I'd like to think this is how it went down

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon. The offence is the point.

The Albanese government has sat for more than three years on the climate risk assessment it commissioned from the ONI. All attempts to use FOI and parliamentary procedures to access the documents have been unsuccessful. satpa.pe/corZhNG

Electricity retailers unhappy folks are supplying and storing their own energy instead of buying from them. Not happy with ripping folks off on their solar FiTs to make profit, now they want to slug everyone 5x the daily supply charge. reneweconomy.com.au/plan-to-incr...

Angus Taylor’s brain. #MadAsHell #auspol www.instagram.com/reel/DUp7OSE...

4. Guy who, in 2019, falsely accused respected Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore of vast travel expenses largesse, based on what turned out to be a fake document. He obfuscated, and denied his office had doctored anything. "It looks a little messier than we hoped," his staffer, on WhatsApp.

3. Guy who, he says, did not attempt to intervene regarding a federal environmental order to rehabilitate critically endangered native grasslands poisoned with herbicide on a property he and his brother own.

2. Guy who co-founded and helped manage a speculative company that later (in 2017) received $80 million from taxpayers, paid into its Caymans account, for surprisingly expensive, low security cotton water rights attached to properties it owned near St George. He denies any involvement.

This Angus Taylor, ICYMI. We still don't know where that money went btw - bc Cayman Islands.

Just discovered $3 billion in extra nuclear sub spending between May and December $15.4B → $18.6B Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice" That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.

Very happy to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science position with me and Christian Schwab at Macquarie University in Sydney. We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.

Update on the post below: in a letter sent to Chile's Environmental Assessment Service on 6 February, AES Andes requested the withdrawal of INNA from evaluation. This formally confirms that INNA is not going ahead. 🔭 🧪

The full scope of Paranal’s beauty 🤩 Until recently, only one of our four 8-m telescopes was equipped with lasers. But now one additional laser has been installed in each of the other three.   Why? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2606a/ 🔭 🧪 📷 A. Trigo/ESO

Here we are. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Australia is helping uncover the blue universe 🔵 Our researchers and engineers will help design and deliver the BlueMUSE instrument to the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Learn more here: astronomyaustralia.org.au/blog/news/th...

An official Parliamentary petition against Herzog coming here. Share and sign! #auspol www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

If ever an alien asks me to explain why humans didn’t do anything about climate change, I’ll just tell them to watch bin night unfold on a residential street in Australia.

@asherwolf.bsky.social Just noticed that you’ll get a cool change overnight. Hope it brings relief, at last!

The Government's plan to be an “AI and clean energy superpower” is to cut the sciences those technologies actually depend on Almost all ministers, including those in science-related portfolios, come from law, economics or politics background It shows www.timeshighereducation.com/news/devasta...

Sales of EVs surpass petrol cars in the EU for the first time. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #TheFutureIsEletric www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

These cuts would indeed be absolutely catastrophic. The UK has been a world leader in astronomy, we should not throw that all away

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

While the dictionary may suggest that terrorism is when anyone uses unlawful violence for political means, many understand that the application of the term becomes impacted by 'other factors'... chaser.com.au/general-news...

"Warming shelters" for long stretches of life-threatening cold weather in NY. We should have – & will need – "cooling shelters" in Australia for heatwaves of 40+ degrees C. Not just libraries, & not just people without homes, but shelters for 100s or 1000s of people with non-heat-resistant homes.

The power of persistence and community unity! What a great win for #Astronomy American company (AES Andes) was planning on building an industrial facility in the Atacama desert. This would've produced light pollution affecting the pristine skies where some big telescopes are. Well .... no more! 🔭

New all-time record set for Victoria, Walpeup 48.9°C, noting that Ouyen won’t report until tomorrow as it is a manually recorded site. reg.bom.gov.au/places/vic/

A few tickets still going for my talk about JWST this Thursday in St Peters! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-telesc...

I've updated my megaconstellations list www.planet4589.org/space/con/co... with details of the planned Blue Origin Terawave system and the enormous CTC1 and CTC2 constellations China just filed with the ITU, for a total of almost 750,000 proposed satellites in the years to come.

45 degrees C forecast for Melbourne tomorrow. Yuck. It’s worse elsewhere, but that’s 5 million-odd people in houses & workplaces – and some schools – that are utterly unprepared for such heat. At what point are community heat shelters set up by Councils & States?

A prominent Royal Society fellow helped out with this

Weekend At Davos?

I didn’t know that bus driver was also a pilot

Want to do something good for change today? ➡️Are you an academic, a student, or an alumna/alumnus of an Australian University? Of 37 Australian public universities, 9 have already deleted or inactivated their accounts on X. I don’t see why we can’t get that to 100%! (See end for what you can do)

The Age’s rolling coverage of the cost-of-living crisis never misses.

Disheartening to see this quote from the @royalsociety.org President in 2026 - “I’m old, I’m white, I’m a man, so everything’s against me. And so I didn’t apply, but I was nominated anonymously by a number of people, apparently"

Hackers have accessed the emails, passwords and names of all past and present Victorian government school students in a major data breach.

Erm, so I may not know whether the project I proposed last December is funded until next April? "This project is so urgent that it can definitely wait 16 months before I get a chance to start hiring someone to carry it out" is hardly encouraging.

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Holy moly. That is not where you want half of your dome shutter to be. Glad no one was hurt.

The change is coming, Melbourne. Geelong (red line) just dropped 13 degrees in 10 minutes.

I haven’t seen this label used before but it seems apt. The video contains a good discussion of what “science populism” is and how it’s harmful. youtu.be/sQnOFGWsXNM?...

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

For those unfamiliar, this involves: - Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew - Burning them for energy - Capturing the carbon that results from burning - Transporting the carbon - Injecting it underground - Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least

Nice things are possible.

And still not a single mea culpa from the architects, many of whom continue to be regarded as sages by much of the press.

How can a website cost $96 MILLION?! 🤯 Yes the BOM website is complex, but this seems like is a waste of taxpayers dollars that we need see some accountability for so it doesn’t happen again. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I helped Professor Dave lay out exactly how Avi Loeb has manufactured doubt and pushed a false narrative about 3I/ATLAS, which is still an interstellar comet. Please enjoy the video and please repost this to share the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9o...