Duncan K Galloway
@duncankgalloway.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, educator, cyclist, science communicator. Living through a climate emergency (as are we all) on Boon Wurrung/Wurundjeri land/Netherlands. He/him. http://outs1der.github.io
ORCID: 0000-0002-6558-5121
ORCID: 0000-0002-6558-5121
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Adaptation is now as urgent as mitigation.
Discover how Earth observations can help measure real progress on climate resilience in our new ISSI feature 🌎
📖 www.issibern.ch/earth-observ...
#ClimateAdaptation #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Sustainability #ISSI #ClimateScience #ParisAgreement
Discover how Earth observations can help measure real progress on climate resilience in our new ISSI feature 🌎
📖 www.issibern.ch/earth-observ...
#ClimateAdaptation #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Sustainability #ISSI #ClimateScience #ParisAgreement
New Perspective “Earth observations for climate adaptation” | International Space Science Institute
Explore how climate adaptation benefits from Earth observations and operational adaptation tracking in recent research.
www.issibern.ch
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Adaptation is now as urgent as mitigation.
Discover how Earth observations can help measure real progress on climate resilience in our new ISSI feature 🌎
📖 www.issibern.ch/earth-observ...
#ClimateAdaptation #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Sustainability #ISSI #ClimateScience #ParisAgreement
Discover how Earth observations can help measure real progress on climate resilience in our new ISSI feature 🌎
📖 www.issibern.ch/earth-observ...
#ClimateAdaptation #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Sustainability #ISSI #ClimateScience #ParisAgreement
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Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
Another win for AI
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Another win for AI
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The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
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New paper! Led by PhD student Bas Dorsman, and continuing the fine tradition of @api.uva.nl studies of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 (discovered many moons ago by Rudy Wijnands and Michel van der Klis AT THIS VERY INSTITUTE). #highenergyastro 🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07152
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07152
Pulse profile modelling of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using NICER data from its 2019 and 2022 outbursts
Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. While the te...
arxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New paper! Led by PhD student Bas Dorsman, and continuing the fine tradition of @api.uva.nl studies of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 (discovered many moons ago by Rudy Wijnands and Michel van der Klis AT THIS VERY INSTITUTE). #highenergyastro 🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07152
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07152
Bravo! Wonderful news
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Bravo! Wonderful news
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The idea *suppliers* of fossil fuels are neutral meeters-of-demand remains one of the worst lies
Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible
www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...
Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible
www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The idea *suppliers* of fossil fuels are neutral meeters-of-demand remains one of the worst lies
Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible
www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...
Their job is not just digging up fossil fuels: their job is bullying, pushing, fighting, lying and lobbying to ensure fossil fuels get burned as much as possible
www.rigzone.com/news/wire/ch...
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One of the most damaging and enduring aspects of the Dismissal, fifty years ago today, was its poisoning of the electorate against the Whitlam government, ensuring that it would lose the subsequent election and creating fear of progressive government.
🧵
#auspol
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#auspol
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
One of the most damaging and enduring aspects of the Dismissal, fifty years ago today, was its poisoning of the electorate against the Whitlam government, ensuring that it would lose the subsequent election and creating fear of progressive government.
🧵
#auspol
🧵
#auspol
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3I/ATLAS Update: would you believe it? It’s *still* a comet. 🔭
(www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/i...)
(www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/i...)
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
3I/ATLAS Update: would you believe it? It’s *still* a comet. 🔭
(www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/i...)
(www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/i...)
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Heads up, folks!
Two Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from the Sun are expected to arrive tonight(ish) and predicted to hit Class-G4 tomorrow evening, thanks to an X1.2 flare unleashed by the AR4274 region on Sol.
Thanks to Earth's magnetic field we'll be safe.
But there might be .. AURORAS!
Two Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from the Sun are expected to arrive tonight(ish) and predicted to hit Class-G4 tomorrow evening, thanks to an X1.2 flare unleashed by the AR4274 region on Sol.
Thanks to Earth's magnetic field we'll be safe.
But there might be .. AURORAS!
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Heads up, folks!
Two Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from the Sun are expected to arrive tonight(ish) and predicted to hit Class-G4 tomorrow evening, thanks to an X1.2 flare unleashed by the AR4274 region on Sol.
Thanks to Earth's magnetic field we'll be safe.
But there might be .. AURORAS!
Two Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from the Sun are expected to arrive tonight(ish) and predicted to hit Class-G4 tomorrow evening, thanks to an X1.2 flare unleashed by the AR4274 region on Sol.
Thanks to Earth's magnetic field we'll be safe.
But there might be .. AURORAS!
