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Chemical oceanographer. Studying trace nutrients in the Southern Ocean and their impact on carbon cycling. Postdoc at Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, University of Tasmania.

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Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · 26d

New Honours/Masters project in ocean biogeochemistry advertised looking at the trace element nickel. Nickel is a bio-essential element, and yet concentrations in the ocean are relatively high. Why is this? Come help us find out! Full description here: www.utas.edu.au/imas/study/h...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 CLOSING SOON — JOBS @imas-utas.bsky.social @utas.edu.au with Prof Nathan Bindoff:

🌊 Two Research Associates in Oceanography and Climate Change

🌏 Earth's energy balance
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...

🌦️ Water cycle
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...

➡️ Applications close 11 September 2025

photo by Knut Heinatz

Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · Jun 12

The ocean needs everyone's help. That includes all types of people. Everyone.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · Jun 12

Permanent lectureship position currently advertised at UCL Earth Sciences. My good friend an colleague just started there and loves it!

Applications close June 24th...

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

@ucl.ac.uk @es-ucl.bsky.social

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 WORK WITH US at @utas.edu.au IN HOBART!

🧊 Research Associate – Ice Core Atmospheric Sciences

🫧 Play a lead role in interpreting gas records from the Million Year Ice Core (MYIC) @millionyearice.bsky.social project

✍️ Applications close 13 July 2025

▶️ aappartnership.org.au/vacancies/#i...

Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · Jun 10

Come and join the most awesome GEOTRACES Early Career Scientists Committee to have ever existed! (Also the first). Time running out ⏰

GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · May 15

🌊 ✨ Call for Applications Now Open ✨ 🌊

The GEOTRACES Early Career Scientists Committee (ECS) is now accepting applications for new members!

🗓️ Application deadline: 15 June 2025

Learn more and apply👇
www.geotraces.org/2025-ecs/

Share this! 📢 😊

#EarlyCareerResearchers
@scor-int.bsky.social

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Randie Bundy @rmbundy.bsky.social · Jun 2

New graduate fellowship opportunity in microbial ecology from the Simons Foundation for students starting in fall 2026 www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · Jun 2

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · May 28

Applications now open for the next GEOTRACES summer school in South Africa! 🦓

Deadline June 30th.

geotraces-2025.sciencesconf.org

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GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · May 15

🌊 ✨ Call for Applications Now Open ✨ 🌊

The GEOTRACES Early Career Scientists Committee (ECS) is now accepting applications for new members!

🗓️ Application deadline: 15 June 2025

Learn more and apply👇
www.geotraces.org/2025-ecs/

Share this! 📢 😊

#EarlyCareerResearchers
@scor-int.bsky.social

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · May 13

I’m incredibly proud of this - in January, we began a co-reviewing project to encourage established researchers to mentor early-career researchers in carrying out peer review. It adds to diversity of perspectives & helps with gender balance

🧪
@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature project to encourage early-career researchers in peer review is working

Science stands to benefit from a project in which experienced academics and early-career researchers co-review studies.

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Nature @nature.com · May 13

“This no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career“

We spoke to five US-based researchers who are seeking, or moving to, jobs abroad because of the drastic changes imposed on US science by the Trump administration
https://go.nature.com/4mwfevl

US brain drain: the scientists seeking jobs abroad amid Trump’s assault on research

Five US-based researchers tell Nature why they are exploring career opportunities overseas.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · May 4

Scientists have linked fossil fuel companies to specific climate harms for the first time, with five Australian oil, gas and coal companies potentially responsible for $900bn in loss and damage from extreme heat alone.

Latest from me in The Guardian this morning.

Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds

US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades

www.theguardian.com

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Eos @eos.org · Apr 21

On Friday, the NSF announced the cancellation of awards that aren’t aligned with the agency’s mission, “including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation.”

eos.org/research-and...

NSF Cancels Hundreds of DEI and Disinformation Grants - Eos

The National Science Foundation has cancelled hundreds of grants to researchers working on projects related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as misinformation and disinformation.

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Apr 3

The big question is - will the penguins now impose reciprocal tariffs?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica

Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president

www.theguardian.com

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 3

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · Apr 2

Breaking: penguins on Heard and McDonald Islands hit hard by new US tariffs 🐧 🧊

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 2

NEW: The White House has just published more tariff lists.

Here is the full set so far, covering almost 200 nations.

