30s would have been too much, getting in the way of the talks. The large numbers counting down were enough. Only one person ever dared continue for an extended period beyond the music, and the audience made their displeasure clear!

That’s my timer :) it was 5 seconds of music. Stephanie Waterman timed her talk perfectly to dance to the music 🕺

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Agree with all of this, except we had a positive experience with bikes on trains - guess we got lucky … The lack of wind turbines was particularly striking despite a persistent and welcome tailwind!

Nice chance meeting on the ferry from Dublin-Holyhead this morning after both bike touring in Ireland!

@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.

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.

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.

Hmm … my personal experience is that my highest quality research (I appreciate highly subjective!) has been the hardest to fund. Meanwhile I’ve seen recent calls for large programmes of dubious quality.

More about threats to NOAA/GFDL.

Keys today