Silvia Caldararu🌿
@scaldararu.bsky.social
Assistant professor in climate science at Trinity College Dublin. Posts about climate, how plants are affected by global change, diversity in science, academia, SF&F books, TTRPGs. She/her. https://plantecomodelling.org/
Scientific Reports has been botderline BS from the start but this is ridiculous. Were no humans whatsoever involved in the publication of this article?
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Scientific Reports has been botderline BS from the start but this is ridiculous. Were no humans whatsoever involved in the publication of this article?
I have been told by multiple young people we should stop saying 'I have hope in the next generation, you're all so amazing' and get off our arses and do something too. Which seems fair.
“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I have been told by multiple young people we should stop saying 'I have hope in the next generation, you're all so amazing' and get off our arses and do something too. Which seems fair.
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
You're all in my house?!?!
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
You're all in my house?!?!
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Which is, in fact, the lesson of the Holocaust/Porajmos. Never again by anyone to anyone.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Which is, in fact, the lesson of the Holocaust/Porajmos. Never again by anyone to anyone.
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
Well this is a good summary guess I can log off now
Reports on 2025 GHG emissions and trends are dropping during #COP30. Please find attached the social media conversation you are about to have!
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Well this is a good summary guess I can log off now
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Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶
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“A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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“A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
Ireland is failing to reach its climate targets, with emissions during the first carbon budget period - which runs until the end of this year - too high.
Ireland failing to hit climate targets - advisory council
Ireland is failing to reach its climate targets, with emissions during the first carbon budget period - which runs until the end of this year - too high.
www.rte.ie
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
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Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
I find it odd the Guardian chose to lead with the carbon capture headline as the article also contains quotes from other scientists at #COP30 discussing overshoot and tipping points
Surely our first port of call should be not having oil and gas as the world's top industry #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I find it odd the Guardian chose to lead with the carbon capture headline as the article also contains quotes from other scientists at #COP30 discussing overshoot and tipping points
Surely our first port of call should be not having oil and gas as the world's top industry #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Surely our first port of call should be not having oil and gas as the world's top industry #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I don't have the energy for #COP30 right now. It's going to be pointless and frustrating at its best and rage inducing at its worst. Maybe I'll just post pictures of cute birds for the next couple of weeks.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I don't have the energy for #COP30 right now. It's going to be pointless and frustrating at its best and rage inducing at its worst. Maybe I'll just post pictures of cute birds for the next couple of weeks.
Overshoot and carbon capture is magical thinking, very well put
Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Overshoot and carbon capture is magical thinking, very well put
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The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
It's so great to see everyone joyful on here today. I know Mamdani benign NYC mayor doesn't affect most of us but it's so good to have hope.
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It's so great to see everyone joyful on here today. I know Mamdani benign NYC mayor doesn't affect most of us but it's so good to have hope.
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The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
Here is your periodic reminder that every fraction of a degree matters and our next target is not 2C, it's 1.50000001
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C #climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres
#COP30
Interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social Watts and Wajã Xipai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres
#COP30
Interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social Watts and Wajã Xipai
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Here is your periodic reminder that every fraction of a degree matters and our next target is not 2C, it's 1.50000001
We thank the reviewer for their comment 😓
Normalize replying to manuscript reviewers' comments with emojis.
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We thank the reviewer for their comment 😓