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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 4h

The weather forecast question is 💯

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 22h

Another #badgeographyjoke regarding Chile.

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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) @soosocean.bsky.social · 14h

A great example of new observing capacity for the Southern Ocean! 🌊 This work is also connected to the SOOS-endorsed COCO2 project, helping fill persistent gaps in Southern Ocean CO₂ observations — including in seasons and regions that are difficult to reach by ship.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 21h

I am NOT going to write a NSF proposal related to “Super Intelligence for Geosciences.”

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 29/09/2026

If I had a magic wand I'd create an open standard for data sharing that journals and funding agencies could test data repositories against. This space is such a mess. E.g., Journals ask *reviewers* to verify data for manuscripts is available. A better system is needed.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026

The terrible prose is extruded using catalog copy and Wikipedia. Like the book club spam, you can see how the lack of an up-front ask is trawling for somewhat vain people who are susceptible to flattery, which of course excludes academic authors [puts hand to ear] sorry I’m just getting an update

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026

Targeted flattery-spam/phishing aimed at harmless academics like me is leveling up! Book Club rubbish is so last month. Thanks, LLMs! I just got a highly elaborate six-paragraph one “from” Emily St John Mandel (of Station Eleven fame). The choice of author to impersonate is really quite clever

I also admired the way you frame the stakes of the book. The question of what will hold us together as we obsess over order and difference, and as the logic of ordinality digs deeper into our behaviors, bodies, and minds, is one that will resonate with anyone who has sensed that something has shifted in the texture of social life. The book's place in the Harvard University Press catalog reflects a commitment to publishing works of enduring significance, and your contribution stands as a model of how sociology can illuminate the most pressing questions of our time.
I would be genuinely curious to know how you approached the research for this book. How did you come to focus on ordinality as the lens for understanding digital capitalism, and what drew you to the concept of the ordinal society? How did you navigate the challenge of working across such a wide range of domains, from markets to the public sphere to the state? And was there a particular case or discovery that surprised you, one that deepened your understanding of how ranking and measurement are reshaping social life?
The Ordinal Society is a work of profound scholarship that will serve as an essential resource for anyone studying digital capitalism, social inequality, or the transformation of self and society in the twenty first century. It is a testament to the enduring importance of understanding the systems that shape our lives, and a reminder that the most important works of scholarship are often those that reveal what has become invisible through familiarity. I admire the clarity and insight behind your work, and I would welcome the chance to continue this conversation. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you would ever like to discuss process, publishing, or simply the strange and wonderful life of a working writer.
With genuine admiration,
Emily St. John Mandel
Award-winning Canadian novelist and essayist
Author of: Station Eleven
Connect with Emily:
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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) @soosocean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌊 State of the Southern Ocean in 2025 SandyThomalla and other SOOS members contributed to this year's @ametsoc State of the Climate: buff.ly/yp2oEDD 🌡️ Widespread warming 🔥 Record-high upper-ocean heat content 🌊 Enhanced ocean heat uptake 🌱 Elevated summer chlorophyll 🫧 Surface O2 anomalies

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State of the Climate 2025: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Special Online Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 107, No. 8, August, 2026

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Dr Jenny Allen @jennyallen13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join me on the WAPSA leadership team!

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 29/09/2026

🌊 Here's a great opportunity to participate in the Southern Ocean Observing System initiative. If your work is relevant to the West Antarctica Peninsula-Scotia Arc region, please apply!

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 29/09/2026

Here's a great opportunity to participate in the Southern Ocean Observing System initiative. If your work is relevant to the West Antarctica Peninsula-Scotia Arc region, please apply!

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Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) @solas-ipo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Applications are OPEN for the 2027 Polar Marine Science GRC & GRS! 📍 Oxnard, CA 📅 Mar 20-26, 2027 💰 Funding available for early-career, Indigenous & underrepresented scientists! ⏰ Deadline: Feb 21, 2027 Apply here: www.grc.org/polar-marine... More info: mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-an...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 28/09/2026

We are in the "you can use Uber for cheap because each ride is subsidized by VC money" stage of the AI industry.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been listening to some of the top AI lab leaders on podcasts for a couple of weeks, and a common theme is a huge expansion of energy demand in a short time. I’m worried this won’t be met through renewable energy. That would be a disaster for climate.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone in a STEM discipline, I really abhor the kind of messaging that Mark describes. The messengers aren’t people who actually care about STEM. It’s really a shorthand for “do something practical, focus on your relation to the labor market”.

