Louis Moresi
@louis.moresi.info
Professor of Computational Geodynamics, Geophysics, Fluid Dynamics and all that stuff at the Australian National University. Interested in virtual plate tectonics (Earth and elsewhere), earthquake dynamics, groundwater, rivers… orcid: 0000-0003-3685-174X
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
and more things keep dropping. It does seem as if OpenAI have solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem which is pretty amazing but doubts remain over how they got there... openai.com/index/navier...
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 3w agoskullduggery and high mathematics.... the original statement by the mathematician who seems like a nice and honourable man - worth reading! cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
The ARC’s 2026 Future Fellowships scheme will provide more than $344 million in Aus Govt funding to support researchers addressing major national challenges and opportunities. Learn more: www.arc.gov.au/future-fello...
Tomorrow (Tuesday 8 Sept), we will announce the outcome of the ARC Future Fellowships (FT26). Stay tuned for the update!
Architects Unveil New Way To Make Use of Heat Waste From Data Centers ->Newsweek | More on "Data center waste heat recovery" at BigEarthData.ai | #Data
Architects Unveil New Way To Make Use of Heat Waste From Data Centers
As artificial intelligence (AI) fuels a global boom in data center construction, one architectural firm is proposing a new hybrid building design that reimagines how energy-hungry data centers can better serve the communities that host them. Designed by U.S.-based architecture firm FORMA, the "Pink Thermal Baths" concept combines a public bathhouse with a data center, using heat generated by computer servers to warm its pools and bathing facilities. The project's website describes it as a new building type that pairs "the leisure activities of a bathhouse with the utilitarian functions of a data center," while keeping the data center itself "fully subterranean and hidden from sight." Read More on Travel Miroslava Brooks, founder partner at FORMA, told Newsweek that waste-heat recovery from data centers already exists, and this project imagines “pushing this logic further architecturally” by combining a data center with compatible public uses such as thermal baths and swimming pools. According to the project’s website, the excess heat from the servers is distributed to the pools, “providing a hot spring-like experience," while the cone-shaped rooms help regulate interior temperatures and create a sense of monumentality. The project is envisioned as “a kind of new hybrid building type,” Brooks said,...
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Enjoy a rare glimpse into an extraordinary 80 years of science and medicine with our research community as we celebrate #ANU80 youtu.be/EXrnVhbUaGk?...
Scientists react to 80 years of history at ANU
YouTube video by Science & Medicine ANU
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The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)
ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).
ANU has climbed three places to 29th in the QS World University Rankings 2027. Read more: quicklink.anu.edu.au/4ac4
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
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EarthScope Consortium@earthscope.org · 4mo agoAs Alaska's Columbia Glacier launches icebergs into the sea, seismometers record the action of the ice crashing into the water. Looking at the data over time, you can see how the glacier is retreating. Read about the research ➡️ https://loom.ly/Ti_p0jU
The ANAO's audit of ‘Renew ANU’ highlights how much unnecessary damage was done to our national university and its people. I'll keep pushing for reform to ensure that this kind of leadership & governance failure can't happen again. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
ANU approved $250m cost-cutting plan without clear evidence, report finds
Australian National University's leadership approved a controversial $250 million cost-cutting program without a clear understanding of the problem it was trying to solve or the risks involved, a repo...
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Congratulations to our newly elected Fellows and Corresponding Members for 2026. “Celebrating our new Fellows is a reminder of the vital role science plays in addressing the challenges we face as a society,” says Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC Academy President. science.org.au/news-events/...
Department politics. Publish and/or perish. Endless committees. The version of yourself you set aside to do it all. Here's a quiet place to find yourself again: buff.ly/wuDf8vr 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
Academic Recovery Workbook | Academic Abuse
Academia shapes you slowly and without asking permission. This free reflection tool helps you see how and find your way back to who you were before it did.
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An Australian Laureate Fellowship is helping Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić explore the hidden interiors of Earth, the Moon and Mars, to reveal new insights into how planets evolve and what it takes to sustain life. @anu-rses.bsky.social science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
An ANU researcher’s journey from the centre of Earth to Mars and beyond
An Australian Laureate Fellowship is helping Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić explore the hidden interiors of Earth, the Moon and Mars, to reveal new insights into how planets evolve and what it takes to sust...
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The SciX Team are at #EGU26 in very sunny Vienna this week! Come and see Daniel and Suze to discover what we're up to at our booth on Level -2 (between the posters and the coffee - both equally tempting). Anna has a talk on Thursday and Suze has a poster on Friday. See you there!
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Physical Units in Computational Geodynamics
Non-dimensionalisation (rewriting problems to make them re-scalable from lab to the real world) is a specialised task that all modellers confront at some point. It is important for accurate and effici...
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Underworld
A parallel, python, particle-in-cell, finite-element code for Geodynamics Underworld is a python-friendly geodynamics code which provides a programmable and flexible front end to all the functionality...
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Underworld3 published in Journal of Open Source Software
The aim of underworld3 is to provide strong support to users in developing sophisticated mathematical models, and provide the ability to interrogate those models during development and at run-time. Un...
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What is underworld doing about AI ? This: www.underworldcode.org/ai-and-scien...
AI and Scientific Software: What We Learned Rebuilding Underworld3
Underworld3 has about 50,000 lines of Python/ Cython wrapping PETSc, SymPy, and a just-in-time compiler. I began a trial of AI coding tools in 2025 and they have gradually become central to the way ou...
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Background on why uw3 when people were already using uw2 ! www.underworldcode.org/our-journey-...
Our Journey from Underworld2 to Underworld3
Underworld is a code for geodynamics — mantle convection, lithospheric deformation, subduction, ice flow. We solve coupled, nonlinear PDEs with complex rheologies using Lagrangian particles to track m...
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Underworld3 published in Journal of Open Source Software
The aim of underworld3 is to provide strong support to users in developing sophisticated mathematical models, and provide the ability to interrogate those models during development and at run-time. Underworld3 encodes the mathematical structure of the equations it solves in symbolic form.
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Mesh Variables and PETSc Vectors: Keeping Arrays in Sync
One of the less glamorous but important problems in a finite element framework is this: how does the user assign values to a field variable, and how does the framework ensure that PETSc sees those values correctly, in parallel, without the user needing to keep track themselves?
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reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/... @anu-rses.bsky.social - 3 early career scientists from RSES !
Five ANU researchers receive prestigious Australian Academy of Science honorific awards
Five talented researchers from ANU have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for advancing scientific research.
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This is that same amazing view, but with camera settings set that really show this is a backlit photo of Earth—only a thin sliver of it illuminated by the Sun. Source: www.nasa.gov/image-detail... Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 6mo agoThis image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
