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Dana Bergstrom
@danambergstrom.bsky.social
Scientist, ecologist, Antarctica, impacts of climate change & writer of musicals - Antarctica, Beneath the Storm (out soonish)

#BluePlanetNeeds💙OurLove Lutruwita/ Tasmania.


Graphic art on Redbubble: SundogProducts
Preparing a talk on being resilient in the face of shitfuckery

I thought I would share one on my slides 😁
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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There's this form of behavioral engineering/coercion going on to use AI when you're not even trying to. Ex: Enterprise Google Slides replaced "Upload an Image", with "Generate an Image" (right?), requiring extra work +adaptation to sidestep the AI-as-default push. It drives me bonkers.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)

Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.

The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.

The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.

This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"On the day of the approval, Tassal started using florfenicol at two salmon farm leases at Dover in Tasmania's far south, and other companies are expected to begin using it soon."
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢

Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.

That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate
Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“her "belligerent moods" interfered with Wilkins' ability to "maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA."

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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🙊
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
James Watson’s history is being rewritten here, but this obituary confirms he was a 🦖dick with a common behaviour pattern

“He loved getting a rise out of people,” the lab friend said. “And when you think of yourself as a master of the universe, you think you can, or should, get away with things.”
🙊
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Reposted by Dana Bergstrom
October 2025 was the 3rd warmest October on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). This month was about 1.55°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. The last 12-months have been about 1.50°C above it.

Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🛠️🧪🌊
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Anyone noticing?
Freezing hires in some federal gov departments, lack of support for critical infrastructure in BOM, threat of reduction in size of CSIRO.

Some increase in taxes on resource extraction and their sale offshore might be useful🤔
It’s come to this. So sad for my once amazing organisation.
That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere.
New CEO literally starts tomorrow.
BoM move to axe free flood warning tool has ‘potentially deadly consequences’, Queensland councils say
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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It’s come to this. So sad for my once amazing organisation.
That said, I still say 99% of people at the operational coalface put 110% every day into making Australia safer and more prosperous. I’ve never experienced more passion in a public service. Anywhere.
New CEO literally starts tomorrow.
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Typhoon FUNG-WONG is heading to the Philippines as the equivalent of a major Atlantic hurricane.
What’s really stands out is its immense eye. At one point today its eye spanned ~70 miles - about the distance from Tampa to Orlando. Picture an eye like that spanning the state!… 1/
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The Collaborative Charter for #Scientific Endeavours focuses on the following areas

1. Behave with integrity
2. Identify contributions
3. Show & earn respect
4. Actively seek diversity in your teams
5. Be accountable
6. Demonstrate allyship & caring
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
There’s much discussion here today regarding James Watson being a dick in #science, regardless of his DNA success.

If you don’t want to emulate him, colleague & I developed the Collaborative Charter for Scientific Endeavours to enhance collaborations

Link here
pureantarctic.org/a-collaborat...
A Collaborative Charter for Scientific Endeavours
This is a charter to use when scientific collaborations are being initiated . Use the logo to signal that you support the charter. Work with IntegrityI seek to be trustworthy, honest, and reliableI…
pureantarctic.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A handsome visitor, gently guided outside. Any help on id?

#spider #Tasmania #Nipaluna
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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"We need to take down the ‘for sale’ sign on Mother Earth and bar entry to Cop for oil and gas lobbyists," Brenna Yellowthunder of @ienearth.bsky.social says.

See @ninalakhani.bsky.social's piece in @theguardian.com on how oil and gas are #CapturingTheCOP with lobbying access. bit.ly/Guardian117
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Stella Prize-shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This essay is so powerful it needs a warning label - you will cry if you have even the tiniest bit of empathy in your soul.

Australia colonialism laid bare with insufficient restitution and truthfulness in collective facing our history
Stella Prize-shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We are at the Despicable Me stage of human development. Where a single bad guy can alter something with planetary wide impact while chasing wealth. And there are no controls 🤷🏻‍♀️

And I predict the trillionaire will not be required to make amends- corporate profits/ community cost
Paul Beckwith was just talking about this.

Not only is this eventually going to spiral out of control so long as launchers bear no costs for reentry & can externalizes all those risks & costs onto the commons, but it’ll also dump large amounts of aluminum into the atmosphere with unknown effects
65% of all active satellites orbiting our planet are Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites.

He followed the fast fashion model for satellites: launch them fast and launch them frequently.

It’s going to be a space debris annihilation:
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

How can the EPBc Act reform actually improve environmental protection ?
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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What's currently wrong with @australianlabor.bsky.social's EPBC Act reform package & how can they make it fit for purpose?

@biodivcouncil.bsky.social has put together a detailed policy brief.

12 key concerns are discussed & solutions are provided.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Getting the EPBC Act right | Biodiversity Council Australia
Our factsheet outlines the strengths, weaknesses, and recommended improvements to the Australian Government’s proposed environmental law reforms.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ad copy?
Subway!
Our 9” subs are not weapons of war? 🌭
🤷🏻‍♀️
Perfect example of why jury trials matter.

The government had to argue—in public—that throwing a sandwich at a man in a bulletproof vest caused “fear of immediate bodily harm.” And the jury called that what it was: overreach. Prosecutors shouldn’t go unchecked. reason.com/2025/11/06/d...
D.C. jury acquits 'sandwich guy' of assaulting federal agent
A jury found Sean Dunn, who went viral in August for throwing a Subway sandwich at a Border Patrol officer, not guilty.
reason.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM