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Dr Chloe Lucas
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Social climate change researcher at University of Tasmania, living and working on muwinina land. Climate communication, serious games, Education for sustainability, Human geography. #CuriousClimate #AcademicSky #GeoSky
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chloetas.bsky.social
Fully-funded #PhD research scholarship using #DeliberativeDemocracy principles and #Games to explore the ethics of Carbon removal technologies.

#SocialScience #Research #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #Climate #Adapt #CDR #GreenSky #GeoSky #Tasmania ✂️🎲
chloetas.bsky.social Dr Chloe Lucas @chloetas.bsky.social · 28d
PhD Opportunity! 📣 🎲 If you are excited by interdisciplinary social science, climate action and tabletop/role play games, have I got a project for you!

Come to beautiful Tasmania for 'Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making'
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Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making
This PhD project develops play-based, deliberative methods such as tab...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
Fully-funded #PhD research scholarship using #DeliberativeDemocracy principles and #Games to explore the ethics of Carbon removal technologies.

#SocialScience #Research #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #Climate #Adapt #CDR #GreenSky #GeoSky #Tasmania ✂️🎲
chloetas.bsky.social Dr Chloe Lucas @chloetas.bsky.social · 28d
PhD Opportunity! 📣 🎲 If you are excited by interdisciplinary social science, climate action and tabletop/role play games, have I got a project for you!

Come to beautiful Tasmania for 'Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making'
tinyurl.com/6s6yuwtc
#AcademicSky
Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making
This PhD project develops play-based, deliberative methods such as tab...
tinyurl.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
PhD Opportunity! 📣 🎲 If you are excited by interdisciplinary social science, climate action and tabletop/role play games, have I got a project for you!

Come to beautiful Tasmania for 'Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making'
tinyurl.com/6s6yuwtc
#AcademicSky
Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making
This PhD project develops play-based, deliberative methods such as tab...
tinyurl.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
A sobering look at some key #climate indicators from last year -

CO2 Emissions in 2024 - Record High

Coal - Record High
Gas - Record High
Oil - Record High (tied 2019)

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www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
May 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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profterryhughes.bsky.social
Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022.

The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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utas.edu.au
With more people joining Bluesky we'd love to connect our community: go.bsky.app/Ds5rSze 👋
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
#geosky #edusky #greensky #climate #academicsky
March 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
chloetas.bsky.social
Just published in One Earth,
our analysis of children’s questions about climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action.
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action
The lives of the current generation of children are being shaped by climate change, but their opinions and concerns are not well understood or accounted for in decision-making. Our study of children’s...
www.cell.com
March 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
chloetas.bsky.social
The loss of Antarctic sea ice is not only an environmental problem but one that could have sudden and enormous impacts on our coasts, weather and economy - says @deformedearth.bsky.social calling for political leadership in Antarctic research and #climate adaptation #greensky
Australia not prepared for how Antarctic ice changes will hit economy, scientist warns
Exclusive: Prof Matt King says accelerated melting could transform country and affect viability of some agricultural industries
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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racheldonald.bsky.social
I went head-to-head with Hannah Ritchie of Our World In Data about her book, It's Not the End of the World, and its data omissions which paint a far rosier picture of the polycrisis than her backer, Bill Gates, would have us believe.

news.mongabay.com/2024/01/its-...
‘It’s Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate
The head of research at online publication Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie, joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss her new “radically hopeful” read, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the F...
news.mongabay.com
January 17, 2024 at 8:47 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
(Some of) the super-rich demand to be taxed more: “this is about our personal values and the kind of society we want to live in. I don’t want to hide away in my big house watching TV by myself or with other millionaires while people are having to visit food banks or that new phenomenon, heat banks.”
I’m a millionaire – this is why I’m at Davos begging to pay more tax | Phil White
I’ve seen how growing inequality is tearing societies apart. Now I’m calling for the world’s richest people to pay their fair share, says founder member of Patriotic Millionaires UK Phil White
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2024 at 8:59 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
Wow, Sage policy profiles is a great tool! I discovered my research cited in policy documents in UK, Ireland, EU, US, and Aotearoa New Zealand, but strangely not in Australia where it has all taken place. #geosky #greensky #academicsky
December 20, 2023 at 9:47 AM
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antarctic.bsky.social
🧊📏🌏 Some measurements in Australian terms: the world's largest iceberg (currently) is about as long as the distance from Melbourne to Geelong. Or from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. Or Sydney to Wollongong. That's 74km x 63km x 400m deep.
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
Iceberg bigger than New York makes long-awaited break from Antarctica
The world’s largest iceberg is on the move.
cosmosmagazine.com
November 28, 2023 at 4:03 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
I love to donate to great initiatives as Christmas gifts for family who don't need more stuff. The surfer in my life is getting a donation on his behalf to Waves of Wellness - who support young people in nature with surf coaches who are trained mental health professionals. www.foundationwow.org
Waves of Wellness
Waves of Wellness (WOW) Foundation is a mental health surf therapy charity, committed to changing lives by delivering for-purpose prevention programs, and innovative support programs for people expe...
www.foundationwow.org
November 27, 2023 at 11:25 PM
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richard.wickedproblems.earth
I’m shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this casino

