Rebecca R Helm

In these strange and uncertain times, this is our guiding account philosophy ✨🪼✨ 🧵 Click on this thread for regularly updating ocean posts 🧵

It's leaving theaters in most locations on Thursday, so don't snooze. Get to the big screen while you still can.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Reminder... > If you are in your late teens or early twenties and/or in an undergraduate degree programme this might be one of, if not the only, time in your life you will have no other major responsibilities other than to learn these intellectual skills.

I saw it last Saturday,loved it! ❤️

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

The TeX Live Utility release notes are still undefeated.

I saw Wildwood yesterday and so agree! The story alone was plenty, but with the monumental achievement of the animation, it deserves all the eyeballs. Heartfelt, human storytelling. Don’t miss it.

Just saw Wildwood. One of the most heartbreakingly beautiful movies I’ve seen in years. The story would shine on its own, but in combination with the breathtaking hand animation it is truly a masterpiece.

I promise I am not trying to be hyperbolic and this is my genuine reaction having just got out: That is the best film of 2026, the single most technically beautiful and artistically inspiring film I've ever seen, and one of the best fantasy stories in any medium. My god, what an achievement

These are incredible!

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

If y'all didn't believe me about George Church and his Colossal crew being fraudsters with few if any limits or morals, this should push you over the edge

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...

Meet two newly named species of deep-sea siphonophores! 👋😍 New research by MBARI scientists and their collaborators reviews the diversity of deep-sea Bargmannia siphonophores and reveals two previously unknown species. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/new-res...

Interested in joining our lab (dunnlab.org) and YIBS as a postdoc? I'm looking for someone to work on siphonophores, diversity in the open ocean, or natural history. If that's you, please reach out this week to discuss a nomination for the Donnelley Postdoc Fellowship - yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

That’s a huge if that cedes a lot of ground that I will not surrender. Furthermore, give me a break. The word proceeds the thought. You can’t express an argument unless you also produce the sentences that express the argument. Even entertaining this discussion threatens higher ed.

1/2 Three reasons why AI is not conscious - and perhaps never will be. New in @nature.com with Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social and Giulio Tononi www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As a geologist, the flooded caverns and caves of the Yucatan are most spectacular. What felt surprisingly touching though were glimpses into the Mayan underworld of artifacts left behind when the caves were dry. Some close to an entrance, some surprisingly deep inside. #InternationalArchaeologyDay

The 70th meeting of the International Whaling Commission, #IWC70, has just ended in Hobart, Tasmania, & the most important news first: the moratorium on commercial whaling was upheld. Learn more about the results in this video by OceanCare's Fabienne McLellan. 📹👇 @fabiennemcl.bsky.social

At #IWC70 in Hobart, OceanCare brought the welfare of whales to the INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION. We are deeply concerned about the methods used to kill whales. There is no humane way to kill a whale at sea. But whaling is not only a conservation matter. It is an animal welfare issue. ⚠️ 🐋

Great news!

At Ohio State University, we have several open positions in Physics, Astronomy, and CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics)! Please help share the ads with promising candidates. Details in the comments below.

Calling all PA (esp. PGH!!) artists! The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology & SaS are inviting 6 artists to join us for the annual SICB meeting Jan. 3-7 in Pittsburgh! We want to bridge a connection btw scientists & artists & have some of our science illustrated. Deets: bit.ly/sicb-art

It’s hard to imagine that this stunningly beautiful larval-stage cardinalfish will metamorphose into one of the most average, common, and most overlooked fish of Bali’s reefs. In other locations, this would be a once-in-a-lifetime prize find on any blackwater dive, but here in Bali, it’s common-ish

Saw this in the DC airport today

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