Mari Williams

mother, fisheries biologist, artist, salmon-centric, platelet donator. she/her/they/them

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

@data_nerd 💔💔💔

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

😳What the f*ck😳

Sometimes I can't help myself and swear.

Two months ago, I thought I'd do something ridiculous and plot the Super El Niño trend of 2015 forward for Sea Surface Temperatures, see dashed lines in red (2023) and green (2024).

I turns out that we are largely running above that..

🌊🌡️📈

The effect of El Niño on the tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures is clearly visible.
Also see the North Pacific and Atlantic:

The anomaly is running off the chart again.

All this extreme ocean surface heat is about to turn into a year of shocking extreme atmospheric temperatures and (even) more extreme weather.

We might be getting a first taste of the Termination Shock from terminating part of our cooling sulphur pollution, while still increasing greenhouse gases.

[NWS Portland @NWSPortland]

As of noon Sunday, many locations in NW OR & SW WA are already in the 90s. Several inland cities will top out around 100 degrees. The heat continues through the middle of the week, with Monday likely being the hottest day. https://t.co/3SFImIxo7o #orwx #wawx #pdxtst

[Lydia Jennings, Ph.D. @1NativeSoilNerd]

Hot off the press! Our paper on applying the CARE Principles to Ecology & Biodiversity data in @NatureEcoEvo 🥳

https://t.co/1F2P2VQAZR

[Leonardo @Leonardonclt]

🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨

Over months of reporting, @dinabass and I looked at thousands of images from @StableDiffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world.
🧵 1/13

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

@NWSPortland Woods Creek achieved (some) floodplain connectivity!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Legendary musician, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte has died at 96 years old. He was one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidants and helped organize the March on Washington in 1963.

Watch our interviews with Belafonte: https://t.co/06gknbtfjg

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

Outstanding! Tim contributes to fish research and work on many fronts! @idfg @idahoafs @WesternDivAFS

[Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences @cjfas]

Thank you, Timothy Copeland, Outstanding Reviewer for 2022! @idfg

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

Oh WOW!
Agreement in place to return Lolita the orca to the Pacific https://t.co/8zOjIuNORo

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. @Walgreens has delivered a major victory to the anti-aboriton movement, refusing to dispense abortion pills in 10 states WHERE ABORTION IS LEGAL.

This is part of pattern of support for anti-abortion officials by @Walgreens, including significant financial contributions

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

@realgirl_fieri Increased omegas in their food. I added flax meal and eventually salmon as internal building blocks while limiting external exposure to heavily scented products for laundry, bathing, and creams.

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

@sw7007ws @realgirl_fieri @ProfChrisMJones Seconded, this made such a difference in my experience of eczema and then translated clearly into baby care - with some hand me downs needing multiple washes to remove perfumed product residue. Lots of free clear options now.

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

@KellyBrenner Favorite!!!

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Anti-trans bills have moved through legislatures faster than previous years, so I have upped the risk on many states.

I created this map to help answer the question of trans people asking if they were safe/where to go.

Subscribe to support my work.

https://t.co/hicweLPpyj

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

Gov entertainment 😆

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

The Portland District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its 2023 calendar which features giant cats photoshopped into landscape portraits of the Corps' best achievements.

https://t.co/3YInZ7KaeW

[Tech Burrito @TechBurritoUno]

Boy vs. fish race

[Mari Williams @ComfortablyMari]

@marcmaxmeister Nope

[Beth Zaiken @BZaiken]

Amazing new research in the international journal Nature—using environmental DNA, the team was able to gain incredible details of a 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland—and with my illustration on the cover!! ❤️🦣