Santiago J Benavides, PhD
@s-j-benavides.bsky.social
Lecturer in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in understanding the statistical and dynamical behavior of turbulence and sediment transport. He/him
http://s-benavides.github.io
http://s-benavides.github.io
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Narwhals in channels and pipes at #APSDFD2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Narwhals in channels and pipes at #APSDFD2025
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New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
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Very excited to see our figure on the JFM cover!!
large-eddy simulation run with @julialang.org software Oceananigans.jl; github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
paper doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
cc @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @julialang.org
large-eddy simulation run with @julialang.org software Oceananigans.jl; github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
paper doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
cc @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @julialang.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Very excited to see our figure on the JFM cover!!
large-eddy simulation run with @julialang.org software Oceananigans.jl; github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
paper doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
cc @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @julialang.org
large-eddy simulation run with @julialang.org software Oceananigans.jl; github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
paper doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
cc @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @julialang.org
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In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.
How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived | Quanta Magazine
Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now…
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.
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We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819
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September 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819
In a parallel universe, I think I would have been an ant entomologist! They never cease to amaze me!
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/467N16m
go.nature.com/467N16m
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Nature - Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In a parallel universe, I think I would have been an ant entomologist! They never cease to amaze me!
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@natastron.nature.com’s cover looks amazing this month! Read more about our study on interstellar turbulence here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
@natastron.nature.com’s cover looks amazing this month! Read more about our study on interstellar turbulence here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing:
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
KITP
www.kitp.ucsb.edu
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing:
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
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Advertising this PhD student position once more (deadline 30 August) workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi...
We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
NIOZ - PhD-position "Overturning the ocean''
The department of Ocean Systems (OCS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to work on the exchange of lighter and denser
workingat.nioz.nl
August 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Advertising this PhD student position once more (deadline 30 August) workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi...
We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
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Excited to share a new preprint with Michael Graham on identifying efficient routes to laminarization in turbulent flows. In this work, consider the question: What is the closest point to a turbulent attractor that laminarizes without a chaotic transient? (1/3)
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited to share a new preprint with Michael Graham on identifying efficient routes to laminarization in turbulent flows. In this work, consider the question: What is the closest point to a turbulent attractor that laminarizes without a chaotic transient? (1/3)
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
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Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...)
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
Job Details
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August 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...)
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35
Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2
Please help spread the word!
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📢📢 New preprint alert! 📢📢
Radiation is a key piece of climate models, but comes with a trade-off: use an accurate scheme (which is difficult to understand), or a simple scheme (which is not very accurate)...
Here I introduce a scheme which bridges this gap!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.09353
Radiation is a key piece of climate models, but comes with a trade-off: use an accurate scheme (which is difficult to understand), or a simple scheme (which is not very accurate)...
Here I introduce a scheme which bridges this gap!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.09353
August 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
📢📢 New preprint alert! 📢📢
Radiation is a key piece of climate models, but comes with a trade-off: use an accurate scheme (which is difficult to understand), or a simple scheme (which is not very accurate)...
Here I introduce a scheme which bridges this gap!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.09353
Radiation is a key piece of climate models, but comes with a trade-off: use an accurate scheme (which is difficult to understand), or a simple scheme (which is not very accurate)...
Here I introduce a scheme which bridges this gap!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.09353
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Are you a student in mathematics or an adjacent field? Help us understand how funding access and eligibility have affected your career. Take a short survey here tinyurl.com/MathFundingA...
Funding Access and Career Planning
This study investigates career planning and pathways for students in the mathematical sciences, as related to visa and citizenship status and funding access.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are you a student in mathematics or an adjacent field? Help us understand how funding access and eligibility have affected your career. Take a short survey here tinyurl.com/MathFundingA...
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This is one of the best things I've listened to in a long time. Heroic team effort by Elizabeth Mynatt and @seanmcarroll.bsky.social to explain (with lots of examples) what the US is in the process of losing by gutting research. youtu.be/tm_EtHbqtQY?...
Mindscape 324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript:…
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is one of the best things I've listened to in a long time. Heroic team effort by Elizabeth Mynatt and @seanmcarroll.bsky.social to explain (with lots of examples) what the US is in the process of losing by gutting research. youtu.be/tm_EtHbqtQY?...
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I will be attending the 2nd European Fluid Dynamics Conference in Dublin from August 26 to August 29, 2025. Feel free to reach out if you will be attending as well. #Fluids #Softmatter #Physics
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I will be attending the 2nd European Fluid Dynamics Conference in Dublin from August 26 to August 29, 2025. Feel free to reach out if you will be attending as well. #Fluids #Softmatter #Physics
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Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis.
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
July 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis.
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
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Keen to work on ice sheet 🧊🏔️ model development 👩🏾💻🌏 with @fsmccormack.bsky.social and @access-nri.bsky.social?
Seize the opportunity!👇🏼
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Seize the opportunity!👇🏼
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July 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Keen to work on ice sheet 🧊🏔️ model development 👩🏾💻🌏 with @fsmccormack.bsky.social and @access-nri.bsky.social?
Seize the opportunity!👇🏼
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Seize the opportunity!👇🏼
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.
July 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.
Had a great time and learned a lot! Thank you, Massimo and Alessandra for organizing!
ComplexFlows and ComplexFluids 2025 concluded. A great success: proud to be part of this community, thanks to #Cnr @erc.europa.eu #Infn #EurophysicsLetter for sponsoring and all you guys for participating!
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Had a great time and learned a lot! Thank you, Massimo and Alessandra for organizing!
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1st day of the Workshop on Complex Flows and Complex Fluids #CNR within #SmartTurb @erc.europa.eu 100+ senior and young scientists working on #turbulence #activematter #biofluids #microfluidcs with equation based and #AI tools. A lot of fun. see biferale.web.roma2.infn.it/ComplexFlows...
July 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
1st day of the Workshop on Complex Flows and Complex Fluids #CNR within #SmartTurb @erc.europa.eu 100+ senior and young scientists working on #turbulence #activematter #biofluids #microfluidcs with equation based and #AI tools. A lot of fun. see biferale.web.roma2.infn.it/ComplexFlows...
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I'm hiring a postdoc in tropical cloud-climate dynamics! Learn more here drive.google.com/file/d/17Qv-...
June 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc in tropical cloud-climate dynamics! Learn more here drive.google.com/file/d/17Qv-...
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It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts).
Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
June 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts).
Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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I acted as a senior advisor for MPOWIR. I learned so much about being a better advisor, to women and to physical oceanographers of any gender.
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 7:01 PM
I acted as a senior advisor for MPOWIR. I learned so much about being a better advisor, to women and to physical oceanographers of any gender.