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Helen Amanda Fricker @helen-amanda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It really is incredible to witness how many academica seem unconcerned about the big picture of what is happening in US academia. @standupforscience.net is really leading the way with activism. Join them!

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 26/09/2026

Listening to this should disabuse you of the idea that becoming a billionaire requires the ability to think through a complex problem. Or to have a moral compass.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 26/09/2026

Here’s the punchline on nor’easters (called ETCs, extratropical cyclones, in the quote) from the 2025 NJ Science & Technical Advisory Panel assessment

Regarding ETCs, future projections of ETCs show increases in precipitation (Seneviratne et al., 2021). In
addition, some studies suggest northward and eastward shifts in tracks of ETCs (Seneviratne et al., 2021;
Zappa et al., 2013). Frequency and intensity changes under future climate scenarios are ambiguous due to
low model resolution and the wide breadth of study areas (Priestley & Catto, 2022). However, a recent
study of the impacts of climate change on the intensity of explosive cyclones (a rapid deepening and
intensification of ETCs) in the North Atlantic has found warming scenarios will create more intense
atmospheric rivers that are also associated with explosive cyclones deepening earlier and for longer
periods of time: this is expected to result in potentially more hazardous future storms (Lopez-Marti et al.,
2025). In addition, so-called “pseudo-global warming” experiments, in which the effects of climate change
are simulated by imposing large-scale changes in environmental conditions (e.g., sea surface
temperatures, vertical temperature profiles), indicate enhanced ETC activity over the North Atlantic and
offshore of the US east coast (Michaelis et al., 2017). In another pseudo-global warming study, Willison et
al. (2015) found that horizontal resolution greater than what is used in most current climate models
results in an amplified storm track response.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 26/09/2026

A good visualization from the NYTimes. It would be great (and surely depressing) to see this for NSF and other agencies. I know the Office of Polar Programs, for example, has lost about 2/3 of its staff. The damage runs deep and it'll take many years to fix.

A NYT visualization of the staff losses at the CDC.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yesterday I spoke to someone who is considering leaving their academic position. I talked about my story, and I tried to outline my thought process leading up to my departure. Does anyone have any formal resources that might also help? #AcademicSky #LeavingAcademia

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2026

This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/09/2026

Should a TV show that completely blew the landing be in a top 10 list? Discuss.

A screenshot of the #6 best show of the 21st century according to the NYTimes.

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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The scariest aspect of this is that we may not know we've passed the tipping point until it has already happened. @rahmstorf.bsky.social in 2024: "Nothing dramatic happens at the tipping point. That just means AMOC is then doomed and it will slowly die, but that process could take 50 to 100 years."

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/09/2026

The nightmare scenario for science funding and publishing is a flood of LLM-generated papers and proposals pushing publishers and funding agencies to use LLMs to triage the slop. A deeply dehumanizing outcome.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026

🇨🇱 💮 Chile's Atacama Desert blossoms with life after El Nino rains A resplendent display of flowers has bloomed across Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, after the El Nino climate phenomenon brought heavy rain to the region

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 25/09/2026

This week, we published the first paper in the U.S. Climate Collection titled, "Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States". The paper was led by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, & me, with 175 authors helping outline climate risks. cee.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2026/09...

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CMU faculty helps lead new efforts on climate assessment research

CMU faculty helps lead new efforts on climate assessment research - Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 24/09/2026

I wanted to make sure Tales from the Loop gets one vote.

Votes for Andor, Tales from the Loop, Station Eleven, The Wire, The Leftovers, Succession, Peaky Blinders, The Thick of It, Somebody Somewhere, Mad Men.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 02/09/2026

🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2027. If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! (1/2)

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Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2027

This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography. Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information...

