Slightly diminish a book A hundred days of solitude

📣 📣 📣 A reminder to consider applying for this postdoctoral position where you'll use math/stats/ML to reconstruct complex climate fields. Reach out with any questions. I will start reviewing applications next week! 🌊 🧪

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📣 Job Alert! I am hiring a postdoc to work on the project "From sparse data to full spatio-temporal fields: surface ocean carbon and beyond". The goal is to use stats, ML, data, and models to improve our estimate of the ocean carbon sink. Learn more and apply: www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

A lovely day with NYC high-school teachers! I made a small ML x Climate Science activity (hopefully classroom-ready) that uses decision trees to reproduce Köppen-Geiger classes. Pen-and-paper exercise at the end of the slides, and some code/coding ideas in the repo. github.com/vacquaviva/L...

I gave a talk on Interpretability tools for Scientific ML at the wonderful Astro/AI workshop organized by @astroai.bsky.social. Who doesn't love a flowchart? But I promise the full picture, while still very incomplete, has a bit more nuance, so find my slides here if you'd like! shorturl.at/hfzFg

Yay, good news! If you have expertise in Climate Science or ML/AI, please read below about my project "From sparse data to full spatio-temporal fields: surface ocean carbon and beyond" and get in touch! I'll be recruiting in the Fall for a post-bacc, a postdoc, and possibly a grad student. 🌊

This speech is triggering a Montale moment Then one day through a door left ajar in among the trees in a courtyard we glimpse the yellow of lemons; and the ice in our hearts melts, and in our chests fanfares blare from their golden trumpets of sunlight. (Eugenio Montale, I limoni)

Doing an amazing job at parenting apparently 😅

In case you missed it: in this PLOS Climate Opinion piece, @venividivivi.bsky.social and colleagues discuss the integration of ethical frameworks in AI and climate science journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @eabarnes.bsky.social @djgagnedos.bsky.social @oceancarbon.bsky.social

Random note, in case you need some distraction from real life in the form of a show that is heartfelt and gentle and funny, A man on the inside does the job. Especially recommended for fans of the Good Place.

🌊 valentine 💝 Roses are red, The ocean is not pink But it’s still very lovely And the biggest carbon sink

In these very very bleak times my fuel is the amazing people I interact with every day. The passion and wit and brilliance that have often made me think that I have the best job in the world. I can choose to cherish moments of shared science and friendship, even as I brace for more impacts.

I feel that this doesn't even begin to describe this week

Earth, climate, and planetary scientists: If you have an expected upcoming NASA/NSF/NOAA/DOE grant payment in the next couple weeks that, if not received, will have a real impact on your lab and staff, please let us know about it @science.org. You can reach me at [email protected].

🔭🤖 First day of the semester for me! Teaching undergraduate Astro I - always a fun one - and graduate machine learning for scientists - I love it obvi but it's more challenging post-chatGPT. I now run it w/ 8 in-class mini-assignments but still finding my way. Good luck to all who start this week!

In the spirit of focusing on the positives we can control, today was a big milestone for me - I submitted a big follow-up proposal to my PIVOT fellowship. If I get it, I will be able to fund a climate data science lab and support ongoing and new collabs. Cross your fingers for me please 🙏🏼 🧪🌊

Qui @alexvespi.bsky.social e @venividivivi.bsky.social stamattina hanno espresso il loro punto di vista sul rapporto tra nuovo governo US e futuro della ricerca in quel paese. www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/0...

I had to get up before 🌅, but it was worth it to finally meet Dara Norman in person and get this medal for the Chambliss Astronomical Writing award at #AAS245! Please buy my now-award-winning book ok? 😀 tinyurl.com/8uudkv9n

Bundled up and en route to #AAS245!

I’ll be at #aas245 from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon - let me know if you want to catch up and/or if I can make your talk! And if you are the morning type, come see the Chambliss astronomical writing award thingy, before the first plenary of Weds 1/15 (around 8am, I am told).

I’ll be at #aas245 from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon - let me know if you want to catch up and/or if I can make your talk! And if you are the morning type, come see the Chambliss astronomical writing award thingy, before the first plenary of Weds 1/15 (around 8am, I am told).

