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Carlos Moffat

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Associate Professor of oceanography at the University of Delaware. Interested in icy places. Views my own. Old posts are deleted regularly.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · Aug 29

🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2026.

If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026

This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography. Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information...

docs.google.com

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 4h

ICE is targeting the Super Bowl for the sin of having a Puerto Rican (i.e., American) artist who sings in Spanish.

It's extremely easy to extrapolate those plans to events in "blue cities" filled with soccer-loving fans from all over the world.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

From @theathletic.com: President Trump has once again suggested relocating World Cup matches from cities that he deems unsafe — this time, threatening to move games from Boston. “I know the games are sold out, but your mayor is not good.”

President Trump once again suggests relocating World Cup matches

Trump claims he would consider calling FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino to move games from cities that he deems unsafe.

nyti.ms

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 5h

This UVA rally — which is sponsored by student, faculty, & staff groups — will protest the Trump regime's efforts to take over American universities & demand that UVA not cooperate, as it did this summer.
Friday, noon, at the Rotunda. C-ville community members are encouraged to attend.

CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First @cbs19news.bsky.social · 6h

Rally to protest Trump Administration deal set for Friday

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The University of Virginia will be holding a press conference, rally and march on Friday at the Rotunda against the Compact for Academic Excellence in

www.cbs19news.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5h

"China Has Overtaken America--And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up"
by @pkrugman.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-...

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 5h

Years ago, Chilean students had a 'kissing' protest where they just gathered in one place and... made out. They were fighting for free education.

This was genius because it made news all over the world and drove their opposition absolutely nuts.

Portland gets it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wcD...

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 19h

investment would have solved an actual, known problem. But suddenly large language models come along -- which solve no known problem -- and trillions of dollars magically appear? What fresh hell is this?

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 19h

Every time the cost of investment needed to decarbonise came up over the last several decades, we were told the money needed for the investment just isn't there (even though it would avoid costs and be profitable in the long run). Such

Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 21h

never has there been a solution looking more desperately for a problem than ChatGPT

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today.

About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go.

I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't.

I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 1d

Faculty and Student Unions understand that the only way through this is by university communities joining forces.

When will administrators listen?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 1d

As a guy with a Hispanic first name, a Scottish last name, and an unmissable Spanish accent, this seems less than ideal.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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JGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 2d

Ocean scientists, you never write, you never call! 🌊

Don't be shy! Let us know what you're up to and send us some cool photos of your latest ocean science to share online every Friday! 🐧 🐳 🧪 🐻‍❄️ 🐟 🧬

Use #FieldworkFriday

#OceanScience #MarineBiology #OceanConservation @agu.org @eos.org

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 2d

This proposal is good.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 2d

October 10th was marked by two M7+ earthquakes on the same day - 14,000 km apart! How unusual is that? We crunch some numbers.

Also: what’s going on in the Drake Passage? 2025 has seen three mid-M7 earthquakes there, after decades of relative seismic silence. What can the limited data tell us?

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Another mid-M7 earthquake in the Drake Passage

The third large earthquake to strike between South America and Antarctica this year

earthquakeinsights.substack.com

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 2d

All software updates in 2025.

Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 4d

Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 2d

People can definitely be convinced that working across disciplines is great.

This might not be apparent when you're interviewing, but often the ones doing the hiring don't have a unified vision of who they want to hire, and those internal factions are in flux.

(agree it's a tough market).

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.”

— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

How Academic Freedom in Universities Generates the Greatest Value for Society

Academic freedom is at the foundation of one of the most powerful and fundamental ideas about universities. Learn about how academic freedom has contributed to broad benefits in society and UC Davis f...

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 4d

The dual sell from AI companies to Universities is, to students, that they can pass their courses without having to think, and to professors, that they can unload the teaching to LLMs.

What could go wrong.

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

actually, fixing your employer's spreadsheets because the AI they got to fill them in has a 43% error rate.

Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 4d

We seem to be answering the unlikely question: can a government be objectively pro-disease? with a "hell, yes!"

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 4d

This month we’re featuring Dr Sian Henley, a marine scientist studying how climate change reshapes polar oceans and ecosystems, and how science can guide global action on ocean and climate change. #WomenInScience #IDWGS2025

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 4d

"M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment." Bravo.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 4d

Rutgers TPUSA says they don't condone harassment of anyone who opposes them, but I hear from colleagues that people who signed the petition calling for them to be banned are receiving email threats to publicize their home addresses if they don't remove their name and apologize.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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