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Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 1d

Excellent article from @sabinzahirovic.bsky.social on the need for ⚒️ geosciences to support our critical minerals future.

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/our-...

Our geoscience crisis will undermine Australia’s critical minerals promise

To fulfil its deal with the US, the country needs professionals who know where minerals are and how to extract them responsibly, says Sabin Zahirovic

www.timeshighereducation.com

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 2d

Well, here it is, the most scenic public toilet in Australia (apparently) - judge for yourself !

It's a great view, but surely there must be some strong competition out there.

And how does this fare in the world rankings ?

A map showing the location of the "most scenic public toilet in Australia"

A very scenic view of a bay with turquoise surf rolling towards the sand

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 7d

Geoscientists be alert to the danger ! ⚒️

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · 11d

The Academy’s report also found the current pipeline and study choices of students is not aligned with the needs of our future workforce – with declining STEM participation and teacher shortages threatening our national capability in critical areas like geoscience.

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 8d

This article from anthropic.ai on "misbehaving" AI tools is really quite alarming. Blackmail ! Murder ! And it only gets worse when you say "this is not a drill ... are you sure ?"

www.anthropic.com/research/age...

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

www.anthropic.com

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · 11d

The Academy’s report also found the current pipeline and study choices of students is not aligned with the needs of our future workforce – with declining STEM participation and teacher shortages threatening our national capability in critical areas like geoscience.

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 11d

It's halloween here in Australia and even though it is spring, bright and warm, we still like to celebrate. Especially the @underworldcode.org geodynamics team with our uw-bat logo and professor diablo at the helm. We were thinking to sneak to the @science.org.au shine dome to make some changes ...

The iconic Shine Dome in Canberra rendered as a pumpkin - it doesn't take much to turn a dome shaped building into a dome-shaped-pumpkin. A few bats in the sky help

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 17d

Push this for the ⚒️ earth scientists to read

Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · 20d

Keeping it 100 on the land (geology), the sea (oceanography), the sky (atmospheric science), SciX pledges allegiance to your Open, your FAIR, your API! Explore a broad, connected research landscape with in-built data-viz tools scixplorer.org #TheFateOfSciXplorer #IYKYK

Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · 20d

Keeping it 100 on the land (geology), the sea (oceanography), the sky (atmospheric science), SciX pledges allegiance to your Open, your FAIR, your API! Explore a broad, connected research landscape with in-built data-viz tools scixplorer.org #TheFateOfSciXplorer #IYKYK

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 29d

Grattan’s new research shows households could halve their energy bills by 2050 as we electrify homes and cars. Clean energy isn’t just good for the planet, it’s cheaper too. Let’s go faster.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s household energy bills will halve by 2050, modelling suggests

Grattan Institute report argues fall in costs will provide federal government room for more action on climate

www.theguardian.com

Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · Oct 9

Our amazing #SciX Advisory Board brings together expertise from across the sciences. They ensure SciX meets the needs of every discipline, fostering transparency, usability, and collaboration at every step. Hear what SciX means to them. #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity https://youtu.be/28UeYIVM90E

What Does SciX Mean To You?

YouTube video by Science Explorer (SciX)

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Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · Oct 2

It is in crisis I can assure everyone of that … but maybe it’s not a financial crisis as we’ve been led to believe.

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · Oct 1

Well done to the SciX team for launching a new generation of discovery tools for scientific research in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Science, Planetary Science, Heliosphere, ... give it a go at sciXplorer.org

Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 30

Transparent, reproducible, and open - #SciX supports research integrity by connecting curated publications, data, and software in one trusted platform. Here's what Dr Sarah Stamps and Danie Kinkade from our Advisory Board say #SciX #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #TrustedResearch

Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 29

What is #SciX? Think of it as your one-stop platform for exploring #research across #EarthScience, #EnvironmentalScience, and #SpaceScience, including #PlanetaryScience, #Heliophysics, #Geology, #Geophysics, #AtmosphericScience, and #Oceanography. Watch our new video! bit.ly/WelcomeToSciX

Welcome to SciX - Powering Discovery Across Earth and Space Sciences

YouTube video by Science Explorer (SciX)

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Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · Sep 29

A natural evolution of ADS, SciX brings its powerful capabilities into new domains. Expanded coverage, intuitive search, smart recommendations, and tools for collaboration. SciX makes research more discoverable, connected, and accessible than ever before. https://scixplorer.org/scixblog/scix-launch

Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · Sep 29

ANU colleagues and students - please share this post if you can:

The ANU governance project has extended our deadline to comment on the Draft report to next week - 7 October.

Here's a link to a feedback form, which also contains the link to the draft report:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Feedback on ANU Governance Project Draft Report

The ANU Governance Project Working Group are proud to present the Draft Project Report for community feedback and consultation. The Draft Project Report is available on our website or through THIS LINK. Using a process that has involved deep listening and a participatory and deliberative process across the ANU community, we have compiled a unique and valuable body of evidence that documents what’s wrong with governance at the ANU and charts a way forward to help rebuild trust and to deliver best practice governance. Over 600 ANU staff, students, and stakeholders have participated in this project, and in contributing constructively to the future of ANU. This includes 590 members of the community who participated in our survey, 75 who participated in one-hour small group discussions, and over 40 from across the university who participated in our project workshop. The ANU community told us there a critical need for change: Over 96% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants believe current ANU governance is not fit for purpose and should be reformed. Over 92% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants expressed dissatisfaction with current ANU governance. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with current practices of transparency at the ANU. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with accountability frameworks at the ANU. The ANU Community has proposed the following near-term steps forward for a reformed ANU: Council must direct Finance to produce and publish a current budget breakdown. Council must revise and publish selection criteria for Executive positions. Council meetings must immediately be made fully accessible to the community. Academic Board must regularly review and assess the financial decisions of senior executives and Council. Commence senior leadership listening tours with the ANU community. Additional recommendations forwarded by the community are summarised in the full report, including a proposal to co-design legislative reform of the ANU Act with the community. The Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback via this form on the draft report by midnight on Tuesday 7 October. This deadline has been extended in order to allow us more time to hear and incorporate community feedback ahead of the release of our final report on Monday 20 October.

docs.google.com

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · Sep 25

Bloomberg did some great video journalism about the oil wastewater crisis in Texas.

