It's been a wet start to the 2025/26 wet season in #Darwin. Who would have thought that the second-wettest November on record (and it's not over yet) would lead to this? #rain 🧪💧

Yikes. #CycloneFina in #Darwin brought down some MASSIVE mahogany trees. Blocking two lanes on Lee Point Road.

What a legend the weather guy, Nate Byrne from ABC news is. There's a #cyclone in #Darwin, so he's in Darwin. #Respect

It's going to be a wet year in #Darwin. I hope that the storms forming off the coast don't develop into cyclones... We're approaching the 95th percentile for #rain, and it's trending upwards... 🧪 💧

Wow, the #water situation in Tehran is dire. 15 million people with very limited water access to. Inefficient irrigation practices and international sanctions are major issues. It's so bad, evacuations are being considered 💧 theconversation.com/irans-capita...

#Groundwater over-extraction action www.livescience.com/planet-earth... 🧪💧

It's meetings and/or needlessly long training courses, am I right #academicsky? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a691...

If Australian govt wants more Australian University students, remove the cap on the funding received for Australian students. It's not rocket surgery Mr Clare. m-economictimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/m.econom...

Given the topic of my PhD (groundwater and temperature) I can't believe I've never thought about this. Abandoned onshore gas wells and geothermal energy... So smart (assuming sufficient temps, etc.). 🧪 theconversation.com/geothermal-e...

I'm a scientist... Just keep your #onions in the fridge. Presumably (i.e., my hypothesis) this changes the viscosity of the onion juice. #NoMoreTears. Done. I've been doing this for years. Please credit me in the resulting paper 😀🧪 share.google/KyH5qOBp4Vuy...

You can hate his music (and most probably would, if they've ever heard of them) but Les Claypool from #Primus is a really down to Earth dude. This Rick Beato video is great youtu.be/YDdHdKtD-uM?...

This Galah at the Douglas Daly Holiday Park is really enjoying chewing my boots to pieces, so I'm making it work for it...

While declining a review from an #MDPI journal, I (politely) mentioned that I do not with to publish in or review for MDPI. I asked to be removed from their reviewing register. I feel like an asshole, but I don't want to keep declining reviews. What do you think #academicsky? 🧪

Happy to see JaVale Magee in the NBL (and sad to see my NBL2 Darwin Salties no longer be a team, boo). basketnews.com/news-231970-...

I'm not a rap fan in the least, but surely most people can agree that Snoop Dogg doing the pregame entertainment at the #AFL grand final was fun. Like, super fun.

Just a reminder that Elizabeth Zharoff (The Charismatic Voice) on YouTube is equal parts awesome, wholesome, fun and informative... That is if you like singing and heavy music. She's just so awesome. 🤘

#academicsky, what do you think about in person lectures? What about this article to save them? With external students, it's then not fair to make the in-person lectures something that the online folks can't experience... theconversation.com/to-save-in-p...

This story is utterly horrific. A 20 year gas leak that no one attempted to fix, or even report. The whole system is broken. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Just submitted my 1st 1st-authored #RemoteSensing manuscript. I'm lucky to work with such great colleagues (thanks Kaline De Mello & Porni Mollick). An #MNDWI approach to determine #river #wetland connectivity in the Daly #River coming to you soon? Let's hope so. @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social 🧪💧🛰️👍

#Graduation is such a joyous time. Watching students celebrate their hard work is so heartwarming. In this case, seeing the now DR Steve Tickell get his well deserved honorary PhD! 🎉🎉🎉 #CDU

I'm increasingly pessimistic that any meaningful action will come on #ClimateChange. We're going to know the consequences and run towards the cliff anyway. #Climate 🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#EarthScience is more important now than ever. We need more people to investigate Earth's various complex, interacting systems ( #climate, #hydrology, #geology, #biology). We DON'T need science cuts from universities www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/eart...

