Jenny Fisher
@atmosjennyf.bsky.social
Atmospheric Chemistry | Tertiary Education | Science Policy | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Triathlon | Scuba Diving | 🇦🇺 on the lands of the Bindal & Wulgurukaba peoples. she/her. views my own.
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Jenny Fisher
@atmosjennyf.bsky.social
· Jan 27
Professional update: after 12 years at the University of Wollongong (including the last one on secondment to the public service as a science policy fellow), today I start a new position at James Cook University (JCU) as Associate Dean Learning & Teaching in the College of Science & Engineering.
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Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research.
NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...
NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...
April 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research.
NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...
NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...
This is a lovely tribute to the DC-8 “flying lab”, retired last year. It’s been an integral part of my career, from the very start of my PhD right through to our most recent paper in review. Although the plane has retired, its legacy lives on through the data! ✈️
magazine.caltech.edu/post/nasa-dc...
magazine.caltech.edu/post/nasa-dc...
NASA's DC-8, Used by Caltech Scientists as an Airborne Lab, Retires — Caltech Magazine
A NASA DC-8 aircraft used to train many Caltech student-scientists has taken its final flight. By Andrew Moseman When the vintage DC-8 airliner made one of its harrowing low passes over Cal...
magazine.caltech.edu
April 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is a lovely tribute to the DC-8 “flying lab”, retired last year. It’s been an integral part of my career, from the very start of my PhD right through to our most recent paper in review. Although the plane has retired, its legacy lives on through the data! ✈️
magazine.caltech.edu/post/nasa-dc...
magazine.caltech.edu/post/nasa-dc...
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Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is
theicct.org/publication/...
theicct.org/publication/...
April 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is
theicct.org/publication/...
theicct.org/publication/...
@agu.org do you have an email address to contact for help with an AGU account? The website won’t allow me to update my account to my new email address following my change of affiliation. Thanks!
February 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@agu.org do you have an email address to contact for help with an AGU account? The website won’t allow me to update my account to my new email address following my change of affiliation. Thanks!
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The School of Chemistry @uofgchem.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social is recruiting a permanent lecturer/senior lecturer in Physical Chemistry. Apply by 21 Feb. Come join us!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ320/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ320/l...
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at University of Glasgow
An academic position as a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The School of Chemistry @uofgchem.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social is recruiting a permanent lecturer/senior lecturer in Physical Chemistry. Apply by 21 Feb. Come join us!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ320/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ320/l...
Professional update: after 12 years at the University of Wollongong (including the last one on secondment to the public service as a science policy fellow), today I start a new position at James Cook University (JCU) as Associate Dean Learning & Teaching in the College of Science & Engineering.
January 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Professional update: after 12 years at the University of Wollongong (including the last one on secondment to the public service as a science policy fellow), today I start a new position at James Cook University (JCU) as Associate Dean Learning & Teaching in the College of Science & Engineering.
Reposted by Jenny Fisher
What it has been like, living a few blocks away from the devastated area.
A report from the 2025 Los Angeles fire apocalypse
just my personal account
open.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What it has been like, living a few blocks away from the devastated area.
Reposted by Jenny Fisher
Although first responders were successful in keeping the fire from JPL, over 150 JPLers have lost their homes. Here’s link to the Caltech/JPL disaster relief fund if you’re so inclined: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Thanks for your support of our JPL family.
Thanks for your support of our JPL family.
Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.
caltech.imodules.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Although first responders were successful in keeping the fire from JPL, over 150 JPLers have lost their homes. Here’s link to the Caltech/JPL disaster relief fund if you’re so inclined: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Thanks for your support of our JPL family.
Thanks for your support of our JPL family.
Ignore the timestamps on all but my pinned post; looks like these came across from Twitter without timestamps but they’re all more than a year old, some going back a decade!
November 24, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Ignore the timestamps on all but my pinned post; looks like these came across from Twitter without timestamps but they’re all more than a year old, some going back a decade!
After almost a year of hiatus, I guess I'm here now.
November 23, 2024 at 8:11 AM
After almost a year of hiatus, I guess I'm here now.
