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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @lamont.columbia.edu · 24/09/2026

🌟 Congratulations to @lamont.columbia.edu oceanographer/carbon cycle scientist @oceancarbon.bsky.social, elected a Fellow of @agu.org for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements! ➡️ www.agu.org/user-profile?cstkey=79e…

Galen McKinley, elected 2026 AGU Fellow for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements.

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌊 📣 New work that uses comparison of metric spaces (intrinsic dimension ID and differentiable information imbalance DII) to assess how well we can represent ocean carbon as f(SST, SSS, MLD, Chl, xCO2 + day of year/location) in SOCAT observations and models: arxiv.org/abs/2609.00133 Results ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

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How well is surface ocean carbon represented in observations and ocean models?

We introduce a general framework for quantifying the information content and representation quality of complex geophysical datasets based on the intrinsic dimension and differentiable information imba...

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This past semester, I taught a graduate class called LLMs for Science. If you'd like to learn more or maybe teach about (moderately) technical and societal aspects of using AI in research, perhaps you will find my teaching materials useful! Comments welcome! github.com/vacquaviva/2...

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GitHub - vacquaviva/2026LLMsForScience: Repo dedicated to materials from the "LLMs for Science" class taught in Spring 2026 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Repo dedicated to materials from the "LLMs for Science" class taught in Spring 2026 at the CUNY Graduate Center. - vacquaviva/2026LLMsForScience

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book A hundred days of solitude

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

📣 📣 📣 A reminder to consider applying for this postdoctoral position where you'll use math/stats/ML to reconstruct complex climate fields. Reach out with any questions. I will start reviewing applications next week! 🌊 🧪

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

📣 Job Alert! I am hiring a postdoc to work on the project "From sparse data to full spatio-temporal fields: surface ocean carbon and beyond". The goal is to use stats, ML, data, and models to improve our estimate of the ocean carbon sink. Learn more and apply: www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

A diagram showing different projects that use ML to improve the reconstruction of the ocean carbon cycle. Projects include feature engineering, improved representation, domain adaptation, and validation through models.

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A lovely day with NYC high-school teachers! I made a small ML x Climate Science activity (hopefully classroom-ready) that uses decision trees to reproduce Köppen-Geiger classes. Pen-and-paper exercise at the end of the slides, and some code/coding ideas in the repo. github.com/vacquaviva/L...

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GitHub - vacquaviva/LEAP2025_ClimateClass: An exercise created for the LEAP workshop 2025 - how to use decision trees to reproduce Koppen-Geiger classes

An exercise created for the LEAP workshop 2025 - how to use decision trees to reproduce Koppen-Geiger classes - vacquaviva/LEAP2025_ClimateClass

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I gave a talk on Interpretability tools for Scientific ML at the wonderful Astro/AI workshop organized by @astroai.bsky.social. Who doesn't love a flowchart? But I promise the full picture, while still very incomplete, has a bit more nuance, so find my slides here if you'd like! shorturl.at/hfzFg

A slide with a flow chart with different machine learning interpretability tools.

Start: "Do you care about interpretability?"

If no → "Goodbye!"

If yes → "What do you care about?"

Communicate with folks in other fields → Strive for interpretable models

Learn new physics → Reduce number and correlation of features as needed

Flat data → "Equation discovery"

Time series → "Causal structure learning"

Generate insights for people in your field → Communicate with folks in other fields

"Many features?"

If yes → Use feature importance or (better) info imbalance to reduce dimensions

If no → "Highly correlated features?"

If yes → Use feature clustering or domain knowledge to reduce correlations → "Did it work?"

