Faye Elgart
@fmhe.bsky.social
ULB, MIT, Cornell, Antarctica. PhD
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November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
if geoengineering makes you angry wait til you hear about all the co2 we’re pumping into the atmosphere.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
if geoengineering makes you angry wait til you hear about all the co2 we’re pumping into the atmosphere.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
in microcosm, the US government is breaking things it will take much, much longer to fix than it took to break.
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
in microcosm, the US government is breaking things it will take much, much longer to fix than it took to break.
Hard to put into words the frustration and grief watching a critical research tool slowly falling apart until completely unusable because the US government is torching its science research. I will lose weeks and months trying to put together my own version of something that existed and worked well.
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hard to put into words the frustration and grief watching a critical research tool slowly falling apart until completely unusable because the US government is torching its science research. I will lose weeks and months trying to put together my own version of something that existed and worked well.
the DAFT is true freedom
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
the DAFT is true freedom
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Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.
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REMINDER: Next month, starting December 8, the F and the M will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens on weekdays. Here's everything you need to know!
Learn more: mta.info/fmswap
Learn more: mta.info/fmswap
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
REMINDER: Next month, starting December 8, the F and the M will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens on weekdays. Here's everything you need to know!
Learn more: mta.info/fmswap
Learn more: mta.info/fmswap
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
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Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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🚨 New paper alert!
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Damage development on Antarctic ice shelves sensitive to climate warming - Nature Climate Change
Damages such as crevasses or cracks can be early indicators of ice shelf weakening. Here, the authors quantify changes in damage structures in Antarctic ice sheets, which show sensitivity to warming
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨 New paper alert!
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One more symptom of the assault on higher ed is that the more prestigious research institution in the dominant producer of science in the world is slashing investments in the people who generate new knowledge.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
One more symptom of the assault on higher ed is that the more prestigious research institution in the dominant producer of science in the world is slashing investments in the people who generate new knowledge.
heaven help you if you call me mrs. it’s doctor. lol
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
heaven help you if you call me mrs. it’s doctor. lol
the fog of war in us academia is part of the point?
October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
the fog of war in us academia is part of the point?
what is it about being a professor emeritus that makes you reply all
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
what is it about being a professor emeritus that makes you reply all
people use their macarthur genius funds to pay for childcare in america
October 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
people use their macarthur genius funds to pay for childcare in america
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Led by Chris Bézu, with co-authors @bradlipovsky.bsky.social, Daniel Shapero & myself, our @igsoc.bsky.social pre-print presents a new open-source model that couples ice-shelf flow, flexure & fracture 🧊 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social #glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social #glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ice shelf evolution combining flow, flexure, and fracture | Journal of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
Ice shelf evolution combining flow, flexure, and fracture
www.cambridge.org
September 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Led by Chris Bézu, with co-authors @bradlipovsky.bsky.social, Daniel Shapero & myself, our @igsoc.bsky.social pre-print presents a new open-source model that couples ice-shelf flow, flexure & fracture 🧊 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social #glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social #glaciology
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.
September 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.
Immigration is way harder than you think.
September 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Immigration is way harder than you think.
I guess I’d be able to bring as many pairs of earrings as I wanted to Antarctica
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I guess I’d be able to bring as many pairs of earrings as I wanted to Antarctica
I would love some speed cameras in my neighborhood
August 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I would love some speed cameras in my neighborhood
I have never experienced a MATLAB so buggy as 2025a. pls
August 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have never experienced a MATLAB so buggy as 2025a. pls