🌊 New paper in @natclimate.nature.com: 'Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming', by @pik-potsdam.bsky.social "Marine-based sectors in East Antarctica, representing ~5 m of potential sea-level rise, are at risk of losing stability at 2–5 °C." ▶️ rdcu.be/e5bQS

I'm starting to find that papers mis-cite my own papers in really, really perplexing ways. It's quite obvious why if you just go to that one hyped up tool and ask it about your own work... ChatGPT got my supervisor's name right but changed me to be a "William" (lol) and gave the wrong number

Reason #29407 to stop legitimising X....

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

ICYMI, THIS is a great example of why supporting independent journalism is so crucial. Mainstream media is on a unity ticket in enabling - or at the very best, failing to question - authoritarian creep*. [*like Minns and Albanese] #nswpol #auspol

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

The vehicular equivalent to a cringy neoliberal half-baked "solution"

Is it bad that my first thought was: "How did the rainbow colour palette get published in nature in 2026?"

This is completely correct other than the infrastructure not existing. I think people need to realize WHY this is happening is because, for example, NVIDIA sells GB200 NVL72s (racks of 72 GPUs) with *17TB of RAM* and likely over 500TB of storage.

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring. "Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening." @noc.ac.uk youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

Superb by @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Life comes at you fast

Keep your eyes on the ball. An ineffective opposition means Labor can get away with such brazen climate vandalism.

R.I.P Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social “If I did a sequel it would probably involve a scientist swearing a great deal” allouryesterdays.info/2025/04/28/i... @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

OpenAI crashing *this* year?! Don't make me hope...

A study at U Mass Amherst finds that Elon Musk manipulated Twitter to bolster the voice of the Neo Nazi Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) before the German 2025 parliamentary elections. No surprises here. groups.cs.umass.edu/equate-ml/20...

Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date! Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4 ❄️

If you still support fossil fuels, bioenergy fuels, nuclear, carbon capture, or bioenergy fuels, you are on the wrong side of science and history.

About 80% of 🇦🇺's contribution to global emissions comes from 🇦🇺's MASSIVE Coal & Gas exports "the September quarter in 2025 saw Australia’s highest volume of thermal coal exports: EVER" Coal Australia spent nearly $4M at the last election & there're 42 NEW coal mining projects in the pipeline 🤯

I still stand by this quote from @carlbergstrom.com "Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth doing by the scientist."

Just out today: The report “A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping” reviews the current state of science on the risk of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) shutdown. 🌊 Conclusion: it's "a serious risk which requires a dedicated risk management framework". pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

There's a new paper assessing an LLM paper-synthesis tool. I give you one of the most hilarious caveats I've ever seen in a paper: "...annotators may have focused more on the overall quality of writing instead of carefully evaluating factual correctness or citation accuracy. "

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The climate crisis could trigger a global financial crash as temperatures rise beyond 2C" Where's mister '15 degrees would be a small GDP hit' these days?

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Let’s save the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the prime climate research lab in the US. ✊

How should climate science and policy respond to a potential exceedance of 1.5°C? We provide our perspective on this in a new @Nature comment 🔗 nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00247-y led by Gaurav Ganti with Sabine Fuss, @joerirogelj.bsky.social, @setupelz.bsky.social & Keywan Riahi 1/

If you ever needed another reason to boycott OpenAI, here is hopefully the last one.

Remember, in any issue, the media is always half the problem

While this was blatantly obvious for years now to many, to those in the U.S. still thinking that elections will save you, I think Mark Carney said it best: "Nostalgia is not a strategy".

And it's going to keep getting hotter, and hotter, and hotter...

The anger people have at media institutions and college administrators can’t be detached from this, it’s not just that people can perceive cowardice it’s that they see others with more on the line doing more to stand up for their values than the people who have been trusted to safeguard things

He was threatening invasion of a NATO partner nation, boycotting the world cup should be the bare minimum

"After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts" lol. lmao even.

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

Coalition can’t agree on how to be racially intolerant but not antisemitic, falls apart under the strain

"European countries now reliant on US liquified natural gas shipments, creating risk of higher bills amid recent tensions" We in the climate space have been warning against this for years now. The Adults In The Room all kept insisting we had to switch gas providers for "energy security". Well, look

Wonder what's happening back in Austra... 😐

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free. Israel is an evil nation led by murderers.

And the Australian govt is currently voting for laws that could make make criticising Israel’s genocide illegal.

Okay look - the dunking on this as self-serving etc is all good (really) but I think there is actually a meaningful insight here into why X becoming a child abuse material generator basically had near-zero impact on a huge chunk of the progressive / left base still using it as a comms platform

Australia needs to exit the Five Eyes and AUKUS

Scientist sackings ... 130-150 to go from the 715 Environment scientist pool? @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social in an FOI fight on #CSIRO (No funding issues for #AUKUS !) #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-science-...

That's essentially what their selling point to the electorate has been the last few years "Hey, could be worse. Be thankful for what you get".

Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!

Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.

🌊 Rising tensions over oceans and resources are the next geopolitical battleground. From deep-sea mining and overfishing to Arctic shipping, the way we cooperate (or clash!) will shape the future of our oceans. theconversation.com/global-power...

It was the same in Syria, if memory serves. Environmental degradation as a catalyst for civil disruption, deadly uprisings and war is underreported by the media and underpriced by global leaders.