Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 3hToday I will edit alongside postseason baseball and an experiment with a Manhattan (swapping out the sweet vermouth with tawny port). I might be miserable with all the things I am failing to keep up with, but I will be very comfortably miserable. 000
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 3hI am reminded that "kill your darlings" has broad applicability. "It would be neat" is not compelling to a TAC. 011
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Before dunking, note that poster went to uni in Scotland, which assumes a different primary school foundation. With that context, the fact that most HE systems don't have you study across disciplines is a bad thing and why the liberal arts default in the US is a miracle worth protecting. 161
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't understand how this happened but Guardians are in the postseason. Not many seasons left to get José a ring. 000
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Very sporadically reading Higher Magic by Courtney Floyd. 000
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I grow increasingly tired of uncritical acceptance of genAI companies' preferred terminology for their bullshit machines that I am yet to perceive any social utility from. The only work they seem to make is easier is "work" that wasn't worth doing. 020
Reposted by Girish M. DuvvuriEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5794753351
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know r/fantasy has its favorites, but recommending Realm of the Elderlings and Malazan to someone asking for relatively unknown works is a new low. Wizard of the Pigeons on the other hand absolutely qualifies. 010
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They are still trying to run the "we're just a commercial exchange dealing in swaps" but the fact that they explicitly set apart what categories of users and events are eligible for borrowed betting shows that they are bookies lying badly to avoid being shut down immediately. 100
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Can we do a series where we just make all the HST/JWST instruments again with the same wavelength coverage and resolution, but just pack one instrument per one smaller telescope instead? 120
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Shaped me" is a high bar, so this is "left its mark" in roughly chronological order of encounter: Hungry Heart dot Hack // Sign Rurouni Kenshin* Jyu Oh Sei Fullmetal Alchemist (both combined) Chihayafuru Hikaru no Go Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Journal with Witch *Avoid now for author reasons 040
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The more I learn about primary education in any country the more vinidicated I feel in my childhood conviction that the teachers are the enemy. 100
Reposted by Girish M. DuvvuriMacey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026THE UNSPOKEN NAME by AK Larkwood. gorgeously written adventure fantasy of an orc sacrifice turned warrior fighting free of the terrible wizard mentor who saved her, takes Tombs of Atuan & blossoms open at Planeswalker scale. doomed by its Feb '20 release 😭 dead planets! fighter/mage f/f! butch mc!! 65422
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trying really hard not to go back and raise an additional point that if we're going to compare scales of things, maybe don't stack one group's conquest of one other group against the colonization of India of all places. 120
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is probably not what the developers of new Fire Emblem wanted for me to feel while watching the opening cinematic, but someone really should have told their typographer that their "1" looks too much like a "J" for a game where we will be regularly looking at a calendar. 020
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Brb, getting emotional about Lan Mandragoran again. 230
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anybody else remember when Harvard grad students were asking for enough money to afford rent? 130
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026After repeatedly running away from a bunch of different important things to do by running towards other important things to do, I would like to collapse in the middle of this prison of my own making. 000
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026People leaving academia for industry, people leaving the video game and tech industries because they can't maintain stability over repeated layoffs, people leaving journalism, hospital closures, and however much else I don't know about aside from LLM nonsense. 110
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A problem of being both a tea and fountain pen enthusiast: I have come far too close to drinking ink on multiple occasions where I absent-mindedly reach for my mug. 090
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Idly wondering how hard it would be to figure out what fraction of my utilities bill is just me cooking multiple computers with MCMC runs... 110
Reposted by Girish M. Duvvurisunyi @sunyidean.com · 14/09/2026A question posed by @franceswrites.bsky.social during a long industry discussion. Can you think of a SFF book in the past 5 years which was a breakout success, WITHOUT being a) in a crate; b) from an established author; c) an indie success ported to trad? Cause we were struggling. 133313
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 13/09/2026CPT during undergrad allowed me to do summer research. OPT after undergrad helped me stay near campus and get paid for research while finishing my thesis when I couldn't afford the last semester of college. OPT after grad school is what kept me here for my first 3 years as a postdoc. 1134
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The greatest lasting cultural contribution of Westworld is "Doesn't look like anything to me".static.klipy.comBernard: Doesn't Look Like Anything To Me - WestworldAlt: Bernard from Westworld saying "Doesn't look like anything to me" 000
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Hate broken brain making it harder to trust perception and deduction. 001
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026An element in many of the stories I enjoy most are two people with lives and relationships *mostly* centered on a passion they devote themselves to (not always by choice, and not necessarily the same) in tension with each other in a way that redefines their respective relationships to that passion. 100
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In this analogy I am still waiting for us to discover how to summon spirits from a different realm (open-source models trained on ethically sourced data) because these corporations are only accessing infernal ones. 130
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today I restocked my fridge with not one but THREE different types of emergency canned olives. 010
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today I and another postdoc working on exoplanets both failed for over 5 minutes to correctly turn the minimum flux during transit into a transmission spectrum measured in ppm. 100
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Just don't put the work you care about in the thing made by companies that celebrate not caring about work. People who don't give a shit about what they do and why as long as they get paid, I get why they go nuts for this nonsense while tokens are cheap. But if you care? CARE! 010
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What if the universe bent to my will so all the things I am thinking about doing were already done? 101
Reposted by Girish M. DuvvuriChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026It’s actually ok to be a person who does not enjoy doing research but then you should not be doing research for pay 464068
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Oh no someone actually heard me yelling at the clouds and now people are following my account primarily intended for yelling at the clouds. 000
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes. 111103295
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm surprised by how wrong this is. Either the influence of going to school with NRIs who were in New Jersey before Hyderabad was extremely strong or the messy combination of Bay Area/Hyderabad/Connecticut/Boulder added up to nonsense: 210
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I taught my cat to ask for his morning treats by placing his paw on top of my fist holding the treats. This has resulted in the excellent development that he comes up to me and puts his paw on my arm to ask for treats all the time (I don't give in) and that always feels nice. 110
Reposted by Girish M. DuvvuriAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026writing tip: when in doubt, read 8451153
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Taxonomy is a tool and any scientist who has strong feelings about planet-hood without being able to explain why naming Pluto as either a planet or dwarf planet matters to understanding something about physics is a scientist whose epistemology is too shaky to respect. 110
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I think if people read more papers and read them more carefully, maybe they wouldn't submit stuff that is so patently nonsensical that I never trust the authors again. 100
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Bye bye undergrad research opportunities for international students (and there aren't many of those to go around) 020
Reposted by Girish M. DuvvuriThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise. 361445227
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Idk about favorite but one I have rewatched often in the past few years: Two people write letters to each other and start by talking about where they both live(d). (But not the more obvious one that fits this description) 110
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I.e. a mechanism for moving money that would be used for NASA to something else nominally space related but definitely not science (and also will likely set up to be controlled by a corrupt political appointee). 011
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Claimed some sidewalk furniture too good to allow to get dumped for the first time in a long time and felt a little like I was in grad school again. 120
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Brb, going into more debt applying for dual-intent immigration status while also paying the new "we really don't want you here" tax. 110
Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 20/08/2026As someone who has opted to ride in the trunk of a car (and was perfectly comfortable throughout), no you are not "in the conversation" while back there. That is one of the best things about the trunk, you don't have to interact with anyone else. 200
