This is the person in charge of our EPA. Truly unbelievable. Truly irresponsible. Truly dangerous.

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

Have traveled to 10 or more countries outside their own Sweden 57% Netherlands 48% UK 43% Germany 36% Australia 32% France 26% Italy 25% Canada 22% Spain 20% Greece 19% S Korea 15% Israel 14% US 11% Hungary 8% Japan 8% Poland 4% www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...

Trump will call for major restrictions on the right to asylum at the UN General Assembly to replace the post-WW2 refugee framework, Reuters reportsz Asylum seekers would have to apply in the first country they enter, make asylum temporary, and give host nations discretion over return conditions.

Schubert's Productivity - remastered from an old joke bsky.app/profile/prof...

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

#meanjin #unimelb #auspol

:) #geos

I would not want to be working at the USGS now like some of my friends did in the past! #GISchat

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

College of Experts membership for 2026: The ARC have informed nominees for the 2026 College of the outcomes of their applications, via their RMS profiles. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

The mad king is losing it. This will destroy higher ed, tech, and the medical profession. Xenophobia has no bounds in this administration. I’m a former h1b holder

The Executive Order does not appear to exempt professors (who are exempt from various other working visa conditions) from the 100,000 USD fee. That means that no university will hire foreign professors. American academia is toasted.

One important thing to note about this is that they are only talking about joining Pillar II. These are for large cluster grants. There is no talk of joining Pillar I that has the basic research grant funding (e.g. H2020 Starting, Consolidator, Advanced grants & Marie Curie fellowships).

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Call for Papers – #CAA2026 Session S37: Vision Foundation Models for Archaeological Remote Sensing Seeking contributions on detection, prompting, robotics, ethics, and more. Submit abstracts via the CAA portal - 2026.caaconference.org/call-for-pap... #AI #RemoteSensing #Archaeology #GeoAI #ML

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...

Now if this level of monitoring and surveillance is not fascism,... What is?

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

Sorry, guys. We’ll get back to you. That’s the message the EU is expected to deliver at a global climate summit next week after the bloc’s countries did not agree on a plan to reduce planet-warming emissions by 2035.

We have tallied all the data ... and now, for your pleasure, we present "HOW RELIGIOUS IS YOUR STATE?" www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

It sounds cliche, but it is true. Every time I mentor a budding geo-spatial person, I walk away inspired and hopeful for our future.

Fantastic!

In a 2017 internal email, excerpts of which were produced in a lawsuit, Boeing quality inspector Steven Reiman wrote: “Just think what would happen if people realized they are being poisoned by coming to work on our airplanes or as passengers.” @wsj.com

JUST IN: the regime detained democratic leader Elene Khoshtaria, one of the very few leaders who were free. Elene faces criminal prosecution over writing “Russian Dream” on GD Mayor Kaladze’s campaign banner. She did so in solidarity with the student who did the same.

“Approving new fossil fuel exports is destroying the future. It isn’t just a betrayal of our Pacific neighbors, it is a betrayal of all Australians, putting the profits of foreign-owned fossil fuel corporations ahead of our wellbeing, security & prosperity,” said @richarddenniss.bsky.social. #auspol

We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/

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Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️ @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...

Next week, the @Land_Economics Group @UniBonn will publish a funded, open PhD position. The research should focus on land, optimally combine satellite data and causal inference, and personality-wise, the person should enjoy being creative and working in a team. Link in response.

Albanese is the most disappointing Prime Minister Australia has had. Abandoned all his values for power. #auspol

Or in other words, no-one will ever face any consequences for what is contestably the single most damaging environmental approval in this nation's history unless people like you and I work to ensure that happens.

The more I think about it, the more decisions like the North West Shelf indicate to me that the Feds have made a calculated - and maybe even correct? - decision that they can afford to take the piss with the goodwill the Australian electorate has for them. The task ahead is to prove them wrong.

Paul Vogel who "said he had never disclosed his work with the lobbying firm to the NT EPA because "it is not a conflict—this is the first time I have been made aware of it" was 🤯 Chair & CEO of SA EPA Nov 2002 - Nov 2007 🤯 Chair WA EPA Nov 2007 - Nov 2015 #ConflictOfInterestFAIL #GovernanceFAIL

What do you think about Australia "associating with" Horizon Europe? It's not me asking, but the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. If you're interested, make a submission to their "request for information": ▶️ consult.industry.gov.au/association-...

Australia: net-zero exporter of fossil fuels.

... here's a map of 618 #SlowWays routes that need just one more positive review to get their trusted verified status 🐌✅ Are any close to you? Could you help and check one? We'd love your help to turn them all purple! Take a look here beta.slowways.org/user/waylist... 🧵2/2

McFadzean, manager at the ACF, said: “With this decision, Prime Minister Albanese has betrayed Australians who voted for him, believing he was serious about acting on climate change.” +1 ! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Universities Australia’s executive officer, Luke Sheehy, travelled to Brussels to meet representatives from the European Commission and the Australian ambassador, Angus Campbell, to discuss the possibility of joining Horizon Europe.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

The WHO global landscape of cancer clinical trials www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Horizon 2025 93.5 billion RI over 2021-27. Europe, I am a bit jealous! (DH2025 opening, Siena)

Men will build giant floating walls to prevent warm water from reaching ice shelves, and scatter microbeads onto sea ice to increase its reflectivity before just stopping the burning of fossil fuels www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The European Commission is ready to suspend trade ties and halt a research partnership with Israel but national governments are impeding further steps, according to the EU’s top diplomat.

Reports of an attack, allegedly by a drone, on a vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), while anchored outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. The below video shows the moment of the incident. Keep it in mind when you read the next post. www.instagram.com/reel/DOXaR_M...

In a second video, a GD supporter can be seen attacking Publika journalist Keto Mikadze and stealing her phone. #GeorgiaProtests 2/2