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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 3h

A destructive strategy on sooo many levels 🤦‍♀️

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remark

www.theguardian.com

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 5h

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas

phys.org/news/2025-10... via @physorg_com

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas. The chance of large-scal...

phys.org

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 5h

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 21h

It has cost $1.138 million and counting for the independent lawyer the NACC has had to hire to fix the mess their Commissioner made of the Robodebt inquiry

Compromised decision making costs public money and trust.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 5h

The Greens are on fire in Senate Estimates being the real opposition-why is this not news?

Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 5h

Consultancy firm charging $440k for an AI generated report with huge errors? Ethical, apparently.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 6h

Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 9h

I now allocate a tutorial to critical ai literacy, in the weeks before a major essay is due. Most students know the slop is slop, and quickly learn it is planet-boiling slop. If unis can not educate students about ai what the fuck is the point is my view.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 9h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 9h

Here endith the sermon.
Have a lovely day and cherish a young person 🤗

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 9h

The way around use of AI in education is staffing. If educators work closely with students they will know the skills of the student and whether they are “artificially enhanced” - but it gets back to what do want the student to demonstrate? Above all is critical thinking.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 9h

Australia is a rich country. Here’s an idea - tax wealth & corporations properly. Then fund education K-U properly. Value the educators, & value the students. Make 4-21y a time of enrichment, of cherishing, of meeting the potential of each young citizen. Invest in the future & magic will happen 3/

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 9h

Education has become a sausage machine, we don’t value educators and we don’t value students. We value the cost to get people through the “System” with as little contact with real humans as possible.2/

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 9h

Fundamental questions needed to be asked by universities: what do need to teach students? What skills do we hope they achieve with their studies. How can we get them to demonstrate these skills that we can accredit them degrees. It requires imagination in our AI world but alas imagination is lacking

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 9h

Each day the upper management of different unis seemingly find new ways to disappoint those of us working at universities. I love what I do, it breaks my heart what's been allowed to happen to unis in recent decades. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Robodebt for university academic integrity? WT!

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 19h

Hmm experts - damn autocorrect 😳😂

Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Evidence based decision making if for wooses. One should embrace the Aussie ethos of sports gambling and gamble of the State’s future.

Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Evidenced based decision making? Listening to excerpts - phftt! - who needs that🤷🏻‍♀️

Government on a feel and a wish

Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 1d

Today the Tas Govt officially binned the Planning Commission’s damning report into the proposed Mac Pt AFL stadium. But if the knuckleheads actually knew anything about ‘future prosperity’, they’d be focussed instead on essential infrastructure and services #auspol #politas

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 1d

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 1d

👇🏽Corporation profit, communities cover the externalise costs. It’s BS economics

A disaster levy is the least we could do.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

theaus.in

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

theaus.in

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New @oceaniceeu.bsky.social preprint🚨 why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass, in spite of increased discharge?
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.

Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

Screenshot of figures from the paper: Above a graph showing wiggly lines depicting the cumulative mass budget of Antarctica: a dark line swoops and wiggles downwards before stabilising at the end, colourful dashed lines (depicting snow fall) wiggle along constantly before sloping upwards at the same tme stabilisation occurs.
Below 6 maps of Antarctica in blues and red depicting the mass change in different basins.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 2d

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Chery (Great Australian Pods) @cheryanne.bsky.social · 2d

Great Australian Pods front page showing recently added podcasts including work from: @noiseatunsw.com @craigafoster.bsky.social

Supported by lenny.fm

www.greataustralianpods.com

#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia

Screenshot showing the 12 most recent podcasts listed on Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 2d

pov “Atlantic current at risk of collapse”- true- a potential is a risk
“plunging UK into “ even more… shit weather - true
tho’ “most of UK” would be better
“never-ending winter”- not true
But if you replaced “never-ending” with frozen/ icy
/Arctic it would accurate, better with uncertainty.

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 2d

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