Cristi Proistosescu
cristiproist.bsky.social
Cristi Proistosescu
@cristiproist.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - School of Earth Sciences @ Illinois
Nice! Congratulations!
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
at MIT? are you moving?
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Is anyone (other than me) gonna take issue with the fact that they are describing "ocean heat" as lying "deep below the ocean"? Like the ocean is putting aside some spare heat into the mantle for rainy day.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Not just the US. The whole galaxy!

Just watch Stargate SG-1
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
What’s up with upper East Side going all in for Cuomo? (Asking as someone not very familiar with the human geography ot NYC)?
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The marginal cost of faculty labor is zero.
November 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just Menken’s law: To every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.
November 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
So cool!

Also I admit I was actually thinking of Nick Shackleton first :))
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Shackleton? Any relation?
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Are there any good pieces on why us faculty, ostensibly such a left-leaning establishment, seems so resistant to unionization? (I have lots of personal theories)
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Hahaha! Ok! Glad i’m not crazy!

Cheaper idea: let’s shoot microplastics. The marginal impact of the amount of microplastics needed must be small (relative to the background).

… I thought i was joking when i started this reply. No i’m not sure
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Right. But it doesn’t accumulate either? What happens to it? (Sorry if this is a dumb question )
October 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Not if you’re not educated in chemistry (i.e. me 🫠)
October 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Also, are there any details on this magic inert powder that neither reacts nor accumulates?
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
But… if they’re bringing the air inside the plane? Couldn’t they just bring it down before putting it in the instrument? Details are thin on the setup, but presumably there’ll be no turbulence inside the plane?
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I feel like we're all playing around the edges, and there are not (yet) good resources for learning how to use it.

I feel like it would be useful to have some kind of "knowledge sharing" venue. Probably too late to propose something like that for AGU?
October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have also heard good reviews of Claude from Earth Scientists.

Coming back from parental leave soon, and one of my first goals is to learn how to use AI for help with coding and debugging better...
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Cool! I have found it useful for zoom transcriptions.
I also used whatever AI is embedded in google collab and found it very useful for learning how to use new python libraries (faster and more malleable than copy-pasting stack-exchange code). But I feel like I am not taking full advantage of AI.
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What are you planning on using Claude for? I'll be curious what your experience with it is.
October 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM