Karianne Bergen
@kariannebergen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Brown Data Science Institute | Machine Learning | AI for Science | ML in Geophysics & Climate - opinions are my own
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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🔔 The California Geological Survey is hiring a SEISMOLOGIST. 🔔
Duty station is in Sacramento. Position closes September 1st so apply now!
For duty statement, salary ranges, additional information and to apply, please visit calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Duty station is in Sacramento. Position closes September 1st so apply now!
For duty statement, salary ranges, additional information and to apply, please visit calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Staff Seismologist
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
calcareers.ca.gov
August 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🔔 The California Geological Survey is hiring a SEISMOLOGIST. 🔔
Duty station is in Sacramento. Position closes September 1st so apply now!
For duty statement, salary ranges, additional information and to apply, please visit calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Duty station is in Sacramento. Position closes September 1st so apply now!
For duty statement, salary ranges, additional information and to apply, please visit calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
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Many who work with homeless veterans said they were blindsided by President Trump's pledge to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the VA’s greatest housing success story.
Trump’s Get-Tough Approach on Homelessness May Sweep Up Veterans
The administration has pledged to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the V.A.’s greatest housing success story.
nyti.ms
August 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Many who work with homeless veterans said they were blindsided by President Trump's pledge to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the VA’s greatest housing success story.
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The purpose of academic freedom is not to allow faculty to live cushy lives free from criticism or constraint. Its purpose is to allow them to investigate widely and report (or criticize) the results openly, instead of allowing politicians to decide what is true and what is not.
August 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The purpose of academic freedom is not to allow faculty to live cushy lives free from criticism or constraint. Its purpose is to allow them to investigate widely and report (or criticize) the results openly, instead of allowing politicians to decide what is true and what is not.
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I hope this article about doodles etched onto silicon chips offers you some relief from all the doom.
Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I hope this article about doodles etched onto silicon chips offers you some relief from all the doom.
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
August 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
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If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
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Postdoc opportunity in collaboration with our lab on downscaling/superresolution for biodiversity, details here:
community.climatechange.ai/c/postdoc/po...
community.climatechange.ai/c/postdoc/po...
Postdoctoral Position — Machine Learning and Downscaling to Advance Ecological Applications | Climate Change AI
As part of an IVADO initiative on AI and environment, a coalition of Montreal labs is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project applying state-of-the-art machine learning a...
community.climatechange.ai
July 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Postdoc opportunity in collaboration with our lab on downscaling/superresolution for biodiversity, details here:
community.climatechange.ai/c/postdoc/po...
community.climatechange.ai/c/postdoc/po...
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I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
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We traveled to DC to talk to Congressional Staffers about the impact of NIH and NIBIB funding. It enables us to develop synthetic biology tools to advance cell & genetic medicines for patients in need. REPOST to deliver the message that SCIENCE saves lives & makes America GREAT!
July 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We traveled to DC to talk to Congressional Staffers about the impact of NIH and NIBIB funding. It enables us to develop synthetic biology tools to advance cell & genetic medicines for patients in need. REPOST to deliver the message that SCIENCE saves lives & makes America GREAT!
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Someone take up this very generous offer! I also recommend checking out the resources from the OpEd Project if you want to learn to write opinion: www.theopedproject.org
July 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Someone take up this very generous offer! I also recommend checking out the resources from the OpEd Project if you want to learn to write opinion: www.theopedproject.org
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If any of my scientist *mutuals* wants to write an op-ed for their newspaper about science but you’re not feeling confident about your writing skills, I will happily ghost co-write the piece with you. I’m fast, and I’m pretty good. And we need people making the case for science. 🧪⚛️🔭
July 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If any of my scientist *mutuals* wants to write an op-ed for their newspaper about science but you’re not feeling confident about your writing skills, I will happily ghost co-write the piece with you. I’m fast, and I’m pretty good. And we need people making the case for science. 🧪⚛️🔭
For those attending #AGU2025, consider submitting an abstract to our session “Advances in Machine Learning for Solid Earth Geoscience”.
Please share with your network!
Please share with your network!
July 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For those attending #AGU2025, consider submitting an abstract to our session “Advances in Machine Learning for Solid Earth Geoscience”.
Please share with your network!
Please share with your network!
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It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️
NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute
In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
michaelrlowry.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️
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When I wrote an op-ed during the campaign saying that Project 2025 called for the near-total elimination of NOAA and that ocean scientists should therefore oppose Trump and support Harris, senior scientists in my field called me alarmist and hysterical and unprofessional
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Commentary: Project 2025 spells disaster for oceans and coasts in a changing climate
Project 2025’s authors and contributors — a who’s who of fossil fuel industry insiders and climate denialists — have proposed policies that paint a terrifying future for the ocean and the mil…
www.orlandosentinel.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When I wrote an op-ed during the campaign saying that Project 2025 called for the near-total elimination of NOAA and that ocean scientists should therefore oppose Trump and support Harris, senior scientists in my field called me alarmist and hysterical and unprofessional
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Very good piece by some great people about the "Gold standards" for science that are nothing but a Trojan horse to make science subservient to politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Very good piece by some great people about the "Gold standards" for science that are nothing but a Trojan horse to make science subservient to politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Noting that our AI footprint today is likely the smallest it will ever be, @technologyreview.com offers a comprehensive — and sobering — analysis of how much energy the AI industry uses and where it's headed. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Noting that our AI footprint today is likely the smallest it will ever be, @technologyreview.com offers a comprehensive — and sobering — analysis of how much energy the AI industry uses and where it's headed. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
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All the gratitude --
- to scientists who've reported their grants to grant-watch.us. Your willingness to share matters & has made a difference.
- to @aniloza.bsky.social for this article and many others that document the destruction of American science.
- to @noamross.net as the perfect teammate.
- to scientists who've reported their grants to grant-watch.us. Your willingness to share matters & has made a difference.
- to @aniloza.bsky.social for this article and many others that document the destruction of American science.
- to @noamross.net as the perfect teammate.
May 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
All the gratitude --
- to scientists who've reported their grants to grant-watch.us. Your willingness to share matters & has made a difference.
- to @aniloza.bsky.social for this article and many others that document the destruction of American science.
- to @noamross.net as the perfect teammate.
- to scientists who've reported their grants to grant-watch.us. Your willingness to share matters & has made a difference.
- to @aniloza.bsky.social for this article and many others that document the destruction of American science.
- to @noamross.net as the perfect teammate.
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I want better futures, not whatever is next when you don’t invest in discovery and education.
“Economists have warned that cutting federal funding for scientific research could, in the long run, damage the U.S. economy by an amount equivalent to a major recession”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Economists have warned that cutting federal funding for scientific research could, in the long run, damage the U.S. economy by an amount equivalent to a major recession”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I want better futures, not whatever is next when you don’t invest in discovery and education.
“Economists have warned that cutting federal funding for scientific research could, in the long run, damage the U.S. economy by an amount equivalent to a major recession”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Economists have warned that cutting federal funding for scientific research could, in the long run, damage the U.S. economy by an amount equivalent to a major recession”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.
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America is intentionally squandering our global scientific advantage by persecuting academics and researchers. There is beauty and wonder in the quest for scientific understanding, and we should be helping that curiosity bloom, not crushing it under jackboots.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
America is intentionally squandering our global scientific advantage by persecuting academics and researchers. There is beauty and wonder in the quest for scientific understanding, and we should be helping that curiosity bloom, not crushing it under jackboots.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”
The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy
The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
www.forbes.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”