Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Epochal tweet from the best to ever do it 17721
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamMike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SWOT 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...science.orgSatellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humansSWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models 02412
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026very useful! as is @meodai.bsky.social's meodai.github.io/cusphanger/ gonna be unstoppable this next map challengemeodai.github.ioCuspHanger — palettes from intuitive parametersSequential 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. 021
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026let's slap on a chatbot assistant to help you with our already dysfunctional IT systems, what could go wrong 010
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026art but make it chartsstatic.klipy.comFrank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) in White WigALT: Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) in White Wig 100
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026slopdesigned websites look like someone read The Shape of Design and learnt all the wrong lessons 000
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026before the fruit fly connectome we had a zero-shot reinforcement learning-enabled housefly that woke up and optimized its reward policy for lethal revenge 100
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026introduced 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 100
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the spongebob theme getting louder as I read: 100
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026NEW 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. 🧵doi.orgResearch Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United StatesA 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, ... 114782
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Solve the weather! disrupt the sun. make earth habitable! unlock the ocean! the PR will continue until the IPO clears 000
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026catnip and superman memory crystals, luther stickell and ethan hunt figured this out last year 001
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/09/2026when 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 1263
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/09/2026the AI kill switch we need 210023
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026discovering a single agent wrote all 50k iclr submissions otoh... 000
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026discovering a single agent reps many of your favorite writers is a canon event 100
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamMongabay @mongabay.com · 19/09/2026India'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.mongabay.ccIndia’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big catsForty-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… 0168
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026gainfully 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) 000
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For 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/fact-sealevel.readthedocs.ioFramework for Assessing Changes To Sea-level (FACTS) — Framework for Assessing Changes To Sea-level (FACTS) 1.1.2 documentation 141
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026His 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... 101
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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 111
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Shiva 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 131
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Had 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. 251
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Congrats 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" 3151
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamJayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The Delhi police is doing what it does best. Brutally 'clearing' away popular protests. 023
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Interesting 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/...agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSignificant Rural Contributions to Severe Coastal Urban Flooding Through Flow ConnectivityMulti-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 ... 33212
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamDr. Twila Moon @drtwilamoon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I 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. 053
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026a glut of awesome-ml lists and too few for awesome-glaciology on the hub of the git 100
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Tom Waits called for explainable AI in 1999: 010
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"...preindustrial glacier geometries simply cannot exist in their modern valley environments." 👀 000
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...risk-and-haz.offprint.appStop Building Better Flood Models: Why the Last Mile Matters More Than the Last DecimalEurope's flood data is good enough. Getting it to the right people isn't. 132
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamZachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus: 117348
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 10/06/2026Now 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! 1124
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Late 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:frank.computerMinimalism and the absurdity of the data-to-ink-ratioHow 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... 041
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamSuvrat Kher @rapiduplift.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Tracing 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...nature.comTracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacierA new study challenges the notion that heavy rainfall can shield glaciers from decline. 051
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I 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.theatlantic.comI Am Begging You to Read Terry PratchettOne of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history. 35422102
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026vanishing commons at low resolution: india.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-...india.mongabay.comHow map scales impact coastal communitiesIndia’s coastal zoning policy requires public consultation only for larger 1:25,000-scale maps, which miss several details. 010
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: 132
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAndra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Excited 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. 065
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026dialogue.earth/en/climate/a...dialogue.earthAs Indian cities struggle to plan for heat, the most vulnerable sufferExperts say more help for the marginalised is needed to stop urban development making things worse 000
Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026snagged 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 👁️ 042
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamJulius Garbe @juliusgarbe.github.io · 16/02/20263/ 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. 2188
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 12/12/2025You: 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 🧵 176
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Geoscience 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.... 23010
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAlex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 17/09/2025What 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...doi.orgThe Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS): simulating the future of Greenland under climate variabilityAbstract. 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... 13615
Reposted by Shiva MuruganandhamAruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If 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👇🏽 06127