Linden Ashcroft
@lindenashcroft.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in climate science and science communication at @unimelb. She/her. Born 344 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere
An exciting line up of projects funded by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Scheme: rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
Research Management System - Funded Projects - Discovery Indigenous 2026 round 1
RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...
rms.arc.gov.au
September 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
An exciting line up of projects funded by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Scheme: rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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wonderful look at Melbourne seasons from @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social
"The reason Indigenous calendars work well is because they’re based on evidence – changes in plants and animals, and subtle changes in weather patterns."
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...
"The reason Indigenous calendars work well is because they’re based on evidence – changes in plants and animals, and subtle changes in weather patterns."
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...
Don’t be fooled by Melbourne’s Fool’s Spring
From the ‘Spring of Deception’ to ‘The Swooping’, understanding the cycles of Australian weather can help us all love Melbourne’s eclectic seasons, say University of Melbourne experts.
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
September 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
wonderful look at Melbourne seasons from @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social
"The reason Indigenous calendars work well is because they’re based on evidence – changes in plants and animals, and subtle changes in weather patterns."
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...
"The reason Indigenous calendars work well is because they’re based on evidence – changes in plants and animals, and subtle changes in weather patterns."
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...
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Recently I chatted with my good friend @lindenashcroft.bsky.social about de-extinction, dire wolves, funding conservation, and why the scientific community should be more supportive of taking risks and chasing the ‘impossible’. You can listen here www.3cr.org.au/lostinscienc...
Dire wolves and dire research funding outlook
On this week's show Stu has a look at the impact of US science funding cuts on the Australian scientific research landscape, and Linden talks to Euan Ritchie about the hoopla around Dire Wolf resurrec...
www.3cr.org.au
April 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Recently I chatted with my good friend @lindenashcroft.bsky.social about de-extinction, dire wolves, funding conservation, and why the scientific community should be more supportive of taking risks and chasing the ‘impossible’. You can listen here www.3cr.org.au/lostinscienc...
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In this article @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I look at the latest WMO report on the climate in 2024. In a nutshell- the climate is moving further away from its pre-industrial state because of our greenhouse gas emissions. We need to get to net zero ASAP theconversation.com/flooding-in-...
Flooding in the Sahara, Amazon tributaries drying and warming tipping over 1.5°C – 2024 broke all the wrong records
The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet again. Coincidence? Of course not
theconversation.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
In this article @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I look at the latest WMO report on the climate in 2024. In a nutshell- the climate is moving further away from its pre-industrial state because of our greenhouse gas emissions. We need to get to net zero ASAP theconversation.com/flooding-in-...
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A few years ago a climate science colleague of mine said "When it gets really bad, they will blame us for not telling them how bad it would be."
Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
As Trump abandons climate action, we must accept net zero won't happen
While markets and media were chasing Donald Trump’s tariff fiasco last week, something far more important was unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio.
www.abc.net.au
March 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
A few years ago a climate science colleague of mine said "When it gets really bad, they will blame us for not telling them how bad it would be."
Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
New semester, new teaching globe! Coming to a Coriolis explanation near you Thanks @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com for doing a clean out of your toy room :)
March 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
New semester, new teaching globe! Coming to a Coriolis explanation near you Thanks @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com for doing a clean out of your toy room :)
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‘Meta did not respond to questions…further testing showed Cyclone Alfred was still being hidden on some devices and accounts….’
sources more reliable than f/b:
www.getready.qld.gov.au/find-your-lo...
www.abc.net.au/brisbane
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
sources more reliable than f/b:
www.getready.qld.gov.au/find-your-lo...
www.abc.net.au/brisbane
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Facebook blocked Cyclone Alfred searches ahead of landfall and hasn't explained why
Despite hundreds of thousands of accounts talking about Cyclone Alfred on Facebook, social media giant Meta was blocking or hiding search results about the impending storm before being contacted by AB...
