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Shiva Muruganandham

@murushiv.bsky.social
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studying ice. some words. PhD candidate @ GeorgiaTech mshivaprakash.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Epochal tweet from the best to ever do it
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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SWOT is revealing a world dominated by 'weird rivers'. By simultaneously measuring water levels & breadths of rivers globally, SWOT exposes the extent of human effected on rivers. (They are dammed, braided, frozen, and/or drained—in ways models struggle to capture.) www.science.org/content/arti...
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Satellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humans
SWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
very useful! as is @meodai.bsky.social's meodai.github.io/cusphanger/ gonna be unstoppable this next map challenge
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CuspHanger — palettes from intuitive parameters
Sequential and diverging OKLCH, LCHuv, LCH or HCT palettes from a few intuitive parameters — the Wijffelaars et al. 2008 model, in-gamut by construction, for sRGB and Display-P3.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
let's slap on a chatbot assistant to help you with our already dysfunctional IT systems, what could go wrong
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
art but make it charts
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Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) in White Wig
ALT: Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) in White Wig
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
slopdesigned websites look like someone read The Shape of Design and learnt all the wrong lessons
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
before the fruit fly connectome we had a zero-shot reinforcement learning-enabled housefly that woke up and optimized its reward policy for lethal revenge
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
introduced a friend to Khn de Poitrine and Klek de Poitrine inbetween sets at the Shaky Knees festival this weekend and boy o boy its been a saga, watching him go from wtf -> i like this bop -> here lies the cure for everything
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the spongebob theme getting louder as I read:
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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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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
now let's do the conf of parties
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Solve the weather! disrupt the sun. make earth habitable! unlock the ocean! the PR will continue until the IPO clears
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
catnip and superman memory crystals, luther stickell and ethan hunt figured this out last year
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/09/2026
when an entire silicon valleysworth of people in the grip of a delusion fueled by twentieth century science fiction cannot imagine a properly dated sfnal solution to their imaginary problem
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/09/2026
the AI kill switch we need
A man says “It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.” This is a still from (I think) the film "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964)
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
discovering a single agent wrote all 50k iclr submissions otoh...
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
discovering a single agent reps many of your favorite writers is a canon event
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 19/09/2026
India's growing tiger population is a conservation win, but with 30% living outside reserves, encounters with humans are rising. Experts say reconnecting wildlife corridors and landscape-scale management are crucial to keeping both communities and big cats safe. Arathi Menon reports for #Mongabay.
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India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats
Forty-five-year-old Mahadeva Gowda was tending to his cotton farm in the village of Badagalapura in the southern Indian state of Karnataka when a tiger lunged at him from behind. He was caught…
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
gainfully employed friend called up to congratulate. me, wrestling with the fresh hell that is post-defense paperwork: macha I've got a feature request (he works at documentsignatureTM)
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For his postdoc, Shiva is off to work on the next generation of @ipcc.bsky.social sea level projections for AR7 as a part of the FACTS project in @bobkopp.net's group fact-sealevel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Framework for Assessing Changes To Sea-level (FACTS) — Framework for Assessing Changes To Sea-level (FACTS) 1.1.2 documentation
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
His work forms the technological backbone of our new CHORUS project, in which we are working with community groups in GA and NY to co-design a web platform to run real-time simulations of the effect of adaptation infrastructure on potential flood events eas.gatech.edu/news/09/supp...
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The second half of his PhD went all the way to the other end of the sea level problem, where he has developed an ML-based emulator of a building-scale coastal compound flood model, which can be used to evaluate the effect of coastal adaptation infrastructure on flooding in seconds
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shiva graduated from our interdisciplinary Ocean Science and Engineering PhD program, and it was truly reflected in the scope of his work and committee covering marine science, engineering and glaciology ocean.gatech.edu
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Had a blast working with @iceclimate.bsky.social in the ICCL group over the last few years! Many thanks to my committee and everyone else in the GT EAS crew for a truly memorable ride.
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Congrats to our newest Dr., Shiva Muruganandham! He blew us away with his dissertation "Exploring Sea Level Futures: From Antarctic Ice Loss to Coastal Flood Adaptation"
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Delhi police is doing what it does best. Brutally 'clearing' away popular protests.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Interesting and a little counterintuitive: shallow coastal urban flooding is exacerbated by paved surfaces, sure, but severe flooding mostly from inflow from surrounding rural areas to flattest, lowest spot in local topography: the urban area! Xu GRL agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Significant Rural Contributions to Severe Coastal Urban Flooding Through Flow Connectivity
Multi-scale Earth system modeling framework can capture compound flooding dynamics at actionable scales (i.e., 30 m) Severe urban flooding zone is significantly controlled by topographic factors ...
