Risa Madoff, PhD
@geomorphrisa.bsky.social
Geoscientist, earth surface processes, numerical modeling, academic, seeking research/teaching position
Published last month: about critical zone research from the perspectives of diverse human scientists and inclusion. Could be relevant for any subfield in geoscience. doi.org/10.1029/2023...
April 10, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Published last month: about critical zone research from the perspectives of diverse human scientists and inclusion. Could be relevant for any subfield in geoscience. doi.org/10.1029/2023...
Need vs "merit?" Things I don't get: why someone who already has been given a postdoc is given a paid fellow for a project on top? I feel more qualified and could have really used the experience and pay of a fellow. Instead, I attend monthly meetings run by the fellows so they can say they lead.
January 30, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Need vs "merit?" Things I don't get: why someone who already has been given a postdoc is given a paid fellow for a project on top? I feel more qualified and could have really used the experience and pay of a fellow. Instead, I attend monthly meetings run by the fellows so they can say they lead.
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Science academia keeps funding a ton of PhDs & post-docs (all temp labor) while its market of stable post-PhD jobs continues a long & steady collapse.
Proposal reviewers still go “Oh this proposal’s really great because it funds a ton of students!”
And no one reflects on that enormous imbalance.
Proposal reviewers still go “Oh this proposal’s really great because it funds a ton of students!”
And no one reflects on that enormous imbalance.
January 30, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Science academia keeps funding a ton of PhDs & post-docs (all temp labor) while its market of stable post-PhD jobs continues a long & steady collapse.
Proposal reviewers still go “Oh this proposal’s really great because it funds a ton of students!”
And no one reflects on that enormous imbalance.
Proposal reviewers still go “Oh this proposal’s really great because it funds a ton of students!”
And no one reflects on that enormous imbalance.
Why is it so hard for those with privilege to admit things like the prestigious 4 yr lib arts college they went to, or the high ranking R1 institutes, their famous advisors, or that their parents had the college experience to pass on and then self-admit why mentors come running to their aid?
January 26, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Why is it so hard for those with privilege to admit things like the prestigious 4 yr lib arts college they went to, or the high ranking R1 institutes, their famous advisors, or that their parents had the college experience to pass on and then self-admit why mentors come running to their aid?
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Watch New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver an astonishingly cogent summary of the 20th century economic order and how it ruined everything.
Chlöe Swarbrick on Instagram: "Poverty and environmental destruction are not inevitabilities. Huma...
90K likes, 794 comments - chloe.swarbrick on December 22, 2023: "Poverty and environmental destruction are not inevitabilities. Human beings made the rules of thi..."
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January 12, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Watch New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver an astonishingly cogent summary of the 20th century economic order and how it ruined everything.
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CSDMS is excited to announce that applications for the Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) 2024 are now open!
See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn for more information, including a link to the application form.
The application window closes 2024 January 26, so get your application in soon!
See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn for more information, including a link to the application form.
The application window closes 2024 January 26, so get your application in soon!
December 11, 2023 at 7:39 PM
CSDMS is excited to announce that applications for the Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) 2024 are now open!
See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn for more information, including a link to the application form.
The application window closes 2024 January 26, so get your application in soon!
See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn for more information, including a link to the application form.
The application window closes 2024 January 26, so get your application in soon!
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Saved this photo for my class on Historically Excluded and Underrepresented Scientists as an example of the historical and current exclusion of women and racialized scientists.
October 13, 2023 at 12:23 PM
Saved this photo for my class on Historically Excluded and Underrepresented Scientists as an example of the historical and current exclusion of women and racialized scientists.
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Important and scary new paper on satellite megaconstellations: we may be creating a conductive band of plasma dust around the earth arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329
December 20, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Important and scary new paper on satellite megaconstellations: we may be creating a conductive band of plasma dust around the earth arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329
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“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.”
Love this whole article.
Love this whole article.
December 29, 2023 at 9:41 PM
“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.”
Love this whole article.
Love this whole article.
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This is an important study, I wonder if geochemistry has similar issues? It seems to me that if published data belong in a paper, of course the original pub should be cited, and far more often than not, the discussion should include context for all data presented 🧪⚒️#PaleoSky
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future
tinyurl.com/yfrbx344
tinyurl.com/yfrbx344
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data fut...
Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future
www.cambridge.org
December 29, 2023 at 7:24 PM
This is an important study, I wonder if geochemistry has similar issues? It seems to me that if published data belong in a paper, of course the original pub should be cited, and far more often than not, the discussion should include context for all data presented 🧪⚒️#PaleoSky
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Some NPR reporting about our work on nitrate contamination in groundwater in south-central Kansas www.kcur.org/news/2023-12...
December 27, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Some NPR reporting about our work on nitrate contamination in groundwater in south-central Kansas www.kcur.org/news/2023-12...
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A few years back I coded an algorithm to compute daily surface melt in Antarctica from microwave sat. data. The NSIDC adopted the code but it isn't live yet.
Until then, I created my own "Antarctica Today" app that'll auto-post replies to this thread.
Daily surface melt extent w/ a 1-day lag.
🧪⚒️🌍
Until then, I created my own "Antarctica Today" app that'll auto-post replies to this thread.
Daily surface melt extent w/ a 1-day lag.
🧪⚒️🌍
December 18, 2023 at 2:28 AM
A few years back I coded an algorithm to compute daily surface melt in Antarctica from microwave sat. data. The NSIDC adopted the code but it isn't live yet.
Until then, I created my own "Antarctica Today" app that'll auto-post replies to this thread.
