Vivek Srikrishnan

you can spend your whole career as a tech curmudgeon and be correct. then you face ai and your curmudgeon instinct is to say “i am worth less now” instead of “wow this is going to cause so many crises in quality”?

and corporate code projects don’t fail to ship bc code is slow. it’s people.

As someone who grew up on (white) teen movies, I was struck by how much that Patel scene looked like something straight out of a spec script in the 1980s. The racialized minority over performing nationalism as white frat boys clearly broadcast to everyone but him that he is not really one of them.

As if “Pax Silica” wasn’t bad enough

The life of the academic, minus the variation in pants.

Get in line.

This feels like a strawman; who on earth would believe this?

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

I have devoted much of my weather & climate career to engaging with journalists--including 200-300 news media interviews per year, many of which involve recurring conversations to facilitate timely & contextually accurate coverage. This recent collapse has been stunning and deeply disconcerting.

It’s easier to mismanage and destroy institutions when you put unqualified incompetents in charge of them, ego don’t view themselves as stewards of the mission or part of the community they serve.

I use that speech a lot to illustrate the concept of deep uncertainty (highlighting the key phrases to cut through the word salad, of course).

Through the Looking Glass - The De Minimis Deception Thoughts after the first week, and why 0.037°C is not “too small to matter”

I made one more post on Endangerment to address the week's news and the de minimis argument in more depth. Starting next week, I hope to begin posting on non-Endangerment subjects! thesaraphreport.substack.com/p/through-th...

While talking endlessly about how committed to "transparency" they are.

Things I learned today - language in the Clean Air Act explicitly defines "air pollutant" to include anything with adverse effects on weather and climate
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Especially science. It's so sad to be publishing so many papers that you're too busy to do science.

Looking forward to reading this, and this is a core message I try to teach in my data analysis class: data aren’t received from on high and statistics isn’t a cookbook, you have to think critically about the data generating process, including the human elements.

One of the great problem with journalism prizes is that they are mostly awarded based on the year a piece is published and not once their true power has been recognized.

But if ever there were a case for a special award...it should go to Julie.

Valuing wildfire smoke–related mortality benefits from climate mitigation | PNAS Human-induced climate change has increased wildfire risks, associated air pollution, and health damages in North America. Despite its large potenti...

🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

UK Banks Face New Era of Mortgage Risk as Flood Damage Soars As the prospect of flood damage haunts an ever larger number of UK homes, the country’s banks are under growing pressure to prove they’re not underestimating the risk in their mortgage books.

"there’s still a fundamental 'asymmetry' between how banks and insurers are approaching the issue of flood damage."

surely the market will correct this i remember thinking like 9 years ago

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Against Christendom What makes western civilization worth defending is liberalism not Constantine.

By Nate Oman

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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Sunsetting TOPFactor.org: What’s Changing and Why COS shares our plans to sunset TopFactor.org, what prompted the decision, and how the research community can keep advancing open and transparent policymaking.

Since 2020, TOP Factor has helped researchers understand how journals support open practices. On March 16, 2026, COS will be sunsetting the tool.

Read more about what prompted the decision, what we've learned, and the future of open and transparent policymaking: www.cos.io/blog/sunsett...

The concept of embers of autoregression (LLM performance is highly shaped by its training objective) and Melanie Mitchell’s notion of wishful mnemonics, makes it easy in combination to be fooled into believing that something more than (powerful!) next-token prediction is going on.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

It’s going to be great after 4 years of money is no object for cruelty and revenge when Republicans discover “fiscal responsibility” again, as if they slept through the Noem’s luxury sex jet and paying 20 men to grab a gardener.

NCAR and the climate and weather services it provides are a classic example of a public good. These broadly support other sectors of the economy and will not be provided efficiently by the private sector. Critical case in point - insurance pricing

Summer School in Sea Level Science - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A 2026 Summer School in Sea Level Science (SSiSLS) for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early career scientists to be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole...

Great opportunity for grad students and postdocs interested in sea level science — WHOI Summer School, May 17-30

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Jesse Jackson was better than every Kennedy put together