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📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

The power grid never goes down because the effeminate furries make sure of it though

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.

Millions of students write entrance exams to enter engineering, medicine, and law schools in India. The pressure is immense, with many families spending their lifetime savings to ensure their kids get the best shot. The exams are often for six hours (or less) on a hot summer day.

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.

www.npr.org/2026/07/20/n... India too!

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...

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 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/

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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.

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. 🇨🇦 🗺️

Seeing this in U.K very clearly. Politicians are rejecting net zero even though there’s wide public support.

“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...

“AI slop as a tragedy of the commons, where individual productivity gains externalise costs onto reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.”

papers: www.nber.org/system/files... www.nber.org/system/files...

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?

basically just wrote 5000 words about this

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...