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Vivek Srikrishnan

@vsrikrish.bsky.social
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Climate uncertainty and risk. Decision-making under deep uncertainty. Assistant Professor, Cornell Biological & Environmental Engineering. Cat caretaker, Tottenham and the Knicks until they kill me. viveks.me

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LLM chatbot surveillance advertising is going to be next-level disastrous, on every level.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think we all knew Watson’s “Rosie didn’t realize [because she was a woman and so obviously inferior to my genius]” schtick was bullshit. What’s boggling to me here is the implication that no one since ever looked at the rest of her notes. 🧪
science.org
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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isaac @sevier.io · 05/10/2026
Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.
oilchange.org
Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International
In short:
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Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After listening to oral arguments in Suncor v. Boulder just now, I hope someone will give Justice Kavanaugh my @yalelawjournal.bsky.social Essay on the case. It provides a detailed history of Ouellette & the other precedents invoked in Suncor. These cases do not say what Justice Kavanaugh asserted.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Researchers are increasingly able to pinpoint the influence of global warming on a particular heat wave or storm. Attribution science - cited in lawsuits against Big Oil and attacked by conservatives - is now part of a major Supreme Court case [gift link] www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Climate Science Under Political Attack Reaches US Supreme Court
Attribution research is increasingly cited in lawsuits seeking climate damages, which hinge on a case now before the US high court.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/10/2026
If you live along the East Coast, you may have seen it firsthand: streets underwater, flooded homes and battered beaches. Why was this nor’easter so bad so early, and could more be coming this winter? A professor of atmospheric science explains:
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Why the nor'easter’s storm surge was so high, and what it says about the El Niño winter ahead
Several factors make for high water levels, and they conspired to worsen the storm surge that flooded coastal areas from North Carolina to New York.
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am forced to ask these questions because they are forbidden, despite having been repeatedly asked and answered. How do I know that they are forbidden? Not because I face any consequences for asking them, but because I have not received the answer that I am seeking. That is how curious I am.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I remember when they presented this at AGU --- really glad to see it published!
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026
- A serious effort to expedite review of permit applications would fund hiring of a large number of expert civil servants to carefully review documents in parallel. This bill does almost none of that, pushing instead to build AI tools for generating and reviewing permit applications.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:
( ) The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
( ) I miss not thinking about gender
( ) I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
( ) I never actually read their work
( ) I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender
( ) Mercury was in retrograde
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( ) I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The literal phrase in the training I got was "True love can wait until the end of the semester."
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Cornell philosophy prof @katemanne.bsky.social in The Cut:
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe he gets a non sour pickle?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nero snorting poop while the world burns
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
ironholds.org
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
undark.org
AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not only easy, but the easiest! Generalizations take a lot more effort than "this one person sucks."
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that big cats have the same affinity for cardboard as house cats is both further confirmation and the cutest thing ever.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Nature of Wildworks', a rescue in Coarsegold, CA, shared this video of Cliff the Cougar purring in contentment. Cats that roar (lions, tigers) generally can't meow or purr for anatomical reasons. But let's explore WHY cats purr. We can start by asking: WHEN do they purr? (📷: Nature of Wildworks)
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Real 11 dimensional chess
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump showing how committed he is to the energy transition
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nobody is more aware than I am how much the long Trump era has coarsened my morals with regard to inflicting suffering on my political enemies, and I hate him even more for that, too
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, in 2016 I wasn't shocked but it still seemed like there was a path forward. Now I want Reconstruction but done properly.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.
john calvin thinks you're the elect of the machine god probably
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die
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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way." My editorial for Science on why hedging El Niño is not the same as adapting to it: www.science.org/eprint/DU6FR...
science.org
Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it
Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...
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Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community Hub
Lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just turn it off then
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Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lib Agar
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you read the replies you’ll see that Pinker was always a race science supporter, it’s just that nobody paid any attention. Maybe we should start noticing when celebrity scientists are fans of pseudoscientific ideas, and adjust our opinion of their competence accordingly
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
Between the human verification, and the three factor authentication and so forth, I can transfer my life savings to a random bitcoin account easier than I can read a Nature paper my library subscribes to.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Damn someone call the police, @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social just murdered a man in broad daylight
thenerve.news
From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/09/2026
"transgender ideology" is a phrase that should be treated with the same revulsion as "woke mind virus"
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