Daily surface melt extent w/ a 1-day lag.
🧪⚒️🌍
Until then, I created my own "Antarctica Today" app that'll auto-post replies to this thread.
Daily surface melt extent w/ a 1-day lag.
🧪⚒️🌍
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Next up! CSDMS Webinar, "IGM, a data assimilation and glacier evolution model boosted by deep-learning", presented by Guillaume Jouvet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 12/6 @8AM MST. Register: cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 29, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Next up! CSDMS Webinar, "IGM, a data assimilation and glacier evolution model boosted by deep-learning", presented by Guillaume Jouvet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 12/6 @8AM MST. Register: cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"Teaching evaluations are a mess." Yet academic job postings continue to request them as "evidence" for excellent teaching.
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December 4, 2023 at 5:21 PM
"Teaching evaluations are a mess." Yet academic job postings continue to request them as "evidence" for excellent teaching.
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
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We invite you to attend the following CSDMS-related presentations at the AGU 2023 Fall Meeting: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/AGU2023
December 4, 2023 at 4:53 PM
We invite you to attend the following CSDMS-related presentations at the AGU 2023 Fall Meeting: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/AGU2023
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Anyone interested in volunteering with AGU EPSP? We have several openings on committees and are especially looking for folks to help us with social media. Come chat with me at AGU next week, or DM or email me for more info.
connect.agu.org/epsp/about/c...
connect.agu.org/epsp/about/c...
Committees - Earth & Planetary Surface Processes
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December 4, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Anyone interested in volunteering with AGU EPSP? We have several openings on committees and are especially looking for folks to help us with social media. Come chat with me at AGU next week, or DM or email me for more info.
connect.agu.org/epsp/about/c...
connect.agu.org/epsp/about/c...
Somewhere between the Abstract and the Plain Language Summary there is probably something really meaningful. Unfortunately, from what I keep seeing, it remains hidden.
December 2, 2023 at 6:23 PM
Somewhere between the Abstract and the Plain Language Summary there is probably something really meaningful. Unfortunately, from what I keep seeing, it remains hidden.
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I've updated the CSDMS Software Dashboard for the Landlab 2.7 release + others: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Softwar....
December 1, 2023 at 6:07 PM
I've updated the CSDMS Software Dashboard for the Landlab 2.7 release + others: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Softwar....
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For those a bit worried of potential societal collapse & also rightly making fun of buying Cybertrucks (lol) as a way to survive it, a reminder:
The biggest predictor of survival in a disaster is the number of neighbors whose names you mutually know.
Community.
The biggest predictor of survival in a disaster is the number of neighbors whose names you mutually know.
Community.
www.npr.org
December 1, 2023 at 4:05 PM
For those a bit worried of potential societal collapse & also rightly making fun of buying Cybertrucks (lol) as a way to survive it, a reminder:
The biggest predictor of survival in a disaster is the number of neighbors whose names you mutually know.
Community.
The biggest predictor of survival in a disaster is the number of neighbors whose names you mutually know.
Community.
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Coal kills: after a large coal-processing plant shut down in Pittsburgh in 2016, there was an immediate 42 percent drop in weekly hospital visits for heart-related problems for nearby residents. @caraNYT
Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, but Emissions May Be Twice as Deadly
Deaths linked to coal exhaust have dropped but coal exhaust is twice is likely to contribute to deaths as other air pollution, a new study found.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Coal kills: after a large coal-processing plant shut down in Pittsburgh in 2016, there was an immediate 42 percent drop in weekly hospital visits for heart-related problems for nearby residents. @caraNYT
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Once you start putting these folks in charge of entire universities, a consistent pattern is very big taxpayer-funded paychecks for unqualified people who unsurprisingly do a terrible job in managing higher education.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...
New College is a warning about the price of populist incompetence
What happens when inexperienced radicals can't run public services
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 27, 2023 at 2:52 PM
Once you start putting these folks in charge of entire universities, a consistent pattern is very big taxpayer-funded paychecks for unqualified people who unsurprisingly do a terrible job in managing higher education.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...
I look forward to a day when I have something worthwhile to post going on in my life.
November 26, 2023 at 9:41 PM
I look forward to a day when I have something worthwhile to post going on in my life.
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There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
November 20, 2023 at 4:41 AM
There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
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John F. Clauser
(NOBEL Prize in PHYSICS last year)
declared
“THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS”
"His recent denial of global warming has alarmed top climate scientists, who warn that he is using his stature to mislead the public about a planetary emergency"
Maybe, he does not understand how clouds work.
(NOBEL Prize in PHYSICS last year)
declared
“THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS”
"His recent denial of global warming has alarmed top climate scientists, who warn that he is using his stature to mislead the public about a planetary emergency"
Maybe, he does not understand how clouds work.
Okay boomer
Winning a Nobel prize does not mean you are a smart guy. It means you have a lot of in-depth knowledge about a very specific, narrow scientific domain, and it’s bad news when people treat you…
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November 20, 2023 at 4:47 PM
John F. Clauser
(NOBEL Prize in PHYSICS last year)
declared
“THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS”
"His recent denial of global warming has alarmed top climate scientists, who warn that he is using his stature to mislead the public about a planetary emergency"
Maybe, he does not understand how clouds work.
(NOBEL Prize in PHYSICS last year)
declared
“THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS”
"His recent denial of global warming has alarmed top climate scientists, who warn that he is using his stature to mislead the public about a planetary emergency"
Maybe, he does not understand how clouds work.