Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD
@akkagawa.bsky.social
ʻōiwi ecohydrologist/geographer/fordie/water commissioner/mom
plants-water-people | scientific methods, decolonizing methodologies
Muddling my way thru facultyhood, parenting the best I can, staying curious, asking questions.
plants-water-people | scientific methods, decolonizing methodologies
Muddling my way thru facultyhood, parenting the best I can, staying curious, asking questions.
Pinned
What can academics do in disaster-type settings? (many thanks to Andy Whelton who helped us in HI on the learning curve)
What we did in 2 situations in HI was fill in the information needs for resident communities that local and state agencies didn't have capacity to serve.
What we did in 2 situations in HI was fill in the information needs for resident communities that local and state agencies didn't have capacity to serve.
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The political strategy, rooted in racism and authoritarianism, is causing doubt about what’s real and what isn’t.
The Public Is Being Overwhelmed With Muzzle-Velocity Headlines
The political strategy, rooted in racism and authoritarianism, is causing doubt about what’s real and what isn’t.
dlvr.it
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The political strategy, rooted in racism and authoritarianism, is causing doubt about what’s real and what isn’t.
CO2 fertilization arguments are such a distraction when real plants and ecosystems also need water (climate change translates to hydrologic intensification), nutrients, and are subject to insects, pathogens that are affected also by changing temperatures and moisture regimes.
Chs9 moves to agriculture - heavily citing McKitrick's own study which claims that that CO2 fertilization means a net positive effect on agriculture, ignoring wider risks of heat stress and drought which the IPCC assessed to be dominant. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
Chapter 5: Food, Fibre and Other Ecosystem Products
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www.ipcc.ch
July 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
CO2 fertilization arguments are such a distraction when real plants and ecosystems also need water (climate change translates to hydrologic intensification), nutrients, and are subject to insects, pathogens that are affected also by changing temperatures and moisture regimes.
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"Beyond Atrocious": Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid
“Beyond Atrocious”: Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid
In Gaza, “the situation is beyond atrocious.” Aid worker Arwa Damon, a former CNN journalist and the founder of INARA, a nonprofit currently providing medical and mental healthcare to children in...
www.democracynow.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Beyond Atrocious": Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid
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Right then...
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
/thread/
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
/thread/
I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science
July 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Right then...
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
/thread/
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
/thread/
Pretty wild to see the variation in tsunami signals across the Hawaiian Islands.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/map/index.html
Thank you federal science.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/map/index.html
Thank you federal science.
July 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Pretty wild to see the variation in tsunami signals across the Hawaiian Islands.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/map/index.html
Thank you federal science.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/map/index.html
Thank you federal science.
"THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS
0717 PM HST TUE 29 JUL 2025
www.tsunami.gov
0717 PM HST TUE 29 JUL 2025
www.tsunami.gov
July 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS
0717 PM HST TUE 29 JUL 2025
www.tsunami.gov
0717 PM HST TUE 29 JUL 2025
www.tsunami.gov
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#Earthquake
M8.7 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 16:24PDT Jul 29 Depth 74km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
M8.7 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 16:24PDT Jul 29 Depth 74km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
July 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#Earthquake
M8.7 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 16:24PDT Jul 29 Depth 74km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
M8.7 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 16:24PDT Jul 29 Depth 74km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
Tsunami watch just cancelled but perhaps some weird currents tmrw morning...
tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/...
tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/...
tsunami.gov
July 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Tsunami watch just cancelled but perhaps some weird currents tmrw morning...
tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/...
tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/...
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Update
TSUNAMI WATCH
M7.5 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 23:49PDT Jul 19 Depth 77km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
TSUNAMI WATCH
M7.5 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 23:49PDT Jul 19 Depth 77km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
July 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Update
TSUNAMI WATCH
M7.5 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 23:49PDT Jul 19 Depth 77km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
TSUNAMI WATCH
M7.5 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 23:49PDT Jul 19 Depth 77km
Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.
Partner found this this morning.
Encapsulates the experience of this past week.
Encapsulates the experience of this past week.
May 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Partner found this this morning.
Encapsulates the experience of this past week.
Encapsulates the experience of this past week.
Problem is the undergrads who got by using LLMs are now grad students and don't see why (I) am being a roadblock to their defense.
I'm concerned ChatGPT hallucinations are sparking human hallucinations about what rigorous research actually is...
I'm concerned ChatGPT hallucinations are sparking human hallucinations about what rigorous research actually is...
Reading, however slowly you do it, is thinking. And you cannot do research if you do not think.
Undergrads, I can understand.
But if a grad student uses LLMs to summarize papers, just leave, go and give the funding and space to someone who actually wants to learn something.
Undergrads, I can understand.
But if a grad student uses LLMs to summarize papers, just leave, go and give the funding and space to someone who actually wants to learn something.
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
May 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Problem is the undergrads who got by using LLMs are now grad students and don't see why (I) am being a roadblock to their defense.
I'm concerned ChatGPT hallucinations are sparking human hallucinations about what rigorous research actually is...
I'm concerned ChatGPT hallucinations are sparking human hallucinations about what rigorous research actually is...
Reposted by Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD
A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
May 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
The last months, I have been recalling how a number of my MIT Course 6 (CS) classmates would carry cash, and avoid transactions on wireless networks and Gmail.
The blissful disregard as we all caved to social media has been wonderful for meeting new people and global intellectual exchange.
The blissful disregard as we all caved to social media has been wonderful for meeting new people and global intellectual exchange.
April 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The last months, I have been recalling how a number of my MIT Course 6 (CS) classmates would carry cash, and avoid transactions on wireless networks and Gmail.
The blissful disregard as we all caved to social media has been wonderful for meeting new people and global intellectual exchange.
The blissful disregard as we all caved to social media has been wonderful for meeting new people and global intellectual exchange.
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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
Scanning this list, I see LSAMP, whose small but steady funding stream has supported dozens if not hundreds of UH system students in their pursuits of STEM degrees.
I heard today from someone I deem reliable that this most certainly will be eliminated...
I heard today from someone I deem reliable that this most certainly will be eliminated...
Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
www.commerce.senate.gov
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Scanning this list, I see LSAMP, whose small but steady funding stream has supported dozens if not hundreds of UH system students in their pursuits of STEM degrees.
I heard today from someone I deem reliable that this most certainly will be eliminated...
I heard today from someone I deem reliable that this most certainly will be eliminated...
Reposted by Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD
Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
www.commerce.senate.gov
February 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
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Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
Thanks to this platform I feel like I've been getting good news in timely fashion. I check FB to see how a broader swath of local discourse is going, and it's tracking but a few days behind.
I also checked my spam folder and skimmed "The Blackburn Report: Holding the Federal Government Accountable"
I also checked my spam folder and skimmed "The Blackburn Report: Holding the Federal Government Accountable"
February 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Thanks to this platform I feel like I've been getting good news in timely fashion. I check FB to see how a broader swath of local discourse is going, and it's tracking but a few days behind.
I also checked my spam folder and skimmed "The Blackburn Report: Holding the Federal Government Accountable"
I also checked my spam folder and skimmed "The Blackburn Report: Holding the Federal Government Accountable"
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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
February 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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“The scientific community needs to speak up - not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity, and morality.”
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
🧪 🌊⚒️
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
🧪 🌊⚒️
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
www.chemistryworld.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“The scientific community needs to speak up - not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity, and morality.”
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
🧪 🌊⚒️
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
🧪 🌊⚒️
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Plainly unlawful and unconstitutional. No one can issue such an order; the President and his officers cannot simply ignore an entity created and funded by Congress.
Russell Vought just told CFPB to shut down @rmac.bsky.social & @stacycowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Plainly unlawful and unconstitutional. No one can issue such an order; the President and his officers cannot simply ignore an entity created and funded by Congress.
Watching the US insanity, I'm starting to think mass movement seems more and more likely...
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Watching the US insanity, I'm starting to think mass movement seems more and more likely...
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Myself & a few folks who got tired of hearing the same things (no to affordable housing, yes to unaffordable developments) started a loose group to advocate for real solutions to Hawaii's affordable housing crisis. Give a follow or subscribe to the newsletter @ limbyhawaii.org #🌺news #kanakasky
A quick intro as we're the new kids on the block. We're all volunteer but will be building policy briefs over this legislative session. You can check out more at limbyhawaii.org/policy-stubs/
January 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Myself & a few folks who got tired of hearing the same things (no to affordable housing, yes to unaffordable developments) started a loose group to advocate for real solutions to Hawaii's affordable housing crisis. Give a follow or subscribe to the newsletter @ limbyhawaii.org #🌺news #kanakasky
The good thing about spending so much of my wandering educational journey working in community is that I got to witness how much, by working together strategically, people can accomplish with zero grant dollars but loads of social capital.
January 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The good thing about spending so much of my wandering educational journey working in community is that I got to witness how much, by working together strategically, people can accomplish with zero grant dollars but loads of social capital.