Hello from Cambridge! We've just finished our Climate Modelling Summer School. It is an exciting two-week programme of lectures and practical work on climate models. Thank you to everyone who came along to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!

My impression of Ireland after cycling around for a few days is that it’s a beautiful country with really lovely people. It’s too bad about the smell of cow poop and car exhaust. Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.

@dmarshallocean.bsky.social is a professor of climate physics at @ox.ac.uk. He studies how things that happen on small scales (turbulence and eddies) affect the large scale (ocean circulation). In our parlance, he studies geophysical fluid dynamics.

I recommend checking out the profiles and records of the people that went through this program while you still can: cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/ They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.

A new editorial by me on the global implications of Trump's war on science - apart from the devastating cuts to global health, we must urgently build a more distributed science infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

And remember, GFDL is whee Suki Manabe did his Nobel-prize winning work establishing the physics of CO2-induced global warming. It is a gem in the crown of US federal laboratories, and now it is about to be irretrievably tossed on the trash-heap.

Excellent post by @dinahvp.bsky.social‬ on the plan to devastate NOAA research, with quotes from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social. "Only a small fraction of NOAA Research would remain and be transferred to the NWS, including portions of the weather, tornado and technology research."

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...

I can't overstate how scary this is. If the state did this to pretty much *any* UK university, it would go bankrupt

Looking forward to another season of Grand Challenge Seminars, organised by our @oxfordenvres.bsky.social and DTC students. Kicking off today with Tightening the Green Belt: Labour, Housing and Biodiversity.

Grand Challenges 2025 commence this evening, May 8th @ 5pm with a discussion around the conflict (or not?) between housing a growing population and protecting biodiversity. The free public seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles & organised by DTC first year PhD students. bit.ly/4jvMLDF

More about threats to NOAA/GFDL.

About to play a set at the Tap Market with Short Notice Jazz. Wonderful setting in the centre of the Oxford Covered Market with excellent beer on tap from the Tap Social.

A science communicator launched an effort to pair artists with scientists whose jobs were eliminated or whose research funding was halted by the Trump administration. The result? Powerful portraits of researchers and their work. ⚛️🧪 doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...

They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

A chilling thought: "So if the aloof trustees of Harvard, Princeton, Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

"Britain Issues Travel Warning for U.S." www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

Wonderful to welcome Prof. Karen Heywood to deliver the annual @ox.ac.uk - @metoffice.bsky.social Houghton Lecture at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social this afternoon, a great choice!

I have been receiving the sad news about massive NOAA firing. I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

In between the horrors occurring in the US and beyond, and the usual teaching/graduate admissions at this time of year, I've been enjoying a surprisingly good cup run in @officialfpl.bsky.social, entering in the round of 8.4M and now headed to the round of 8192 after 10 wins and considerable luck!

Are you interested in a research degree in life or environmental science? We offer 4 year PhD studentships which cover your course fees and provide a tax-free living grant plus funding for project costs and travel. Find out more & register for our virtual open day @ www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

Applications to Oxford for the ILESLA programme have gone LIVE. Open and Brookes Uni's will open shortly. For now you can view eligibility requirements and supporting doc info, and start your application to Oxford by visiting www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... Please re-share with interested contacts 🙏

Vacancy - Oxford Earth Sciences are looking to hire an Associate Professor in Environmental Geophysics (very broadly interpreted), in conjunction with St Hugh’s College. Applications close on December 2. #AcademicJobs ⚒️ tinyurl.com/OxfordAPEnvG...

Setting up at the Tap Social (Botley) Beer Festival with Short Notice Jazz. Great beer, pizza, music, …

We are thrilled to be here on bluesky as a budding new PhD programme to fund diverse young researchers in life and environmental science across five exciting research themes and six hosting partners. If you are looking for a paid PhD position www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk should be your first stop!

Some great news to launch my science posts on @bsky.app: we have secured funding for 5 cohorts of doctoral students to work in the life and environmental sciences! - www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11.... See www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk for details of the ILESLA programme and how to apply.

New starter pack for organisations involved in ocean science in some way. 🌊🧪 I’ll be adding more as they start opening accounts on here. Let me know which ones I have missed! go.bsky.app/U1Ei6XY

If you haven’t discovered the oceanography feed yet, go have a look! It’s where all the interesting 🧪stuff is happening

Late to move over here, but how nice to find so many familiar names and faces :)

Excited to the playing at the Rose & Crown this coming Sunday (3 Nov) with a new quartet, “No Evil Spoken” - a nod to a legendary Wayne Shorter album from which we’ll be playing a couple of tracks, along with compositions by Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Chick Corea …

Looking forward to a set with Short Notice Jazz at the @tapsocialbrew Tap Market. Great venue and amazing beer!

Personal goal ticked off 😊 - for the first time, rode up to Wytham Wood chalet on my Brompton without stopping

Looking forward to a short set with my daughter, Jasmine, at her friend, Saskia’s gig this afternoon!

Looking forward to playing our monthly jazz set at The Red Lion, Steeple Aston next week (Thu 23rd) with Ernesto Macaro on tenor sax, Alan Stubbersfield on bass and myself on keys. Lovely village pub with good food, no cover charge.

Stunning cycle today from Ajaccio to Cargèse, could have done without two punctures!

An epic but hugely enjoyable journey to the @SO_CHIC_EU summer school in Corsica starting in Oxford via Paris and Marseille, with a practise climb on my @BromptonBicycle ahead of the big one tomorrow. Now on the overnight ferry to Ajaccio, sadly not as green as I’d like.

Getting ready for a set at Joes Bar and Grill, Summertown with the Jules Blyth quartet

Double chance meeting at Brussels: @AndrewFStyles and and @ErmisShirin on their way to @EuroGeosciences

Epic journey back from @GEOMAR_en Kiel to Oxford, made it to Brussels and awaiting a chance meet-up with @AndrewFStyles. Glad I took the early train as DB up to their usual antics!

Looking forward to playing a jazz set at the @tapsocialbrew Christmas market in Botley in an hour (4pm), great vibe as always at this event! Christmas 🎄 Christmas 🎅 🎷 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎤 🎵 🎶

Congratulations Dr @AndrewFStyles! It's been a real pleasure acting as your supervisor along with Mike Bell! Thanks to Alberto Naveira Garabato and Andrew Wells for examining the thesis.

Applications to attend the @SO_CHIC_EU Southern Ocean Summer School in Corsica, 7-18 May 2024, close 31 Oct. This promises to be a great school in a beautiful location. A green travel option from the south of France on a sailboat is being considered.

Must be the @OxfordAOPP retreat :)