Dr Mitzi Bolton
@mitzibolton.bsky.social
Making it easier for public servants to achieve what matters through sustainability governance research, keen interest in system leverage points.
Former public servant, now Senior Research Fellow @Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Former public servant, now Senior Research Fellow @Monash Sustainable Development Institute
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Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
#Momademia is working on rejoinders on the weekend (thanks coparent!) because you don’t have a full contingent of weekdays to do so, while listening to your toddler play in the next room and occasionally seeing a small face and hands peer around the door.
June 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
#Momademia is working on rejoinders on the weekend (thanks coparent!) because you don’t have a full contingent of weekdays to do so, while listening to your toddler play in the next room and occasionally seeing a small face and hands peer around the door.
Watching the livestream of the #DataForPolicy conference on Twin Transitions for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future, &very much wishing I were in The Hague to take part in the great conversations taking place. Lots of ideas and actions being presented on #AI for #SustainabilityTransitions
June 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Watching the livestream of the #DataForPolicy conference on Twin Transitions for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future, &very much wishing I were in The Hague to take part in the great conversations taking place. Lots of ideas and actions being presented on #AI for #SustainabilityTransitions
This hit hard.
I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...
I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...
I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit
For one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and not experienced enough for senior ones. They’ve stayed too long,...
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This hit hard.
I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...
I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...
Hurray a day of peace and quiet to write that paper. Finally!!!
Computer: I have other plans.
#Momademia
Computer: I have other plans.
#Momademia
May 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Hurray a day of peace and quiet to write that paper. Finally!!!
Computer: I have other plans.
#Momademia
Computer: I have other plans.
#Momademia
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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Australian governments remain silent on massive coral bleaching right now on both sides of Australia.
Instead, the Commonwealth and State governments in QLD and WA continue to expand fossil fuels - ignoring the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Instead, the Commonwealth and State governments in QLD and WA continue to expand fossil fuels - ignoring the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
March 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Australian governments remain silent on massive coral bleaching right now on both sides of Australia.
Instead, the Commonwealth and State governments in QLD and WA continue to expand fossil fuels - ignoring the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Instead, the Commonwealth and State governments in QLD and WA continue to expand fossil fuels - ignoring the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tawny Frogmouth checking out the sunset 🥰
March 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Tawny Frogmouth checking out the sunset 🥰
If you’re a primary carer &work PT, you work 16hrs less/week.
If a grant window is open 6.5 weeks & you can’t see applications forms prior, you officially have 104hrs/2.7 weeks fewer to compile it than FT competitors.
Funders could leave past forms up &change them less often to ⬆️ equity #momademia
If a grant window is open 6.5 weeks & you can’t see applications forms prior, you officially have 104hrs/2.7 weeks fewer to compile it than FT competitors.
Funders could leave past forms up &change them less often to ⬆️ equity #momademia
March 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If you’re a primary carer &work PT, you work 16hrs less/week.
If a grant window is open 6.5 weeks & you can’t see applications forms prior, you officially have 104hrs/2.7 weeks fewer to compile it than FT competitors.
Funders could leave past forms up &change them less often to ⬆️ equity #momademia
If a grant window is open 6.5 weeks & you can’t see applications forms prior, you officially have 104hrs/2.7 weeks fewer to compile it than FT competitors.
Funders could leave past forms up &change them less often to ⬆️ equity #momademia
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HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
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Reposted by Dr Mitzi Bolton
A lot of people who have no idea what government actually does for their lives are about to apparently find out real quick.
February 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A lot of people who have no idea what government actually does for their lives are about to apparently find out real quick.
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My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs.
Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway.
Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.
Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway.
Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.
February 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs.
Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway.
Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.
Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway.
Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.
Can’t get enough of this teenager from Melbourne’s music. Hope other’s further afield can get to hear her!
youtube.com/@lottegallag...
youtube.com/@lottegallag...
Lotte Gallagher
Melbourne singer/songwriter Lotte Gallagher firmly stepped onto the local scene in 2023. Her punchy debut single ‘Adam’ saw Lotte named a triple j Unearthed High finalist, earn a #1 most played spot a...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Can’t get enough of this teenager from Melbourne’s music. Hope other’s further afield can get to hear her!
youtube.com/@lottegallag...
youtube.com/@lottegallag...
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“There is something significant missing from most of the political and media discussion about the Australian government’s promised, and now abandoned, nature protection laws: the environment. Logically, it should be a focus of the debate. In practice, it barely gets a look in.”
Australian nature: if our laws don’t radically change, environmental degradation will continue | Adam Morton
Australia has a long history of taking its unique wildlife and landscapes for granted, but what has happened in this term of parliament is remarkable
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“There is something significant missing from most of the political and media discussion about the Australian government’s promised, and now abandoned, nature protection laws: the environment. Logically, it should be a focus of the debate. In practice, it barely gets a look in.”
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ICYMI yesterday’s Guardian cartoon on *gestures broadly* all of this
February 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
ICYMI yesterday’s Guardian cartoon on *gestures broadly* all of this
Spends morning editing presentation on what AI will mean for the public sector, making point about intensity of current race, turns on news et voila #DeepSeek Never a dull moment when doing #ResearchOnAi #AcademicSky
two men are dancing on treadmills in a gym with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com
ALT: two men are dancing on treadmills in a gym with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com
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January 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Spends morning editing presentation on what AI will mean for the public sector, making point about intensity of current race, turns on news et voila #DeepSeek Never a dull moment when doing #ResearchOnAi #AcademicSky
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Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
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“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.”
Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:
Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:
Altadena Wildfires
My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly.
www.linkedin.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.”
Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:
Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:
At my son’s swim class, they’re swimming through a short tunnel. The girl in front keeps screaming as she enters, making it seem like something to be fearful of, but with a big grin on her face.
Sometimes it makes sense to respond to the noise, sometimes it’s just noise.
Sometimes it makes sense to respond to the noise, sometimes it’s just noise.
January 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
At my son’s swim class, they’re swimming through a short tunnel. The girl in front keeps screaming as she enters, making it seem like something to be fearful of, but with a big grin on her face.
Sometimes it makes sense to respond to the noise, sometimes it’s just noise.
Sometimes it makes sense to respond to the noise, sometimes it’s just noise.
“…even if reincarnation were a fact,
given the inherent cruelty of the world
where beautiful things and people
are blasted apart all the day long,
I would never want to come back, knowing
I could never be this lucky twice..” - Bruce Dawe
given the inherent cruelty of the world
where beautiful things and people
are blasted apart all the day long,
I would never want to come back, knowing
I could never be this lucky twice..” - Bruce Dawe
December 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM
“…even if reincarnation were a fact,
given the inherent cruelty of the world
where beautiful things and people
are blasted apart all the day long,
I would never want to come back, knowing
I could never be this lucky twice..” - Bruce Dawe
given the inherent cruelty of the world
where beautiful things and people
are blasted apart all the day long,
I would never want to come back, knowing
I could never be this lucky twice..” - Bruce Dawe
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I do a yearly wrap up for the New Yorker on where we stand on climate and energy.
Short version: the planet is very hot and so is the pace of solar growth
Short version: the planet is very hot and so is the pace of solar growth
It’s almost certain that 2024 will be the hottest year on record. Scientists still can’t explain what’s causing the spike, but “it’s possible that we may have tripped some switches we don’t understand in the global climate system,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
Hotter and Hotter
Scientists don’t yet understand why temperatures have been steadily spiking above the projections. But what they do understand is bad enough.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I do a yearly wrap up for the New Yorker on where we stand on climate and energy.
Short version: the planet is very hot and so is the pace of solar growth
Short version: the planet is very hot and so is the pace of solar growth
Reposted by Dr Mitzi Bolton
Any "avid cyclist" who claims that the solution to road safety for cyclists is simply to be more skilled and assertive should be required to demonstrate that they are more skilled and assertive than Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel who was, this week, doored.
December 8, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Any "avid cyclist" who claims that the solution to road safety for cyclists is simply to be more skilled and assertive should be required to demonstrate that they are more skilled and assertive than Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel who was, this week, doored.