*CANADA & MEXICO ARE EXCLUDED FROM RECIPROCAL TARIFFS FOR NOW* 👀

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 2

NEW: The White House has just published more tariff lists.

Here is the full set so far, covering almost 200 nations.

*CANADA & MEXICO ARE EXCLUDED FROM RECIPROCAL TARIFFS FOR NOW* 👀

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

Full list of tariffs. Sorry too much detail to list the figures for all 50+ countries on this list

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · Mar 27

📢 6-month paid Masters internship available with me and @reymourot.bsky.social
Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️
Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷
#ERC_SIESTA
Apply by 15 April
RT
Link 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851

M2 internship 2025-2026: Investigating Microbial Dormancy responses to stress cycles in the cryosphere

Supervisors: James A. BRADLEY ([email protected]) and Rey MOUROT ([email protected])

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Ed Doddridge @edoddridge.bsky.social · Mar 31

"Fundamentally, climate change, whatever else it is, is a political problem"

@utas.edu.au have just released a new online course built around climate change, but it's not just an introduction to climate change.

The Climate Shift: Exploring Science, Empowering Action

www.utas.edu.au

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 31

The Metals Company's proposal to start seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean by 2027 has faced opposition from countries that are rarely aligned on these issues, such as China, Russia, India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Indonesia, France, Argentina, Uganda, Mauritius, and Fiji.

Trump-Era Pivot on Seabed Mining Draws Global Rebuke (Gift Article)

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

www.nytimes.com

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 27

Looking for a climate postdoc position?

Exciting long-term role at UEA to help develop the widely used climate monitoring datasets CRUTEM and CRU-TS, working with @timosbornclim.bsky.social and others.

Deadline: TOMORROW (Fri 28th March).

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Senior Research Associate (RA2300) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2300) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Environmental Sciences and the National Centre for Atmospheric...

vacancies.uea.ac.uk

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Katherine Helliwell @kehelliwell.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢Excited to share TWO ERC-funded postdoc positions!🧪Are you passionate about molecular mechanisms and marine microbial interactions?🌊🔬Join us in dissecting antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions, by the sea! tiny.cc/xlfe001 @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social Please msg to hear more!

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ARC 21st Century Weather @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social · Mar 23

We are recruiting for a Research Fellow based at The Australian National University!

Undertaking research to investigate small scale atmospheric and oceanic processes and their role in setting the mean state.

Applications close on Sunday 20 April.

- www.21centuryweather.org.au/about-us/pos...

Job opportunities in climate science & weather change

21st Century Weather is recruiting postdoctoral researchers in climate modelling and weather change research.

www.21centuryweather.org.au

Thomas Holmes @tracemetaltom.bsky.social · Mar 21

Tragic.

Nature @nature.com · Mar 21

The onslaught of US spending cuts is prompting drastic action by universities across the United States, from hiring freezes to travel restrictions to moratoria on pay raises.

https://go.nature.com/4bN2gnZ

‘All this is in crisis’: US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold

Furloughs and more staff reductions loom as academic institutions contend with the prospect of even deeper cuts to federal funding.

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Nature @nature.com · Mar 21

The onslaught of US spending cuts is prompting drastic action by universities across the United States, from hiring freezes to travel restrictions to moratoria on pay raises.

https://go.nature.com/4bN2gnZ

‘All this is in crisis’: US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold

Furloughs and more staff reductions loom as academic institutions contend with the prospect of even deeper cuts to federal funding.

Reposted by Thomas H. Holmes

Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Mar 16

Our #Scientistsatwork photo competition is open for submissions.

This is a competition for scientists themselves.

Winners will receive £500, a subscription to Nature & have their photo featured alongside an interview in Nature.

Deadline - March 28th

@nature.com

www.nature.com/immersive/sc...

#ScientistAtWork photo competition

A celebration of the striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs

As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 8

Interested in volunteering to be an author for the IPCC AR7 Working Groups?

Nomination process open until 17th April: apps.ipcc.ch/nominations/...

IPCC Nominations - Authors

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Eleanor Frajka-Williams @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social · Mar 8

🚨**Job advert** 🚨 We are hiring a seagoing technician in Hamburg! Interested in going to sea, handling instrumentation (ship-based, moored, glider) and logistics of research-travel to remote places? See the advert - contact me with any questions. Deadline 4 April.
eleanorfrajka.com/post/2025-03...

View of the back deck of the research vessel Maria S. Merian, showing the A-frame and flotation for moorings.