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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · 5d

Gee Matt you're sounding a little rambly there... 😜

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · 27d

Absolutely robbed. Apparently headbutting is cool and normal if you're Reece Walsh.

Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 27d

Canberra were robbed!!!

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 27d

Broncos edge past Raiders with golden point field goal in thrilling NRL qualifying final

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · Sep 11

On the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I am posting the cartoon which was my response to the chest-beating nationalistic rhetoric immediately used by George W Bush to stir up support for a military response. The editor at the time would not publish it.

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excellent use of Baywatch material here by Matt Osman. #ICP15

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 28

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Aug 27

I mean, you can't expect these programs to achieve miracles.

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Aug 10

Absolutely - this was my first reaction too, given the awful things happening in for profit childcare and the fact that this is *meant to be universal, hence public*

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Aug 9

No but I am ok with that!

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Aug 9

Got myself a gift for a blood donation milestone 🩸

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · Aug 7

(real, one-shot :p )

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Aug 6

Should be more of this!

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Aug 6

"Real Zero has one definition.

You commit to phasing out fossil fuels and you do it without relying on offsets, carbon capture and storage, and any other technology that does not exist yet.”

- Dr @shantabarley.bsky.social, Fortescue Chief Climate Scientist

#auspol

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Aug 5

He definitely seems like a halfwit

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 3

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.

(🎥 Doni Nikz)

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · Aug 3

@chriswallace.bsky.social posted this excellent piece on the dead bird place

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Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 Job opportunity 📣
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!

You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Jul 28

Nikolai Ivanovic Lobachevsky was his name, oi!

Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · Jul 27

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Wilton Aguiar @will-ton.bsky.social · Jul 25

We figured out a cheap-ish way to make ocean models create Dense Shelf Waters (DSW) on the surface of the Antarctic continental shelf! How?
Fast answer: Ocean surface cells thinner than 1 m!
Long answer on the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Antarctic Dense Water Formation Sensitivity to Ocean Surface Cell Thickness

The ability of ocean models with depth coordinates to form Antarctic Dense Shelf Water (DSW) depends on their surface vertical resolution Deeper surface cells shift the direction of surface Ekman...

dx.doi.org

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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · Jul 21

new water isotope preprint! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

We used the MAGIC of machine learning (ok, random forests) to predict monthly precipitation stable isotopes over the Australian continent, at monthly resolution from 1962-2023.

Details at the paper; pretty animation below

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Christina Schmidt @christinaocean.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 New paper alert 🚨

We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.

Open access paper in JAMES:

doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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Becca Dzombak @rdzombak.bsky.social · Jun 27

Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored.

The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline

www.nytimes.com

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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's like nobody paid any attention to the debacle of the Higgins mistrial, and are determined to repeat the same own goals they kicked last time.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · Jul 8

Should crown witnesses from a murder trial be giving interviews discussing when they personally decided the accused was guilty, when there remains the possibility of a successful appeal and retrial? We're thinking no, probably not.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · Jul 8

Key climate wild cards like tipping points and abrupt shifts are still missing from many models. A new piece by CCRC’s @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & Steven Sherwood explains why accounting for these uncertainties is essential.

Read the full piece here: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

The climate wild cards still missing from our models

Climate models have been remarkably effective at projecting global warming trends, but they still fail to fully capture some crucial processes that could dramatically accelerate climate change, accord...

www.unsw.edu.au

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · Jul 7

This morning's Sydney Morning Herald is a master class in irresponsible reporting of a murder trial that is not concluded. Icing on the cake is the op-ed by a psychologist musing on the possibility that the defendant is a narcissist.

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