Ocean temperature can change by several degrees over short distances. According to a @pnas.org study led by #UMD scientists, those tiny temperature fronts can reshape the wind and air above them—a detail that could be important for fine-tuning weather forecasting and climate models. #ClimateSky

Tiny Ocean Fronts Reshape the Air Above Them, UMD Study Finds | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland

Sharp, fleeting temperature boundaries on the ocean’s surface transform the atmosphere in ways not yet

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“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.

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"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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NY times covered our cut today (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...

She Used A.I. to Improve Forecasts for Extreme Weather

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This is a good summary of what would be absolutely devastating to the United States ability to do science.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo 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...

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

Google's CEO saying that the reason there's intense backlash to AI is because humans aren't "evolved" enough to understand it youtu.be/RgV57kDzcng?...

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

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

What happens if you smooth the ocean? 🌊 A brief thread about our new paper @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... When we do theory and modeling we tend to use very smooth bottom topography (for numerical reasons and to reduce complexity). But...

Turbulent Mixing and Dissipation Around Rough Seamounts

Small-scale topographic roughness can increase dissipation in seamount wakes by up to tenfold and enhance mixing by a factor of three This effect is most pronounced for seamounts typical of the S...

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Meltwater from ice shelves changes the ocean in ways that drive faster melting—and most global climate projections don't include it ➡️ go.umd.edu/ice-loss Atmospheric and Oceanic Science's Madeleine Youngs is building simulations to track which ice shelves are closest to a tipping point. #ClimateSky

ok here goes my image of today of small stuff happening in the ocean #LiegeOcean26. Here foam from phaeocystis blooms along the coast of Belgium, forming these thin white lines you see in the picture (you might need to zoom) 🌊🧪 And remember the Liège colloquium 😀 www.ocean-colloquium.uliege.be

Aida Alvera-Azcárate@aida-alvera.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Less than two weeks for the Liege Colloquium! #LiegeOcean26 🌊🧪 These two weeks are the craziest and most stressful of the whole year 🤪 So to relax myself, I'll be posting pretty submesoscale ocean images 😊 You can have a look at the programme and register at www.ocean-colloquium.uliege.be

Less than two weeks for the Liege Colloquium! #LiegeOcean26 🌊🧪 These two weeks are the craziest and most stressful of the whole year 🤪 So to relax myself, I'll be posting pretty submesoscale ocean images 😊 You can have a look at the programme and register at www.ocean-colloquium.uliege.be

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

ncview2 is a relatively faithful python port of David Pierce's ncview. It handles non-uniform grids, and can perform on-the-fly area averaging with multiple color maps. github.com/benmsanderso...

Announcement for @nationalacademies.org "State of the Science" address on 6/2 declares: "Since McNutt delivered her 2025 address, federal funding for science has held steady, but significant cuts are still being considered." Really? On what planet is funding steady & cuts being *considered*? a 🧵

If there are inefficiencies in NASA science spending (and I don't doubt there are!) then addressing those WITHOUT reducing the budget would mean more science, more innovation, more return on investment, more benefit to humanity. But realistically, cutting science funding by half just cuts science.

🌊 3 year postdoc position in our group here at UMD Studying interactions of internal waves and deep boundary currents, cross-scale energy fluxes, and Lagrangian observations of topographic wakes. Full info: wenegrat.github.io/misc/Submeso... Thanks for looking!

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. 🌊

Sigh. This is the directorate that funds all of the earth, ocean & atmosphere research at NSF.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

5/10

Directorate for Geosciences 5/11

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Tim Osborn@timosbornclim.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, closing date 31 March. If you have research interests in the shelf seas, estuarine and coastal oceans then this could be for you! And you could do research using UEA's fleet of ocean gliders vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Also important here as noted is the restriction to not cut overhead rates (for some agencies that includes NSF).

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 7mo ago

Congress Set to Finalize Science Budgets Rejecting Trump Cuts www.aip.org/fyi/congress...

I come back from my winter PTO and day one Congress drops the text of a minibus. The dashboard has been updated with the Senate Homeland numbers, and all the info in the CJS-Int-E&W minibus. A House vote is scheduled tomorrow night, and Senate likely later this week. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Wow, why have I never heard of the Ben Franklin mesoscaphe? Like human argo floats, 6 men descended to ∼600m and drifted submerged in the Gulf Stream for 30 days. Along the drift, the crew mapped seafloor properties, biology, noises, and acted as a human occupied CTD analyzing the water column.

Hey, you could be my neighbor! Assistant Prof position at the Naval Academy: www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/... 🌊

Assistant Professor (Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)

Spring 2026 Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences tenure-track announcement.

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Some festive vortices to spin you into the new year! visualpde.com/fluids/vorti...