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There are now two reported attacks on desalination facilities in Trump's Iran War: one on an Iranian plant; one in Bahrain. This marks a dangerous escalation in a region highly dependent on #desalination for #water supply.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/attacks-on-desalination-drag-water-supplies-into-the-war-with-iran-73b02146

Professor Charles Haas Jan 23

Some things that LLMs are useful for as an academic (many of which may not be obvious)

https://open.substack.com/pub/professorwater/p/some-things-that-llms-are-useful?r=4yh84r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Some things that LLMs are useful for as an academic

(as of January 2026)

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Professor Charles Haas Jan 20

@celfred @robb @hyde There is a very active forum, with many examples: https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/

Also a discord group.

And JD is on Mastodon @johnnydecimal

Johnny.Decimal forum

A system to organise your life.

Johnny.Decimal forum

Professor Charles Haas Jan 19

I recently put my thoughts together on writing an academic book, having just finished a new manuscript (a bit over 700 pages). https://substack.com/home/post/p-184996613?source=queue #writing #academia

On Writing an Academic Book

I just finished a 700-page manuscript draft for a book, tentatively titled “Environmental Engineering for Pathogen Control,” and sent it off to the publisher (Wiley).

Professor Charles Haas Jan 10

Kai Kupferschmidt Jan 10

“The society was not a “dining club” or “political party”, Nurse said, noting that he was sure it had included “murderers” and other criminals in the past.”

Sure seems like a declaration of moral bankruptcy…

https://www.ft.com/content/088b804f-15e0-4a8e-b32d-146a826b8d6c?utm_social_post_id=647289682&utm_social_handle_id=did%3Aplc%3A5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb

Client Challenge

Professor Charles Haas Dec 29

Thoughts on #AI , #engineering, and #engineering education in my new blog post. Are we going through stages of grief? https://chaasblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/ai-in-academia-and-the-five-stages-of-grief/

AI in Academia and the Five Stages of Grief

The emergence of generative AI has prompted a wide range of reactions across academia—many of them charged, inconsistent, and often deeply personal. While these responses are frequently framed as f…

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Professor Charles Haas Oct 19

@kakape Probably appropriate to link to a (US) National Academies Workshop Report done immediately before the pandemic. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25887/understanding-and-responding-to-global-health-security-risks-from-microbial-threats-in-the-arctic
#NASEM

Understanding and Responding to Global Health Security Risks from Microbial Threats in the Arctic: Proceedings of a Workshop

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print or as an eBook.

The National Academies Press

Professor Charles Haas Oct 14

Kai Kupferschmidt Oct 12

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

The Guardian

Professor Charles Haas Sep 28

@pu @obsidianmd @obsidian A number of threads recently (as well as older) on reddit

Professor Charles Haas Sep 28

How worried are #Obsidian users about the various discussions regarding possible malicious actors to alter plugins to either damage or harvest information from their entire file system? @obsidianmd @obsidian

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