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Kris Karnauskas @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tenure-track faculty job alert at CU Boulder! Hire is through @cires.colorado.edu and departmental affiliation will be decided in consultation with the new hire. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Natassa Romanou @aromanou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello Physical Oceanographers! Columbia University in New York City is seeking candidates for tenure track Assistant Professor level position, with special interest for combined PhysO and AI expertise. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/194070

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have an opening for a two-year postdoc at UC Irvine on modeling of Antarctic ice-ocean interactions in new configurations of CESM3 with dynamic ice sheets! Please share here and with anyone in your networks who may be interested! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10422

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Postdoctoral Scholar - Synchronous Ice Sheet-Earth System Modeling

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Lyssa Freese @lfreese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am hiring a postdoc to join my group at UC Irvine's Department of Earth System Science to work on rapid response modeling of air quality and health impacts of energy policy! You can learn more about the position and apply here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10361

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Postdoctoral Scholar - Climate, Pollution, and Solutions

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 09/07/2026

This perspective piece highlights the underappreciated role of small-scale #ocean #turbulence on sub-annual #climate timescales, with important consequences for the transport and distribution of climate-relevant tracers, including #heat, #carbon, and #nutrients. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Climatic reach of small-scale turbulence in the ocean interior - Nature Communications

While the long-term, global influence of small-scale ocean turbulence on climate is well recognized, this perspective highlights its underappreciated role on sub-annual timescales. These shorter-term ...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/06/2026

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. scim.ag/4vs08dC

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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This semester I assigned my graduate class to attend seminars and write reflections on them. I got to learn a lot about interesting topics and what my students find interesting, seminar engagement increased, and I hope the students enjoyed it too. Highly recommend this assignment!

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Learn climate physics in Paris! Apply to the ACDC Summer School on Warm Climates of the Cenozoic. I'm giving the opening lectures on the key role of CO2. www.uib.no/en/rs/acdc/1...

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ACDC 2026 Institute Pascal

The summer school will take place at Institute Pascal, Universite Paris-Saclay, from Monday the 31st of August to Wednesday the 16th of September 2026. The topic is "Past Warm Greenhouse Climates of t...

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Kim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Work with me! Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University invites applications for a Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ocean Sciences. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, + 2nd year possible. Please see apply.interfolio.com/183855!

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Jacob Wenegrat @roguewave.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🌊 3 year postdoc position in our group here at UMD Studying interactions of internal waves and deep boundary currents, cross-scale energy fluxes, and Lagrangian observations of topographic wakes. Full info: wenegrat.github.io/misc/Submeso... Thanks for looking!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 24/01/2026

A new model sheds light on why Jupiter has multiple polar vortices, whereas Saturn has only one. The pattern depends on the sequence in which system energy encounters three physical variables, as energy cascades from small to planetary scales. In PNAS: ow.ly/RHFZ50Y1Mli

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Applications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 www.santafe.edu/gwcss

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 19/12/2025

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: bit.ly/4q6eChn

Photo of a lightning strike. "Scott's Bluff" by Isaac Schluesche was a finalist in the AMS 2024 Photo Contest

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Albion Lawrence @albion.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I also have funds for a PhD student in physical oceanography; this would be in the Physics Department. Further information about the PhD program and a link to apply is here: www.brandeis.edu/gsas/program...

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Graduate Programs in Physics

The graduate programs in Physics, in Brandeis University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, offer generous scholarships for master's and PhD students.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

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Kim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders. This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭

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‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order

NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive

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Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Very excited to see our figure on the JFM cover!! large-eddy simulation run with @julialang.org software Oceananigans.jl; github.com/CliMA/Oceana... paper doi.org/10.1017/jfm.... cc @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @julialang.org

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Phenomenology of decaying turbulence beneath surface waves | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core

Phenomenology of decaying turbulence beneath surface waves - Volume 1020

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/09/2025

In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.

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How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived | Quanta Magazine

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now…

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Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819

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Santiago J Benavides, PhD @s-j-benavides.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

In a parallel universe, I think I would have been an ant entomologist! They never cease to amaze me!

