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Lily Dove

@solilyquy.bsky.social
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Oceanographer and climate scientist 🌊 | Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech 🐝 | MIT/Caltech alumna 🦫 | Penguin enthusiast 🐧

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 16h
🌊 Terribly sorry to hear about the passing of Laurie Padman. I first met him while working as a graduate student in the Southern Ocean GLOBEC program more than 20 years ago. Laurie's contributions to Antarctic science were extensive. I always find reading his work illuminating. Rest in peace.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awesome work Shailja and team!! 🌊
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tapio Schneider is one of the scientists I look to most to distinguish AI-useful from AI-hype in climate science world. His thoughtful post on the Navier-Stokes blowup is a great example - AI is useful when experimental verification and data density can substitute for physical understanding... 1/2
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Headlines and inside stories: understanding and trust in AI for mathematics, science, and engineering - CliMA
[This post was prompted by the recent discussions about the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem and is cross-posted from Terry Tao’s blog. It lays out the reasoning behind how we use AI at CliMA.] ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feeling proud (and also short?) in the company of these two awesome undergrad researchers who are presenting at Georgia Tech Space Week! 🛰️ Jerry and Kaelyn are both using NASA satellite data to investigate how ocean dynamics shape distributions of ocean biology.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate! 🐻 Polls are open now for the first matchups. explore.org/fat-bear-week
July and September picture of Bear 910, a brown bear in Katmai National Park.
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Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NSF has funded over 80% of the world's BGC-Argo floats via GO-BGC, which ends in October 2026, so the global array will start shrinking. NSF is asking US researchers to weigh in on future ocean observing priorities: www.go-bgc.org/nsf/nsf-requ...
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good shout, thanks for sharing
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Walked through the OpenAI Navier Stokes breakthrough in my graduate-level Ocean Dynamics class today and ended on this slide. We had a super thought-provoking and respectful conversation with a huge range of opinions. Georgia Tech students rock! 🐝
Three quotes: 

1) “While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from [Buckmaster & Alpöge] usage of our products helped improve our models⁠.” 
OpenAI statement

2) “I am not happy about the presentation quality in [our] papers. Ideally, we would have preferred to spend weeks turning the LLM generated proofs into something readable from the very first page. This level of care is what these problems and the community devoted to these problems deserves.”
Prof. Tristan Buckmaster, NYU-Courant

3) “[This situation] extremely damaging to mathematics; it convinces decision makers that human mathematicians are obsolete, and it convinces young people that their passion for mathematics has no future.”
Prof. Michael Harris, Columbia University
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🌊 Ocean science community: NSF requests input on ocean observing priorities by 9/30/26. Importantly, this is not just about the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)! This request for input also includes GO-SHIP (repeat hydrography) and BGC-Argo. Your input matters. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
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Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A very important job indeed!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 18/08/2026
"What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic." Twila Moon, a senior research scientist at NSIDC and CIRES, spoke with PBS News Hour about the importance of the Arctic Report Card. www.thirteen.org/programs/pbs...
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Trump administration ends funding for Arctic climate report
The Trump administration said it would stop funding the Arctic Report Card, the longstanding effort to collect research on how the fastest-warming place on Earth is changing. It's the latest in a series of moves by the administration to curtail scientific research into the impacts of climate change. William Brangham discussed more with glaciologist Twila Moon, the Arctic Report Card's editor.
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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: NOAA to end support for Arctic climate change report
The authors were informed Monday of the action, which jeopardizes public dissemination of the report on the fast-changing region.
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🌊 Read our new analysis of how climatic changes are reshaping Southern Ocean phytoplankton, and will in future, with major consequences for Southern Ocean ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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From White to Green to Blue? Trajectories of Phytoplankton Communities in a Warming Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is experiencing warming, melting of ice, and increasing wind. Predictions of increasing phytoplankton biomass associated with warming and declining glacial and sea ice are supported...
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Soundtrack for the day re: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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See It While You Can (National Parks Song) - Mason Via
YouTube video by Mason Via
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Eos @eos.org · 16/07/2026
The loss of the United States’ contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System would significantly degrade researchers’ ability to track changes to ocean heat content, a critical variable in weather and climate predictions. eos.org/articles/cha...
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Changes in Funding Could Tank Quality of Ocean Heat Content Data - Eos
An uncertain funding landscape threatens the longevity of an ocean observation system critical to projecting tropical storms, sea level rise, and more.
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Today is our 8th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase in GT Polar. Stick around to read about some exciting early career scientists! 🐝 🧊 🐝 🧊
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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@soccomproject.bsky.social @bgc-argo.bsky.social @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social 🌊The commentary by Dove et al (bit.ly/4fd2whZ) on the future of Argo comes at a critical moment for US Argo. GO-BGC, the major US BGC-Argo project funded by NSF completes all float deployments in 3 months. 1/3
A map of latest location of all 580 BGC-Argo floats with 5 or 6 BGC sensors (O2, nitrate, pH, chlorophyll, backscatter, irradiance) that have reported in the last 30 days. 481 of these sensors were deployed by US programs.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our commentary comes at a time when the U.S. government is showing disregard for the importance of scientific, and specifically oceanographic and meteorological, data. We hope our commentary draws some attention to the many operational and societal arenas in which we rely on Argo data.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In our commentary, we argue that Argo is no longer a standalone scientific project but indispensable global infrastructure. Operating for 25 years, Argo data is now the bedrock of ocean observations and is a shining example of open access data to boot!
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm proud to announce a commentary from the Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis panel of @usclivar.bsky.social about the necessity of the Argo program. 🌊 🧪 You can check it out here: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🌊 Every day, ~4,000 Argo floats observe the world’s oceans. They provide essential, open and freely available data that improve weather forecasts, early warnings systems, and climate predictions. Behind this network: more than 30 yrs of scientific effort. Thanks to all those who keep Argo alive!
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🎢 Oceanographers have mapped currents with dramatic ups-and-downs like a rollercoaster, in a giant whirlpool spinning off the polar front in the Southern Ocean. These cyclonic eddies are important for the transport of heat, carbon, nutrients and oxygen. 🌊 aappartnership.org.au/rollercoaste...
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‘Rollercoaster’ currents in Southern Ocean mapped by satellite and robot gliders - AAPP
Intense vertical currents in cyclonic eddy stronger than previously thought
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our last Ice-T talk from postdoc Dr. Paul Summers 🥲 where he imparted sage wisdom to students and summarized his very successful two years of work with myself and Becca Jackson at Tufts. He is off to a position @sandialabs.bsky.social!
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I am an active learning fangirl and my husband is continually horrified by my creativity used to “torture my students”. Introducing Oceanography Bingo! Also known as how I’m going to get 15 students from 8 different universities to talk to each other for the first time. 🌊
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Andy Thompson (@caltech.edu) led this work alongside members of the Fine-Scale Ocean Processes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (FOCUS) program. 🛳️ Huge thanks to the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (@antarctic.bsky.social) for ship time and support.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is exciting because small-scale vertical velocities in the ocean are notoriously difficult to measure! 🔬 Our inferred velocities of > 100 m/day hint that the internal ocean may resemble a roller coaster, where fine-scale currents can rapidly lift and plunge water masses. 🎢
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
From this GEM atlas, we can infer the internal density field along SWOT swaths in the same region and further infer the vertical velocity using the QC-omega equation. 🌊
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Using data from the NASA Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite 🛰️ and in situ glider measurements, we create a local Gravest Empirical Mode (GEM) atlas, connecting sea surface height to vertical profiles of density. 🌊
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🌊 New article: For the first time from space, we can infer vertical velocities at the ocean's fine scales! 🛰️ 🌀🎢 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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The three-dimensional structure of fine-scale, vertical velocities in the Southern Ocean inferred from space - Communications Earth & Environment
Persistent velocity cores in Southern Ocean narrow frontal zones extend to 1000 m depths with vertical velocities that frequently exceed 100 m/day, according to a vertical velocity reconstruction meth...
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Watching Masterchef while writing proposals is dangerous because it leads to you repeatedly typing "dumplings" instead of "density" in your Very Serious Document. 🥟
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Taste test with Celeste" has a ring to it
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Well now you absolutely have to taste test and report back 🍞
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Our earlier story on this and why it matters: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court
Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The overly friendly squirrel is too real 👀
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Join me at prime time on Monday night for my keynote talk for the Weather & Climate Livestream...then stick around for 50 hours of amazing science enabled by U.S. federal investment! 🌊 🧪 ☁️ 🌴 @wclivestream.bsky.social
The Weather and Climate Livestream is back! wclivestream.com/watch. 50 hours for our future. Stream from Mon. June 1st to Wed. June 3rd on Youtube.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"This stance is based on an implicit belief that Indians are somehow more ‘adapted’ to air pollution. Such arguments are pervasive and have gained legitimacy from the political denial of the air pollution problem" ☠️ excellent reporting from @rishpardikar.bsky.social on the clean air crisis:
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🌊 The ocean absorbs >90% of Earth’s excess heat, and our ability to track it depends on a fragile global network of floats, ships and sensors. New research warns that cuts to the Global Ocean Observing System could make climate signals indistinguishable from noise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🚨 The Weather and Climate Livestream is back, June 1st - 3rd 2026!! We're streaming 50 hours for our future in the face of a new round of proposed budget cuts and attacks on science. Want to speak at the event? wclivestream.com/volunteer/
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do other scientists ever get a rush of "I have the coolest job ever" after a fun research meeting or an awesome presentation by a mentee? In this uneasy scientific environment, it's so wonderful to be reminded why we do this work. 🌊 🧪
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I only had the honor of meeting Jorge once, at a SOCCOM meeting a few years ago. It was so fun to talk about great science with him! In just a few minutes, I realized his powerful skill of centering the scientists doing the science.
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Ethan C. Campbell @ethan2sea.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"In the 1980s, Sarmiento [was] one of the first... to discover the importance of the Southern Ocean in controlling the atmosphere's CO2 levels." 🌊 "[He] mentored an extraordinarily large number of young scientists, who thrived under his mentorship..." RIP, Jorge. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
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Remembering Jorge Sarmiento, a ‘giant’ in climate studies
Climate scientist Jorge Sarmiento was Princeton's George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, and a professor of geosciences, emeritus.
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’ve long been looking for a Hawk so we can write a Hawk & Dove paper. Potentially on diplomatic policies.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
By the way, if somebody tries to tell you climate change is only a concern of "educated and affluent" liberals, you can show them this map. At least half the people in *every* US state, even the deep red ones, worry about it
Map of the US: Estimated % of adults who are somewhat or very worried about global warming (nat'l avg. 63%), 2025

Every state is at 50% or above. California and bluer states are at higher levels, but zero states are below 50%.
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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
For those who reached out asking how to help: This gofundme is specifically for graduate students who lost personal items, computers, tablets, etc. in the fire. We were told that these items are not retrievable or reimbursable -an added burden for students during a devastating time. Plz share 🌊💙
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🌊 New paper alert! For the first time from space, two NASA missions enable us to observe plankton community composition alongside the physical processes that structure it. 🛰️ 🦠 🌀 Check it out from @tosoceanography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
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