If no → Use model-specific SHAP or advanced SHAP; LOFI for feature importance but beware of non-unique ranking

If yes → Use SHAP tools safely, PFI for feature importance

If no → Use SHAP tools safely, PFI for feature importance

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Yay, good news! If you have expertise in Climate Science or ML/AI, please read below about my project "From sparse data to full spatio-temporal fields: surface ocean carbon and beyond" and get in touch! I'll be recruiting in the Fall for a post-bacc, a postdoc, and possibly a grad student. 🌊

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This speech is triggering a Montale moment Then one day through a door left ajar in among the trees in a courtyard we glimpse the yellow of lemons; and the ice in our hearts melts, and in our chests fanfares blare from their golden trumpets of sunlight. (Eugenio Montale, I limoni)

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Doing an amazing job at parenting apparently 😅

A Diorama that says “all I need is me, my community, and a rich husband to love”

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 12/03/2025

In case you missed it: in this PLOS Climate Opinion piece, @venividivivi.bsky.social and colleagues discuss the integration of ethical frameworks in AI and climate science journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @eabarnes.bsky.social @djgagnedos.bsky.social @oceancarbon.bsky.social

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Ethics in climate AI: From theory to practice

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Random note, in case you need some distraction from real life in the form of a show that is heartfelt and gentle and funny, A man on the inside does the job. Especially recommended for fans of the Good Place.

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🌊 valentine 💝 Roses are red, The ocean is not pink But it’s still very lovely And the biggest carbon sink

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In these very very bleak times my fuel is the amazing people I interact with every day. The passion and wit and brilliance that have often made me think that I have the best job in the world. I can choose to cherish moments of shared science and friendship, even as I brace for more impacts.

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I feel that this doesn't even begin to describe this week

The comic "what a week, huh?" Captain, it's Wednesday

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/01/2025

Earth, climate, and planetary scientists: If you have an expected upcoming NASA/NSF/NOAA/DOE grant payment in the next couple weeks that, if not received, will have a real impact on your lab and staff, please let us know about it @science.org. You can reach me at pvoosen@aaas.org.

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🔭🤖 First day of the semester for me! Teaching undergraduate Astro I - always a fun one - and graduate machine learning for scientists - I love it obvi but it's more challenging post-chatGPT. I now run it w/ 8 in-class mini-assignments but still finding my way. Good luck to all who start this week!

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In the spirit of focusing on the positives we can control, today was a big milestone for me - I submitted a big follow-up proposal to my PIVOT fellowship. If I get it, I will be able to fund a climate data science lab and support ongoing and new collabs. Cross your fingers for me please 🙏🏼 🧪🌊

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I had to get up before 🌅, but it was worth it to finally meet Dara Norman in person and get this medal for the Chambliss Astronomical Writing award at #AAS245! Please buy my now-award-winning book ok? 😀 tinyurl.com/8uudkv9n

Viviana Acquaviva and Dara Norman are on the stage at AAS245. Viviana is receiving a medal.

The cover of the book “Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy” published by Princeton university press

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’ll be at #aas245 from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon - let me know if you want to catch up and/or if I can make your talk! And if you are the morning type, come see the Chambliss astronomical writing award thingy, before the first plenary of Weds 1/15 (around 8am, I am told).

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I can’t get the floats right in LaTeX

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Tons of great posters today but don’t miss this one in particular - we are developing and benchmarking custom metrics to compare climate maps that can match visual perception and are physics-aware! Early stages, but promising results and insights, and we’d love some feedback. #AGU24

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Reminder!!! Come hear me today at 2.45pm if you are interested in revolutionary (ok, maybe just improved) representations for ocean data via the information imbalance! It’s fun (as far as conference talks go), free (if you already paid the mega reg fee), and short (without qualifiers)! #AGU24

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I have finally, in my forties, after > 20 years of academic life, reluctantly accepted the gruesome conclusion that if you want to do a good job you have to put in a lot of effort

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I had an amazingly productive work session on the train NYC -> DC for #AGU24 but then it was time for a celebratory drink and the only beer they had was Dogfish 90 minutes and so I have now spent 30 blissful minutes switching colormaps

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Chat science w/ me at #AGU24! 🧪🌊 On Fri, I’ll talk of improved representations of ocean data. We use information imbalance to create custom metrics optimized to reconstruct pCO2. We get a compact space of physical vars that aid ML modeling, dim reduction, clustering, and data valuation. 1/

https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1687070

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

After over a decade of avoiding #AAS meetings because they are too big and overwhelming, today I’ll be heading to the ~8x as big #AGU2024! Follow me for more tips on how to steer your life in the direction you don’t want 😎