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Dr. James Beattie @astromagnetism.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

@natastron.nature.com’s cover looks amazing this month! Read more about our study on interstellar turbulence here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Doug Jerolmack @dougjerolmack.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9! Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Advertising this PhD student position once more (deadline 30 August) workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi... We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

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NIOZ - PhD-position "Overturning the ocean''

The department of Ocean Systems (OCS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to work on the exchange of lighter and denser

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Jake Buzhardt @jbuzhar.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Excited to share a new preprint with Michael Graham on identifying efficient routes to laminarization in turbulent flows. In this work, consider the question: What is the closest point to a turbulent attractor that laminarizes without a chaotic transient? (1/3) Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519

Figure depicting the minimal seeds and laminarizing trajectories for a few points in the turbulent region of state space.

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Tim Woollings @timwoollings.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...) Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35 Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2 Please help spread the word!

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Andrew Williams @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📢📢 New preprint alert! 📢📢 Radiation is a key piece of climate models, but comes with a trade-off: use an accurate scheme (which is difficult to understand), or a simple scheme (which is not very accurate)... Here I introduce a scheme which bridges this gap! arxiv.org/abs/2508.09353

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Kath Landgren @kathlandgren.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Are you a student in mathematics or an adjacent field? Help us understand how funding access and eligibility have affected your career. Take a short survey here tinyurl.com/MathFundingA...

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Funding Access and Career Planning

This study investigates career planning and pathways for students in the mathematical sciences, as related to visa and citizenship status and funding access.

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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is one of the best things I've listened to in a long time. Heroic team effort by Elizabeth Mynatt and @seanmcarroll.bsky.social to explain (with lots of examples) what the US is in the process of losing by gutting research. youtu.be/tm_EtHbqtQY?...

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Mindscape 324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript:…

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Anjali Sharma @anjalisharma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I will be attending the 2nd European Fluid Dynamics Conference in Dublin from August 26 to August 29, 2025. Feel free to reach out if you will be attending as well. #Fluids #Softmatter #Physics

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NPR @npr.org · 24/07/2025

Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis. Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you. Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq

Public media is under threat. Millions depend on the NPR Network every day. Silencing journalism is one way to silence truth and erode the power of the people.

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Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Keen to work on ice sheet 🧊🏔️ model development 👩🏾‍💻🌏 with @fsmccormack.bsky.social and @access-nri.bsky.social? Seize the opportunity!👇🏼 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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Luke Zoet @lzoet.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.

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Santiago J Benavides, PhD @s-j-benavides.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Had a great time and learned a lot! Thank you, Massimo and Alessandra for organizing!

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Luca Biferale @lucabiferale.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

1st day of the Workshop on Complex Flows and Complex Fluids #CNR within #SmartTurb @erc.europa.eu 100+ senior and young scientists working on #turbulence #activematter #biofluids #microfluidcs with equation based and #AI tools. A lot of fun. see biferale.web.roma2.infn.it/ComplexFlows...

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Andrea Jenney @ajenney.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I'm hiring a postdoc in tropical cloud-climate dynamics! Learn more here drive.google.com/file/d/17Qv-...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts). Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I acted as a senior advisor for MPOWIR. I learned so much about being a better advisor, to women and to physical oceanographers of any gender.

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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪 www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...

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Celebrating 20 Years of MPOWIR—A Community Driven Effort | Published by ADVANCE Journal

This blog post is part of ADVANCE Journal's blog series on the impacts of NSF Grants and their terminations.

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miriam nielsen @zentouro.info · 28/05/2025

oh boy, this is really happening. 100+ hours, 200+ climate and weather scientists. starts tomorrow: wclivestream.com/watch

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Weather and climate science needs your help

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Join us tomorrow, starting at 10am PT tomorrow, Wednesday May 28th, for 💯 hours of non-stop weather and climate science! I'll be hosting for a stacked line-up of keynote speakers live from 4pm-8pm PT! Check out the keynote schedule here: wclivestream.com

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The Weather & Climate Livestream

Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

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William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We present Panda: a foundation model for nonlinear dynamics pretrained on 20,000 chaotic ODE discovered via evolutionary search. Panda zero-shot forecasts unseen ODE best-in-class, and can forecast PDE despite having never seen them during training (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.13755

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Santiago J Benavides, PhD @s-j-benavides.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I’m excited to share a project that I’ve been working on since 2017! It started as a fun discussion with Eric Deal at AGU, but has turned into something more insightful than we had originally imagined. A lattice model of bed load sediment transport: doi.org/pnn5 (1/5)

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