Reply with the ONE impactful paper or initiative on oceanography, sustainability, andor biodiversity that shifted how you see the world. What made it so special?
(Helping a study on science’s real-world impact-your input matters!)
”Although coral restoration efforts may be able to save tiny pockets of coral reef in a few select areas, the only real solution for coral reefs now is a rapid phase out of fossil fuels”
Commercial fishing is the most destructive activity we undertake in the ocean 🌊. Trump just issued an executive order opening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. 🤬
When the Trump administration unprotects huge marine parks and allowes commercial fishing in a previous safe zone for dolphins, turtles and other aquatic animals:
Fuck this guy.
How to help:
Donate $$ to your favorite environmental groups. Don’t spend at Amazon. That’s how I do it anyway. I like sierra club bc they bring lawsuits against his administration for this shit.
Halting clean energy and expressing interest in annexing Greenland and Canada could even be a strategy: with global heating more agricultural land will become available there in the next decades and centuries
🧵 Looking for (polar) climate data visualizations? Start here! 📈📉🧪⚒️🌊
+ Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
Yes there is. Its the ssp (shared socio-economic pathways) scenarios. Google them. If we rapidly stopped all emissions (the best case scenario), we would see a av. warming of 1.5° and a sea level rise of ca. 30 cm by 2100 if I'm not mistaken. This is unrealistic. We are more on track to 50cm-1m
If the trend continues, we're about a week away from global sea-ice extent re-entering "Gobsmacking Bananas" territory.
Stay tuned!
Trump regime ends funding of climate research at Princeton, because it "used resources to assess climate change risks, including alleged changes to precipitation patterns and sea level rise".
Vanessa Barragão, Portuguese textile artist known for large-scale hangings inspired by ecosystems like coral reefs, using upcycled waste materials from the textile industry #WomensArt
3 degrees by 2100 is maybe optimistic... thats somewhere between ssp2 and ssp3. But if the current political trends continue we might end somewhere higher :(
A jury in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.
In the coming months, you're about to hear more uninformed takes defending the abhorrent 🇨🇦 #HarpSeal hunt.
Please know that govt is, once again, prioritizing industry interests over actual #conservation. The ONLY thing ravaging marine life is human activity. Don’t be fooled by industry #propaganda
🌊 Meet 2025 True Blue Fellow Emma Batty and her project, DiveHer! 🌊
Emma’s platform, DiveHer, spotlights Indonesian women in marine conservation, breaking gender barriers through storytelling and community-building.
Learn more at bowseat.org! 💙✨
#TrueBlueFellow #DiveHer #WomenInConservation
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Repost the Warren video. The tariffs are a distraction to pass this Republican tax cut for the billionaires -- that's why they're cutting all kinds of programs in addition to medicaid, medicare and social security -- so they can pay for this billionaire tax cut:
www.youtube.com/shorts/RZ-nl...
