Aaron Steiner

The Scripps Pier Cam is back online! This unique window to our coastal #SanDiego habitat is run by the Coastal Ocean Observing Lab at @scrippsocean.bsky.social is back up after some infrastructure upgrades and repairs after nearly three years of continuous operation. 🌊🐙 coollab.ucsd.edu/pierviz/

Some good news for once… #SaveOOI 🌊🐙 ground.news/article/trum...

What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoH...

We're getting ready. Stay tuned for Alvin's next adventure, departing on June 8!⁠ ⁠ IYDKNYK... Alvin is the nation's deepest-diving, human-occupied submersible, operated by WHOI, owned by the with significant funding from the ⁠ 📹 by Elise Hugus & Daniel Cojanu/WHOI

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

Just walked out of a conference talk to the Ghostbusters movie theme playing in the hallway. #NAB2026 #NotInKansasAnymoreToto

In 2025, E/V Nautilus and the Corps of Exploration spent six months exploring the Central, Western, and Southern Pacific, mapping unsurveyed seafloor, and bringing new views of never-before-seen seafloor to the world. youtu.be/oz0x4xQ_Ivk?...

Spotted: a dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis genus) on the abyssal plain in the waters of the #CookIslands, over 5,000 meters deep. Watch for a gorgeous look at the underside of this octopus, including the rows of suckers on its eight tentacles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0U...

- sitting at the breakfast table with my 9yo - Me to offspring: do you think Trump has read the Bobiverse books and thought FAITH was a good idea? Offspring: No, he hasn’t made it past Andy the Alpaca! Me: ::shoots milk out his nose:: @dennisetaylor.bsky.social @scalzi.com

MBARI’s R/V David Packard has completed its first science mission: mapping Oregon’s Rogue Canyon. New high-resolution maps of this underwater canyon will support ongoing research on seafloor geology by MBARI scientists and our USGS collaborators. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbaris-...

In 2021 the team aboard the NOAA R/V Okeanos Explorer came across this amazing little dumbo octopus. In the video the species was identified as Cirrothauma magna but in 2024 was reclassified under a new genus as Inopinoteuthis magna. youtu.be/2-e0YG3Bs6k?... #addOcean #deepsea

Is this an instance of @scalzi.com predicting near-future breakthroughs? Perhaps only if the AI model can decode dolphin profanity… blog.google/technology/a...

Feeling “liberated” from financial security and affordable living standards. How about you?

⚠️ What to know about the major harmful algal bloom impacting Southern California waters, courtesy of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). Learn more here: bit.ly/4iKQ8q7

Pete Hegseth or Jeff Goldberg - Who do you think will be indicted first?

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Half Dome from Glacier Point, Yosemite.

@wired.com keeps up the pressure on their DOGE investigative journalism: “The DOGE takeover is Worse than you think” www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

This is a disaster, and will be particularly bad after a weather disaster. People will die and there will be vast economic costs from this. It's not about saving taxpayers' money. It's about disassembling the government.

I’m fascinated by capturing texture, color, and detail in overlooked and unexpected places.