Colin Murphy

@persuasivescience.bsky. social #UCDavis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy. Clean fuels, LCFS #scicomms. Thoughts are my own.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

We're looking forward to a fantastic discussion of ILUC research and policy next week at UC Berkeley. Space is still available.

https://t.co/6M3Pu1VfIo

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

@DonMacKenzie9 @ramez Yes and no. If the goal is *just* to install as much renewable electricity as possible, then you're right. But we are going to need many other technologies and policy approaches to actually solve the problem, and Texas' deregulatory approach isn't going to bring them to market

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

Science is a process for uncovering truth, more than ever, scientists need to commit themselves to being caretakers for this process and the limited, imperfect forms of truth human cognition can uncover.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

People ask why I, and many other academics, are reluctant to embrace AI in our work. This is why. We lack tools to effectively instill ethics or high standards for certainty into LLMs and agents.

https://t.co/yg4FEiSKRj

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

And until I can have more confidence that AI have ethics and are grounded on truth, they'll be limited to very small, peripheral parts of my toolkit (formatting documents, generating draft infographics from specified data, etc.)

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

@dunnde That won't happen until his friends have cashed in their shorts after brunch.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

Please feel free to reach out if you have questions. To preemptively answer a common one:

Will there be a virtual option? Probably not, though we are exploring the possibility of recording some or all of the presentations and posting them online.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

For any ILUC researchers, enthusiasts, or folks for whom those letters have become the bane of your existence: I cordially invite you to a research conference ITS-Davis is co-hosting with Prof. Aaron Smith of UC Berkeley, May 28-29 at UC Berkeley.

https://t.co/6M3Pu1VfIo

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

This is an opportunity to advance the discussion in this space beyond the "my model is better than your model" arguments that have dominated in recent years, and help start researchers, like my team at the Biofuel Land Use Change program, developing more effective policy tools.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

We have an exciting postdoc opportunity open to join our team at @ITS-Davis working on new regulatory approaches to indirect land use change (ILUC) assessment.

Please circulate this through your networks and reach out if you have any questions!

https://t.co/kDa0YDh1N6

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

Similar workshops are being held around the country, in case you're not in our neighborhood. See the link in the invitation to find one in your area.

Please share this announcement and I'm happy to answer questions!

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

Interested in the GREET model for transportation LCA? Have you found the GREET model to be very confusing and tough to work with?

We can help with that! ITS-Davis will host a 2-day R&D GREET model training workshop model in Sacramento this November!

https://t.co/ePurSTMYeG

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

So DOGE-related cuts and early retirements eliminated 550 staff at the National Weather Service, and now the NWS is being granted special permission to hire 450 positions to relieve critical shortages.

Such a waste of time and resources.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

@lrntex Agree. I was using market power as a shorthand, not precisely aligning with terms of art.

[Colin Murphy @scianalysis]

@moo4isu @MisterCommodity @biofuelslaw Yes, but that's already done (in GREET) for RFS purposes. If I recall, there was a version of GREET released for 45z, but if you've already got a GREET pathway for RFS (or LCFS) it's simple to replicate it in a different version of GREET and present the same verification material