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Alexis Kaminski

@alexisonfluids.bsky.social
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fluid dynamicist interested in waves/instabilities/turbulence in stratified flows

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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what a week to be teaching Kelvin waves in my GFD class
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ending the week with a super proud advisor moment: my first PhD student submitted his dissertation this morning!
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
KH stays winning!
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
local stratified fluid
A picture taken from the East Bay looking towards San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. A greyish cloud envelopes the city near the ground, and is sharply separated from mostly-clear blue sky above.
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Is there any writing task worse than a self-evaluation?
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
another day, another zoolander reference unnoticed by the younger generation
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Celebrating students AND wearing wizard robes, commencement rules 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yodenhs Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe 2019
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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 01/05/2026
Algal 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...
Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 21 April 2026, this image shows a double bloom in the Netherlands: an array of vibrant colours in the tulip fields as well as the blue-greenish swirls of phytoplankton in the North Sea.
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This 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?
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/04/2026
Dreamed last night that there was a “Canadian Easter” that was in early March but the whole thing was goose based instead of bunny
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I miss it so much 😭
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
yes
cbc.ca
OPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC Arts
In 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
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Everybody 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
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
a lot of people are aware that you can factor 2025 = 45² i'm honored to announce the factorization 2026 = (45-i)(45+i)
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
shout-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
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michael @radplanets.com · 23/12/2025
gonna start calling index 0 the array-de-chaussée
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Life 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!
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Anna 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.
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
beginning to suspect spotify is just making up genres
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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
every day I get emails
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
ah yes, the evening nap, the most dangerous of naps
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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
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Adrian Fraser @fraserlaser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hey 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.org
Nonmodal growth and optimal perturbations in magnetohydrodynamic shear flows
In 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...
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
shenanigans
An array of regular water bottles labelled "fresh", small water bottles labelled "salt", clear plastic cups, salt, food colouring, coloured ice cubes, and a clear plastic container.
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
that time of year again
media.tenor.com
a 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.
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laura @ mica art market @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
kelp forests are one of my favorite habitats!! i have been watching a million documentaries about them so naturally, i had to draw one.
a colorful kelp forest illustration of harbor seals, sea otters, garibaldi fish, california sheephead fish, senorita fish, urchins, sea stars, and an octopus hiding in the background. hiding is a generous term.
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William Boos @billboos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
In 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
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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Okay ladies, now let's get in formation
A photo of a regatta with many boats and ships sailing together
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Realized today that I have been using matlab for literally half my life, now I need to go sit and think about my choices
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Thank 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
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Go 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!
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Big brain right here. What are greek letters if not the OG emojis?
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
who are all you people trying to access the JPO author information?!?
A webpage with text "You are now in line. Thank you for your patience. Your estimated wait time is 2 minutes. We are experiencing a high volume of traffic and using a virtual queue to limit the amount of users on the website at the same time. This will ensure you have the best possible online experience."
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Writing 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
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Adele Morrison @adele-morrison.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Congratulations 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.
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Jacob Wenegrat @roguewave.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Tis' the season for making paper oceanography globes! 🌊 via Barry Klinger mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/Se...
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Off 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 🌊🌀
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
submitted the first student-led paper from my group today and it is easily one of the coolest moments I've had in my job
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
apparently I wave my arms around a lot when I give talks
A screenshot of a fitbit activity page, showing an 18-minute auto-detected swim totally 275m.
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
ooooh just ran a truly garbage-y simulation, it's been a while!
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
the good stuff
A view of sunset clouds from Berkeley looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge. A set of small Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are visible.
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
last semester's student evals are in, time to see which of these comments will burrow their way into my brain forever!
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Chris Howland @chowlandgfd.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Back to work as a colourful fluid dynamicist. Hello 2024!
A vortex lies hidden in the darkness behind light patches of red and blue
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
stuff 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 🙁
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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
whew last lecture of the semester done!
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