Emma Strubell
@strubell.bsky.social
assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
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Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.
The Department of Energy says it has terminated its $4.9 billion conditional loan commitment for the long-delayed Grain Belt Express project.
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Writer: Tom Kleckner
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Writer: Tom Kleckner
July 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.
A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).
July 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).
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If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR
July 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR
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Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science
“Yes, atmospheric CO2 has increased over time—but so has life expectancy,” writes Chris Wright. In a guest essay America’s energy secretary invites the world to rethink renewable energy
econ.st/4kCU2kY
Illustration: Dan Williams
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Illustration: Dan Williams
July 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science
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As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
July 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
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In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics.
July 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics.
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Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther.
Propaganda works.
Propaganda works.
Here are the groups that Republicans and Democrats see as facing discrimination in the U.S. today. (Free to read: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra... )
July 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther.
Propaganda works.
Propaganda works.
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Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...
AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...
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if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test
Trump: "AOC -- look. I think she's very nice. But she's very low IQ, and we really don't need low IQ. Between her and Crockett, we're gonna give 'em both an IQ test to see who comes out best. I took a real test at Walter Reed medical center and I aced it. Now it's time for them to take a test."
July 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test
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Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against an AI and energy summit planned at CMU on July 15. Leaders in AI and related fields and President Donald Trump are expected to attend the invitation-only event, convened by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.
CMU community pushes back on AI summit with paint, petitions, and protests
Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against the National AI and Energy Summit planned at CMU on July 15.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against an AI and energy summit planned at CMU on July 15. Leaders in AI and related fields and President Donald Trump are expected to attend the invitation-only event, convened by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.
I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.
President Donald Trump travels to Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday for a summit on energy and artificial intelligence. Leaders say Western Pennsylvania's universities and natural-gas deposits could be vital to both industries. But researchers are concerned about AI's energy demands.
With Trump set to attend AI & energy summit, CMU professor worries climate issues will be lost
Carnegie Mellon University professor Emma Strubell says that while AI is promising, the threat of climate change "does keep me up at night a lot"
www.wesa.fm
July 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.
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In a policy memo published by @scientistsorg.bsky.social, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social, and Emma Strubell, recommend that approaches to measuring AI’s environmental impacts consider the use cases that are driving energy consumption, and how data centers impact communities. fas.org/publication/...
Reporting AI’s Impacts to Build Public Trust and Advance AI
As AI becomes more capable and integrated throughout the United States economy, its growing demand for energy is driving higher environmental costs.
fas.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In a policy memo published by @scientistsorg.bsky.social, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social, and Emma Strubell, recommend that approaches to measuring AI’s environmental impacts consider the use cases that are driving energy consumption, and how data centers impact communities. fas.org/publication/...
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HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE:
Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...
Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...
BROOKLYN BREWERY SUPPORTS | Brooklyn Brewery
Welcome to Brooklyn Brewery Supports. Along with Angelica Christina from The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, we will be choosing twenty-five applications to receive $1,000 in funds each and give ...
brooklynbrewery.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE:
Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...
Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...
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🚨 Call for Papers: LM4Sci @COLM_conf 2025 🚨
Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada!
Submission Deadline: June 23
Notification: July 24
Workshop: October 10, 2025
Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada!
Submission Deadline: June 23
Notification: July 24
Workshop: October 10, 2025
June 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🚨 Call for Papers: LM4Sci @COLM_conf 2025 🚨
Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada!
Submission Deadline: June 23
Notification: July 24
Workshop: October 10, 2025
Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada!
Submission Deadline: June 23
Notification: July 24
Workshop: October 10, 2025
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NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care:
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common
and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias
juliaserano.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care:
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
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Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️⚧️
Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
www.science.org
June 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️⚧️
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This looks like the cover of their third album
Puffins, up close and personal on Staffa. For #BlueskyArtShow #joy
June 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This looks like the cover of their third album
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there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.
This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.
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TW: harm to children.
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...
www.tandfonline.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
TW: harm to children.
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
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Utilizing new streamlined permitting process, California approves world’s largest solar-plus-storage project www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora...
Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process.
#Upshift 🔌💡
Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process.
#Upshift 🔌💡
June 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Utilizing new streamlined permitting process, California approves world’s largest solar-plus-storage project www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora...
Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process.
#Upshift 🔌💡
Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process.
#Upshift 🔌💡
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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine
www.nytimes.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
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🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!
Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!
Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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June 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!
Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!
Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition.
The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.
The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.
Lol. She fucking apologized to Riley Gaines.
I knew staying out of praising her for the weakest of allyship while partially throwing trans people under the bus was the right choice.
I knew staying out of praising her for the weakest of allyship while partially throwing trans people under the bus was the right choice.
June 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition.
The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.
The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.
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A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.