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Amy Briggs
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Passionate science communicator and avid floorball enthusiast!✨🥅
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“IPA’s fingerprints can be found across climate denialism in Aus. “Of all the serious sceptics in Australia”, IPA exec dir John Roskam told SMH in 2010, “we’ve helped & supported just about all of them.”

The modus operandi of IPA is clear, & ruthlessly effective.”

www.crikey.com.au/2019/01/29/i...
How one think tank poisoned Australia's climate debate
One of the Institute of Public Affair's greatest successes has been to stitch climate denialism into the very fabric of the conservative political identity.
www.crikey.com.au
May 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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I wish I could attend but this from the Centre for Public Integrity on Information Transparency looks important.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 12, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Days of severe storms have been forecast for every mainland state and territory in Australia this week, with possible wind gusts, heavy rain, large hail and flash flooding on the cards.
‘Days of severe storms’ to rumble across Australia, with hail and millions of lightning strikes expected
Low pressure troughs sitting over swaths of the country are being charged by warmer-than-average ocean temperatures, weather expert says
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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Folks know I'm keen on building an interplanetary, universally utilised timescale that uses pulsars for timing, navigation & positioning. 🔭🧪

Recent paper proposes the fusion of terrestrial atomic clock time + pulsar time!

academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

And @astrobites.bsky.social coverage too 👇
How to Have the Best Time with Atomic Clocks and Millisecond Pulsars
What time is it? For many applications, ranging from GPS navigation to interferometry-based astronomy, answering this question with extreme precision is crucial. To do so, one needs a highly stable…
astrobites.org
April 5, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Astronomer here! My outreach work on Reddit has been featured in Nature! 😎

🔭🧪🎢

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How scientists are making the most of Reddit
As X wanes, researchers are turning to Reddit for insights and data, and to better connect with the public. As X wanes, researchers are turning to Reddit for insights and data, and to better connect w...
www.nature.com
April 2, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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I like how every book on Audible starts with a guy saying “This is Audible.”

Yes my man, many audiobooks are.
September 21, 2023 at 11:03 AM
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My first ever job was in the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages.

We never rejected names but sometimes we would write letters that basically said "really? You sure?"
September 21, 2023 at 12:05 PM
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PLEASE RETWEET (or whatever it's called):

I want to follow and support fellow science journalists on Bluesky! Help me find them!!

Reply to this if you are among that hallowed number.

@easternblot.bsky.social @jjbw.bsky.social @eshirin.bsky.social @duncanfyfe.bsky.social @colinschultz.bsky.social
September 19, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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Of course Sir William Gaston Walkley, the petrol station guy Australia’s most ´prestigious’ journalism awards are named after was also a massive racist. Great reporting by Osman Faruqi
www.theage.com.au/national/the...
September 3, 2023 at 5:23 AM
Greg Jericho unpacks data heavy stories so well for me, found his most recent piece after the Intergenerational report so digestible!
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Australia’s greenhouse emissions are a national disgrace that are destroying the planet and costin...
The quarterly emissions data reinforces how much of a joke our 2030 emissions target is
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2023 at 10:11 AM