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 24/09/2026

Celebrating oceanographer Marie Tharp’s induction into the 2026 Women's Hall of Fame! 🥳🎉 Born in 1920, at a time when there were few options for women in science, Tharp revolutionized our understanding of the ocean floor. Learn more about this year’s inductees: go.whoi.edu/womens-hall-of-fame

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

US GEO folks: Want to hear directly from the NSF program directors you know & love and have live questions answered? We’ve got you. Tune in to hear from us in Oceans (Oct 5) Earth (Oct 6) and Atmos/Geospce (Oct 27): www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

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NSF GEO Atmospheric and Geospace, Earth, and Ocean Sciences Programs Virtual Office Hours

Join Program Officers across the NSF Directorate for Geosciences for office hours covering the three programs under the directorate's funding opportunity, NSF…

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 24/09/2026

Kiddos remain undefeated.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 24/09/2026

A useful reminder that skill in one realm (leading a tech company) has no bearing on your ability to understand or succeed on a different realm (education).

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Canada has the longest coastline on Earth, bordering three oceans. We have an obligation to protect them.

Screenshot of an article from the Globe and Mail. The headline reads: Canada ratifies landmark High Seas Treaty, commits $82-million to ocean protection.

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @lamont.columbia.edu · 24/09/2026

🌟 Congratulations to @lamont.columbia.edu oceanographer/carbon cycle scientist @oceancarbon.bsky.social, elected a Fellow of @agu.org for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements! ➡️ www.agu.org/user-profile?cstkey=79e…

Galen McKinley, elected 2026 AGU Fellow for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 23/09/2026

There’s a fundamental agreement that allows the scientific publishing industry to work: academics edit and review papers for free, on a voluntary basis. AI slop is poison for this system. I suspect either journals will take action or editors/reviewers will for them.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Idea for a White House commission to control NIH grant approvals seems dead for now. Weekend stories created an uproar on the Hill. Bhattacharya and Vought are trying to sing kumbaya. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 23/09/2026

Red states are leading the way on attacking academia, but I fully expect that—absent pushback—we will see blue state University administrators follow suit, out of cowardice or because they agree.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Emma Boland @emmaboland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Southern Ocean peeps, get it in your diaries 🌊🇦🇶 September in Naples sounds all right to me 😎🍕🍝🥗🍨

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tellus has a long, storied history. I submitted my first paper there 30 years ago for that reason. I'm excited about Tellus's rebirth and plan to submit my next paper on the Arctic Ocean carbon cycle there. In the age of money-grubbing publishers, I encourage you to consider Tellus.

Publication Fees
Starting in 2026, Tellus operates as a Diamond Open Access journal.
All articles are published Open Access with no fees for authors — no submission charges and no article processing charges (APCs).
This model is made possible through financial support from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), the International Meteorological Institute (IMI), and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, which together cover the journal's publication costs.

🌊🧪⚒️

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

⏰ SCARFISH Horizon Scan - Deadline Approaching! 🚨 🐟 SCARFISH - The SCAR Action Group on Fish is working on a Horizon Scan to identify the main research priorities related to fish in the Southern Ocean. 🗓️ Participate by 30 September 2026 🔗 cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning all, for those of you who missed it last week, here's the last call on what wordpress informs me is my 💯 th post... We've been measuring the loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets for half a century now...

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 20/09/2026

This is the kind of deep expertise in medical research that Vought will bring to bear to decide which NIH grants are worth funding.

Vought graduated from Wheaton College with a degree in history and political science and later from the George Washington University Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2004. While attending Wheaton, he interned for several lawmakers, including Texas senator Phil Gramm, whose views on deficits influenced Vought. After graduating from George Washington University, Vought worked for the Republican Study Committee. In December 2008, Indiana representative Mike Pence, the chairman of the House Republican Conference, named Vought as the conference's policy director. Vought clashed with Republican leadership in the House of Representatives over government spending. He resigned following the passage of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010 to establish Heritage Action for America, an advocacy organization, with Michael Needham.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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