If nothing else, you need to learn about Hawk Dunlap. If you were scripting a movie about the oil industry, you couldn't come up with a better character.

The Looming Disaster Under America’s Biggest Oil Field

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

www.youtube.com

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Sep 23

Here's your final call to shape Australian science by joining one the 19 Australian Academy of Science National Committees. Applications close in just days. Apply now or read on... 🧵 https://science.grantplatform.com/auth/login

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · Sep 11

With luck this will give us the opportunity to regroup, rebuild and develop a better version of ANU which has, to be honest, not been a nurturing environment for some time now.

Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · Sep 11

“ANU urgently needs new direction and new leadership – one that restores its focus on research, education, and the free dissemination of knowledge.”

Our ANU’s statement on the VC’s resignation 👇

drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Lh...

OurANU statement on the resignation of Genevieve Bell

Attributable to ourANU, 11 September 2025.

ourANU welcomes the Vice Chancellor’s decision to prioritise the university’s best interests. ANU urgently needs new leadership that restores its focus on research, education, and the free dissemination of knowledge.

The damage caused by the ‘Renew ANU’ restructure is real and ongoing. It has undermined disciplines, harmed individuals, and diminished the university’s reputation. It must stop. All involuntary redundancies should be cancelled. No amalgamations or disbanding of schools and centres of national significance should proceed.

The university must pause, take stock, and begin to repair the harm.

Renew ANU is not the work of one individual. It is the product of years of governance failure. There must be accountability for those decisions. The investigations into the ANU governance and leadership culture must continue. Only genuine accountability will allow ANU to reset and rebuild.

Across the community and in parliament, there is agreement: ANU cannot move forward without clarity and honesty. Transparency and accountability are the only ways to restore trust. As Senator Katy Gallagher has said, ANU needs an “agreed set of facts.” That requires independent scrutiny of both the university’s finances and the governance arrangements that produced this crisis.

Staff and students must be central to this work. We ask all remaining executives to ask themselves if they are the people right for the job of finding new ways to work with the ANU community.

An independent review, conducted by a person or panel agreed with the NTEU, should explain how the university’s finances were allowed to deteriorate, assess the failures of governance that enabled it, and outline options for reform. The priority is not simply financial sustainability, but a structure of accountability and participation that prevents these failures from recurring.

It is time to build a governance structure that values stability, transparency, and accountability.

The ANU cannot continue lurching between growth and cuts. We need to rebuild our national university in ways that allow education and the pursuit of knowledge to flourish once again. The university must work with staff, students, the Parliament, the Minister, and the Expert Council on University Governance to create reforms that embed participation, accountability, and sustainability at every level of decision-making.

The message from staff and students is clear. Enough damage has been done.

The time for secrecy and short-term fixes is over. The university must reset, rebuild trust, and commit to a future shaped by and for its community. Only then can the ANU live up to its purpose as a place of knowledge, discovery, and service to the nation.

Caitlin Cassidy @caitlinecassidy.bsky.social · Sep 11

The vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) has tendered her resignation after a tumultuous two years at the institution, marked by redundancies, proposed course closures, and allegations of a toxic work culture.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell resigns amid crisis of confidence in leadership

Resignation follows tumultuous period marked by redundancies, proposed course closures and allegations of a toxic work culture

www.theguardian.com

Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · Sep 11

“ANU urgently needs new direction and new leadership – one that restores its focus on research, education, and the free dissemination of knowledge.”

Our ANU’s statement on the VC’s resignation 👇

drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Lh...

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Sep 10

The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the announcement that the Australian Government has started exploratory talks on Australia’s possible association to Horizon Europe. Learn more: www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · Sep 9

The ANU Governance Project Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback on the draft report over the next 48 hours (by midnight on Thursday, 11 September).

anugovernance-davidpocock.nationbuilder.com/statement_re...

STATEMENT regarding release of draft project report

anugovernance-davidpocock.nationbuilder.com

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Sep 8

Some important insights from Prof Garton ..

Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · Sep 4

www.science.org.au/supporting-s...

An analysis of the science we need in Australia to face future challenges. Very worrying outlook for earth sciences here.

Key takeaways include:

“We aren't training enough geoscientists”

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Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · Sep 4

Australian science, Australia’ future (www.science.org.au/supporting-s...)

Need for changes to the system to meet future challenges.

“
We aren’t training enough geoscientist
“

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Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · Sep 4

Some very worrying numbers in here for the earth sciences / geosciences.

Very unclear how to maintain a stand-alone earth sciences department in the current funding climate.

Buts it’s also difficult to fund research or keep a university alive so we are not alone.

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Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Sep 3

Today: a National Symposium: Australian Science, Australia's Future: Science 2035. Join us for the launch of a landmark report, the most comprehensive analysis of the Australian science sector ever undertaken. #Science2035
🎥 Watch the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/-RMp1qtWB1U

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Sep 3

Today: a National Symposium: Australian Science, Australia's Future: Science 2035. Join us for the launch of a landmark report, the most comprehensive analysis of the Australian science sector ever undertaken. #Science2035
🎥 Watch the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/-RMp1qtWB1U

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · Sep 3

Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC speaking on the importance of research, at tonight's Gala Dinner, as part of Science at the Shine Dome. #ShineDome25

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