Another cracker from Jack Ryan. Many excellent researchers on this list, but do citations and metrics = good science??

Jack Ryan 🙏🧪@jacksonwryan.com · 11mo ago

On the same day CSIRO announced it was cutting 350 jobs, the Australian newspaper ranked the country's top 250 researchers and institutes by field. Don't mean to yuck yums but... Citations and metric ranking feels like a bad idea folks!!!!! 🧪 nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/are-you-in...

An exciting line up of projects funded by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Scheme: rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

wonderful look at Melbourne seasons from @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social "The reason Indigenous calendars work well is because they’re based on evidence – changes in plants and animals, and subtle changes in weather patterns." pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...

Don’t be fooled by Melbourne’s Fool’s Spring

From the ‘Spring of Deception’ to ‘The Swooping’, understanding the cycles of Australian weather can help us all love Melbourne’s eclectic seasons, say University of Melbourne experts.

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Recently I chatted with my good friend @lindenashcroft.bsky.social about de-extinction, dire wolves, funding conservation, and why the scientific community should be more supportive of taking risks and chasing the ‘impossible’. You can listen here www.3cr.org.au/lostinscienc...

Dire wolves and dire research funding outlook

On this week's show Stu has a look at the impact of US science funding cuts on the Australian scientific research landscape, and Linden talks to Euan Ritchie about the hoopla around Dire Wolf resurrec...

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In this article @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I look at the latest WMO report on the climate in 2024. In a nutshell- the climate is moving further away from its pre-industrial state because of our greenhouse gas emissions. We need to get to net zero ASAP theconversation.com/flooding-in-...

Flooding in the Sahara, Amazon tributaries drying and warming tipping over 1.5°C – 2024 broke all the wrong records

The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet again. Coincidence? Of course not

theconversation.com

A few years ago a climate science colleague of mine said "When it gets really bad, they will blame us for not telling them how bad it would be." Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

As Trump abandons climate action, we must accept net zero won't happen

While markets and media were chasing Donald Trump’s tariff fiasco last week, something far more important was unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio.

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New semester, new teaching globe! Coming to a Coriolis explanation near you Thanks @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com for doing a clean out of your toy room :)

‘Meta did not respond to questions…further testing showed Cyclone Alfred was still being hidden on some devices and accounts….’ sources more reliable than f/b: www.getready.qld.gov.au/find-your-lo... www.abc.net.au/brisbane www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Facebook blocked Cyclone Alfred searches ahead of landfall and hasn't explained why

Despite hundreds of thousands of accounts talking about Cyclone Alfred on Facebook, social media giant Meta was blocking or hiding search results about the impending storm before being contacted by AB...

abc.net.au

Very excited about our first school-wide seminar tomorrow! A/Prof Sune Rasmussen from Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute joins PhD students Yanxuan Du and Calla Gould-Whalley to explore dramatic climate changes in our Earth's history events.unimelb.edu.au/science/even...

Past abrupt climate changes – mechanisms and consequences

Please join us for the first monthly seminar from the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The seminar will be in person, with ...

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Climate change primary ingredient for 2024/25 summer’s heat This is Australia's second hottest summer on record, but it will be one of the coolest in the 21st century — Uni Melbourne climate scientist Dr @lindenashcroft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @readfearn.bsky.social

Australia’s second-hottest summer in 2024-25 ‘not possible without climate change’, scientist says

2024-25 summer at 1.89C above long-term average ‘will be one of the coolest in the 21st century’, according to one expert

theguardian.com

Prof Ray Wills@profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 2y ago

In all the Januarys we've lived, January 2025 was the hottest January since we were born bsky.app/profile/prof...

Ongoing bushfires in VIC's Grampians National Park.

Great opportunity to do a Masters at one of Australia's best weather and climate research centres!

Martin Jucker@drjucker.bsky.social · 2y ago

we’re looking for master’s students to work with is at UNSW 👇 if you’re interested, be quick!

LA is in a high fire risk region & fire weather conditions are complex. So we @wwattribution.bsky.social looked at many lines of evidence. All show: our burning of fossil fuels increased the likelihood of such extreme fire weather conditions www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

I used to think science was completely objective, free from human values and biases. Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day! So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Always learn so much when the wonderful @kelamb.bsky.social and I catch up. Good luck to anyone listening in though - we're mums who work part time, you know we only speak double speed 🏎️🏎️

Karen Lamb@kelamb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Off to meet the excellent @lindenashcroft.bsky.social to chat all things communication! #scicomm

Fascinating to hear from @richardabetts.bsky.social this morning on predicting CO2 emissions for the coming year as well as truly defining current global warming levels. So much work to hone in on one number!

Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s. Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.

What have our #scicomm teaching team members learnt from our soaring highs and crushing lows? Find out on episode 99 of this excellent podcast

Let's Talk SciComm podcast@letstalkscicomm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wooohooooo 🥳🥳 What better way to celebrate our 99th episode than getting the whole team together to chat about our #scicomm highs and lows: when things went well, when they went badly & most importantly, what we learned along the way! 👉👉 We'd love you to listen and share: pod.fo/e/28ebff

Hi Fellow Blue Skyers, Appropriately named place for the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society! Hoping the sky is blue for you today! Follow us for the latest news on weather, oceans and climate science from Australia and abroad.

Do #climatecomms and want to visit Cairns next June? Submit an abstract for the AMOS conference! An opportunity for valuable #comms and #climatescience chats. Abstracts are due this Friday

This 👇🏼 is open for another 6 days! 🌊 🌏 Not sure if this is for you? Want to find more about the project? Are you on the fence? Do reach out..! 😊 We'll be using a new ocean model: github.com/CliMA/Oceana... github.com/CliMA/ClimaO... and collaborate with CliMA (clima.caltech.edu).

Navid C@navidcy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting Postdoc Opportunity! 🌟🌊🌏 Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA. bit.ly/4fmIFv4

Around Melbourne Uni this Thursday? Come to our first ever End of Year public colloquium! Enjoy a drink in the sun and hear from the amazing Jas Chambers from Ocean Decade Australia. Tickets are free but seats are limited so register now :)