Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026what a week to be teaching Kelvin waves in my GFD class 030
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ending the week with a super proud advisor moment: my first PhD student submitted his dissertation this morning! 2120
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Is there any writing task worse than a self-evaluation? 010
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 18/06/2026another day, another zoolander reference unnoticed by the younger generation 010
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Celebrating students AND wearing wizard robes, commencement rules 👨🎓👩🎓 030
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Yodenhs Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe 2019 015445
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 01/05/2026Algal blooms and tulips? Say no more—we’re in🌷🌊 Captured by Copernicus Sentinel‑2 on 21 April 2026, this striking image over the Netherlands reveals a 'double bloom': the vivid patchwork of spring tulip fields alongside swirling blue‑green phytoplankton in the North Sea. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 111934
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This is a long shot, but does anyone have access to "Influence of stratification on vertical turbulent mixing in the sea" by Mamayev, 1958 and/or "On a relation between heat flux and temperature gradient in the sea" by Felsenbaum and Boguslavsky, 1977? 000
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/04/2026Dreamed last night that there was a “Canadian Easter” that was in early March but the whole thing was goose based instead of bunny 1944453
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiAnna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026yescbc.caOPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC ArtsIn the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows. Writer Niko Stratis argues that we need to back to that 25411120
Reposted by Alexis Kaminskikonnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds 77120604626
Reposted by Alexis Kaminskibenjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025a lot of people are aware that you can factor 2025 = 45² i'm honored to announce the factorization 2026 = (45-i)(45+i) 813425
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 24/12/2025shout-out to the student who wrote down a fun fluids fact he learned along with some sick sketches of airplanes on a blank page of his final 050
Reposted by Alexis Kaminskimichael @radplanets.com · 23/12/2025gonna start calling index 0 the array-de-chaussée 131
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Life isn’t simple like math where every problem has an answer; it’s more like math, where problems have many answers or no possible answer at all! 1275
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiAnna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025☃️In the meadow we can build a snowman Then pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say: Are you married? we'll say ...𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧. É𝐨𝐰𝐲𝐧 𝐈 𝐚𝐦, É𝐨𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬! 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 27013
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 04/12/2025beginning to suspect spotify is just making up genres 110
Reposted by Alexis Kaminskisanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025every day I get emails 8477
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 18/11/2025ah yes, the evening nap, the most dangerous of naps 030
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 15/10/2025"Oh it will be good to do a bunch of the midterm grading myself, that way I'll get a better sense of how my students are doing", said some fool* who hates free time *me last Friday 150
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiAdrian Fraser @fraserlaser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Hey astrophysicists, a presence (absence) of KH billows in some astrophysical shear flow doesn't always imply a lower (upper) bound on the local magnetic field strength! See arxiv.org/abs/2510.031...arxiv.orgNonmodal growth and optimal perturbations in magnetohydrodynamic shear flowsIn astrophysical shear flows, the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is generally suppressed by magnetic tension provided a sufficiently strong streamwise magnetic field. This is often used to infer up... 152
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year! 069
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 27/08/2025that time of year againmedia.tenor.coma cartoon character without a face is floating in the water .Alt: a cartoon character without a face is floating in the water, while waves labelled "emails" overwhelm them. 030
Reposted by Alexis Kaminskilaura @ mica art market @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 20/08/2025kelp forests are one of my favorite habitats!! i have been watching a million documentaries about them so naturally, i had to draw one. 251726768
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiWilliam Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025In the midst of all the turmoil in science, some great opportunities at Berkeley now: 1) Miller Institute postdocs & visiting professorships, 2) faculty position in any Earth & Planetary Science field in my department, 3) faculty position in physical climate science in Env Sci Policy & Mgmt 1/4 132
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiSarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Okay ladies, now let's get in formation 1156
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Realized today that I have been using matlab for literally half my life, now I need to go sit and think about my choices 270
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Thank god we are early in the summer and August isn’t coming soon. Now let me just take a big sip of coffee before I check the calendar 48810
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Go check out this new paper led by @lewinsam.bsky.social in his foray into the world of observational data! It has been a lot of fun getting to dig into some of the ISDE observations and to build up collaborations with some awesome scientists (both on this paper and more generally). Enjoy! 010
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiLily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Big brain right here. What are greek letters if not the OG emojis? 011
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 26/02/2025who are all you people trying to access the JPO author information?!? 150
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Writing up my solutions nicely 2 hours Reading student problems and assigning points 6 hours Taking "a break from grading" every four problems 37 hours Uploading marks and solutions and final grades 1 hour someone who is good at time management please help me budget this. my weekend is dying 1131
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiAdele Morrison @adele-morrison.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Congratulations to @edoddridge.bsky.social on the @amosupdates.bsky.social Meyers Medal! So well deserved, with outstanding science, extensive outreach/media and invaluable enthusiastic contributions to improving the oceanography community in Australia. 3212
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiJacob Wenegrat @roguewave.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Tis' the season for making paper oceanography globes! 🌊 via Barry Klinger mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/Se... 0324
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Off to DFD I go! Come see our group present fun work on stratified shear instabilities, plumes, internal waves, and nearshore mixing – we've got talks and e-posters on Sunday morning and Tuesday morning 🌊🌀 0170
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 22/11/2024submitted the first student-led paper from my group today and it is easily one of the coolest moments I've had in my job 1150
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 24/05/2024apparently I wave my arms around a lot when I give talks 1120
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 06/02/2024ooooh just ran a truly garbage-y simulation, it's been a while! 030
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 05/01/2024last semester's student evals are in, time to see which of these comments will burrow their way into my brain forever! 140
Reposted by Alexis KaminskiChris Howland @chowlandgfd.bsky.social · 02/01/2024Back to work as a colourful fluid dynamicist. Hello 2024! 042
Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 14/12/2023stuff keeps getting added to my to-do list for the winter break and I don't know how I'm actually supposed to be able to take time off ever 🙁 150