Caltech has recommended that international scholars on H-1B visas (like myself) not leave the US.

I'm very grateful to @earthsciencewomen.bsky.social and the volunteers that moderate the list, and the community members that contribute. Thanks to all of you!

I haven't looked into whether there are differences based on location, subject area, etc. (and I'm not currently planning to)

That said, I think this figure is instructive. It might be too early to say whether the 2025-2026 job cycle is going to be "normal" or not, but so far it seems to be within the general range of other cycles. But, to me, it is clear that the 2024-2025 job cycle was not normal.

Since everything is crowd-sourced, year-to-year variability reflects not just the job market, but also people's interaction with the list, visibility of postings, moderation choices (e.g., when to rollover to a new year-cycle, etc.), and other factors—so I wouldn't read much into direct comparisons.

Here, I'm just plotting the dates jobs were added to the "Tenure Track/Permanent jobs" for each of the job-search cycles going back to 2019-2020.

The list is a really excellent community resource of crowd-sourced Tenure Track/Permanent jobs, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, and Postdoc positions hosted by @earthsciencewomen.bsky.social. It contains postings worldwide, but is mostly US-centric.

As a postdoc on the job market, I've been worried about the impact of ongoing funding/policy uncertainties on faculty positions. So I decided to compare the progression of faculty jobs this cycle to previous years based on positions posted to eswnonline.org/online/earth...

Does anyone have good suggestions for where to find these foreign research jobs? The job search email listservs I am already on tend to be somewhat (though not entirely) US-centric, so I wonder if there are others I should subscribe to to cast a wider net?

Saw this article on my feed today, and had to come back and find your post so I could share:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The article claims that it's not about harder hits (fitting with your point re moment of inertia), it's about better aim.

If you are into Arctic sea ice thermodynamics, here is our new dataset of 82 CRREL ice mass balance buoys deployed in 1997–2024 with estimates of snow and ice thickness and their interface evolution: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15096485

Casual final sentence here, way to bury the lede CBC!

"Carney is expected to call an election by the end of the week, to take place in late Apr or early May."

If you're out of the country and you want to vote, here's what you need to do as soon as the election is announced ⬇️

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If you haven't already done so, sign the House of Commons petition urging the Government of Canada to move off of Twitter/X:
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NOAA scientists need to get clearance before talking with Canadian scientists. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Sea ice paper alert, congratulations to my colleagues!

Krumpen, T., von Albedyll, L., Bünger, H.J. et al. Smoother sea ice with fewer pressure ridges in a more dynamic Arctic. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Arctic #climate 🌊 🥼❄️
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US academics: look after foreign students

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We're very happy to be the first AGU journal on Bluesky!
I guess that also makes us the best AGU journal on Bluesky 😆

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Welcome @agu.org! It’s great to have the American Geophysical Union here!

Hi all! I've seen an uptick in follows from fellow Federal #Canadian #scientists over the last while, so I figured I'd create a starter pack!

Check here to follow federal Canadian science & scientists!🧪

Reply here if you want to be added; DM me if you want to be removed.

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Please welcome the @ametsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky!

AMS advances the atmospheric & related sciences (including of course climate), applications, and services for the benefit of society.

I've added them to this starter pack of scientific organizations that do climate-related work ⬇️

That somewhat recalls the one-sentence introduction section from a Walter Munk paper

🧪📍 🌊 🦑 Applications are now being accepted from undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, and early-career scientists to participate in an NSF-funded research cruise aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth mailchi.mp/ldeo/langset...

I finally got around to adding a Bluesky profile link to my personal research website.