Mirko Musa

Assistant Professor at @EPFL. Chasing the power of water. Nature enthusiast. @saflumn Alumnus.
Opinions are my own. He/him/his.

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

#Renewable #energy production from #rivers! In-stream #hydrokinetic turbines (like wind turbines in water) are a promising & environmental friendly energy source! New study published on @NatureEnergyJnl in collaboration with @MicheleGuala at @saflumn.
➡️https://t.co/RqW67iE6PX

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

🚨 I'm hiring PhD students to work @ EPFL to work on two distinct topics:

1️⃣ Hydrokinetic energy in rivers 🌊
2️⃣ Bedforms & sediment training solutions 🏞️

Learn more & applications: 🔗 https://t.co/SnDxmh0nvZ

🔄 Please share! #PhD #WaterResources #Geomorphology

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

@varepsilon @epflENAC Thank you Mario!!

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

Exciting news! I’ve started as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Hydraulic Engineering at @epflENAC! Thrilled to return to academic research and take on the exciting challenge of teaching—at one of the best institutions, especially for hydraulic engineering!

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

@afrojasa @epflENAC Thank you @afrojasa !

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

Even more exciting: I’m launching STREEM – the Laboratory for Sustainable River Engineering, Energy, and Morphodynamics! 🌊⚡ Stay tuned—we’ll soon be hiring students & postdocs!
🔗 https://t.co/P4qjEmSt30
#Hydropower #RiverEngineering #SustainableEnergy #Morphodynamics #EPFL

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

The surprising alliance shaping the fate of America’s 90,000 dams https://t.co/gGtjMDGI9R

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

People are rightly ridiculing OpenAI over its accusations of Deepseek using their output to train their model, but most people are missing the truly terrifying implications here.

The far more worrying aspect here is that OpenAI is suggesting that there are some cases in which they own the output of their model.

Now think for a minute what this means in the world of tomorrow where so much will be generated by AI (and already is): all the software code, the emails we send each others, the videos and images, etc.

Do you want to live in a future where, if for some reason the AI giants are dissatisfied with the way you use the output of their model, they can claim ownership of it? A future where every piece of content touched by AI - which might be virtually everything in the world of tomorrow - comes with invisible strings attached?

The implications for innovation and creativity are staggering. Small businesses and independent developers who rely on AI tools could find themselves trapped in a web of intellectual property claims. Worse, we're looking at a future where the very act of learning and building upon existing knowledge becomes gated by the interests of AI giants.

This would be techno-feudalism on steroids: if we don't challenge this now, we risk sleepwalking into a future where human creativity and innovation become the property of a bunch of AI overlords, and a world where they can dictate not only who gets to innovate, but what kind of progress is acceptable based on their own interests.

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

@scorfano Happy birthday Claudia!! 🥳🎉

[Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈 @bedform]

New @EvoFlood project paper preprinted @Nature "Global Estimation of River Bankfull Discharge Reveals Distinct Flood Recurrences Across Different Climate Zones" led by Yinxue Liu @lborouniversity @UniofOxford, based on observations & novel machine learning https://t.co/ZBM4gQvGmf

[Mário J. Franca @Mario_J_Franca]

TENURE TRACK POSITION (W1)
in
FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS

https://t.co/12aNz5EqHp

Integrated in the Institute for Water and Environment https://t.co/Dq1cZ7cr4R

@KITKarlsruhe
#fluid
#water
#hydraulics

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

We captured some really neat footage of lynx this past year on our cameras but this is definitely the coolest. In fact, might be the best video of a lynx we have ever captured, not least because the lynx decided sit right in front of the camera...

Thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for their continued support of the project, which allows us to capture, document, and share neat footage of the wildlife in northern Minnesota!

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

This work is part of a broader project sponsored by @ENERGY's Water Power Technology Office (#WPTO). The goal is to design a modular hydrosuction sediment bypass system for low-head dams to help mitigate #reservoir #sedimentation issues.

#Hydropower #Sediments #RiverEngineering

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

📢New Paper out for #flumefriday: https://t.co/olryOvsKYV

Together with @chienyung_tseng, @SciJiyong , @MicheleGuala, we experimentally tested an array of submerged porous vanes to control the lateral movement of sediments.

..and interesting questions came up! 👇🏽

1/3

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

How do we quantify the effectiveness of the vanes in controlling sediment direction? And so, how do you measure/estimate just the lateral sediment transport? The paper includes tentative answers and proposes a new methodology starting from laser bathymetric scans.

2/3

[Chien-Yung Tseng @chienyung_tseng]

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 We proposed a novel approach to quantify lateral bedload transport in a large-scale lab experiment. The result reveals how submerged vanes effectively steer bedform migration to optimize sediment capture!

#Sediment
#Flumefriday

👉 https://t.co/IgAEjRKwEW

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

📢@AGUGlobalChange Session Alert!🚨

Do you work in #MarineEnergy research? 🌊Join our session, "GC095-Marine Energy to Power the Blue Economy," and share your innovative ideas!
Submit your abstract 👇: https://t.co/1mTCSbYOzU
Deadline: July 31st!
#BlueEconomy #Sustainability

[Mirko Musa @MirkoMusa]

I had the pleasure to participate in last year's edition and I had a blast. I learned so much about the world of policy making that, as an engineer, I knew very little about. This is an amazing opportunity for those interested in translating energy research into actions.

[David Hart @ProfDavidHart]

Applications invited: 2024 Energy and Climate-Tech Innovation Policy Boot Camp for Early Career More details 👇👇👇
https://t.co/gCPoXRPCGO

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato

Explanation: Single shots like this require planning. The first step is to realize that such an amazing triple-alignment actually takes place. The second step is to find the best location to photograph it. But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time -- and when the sky was clear -- that was the hardest. Five times over six years the photographer tried and found bad weather. Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Scientific institutions must create--and sustain--new kinds of roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of #climate change. The status quo isn't working. [Thread: 1/n] https://t.co/2J9897Dddv

[ORNL Biology and Environment @ORNLBio_Env]

Congratulations to Peter Thornton – one of four scientists named as @ORNL Corporate Fellows this year. Throughout his career, Thornton has increased ORNL’s stature in both the national and international #climatechange science communities.
https://t.co/gtthOiQqzY