This new year starts a new chapter for me: I’ve moved back to Canada and made the jump from academia to engineering consulting. Today was my first day in the office, bringing my different experiences together in my new role as a coastal engineer.

The impacts of this decrease in both the number and amount of NIH and NSF funding will be felt for generations, but props to the NIH and NSF program managers and support staff who got this many grants and this much funding out the door under very difficult circumstances.

Caltech has recommended that international scholars on H-1B visas (like myself) not leave the US.

As a postdoc on the job market, I've been worried about the impact of ongoing funding/policy uncertainties on faculty positions. So I decided to compare the progression of faculty jobs this cycle to previous years based on positions posted to eswnonline.org/online/earth...

If you are into Arctic sea ice thermodynamics, here is our new dataset of 82 CRREL ice mass balance buoys deployed in 1997–2024 with estimates of snow and ice thickness and their interface evolution: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15096485

Casual final sentence here, way to bury the lede CBC! "Carney is expected to call an election by the end of the week, to take place in late Apr or early May." If you're out of the country and you want to vote, here's what you need to do as soon as the election is announced ⬇️

Sharing as a member of AGU's pubs committee: AGU is joining a lawsuit in support of federal workers. They need stories/examples of how loss of federal jobs is affecting society. Please share this request with your colleagues & communities. Deadline is this week.💧🧪🌲 forms.monday.com/forms/f553b2...

NOAA scientists need to get clearance before talking with Canadian scientists. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Sea ice paper alert, congratulations to my colleagues! Krumpen, T., von Albedyll, L., Bünger, H.J. et al. Smoother sea ice with fewer pressure ridges in a more dynamic Arctic. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Arctic #climate 🌊 🥼❄️ rdcu.be/d5rtv

US academics: look after foreign students

Hello from the JGR:Oceans team 🌊🌊🌊 We're very happy to be the first AGU journal on Bluesky! I guess that also makes us the best AGU journal on Bluesky 😆 Our Editors will be posting here about our latest news & views, message/tag us if you'd like us to highlight your science 👍

Welcome @agu.org! It’s great to have the American Geophysical Union here!

Hi all! I've seen an uptick in follows from fellow Federal #Canadian #scientists over the last while, so I figured I'd create a starter pack! Check here to follow federal Canadian science & scientists!🧪 Reply here if you want to be added; DM me if you want to be removed. go.bsky.app/Cjr4wAD

Please welcome the @ametsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky! AMS advances the atmospheric & related sciences (including of course climate), applications, and services for the benefit of society. I've added them to this starter pack of scientific organizations that do climate-related work ⬇️

🧪📍 🌊 🦑 Applications are now being accepted from undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, and early-career scientists to participate in an NSF-funded research cruise aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth mailchi.mp/ldeo/langset...

I finally got around to adding a Bluesky profile link to my personal research website.

I definitely understand the whole "only candidates who are selected to move on in the process will be contacted" thing. But if I have to make a government/state/provincial account to even submit an application, there should be a portal where I can check application status.

I’m talking to another person who was barred from the US Antarctic Program because they go to “mental health counseling” (thus, USAP doesn’t consider them “stable”). The NSF has done nothing—nada—to reform that program. My rage is incandescent. 🔥 If you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, a primer:

A few years ago we crowd-sourced a list of graduate fellowships in earth sciences. The spreadsheet hasn't been updated since 2022, but I imagine its still very relevant to many of you or your students: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Heads up my climate science colleagues, UW's Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science is looking for an assistant professor in atmospheric dynamics, including the study of weather and climate phenomena. Great department, great colleagues, great location. Info here! apply.interfolio.com/149349

Excited to share a new paper that Ed Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth and I co-first-authored, along with collaborators Melinda Webster, Chris Horvat, Øyvind Foss, and CC Bitz: "Model Biases in Simulating Extreme Sea Ice Loss Associated With the Record January 2022 Arctic Cyclone" doi.org/10.1029/2024...

I’ve been told that the more people like a feed, the more visible it is so please like the Oceanography feed even if you hate the ocean. 🌊🧪

My favourite Canadian things: 🇨🇦 Our vast array of lakes 🇨🇦 Our diverse + vibrant cities 🇨🇦 Our amazing parks and lands 🇨🇦 Our image as a mosaic, not a melting pot 🇨🇦 Our national investment in truth + reconciliation 🇨🇦 Our carbon tax that empowers climate action nation-wide Add yours! #canadaday

We are hiring. Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, has a new assistant professor position in Geomorphology. apply.interfolio.com/147791

How much does a graduate student cost per year in your program? I'm putting together a list of how much graduate students cost departments/faculty at different universities. Please contribute to the attached google sheet and please RT! Thanks! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Science academia keeps funding a ton of PhDs & post-docs (all temp labor) while its market of stable post-PhD jobs continues a long & steady collapse. Proposal reviewers still go “Oh this proposal’s really great because it funds a ton of students!” And no one reflects on that enormous imbalance.

🎉 paper alert from the JETlab (and co-author Margaret Byron!) Awesome review paper regarding lab-generated zero mean flow homogeneous isotropic turbulence - enjoy!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Most federal graduate scholarships have not increased in value since they were created, some as far back as 2003. When inflation is accounted for, several of these scholarships have fallen in actual value by 50%" 🧪 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦

Tomorrow! Come hear about our recommendations for making seagoing work safer for transgender and gender non-conforming people 🏳️‍⚧️ More info: ativsoftware.com/appinfo.php?... #AGU23 AGU23

Imagine our profession was built so that you could advance your career without moving all the time. Isn't this a huge piece of the equity and access problem? Yes, it is.

34 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget #WomenInSTEM 🧪🌹

I'll be at AGU23 next week presenting some of my postdoc work about sea ice floe-scale physics. I'd love to meet up with anyone who is going and broadly interested in sea ice-ocean interactions. Leave me a comment here, or get in touch with at [email protected].

The social will take place on Wed, December 13 from 6-8pm PT, starting in the Sierra AB room at the SF Marriott Marquis (room courtesy of ARCUS, located right by the Moscone Center) & then will likely move on to another food or drinks place outside of the hotel. See ya there! 2/2

Oceanography Gift xkcd.com/2859

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

Scientific colour maps 8.0 · Perceptually uniform · Perceptually ordered · Colour-blind friendly · Readable as B&W print · Widely compatible · Versioned & citable fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps #useBatlow #Dataviz #SciArt #EduSky #OpenSource 1/n