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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/09/2026

If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wouldn't mind paying more if we had an actual functional transport network. But I assume they'll increase the price and make it somehow worse at the same time

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Academia is a job. If you have a job, you are an employee. If you are an employee you should have a union. QED.

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For the avoidance of doubt, this is complete BS. if you are a post-doc (or worker of any description frankly) and you have the option of joining a union, you absolutely should.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Himalayan landscapes have always experienced landslides, avalanches and floods. But climate warming is changing the background conditions: glaciers are retreating, slopes are being destabilised, new lakes are forming, large volumes of loose sediment are being exposed—making hazards more connected.

theconversation.com

Nepal’s devastating floods reveal the danger of ‘cascading hazards’ in Himalayas

One disaster can create the conditions for the next.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The flood in Nepal shows us why the claim we can just "adapt" to #ClimateChange is so dishonest (or foolhardy): climate change will break and remake our places so we cannot live in them safely, often with sudden and overwhelming violence. There is no such thing as bouncing back.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It is odd that in the last decade the big push for academia by the media & many academics themselves has been ‘did we take DEI too far?’ And not How did Jeffrey Epstein get tied up with so many star academics at leading universities with no one apparently ringing alarm bells?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Have we tried turning academia on and off again? Because it's definitely not working right now

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Towards restoring trust in higher education…” Lord, give me the confidence of whoever this Cofnas guy is 😂

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I adore the fact that it's pulled by a bike

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Not even pollution works properly under clunate change

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Jeff Dukes @dukesjeff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at Carnegie Science, now based at Caltech in Pasadena. If you're interested in land-atmosphere interactions and how they're influenced on small scales by microclimates, please take a look at the ad! apply.interfolio.com/190703

Jeff Dukes, on his hands and knees under a thick canopy of chamise chaparral at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, smiles down at a camera on the ground below him after installing a microclimate sensor.

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Plant tissue lifespans: Solving a fundamental mystery in plant ecology". PhD opportunity for domestic (Australia/New Zealand) candidates, closes 30 September: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This looks like it's got a good scientific basis but I'd like to see a critical discussion from someone who hasn't worked with Google. If the project was being peer-reviewed this guy would have a conflict of interest

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Like….everybody shut the fuck up and stop fighting. You are taking the wrong fucking lesson from this border-crossing smoke nightmare. The lesson is *all of earth’s ecosystems are entwined, borders mean nothing, all emitters are culpable, this is an EARTH PROBLEM NOT A COUNTRY PROBLEM*.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I do not like this trouser of time

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's good to see for a change that creators of things you like are decent human beings

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The government's attitude to data centres is a joke

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Ah sure, there’s always been as many days this hot” No, there hasn’t

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm on 31 identical emails from EGU. I'm sure there are some real emails I need to reply to somewhere in there

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

👀 Data centres account for almost a quarter of Irish electricity usage in 2025 #AI www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

irishtimes.com

Data centres account for almost a quarter of Irish electricity usage in 2025

Electricity consumption by data centres rose 10% last year alone, says CSO

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The way Dublin uses stick figures of people and bikes painted on roads you'd think they were magic runes of protection

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Let's be honest, we've all had a colleague like Larry

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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would like a journal that publishes papers entitled "I set out to do cool science but have instead spent the last two years trying to figure out why this model produces plants that look like matchsticks and have no roots"

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We spend so much time talking about how horrible some people in academia are and not enough about the wonderful connections and communities we build

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Saw someone say "fork found in kitchen" to mean something is very obvious but finding a fork in any workplace kitchen is usually a miracle. Is this just a scientist thing or a general phenomenon? What do scientists do with forks?

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm looking forward to the storms later this year

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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🥵 Europe has been affected by a terrible heatwave, with impacts across the continent & record-breaking temperatures in many countries. The @ipcc.bsky.social #AR6 conclusions show that that heat extremes have become more intense & more frequent across the world due to human-induced climate change.

Changes in temperature extremes as function of global warming, from Fig. SPM.6 of IPCC AR6 WGI (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf); based on data from IPCC AR6 WGI Chapter 11 (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter11.pdf)

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm generally an advocate for eating the rich but this graph puts my teeth on edge. Why compare top 5 with top 15? If you multiply the 1918 values by 3 to get to 15 you end up with about the same. Plus the legend us pointless.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Morning Womble! I've just finished Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay and starting The Given World by Melissa Harrison. Very distinct but very different writing styles so I'm struggling a bit with the transition. Love them both though!

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Can't shake the feeling us scientists have shot ourselves in the foot by switching to saying AI rather than ML This study is so freaking cool but getting swept away by thr AI hype

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I understand that universities choose to not have staff emails on their websites to minimise phishing and spam but how exactly am I supposed to contact reviewers?

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Infra-red image of trees in whole-tree chambers during a heatwave

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

surveymonkey.com

The Role Of Interpersonal Relationships And Care In Personal Tutoring Within UK HEIS

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I was flicking through an old booklet from a leadership skills training course and I found this note. I don't remember the context but they seem like wise words

A piece of paper with four bullet points written in red:
Unlearn
Get trained
Apply what you've learned
Be patient

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is what I keep saying to students. I'd much rather you worked together on assignments, I'd much rather yoi asked each other when you don't know things.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

ICYMI -- this is a big deal, and we have a limited time to comment. We need everyone, including (especially!) non-academics to 1) make public comments, 2) write op eds, 3) contact your elected representatives, and 4) ask societies and advocacy groups to speak out against this and mobilize members.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is fucked up, until you remember universities see PhD students as cheap labor and then it all makes sense 🧪

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You know how to model biodiversity change in response to climate and land-use change? You dream of working with top climate scientists? Come work with me, @ybuckley.bsky.social and @scaldararu.bsky.social, hosted by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I see that in between this morning and now we've gone from grumbling about that 100 greatest novels list to being extremely silly about it. Never change, Bluesky

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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