www.abc.net.au
March 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
‘Meta did not respond to questions…further testing showed Cyclone Alfred was still being hidden on some devices and accounts….’
sources more reliable than f/b:
www.getready.qld.gov.au/find-your-lo...
www.abc.net.au/brisbane
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
sources more reliable than f/b:
www.getready.qld.gov.au/find-your-lo...
www.abc.net.au/brisbane
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Very excited about our first school-wide seminar tomorrow! A/Prof Sune Rasmussen from Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute joins PhD students Yanxuan Du and Calla Gould-Whalley to explore dramatic climate changes in our Earth's history events.unimelb.edu.au/science/even...
Past abrupt climate changes – mechanisms and consequences
Please join us for the first monthly seminar from the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The seminar will be in person, with ...
events.unimelb.edu.au
March 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Very excited about our first school-wide seminar tomorrow! A/Prof Sune Rasmussen from Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute joins PhD students Yanxuan Du and Calla Gould-Whalley to explore dramatic climate changes in our Earth's history events.unimelb.edu.au/science/even...
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Climate change primary ingredient for 2024/25 summer’s heat
This is Australia's second hottest summer on record, but it will be one of the coolest in the 21st century
— Uni Melbourne climate scientist Dr @lindenashcroft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@readfearn.bsky.social
This is Australia's second hottest summer on record, but it will be one of the coolest in the 21st century
— Uni Melbourne climate scientist Dr @lindenashcroft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@readfearn.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Climate change primary ingredient for 2024/25 summer’s heat
This is Australia's second hottest summer on record, but it will be one of the coolest in the 21st century
— Uni Melbourne climate scientist Dr @lindenashcroft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@readfearn.bsky.social
This is Australia's second hottest summer on record, but it will be one of the coolest in the 21st century
— Uni Melbourne climate scientist Dr @lindenashcroft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@readfearn.bsky.social
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Ongoing bushfires in VIC's Grampians National Park.
January 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Ongoing bushfires in VIC's Grampians National Park.
Great opportunity to do a Masters at one of Australia's best weather and climate research centres!
we’re looking for master’s students to work with is at UNSW 👇 if you’re interested, be quick!
@climateandweather.bsky.social at CCRC is looking for domestic master’s students for 2025. If you’d like to learn about climate and weather, and work together with NSW government agencies to make NSW a safer place to live and work, apply at www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
January 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Great opportunity to do a Masters at one of Australia's best weather and climate research centres!
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LA is in a high fire risk region & fire weather conditions are complex. So we @wwattribution.bsky.social looked at many lines of evidence. All show: our burning of fossil fuels increased the likelihood of such extreme fire weather conditions www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
January 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
LA is in a high fire risk region & fire weather conditions are complex. So we @wwattribution.bsky.social looked at many lines of evidence. All show: our burning of fossil fuels increased the likelihood of such extreme fire weather conditions www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
I used to think science was completely objective, free from human values and biases.
Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day!
So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day!
So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism - npj Climate Action
We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free scien...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I used to think science was completely objective, free from human values and biases.
Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day!
So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day!
So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Always learn so much when the wonderful @kelamb.bsky.social and I catch up. Good luck to anyone listening in though - we're mums who work part time, you know we only speak double speed 🏎️🏎️
Off to meet the excellent @lindenashcroft.bsky.social to chat all things communication! #scicomm
January 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Always learn so much when the wonderful @kelamb.bsky.social and I catch up. Good luck to anyone listening in though - we're mums who work part time, you know we only speak double speed 🏎️🏎️
Fascinating to hear from @richardabetts.bsky.social this morning on predicting CO2 emissions for the coming year as well as truly defining current global warming levels.
So much work to hone in on one number!
So much work to hone in on one number!
January 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fascinating to hear from @richardabetts.bsky.social this morning on predicting CO2 emissions for the coming year as well as truly defining current global warming levels.
So much work to hone in on one number!
So much work to hone in on one number!
