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Come to Sweden! We are kicking off the new Swedish research school in Polar Science this summer, and under that umbrella there are currently a number of PhD positions announced (more on the way). Read more, and apply, here: www.gu.se/en/seal/appl... Shares = eternal karma 🌊

Recently published in Fafnir - the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "Climate Models as a Retroactive and Exploratory World-building Tool" fafnir.journal.fi/article/view... Thanks to @johnfocook.bsky.social @climatedann.bsky.social and Alex and Michael Farnsworth.

Optics of the week: Miffy

In July, I will be teaching in Shanghai at SJTU for their UN Sustainable Development Goals summer school. 9 summer courses are available suitable for any interested students. I will co-teach "The marine carbon pump jigsaw: science, sustainability and management" global.sjtu.edu.cn/en/study-sjt...

#Drunk of the week: FaFa 🌻🌸

Cat of the week: friendly guy 😸

There I thought I might actually be able to avoid #MariahCarey this year…thanks #NaritaAirport

Swirly swirly #cartopy #spilhaus #python

To be tidied/sped up and maybe animated (need to see where the computational bottlenecks are) #cartopy #nemo

#distortion of the week: FaFa

Stinkeye of the week: Miffy + FaFa 👀

Dmitri (who might be @tymoczko.bsky.social) is the author of a couple of books, "A Geometry of Music" and "Tonality: A User's Manual." His web site is full of apps and other goodies. dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/index.html

“Khajit has the shoe if you have the coin” 😾💰

Hey astrophysicists, a presence (absence) of KH billows in some astrophysical shear flow doesn't always imply a lower (upper) bound on the local magnetic field strength! See arxiv.org/abs/2510.031...

Closeups of the week: Miffy & FaFa

WSINDy

Minor upsides to insomnia (and some minor coding wins at 5am...) #zzz

Been thinking about forced convection a bunch and can only recommend Chaos for being both kind to my junior and shockingly quick about it. pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/arti...

Thinking #cat of the day: FaFa 🌸🌼

Querying managers of the week: Miffy + FaFa

Argument of the week: Miffy + FaFa 🌚🌝

#ManekiNeko of the week: Miffy

Mindscape 321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory. I *know* you've been worried about why the electroweak theory cannot be defined on discrete spacetime. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Just for fun: reconstruction of an #IKEA manager in an #EigenCat basis 🦈🐱

[20 hr travel with #QatarAirlines, options to upgrade to business] Me: ...nah because $$ and have to justifying expenses 1st leg: feel free to choose any of the rows 2nd leg: ticket issue, "sorry sir we would like to put you in business class please take this new ticket" Don't mind if I do 🌚🌚🌚

www.cell.com/current-biol... 😸😴

Cat of the week: Turnip! (Turnip [/ May] was our 0th cat in #Oxford; she is the neighbour's that we couldn't adopt. Glad to see she is still alive and well-ish given she would be about 14 now 🥲)

🦀 of the week: FaFa

🌊 AAPP physical oceanographer @edoddridge.bsky.social @utas.edu.au has received a prestigious Royal Society of Tasmania medal for his outstanding research on sea-ice changes around #Antarctica. 🏅 aappartnership.org.au/royal-societ...

📢SEAGOING SCIENCE BURSARY🌊 In collaboration with West and endorsed as a @unoceandecade.bsky.social contribution, we invite applications for an exciting bursary including: 💰financial support 🗣️mentorship 🚢an opportunity to gain sea experience on a 2026 research voyage To apply you must…(below) ↩️

Face off between the two lab managers

At #JpGU #Rabeet #TapirSake

A great write up of work we did on understanding marine heatwaves in the Chesapeake Bay! This work (a bit outside what I normally study) grew out of a senior capstone project by Skylar Lama, then led by Rachel Wegener for her MS. Super fun to think about such important local issues.

"I have the high ground Anakin!"

Catus of the week: Miffy 🌵

Miffy with a new hat 👒

Individually lovely lab managers, but not really getting on at the moment (big screaming match earlier... 😾)

New addition: Fa Fa (花花= flower flower) 🌼 🌸 🌻 🌹 (Miffy hates her at the moment)

Guess we will be doing eigencats in a new course to be written

You can take care of Uni, Sora, Aoba, and Yoru in your browser! So very cute :3

#IPCC is calling for nominations of experts to serve as authors and review editors for its Seventh Assessment Report Find out how to become an author or review editor 👉 bit.ly/4krWMTu More information on the process 👉 bit.ly/AR7Nm Read more 👉 bit.ly/3XJOb4F Submissions close: 17 April 2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” And that is YOU who are reading this. Happy Wednesday.

Slugcat/otter vs Catus-kun 🐌🌵

"equality" and "inequality" lmao, goodbye mathematics and physics departments in the US words referenced from gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

What do you think about using the ocean to remove atmospheric CO₂? What about mangroves? Are biological or geochemical methods better? These are FAQs that I get, and they're answered in this piece that I wrote with @bopplaurent.bsky.social. Please take a look.

I first read "cut overhead by 15%" and I'm like hmm that's bad. It's "cut overhead TO 15%"...🫨

Absolutely brilliant use of AI! www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

⭐️New paper alert!⭐️For those who like two-phase flows and planetary cores, here is a new fluid dynamical model that can explain the stable stratification of Earth's F-layer: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @universityofleeds.bsky.social