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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

otoh, kollywood does the evil guy intro frequently. entire reddit threads dedicated to this

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this and other groundbreaking scholarship, brought to you in service of an epigraph

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but "There are no answers, only choices" isn't Lem, at least not in the translations I've seen. It shows up in Soderbergh's screenplay adaptation.

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Point taken, Raza. Uncertainty, with a center

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What’s down doc? Maurice Noble top of mind recently - animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-...

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Paniker unearthing symbols in ice thickness uncertainty

Words and Symbols by K.C.S. Paniker (1965/1966)

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hey, didn't you hear? Vantara is all about ESG and conservation ☠️

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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

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

land-cover mosaics are cool - thus spake van Gogh

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

S. G. Vasudev saw icy drainage dendrites in his trees of life

Tree of Life by S.G. Vasudev (1987/1989)

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What are gaussian random fields but lilies in a pond?

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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

ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eega (my apologies if you read)

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Eega - Wikipedia

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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

for friends who haven't heard this masterpiece yet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

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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

kinda like finding that one mastering engineer on your records. kindred spirits and all.

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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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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

phdone. let the shitposting commence.

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Shiva Muruganandham @murushiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very excited also to get started working for my postdoc with @bobkopp.net and group on @ipcc.bsky.social sea level projections for the next assessment report:

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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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