I'm currently teaching first year #EarthScience. This couldn't be a more apt, or terrifying combo of Earth, Atmospheric, Hydrological and Biological sciences: www.realestate.com.au/news/hidden-.... It's almost as if there needs to be more regulation and taxation on profits to fix the messes... 🧪

CDU ran a #TEDx event a few weeks ago. I gave a talk about the important role that #groundwater plays in many people's lives. Feel free to check it out on YouTube if you've ever got a spare 12 mins... youtu.be/c6gcQAISIeY?... 🧪 #science #water

While also incorrect, it'd be better described as "there's a lot more #groundwater than we thought". Please stop with this "underground ocean nonsense". 🧪 "Massive ocean discovered beneath the Earth's crust containing more water than on the surface share.google/w0IxLmQSbeSD...

Tomorrow, I've got my personal best Outlook calendar effort. Quintuple booked! Not a bad effort really.

Man, I'm thinking a lot about the passing of Mastodon's Brent Hinds. He'd be in my top 3 guitarists. In no particular order: Brent (his DILIGAF attitude, like playing banjo on a metal album) Adam Dutkiewicz (same), and @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social because he is a total innovator on the guitar.

I can't believe it. Brent Hinds was a music genius that brought so much joy to my life. 🤘😭🤘 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've got a fun day tomorrow. I teach non stop from 8am to 3pm, then I'm quadruple booked from 3-4pm. If anyone wonders why I'm slow on emails...

I totally agree that the Aussie tax system is completely broken... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This kind of 💩 has got to stop... Getting AI to write your paper is a terrible idea. Trust in science seems to be dropping. The world has enough AI slop. There are enough poor quality, AI generated garbage papers already... search.app/3SGwy

Analyses in #hydrology can produce some of the most amazing, and really, really pretty results. Check out this flow accumulation output from the incredible pysheds #Python library. 🧪 #academicsky

ChatGPT5 Sucks. That's it. That's all I had to say.

1. Look up how to go somewhere... 2. See above 3. I do drop pins on places 4. Look up places to eat/ get fuel 5. See 1-4 6. See 1-5 www.androidpolice.com/creative-way...

It really would be nice to see the #Australian government genuinely support #science. Cutting jobs at CSIRO is madness. Research in the university sector is also critically underfunded. If only there were some tax loopholes that could be closed... #academicsky www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Are university staff still relevant in the age of AI? www.forbes.com/sites/sergei... Biassed... but I say yes. We've got a lot of work to do to stay relevant.

I'm reviewing a manuscript... Can I reiterate that having figures and captions at the end sucks! Why, for the love of all things good, do people do this, and journals ask for this? #academicsky #ahhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrggggggggggggg

I've always loved the #Mastodon lyric "Oceans morph to dust, chasing the timeline" from the song This Mortal Soil. The whole Blood Mountain album is just so great. I got this #tattoo to celebrate its radness.

It's 2:37 am. To the person letting off fireworks... I hope that all your neighbours start mowing their lawns at 8:00 am. Let all of their leaf blowers start at once. I hope that you get no sleep... Like the rest of us.

This is so good 👇

For lovers of metal(core) and dislike of influencers, check out Parasites by Polaris. It's all good, but the line "Empty vessels making so much noise" hits hard. youtu.be/Lw5aEwXXKVY?...

It turns out that Bali is very fun. Who knew?

Check out this amazing kids' activity book. Mind numbing stupidity or is someone having a laugh? It gets worse the longer you look.

I'm done with grading for the semester! 🤘🤘🤘And with more than 6 hours to spare I might add.

Feels like -1 °C (in Darwin temperature units where 16 °C = freezing).

Isn't the #CentreOfTheUniverse in Canberra because #Melbourne and #Sydney couldn't agree? 😆 theconversation.com/where-is-the...

Fascinating read that gets worse as you get further into it. Detonating nuclear bombs to save the Earth from #ClimateChange... This feels like the opening 5 minutes of a dystopian/ disaster movie 🧪 www-ndtv-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.ndtv...

I enjoy working in #hydrology very much. Today, I enjoyed all the colourful conversations about why I just bought 6 coolers. Yes, *I am* a thirsty boy 😃, but that's irrelevant here. These are to ship water samples 🧪

Ahhh #America... It's a story about a 1,200 ton boulder that was washed up by a tsunami... Or 2,645,547 pounds on the stupid scale 🧪 www.earth.com/news/maka-la...

Well, at least we've got something to look forward to... www.sciencealert.com/an-extreme-d...