Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that. 5290134
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanWolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026LLM chatbot surveillance advertising is going to be next-level disastrous, on every level. 02013
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I 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.orgHow did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’tNew analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 17427
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems 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. 312855623
Reposted by Vivek Srikrishnanisaac @sevier.io · 05/10/2026Really 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.orgSenate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change InternationalIn short: 37741
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanRachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026After 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. 36028
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanAmanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Researchers 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.comClimate Science Under Political Attack Reaches US Supreme CourtAttribution research is increasingly cited in lawsuits seeking climate damages, which hinge on a case now before the US high court. 03213
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026all this is both foolish and unnecessary 81110407
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/10/2026If 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:theconversation.comWhy the nor'easter’s storm surge was so high, and what it says about the El Niño winter aheadSeveral factors make for high water levels, and they conspired to worsen the storm surge that flooded coastal areas from North Carolina to New York. 0188
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I 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. 050
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, 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. 5162441725
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I remember when they presented this at AGU --- really glad to see it published! 020
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanKevin 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. 192
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But 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 320135
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete 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." 2349841155
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanAdam 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... 382252484
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 202100152458
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The literal phrase in the training I got was "True love can wait until the end of the semester." 030
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanDan 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.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs 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. 09626
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanSaeed 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.comHow 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.” 231555544
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanMore 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.” 261203269
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanOs Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Since 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 17749272
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanC. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In 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.orgAI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ ProblemOpinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment. 58446
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not only easy, but the easiest! Generalizations take a lot more effort than "this one person sucks." 060
Reposted by Vivek Srikrishnan@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I 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.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 372525784
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elite 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. 9772118
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The fact that big cats have the same affinity for cardboard as house cats is both further confirmation and the cutest thing ever. 110
Reposted by Vivek Srikrishnanc0nc0rdance @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) 624454
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump showing how committed he is to the energy transition 010
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nobody 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 1586
Vivek Srikrishnan @vsrikrish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes, in 2016 I wasn't shocked but it still seemed like there was a path forward. Now I want Reconstruction but done properly. 070
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age. 1128347
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 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.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12231351285
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 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 8378104
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanJustin 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.orgHedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to itRecord-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... 17229
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...techcommunity.microsoft.comExcel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community HubLists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing... 2842186
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over 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 6537721488
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just turn it off then 0203
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If 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 22856191
Reposted by Vivek Srikrishnantweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate 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 453182751
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanDave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Certain 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. 222575322
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026Between 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. 938456
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Damn someone call the police, @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social just murdered a man in broad daylightthenerve.newsFrom celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his wayThe 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... 15214
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 66129172820
Reposted by Vivek SrikrishnanThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/09/2026"transgender ideology" is a phrase that should be treated with the same revulsion as "woke mind virus" 341725287