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Dr Micha Campbell
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Palaeoclimatology postdoc | Lover of bicycles, clouds, #rstats | 🚲☁️📈 | Born at 352 ppm | Not even my mum calls me Micheline | Australian in […]

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I fear there is not enough vitamin D in the world to make up for this much grey.
A view out a window of a grassed roof, and grey grey skies
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Sunday crafternoon, ring making workshop in Frankfurt.

We carved the wax blanks, and the artist will cast them in Stirling silver for us. Very fun afternoon, and I can highly recommend the studio, Helen is lovely and very skilled […]

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A desk showing with a cutting mat, a blue wax blank and various tools. A close up, fingers holding the carved wax blank. Theres not enough detail to tell what it is, but its a series of misshapen fish following one another around the band Two finished wax blanks, waiting to be cast.
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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It's so impressive how consistent Randall has been over the years. Another good one, although I have to point out the reason Geology depts aren't OK is not that mountain hovercrafts, it's that departments keep getting decimated...
A comic from XKCD, with 4 panels. The first panel is two stickfigures, one says "We haven't checked in on the geology department for a while, I wonder if they're doing OK". In panel two, one of the figures is shown walking away, saying "I'll go see what they're up to." In panel three, the figure is shown opening a door on three people discussing a scientific poster. One of the three is saying: "49 million years ago, Heart Mountain Wyoming slide sideways 15 miles like a giant stone hovercraft" In panel 4, the inquiring figure returns to her companion, saying "they're not OK". From out of frame, one of the geologists exclaims "Hey, YOU come uo with a better explanation!"
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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The welcome home committee is doing a great job tonight. Suki is Not A Cuddler, so now of course I cant possibly move until she decides she's had enough.

Getting a dog is a big motivator for getting a permanent job. Until then, I've been lucky to get to live […]

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A medium sized giner dog lies in croissant form on a green foliage bed spread.
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The hype around Paris is real. This is an excellent city, made even better by yesterday's sundog bracketing the Eiffel tower!

#sundog #paris
The silhouette of the Eiffel tower against a late afternoon background of clouds. A sundog can be seen, with one flare to the left of the tower
October 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The MPIC Sustainability group organised a pilzenwandern in the Ober-Olm Wald yesterday afternoon with a mycologist! It was all auf Deutsch (good practice for me), so my understanding was a little rubbery, but highlights include "this is Germany's most […]

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Cute little mushrooms poke out of a bed of moss A large mushroom with white gills and a long stem. It has a skirt around the stem which isn't attached and can be moved Whitish pink Coral-like fungi on a mossy log An inkcap mushroom doing its thing. It has a black cap which is oozing slime as it slowly disintegrates
October 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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#arteveryday came to a grinding halt while I was having too much fun in Australia. Back on the horse, and Christmas card season is upon us, soI'm hoping for a strong finish.
A card with watercolour wildflowers
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Thanks Australia, this trip home has been like a deep breath. Stoked to have been able to visit many of my favourite places and see many of my favourite people 💚

Not quite emotionally prepared to be going back to Germany, but looking forward to seeing […]

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Sunset glow at Sydney harbour on a warm spring afternoon. The vibe is happiness with a side of "we live in the lucky country"
September 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Holiday snake count up to a nice round 5 💚

Red belly at boat harbour in Cronulla. Old mate was deeply unconcerned and needed a little encouragement to move along :)

#snek #wildaus #redbelly
Sandy path through coastal heathland with a red belly black snake visible on the right hand side of the path.
September 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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WARATAHS ARE OUT! In the nasho, if you know where to go...

This has basically been the perfect trip home.

#royalnp #nsw #bloomscrolling #florespondence #flowerfriday
Two waratahs flowering. The flowers are huge red spiky balls, and the plant has long elongated green leaves. The background of typical Australian bushland.
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Lovely day at Wombeyan for another work adjacent holiday day! Thanks @Andbaker for saving some fieldwork so I could come along while I'm in the country 😊

It was a treat to be underground with Nane, a first-time caver. I love seeing our beautiful underground […]

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Scalloping on a limestone cave roof White stalactites lit up with a headlight. There are.also some helicopter, sideways growing calcite formations Dream team! Nane, Andy, and myself smiling outside a cave.
September 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Holiday snake count is up to 4! Two in the space of 10 mins on Castle Hill in Townsville.

One python (too quick to snap) and one unknown (whip snake?). Also spotted a bunch of dragons and a tree pretending to be a frog mouth.

