We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University

Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being

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This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets. news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different r...

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A large low over North America guides smoke over the skies of the eastern US, originating from wildfires on the western side of the continent.

Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits. www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...

smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University

Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized.   By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...

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"just immigrate legally bro"

Ghost of christmas past can help you test whether you need to worry about negative weighting in your event studies nbviewer.org/github/apoor... Coming soon to a pyfixest and preprint server near you github.com/apoorvalal/T...

GitHub - apoorvalal/TestingInEventStudies: tests for cohort-level heterogeneity in panel regression

tests for cohort-level heterogeneity in panel regression - apoorvalal/TestingInEventStudies

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Demetri@phdemetri.bsky.social · 2y ago

You will be visited by three ghosts

I actually think the most dangerous thing with AI is vc/McKinsey types overestimating the abilities of AI and using it in places where it shouldn't be used. Dumb and dangerous

Be the you you want you to be.

Dr. Dan / The Spectral Band@thespectralband.bsky.social · 2y ago

Holy shit #agu24

AI in weather forecasting? Check out this amazing thread diving into the robustness of modern data-driven weather forecasts in past and future climates. (Honestly, one of the biggest questions about ML in weather in in- and out-of-distribution events.) 🧪 #mlsky

Thomas Rackow 🧊@trackow.bsky.social · 2y ago

First post on @bsky.app 🎉: Can #AI-based weather forecasting models (trained on present-day data) provide skillful forecasts also in different colder and warmer states of the climate system? Our preprint in arxiv explores this question: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Here is what we found so far (🧵1/7)

I am very excited to share our new Neurips 2024 paper + package, Treeffuser! 🌳 We combine gradient-boosted trees with diffusion models for fast, flexible probabilistic predictions and well-calibrated uncertainty. paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.07658 repo: github.com/blei-lab/tre... 🧵(1/8)

"Love is for the ones who love the work" - excuse me while I take a moment to catch my breath

Melissa Florer-Bixler@melissaf-b.bsky.social · 2y ago

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

I would totally subscribe to a premium tier that includes HTML & CSS profile customization à la MySpace circa 2005.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2y ago

Bluesky will be launching a subscription service by the end of the year. There are no details yet on how many tiers. Premium tiers will likely include higher-resolution pics, more/longer video uploads, and profile/page customization aesthetics. Longer term, there's a monetization plan for creators.

This is so helpful to navigate across the n starter packs around here.

Destenie Nock, PhD@destenie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just learned you can search through starter packs blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

btw this is why friends dont let friends skip the “boring classical ML” chapters in Elements of Statistical Learning‼️ (True story: the origin of this case study is that @alanjeffares.bsky.social[big EoSL nerd] looked at the neural net eq&said “kinda looks like GBTs in EoSL Ch10”&we went from there)

Alicia Curth@aliciacurth.bsky.social · 2y ago

but WAIT A MINUTE — isn’t that literally the same formula as the kernel representation of the telescoping model of a trained neural network I showed you before?? Just with a different kernel?? Surely this diff in kernel must account for at least some of the observed performance differences… 🤔7/n

after years of opposing the owning-a-house part of the American dream, i've finally been convinced otherwise.

Kenton Varda@kentonvarda.com · 2y ago

This is my house. It's optimized for LAN parties. What do you think? lanparty.house

Before I used scikit-learn, TensorFlow and etc. today I only use Requests…

@daisylu.bsky.social 💘