Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
Sharing a call to action signed by 188 scientists and ecologists from across India, urging researchers and field practitioners to prepare for, document and respond to the ecological impacts of the evolving 2026/27 El Niño.
India’s monsoon season is closing with a rainfall deficit, but the impacts may not end there. They can creep into the seasons ahead and cascade through depleted soil moisture and water storage, land and marine heatwaves, forest fires, coral bleaching and less visible ecological changes. The call asks us not only to strengthen monitoring, but also to safeguard the ecosystems that remain and reduce the pressures already weakening them.
The full call is available here:
zenodo.org/records/22794483
exhibit n:
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Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
most toxic problem in Indian univs is equating rigor with "strictness". When tapasya-pariksha culture replaces curiosity & exploration-- you get a pressure cooker.
Real issue is how this system treats "failure" & "cheating". Most teachers default think students are lazy, spoilt cuz back when they were students it was so much worse & it made them "stronger"
This obsession w. strength IS the weakness.
Pressures on marginalized caste, low income, first gen students is unbearable. This should be a moment to look at our exam toxicity & academic culture-- instead casteist Savarnas will make it about bogus merit discourse & make strawman arguments against reservation.
cat's out of the bag but if anyone was keeping track, posting here for posterity, or atleast until the birdsite's data centers get fried and vaporized: phdone.
may the shitposts flow.
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
Earth Journalism Network (EJN) communicators' workshop on renewable energy in Tiruchirappalli Aug 21-23. Priority to Tamil Nadu & neighboring states.
Applications accepted in English and Tamil
earthjournalism.net/opportun…
Application deadline June 30
Sumanto Mondal's work on who lives in the city's plateaus and lowlands, also well worth your time:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
earth.google.com/web/data=Mk…
Overflowing drains, collapsing roofs, zero relief.
Bengaluru’s slums face the worst of floods — not by default, but by the city's design itself. Watch this week’s In Public Interest to know about Bengaluru’s flood crisis & how it hit the poor.
youtube.com/watch?v=fZG09uha…
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
OK, I’m like 20% through Meet The Savarnas by @ProfRavikantK and this book is pure rage, by which I mean, fabulous. I feel scolded & want to brag about it. Go read! Tell your friends who’ve been loyal to the podcast.
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
We have observed the response of Easton Glacier on Mount Baker for four decades documenting its response to climate change- @NASAEarth focussed on this study today by @karinkirk_mt . @GlaciogenicArt earthobservatory.nasa.gov/im…
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
Thrilled to announce my first first-author paper is now out on @igsoc ! Lots of thanks to my great advisors/mentors @crevassse @IceNowicki @bcsatho
doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.50
(1/3)
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
These record highs driving the resulting record lows for mountain glaciers.
🔼 In 2023, Earth’s major atmospheric greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—reached record highs again. See @CIRESnews scientists’ contributions in the #StateofClimate2023 report: bit.ly/2023BAMSSotC @ametsoc @metoffice @metoffice_sci @Climategov
ALT The three dominant greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere—carbon dioxide (left), methane (center), and nitrous oxide (right)—all reached new highs in 2023. NOAA Climate.gov image, adapted from Figure 2.59 in State of the Climate in 2023. Background photo from Adobe Stock. Alt: Three line graphs of observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, showing how each has increased over the past few decades. Graphs are overlaid on a photo of a smoke stack and billowing smoke.
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
NOAA led State of the Climate 2023 report published in BAMS is out. The cover is a pair of images I took of a glacier that dissappeared in 2023 after 40 years of our continuous monitoring, overall the cryosphere not faring well. @NOAAClimate @ametsoc
ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/pu…
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
I wrote a short focus piece on the last decade of modeling calving at tall ice cliffs, where these news results leave us, and where we can go from here science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Shiva Muruganandham retweeted
"In Western Ghats reports, the ecologists hoped to short-circuit flawed democratic processes and move six states from an extreme lopsided economic growth model to extreme ecology-at-all-costs model overnight"
This! Required analysis of the famed reports.
reporters-collective.in/blog…