Madalsa
@madalsa.org
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology. I study and teach carbon-constrained energy systems. via Stanford, IIT Bombay. Views mine, many interests. https://long-arc.org/ https://madalsa.org/
Do you know what else we lose when we cull NSF/NIH funding? Feedback for early career researchers. This was my second post-LOI grant submission. I’m assuming in the last 15-20% applicants. Rejected without feedback after being in external review for more than 2 months.
The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.
More than 2 million acres burned as Oregon sets new wildfire record
The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.
oregonlive.com
” the process of prompting novel proofs will be as auraless as ordering doordash.“
Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 4d agoThe esteem in which we hold ourselves and others is based on what we can contribute to the group. This may now be an anachronistic hunter gatherer instinct, but I don't think we will be able to get rid of it. We'll make ourselves useless and hate ourselves for it. open.substack.com/pub/kirwinha...
🇺🇾 Uruguay - June 26 - BEV Trajectory 48.8% BEV 6.5% PHEV 44.7% ICE (of which 5.9%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 38.3% BEV 3.2% PHEV 58.5% ICE (of which 8.8%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall...
Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
arxiv.org
Is there any piece on the public messaging and mythmaking of AI in China/Europe/etc, and how it differs from US?
I simply do not buy the argument that China has perfected government-led industrial policy and so the EU and US must follow. Sorry, but I think this is more a story of which companies are hungriest for growth, and that isn't ours any more. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Reindustrialize America
The case for a strategic investment fund.
foreignaffairs.com
Wowza. Look at this chart on wildfires in France from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social EFFIS. Red line is cumulative area burned this year; blue line is average since 2006...
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The power grid never goes down because the effeminate furries make sure of it though
Lyse@lyse.myatproto.social · 2w agoMen? You guys okay?
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
arxiv.org
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... More than 50,000 young people in India have taken to the streets in Delhi against corruption, frequent malpractices in college entrance exams -- the most important ladder for upward mobility -- and lack of economic opportunities.
India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down
Thousands of people again on the streets of Delhi demanding education reforms despite police violence on Monday
theguardian.com
Oh no. Another giant of climate science, oceanography, and understanding the carbon cycle has left us. Jorge Sarmiento was a true giant in the field, and a dedicated mentor to countless students over the years. The entire field owes him a great deal. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
Remembering Jorge Sarmiento, a ‘giant’ in climate studies
Climate scientist Jorge Sarmiento was Princeton's George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, and a professor of geosciences, emeritus.
princeton.edu
The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>
The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost
For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...
piie.com
The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
Fourth year since 2026 of poor air quality due to wildfires at three different locations I have been at (CA, NY, Europe). Most social cost of carbon estimates don’t account for wildfire-smoke related premature mortality.
Lake Ontario! Live!@lake-ontario.live · 3w agoCurrent* conditions near Toronto, ON:
Hats off to Travis Coan and Ranadheer Malla who led on this important project. One thing AI is actually useful for is categorizing huge numbers of pieces of text. Here we scraped Congressional speeches to see what's being claimed on climate. Denial << Delay www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The worst part of hyperpolitics might be the rejection of sound policies just because they’re associated with a previous generation of politicians — especially if those politicians have become reviled simply because of celebrity-culture reasons, like Justin Trudeau. 🇨🇦 🗺️
“These record-breaking heatwaves show once again that the climate crisis isn’t a future threat. The impacts are here with us today with extreme heat having an impact on our nation’s health, economy and public services.” www.ft.com/content/bdba...
More than 2,700 deaths linked to UK heatwaves
For the first time on record temperatures of 35C or higher had been recorded in May, June and July of the same year in UK
ft.com
“AI slop as a tragedy of the commons, where individual productivity gains externalise costs onto reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.”
Sam Learner@samlearner.bsky.social · 4w agowrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
these 2 papers provide a robust mental model for why fertility has declined (for a very long time!). women (in heterosexual relationships) will have kids if they get a reliable signal of partnership from men (future dads). even if women earn 2x they spend much higher time on housework why bother?
wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
ft.com
Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵
A cycling advocate and transportation planner for the city of Boston was identified as the cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash near Roxbury Crossing this morning.
Cycling advocate and city worker killed after being struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe
The 36-year-old woman "was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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telling an LLM to "just fix style and grammar" can change a lot more than just style and grammar
Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · 4w ago"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?
just old school bed nets.
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting@healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · last mo.How did Ghana cut under-5 #malaria deaths by 86%? By pairing vaccines with bed nets, diagnosis, treatment & trusted community voices — a model for protecting children as malaria funding comes under pressure. INSIDE VIEW: Selorm Kutsoati @mmv.org @gavi.org @who.int 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏
