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Matt Mack @matthras.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ooh arXiv paper from @matthholden.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social about embedding sustainability in undergraduate maths with case studies 👀 Looks very actionable!

arxiv.org/abs/2508.07594

Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Mathematics with Actionable Case Studies

There is a growing need to integrate sustainability into tertiary mathematics education given the urgency of addressing global environmental challenges. This paper presents four case studies from Aust...

arxiv.org

Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈 @matthholden.bsky.social · Jul 16

Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematical Ecology and Environmental Decision Science

School of Mathematics and Physics Full-time, fixed-term position for up to 2 years and 9 months with the possibility up to 3 years, depending on funding availability. Base salary will be in the range ...

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

Justine Shaw @justineshaw.bsky.social · Jun 17

What information is most useful to make better decisions based on a model? @katehelmstedt.bsky.social explains how Value of Information can inform which marine invasive species should be monitored in Antarctica AND which uncertainties in our ecosystem models should we be resolving? #ICCB2025

Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨

Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization.

Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization.

Feel free to DM for informal chat.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Details | City St George's, University of London

Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Apr 16

Strength to all trans women today. The bigots are out in force, but always remember their hate says everything about them not you. Trans women are women, and a bigot is always a bigot.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 11

The US has three bases in Antarctica. Besides the important science done there, they're a proxy for geopolitical power. China just built its fifth base in Antarctica, so if the US pulls back, guess who will take over?

Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Trump cuts threaten to cancel fieldwork and more

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been reduced, and the agency faces steeper cuts soon.

www.nature.com

Dan Oehm @danoehm.bsky.social · Apr 8

A player who has shared the most votes with a jury member is ~37% more likely to get their vote. And more votes, more likely. At this stage, Kaelan has the highest jury favorability, and Myles is critically low.

This is a strong indicator, but not deterministic. A few more things 🧵 1/

#SurvivorAU

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Mar 24

So little time to make this call, too. Speed aura reading

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Mar 23

We're hosting an early International Women in Maths Day event in Brisbane next Monday - come hang out and eat lunch. All genders welcome, but you gotta like maths and women killing it. Research talks from women, professional development discussions, free food smp.uq.edu.au/event/sessio....

International Women in Mathematics Day 2025

smp.uq.edu.au

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Mar 19

Always remember - budgets are about choices
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Charts showing cost of increasing Jobseeker to 90% of age pension base - $3.5bn; raising it to 90% of total age pension - $5.2bn. Cost of super concessions for the richest 10% - $9.9bn + $10.4bn, cost of capital gains discount for the richest 10% - $18.6bn, cost of fuel tax credit for mining companies - $4.8bn

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 19

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com

Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈 @matthholden.bsky.social · Mar 18

Job alert: 3 Aotearoa New Zealand Postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/03/07/p...

Postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems

We're looking for three postdoctoral fellows to join our newly created Modelling for Impact Hub.

www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz

Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · Mar 14

In the final stretch of my PhD thesis on nests, I keep thinking about this pigeon's masterpiece. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just done. Let’s do this! 🐦🪶

#PhD #PhDsky 🧪

A pigeon sitting beside its simple nest—just a few twigs, nothing fancy, but it works. One egg rests inside, soon the city will welcome another little pigeon to its flock.

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Mar 12

The line is a mountain and the bear represents a cave tunnelling through the data to the deeply hidden truth, obviously

dallo @mdallo.bsky.social · Mar 9

He’s not wrong #brisbane

‘This is a fluid situation’, premier says

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Mar 6

We introduce a method to quantify how extreme events affect ecosystem function and services. Paper out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social - very fitting on a day that Cyclone Alfred is looming off the coast of my city!

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thanks to @natureecoevo.bsky.social & the reviewers for the great process and highlighting this work in a News & Views: Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thanks to @natureecoevo.bsky.social & the reviewers for the great process and highlighting this work in a News & Views: Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Mar 5

Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...

www.nature.com

casey briggs @caseybriggs.com · Feb 25

For a long time I've joked that Antony Green is immortal and will never retire.

He is sharp, fast, funny, and it has been such a privilege to have a front row seat to the master at work for so long.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Legendary ABC chief election analyst Antony Green to step down

The ABC's 2025 federal election coverage will be the last to feature Antony Green AO in an on-air role, with the chief election analyst stepping down after more than 30 years.

www.abc.net.au

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Feb 23

This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects.

Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them.

The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Feb 11

Yay!! Congrats Maria!

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Feb 11

Yess this conference in Nepal is going to be awesome. Maths, environment, natural resources, lots of biodiversity conservation focus. Can’t wait

Resource Modeling Association (RMA) @resourcemodeling.bsky.social · Feb 11

The Emerging Scholar Keynote Award winner at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling is @kleshnina.bsky.social, for her impressive research in game theoretic modeling of social-environmental systems. A must-see talk in Nepal. Submit your abstract 👉 resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm2025-ka....

WCNRM#2025 Kathmandu, Nepal - Resource Modeling Association

resourcemodeling.org

Resource Modeling Association (RMA) @resourcemodeling.bsky.social · Feb 11

The Emerging Scholar Keynote Award winner at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling is @kleshnina.bsky.social, for her impressive research in game theoretic modeling of social-environmental systems. A must-see talk in Nepal. Submit your abstract 👉 resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm2025-ka....

WCNRM#2025 Kathmandu, Nepal - Resource Modeling Association

resourcemodeling.org

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Feb 7

I loved this construction! I’ll definitely be using it next time I teach queuing theory

Matt Mack @matthras.bsky.social · Feb 5

Another one for important work on climate change and its effects (presumably on the Great Barrier Reef), Luz V. Pascal from Queensland University of Technology presents: "When does non-stationarity matter for threatened ecosystems?"

#ANZIAM2025
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Luz on the lectern standing next to the title slide of her talk.

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Feb 5

Impossible to implement. Much easier for us all to have two bluesky apps and find out our futures publicly from a bot

Matt Mack @matthras.bsky.social · Feb 5

Next for Tuesday's #ANZIAM2025 is Grace Robinson from Queensland University of Technology: "Balancing competing priorities: optimising land usage allocation"

Mmm, practical optimisation! The type of optimisation I like!

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Grace is standing on the podium looking at the introductory slide of her talk. The slide is using a very colourful palette of pink-purple combined with many photos of nature and animals.

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Feb 4

We can all go back to knowing ARC grant outcomes within 17 seconds of them being posted, thank god

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Feb 4

I’ve now activated my “bot posts only” account on Bluesky: @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social

That account will repost only my bot’s posts, i.e. outcomes & #ARCSenateOrder announcements.

Combined with the separate phone app👇, it can be used to get a notification when the ARC makes those announcements.

ARC Tracker's *Bot Posts Only* @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social · Feb 4

The @bluenotify.app app does push notifications when a specific user posts:

🔹Follow @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social
🔹Get BlueNotify & add your BSky account in “Settings”.
🔹Add @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social in “Edit Notifications” & select “Post” & “Repost”.

BlueNotify is open source. Seems to work!

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Feb 4

I’ve now activated my “bot posts only” account on Bluesky: @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social

That account will repost only my bot’s posts, i.e. outcomes & #ARCSenateOrder announcements.

Combined with the separate phone app👇, it can be used to get a notification when the ARC makes those announcements.

ARC Tracker's *Bot Posts Only* @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social · Feb 4

The @bluenotify.app app does push notifications when a specific user posts:

🔹Follow @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social
🔹Get BlueNotify & add your BSky account in “Settings”.
🔹Add @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social in “Edit Notifications” & select “Post” & “Repost”.

BlueNotify is open source. Seems to work!

Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social · Feb 3

Petition for more thirst traps in ANZIAM plenaries

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