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"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Want to know why your mobile phone photos of the Moon look like crap?
I have a new @aunz.theconversation.com article explaining why, how you can take better(ish) photos, and what astronomical sights your phone can photograph well.
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so...
I have a new @aunz.theconversation.com article explaining why, how you can take better(ish) photos, and what astronomical sights your phone can photograph well.
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so...
Why is it so hard to take a good photo of the Moon with my phone?
Phones can often take great photos, but why photos of the Moon typically disappointing? The Moon itself and camera design are both part of the answer.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Want to know why your mobile phone photos of the Moon look like crap?
I have a new @aunz.theconversation.com article explaining why, how you can take better(ish) photos, and what astronomical sights your phone can photograph well.
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so...
I have a new @aunz.theconversation.com article explaining why, how you can take better(ish) photos, and what astronomical sights your phone can photograph well.
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so...
Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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An unbelievable privilege and experience today visiting the world leading #ALmA telescope at 5000m in Chile! 🧪🔭 Plus we saw some local fauna!
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
An unbelievable privilege and experience today visiting the world leading #ALmA telescope at 5000m in Chile! 🧪🔭 Plus we saw some local fauna!
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"Instead of trying to assuage critics’ fears, the pro-UBI movement needs to challenge the narrative in which any refusal to accept employment is a 'bad' experimental observation."
The latest from @karlwiderquist.bsky.social:
The latest from @karlwiderquist.bsky.social:
The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into
To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Instead of trying to assuage critics’ fears, the pro-UBI movement needs to challenge the narrative in which any refusal to accept employment is a 'bad' experimental observation."
The latest from @karlwiderquist.bsky.social:
The latest from @karlwiderquist.bsky.social:
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Paul Ginsparg changed how science is shared. In 1991, in a small Cornell office filled with chalk dust and curiosity, he built ArXiv, the first open-access preprint server. His idea rewired the global flow of knowledge. Physics first, then the world.
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Paul Ginsparg changed how science is shared. In 1991, in a small Cornell office filled with chalk dust and curiosity, he built ArXiv, the first open-access preprint server. His idea rewired the global flow of knowledge. Physics first, then the world.
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
#NewHeroes @nationalacademies.org
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the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree
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The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.
El #MapaFosasRTVE es el primer mapa audiovisual con las 6.000 fosas comunes de la guerra civil y el Franquismo.
Los restos de más de 17.000 víctimas se han podido recuperar, pero otras 12.000 personas podrían ser aún exhumadas.
rtve.es/noticias/fos...
Los restos de más de 17.000 víctimas se han podido recuperar, pero otras 12.000 personas podrían ser aún exhumadas.
rtve.es/noticias/fos...
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.
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The NASA Technical Report Server is not being updated due to funding cuts. This is a disaster. 🧪 🔭
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The NASA Technical Report Server is not being updated due to funding cuts. This is a disaster. 🧪 🔭
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The presence of an endangered and "cryptic" parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park has been hailed as "very good news" by a bird expert.
Endangered parrot found in northern Tasmania for first time in decades
The presence of an endangered and "cryptic" parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park has been hailed as "very good news" by a bird expert.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The presence of an endangered and "cryptic" parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park has been hailed as "very good news" by a bird expert.
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The Academy endorses the Science20 (S20) 2025 meeting communiqué titled ‘Climate change and well-being’, calling for immediate, science-driven action to safeguard people and ecosystems.
https://bit.ly/43nVIZU
https://bit.ly/43nVIZU
Science20 statement calls for urgent, science-driven action to
Dr Surinder Singh FAA FTSE at the Science20 meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, in February 2025.
www.science.org.au
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The Academy endorses the Science20 (S20) 2025 meeting communiqué titled ‘Climate change and well-being’, calling for immediate, science-driven action to safeguard people and ecosystems.
https://bit.ly/43nVIZU
https://bit.ly/43nVIZU
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In reality, all we’ve created is a bot which is almost perfect at mimicking human-like natural language use, and the rest is people just projecting other human qualities on to it. Quite simply, “LLMs are doing reasoning” is the “look, my dog is smiling” of technology
malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...
malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.
malwaretech.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In reality, all we’ve created is a bot which is almost perfect at mimicking human-like natural language use, and the rest is people just projecting other human qualities on to it. Quite simply, “LLMs are doing reasoning” is the “look, my dog is smiling” of technology
malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...
malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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Hey you. YES YOU. Super persnickety astronomer. You know who you are.
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hey you. YES YOU. Super persnickety astronomer. You know who you are.
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).
You're welcome. 😎
(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)