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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 11h

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 14h

Just saw this tree. It’s a big one, a plane tree. Hate the things (hayfever), but hope it didn’t hurt anyone on the way down.

Live NSW Traffic @livenswtraffic.bsky.social · Aug 4

Surry Hills: HAZARD Fallen tree. Roads affected: Cleveland Street just past Bourke Street. Affected directions: Eastbound

Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 16h

#FreePalestine rally on Gadigal land. Frogs against genocide, fascism, and the colonial project.

A person in a crowd wearing a green hat with frog ears holds a handmade sign that says Free Palestine.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 20h

Another layer to the frog

ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 3d

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of 躺平culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 3d

Palestine Action Group's Rally
Nationwide March for Palestine
Sunday 12 October 1pm
Hyde Park North, Sydney
Note: The court has ruled against a march to the Sydney Opera House, so the march will be through the city along George St to Belmore Park. #auspol
#FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

The ultimate offset

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

“If education is not funded so that it matters — how else are students to respond?”

Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 2d

EVERYONE READ THIS RN overland.org.au/2025/10/ai-c...

AI “cheating”, anti-intellectualism and the carceral - Overland literary journal

Using GenAI is not a morally neutral act. And yet, from a criminological perspective I feel uneasy at how we understand its transgressiveness. After all, moral transgression, fault and blame are compl...

overland.org.au

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 1d

✨ Please consider joining the 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 & 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩’s upcoming discussion of Shalanda Baker's book 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳: 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2021) online on 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 24𝐭𝐡 at 14:00 CET. ✨

#energysystems #energiewende #energytransition

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned we don’t count international flights

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

Guess so. Might look and see the breakdowns of mode

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that they’ve not gone straight back up to the original point.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You can vote once a day - I’m switching to the black cockatoo about to go extinct due to an expansion of a bauxite mine

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 3d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

Ouch

Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

Ha!

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations

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International Association for People-Environment Studies @iaps-association.bsky.social · 3d

📢 Call for Abstracts: 2026 Sustainability Psychology Preconference, Feb 26, 2026, Chicago, IL.

This year’s theme: "Integrating Science, Community, and Policy for Sustainable Change."

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 23, 2025
Submit here ➡️ spsp.org/events/annua...

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s book pile brought to you by Healey, Jacobs, Winograd & Flores, Nussbaum, Menzies, and MacFarlane. I am loving this research life.

Book spines for Collaborative planning by Healey, Jane Jacobs famous book on the death and life of American cities, a blue spine of Winograd and Flores Understanding Computers and Cognition’. A brown and upside down volume of Martha Nussbaum’a tome on the social contract, then a small edition of Pam Menzies’ social history of Port Kembla and the glossary of landscapes from Robert MacFarlane.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I dunno, maybe if I was creating a government document I might hide the fact I’d used ChatGPT to find the information.

Screenshot of a page from the Explanation of Intended Effect document from the Port Kembla Land Transformation project. There is a paragraph of text relating to “Local Contributions” and then a URL at the end where they’ve not taken off the UTM source, in this case ChatGPT.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

Never wanted to go to Portland more than now

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the reposting!

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"Grave" Robert TOMBshany @robtomshany.bsky.social · 4d

Igor Stravinsky could have heard all the original Beatles albums. And he DID hear Charlie Parker live in a club once; Parker acknowledged his presence by quoting a melody from the Firebird (in some tellings, the Rite of Spring), causing Stravinsky to pound his table in laughter, spilling his drink.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 4d

The seemingly deliberate misuse of the term “astroturfing” is one thing I noticed, as was the amount of submissions from the Illawarra (having just gone through the offshore wind process), and the lack of media organisation submissions (only 2 that I could see)

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