Glad I made it to the north.
A tawny frog mouth pretending to be a tree. The bush is dry and brown, and the bird blends in very well. A small thin brown snake on a sunny deck. In the distance is the ocean and a large island.
September 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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No pythons today, but lots of whales flapping and breaching, a pod of dolphins fishing, and a nice swim with the best girl.

Fly loves swimming, but hates being carried, so it was a mixed day for her.
A white woman wearing shorts, and a blue shirt and sandals, carrying a white and ginger dog who doesn't look happy about it. They are at the beach, which a backdrop of bright blue sky and equally blue water.
September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Home has been turning it on for me. Today featured a wedge tailed eagle, a sea eagle, lots of the normal sea birds, cockatoos and lorrikeets, lots of humpbacks, and this beautiful carpet python.
A carpet python lying in the undergrowth. She is facing away, stretched out heading from the verge into the bush.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Brunch with brissie sharehouse chosen family ✅️
Maggie swooping ✅️
Backyard python spotting ✅️

Day 2 at home delivering.

#australia #brisbane #wildaus #python
A small carpet python balanced carefully on a timber fence. A palm tree and blue skies form the backdrop.
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The version in the article is slightly better, as at least the title indicates it's 6-yearly rainfall, but the interactive hover caption should really indicate that the time range for that point is not just a single year.

The lack of justification for the […]

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A timeseries of Sydney rainfall titled "Sydney's 6 year rainfall: data from Observatory Hill". The y-axis rainges from 8000 - 9000 mm, oeaking at 9303. The hover-mouse label says "1952, 8761.7 mm".
August 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Today in Bad Data Viz, this shocker from the ABC, which suggests that Sydney rainfall regularly tops 8 metres (??). If you read the text, you find that it's a rolling sum of the 6 previous years (for reasons, I guess).

#dataviz #sydney
Screenshot from the abcinsydney account of a plot titled "Data from Observatory Hill" with a timeseries of precipitation over time. The y axis ranges from 8000 to 9000 years.
August 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Not so #silentsunday seeing Hilltop Hoods in Frankfurt.

These guys were the soundtrack to my youth, and they do a banging live show. Playing nosebleed section 3rd in the set is sort of diabolical.

It was really cool to see how amped the international crowd was for Aussie music 💚
A stage lit up in purple and blue lights, with a hip hop group performing.
August 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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End of an excellent week visiting Northumbria University. Everything is more fun when you collaborate with friends! Lots of fun science on the way, and Northumberland really turned the weather on. First North Sea swim ✅️

#northumberland #Northumbria
Bamburgh castle stands proud on a small hill overlooking a beach.
August 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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First four days of le tour (femmes) has been great. So happy to see people getting behind the women! So for #arteveryday 219/365 some janky sign writing encouraging everyone to #supportthefemmes!
A watercolour sign with "Support the Femmes" in yellow bubbly writing with pink highlights
July 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Important democratic duty taken care of this morning... voting in Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian Songs.

Exceedingly tough, balancing the music of my childhood, youth, and now. Left it to the last minute, so purely vibes based.

#hottest100 […]

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Graphic with the title "Hottest 100 of Australian songs" and a list of nine songs. They are: Divinyls - i touch myself Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue - where the wild roses grow Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly - from little things big things grow Yothu Yindi - Treaty Thelma Plum - better in blak Powderfinger- these days The go betweens - cattle and cane The waifs- fisherman's daughter You am I - heavy heart
July 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Up early to talk to AINSE Winter School students about a research career. A pleasure! AINSE have been really instrumental in my career, so I'm happy to have a chance to give back in some small way.

A bit of depressing #realtalk from me, but it wouldn't be me […]

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Peach coloured clouds at sunrise, against a washed out blue sky.
July 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Sunday stroll today featured a nutria* combing through waterweed for some food! A shame that it's an introduced species, but still great to see a medium sized mammal thriving in the Rhein.

*definitely wasn't a beaver, tail too thin to be an otter, too big to […]

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Needs more pixels photo of a semi aquatic water mammal in a river.
July 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Black bricks on a north facing apartment block is an interesting choice for a new build.

#Mainz #climateemergency #zollhafen
A 6 story apartment block under construction. The facade is black bricks, and the sunlight is shining directly onto the building.
July 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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ARC Future Fellowships announced today. Grim picture for Quaternary science, with 2 funded projects (by my count, I guess this depends on how you define Quaternary science!).

This graph on gender disparity is quite eye-opening. Women were under-represented […]

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A bar chart of ARC Future Fellowship Participation and success rates. The chart shows that women had lower participation than men for all fields except the humanities, but higher success rates than men in all fields.
July 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM