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Alexis Kaminski @alexisonfluids.bsky.social · 9d

Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!

Berkeley Mechanical Engineering @berkeleyme.bsky.social · 10d

#BerkeleyME is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Fluid Mechanics/Fluid Dynamics.
me.berkeley.edu/faculty/me-o...

Assistant Professor - Fluid Mechanics - UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $107,100 – $...

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · Sep 4

💙💛 Warmest congratulations to Assistant Professors Mary O’Keeffe, Lucía Tiscornia, Kevin Daly and Graham Benham, who have each been awarded prestigious European Research Council (@erc.europa.eu) Starting Grants worth over €1.5m.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Four UCD early-career researchers receive coveted ERC Starting Grants

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 20

Advertising this PhD student position once more (deadline 30 August) workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi...

We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

NIOZ - PhD-position "Overturning the ocean''

The department of Ocean Systems (OCS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to work on the exchange of lighter and denser

workingat.nioz.nl

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · Aug 16

Stunning imagery of lightning within Hurricane Erin.

Erin remains a powerful, major hurricane.

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Luke Zoet @lzoet.bsky.social · Jul 16

Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 30

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS.

In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · May 28

Join us tomorrow, starting at 10am PT tomorrow, Wednesday May 28th, for 💯 hours of non-stop weather and climate science!

I'll be hosting for a stacked line-up of keynote speakers live from 4pm-8pm PT!

Check out the keynote schedule here:
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The Weather & Climate Livestream

Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · May 17

Obit for Peter Lax, an applied mathematician who did pioneering work in PDEs, solitons, and computational science.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99

www.nytimes.com

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Niels Warburton @nielsw.bsky.social · Apr 16

The UCD Relativity Group will be hosting Prof. Chris Lintott at the Royal Irish Academy for a public talk on "Our Accidental Universe: Discoveries from Asteroids to Aliens" on the 13th of May. Sign up here to attend: www.eventbrite.ie/e/our-accide... @chrislintott.bsky.social @ria.ie

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's even worse than removing the grant funding for university research (in groups like mine at UC Irvine). NOAA labs and cooperative institutes collect the climate data we use, develop the predictive weather and climate models, and train the students we hire.

This demolishes U.S. climate research.

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Apr 15

The proposed budget would “eliminate all funding for climate, weather, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.”

Much of the current federal research funding goes to grants for university funding at cooperative institutions, including nine campuses in California, including many UCs.

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Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com · Apr 14

Any time a fluid under gravity has areas of differing density, it convects. We're used to thinking of this in terms of temperature -- "hot air rises" -- but temperature isn't the only source of convection.
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=23535

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 13

Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article)

A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

www.nytimes.com

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Apr 9

It's sad to see CIMES funding cut at Princeton. It has been an incredibly successful research program.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 9

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Apr 4

One of the most tedious parts of working life is people droning on in meetings and committees. But how do you stop them?

Sam Howison has an answer.

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Apr 2

🌊 Frédéric Dias brought science to life in Ireland’s #AranIslands by hiring local fishermen ⚓ , inspiring students 🏫, and building lasting community ties 🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻.

More on his #ERCengage award 👉 bit.ly/3XEwxzv

🧪 #SciComm #FrontierResearch @ucddublin.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social

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Dr Stephen Thomson @stephenithomson.bsky.social · Mar 27

We're advertising 2 fully-funded PhD positions in atmospheric science @exeter.ac.uk for entry in September 2025. Both are open to UK and international appliants.
The first project is with me looking at Atmospheric heat transport across a range of planetary climates
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · Mar 12

Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?

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Udo Sen @uddaloksen.bsky.social · Mar 3

Are you enthusiastic about interdisciplinary research at the interface of physics and biology, and using state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical tools to unravel the biophysical mechanisms of immune cell functioning? Then we might have an open PhD position for you!

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

PhD position in 'Biophysical mechanics of immune cell functioning

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · Feb 28

I’ve been teaching our first-year undergrads this week about weather forecasting — how it is a tremendous, life-saving human achievement that is so important to modern society, underpinned by openness & a desire to cooperate…

My thoughts are with everyone at NOAA/NWS who lost their job 😖

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Chris Howland @chowlandgfd.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨 An exciting opportunity for a funded PhD studentship with me on immersed boundary method simulations for ice-ocean interfaces! 🧊

Please repost and share with students! Deadline is 31st March.

RD2025 - UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics

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UCD Science @ucdscience.bsky.social · Jan 28

University College Dublin is seeking to recruit 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme: ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Applications are now open for 10 positions in the College of Science: ucd.ie/adastrafello...

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Chris Howland @chowlandgfd.bsky.social · Feb 4

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Come join me at @ucdscience.bsky.social!
We are looking for a new Assistant Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics with a speciality in Meteorology, as part of the Ad Astra fellowship scheme. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Apply by 21st February

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Physics of Fluids @ UTwente @poftwente.bsky.social · Jan 30

Congratulations, Giulia Piumini, for successfully defending her thesis: Fluid structure interaction of turbulent flows with complex-shape bodies. tinyurl.com/26dd34j2.
Congratulations also to the promotion team: Detlef Lohse and Roberto Verzicco. #FluidDynamics #particles

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Chris Howland @chowlandgfd.bsky.social · Jan 14

It's less than 2 weeks until the abstract submission deadline for the 2nd European Fluid Dynamics Conference. I'm really excited to welcome the fluids community to @ucddublin.bsky.social next August, so please send in your abstracts!

Submit Your Abstract before 23rd January!

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Cambridge University Press - Science & Engineering @cambup-scieng.cambridge.org · Dec 18

#JFM VOLUME 1000!! cup.org/3P348hS
Together with the usual latest research, Volume 1000 includes special Editorials and Focus on Fluids articles.
📸 includes graphical abstracts of Volume 1000 F1 – F10 and background image from Sunil et al. doi: 10.1017/jfm.2021.894

Cover of "Journal of Fluid Mechanics," Volume 1000, published by Cambridge University Press on 10 December 2024. The cover features a collage of various graphical abstracts, including flow diagrams, simulations in different colors, and experimental setups related to fluid dynamics studies.

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