Bernard Vonnegut was a climate scientist who worked on cloud seeding in the same department as Irving Langmuir at GE. Langmuir first reported the upper ocean circulations that bear his name, and also inspired the character Felix Hoenikker in Cat's Cradle, written by Bernard's brother Kurt. 🧪🌊

A firehose of smoke over the Northeast this evening. Just dreadful.

This one was really fun to do. Lots of new ideas discovered in there!

Jacob Wenegrat@roguewave.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint looking at the question of how the interaction between fronts (~1 kilometer) and turbulence (~10s of meters) affects the exchange of properties between the ocean mixed-layer and interior. Work by Zhihua Zheng along with @baylorfk.bsky.social, Tomas Chor, and Jay Brett. 1/n

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

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So cool! 🧪

Lily Dove@solilyquy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌊 New paper alert! For the first time from space, two NASA missions enable us to observe plankton community composition alongside the physical processes that structure it. 🛰️ 🦠 🌀 Check it out from @tosoceanography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...

A stunning visualization born from a collaboration with @manlius.bsky.social : 55,486 galaxies and 29,555 streamlines tracing how matter flows across our local universe, built on data from the CosmicFlows-4 project. Article in the first reply 👇

Topographic Rossby wave lecture by the bay!

URI Graduate School of Oceanography@urigso.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌸 🌊 Ending the semester the best way we know how, with views of Narragansett Bay! Happy last day of classes, from #URIGSO 💙

🌊 A team of researchers, including #URIGSO's @nickpizzooceans.bsky.social, has developed a new AI-powered way to study ocean currents. #GOFLOW uses thermal images from weather satellites already in orbit to map ocean surface currents in unprecedented detail, with no new hardware required. 🧪

Our recent paper on using thermal imagery from geostationary satellites to infer surface currents was published! We call the method GOFLOW 🧪🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Take a timeline cleanse to watch clam mating in action and the resulting clam babies. External fertilization is a hoot!

URI Graduate School of Oceanography@urigso.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#URIGSO postdoc Teresa Schwemmer is testing how limestone-treated seawater affects quahog larvae during their first 48 hours. The work connects to a field study in Winnapaug Pond, comparing juvenile growth near vs. farther from a golf course that applied limestone. 🌊 🦑 🧪 @jaimepalter.bsky.social

Bubble rising through stratified flow, viewed w/ Schlieren

With Artemis in the news and space on the big screen: in case you haven't seen them, JPL has posted a series of incredible videos from some of their missions: e.g., youtu.be/1rVH0YlcKyY?... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykl5... 🔭🧪 No hollywood dramatization needed

JPL and the Space Age: The Pathfinders

YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Work with me! Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University invites applications for a Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ocean Sciences. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, + 2nd year possible. Please see apply.interfolio.com/183855!

I'm only now learning about "vector meson dominance", a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Just as the pion comes in +, - and neutral forms and has spin 0, the rho meson comes in +, - and neutral forms and has spin 1 - so it's described by a "vector", like the photon. (1/n)

New Volume of Journal of Fluid Mechanics available on Cambridge Core https://cup.org/4dfo2TW New Volume = New Cover 📸 (A16) Bouncing to coalescence transition for droplet impact onto moving liquid pools Harris, D.M. et al. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2026.11232

First runs in the internal wave channel we are constructing! You are seeing the density perturbations via the Schlieren method. The stratification doesn't go up to the free surface and you can see reflections of the internal waves off that interface and the bottom. 🌊

@baylorfk.bsky.social is not actually a fox. He's a Professor at @brown.edu whose research focuses on ocean physics and its role in the global climate system, and in particular, submesoscale turbulence, mixed-layer dynamics, and improving climate model accuracy through advanced parameterizations

6pm Monday 2/23 - Green Hill, South Kingstown RI Gusts and heavy snow have dissipated.

Carlos R Munoz@carlosrmunoz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

☃️ It is something out there. Share your photos of the Blizzard of '26. Include: Time-Location-Conditions.

Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊

Physical controls on heterogeneous mesopelagic biogeochemistry

Communications Earth & Environment - A patchy distribution of biogeochemical properties in the ocean interior arises from the combined influence of biological and physical processes.

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John C. Baez@johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here's a tale of how nature triumphs in the end. And the Slag Queens! Steel mills dumped molten slag in parts of Chicago and nearby areas. The slag hardened in layers up to 15 feet deep. These places became barren wastelands. Other industries dumped hot ash and cinders there. (1/n)

🌿🌊 #WorldWetlandsDay A recent #URIGSO-led study analyzed 23,000+ sediment samples and found a key gap in a common method for measuring carbon in salt marshes. Addressing this gap is essential for understanding marsh resilience and for guiding blue carbon strategies. ➡️ Read more: buff.ly/T2ubRtp

In 1869, long before Einstein, the famous mathematician Sylvester announced that Clifford - the Clifford algebra guy - was studying whether space is curved! Clifford's mission to study this was almost thwarted by a shipwreck. But that didn't stop him! johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...

Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space

Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that geom…

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Nick Foukal@foukalpoint.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Great article by @zhonggg.bsky.social and Esther Horvath highlighting our EGNOG project on the Northeast Greenland Shelf! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/c...

And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way. www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...

Prof. Diego Melgar@diegosismologo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

On July 29, 2025 a Mw 8.8 earthquake off Kamchatka launched a Pacific-wide tsunami, right as the SWOT satellite flew south-to-north taking altimetry measurements of the wave train. In our new preprint, we pair SWOT with nearby DART buoys to capture the tsunami’s propagation and its source

🌊🧪 Go see Lulabel's talk at DFD if you want to learn more about how wind makes waves! An old question, yet one we still don't know the full answer to.

Mara Freilich@maratimes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Check out PhD student Lulabel Ruiz Seitz's presentation at #APS-DFD this weekend! schedule.aps.org/dfd/2025/eve...

Here's a view by #Sentinel-2 of the Rhone river plume within the Gulf of Lion waters. Other the change in water colour, and the strong front between the two water masses, I love how there are more wind-induced whitecaps in the bluer waters, although I do not have a direct explanation about it... 🧐🌊

South County Rhode Island 9pm 11/11. Aurora is visible to the naked eye, but this is taken with 3s exposure.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011. 🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs

Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience

High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...

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