Carlos Moffat
@carlosmoffat.com
Associate Professor of oceanography at the University of Delaware. Interested in icy places.
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Carlos Moffat
@carlosmoffat.com
· Aug 29
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
🌊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...
Please share widely! (1/2)
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...
Please share widely! (1/2)
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
I beg a major publication to publish a list of Nobel Prize winner who are immigrants to this country.
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I beg a major publication to publish a list of Nobel Prize winner who are immigrants to this country.
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This is a bad idea. Recruiting talented people from other countries is a good thing. American universities have been very good at it in particular. Recruiting talented people tends to benefit everyone. We should keep doing it. I am speaking in short sentences for the benefit of the Governor.
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is a bad idea. Recruiting talented people from other countries is a good thing. American universities have been very good at it in particular. Recruiting talented people tends to benefit everyone. We should keep doing it. I am speaking in short sentences for the benefit of the Governor.
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The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it.
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it.
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
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Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
All of my students have heard me tell horror stories about people who don't back up their work.
I have a new one: Andrew Lloyd Webber lost the score for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera to his cat, who jumped on his electronic piano and pressed "erase":
playbill.com/article/cat-...
I have a new one: Andrew Lloyd Webber lost the score for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera to his cat, who jumped on his electronic piano and pressed "erase":
playbill.com/article/cat-...
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
All of my students have heard me tell horror stories about people who don't back up their work.
I have a new one: Andrew Lloyd Webber lost the score for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera to his cat, who jumped on his electronic piano and pressed "erase":
playbill.com/article/cat-...
I have a new one: Andrew Lloyd Webber lost the score for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera to his cat, who jumped on his electronic piano and pressed "erase":
playbill.com/article/cat-...
The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it.
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
🧵
🧵
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Python Software Foundation had been awarded a grant from NSF to improve the security of Python, but this being 2025, they were required to give up on the DEI efforts funded by the grant, and thus decided to decline it.
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
If you use Python for your work, consider donating!
More info here:
The government demanding a billion dollars from UCLA.
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The government demanding a billion dollars from UCLA.
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🌊 #Postdoc position available
📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras
Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP).
Requirements
✅ PhD in physical #oceanography
To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras
Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP).
Requirements
✅ PhD in physical #oceanography
To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
Postdoctoral Investigator – Physical Oceanography
Job Summary The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Investigator (PDI) in observational physical oceanography under the supervision of Dr. Isabela Le Br...
whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🌊 #Postdoc position available
📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras
Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP).
Requirements
✅ PhD in physical #oceanography
To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras
Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP).
Requirements
✅ PhD in physical #oceanography
To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
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UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Judge orders UC to release Trump UCLA settlement offer at the center of private negotiations
A judge ordered UC to release the settlement proposal sent by the Trump administration in August. It outlines a $1.2-billion fine and vast campus changes.
www.latimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️
Some doctoral programmes in the US are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding
go.nature.com/4o63boK
go.nature.com/4o63boK
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
go.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️
I let the SSD of my Mac get to 99% usage and let me tell you, don’t do this.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I let the SSD of my Mac get to 99% usage and let me tell you, don’t do this.
At this moment, it makes a huge difference to have a University President that’s more than a mere administrator or fundraiser.
We need leaders who understand what makes a University a uniquely valuable institution and are willing to go to the mat to defend that vision.
We need leaders who understand what makes a University a uniquely valuable institution and are willing to go to the mat to defend that vision.
Agreed. Critical first mover.
I was incredibly pleased and frankly surprised to see my PhD alma mater (U of A) reject this.
I’m also grateful for President Kornbluth’s leadership; I think she gave a lot of cover to her colleagues.
I’m also grateful for President Kornbluth’s leadership; I think she gave a lot of cover to her colleagues.
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
At this moment, it makes a huge difference to have a University President that’s more than a mere administrator or fundraiser.
We need leaders who understand what makes a University a uniquely valuable institution and are willing to go to the mat to defend that vision.
We need leaders who understand what makes a University a uniquely valuable institution and are willing to go to the mat to defend that vision.
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The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
The Dismal Application Record of the Trump Compact
The Trump administration hoped to get accepted by some prestigious universities. It didn't work out well.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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🌊 a chance to learn how to use a whole pile of amazing NASA Earthdata tools in cloud.
Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud.
November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT.
Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...
November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT.
Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
🌊 a chance to learn how to use a whole pile of amazing NASA Earthdata tools in cloud.
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Speaking as a professor, the why is easy. There is less money to pay grad students, and more uncertainty, so to avoid getting ourselves in a position where we can’t pay students the salaries we promised them (students get paid), we take fewer students.
October 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Speaking as a professor, the why is easy. There is less money to pay grad students, and more uncertainty, so to avoid getting ourselves in a position where we can’t pay students the salaries we promised them (students get paid), we take fewer students.
If you’re going to have a doppelgänger, get yourself a famous movie director or, like @naomiaklein.bsky.social, one you can write a good book about.
Mine is, last time I checked, in jail in Florida. **sad trombone**.
Mine is, last time I checked, in jail in Florida. **sad trombone**.
You won’t like my followup to Heat. It’s called Wildfire.
52 new projects — including the next Jumanji movie, Michael Mann's followup to Heat, and the next film by the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once — just received the latest round of California Film & TV Tax Credits.
It means $1.4B for our economy and thousands of new jobs.
It means $1.4B for our economy and thousands of new jobs.
October 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you’re going to have a doppelgänger, get yourself a famous movie director or, like @naomiaklein.bsky.social, one you can write a good book about.
Mine is, last time I checked, in jail in Florida. **sad trombone**.
Mine is, last time I checked, in jail in Florida. **sad trombone**.
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation
☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
I heard “the cloud is just someone else’s computer” years ago and I never forgot.
A good reminder that "The Cloud" is a physical thing--mostly located in the DC are.
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I heard “the cloud is just someone else’s computer” years ago and I never forgot.
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New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universities—to some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact
With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:
With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:
How scientists are pushing back against Trump’s funding ‘deal’ for universities
Six institutions have so far rejected the administration’s list of demands over academic freedom concerns.
www.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universities—to some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact
With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:
With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:
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W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
Maybe I can say *I* also run on AWS and need to go home and take a nap while the issue is resolved?
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Maybe I can say *I* also run on AWS and need to go home and take a nap while the issue is resolved?
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Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing. n.pr/47x4Bmd
As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent
Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing. n.pr/47x4Bmd