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Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
December 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
What have our #scicomm teaching team members learnt from our soaring highs and crushing lows? Find out on episode 99 of this excellent podcast
Wooohooooo 🥳🥳
What better way to celebrate our 99th episode than getting the whole team together to chat about our #scicomm highs and lows: when things went well, when they went badly & most importantly, what we learned along the way!
👉👉 We'd love you to listen and share:
pod.fo/e/28ebff
What better way to celebrate our 99th episode than getting the whole team together to chat about our #scicomm highs and lows: when things went well, when they went badly & most importantly, what we learned along the way!
👉👉 We'd love you to listen and share:
pod.fo/e/28ebff
December 11, 2024 at 9:18 AM
What have our #scicomm teaching team members learnt from our soaring highs and crushing lows? Find out on episode 99 of this excellent podcast
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Hi Fellow Blue Skyers, Appropriately named place for the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society! Hoping the sky is blue for you today! Follow us for the latest news on weather, oceans and climate science from Australia and abroad.
November 18, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Hi Fellow Blue Skyers, Appropriately named place for the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society! Hoping the sky is blue for you today! Follow us for the latest news on weather, oceans and climate science from Australia and abroad.
Do #climatecomms and want to visit Cairns next June? Submit an abstract for the AMOS conference! An opportunity for valuable #comms and #climatescience chats. Abstracts are due this Friday
November 27, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Do #climatecomms and want to visit Cairns next June? Submit an abstract for the AMOS conference! An opportunity for valuable #comms and #climatescience chats. Abstracts are due this Friday
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This 👇🏼 is open for another 6 days!
🌊 🌏
Not sure if this is for you?
Want to find more about the project?
Are you on the fence?
Do reach out..! 😊
We'll be using a new ocean model:
github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
github.com/CliMA/ClimaO...
and collaborate with CliMA (clima.caltech.edu).
🌊 🌏
Not sure if this is for you?
Want to find more about the project?
Are you on the fence?
Do reach out..! 😊
We'll be using a new ocean model:
github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
github.com/CliMA/ClimaO...
and collaborate with CliMA (clima.caltech.edu).
Exciting Postdoc Opportunity! 🌟🌊🌏
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.
bit.ly/4fmIFv4
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.
bit.ly/4fmIFv4
Details : Research Fellow in Physical Oceanography and Climate Variability : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
November 20, 2024 at 6:39 AM
This 👇🏼 is open for another 6 days!
🌊 🌏
Not sure if this is for you?
Want to find more about the project?
Are you on the fence?
Do reach out..! 😊
We'll be using a new ocean model:
github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
github.com/CliMA/ClimaO...
and collaborate with CliMA (clima.caltech.edu).
🌊 🌏
Not sure if this is for you?
Want to find more about the project?
Are you on the fence?
Do reach out..! 😊
We'll be using a new ocean model:
github.com/CliMA/Oceana...
github.com/CliMA/ClimaO...
and collaborate with CliMA (clima.caltech.edu).
Around Melbourne Uni this Thursday? Come to our first ever End of Year public colloquium!
Enjoy a drink in the sun and hear from the amazing Jas Chambers from Ocean Decade Australia. Tickets are free but seats are limited so register now :)
Enjoy a drink in the sun and hear from the amazing Jas Chambers from Ocean Decade Australia. Tickets are free but seats are limited so register now :)
From the lab bench to the boardroom: is research getting to where we need it?
Join the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for the first annual SGEAS End of Year Public Colloquium. The inaugural SGEAS End ...
events.unimelb.edu.au
November 18, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Around Melbourne Uni this Thursday? Come to our first ever End of Year public colloquium!
Enjoy a drink in the sun and hear from the amazing Jas Chambers from Ocean Decade Australia. Tickets are free but seats are limited so register now :)
Enjoy a drink in the sun and hear from the amazing Jas Chambers from Ocean Decade Australia. Tickets are free but seats are limited so register now :)