Kate Furby, PhD
@seakaterun
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Writer, Producer @TinyBeaker Media // #NatGeoExplorer // 2018 @AAASMassMedia Fellow // Science, storytelling and coral reef love
Joined March 2013
Seeking scientist volunteers! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? I need collaborators for this spring's cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Please share widely. #STEMeducation #Science #sciart
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Today at #COP28: Head to the #OceanPavilion to dive into the world of Wavelengths that explores the latest science happening at Scripps Oceanography to better understand & protect our planet. 📍Immersion Theater 🕐 2:30 - 3PM https://t.co/Echm0ADhoU
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Half of Earth's oxygen is thanks to #phytoplankton, tiny marine plants at the focus of Scripps biological oceanography PhD candidate Allison Cusick’s (@woman_scientist) research. Journey to #Antarctica to discover the world of polar plankton. #Wavelengths
https://t.co/7uT8XQzPoa
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Are you ready to try something new and work in #scicomm? Applications for MMF 2024 are now open! Join an almost 1,000-member alumni network and spend your summer using your STEM background to be a journalist writing science news across the country! https://t.co/ijYmT0myIX
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Amidst the challenges facing our coral reefs, hope still exists. Corals have persisted for more than 500 million years and continue to do so. A thriving Diploria labyrinthiformis found amongst a reef of stressed corals from the recent bleaching event.
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I had no idea how critical it is to understand where and how dust is moving, affecting the climate and people's health. Don't miss it!
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New #Wavelengths episode out now! Chasing tiny particles of dust in the name of science. #ClimateChange #SaltonSea @AmatoEvan_
Tiny dust particles have major impacts on the environment & our health. In this episode of Wavelengths, we're journeying to the Salton Sea where Scripps Oceanography climate scientist Amato Evan researches dust storms and how dust impacts our climate. https://t.co/xKuEaAJl2C
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How is it that you still have to do dishes even when everything is on fire? You'd think when things get bad enough that your kitchen items would come to life and wash themselves
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🌊 🔬 Meet @Scripps_Ocean PhD and GPS Fellow @taylorsherisse! She's chatting with alum @seakaterun about how #ocean physics affects our #climate & weather — from rain to monsoons. #Wavelengths Watch now:
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#Wavelengths returns with Scripps PhD student Taylor McKie (@taylorsherisse)! She discusses her research on how the physics happening below the ocean’s surface informs climate & weather patterns such as rain, drought, & more with alumna @TinyBeaker.⬇️ https://t.co/EKLOr8drAb
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🐟 Did you know that bluefin tuna are warm-bodied? 🐟 They have a rete mirabile system, which works like a heat pump, and allows them to travel long distances at breakneck speeds. https://t.co/tYsPLJLvzk
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Oceans are warming and corals are dying. But I came away from my first ocean reporting trip awed by the extraordinary human efforts to save these fragile marine creatures. Please read. It's a hopeful story about humans & climate change. https://t.co/rdLNDDExco
latimes.com
As climate change heats ocean water around coral reefs, scientists in Florida race to haul coral to safety in gene-bank tanks before they go extinct.
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In an interview today a coral scientist was showing me his lab and said "and here we have a bunch of tiny beakers.. " and then he gave me this little grin :D and I almost guffawed into the mic
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#Corals aren't the only ones melting in the Florida heat. More on that as soon as I stop sweating... 🥵
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And I want to double down on my journalistic values: not only describing what is happening but helping people actually make sense of it; bearing witness to suffering; speaking truth to power; revealing wonder in the obscure; and pushing for a more just and equitable world. 6/
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I am on sabbatical from Short Wave until 2024 to develop an AAPI history show w/ @LAist ✨✨ We are looking for people trying to understand their family dynamics and history’s echo in the diaspora. Know someone? Share this! 🎤 #AAJA23 @AAJA @aajavoices
laist.typeform.com
Many AAPI families are reluctant to talk about how historical events have affected them – but when we don’t talk about the past, stories get lost. Our new podcast aims to bring those stories out into...
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Thanks to @AnnMCheney7 and #EmmaAronson for their research and work on this issue @UCRiverside, my latest for #ScienceQuickly
🎧 The Salton Sea was once a California tourist attraction. Now, toxic dust plagues the marginalized communities on its shores. 🔗 Listen to this episode of Science, Quickly, on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/6T5YuV4wb3
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