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Dr. Twila Moon @drtwilamoon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I really like this because it also helps people become more familiar with how our climate future works. There's no science crystal ball, but we sure do know a lot and people can plan and act using that information. Insight instead of certainty.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
a glut of awesome-ml lists and too few for awesome-glaciology on the hub of the git
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Tom Waits called for explainable AI in 1999:
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"...preindustrial glacier geometries simply cannot exist in their modern valley environments." 👀
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"The next breakthrough in flood risk management will not come from a satellite with a higher resolution sensor, or a neural network with a lower RMSE, or a simulation that runs ten times faster. It..." a good reminder from @niklasjordan.com: risk-and-haz.offprint.app/a/3mozncdvl7...
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Stop Building Better Flood Models: Why the Last Mile Matters More Than the Last Decimal
Europe's flood data is good enough. Getting it to the right people isn't.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus:
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 10/06/2026
Now all done but the synthesis! Thanks to the ~110 scientists and practitioners, not to mention @agu.org and our local volunteers, for a great three days in Montreal!
Attendees of the AGU Chapman conference on updating usable projections of future sea level, on the steps of the Musee Redpath, McGill University.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Late to this, but - very good (and entertaining!) read from @frank.computer on the Tufte school of data viz. Friends who like to agonize over whether each gridline has earned its ink will relate:
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Minimalism and the absurdity of the data-to-ink-ratio
How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...
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Suvrat Kher @rapiduplift.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier. Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya. Be10 dating shows pulses of glacier retreat over the past 60,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier
A new study challenges the notion that heavy rainfall can shield glaciers from decline.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
i understand cat models now
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I stumbled on Terry Pratchett as a teenager working in a library - couldn't figure out why I had to shelve those books constantly, read one, figured it out. Decades later and he holds up great. The watch books pulled me in first, nowadays bopping my way around the witches.
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I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett
One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
vanishing commons at low resolution: india.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-...
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How map scales impact coastal communities
India’s coastal zoning policy requires public consultation only for larger 1:25,000-scale maps, which miss several details.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"This stance is based on an implicit belief that Indians are somehow more ‘adapted’ to air pollution. Such arguments are pervasive and have gained legitimacy from the political denial of the air pollution problem" ☠️ excellent reporting from @rishpardikar.bsky.social on the clean air crisis:
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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Excited to share our latest work, published today in Eos! The U.S. has led and helped to fund about a third of all global sea level projections ever produced. Now, attacks on science in the U.S. have left the field at a precipice.
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
😭
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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As Indian cities struggle to plan for heat, the most vulnerable suffer
Experts say more help for the marginalised is needed to stop urban development making things worse
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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
snagged a signed copy of @matratype.bsky.social's fantastic collection on street type design earlier this month and paired it with a gorgeous journey into drishti iconography from TN. Both already well-thumbed escapes into everyday art from this horrid heat 👁️
Indian Street Lettering, by Pooja SaxenaKolli Kannu, Amar Ramesh
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Julius Garbe @juliusgarbe.github.io · 16/02/2026
3/ We analyzed 18 major Antarctic ice drainage basins using the ice-sheet model #PISM, gradually increasing global mean temperature to map their long-term response. Result: different regions respond very differently to warming.
Figure 1 from the paper.
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
You: building your #AGU25 schedule 🤝 Me: providing you a GIF-ed list of #AGU25 talks from GT Cryo group members and friends for you to add to your schedule 🧵
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Geoscience needs to lean harder into the Lovecraftian. An ever-changing, self consuming world dominated by unimaginably long cycles culminating in pulses of flood basalts or punctuated by collision with massive rocks from space that nearly wipe out all life....
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
What humans do to change climate matters much, much more than natural climate variations in determining future ice loss from Greenland 👉 Read about the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS) Project in our paper out now in The Cryosphere doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
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The Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS): simulating the future of Greenland under climate variability
Abstract. The Greenland ice sheet has lost ice at an increasing pace over recent decades, driven by a combination of human-caused climate change and internal variability in the climate system. In proj...
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands. Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard. But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽
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