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I can’t get the floats right in LaTeX

Tons of great posters today but don’t miss this one in particular - we are developing and benchmarking custom metrics to compare climate maps that can match visual perception and are physics-aware! Early stages, but promising results and insights, and we’d love some feedback. #AGU24

Reminder!!! Come hear me today at 2.45pm if you are interested in revolutionary (ok, maybe just improved) representations for ocean data via the information imbalance! It’s fun (as far as conference talks go), free (if you already paid the mega reg fee), and short (without qualifiers)! #AGU24

I have finally, in my forties, after > 20 years of academic life, reluctantly accepted the gruesome conclusion that if you want to do a good job you have to put in a lot of effort

I had an amazingly productive work session on the train NYC -> DC for #AGU24 but then it was time for a celebratory drink and the only beer they had was Dogfish 90 minutes and so I have now spent 30 blissful minutes switching colormaps

Chat science w/ me at #AGU24! 🧪🌊 On Fri, I’ll talk of improved representations of ocean data. We use information imbalance to create custom metrics optimized to reconstruct pCO2. We get a compact space of physical vars that aid ML modeling, dim reduction, clustering, and data valuation. 1/

After over a decade of avoiding #AAS meetings because they are too big and overwhelming, today I’ll be heading to the ~8x as big #AGU2024! Follow me for more tips on how to steer your life in the direction you don’t want 😎

Current mood

Not sure if I should feel very offended or extremely seen by copilot's suggested commentary

'tis the season! 🎅 🔔 He's making a curve, He's checking its range, He's gonna find out what is normal or strange Santa Gauss is coming to town

🌊 🧪 #climatesky What better way to come back from the festivities than to browse a new episode of the climate jobs thread? A light episode this week, but still featuring opportunities for undergrads/post-bacc/postdocs/senior RS. Ordered from junior to senior as always. #climate #jobs 🧵 below: 1/

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

🌊 Today I am grateful for DADApy, an amazing Python library to do distance-based analysis of data manifolds. I am using to find reduced-order physical representations of ocean data from SOCAT. I hope to have something cool to show at my first AGU talk in December 😀 👀⬇️ dadapy.readthedocs.io

The center for computational astrophysics at the flatiron institute is an amazing place to work at, from excellent facilities and support to the most clever and creative people. This would be a dream job for many!

🧵 @bopplaurent.bsky.social and I were asked, "Should we think of the ocean as a climate solution?", our immediate reaction was that it's already one. Follow on to see why. We mainly talk about marine CO₂ removal (mCDR), but some of the intro stuff about the ocean should interest everyone. 🌊1/n

Some more thoughts about how this is going.

We have now hit the phase in the semester known as "the valley of regret". I for example regret my decision to give 11 assessments in my ML class. Which I had to come up with. And I have to grade. It's not like I didn't know. It's that I was a different person back in August. What do you regret?

Arvind, me, and Jonah released a new pre-print on some pen and paper analysis of fundamental failure modes and old school stability analysis for neural PDEs typically used in AI for Science application. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15101. 1/n

Reposting because maybe on Monday people want more jobs! #climatesky

Sunday means another episode of #climate #jobs 🧵! I only post what I happen to see throughout the week, so feel free to reach out if you want a job ad to be included. As usual, ordered from most junior (in this case, a Summer opportunity for undergrads or grads) to most senior. Best of luck! 1/ ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Climate scientist: The cup is a sink, no wait the cup is a source, it depends on where you look in the cup, it depends on when you look at the cup, maybe we can get the cup to hold more water? Don’t give up on the cup

Say what you want about New York but the truth is that two hrs ago I was home in my pjs and ready for a home day and now I’m seeing this amazing exhibit of cutouts by Matisse at Moma, for free as a CUNY faculty (which doesn’t make up for the fact that I’m criminally underpaid but does help a bit)

Nothing boosts your ego like your 3rd grader making a rap about you My mom don't slay every day / They say to learn from the best but she is just oooookay

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: Year 1 of PhD, a potential advisor told me that I was crazy not to work with him & by doing “niche physics” I’d never find a postdoc. Later, NSF PO told me that CAREER grants were for future leaders when I mentioned wanting to apply. Still 🧂y

Here on Bluesky I’m in the newbie stage and I’m so happy to see notifications… it reminds me of those innocent days of yore when I was excited to receive emails 😅

This week's LEAP Lecture in #Climate #Data Science welcomes a Research Update from Arvind Renganathan! 📅 Thurs, 11/21/24 🕛 12p EDT 💻 RSVP at bit.ly/3Cxzrhz 👀 Check out our Fall24 Lecture lineup! bit.ly/4cGwCqT #LEAPEducation #NSF #columbiaengineering #columbiaclimate #universityofminnesota

In a different role, I’m also the mom of talented artist Clara (8). She makes incredibly detailed comic books. This one’s cover is dedicated to her group of friends, “hanging with the good stuff” (amazing name if you ask me).