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Not sure if I should feel very offended or extremely seen by copilot's suggested commentary

A screenshot of some code with the suggested commentary "This is a very bad idea, but I will do it for now"

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

'tis the season! 🎅 🔔 He's making a curve, He's checking its range, He's gonna find out what is normal or strange Santa Gauss is coming to town

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🌊 🧪 #climatesky What better way to come back from the festivities than to browse a new episode of the climate jobs thread? A light episode this week, but still featuring opportunities for undergrads/post-bacc/postdocs/senior RS. Ordered from junior to senior as always. #climate #jobs 🧵 below: 1/

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

Picasso, Seated woman with her arms folded (Sarah Murphy)

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🌊 Today I am grateful for DADApy, an amazing Python library to do distance-based analysis of data manifolds. I am using to find reduced-order physical representations of ocean data from SOCAT. I hope to have something cool to show at my first AGU talk in December 😀 👀⬇️ dadapy.readthedocs.io

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Distance-based Analysis of DAta-manifolds in python (DADApy) — dadapy 0.2.0 documentation

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The center for computational astrophysics at the flatiron institute is an amazing place to work at, from excellent facilities and support to the most clever and creative people. This would be a dream job for many!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🧵 @bopplaurent.bsky.social and I were asked, "Should we think of the ocean as a climate solution?", our immediate reaction was that it's already one. Follow on to see why. We mainly talk about marine CO₂ removal (mCDR), but some of the intro stuff about the ocean should interest everyone. 🌊1/n

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Marine carbon dioxide removal may be a future climate solution - David T Ho, Laurent Bopp, 2024

The ocean has absorbed 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and over 90% of excess heat, mitigating climate change but causing ocean acidification and marine ecos...

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Some more thoughts about how this is going.

A drawing titled “a timeline of every academic semester”, showing “ascent of creativity”, “plain of tranquility”, “dive of reckoning”, “valley of regret”, and “periodic boundary conditions”

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We have now hit the phase in the semester known as "the valley of regret". I for example regret my decision to give 11 assessments in my ML class. Which I had to come up with. And I have to grade. It's not like I didn't know. It's that I was a different person back in August. What do you regret?

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Ashesh Chattopadhyay @ashesh6810.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Arvind, me, and Jonah released a new pre-print on some pen and paper analysis of fundamental failure modes and old school stability analysis for neural PDEs typically used in AI for Science application. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15101. 1/n

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What You See is Not What You Get: Neural Partial Differential Equations and The Illusion of Learning

Differentiable Programming for scientific machine learning (SciML) has recently seen considerable interest and success, as it directly embeds neural networks inside PDEs, often called as NeuralPDEs, d...

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Reposting because maybe on Monday people want more jobs! #climatesky

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sunday means another episode of #climate #jobs 🧵! I only post what I happen to see throughout the week, so feel free to reach out if you want a job ad to be included. As usual, ordered from most junior (in this case, a Summer opportunity for undergrads or grads) to most senior. Best of luck! 1/ ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Climate scientist: The cup is a sink, no wait the cup is a source, it depends on where you look in the cup, it depends on when you look at the cup, maybe we can get the cup to hold more water? Don’t give up on the cup

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Say what you want about New York but the truth is that two hrs ago I was home in my pjs and ready for a home day and now I’m seeing this amazing exhibit of cutouts by Matisse at Moma, for free as a CUNY faculty (which doesn’t make up for the fact that I’m criminally underpaid but does help a bit)

A collection of small pieces is the Matisse: cutouts exhibit

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Nothing boosts your ego like your 3rd grader making a rap about you My mom don't slay every day / They say to learn from the best but she is just oooookay

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: Year 1 of PhD, a potential advisor told me that I was crazy not to work with him & by doing “niche physics” I’d never find a postdoc. Later, NSF PO told me that CAREER grants were for future leaders when I mentioned wanting to apply. Still 🧂y

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