The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon

Last chance to register for free online attendance at the #AusYCSEC Young Coastal Scientists & Engineers Conference!

Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

BoM Research Report 116 on the Climate Hazard Information developed for use in (the National) Climate Risk Assessment.
[All the science behind the data and projections used in the NCRA]

www.bom.gov.au/research/pub...

Our article on the things that keep climate risk folks awake at night from Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment. May explain my insomnia.
….with @tasvo.bsky.social & Prof. Lucas Walsh @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

Going to use this thread to collect and pull out some key parts of Australia's National Climate Risk Assessment, that was published this morning.
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

The National Climate Risk Report - my life for two years - has just been released.
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...
Minister Bowen press conference at: www.youtube.com/live/GLvd_fu...
My specific report on the weather and climate hazards: climateservice.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest...

"Perth had its wettest winter in 30 years. Why aren't its dams full?" An insightful and alarming news article by the ABC:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

Humans: sometimes bad, sometimes good, capable of great. Me, in today’s @theguardian.com Long Read
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Article based on our research paper that started as conversations between BoM and NOAA. Hat tip to Michelle L’Heureaux (NOAA) for her leadership
Article: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Paper: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Congrats to Greeshma Surendran who's first PhD paper was just published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The work shows that atmospheric environmental factors linked to extreme wind gusts are different to those that link to strong wind gusts. 🧪

Amazing article on some of our vulnerable coastal towns. In, of all places, realestate.com.au.

www.realestate.com.au/news/sydney-...

Congratulations @adele-morrison.bsky.social !!! Awarded the IAPSO ECR Medal in Busan today!! Amazing accolade for an exceptional scientist and all-round great person.

The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]

New paper by my Qld colleagues using regional climate modelling to look at rainfall extremes in Australia 🇦🇺 under future climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I also have a rant about this. I enjoyed the movie but that premise + the hybruds us the stupidest part. Dinosaurs are amazing! People still go out of their way to see whales and elephants and kangaroos! Nobody is ever getting bored of seeing Actual Dinosaurs.

Our article with @ailiegallant.bsky.social and Pallavi Goswami on the southern Australian drought - and why it’s not over - just published in @theconversation.com
Cover pic of the Green Drought by me from the SA/Vic border…

theconversation.com/the-drought-...

#AMOS2025 phd student award goes to Dr Jordan Brook at UQ for developing new methods to predict hail in Australia- now working at the BOM.

@drkimclimate.bsky.social is a star of Australian climate communication (and of research too!)

Is anybody else finding @ametsoc.org journals to be quite slow at the moment? I submitted a paper in January, and its status in the system hasn't been updated since mid-April; I contacted the journal 2 weeks ago but got no response. Is AMS badly affected by *gestures at everything*?