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Citizen Science in the other place
Citizen Science in the other place
Pinned
Missed and wasted it …
“the USA under the Trump administration, has cut nearly US$3bn in funding and axed more than 3,800 grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, provided a once in a generation opportunity for Australia to attract researchers.”
“the USA under the Trump administration, has cut nearly US$3bn in funding and axed more than 3,800 grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, provided a once in a generation opportunity for Australia to attract researchers.”
"CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research" my column on the CSIRO research cuts #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Missed and wasted it …
“the USA under the Trump administration, has cut nearly US$3bn in funding and axed more than 3,800 grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, provided a once in a generation opportunity for Australia to attract researchers.”
“the USA under the Trump administration, has cut nearly US$3bn in funding and axed more than 3,800 grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, provided a once in a generation opportunity for Australia to attract researchers.”
"I told you it is wet"
Sydney - August rainfall pushing us into exceptional year territory compared to last ~150 years.
2022 was record breaking by far
Sydney - August rainfall pushing us into exceptional year territory compared to last ~150 years.
2022 was record breaking by far
August 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"I told you it is wet"
Sydney - August rainfall pushing us into exceptional year territory compared to last ~150 years.
2022 was record breaking by far
Sydney - August rainfall pushing us into exceptional year territory compared to last ~150 years.
2022 was record breaking by far
Now at 0 at 4:16pm
May 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Now at 0 at 4:16pm
Bugs in the backyard
Never seen one of these before
#insect #photography
Body is about 5mm long -
It’s sitting on a block of wood 40mm wide
Never seen one of these before
#insect #photography
Body is about 5mm long -
It’s sitting on a block of wood 40mm wide
April 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Bugs in the backyard
Never seen one of these before
#insect #photography
Body is about 5mm long -
It’s sitting on a block of wood 40mm wide
Never seen one of these before
#insect #photography
Body is about 5mm long -
It’s sitting on a block of wood 40mm wide
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
My own query revealed
1. My book incl. editions in multiple languages
2. All journal/conference papers I ever authored (including some I had forgotten)
I suspect contracts assigned rights
But note that article speaks of piracy/theft
Must ask publisher
1. My book incl. editions in multiple languages
2. All journal/conference papers I ever authored (including some I had forgotten)
I suspect contracts assigned rights
But note that article speaks of piracy/theft
Must ask publisher
Hey writer friends - check to see if your works are here... they have seven of my novels, a play and my memoir...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My own query revealed
1. My book incl. editions in multiple languages
2. All journal/conference papers I ever authored (including some I had forgotten)
I suspect contracts assigned rights
But note that article speaks of piracy/theft
Must ask publisher
1. My book incl. editions in multiple languages
2. All journal/conference papers I ever authored (including some I had forgotten)
I suspect contracts assigned rights
But note that article speaks of piracy/theft
Must ask publisher
In hot water.
Warmest monthly sea surface temperature recorded ever in Australia (equal to Mar 2016) - source BOM
Warmest monthly sea surface temperature recorded ever in Australia (equal to Mar 2016) - source BOM
February 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In hot water.
Warmest monthly sea surface temperature recorded ever in Australia (equal to Mar 2016) - source BOM
Warmest monthly sea surface temperature recorded ever in Australia (equal to Mar 2016) - source BOM
Broligarchy Junta👇
Interesting take ... stepping back from individual events and tying many related events and players together, the picture and plan perhaps becomes clear...
Much reporting is just about the personalities but m
#auspol
#broligarchy #junta
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Interesting take ... stepping back from individual events and tying many related events and players together, the picture and plan perhaps becomes clear...
Much reporting is just about the personalities but m
#auspol
#broligarchy #junta
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Broligarchy Junta👇
Interesting take ... stepping back from individual events and tying many related events and players together, the picture and plan perhaps becomes clear...
Much reporting is just about the personalities but m
#auspol
#broligarchy #junta
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Interesting take ... stepping back from individual events and tying many related events and players together, the picture and plan perhaps becomes clear...
Much reporting is just about the personalities but m
#auspol
#broligarchy #junta
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
I lived for a while ~15km from Indian Point Nuclear plant ~50 km from New York City within the so called "Peak Fatality Zone".
Evacuation route signs on roads.
Yearly emergency evac planning letters.
Get your KI (potassium iodide) tablets from council offices.
Are we ready for this?
#auspol
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Evacuation route signs on roads.
Yearly emergency evac planning letters.
Get your KI (potassium iodide) tablets from council offices.
Are we ready for this?
#auspol
.../2
December 14, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I lived for a while ~15km from Indian Point Nuclear plant ~50 km from New York City within the so called "Peak Fatality Zone".
Evacuation route signs on roads.
Yearly emergency evac planning letters.
Get your KI (potassium iodide) tablets from council offices.
Are we ready for this?
#auspol
.../2
Evacuation route signs on roads.
Yearly emergency evac planning letters.
Get your KI (potassium iodide) tablets from council offices.
Are we ready for this?
#auspol
.../2
Who knew that was possible.
Wow what a project! Teaching crocs and goannas to not eat invasive and poisonous cane toads via taste aversion. Congrats to all involved on such an ambitious, collaborative project in remote northern Aust #DCBA #MacquarieUniversity #BunubaRangers #ESAus2024
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Who knew that was possible.
"There is an upside to ignorance & a downside to knowledge.
Knowledge makes life messier.
It makes it more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview." ...
Knowledge makes life messier.
It makes it more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview." ...
December 7, 2024 at 2:45 AM
"There is an upside to ignorance & a downside to knowledge.
Knowledge makes life messier.
It makes it more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview." ...
Knowledge makes life messier.
It makes it more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview." ...
All well and good ...
But notice the impact on avg. wholesale price and what generation type(s) is impacting that price.
Charts shows avg. value v. generation volume for Sun Dec 1 and Mon Dec 2 on same scale.
What a difference a day makes!
Source: openelectricity.org.au
But notice the impact on avg. wholesale price and what generation type(s) is impacting that price.
Charts shows avg. value v. generation volume for Sun Dec 1 and Mon Dec 2 on same scale.
What a difference a day makes!
Source: openelectricity.org.au
December 2, 2024 at 9:04 PM
All well and good ...
But notice the impact on avg. wholesale price and what generation type(s) is impacting that price.
Charts shows avg. value v. generation volume for Sun Dec 1 and Mon Dec 2 on same scale.
What a difference a day makes!
Source: openelectricity.org.au
But notice the impact on avg. wholesale price and what generation type(s) is impacting that price.
Charts shows avg. value v. generation volume for Sun Dec 1 and Mon Dec 2 on same scale.
What a difference a day makes!
Source: openelectricity.org.au
Decorations are up
Cockatoos, a couple of lorikeets, and the waning moon
Cockatoos, a couple of lorikeets, and the waning moon
November 23, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Decorations are up
Cockatoos, a couple of lorikeets, and the waning moon
Cockatoos, a couple of lorikeets, and the waning moon
Whorls and eddies in the river of life.
Temperature and phytoplankton along driven by the East Australian Current along the NSW coast
Temperature and phytoplankton along driven by the East Australian Current along the NSW coast
November 7, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Whorls and eddies in the river of life.
Temperature and phytoplankton along driven by the East Australian Current along the NSW coast
Temperature and phytoplankton along driven by the East Australian Current along the NSW coast
7 days of fire hot spots from orbiting satellites.
Older hot spots are darker, newer are more yellow.
You can see the current QLD fires
Some spots are industrial sites/gas flares (Burrup in WA)/smelters
Older hot spots are darker, newer are more yellow.
You can see the current QLD fires
Some spots are industrial sites/gas flares (Burrup in WA)/smelters
October 28, 2023 at 7:14 AM
7 days of fire hot spots from orbiting satellites.
Older hot spots are darker, newer are more yellow.
You can see the current QLD fires
Some spots are industrial sites/gas flares (Burrup in WA)/smelters
Older hot spots are darker, newer are more yellow.
You can see the current QLD fires
Some spots are industrial sites/gas flares (Burrup in WA)/smelters