GreenSky

COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2023 at 6:57 AM
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geoopenaccess.bsky.social
🪁Geo Theme: 'Geographies of Energy Futures'🪁

This theme, led by Catherine Butler, Peter Forman & @ankitkumar.bsky.social, invites contributions on:

🌍Diverse energy knowledges
🌍Marginality & justice in energy transitions
🌍Imaginations of energy futures

Get in touch at journals@rgs.org #geo #geosky
November 22, 2023 at 10:24 AM
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niklashoehne.bsky.social
This new report is very important to me.
We have explicitly collected good news and significant positive developments since the adoption of the Paris agreement. These 5 major shifts give hope that we can do it if we really want to.
newclimate.org/resources/pu...

THREAD
November 23, 2023 at 7:44 AM
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lizloveswinter.bsky.social
From @farhana.bsky.social's feed:

If you know folks who need a code, have them go here directly. It’s not restricted to the listed categories anymore, so journalists, activists, students, etc welcome:
#academicsky #geosky #highered
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
BlueSky Invites for Scientists, Researchers, and Medical Professionals
Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, medical professionals, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2023 at 6:00 PM
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paulasweeney.bsky.social
Erm..not sure that this is the message that we want to put across to our students, University of Aberdeen.
November 20, 2023 at 12:21 PM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
A single day above 2C doesn’t mean the world has breached the Paris target- that refers to the average temperature over multiple decades. But it highlights how incredibly urgent it is to cut emissions NOW
hausfath.bsky.social Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Nov 19
We now have results from a modern reanalysis product (ERA5) that shows November 17th was in fact the first day the world has experienced that was 2C above the preindustrial (1850-1900) average.

Hopefully it will prove transitory, but its a worrying sign.
oceanterra.org Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · Nov 19
Provisional ERA5 global temperature for 17th November from @CopernicusECMWF was 1.17°C above 1991-2020 - the warmest on record.

Our best estimate is that this was the first day when global temperature was more than 2°C above 1850-1900 (or pre-industrial) levels, at 2.06°C.
November 20, 2023 at 12:24 PM
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climate.skyfleet.blue
Flood insurance is a driver of population growth in European floodplains
Flood insurance is a driver of population growth in European floodplains - Nature Communications
This study finds that flood insurance policy design affects economic development in floodplains and, consequently, flood risk in Europe. Therefore, the authors advocate for flood insurance design to be integrated in climate change adaptation policy.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2023 at 8:41 AM
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agnessmack.bsky.social
B̵u̵i̵l̵d̵ ̵i̵t̵ Dig it up, and they will come.
@theage #Tuvalu Matt Golding
November 10, 2023 at 10:12 AM
chloetas.bsky.social
Welcome @vprahalad.bsky.social ! Nice to see you over here 😊
October 31, 2023 at 10:45 AM
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kimberlynicholas.bsky.social
Want to take effective climate action?
Global levers for whole industries *are not the same* as effective actions for individuals, companies or countries.
Focus on reducing the biggest pie piece you can.
Evidence-based advice from a climate scientist (me!) wecanfixit.substack.com/p/get-your-c...
I see examples all the time of using global statistics to argue about the effectiveness of personal, national, or company actions, or vice versa. Unfortunately, this often doesn’t add up. Here’s a common example:  “Flying is just a few percent of emissions. What’s the point in me flying less?”— a lot of frequent flyers :)  It’s true emissions from flying are small at the GLOBAL level. But for an INDIVIDUAL high emitter, flying is likely their largest source of emissions, and thus their most effective opportunity to reduce many tons of carbon. Compare the blue slice from flying in this individual vs. global breakdown of emissions:
October 31, 2023 at 8:12 AM