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Emily Grubert

@gruberte.bsky.social

15K followers 300 following 1.1K posts

civil engineer / environmental sociologist. energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. fossil phaseout / universal programs. she / her. bunnies.

Environmental science 38%

Engineering 24%

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22h

you can tell i'm doing a revision because i am poasting but i just suddenly realized this fucking review is AI

the copyright / IP implications of a confidential MS going into these models aside, what a waste of my one wild and precious life politely explaining the critiques are bad

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

this article does the funniest thing in the world to me (which is true of basically every COP summary) in opening with "omg can you even IMAGINE, these people were working for TWELVE HOURS"

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

i appreciate the volunteer labor of my colleagues who peer review my work but also i am very tired of having to do point-by-point responses to comments like

"you need a citation for the claim that fossil fuel combustion drives climate change"

and

"an LLM would probably make your paper better"

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 1d

but ... markets!

NO

profitability is not the right sorting mechanism for asset phase-out!

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 1d

Tfw what you, and many others, have been screaming about finally gets traction: "a big and growing number of countries recognise that a managed, collectively navigated route to fossil fuel phaseout is preferable to the chaotic absence of planning we currently have"

cc: @gruberte.bsky.social

‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Emily Grubert

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 1d

Tfw what you, and many others, have been screaming about finally gets traction: "a big and growing number of countries recognise that a managed, collectively navigated route to fossil fuel phaseout is preferable to the chaotic absence of planning we currently have"

cc: @gruberte.bsky.social

‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Emily Grubert

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot even begin to unpack how disappointed I have been that so many colleagues doing research on how to mitigate and adapt to climate change in US agriculture have been squandering their time to produce small science that just parrots and validates industry talking points. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

Not doing 💩 science that benefits the fossil fuel lobby and big ag would not hurt too in my field lol

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing! ceees.nd.edu/graduate/

Graduate - Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Welcome to Graduate Studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences If you are interested in conducting innovative research with leading researchers in civil and environmental engine...

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

You are too kind!

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe so!! Is your friend obsessed with excellent and human-centered decarbonization? :D

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

WILD. this is the glory of being 1) the EiC and 2) a little more senior -- that I get to be like "wow, blocked"

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta say the next part where I was able to be like "hm, we don't tolerate that kind of interaction here, you no longer get to resubmit" was pretty cool. Love 2 protect my community.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Dispatches from being an editor: having a full professor tell me that my writing is "unworthy of a Stanford graduate" when I politely explained that his paper was not currently publishable

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

Side note: I'll probably be hiring a postdoc on similar themes, but will confirm that by early 2026.

Scope also includes how we dismantle stuff!

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Marc Strous, Dustin Mulvaney

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 4d

🚨job alert🚨

I'm looking to hire at least one PhD student for next year, looking at decarbonization-oriented technology deployment within an ethical frame of resource allocation and justice outcomes.

Full ad attached! Pref for CEEES admissions; deadline is 1 January.

Screenshot, job description: The “Ethical Technology Transitions to Mitigate Climate Change” program seeks one PhD student to be advised by Dr. Emily Grubert either in Notre Dame’s Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) program (School of Engineering) or the Sustainable Development (SD) program (Keough School of Global Affairs). This position is fully funded for four years (anticipated stipend: $36,000/year) and will be supported by the resources associated with the Ethics and the Common Good program chair for three years, with remaining funding to come from other sources that might carry additional deliverable requirements (e.g., a secondary project) that will be clearly communicated to the candidate. The primary research area for this position will focus on ethical considerations related to technology deployment for reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, with a particular focus either on modeling distributional effects of particular deployment patterns associated with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions pathways (CEEES PhD) or on designing governance systems for emerging technology systems, including Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR); hydrogen; renewable electricity; or end use electrification technologies (SD PhD). Teaching requirements are aligned with the requirements of the specific degree program. Funding is available for conference attendance, and students will have the opportunity to work with and/or mentor undergraduate research assistants.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 7d

I’m talking about the power plant part, mostly

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 7d

Tbc just like with CDR I think it is bad to let buildout for AI happen in service of counterproductive things -- it's an appropriation of scarce resources that we really don't need -- my concern isn't "let 'em do it" but "I don't think people understand what electrification entails" on capacity

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 7d

it's also a very problematic rounding error because it's spurring fossil build out! Google cheerfully emailed me that they're doing a new gas CCS plant for this. and it eats up capacity (institutional and otherwise) to do better stuff! I hate it!

AND

if we can't do ~100 GW, we're in big trouble

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 7d

LLMs are high on my list of Not Worth the Resource Allocation, but I am worried about how worried we are about the power demand. the US needs to go from ~1 TW of dirty and/or old capacity now to 2? 6? 7? TW of clean new cap by 2050 to keep us warm, cool, and transported. AI is a rounding error.

Reposted by Emily Grubert

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 7d

The fossil fuel industry has a long, sordid history of leaving behind toxic sites for taxpayers to clean up. State policy makers now need to protect taxpayers from the costs of stranded data centers and the gas plants and pipelines built to power them.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 8d

literally anyone who has ever been in a room where they weren't the most powerful person understands why "all of the above" energy doesn't work

Reposted by Emily Grubert

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say. A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Emily Grubert

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 19d

challenge difficulty for chatbot-using applicants: impossible

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 19d

a protip is not to plagiarize my paper in your application if you want me to fund you

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 24d

It would seem they're still flaring in the Bakken.

Out-of-plane photo over Williston, North Dakota -ish showing a lot of fire spots

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 25d

P sure it’s business formal and also p sure I need this to happen again soon ❤️

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 25d

My thrifted flannel is very professional and very clean!!!!

Also I’m wearing a belt and brand new shoes. YOU’RE WELCOME, THE LAW.

Reposted by Juan Cole, Emily Grubert

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Oct 27

Elsevier just published an article advocating more AI-use in peer-review... that was written with the assistance of AI.

Abolish predatory journals (Elsevier).

www.elsevier.com/connect/reth...

Looking ahead
The future of scientific publishing and peer review will likely include more AI-powered tools. At Elsevier, we are committed to navigating this future responsibly, with the research community at the heart of every decision, always with human oversight, ethical safeguards, and transparency.

As we rethink peer review in the AI era, one principle remains clear: technology can support the process, but human insight must lead it.

Disclaimer: AI was used in refining the language of the article with human oversight.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Emily Grubert

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Oct 11

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 9

weird for a justice40 program, huh?

Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Oct 9

Oh shit you’re right, how could I have overlooked this