I never want to hear someone say “well, why don’t people just report sexual harrassment” ever again.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

A prominent MIT biology professor forced out of his job over sexual harassment allegations won a defamation case against his accuser on Friday, along with a $6 million award.

🌊 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.

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

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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Thank you student journalists/editors.

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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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.

Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate! 🐻 Polls are open now for the first matchups. explore.org/fat-bear-week

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...

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! 🐝

🌊 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...

Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities

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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.

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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"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...

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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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...

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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🌊 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...

Soundtrack for the day re: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

See It While You Can (National Parks Song) - Mason Via

YouTube video by Mason Via

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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...

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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Today is our 8th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase in GT Polar. Stick around to read about some exciting early career scientists! 🐝 🧊 🐝 🧊

@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

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...

🌊 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!

🎢 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...

‘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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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!

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. 🌊

🌊 New article: For the first time from space, we can infer vertical velocities at the ocean's fine scales! 🛰️ 🌀🎢 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Watching Masterchef while writing proposals is dangerous because it leads to you repeatedly typing "dumplings" instead of "density" in your Very Serious Document. 🥟

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.

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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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... 🧪

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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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. 🧪🌊

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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

"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:

Rishika Pardikar@rishpardikar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: Indian politicians have denied the severity of the air pollution crisis for decades. Internal documents reveal how this denial has shaped — and constrained — policymaking. Story of the long overdue update of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) drilled.media/news/air-pol...