Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 13hWe get this all.the.time with our arguments for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry for phase-out. At least in that case the argument is "Trump nationalizing this kind of stuff is already literally the status quo" 3160
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22hMy solar panels clicked over to 10000 kWh produced this year LIVE projected TO MY CLASS and I have never felt so cool (No one else noticed) 1250
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the paper that embodies the thing I do where I walk around with a felt bag of coal labeled "Coal" that is full of coal and say ~beware~ big thanks to @jlappen1.bsky.social for leading and to @jmijin.bsky.social for continuing to be one of the most correct people about coal transitions 1162
Reposted by Emily GrubertJosh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This one's a cri de coeur from @gruberte.bsky.social, @jmijin.bsky.social, and I: The coal sector's decline has created strong empirical evidence about how energy transitions play out, but most decarb scholarship and policymaking ignore it. That has to change. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DJ88Z...tandfonline.comHow to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About ItThe energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the... 25024
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We (civil engineers) take this shit *extremely* seriously. My grumpiest, most disciplinary take is that I've always been deeply uncomfortable with CS calling itself "engineering" because -- individuals as exceptions, of course -- it does /not/ have a safety and ethics culture. 410721
Reposted by Emily GrubertPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The ring's whole point is to remind you "People will die in incredible pain if I stop giving a fuck about even the small, boring details of what I do" Because you *can't* grandly think about systems if you can't fucking think in the first place. 31386102
Reposted by Emily GrubertPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073042276
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m only 3 chapters in since my preorder dropped while I was at a no-device conference but: no shock here that this is an absolute must-read 44011
Reposted by Emily GrubertAntonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At Climate & Energy conference @volts.wtf criticizes the climate movement for becoming an "everything movement," citing the inclusion of "environmental justice" and "labor." If those of us online could ask questions, I'd ask David to expand on how EJ and labor are "other" to the climate crisis? 4358
Reposted by Emily GrubertAAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We know that the motivation is political. That is why we are hearing no academic justification. This is censorship, pure and simple. 02718
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think I’ve underestimated how radical it is to be an “actually, we don’t need more data” guy in the age of AI 329645
Reposted by Emily GrubertDylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just FYI - there is a cost curve for RE projects ( a fairly basic / uncontroversial point I think!) New loads (...looking at you data centers) necessarily push you along the cost curve. All else being equal, RE used for data centers means more expensive RE for everyone else. Not rocket science. 34117
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026my first intense encounter with corporate PR was during the frac boom, when companies made it sound like you were a naive dunce bc we’ve done this exact thing for decades — while failing to comment on scale and key differences. Same thing w AI now, w data centers getting orders of magnitude bigger 3318
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My version of sportsposting is being now very curious if they wash Touchdown Jesus (Google suggests: yes, not often) 011
Reposted by Emily GrubertTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91318413
Reposted by Emily GrubertAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered 231782315
Reposted by Emily GrubertAastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Should we not dream of something more for ourselves? Of safe and sustainable union jobs that build infrastructure serving the many, not the few?" Applies to a lot of industries... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLabor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler TurnerWorkers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected 0144
Reposted by Emily Grubertadvait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW CPE REPORT on the urgency of building an interregional transmission macrogrid! @cthelala.bsky.social and I argue that only the federal government can get it built; no other actor on the grid is capable of doing so! Really, this is a paper about the theory of transmission as an asset class: 47127
Reposted by Emily GrubertAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Don't want to be a buzz kill and I love a good "we stopped a data center" as much as the next guy, but I fully expect there to be AI "sacrifice zones" just as there have been for oil, chemicals, etc and stopping this shit shouldn't rely solely on communities having the energy, time, money to protest 112733
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you didn’t know a lot of recycling is manual, now you do (This is not a Berkeley thing) 1166
Reposted by Emily GrubertJustin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s new restrictions on data center development threaten a key source of demand growth for shale gas producers in the state, according to an industry trade group." well...duh. The gas industry needs the AI industry. Do we need them?bloomberg.comPennsylvania Data Center Limits Are a Threat to Gas Firms, Trade Group SaysPennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s new restrictions on data center development threaten a key source of demand growth for shale gas producers in the state, according to an industry trade group. 58120
Reposted by Emily GrubertBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?" 4520142
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We (Notre Dame's policy school) are hiring an Assistant Prof in Tech Ethics and Global Security: open to ABD candidates, open discipline. This person will also be affiliated with our Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, which also supports my work on energy transition ethics: due 9 Oct!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 253
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Super excited about this new one, with Baxter Kamana-Williams (you should hire him): We investigate what electrifying heat means from a grid design and management perspective, finding that we could see up to ~1.6 TW of coincident, non-deferrable loads that would need winter resourcingiopscience.iop.orgClimate change and electrification could fundamentally alter grid planning paradigmsClimate change and electrification could fundamentally alter grid planning paradigms, Kamana-Williams, Baxter, Grubert, Emily 11310
Reposted by Emily GrubertPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol 2376641724
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So is the part of the day we spend face down on our office floors research, teaching, or service for effort reporting purposes 180
Reposted by Emily GrubertAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026Angel Cabrera, a Spanish immigrant and GMU president at the time, later became my president at Georgia Tech. He allowed his VPs to censor my work, and rollbacks to anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy. He's the incoming CEO of the Aspen Institute. 1272
Reposted by Emily GrubertJosh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026High-tech or low-tech, what matters is proactive enforcement, and the political will to enforce against the rich. The LA Air Pollution Control District (officers in training below, c. 1947) got proactive enforcement, but lost its momentum and mandate when it deprioritized corporate enforcement. 0143
Reposted by Emily GrubertKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 29/08/2026"This is how a corporation crosses the line from doing business with a state to becoming inseparable from it; how the state, once the corporation is large enough, finds itself legislating on the company’s behalf; and how the bill, when it arrives, is paid by the country rather than the shareholders"nytimes.comOpinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech. 1238
Reposted by Emily Grubertdonoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026frustrating that nyt doesn't talk to a single railway maintenance-of-way expert when publishing this puff piece on the world's most expensive dragging equipment detector 2763178
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026bill gates claiming to be "sort of the first one" to be worried about the societal impacts of AI is the funniest thing i've seen in a while 2274
Reposted by Emily GrubertGregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Scientists have been warning for forty years that continued carbon emissions will lead to deadly heatwaves and glacier collapses and uncontainable wildfires. Still, the vested interests have continued extracting and burning fossil fuels. Every climate-related disaster is a massacre.bbc.co.ukCollapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists sayPreliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice. 24016
Reposted by Emily GrubertDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026NSF will no longer fund graduate students in political science or public policy (though keeps anthropology, sociology, and geography) Personal to me -- I owe my career to being awarded an NSF fellowship when I started graudate school 421595
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026One of my proudest bike commuting moments is that I yelled at a car that pulled across my crosswalk on the city’s official bike path to turn right in red and my kid is now parroting “HEY!!! EXCUSE ME!“ rather than other things I could have said She also yells BIKE ON YOUR LEFT at people 2212
Reposted by Emily Grubertjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2026nothing has made more of a radical anti-car extremists than being a guy whose primary form of transportation is a bike 1388241
Reposted by Emily GrubertOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026big change to my material conditions: I am a bike commuter now. I will be updating my transportation opinions dialectically (I am already 27% more opinionated about bike lanes and our school crossing guard comrades) 109265797
Reposted by Emily GrubertBill Lukens @paleosol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dudes. Friends. Comrades. Brothers, sisters, and others. #MinCup26 starts next week. ⚒️🧪 #geology #mineral #getready www.mineralcup.orgmineralcup.orgMineral Cup & Ore Cup 0174
Reposted by Emily GrubertAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026And as I've been tracking, it's been eight months since Trump admitted a single refugee into the United States (Biden admitted 100,060 in 2024; white people from South Africa don't count.) There is now no longer a legal path for non-white people to become a U.S. permanent resident or citizen. 8731258
Reposted by Emily GrubertKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/08/2026When you blurt out stuff like "we need to get good at building things" but you don't assign a moral and environmental valence to WHAT we need to build, this is where you end up: unlimited energy abundance and reformed permitting, exactly how we predicted. heatmap.news/energy/trump... 24312
Reposted by Emily GrubertCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse 261645321
Reposted by Emily GrubertKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 20/08/2026What? No. Why would you even ask that in the year of our lord 2026. That question was vaguely interesting for two weeks, four years ago, before people widely understood the context. Then we did, and now it's not. Stop wasting people's time. 1344
Reposted by Emily GrubertDaniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A very cool new thing from @cplusc.bsky.social: a toolkit to help communities negotiate the best possible community benefit agreements. cbatoolkit.climateandcommunity.org 03516
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Shocked, shocked I tell you that the company that started out as a way to rate how hot girls were in a manner that fairly explicitly violated privacy rules is behind this 17331
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 19/08/2026has anyone written about the point that renewable electricity producers have pretty strong incentives to support (expensive) natural gas as the marginal producer for merit order pricing reasons? 253
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Literally the only people who didn’t expect this to be extremely hard to the point of foolishness are the people who decided they were willing to do it, which is exactly the story of risk increasing through transfer to lower info or more risk tolerant owners everywhere else 69829
Reposted by Emily GrubertAlaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New publication in Environmental Research Letters: overshooting 1.5°C then cooling back down does not undo the damage. We map where, for whom, and through what mechanisms temporary overshoot becomes permanent loss. Paper (OA): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/12 2174109
Reposted by Emily GrubertCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/20264. These emails violate that compact — and the consequences that they force me to stop doing something that I’ve always done for my colleagues. If someone I’ve never met writes me a long letter, asks me to look at their work, and it’s actually relevant, I do. But not anymore. 432519
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I didn’t actually realize how much work my solar panels are doing to keep my house cooler 111519