‘Diamond open access’ means research is free to read, free to publish. It’s a public good – but it relies on volunteer labour.

Protest is not a flaw in democracy and fear cannot be made law. The NSW supreme court ruling upholds these truths | Shamikh Badra

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Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference! 📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026 Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025 See our website oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to explore conference sub-themes & submit!

Finallllly! #StopKillingChildren #StopKillingEverybody #StopKillingEverything #StoptheGenocide www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.” Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

“To say that I care about your security & actually do the very thing that’s actually threatening our security, it does not make sense. We cannot be that stupid,” – Anote Tong, fmr president of Kiribati. Pacific leaders see through the rhetoric & are furious about Australia's fossil fuel expansion.

"It tells you a lot about who wields power in Australia that Woodside is being allowed to haggle in secret over the conditions of the North West Shelf expansion," writes @stephenlongaus.bsky.social. Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/yes-min... #auspol

Rally to save Meanjin happening now at 715 Swanston st! (Pics via @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social ) @savemeanjin.bsky.social

🌊🦑🐋 #abcnews Stop giving this menace media space & time! The better stories are about the amazing organisations, communities & individuals working to bring the ecological and cultural risks of deep seabed mining into the light. #DeepSeabedMining #OceanJustice www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

#deepcurrentscollective #oceanjustice #multibeing #deepseabedmining #ocean

The concept of "Degenerate art" returns. USA is speedrunning fascism www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

Does Australia supply weapons to Israel? The government has consistently denied the claim and criticised “misinformation” surrounding exports, arguing it has “raised tensions in this country”. So what do we know about Australia’s role in the F-35 jet's supply chain, and what constitutes a weapon?

Read the latest on the Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 from Hiroko Tabuchi at the NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/c... “The talks’ collapse “proved that there’s no way we can proceed with consensus,” said Bjorn Beeler, executive director at IPEN” “The result was the chaos you saw.”

This may actually be the worst phrase in existence. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... #auspol

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80 years. Never again. Abolish nuclear weapons.

Norway taxes their fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free university education. In Australia, we give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and charge our kids a fortune to go to uni. 📺 Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

ABC 3pm news bulletin had good coverage of #MarchForHumanity in Sydney and Melbourne. Mentions “tens of thousands” participating.

#marchforhumanity Sydney heaving with people joining the March today , no one cares about the rain in fact people cheering 📣 #palestine

Omg, the woman on the PA system in Wynyard, who's been giving directions since we got here, just added "Free Palestine, free Palestine" at the end of one of her announcements. Cheers erupted. #MarchForHumanity

#marchforhumanity #sydney #2pm

Reminder: If you hear anyone claiming the #MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza March across the Sydney Harbour Bridge today in support of Palestine is somehow anti-Semitic,the Jewish Council of Australia supports it. 👇 And here's their full media release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/08/medi...

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide. #MarchForHumanity (🎥 Ema Franklin)

A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.

Media Release: Jewish Council backs march across Sydney Harbour Bridge We stand with – and join – those marching across the bridge and call for immediate action to stop the Gaza genocide and for a future where everyone is free, from the river to the sea.

"War profiteering is a phenomenon as ancient as war itself, but [a new report] shows that the military-industrial-technological complex is reaping uniquely horrible payoffs in Palestine," writes editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Incredible turnout for “Our Collective Seabed" panel & exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica A side event at #ISBA30 organized by intl. group, the Deep Currents Collective. Photo credit: Earth Negotiation Bulletin #OceanJustice #DeepSeabedMining #SeabedCulture #UNCLOS #Jamaica #Extractivism

Dr Giulia Champion, postdoc researcher, Uni of Southampton and member of the #DeepCurrentsCollective here discussing the ISA’s mandates of marine enviro protection & deep seabed mining. #ISA #seabed #OceanLaw #deepseamining #deepocean #OceanJustice #lawofthesea #ocean #oceangovernance #extractivism

Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time. The new study estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean holds approximately 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics, around nine times the amount of larger plastic debris in all of the world’s oceans.

Dr Jonathan Galka of Deep Currents Collective is a historian and ethnographer of modern sciences & environments and a Postdoctoral Fellow, Nat. Uni. of Singapore #ISA30 #lawofthesea #ocean #oceangovernance #extractivism #OceanJustice #Multibeing #DeepCurrentsCollective#DeepSeabedMining

#ISA30 #lawofthesea #ocean #oceangovernance #oceanfutures #deepcurrentscollective #community #collective #extractivism #Seabed #marineenviornment #OceanJustice #Multibeing #DecoloniseUNCLOS #DeepCurrentsCollective

The Australian government has never declared the catastrophic impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems as a so-called “natural” disaster. If it did, issuing permits for more fossil fuel emissions would be exposed as reckless. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

An absolutely damning insider account of what has just gone down in Paris. Murujuga traditional custodians took the fight to protect their Country to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris. They lost. @unesco.org www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/inside-unesco/ Inside UNESCO

A reminder that all Australian coastlines are reeling from rising sea temperatures - it’s not just coral bleaching. For every fish that washes up on a beach, millions of sedentary bottom-dwelling animals and plants are quietly dying.

Sky whales at Kingston foreshore reminding delegates that the deep ocean is no place for commerce miners. #ISA30 #BanSeabedMining #OceanJustice

Meet the #DeepCurrentsCollective’s Khadija Stewart, Environmentalist & Activist, Snr Campaigner for RiseUp for the Ocean & founder of EcoVybz Environmental Creatives, bringing powerful insight to the urgent issue of deep sea mining #ocean #deepseamining #deepseabiodiversity #collective #oceanjustice

A judge concluded today that the Australian government “did not engage with or give real or genuine consideration to the best available science" when setting emission reduction targets. Although the legal case was lost, this is a moral victory for all victims of climate change.

#ISA30 #OceanJustice #deepseabedmining #bandeepseamining #multibeing #ocean #bandeepseamining #multibeing #oceanemergency

Aunty McRose Elu said the decision was "a moral loss for the government, not for us” "We will be the first climate refugees in Australia … what will I say to my grandchildren about this decision? "It's their future, not mine. We will keep fighting." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Australia: The commonwealth government has argued “it is not legally required to consider the best available science, or the impacts of climate change, when setting emissions reduction targets”. 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. Nearly 90% of the superconflictive companies are in high-income countries and China.

Happening this week: 'Someone's Ocean'- workshop with Dr. Susan Reid from @ubcokanagan. Dr. Reid will explore how the ocean is claimed and experienced, oceanic kinships and interconnections, and implicated futures. JUL 17, June 18th, 7 - 8 PM Rix Lecture Hall A, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

'200,000 barrels of radioactive #nuclear waste dumped in icy depths of northeast Atlantic. French-led team of scientists will set sail from Brittany to map the barrels and assess their impacts on surrounding marine ecosystems.' www.france24.com/en/environme...

World Ocean Day 2025 #Huu-ay-aht nation This is how protection and care can look... #oceanhumanities #worldoceansday #worldoceanday #oceanjustice #multibeing

In city after city, police are the single biggest budget item. And I don’t mean like 2% when everything else is 1%. I mean like 40%. Police take priority over drug treatment, psych care, housing, etc etc etc. And now we are here.