Brian Schlining

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

Are you in Monterey, CA for the #OCEANS2026? Join our town hall tomorrow to talk about ocean imagery. 📆Wednesday, September 23 at 1:30pm 📍Center Steinbeck III 🎤Moderated by @kakanikatija.bsky.social of @mbarinews.bsky.social Bring your frustrations, wish lists, and ideas. Let’s build this together!

Just poking around with some climate data ...

MBARI researchers film a rare deep-sea squid (Magnapinna sp.) at 3,277 meters underwater. youtu.be/cEw74DoCv6Q

RIP Tim Curry. '

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The White House has received more than 340,000 comments on rules many researchers fear would politicize science. https://scim.ag/4fiHIWi

I'm a purist. Mustard and sauerkraut is perfection.

Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

The Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) is looking for a program director for their outdoor education program at Toyon Bay. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

For my Pacific Grove, CA friends and those that were fans of the old la Crema. They've reopened at a new location at Lovers Point. Menu Peek as Crema Lovers Point Opens April 1 - Edible Monterey Bay share.google/UwTqJvgLPav1...

Came across this ... The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages. blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompi...

The Tassajara zendo burned down completely last night. Very sad news. www.facebook.com/100064865405... www.sfzc.org/locations/ta...

Eliot Jacobson: Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024. This graph shows how fast SSTs are rising compared to pre-2023 temperatures.

The 2026 Marine Imaging Workshop from May 19-21 in Gibraltar is now open for registration: miw2026.org/registration...

A little timeline cleanse: "Rare footage captures a ‘charismatic’ baby animal swimming in Monterey Bay" www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

This post kicked off a really illuminating and helpful conversation in how we talk about and use #AI4good for 🌊🦑. Bottom line: We must do better because we can’t afford not to. Stay tuned for an AMA where we will do a deep dive (pun def intended) on our #DeployableAI and #FathomNet projects!!

Take a quick 5‑minute survey that directly impacts Scala’s roadmap, libraries, and tooling. This short survey evaluates Scala adoption and usage among developers. Scala Survey 2026 is brought to you by VirtusLab and Scala Center. virtuslab.typeform.com/ScalaSurvey...

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

#FathomNet has a new Kaggle competition. We’re tackling one of the biggest challenges in computer vision for marine imagery: incomplete labels. I can't fit a full description on bluesky, so head over to www.kaggle.com/competitions... for all the details.

Wow.

Hey ChatGPT, create a a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

The US is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation go.nature.com/4pQDJ6R

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info | Discussion

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

An early morning photo of the R/V David Packard

Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Abstract submissions for the 2026 Marine Imaging Workshop in Gibraltar is now open; the deadline for submission is January 30th, 2026. miw2026.org This international Workshops assembles scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of marine imaging.

I just got back from Victoria, BC. A city I visit often. I'm always impressed by how many people commute by bike there. And it's not an accident, the city has invested in an amazing biking infrastructure that other North American cities could learn from: youtu.be/FKMDMekErQ0

MBARI and FathomNet collaborated with Meta on their new Segment Anything Model (SAM 3). Meta produced 294K segmentation masks for FathomNet data. More details at www.fathomnet.org/news/open-da... #machinelearning #FathomNet #MBARI

Meet the engineering team behind one of MBARI’s new underwater imaging systems 🤖🔧 Our scientists and engineers work side by side to develop cutting-edge tools that track ocean health in real time and help us visualize the ocean like never before. Learn more: youtu.be/Kqo4MhthIkQ?...

The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.

A flash back to an earlier, better time ... youtu.be/6A8TiUpKDVg?...

Fantastic biography from Dr. Bruce Robison, a midwater researcher and one of the founding scientists of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

The 6th Marine Imaging Workshop will take place in Gibraltar from 19-21 May 2026. Topics include: - Imagery collection and processing - Still and video annotation - Machine learning approaches - Image and video data management - Applications in marine research and conservation …and much more.

MBARI has released a benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video. - Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03499 - Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/MBA... - Workflow: docs.mbari.org/benchmark_ev... #machinelearning #deepsea

I just rolled out major updates to both the front-end and back-end of database.fathomnet.org. 😱 Most users may not notice much but it sets the stage for much faster development cycles in the future. #quarkus #vue3

Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack | Discussion

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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq