This is going to be useful: The CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) for derived data from the CMIP archives:
dashboard.climate-ref.org
Still working out the kinks and focused on CMIP6, but will expand for CMIP7.
#CMIP2026
OK, that's one glowing AI article too many in Nature and one cosy fireside editorial too many from Science.
Can we have a prestige journal with a bit of attitude please, a little bite, a hint of tooth. Articles I want to read not shred. Papers the authors might actually have enjoyed writing.
Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end…
Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
“We have observational evidence and ocean modeling results to document that kilometer-scale seawater intrusions beneath grounded ice generate a high melt in the [grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier].”
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Coastal Physical Oceanography School of Marine Science and Policy, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware Newark, DE Starting Date: 2026-2027 academic year The School of Marine Science and Policy (SMSP) seeks to hire a tenure-track coastal physical oceanographer with research interests in estuaries, continental shelves, or the interface between coastal and open oceans. We seek candidates with research interests from any area of coastal physical oceanography, including a broad set of processes and varying scales: turbulence and mixing, meso- and submesoscale dynamics, boundary layers, shelf-wide circulation and property budgets, and the impact of climate on the coastal ocean, among others. Applications of candidates that integrate field observations, theory, or numerical modeling are welcome.
The School of Marine Science & Policy at the University of Delaware is hiring! We are looking for a talented Coastal Physical Oceanographer to join us.
More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
I beg a major publication to publish a list of Nobel Prize winner who are immigrants to this country.
The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it.
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
London's Daily Mail reports that Lloyd Webber's new kitten Otto has managed to destroy the music he has penned for the upcoming sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. The six-month-old cat somehow climbed into the frame of Lloyd Webber's digital Clavinova piano, which features a built-in computer. The award-winning composer told the London paper, "I was trying to write some new music; Otto got into the grand piano, jumped onto the computer and destroyed the entire score for the new Phantom in one fell swoop."
All of my students have heard me tell horror stories about people who don't back up their work.
I have a new one: Andrew Lloyd Webber lost the score for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera to his cat, who jumped on his electronic piano and pressed "erase":
playbill.com/article/cat-...
The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it.
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
The government demanding a billion dollars from UCLA.
🌊 #Postdoc position available
📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras
Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP).
Requirements
✅ PhD in physical #oceanography
To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians
www.latimes.com/california/s...
If you haven’t but can, join the @aaup.org! They also have some great resources on how to make progress.
If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️
I let the SSD of my Mac get to 99% usage and let me tell you, don’t do this.
We got a nice compact Keyboard for the kiddos (no room for a piano here either) and it sounds great.
At this moment, it makes a huge difference to have a University President that’s more than a mere administrator or fundraiser.
We need leaders who understand what makes a University a uniquely valuable institution and are willing to go to the mat to defend that vision.
I grew up with ID cards so never thought too much about them. In the U.S. this is a big deal, but of course people need *something* to identify themselves so we use these crazy insecure social security numbers.
IMHO the problem is not the ID itself, but rules about tracking and storing usage.
The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
🌊 a chance to learn how to use a whole pile of amazing NASA Earthdata tools in cloud.
I’m not sure how UH deals with this but here we can’t even run tiny classes unless the department is willing to pony up the cost.
Speaking as a professor, the why is easy. There is less money to pay grad students, and more uncertainty, so to avoid getting ourselves in a position where we can’t pay students the salaries we promised them (students get paid), we take fewer students.
If you’re going to have a doppelgänger, get yourself a famous movie director or, like @naomiaklein.bsky.social, one you can write a good book about.
Mine is, last time I checked, in jail in Florida. **sad trombone**.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
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🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