Great morning yesterday co-leading the @UOW @Healthy_Cities Ride2UOW from the northern suburbs. Great to see so many riders out, despite a windy morning, ending with a nice brekkie and an interview for @UOWTV !
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Great morning yesterday co-leading the @UOW @Healthy_Cities Ride2UOW from the northern suburbs. Great to see so many riders out, despite a windy morning, ending with a nice brekkie and an interview for @UOWTV !
Excited to share TWO new papers on Mercury in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) now published in a special issue of Ambio:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01832-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01840-5
These papers synthesise understanding of...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01832-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01840-5
These papers synthesise understanding of...
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemispher...
Recent studies demonstrate a short 3–6-month atmospheric ...
link.springer.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Excited to share TWO new papers on Mercury in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) now published in a special issue of Ambio:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01832-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01840-5
These papers synthesise understanding of...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01832-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01840-5
These papers synthesise understanding of...
Great to see @UOW now flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags! #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Great to see @UOW now flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags! #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
Thanks @uowresearch for supporting #OpenAccess! Thanks to funding from a UOW OAHI grant, this publication that I first shared back in May is now free to read for all.
@UowCac @uowresearch @AusMercury
November 24, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Thanks @uowresearch for supporting #OpenAccess! Thanks to funding from a UOW OAHI grant, this publication that I first shared back in May is now free to read for all.
I did a new thing! I’ve been a podcast super-fan since I got my 1st iPod in 2005. But I’ve never been on the other side 🎙 … until now!
Excited to be the very 1st guest on Science Bytes by @NCInews. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google - link below👇
https://dir.lat/CsxGN3
Excited to be the very 1st guest on Science Bytes by @NCInews. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google - link below👇
https://dir.lat/CsxGN3
Podcast | NCI
dir.lat
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
I did a new thing! I’ve been a podcast super-fan since I got my 1st iPod in 2005. But I’ve never been on the other side 🎙 … until now!
Excited to be the very 1st guest on Science Bytes by @NCInews. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google - link below👇
https://dir.lat/CsxGN3
Excited to be the very 1st guest on Science Bytes by @NCInews. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google - link below👇
https://dir.lat/CsxGN3
Thank you all for the congratulatory messages last week when I received the 2022 Anton Hales Medal from @Science_Academy ! Before I share my thanks and what this means to me, I want to talk about the cognitive dissonance I've been feeling over the last two weeks... 🧵👇
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Thank you all for the congratulatory messages last week when I received the 2022 Anton Hales Medal from @Science_Academy ! Before I share my thanks and what this means to me, I want to talk about the cognitive dissonance I've been feeling over the last two weeks... 🧵👇
@UOW_VC @eileenamcl @DrDanChem @Antarcticmoss @uowresearch @UowCac @UOW_CSES @GeoQuEST_UOW
@UOW winners of @Science_Academy awards (all from SEALS!) with the legendary Robyn Williams (a South Coast local!): Nico Flament, Alison Broad, yours truly, @KerryleeRogers_ and Allen Nutman
#ShineDome22
#ShineDome22
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 AM
@UOW_VC @eileenamcl @DrDanChem @Antarcticmoss @uowresearch @UowCac @UOW_CSES @GeoQuEST_UOW
@UOW winners of @Science_Academy awards (all from SEALS!) with the legendary Robyn Williams (a South Coast local!): Nico Flament, Alison Broad, yours truly, @KerryleeRogers_ and Allen Nutman
#ShineDome22
#ShineDome22
November 24, 2024 at 2:40 AM
@UOW winners of @Science_Academy awards (all from SEALS!) with the legendary Robyn Williams (a South Coast local!): Nico Flament, Alison Broad, yours truly, @KerryleeRogers_ and Allen Nutman
#ShineDome22
#ShineDome22
Excited to be in Canberra about to hear about the incredible science of the newest @Science_Academy fellows at Science at the Shine Dome #ShineDome22
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Excited to be in Canberra about to hear about the incredible science of the newest @Science_Academy fellows at Science at the Shine Dome #ShineDome22
❗️Job alert❗️
We are recruiting for a postdoc to work @UowCac in very close collaboration with Meredith Jordan's group at U. Sydney & with @KableGroup_UNSW.
