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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/10/2026

I also know nothing about what CMU Miami might look like. Maybe it is a terrible idea from a curricular perspective. But is it a distinct entity (CMU Miami) or just an extension of the same CMU into a new geography? This is not my question to answer, of course, and the answer will shape the outcome

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/10/2026

I know nothing about CMU's current financial status, but given how stressed most of private higher ed is right now - both by enrollment pressures and the loss of research funds - I doubt this is expansion for its own sake. Very good schools are experiencing a lot of stress at the moment.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/10/2026

Pretty much everyone is looking at this strategy - physical expansion is extreme. But the recruiting footprints in growth states are large and growing as are "lighter infrastructure" efforts to geographically expand through various partnerships.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/10/2026

I'm not trying to tell you how to feel about CMU or its geographic expansion. But as a former dean I can tell you that higher ed consumers travel less, and less far, than you'd think. Aggressive expansion into "growth markets" is not just for community colleges.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/10/2026

Not for nothing, but FL is one of the biggest growth markets in higher ed. Huge demand, not enough supply. As a diversification strategy, I get it. This says nothing about curriculum or other aspects of strategy, of course.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 10/09/2026

At some point, it just becomes El Hombre

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/09/2026

This is amazing. I know it would involve a lot more inputs, but I wonder about the net avoided emissions, which is the main thing being proxied here (but also local air quality and financial pressure on fossil fuel producers have value)

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/09/2026

If you need to put social media discourse in perspective, this is great!

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 23/08/2026

Can’t trust the experts. E.g., “nobody* accounts for CO2 fertilization and I bet that offsets crop losses from heat and drought because the experts would lose too much money if they admit things aren’t that bad” *loads of people have accounted for this

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 22/08/2026

One of my mantras to students and mentees: you have to be good enough to be in the room/conversation. Lots of people are that good. But if you are in the room/conversation, at least you have a shot.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 14/08/2026

I would have replied, but replies seem to be locked. So now I quote post with an answer: We’re all still here. We are not facing global food system collapse. We’re just choosing to no longer engage with a shouty, anonymous, doomer account because there’s work to do and we’re doing it.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

Final “AI in research” thought for the AM: I was on a team call recently and actually had to write in the chat “We should not be citing articles we have not read.” Forget worrying about hallucinated bibliographies. That can only happen if people aren’t reading. Worry about basic research practice

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

Basically, if you are engaged in social scientific research and AI can define your question and answer your question, you are not working on an interesting question. You might get some pubs out, but they won’t matter.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

I write this as someone using AI to develop meta-lessons about what works in adaptation. The tool helps scan the literature…but it takes deep knowledge, thinking, experience, and judgment to design and refine the tool. Or just to frame the right questions. The tool can’t do that.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

The more AI in academia/research discourse I see, the more I think that original thinkers who work hard (a group in much shorter supply than anyone wants to admit) are going to become even more rare and insanely valuable. What y’all call inefficiency is what I call the foundations of creativity.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

But Stephens really resonates here (God help me) because I use writing to figure out what I think. I have never outlined a single published work (I have more than 100 out there). They all had starting points and the emergence of argument and structure occurred as I wrote. AI ruins that.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/08/2026

I’ve tried to use AI for drafting simple content (no chance I will use it for my meaningful writing) and it has never added value…in fact it usually wastes my time as I have to rewrite most of the text. But then, I can discern crap from good writing… www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

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Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/08/2026

Whatever you might think about democratic socialism, calling a $15 million effort to discredit it a “war” fails to capture how tiny this amount of money is in relation to any given cycle of campaign spending. It’s basically a rounding error with a press release www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

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Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left

One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 03/08/2026

Interesting - semantically I feel like it shifts attention to downside management and away from desired outcomes, but certainly we should be practicing iterative risk management given the rapidly evolving (climate, economic, political, etc) context.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 03/08/2026

I’ll check that out! In AR6, Ch 18 we argued for emergent transformation pathways - do, learn, adjust, do, etc despite huge pressure to define the “right pathways”. It’s just adaptive management, with a broadly directional goal guiding each decision…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/08/2026

Nothing better than having to ward off arguments from a time before Britney Spears…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/08/2026

This is an important point. While some hard limits (cannot be overcome by any means) to adaptation might be identified through biophysical research, identifying most hard limits and all soft limits (we hit because we choose not to do things that are needed) requires actually trying to adapt.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 19/07/2026

We were two point-blank shots from 5-5 and extra time!

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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 13/07/2026

🌎 SEI US introduces a new research program: Climate and Equity. Combining the forces of three previously separate teams, this program advances policy innovation in just energy transitions, #CarbonMarkets, food systems, #CleanEnergy and more. Read on for details 👀 buff.ly/reW3UvQ

Rear view of a Masai warrior in Nairobi, Kenya wearing traditional clothes watching silhouetted wind turbines at sunset beneath a dark blue and bright orange, lightly clouded sky. White text overlaid reads, "SEI US introduces the Climate and Equity program".

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 12/07/2026

Haaland looks like the lead character of the Pixar movie “The Nice Soccer Giant”

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 07/07/2026

Man, I did not fly for my sport in college! And I was a hurdler in the ACC! Lots of 6-10 hour bus rides, even to conference. (Things have changed since the 1990s. There is more flying/travel now)

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 07/07/2026

But 100% yes to the toxic parents problem - it’s just that the parents’ perceptions, not admissions reality, is driving that dynamic.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 07/07/2026

I disagree with this a bit: youth sports went to hell when parents were sold on the idea that professionalizing their children would make them viable college athletes. In admissions, kids/parents drive this far more than colleges. (Informed by my experience as a college athlete/dean/dad/coach)

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/07/2026

While I agree that the conversion of Balogun’s red card suspension into a probationary period is shaky at best, I grow weary of the use of “unprecedented” to describe it. FIFA did the same thing for Ronaldo to let him play the opener in the group stages. Where was the UEFA/global outrage then?

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/07/2026

Bring him on at the half. Everyone know the card was trash. But this flags that nobody on the team wanted a corrupt solution.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

A lot of the “Trump got Balogun a pardon” reporting seems rather credulous. I’d believe Trump made a call. But organizing a team of lawyers? To do what, exactly? I’d love a lot more sourcing…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

Absolutely. But Brazil’s frontline is doing all it can to blow it

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

Brazil doing all it can to lose this game.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/07/2026

Folks, this is just FIFA being FIFA. Staggering incompetence at many levels, but hard to see US-led corruption here. Balogun is a beneficiary of birthright citizenship and everything Trump et al hate. If this was Pulisic, on the other hand…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 03/07/2026

Treaty of Tordesillas jokes giving me Intro to Human Geography nostalgia from my University of South Carolina days…

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I don't think FIFA refs are biased against specific countries, only against all that is beautiful, good, and pure that flickers briefly into existence in this fallen world.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/07/2026

Argh disaster terrible decision

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Lynsi Burton (she/her) @lynsi-climate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I just want to make this chart my epitaph, my personality, my avatar, my everything

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 20/06/2026

It’s working out worse this time

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