Annual CSDMS Group Meetings - What happened?

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Sharing some content here as a record of Group Meetings at the CSDMS Annual Meeting. Starting with the Terrestrial, Geodynamics, Hydrology, and CZ groups, but welcome other groups too!

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From 2024: “Share a link (group page, profile page, repository, publication) of some work that you are involved in or that inspires you.”

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Notes from 2025, Terrestrial, Hydrology, Geodynamics, and Critical Zone: (Thanks, Wolfgang!)

Social media: Very diverse set of platforms. People are pretty much everywhere
these days. Empirically, CSDMS has seen the scientific community disappear
from Twitter/X; the community is not as active on Bluesky or anywhere else as
it was.

Code review: Models that are reviewed are listed higher on the CSDMS website.
Models and code can be published via the Journal on Open Source Software
(JOSS). Many respondendents (70+%) would like more resources on reviewing code.

On the use of AI as a coding assistant: About 75% have used them. (Last year:
55%.) Most common tools: ChatGPT, CoPilot. One comment was “It’s ok to use,
but you’re shortcutting your learning, and the resulting code is generally at
best mediocre”. Other comments: “Clearly mark for which assignments AI use is
encouraged/acceptable/forbidden; enforcement is perhaps challenging.”
“Students will use AI as tools, and that’s ok. Let’s make sure students can
explain their code in comments, and also have the skills to write out
algorithms on paper.” “AI is useful.”

Things people are inspired by: Lots of things – concrete links will be posted
on the forum.

Things we could do to help the community: Webinars, building mentoring
connections, updates from the working groups, pointers to new or interesting
papers, co-working sessions, facilitated code reviews. Build your own
community of people who help each other, share experiences, reflect on what
you did and that worked or didn’t work. Long list of other suggestions on
Slido.com.

Resources you wish were available: Job/professional opportunity sites. Places
to learn best practices/software development (like Software Carpentry).

Links:

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Thanks for the notes :slight_smile:

I definitely feel this is true! Anecdotally, it seems like people have left Twitter and fragmented to either Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon, or given up on social media entirely. Roughly speaking, I feel the more “techy” people have gone to Mastodon, the more “industry/professional” people have gone to LinkedIn and the more “academic” people have gone to Bluesky, but that’s completely anecdotal.