If you are flying or sailing in area likely impacted by gnss jamming or spoofing you can use GnssLogger* app on your phone to record gnss data that you can research on your own or share with others. A brief thread on settings and file descriptions. * play.google.com/store/apps/d...

🔍 Question for the #fediverse: Do you know any #peertube instances or channels that publish videos about #opensource #gis? I’m looking to expand federation on my PeerTube instance #qwasttube and would love to follow more geospatial creators, universities, #osgeo communities, or conference […]

This viral trend of satirical journals is highlighting the intense competition in Chinese academia go.nature.com/4tYTbjh

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

'"An Aboriginal heritage rock shelter that had been identified in the project's planning approval was damaged beyond recovery," he said in a statement. "We are deeply sorry."'

Especially if you are cis, please read this www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Here are remarks I gave at the Keeping the Republic Conference at Notre Dame. If you’ve followed me over the past decade or so, my skepticism toward the field’s fixation on polarization likely won’t come as much of a surprise. But here they are, for what they’re worth. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Cloudy Mars: Olympus and Tharsis, ESA Mars Express HRSC Massive 220MP image on Flickr ➡️ flic.kr/p/2seL8ss 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-08-02 North is down HR242_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3 Notes: Cool cloud formation over the North Pole and a dust storm-like feature over Olympus Mons!

Meet the Shadowy Global Network of Right-Wing Think Tanks: For decades, the think tanks associated with the little-known Atlas Network have pushed to criminalize climate protest around the world. newrepublic.com/article/1754...

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

Translation: not developing this gas will leave a Roger Cook sized hole in a future Woodside board

Playing peekaboo with climate change won’t make kids less anxious

This reminds me of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's great, horrifying story about how a town in Canada that had relied on a Facebook group for info was left adrift during a wildfire because Facebook had blocked news links. The woman who ran it was forced to screenshot stories. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

If it continues in this direction, the ED's AIM committee will authorize using the accreditation process to legitimize and normalize partisan interference in higher education. 6

“UN backs historic climate crisis ruling despite US attempts to stop resolution.” US, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Yemen, Liberia, and Belarus opposed the measure. The Resolution backed a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change. Passed 141-8.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... but we have $ for a virtual submarine ...

Sydney Knitting Nannas week 3 attending trial ⬇️ and we haven’t dropped a stitch. This morning we hear from the Maules Creek Mines Chief Operating Officer. Mine owner Whitehaven #Coal face 8 criminal charges for alleged unlawful blasting events. Watch court 11a lec.nsw.gov.au/Facilities-a...

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

ARC says they'll announce Linkage Projects outcomes tomorrow, for 2025 round 2 👇 The selection meeting for these grants was held in NOVEMBER last year – 5 months ago 🤯

We need an oral history of this.

The Guardian's tool for searching the budget doesn't even list Education (or Science or Research) as an option.

White-winged ducks risk disappearing before their story is ever fully told. Conservation experts warn that their extinction will have a profound impact on biodiversity.

Reads like Monty Python. Honestly, a rare, tolerable, truly defensive use of weapons.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

We have colleagues who put their blood, sweat and tears into detailed proposals for this funding scheme, only to find out they will all go in the bin. We still have no clarity on what ARC funding schemes are going to look like next year either. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Think about the work hours involved in these proposals. Back of the envelope, 50 hours per application (across the grant writers, approvals staff, etc.) and what, 1000 applications? That's 25 years of individual person-hours. Even at 10 hours per application, that's still 5 years of wasted effort.

'Scientific advancement depends on freedom, openness, and truth - the very values fascism eventually destroys. Our collective response will shape the future.'

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack wins a BAFTA Award Executive Producer Ben de Pear, "Just a question for the BBC, given you that you dropped our film will you drop us from the BAFTA TV screening later on tonight?" And guess what, they edited it to this shorter version

Reviews don't fund research. If, like me, you hope for more research funding in tomorrow's Budget, here's a cold shower from a Minister responsible for Australia's currently shambolic R&D system, Tim Ayres 👇 'We hear your concerns' 'We did a review' But…nothing else. A script from The Hollowmen.

Nice analysis of the climate costs of Chrome pushing a 4GB Geminin nano to people's devices. Even just looking purely at the download (ignoring inference, re-downloads etc) it's substantial (not sure it's 'insane'), and shows the Google is just kinda doing stuff pretty thoughtlessly

Indice de perception de la démocratie 2026 www.niradata.com/dpi Le rapport explore les perceptions mondiales de la démocratie dans 98 pays, sur la base des réponses de plus de 94 000 personnes et de huit années de données de tendances 1/

Oh no Not me We never lost control

"Somebody starting a PhD next academic year will be finishing it in 2029 at the earliest, and my guess is that by then what it means to undertake research in mathematics will have changed out of all recognition." And every other field. Not sure I like it, not sure how to handle it.

This isn’t the ARC, but I can easily imagine it happening to an ARC scheme: The Government cancelled the Australia’s Economic Accelerator scheme, **including the round of submitted proposals currently under review**. Absolutely gutting for researchers involved. Enraging, and outrageous!

Devastating news for so many people who applied. Imagine running a scheme and then once all the applications are submitted, cancelling it. What a waste of so many people’s time. #ozchem

Our article is now live: LiDAR-derived high-resolution geomorphological analysis for archaeology: Case study of the Gunditjmara aquaculture engineering systems at Budj Bim, Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

Tour de force essay fr @lucyham.bsky.social "Albanese has tied his fate to fossil fuel majors.[..] “I can confirm that the Budget will not undermine existing contracts on gas exports.” He tied this refusal to tax fossil fuel’s windfall profits to Gallipoli, the minimum wage & the 8-hour workday."

arXiv📈🤖 Stop Using the Wilcoxon Test: Myth, Misconception and Misuse in IR Research By Urbano

#Heatwave alert in #India! Hit by a severe late April warm spell, the peninsula has been record-breaking temperatures in some cities. The #Copernicus #Sentinel3 map on Apr. 26 shows Land (not air!) Surface Temperature reaching more than 60°C in multiple areas. #climateemergency

ARC and NHMRC have updated their policies on generative AI use in grant applications and peer review. Applicants remain responsible for content. Peer reviewers may use AI only to refine drafted comments (clarity/grammar), not to evaluate/ score. Effective 28 Apr 2026: www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Mark Carney: "Many of our former strengths, built on our close ties to the US, have become weaknesses. The US has changed. That's their right. And we're responding ... we're deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the EU, the Nordic countries, and Australia."

reject the machine is out now on all major streaming platforms watch the music video www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3Y...

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

This is really more like a monarchy, eh?

The Supreme Court has affirmed the President's authority to dismiss any and all members of congressional designated boards - even if the enabling legislation prohibits it. The only exception is members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 6 members of the Supreme Court are to blame for this.

The loss of UQP is terrible — the list of authors and work — particularly First Nations authors and work — built up there in the last decade has been world-changing. Those who've trashed it know exactly what they're doing — the reputational damage is part of the point. We're running out of venues.