Abram Fleishman
@fleishman.bsky.social
Islands, oceans, seabirds. Finding ecological insights using automated sensor and deep learning.
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Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
October 6, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
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Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025).
We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
September 2, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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[email protected] is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept.
This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS
Read the full announcement here:
This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS
Read the full announcement here:
DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source
DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.
ducklabs.com
August 26, 2026 at 1:04 PM
[email protected] is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept.
This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS
Read the full announcement here:
This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS
Read the full announcement here:
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While #AdriftLab's research primarily focuses on the effects of #PlasticPollution, sometimes our projects dont go according to plan. Adapting to changing situations is an important skill in science, and so...that's precisely what we did for our newest project
August 25, 2026 at 7:52 AM
While #AdriftLab's research primarily focuses on the effects of #PlasticPollution, sometimes our projects dont go according to plan. Adapting to changing situations is an important skill in science, and so...that's precisely what we did for our newest project
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The grandly titled Fforde Library Outreach restarts on September 2nd 2026 at Bury St Edmunds library, 13:00. After that I am at Redhill Library on the 29th Sept and Weybridge Library on the 30th Sept. Come along and support your local libraries. Events page: www.jasperfforde.com/appearances....
Appearances and Book Signings
www.jasperfforde.com
August 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The grandly titled Fforde Library Outreach restarts on September 2nd 2026 at Bury St Edmunds library, 13:00. After that I am at Redhill Library on the 29th Sept and Weybridge Library on the 30th Sept. Come along and support your local libraries. Events page: www.jasperfforde.com/appearances....
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WILDLABS Awards 2025 project: Bisa Indonesia established a passive acoustic monitoring network across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, strengthening local capacity for migratory bird conservation! 🪶
📹 Watch their project story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDy...
#Bioacoustics #Tech4Wildlife
📹 Watch their project story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDy...
#Bioacoustics #Tech4Wildlife
LEAFA: Harnessing Emerging Technologies to Monitor Migratory Birds
YouTube video by WILDLABS.NET
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August 18, 2026 at 9:53 PM
WILDLABS Awards 2025 project: Bisa Indonesia established a passive acoustic monitoring network across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, strengthening local capacity for migratory bird conservation! 🪶
📹 Watch their project story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDy...
#Bioacoustics #Tech4Wildlife
📹 Watch their project story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDy...
#Bioacoustics #Tech4Wildlife
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‼️Job alert
3 year #postdoc on #OECM component of E3 sharing space for nature project @dice-kent.bsky.social
Deadline 9th August jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#conservationjobs #conservation #consocsci
3 year #postdoc on #OECM component of E3 sharing space for nature project @dice-kent.bsky.social
Deadline 9th August jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#conservationjobs #conservation #consocsci
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Research Associate in Conservation Science
On the 1 August 2026, The University of Greenwich and the University of Kent will form a pioneering new multi-university group called London and South- East (LASE) University Group. Should you join us...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
July 28, 2026 at 12:55 PM
‼️Job alert
3 year #postdoc on #OECM component of E3 sharing space for nature project @dice-kent.bsky.social
Deadline 9th August jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#conservationjobs #conservation #consocsci
3 year #postdoc on #OECM component of E3 sharing space for nature project @dice-kent.bsky.social
Deadline 9th August jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#conservationjobs #conservation #consocsci
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Does anyone have informed perspectives on this paper?
Seems important if true, important to refute if false.
"Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... "
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Seems important if true, important to refute if false.
"Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... "
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
July 26, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Does anyone have informed perspectives on this paper?
Seems important if true, important to refute if false.
"Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... "
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Seems important if true, important to refute if false.
"Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... "
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Another museum, another #echidna with legs pointing in the wrong direction.
In life, #echidnas' hindfeet point backwards: they can flex to scratch between their shoulders, and do jazzhands with all 4 feet to drill vertically into the soil to hide. But taxidermists twist them forward so the skin rips
In life, #echidnas' hindfeet point backwards: they can flex to scratch between their shoulders, and do jazzhands with all 4 feet to drill vertically into the soil to hide. But taxidermists twist them forward so the skin rips
June 17, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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@publix so do you guys pick em up or do we?? 〰️🪼♻️🤿〰️🙄 #plasticbag #oceantrash #recycle #adbusters #sponsoredjk
July 23, 2026 at 1:58 PM
@publix so do you guys pick em up or do we?? 〰️🪼♻️🤿〰️🙄 #plasticbag #oceantrash #recycle #adbusters #sponsoredjk
Americans for Crabs in Hats!! 🎩 we just need to raise $2million to put every crab in the local tidepool in a dapper Chiton hat. Donate today!
🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀
I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat
I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat
July 22, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Americans for Crabs in Hats!! 🎩 we just need to raise $2million to put every crab in the local tidepool in a dapper Chiton hat. Donate today!
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🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀
I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat
I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat
July 21, 2026 at 5:57 PM
🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀
I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat
I'll never pass up the opportunity to post this crab in his chiton hat
Nudibranchs in central California are wild!
July 15, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Nudibranchs in central California are wild!
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The nudibranch scene out my door was nuts today!
June 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
The nudibranch scene out my door was nuts today!
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The National Weather Service forecasts a tide 2 feet above the typical high tide in San Francisco on Sunday evening.
That would be the highest summer tide on record by nearly 4 inches and among the 20 highest tides since 1897.
That would be the highest summer tide on record by nearly 4 inches and among the 20 highest tides since 1897.
June 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
The National Weather Service forecasts a tide 2 feet above the typical high tide in San Francisco on Sunday evening.
That would be the highest summer tide on record by nearly 4 inches and among the 20 highest tides since 1897.
That would be the highest summer tide on record by nearly 4 inches and among the 20 highest tides since 1897.
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Remove the rats. The seabirds come back. The reef recovers. 🐦🪸
New research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that just one year after invasive rats were removed from Ulong Island in Palau, ecosystems on land and sea were already responding:
Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4g5ontO
New research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that just one year after invasive rats were removed from Ulong Island in Palau, ecosystems on land and sea were already responding:
Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4g5ontO
June 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Remove the rats. The seabirds come back. The reef recovers. 🐦🪸
New research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that just one year after invasive rats were removed from Ulong Island in Palau, ecosystems on land and sea were already responding:
Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4g5ontO
New research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that just one year after invasive rats were removed from Ulong Island in Palau, ecosystems on land and sea were already responding:
Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4g5ontO
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BioDCASE challenge - the evaluation datasets are now available! https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ Looking forward to seeing what new researchers will develop with this animal sound data. #bioacoustics #datachallenge #ai4good
BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE
Tasks We are excited to announce the 2026 BioDCASE task line up! Multi-Channel Alignment Alignment Task 1 Bioacoustic and environmental recordings are often captured using multiple devices operating simultaneously, for example with passive autonomous recorders or animal-borne loggers. When such recordings are not temporally aligned, analyses that rely on relative …
biodcase.github.io
June 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
BioDCASE challenge - the evaluation datasets are now available! https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ Looking forward to seeing what new researchers will develop with this animal sound data. #bioacoustics #datachallenge #ai4good
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To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half!
But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
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 ...
www.nature.com
June 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half!
But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
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Other nudibranch finds from last weekend:
black and white dorid, warty shag rug, red dorid, and Hopkins rose
black and white dorid, warty shag rug, red dorid, and Hopkins rose
January 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Other nudibranch finds from last weekend:
black and white dorid, warty shag rug, red dorid, and Hopkins rose
black and white dorid, warty shag rug, red dorid, and Hopkins rose
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Teuthowenia Tuesday! ROV pilots filmed this glass squid during the #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition at 739 m. Read about the animal and the DeepPIV imaging system from @kakanikatija.bsky.social & @mbarinews.bsky.social via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/ekV8I...
Teuthowenia Tuesday #designingthefuture3 #midwater #squid
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute
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June 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Teuthowenia Tuesday! ROV pilots filmed this glass squid during the #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition at 739 m. Read about the animal and the DeepPIV imaging system from @kakanikatija.bsky.social & @mbarinews.bsky.social via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/ekV8I...
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Job posting: conservationmetrics.com/careers/lead.... Please share if someone comes to mind!
Hiring: Lead Data Platform Engineer
conservationmetrics.com
June 3, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Job posting: conservationmetrics.com/careers/lead.... Please share if someone comes to mind!
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Conservation Metrics is hiring a Lead Data Platform Engineer to help shape the future of Guardian Connector!
We're looking for someone who enjoys tackling hard architectural problems, making thoughtful technical trade-offs, and building systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty at scale. 🧵
We're looking for someone who enjoys tackling hard architectural problems, making thoughtful technical trade-offs, and building systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty at scale. 🧵
June 3, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Conservation Metrics is hiring a Lead Data Platform Engineer to help shape the future of Guardian Connector!
We're looking for someone who enjoys tackling hard architectural problems, making thoughtful technical trade-offs, and building systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty at scale. 🧵
We're looking for someone who enjoys tackling hard architectural problems, making thoughtful technical trade-offs, and building systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty at scale. 🧵
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Whoa! It’s risky being a fictional geologist. Out of 202 movie geologists found in 141 movies released between 1919 and 2023, 69 die on screen or are found dead—a mortality rate of about one-third, according to an April paper published in Geology Today.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel
As geologists, our interest is piqued when geological processes—with varying degrees of accuracy—are portrayed in movies and especially when a geologist unexpectedly appears on screen, even in a mino...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Whoa! It’s risky being a fictional geologist. Out of 202 movie geologists found in 141 movies released between 1919 and 2023, 69 die on screen or are found dead—a mortality rate of about one-third, according to an April paper published in Geology Today.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...