Unique opportunity to combine fundamental #CompChem with #AtmosChem...
We are recruiting for a postdoc to work @UowCac in very close collaboration with Meredith Jordan's group at U. Sydney & with @KableGroup_UNSW.
Unique opportunity to combine fundamental #CompChem with #AtmosChem...
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 AM
❗️Job alert❗️
We are recruiting for a postdoc to work @UowCac in very close collaboration with Meredith Jordan's group at U. Sydney & with @KableGroup_UNSW.
Unique opportunity to combine fundamental #CompChem with #AtmosChem...
We are recruiting for a postdoc to work @UowCac in very close collaboration with Meredith Jordan's group at U. Sydney & with @KableGroup_UNSW.
Unique opportunity to combine fundamental #CompChem with #AtmosChem...
Almost sent an email asking if we could get something done “before the end of the world” (meant to write “year”), so… that’s how things are going at the moment 😂
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Almost sent an email asking if we could get something done “before the end of the world” (meant to write “year”), so… that’s how things are going at the moment 😂
Curious about how climate change affects equity in…
Food 🥘
Housing 🏡
Fisheries 🎣
Indigenous communities 🖤💛❤️
Energy storage 🔋
?
Come to our expert panel on Monday! BYO lunch, free desserts!
Not in Wollongong? No problem - virtual attendees welcome.
Register👇
Food 🥘
Housing 🏡
Fisheries 🎣
Indigenous communities 🖤💛❤️
Energy storage 🔋
?
Come to our expert panel on Monday! BYO lunch, free desserts!
Not in Wollongong? No problem - virtual attendees welcome.
Register👇
November 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Curious about how climate change affects equity in…
Food 🥘
Housing 🏡
Fisheries 🎣
Indigenous communities 🖤💛❤️
Energy storage 🔋
?
Come to our expert panel on Monday! BYO lunch, free desserts!
Not in Wollongong? No problem - virtual attendees welcome.
Register👇
Food 🥘
Housing 🏡
Fisheries 🎣
Indigenous communities 🖤💛❤️
Energy storage 🔋
?
Come to our expert panel on Monday! BYO lunch, free desserts!
Not in Wollongong? No problem - virtual attendees welcome.
Register👇
Still on the fence about attending our #ClimateChange and #Equity Q&A? Come for the great discussion- and the desserts by local Indigenous caterer Donna Dunning!
We also welcome virtual attendees (but you’ll have to bring your own treats 😉).
Registration link below 👇
We also welcome virtual attendees (but you’ll have to bring your own treats 😉).
Registration link below 👇
November 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Still on the fence about attending our #ClimateChange and #Equity Q&A? Come for the great discussion- and the desserts by local Indigenous caterer Donna Dunning!
We also welcome virtual attendees (but you’ll have to bring your own treats 😉).
Registration link below 👇
We also welcome virtual attendees (but you’ll have to bring your own treats 😉).
Registration link below 👇
Hi #Wollongong! 👋 Do you want to know how #ClimateChange relates to #Equity? Come to our Q&A panel on Monday 17th as part of @GCCWeek to hear from @UOW experts: @karencharlton12 + @QHanich + @ecoheff + @ashmarkstone + Caiyun Wang.
Register here!...
Register here!...
November 24, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Hi #Wollongong! 👋 Do you want to know how #ClimateChange relates to #Equity? Come to our Q&A panel on Monday 17th as part of @GCCWeek to hear from @UOW experts: @karencharlton12 + @QHanich + @ecoheff + @ashmarkstone + Caiyun Wang.
Register here!...
Register here!...
And now officially introducing Dom to the Twitterverse! @DKpokro
Very excited to be visiting @Laris_Schneider at ANU just in time to see the first analysis of #mercury in Dom Kpokro’s samples from Ivory Coast artisanal gold mining sites! @UowCac @uowresearch @AusMercury #MakeMercuryHistory
November 24, 2024 at 3:26 AM
And now officially introducing Dom to the Twitterverse! @DKpokro