David Marshall
@dmarshallocean.bsky.social
physical oceanographer, climate scientist, advocate for blue skies research, educator, brompton rider, aspiring jazz musician, european 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇪
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Hello from Cambridge!
We've just finished our Climate Modelling Summer School. It is an exciting two-week programme of lectures and practical work on climate models.
Thank you to everyone who came along to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!
We've just finished our Climate Modelling Summer School. It is an exciting two-week programme of lectures and practical work on climate models.
Thank you to everyone who came along to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!
September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hello from Cambridge!
We've just finished our Climate Modelling Summer School. It is an exciting two-week programme of lectures and practical work on climate models.
Thank you to everyone who came along to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!
We've just finished our Climate Modelling Summer School. It is an exciting two-week programme of lectures and practical work on climate models.
Thank you to everyone who came along to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!
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My impression of Ireland after cycling around for a few days is that it’s a beautiful country with really lovely people. It’s too bad about the smell of cow poop and car exhaust.
Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.
Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.
August 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My impression of Ireland after cycling around for a few days is that it’s a beautiful country with really lovely people. It’s too bad about the smell of cow poop and car exhaust.
Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.
Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.
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@dmarshallocean.bsky.social is a professor of climate physics at @ox.ac.uk. He studies how things that happen on small scales (turbulence and eddies) affect the large scale (ocean circulation). In our parlance, he studies geophysical fluid dynamics.
August 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
@dmarshallocean.bsky.social is a professor of climate physics at @ox.ac.uk. He studies how things that happen on small scales (turbulence and eddies) affect the large scale (ocean circulation). In our parlance, he studies geophysical fluid dynamics.
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I recommend checking out the profiles and records of the people that went through this program while you still can:
cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/
They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.
cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/
They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.
C&GC Fellowship - Climate Program Office
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Growing the next generation of climate experts The NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program aims to help cre...
cpo.noaa.gov
July 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I recommend checking out the profiles and records of the people that went through this program while you still can:
cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/
They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.
cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/
They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.
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A new editorial by me on the global implications of Trump's war on science - apart from the devastating cuts to global health, we must urgently build a more distributed science infrastructure.
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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July 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A new editorial by me on the global implications of Trump's war on science - apart from the devastating cuts to global health, we must urgently build a more distributed science infrastructure.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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And remember, GFDL is whee Suki Manabe did his Nobel-prize winning work establishing the physics of CO2-induced global warming. It is a gem in the crown of US federal laboratories, and now it is about to be irretrievably tossed on the trash-heap.
July 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
And remember, GFDL is whee Suki Manabe did his Nobel-prize winning work establishing the physics of CO2-induced global warming. It is a gem in the crown of US federal laboratories, and now it is about to be irretrievably tossed on the trash-heap.
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Excellent post by @dinahvp.bsky.social on the plan to devastate NOAA research, with quotes from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social. "Only a small fraction of NOAA Research would remain and be transferred to the NWS, including portions of the weather, tornado and technology research."
NOAA budget package details plans to reduce spending, staff, climate research and shut down its labs and cooperative institutes with universities. #NOAA #climatechange www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
NOAA budget spells out plans to reduce spending and abandon climate research
A detailed expense budget for NOAA outlines plans to reduce spending and cut climate and atmospheric research.
www.usatoday.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Excellent post by @dinahvp.bsky.social on the plan to devastate NOAA research, with quotes from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social. "Only a small fraction of NOAA Research would remain and be transferred to the NWS, including portions of the weather, tornado and technology research."
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I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪
www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...
www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...
Celebrating 20 Years of MPOWIR—A Community Driven Effort | Published by ADVANCE Journal
This blog post is part of ADVANCE Journal's blog series on the impacts of NSF Grants and their terminations.
www.advancejournal.org
May 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪
www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...
www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...
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I can't overstate how scary this is.
If the state did this to pretty much *any* UK university, it would go bankrupt
If the state did this to pretty much *any* UK university, it would go bankrupt
Breaking news: The move follows weeks of pressure on Harvard and other elite institutions in the US, including cuts by the Trump administration to billions of dollars of federal funding. www.ft.com/content/300e...
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I can't overstate how scary this is.
If the state did this to pretty much *any* UK university, it would go bankrupt
If the state did this to pretty much *any* UK university, it would go bankrupt
Looking forward to another season of Grand Challenge Seminars, organised by our @oxfordenvres.bsky.social and DTC students. Kicking off today with Tightening the Green Belt: Labour, Housing and Biodiversity.
May 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Looking forward to another season of Grand Challenge Seminars, organised by our @oxfordenvres.bsky.social and DTC students. Kicking off today with Tightening the Green Belt: Labour, Housing and Biodiversity.
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Grand Challenges 2025 commence this evening, May 8th @ 5pm with a discussion around the conflict (or not?) between housing a growing population and protecting biodiversity. The free public seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles & organised by DTC first year PhD students. bit.ly/4jvMLDF
May 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Grand Challenges 2025 commence this evening, May 8th @ 5pm with a discussion around the conflict (or not?) between housing a growing population and protecting biodiversity. The free public seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles & organised by DTC first year PhD students. bit.ly/4jvMLDF
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More about threats to NOAA/GFDL.
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
More about threats to NOAA/GFDL.
About to play a set at the Tap Market with Short Notice Jazz. Wonderful setting in the centre of the Oxford Covered Market with excellent beer on tap from the Tap Social.
April 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
About to play a set at the Tap Market with Short Notice Jazz. Wonderful setting in the centre of the Oxford Covered Market with excellent beer on tap from the Tap Social.
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A science communicator launched an effort to pair artists with scientists whose jobs were eliminated or whose research funding was halted by the Trump administration. The result? Powerful portraits of researchers and their work. ⚛️🧪
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science
A hurricane researcher. An invasive-insect entomologist. An e-cigarette toxicologist. A biomedical librarian. Those are some of the people included in Silenced Science Stories, a visual storytelling p...
doi.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A science communicator launched an effort to pair artists with scientists whose jobs were eliminated or whose research funding was halted by the Trump administration. The result? Powerful portraits of researchers and their work. ⚛️🧪
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
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They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
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A chilling thought:
"So if the aloof trustees of Harvard, Princeton, Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"So if the aloof trustees of Harvard, Princeton, Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A chilling thought:
"So if the aloof trustees of Harvard, Princeton, Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"So if the aloof trustees of Harvard, Princeton, Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.
I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...
I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...
Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores
The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.
christinapagel.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.
I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...
I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...
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Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Scientist (m/f/d) in Observational Physical Oceanography
www.geomar.de
March 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
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"Britain Issues Travel Warning for U.S."
www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...
www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...
Britain issues travel warning for US
The change comes amid President Donald Trump's large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration.
www.newsweek.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Britain Issues Travel Warning for U.S."
www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...
www.newsweek.com/britain-issu...
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
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Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
Wonderful to welcome Prof. Karen Heywood to deliver the annual @ox.ac.uk - @metoffice.bsky.social Houghton Lecture at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social this afternoon, a great choice!
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wonderful to welcome Prof. Karen Heywood to deliver the annual @ox.ac.uk - @metoffice.bsky.social Houghton Lecture at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social this afternoon, a great choice!
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I have been receiving the sad news about massive NOAA firing.
I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵
I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵
February 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I have been receiving the sad news about massive NOAA firing.
I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵
I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