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Professor Euan Ritchie

@euanritchie.bsky.social

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Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him. Research: https://euanritchie.org/ The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Karate, Basketball, Carlton FC 🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Nov 12

Ok, here’s my starter pack! go.bsky.app/4ASwaLv
Non-exhaustive list!

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1h

Yep, I'm sick and tired of ignorance being an ok reason to hammer weather forecasters, it's a so unfair.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2h

Funnily enough, Ali didn't address those issues to give context to her segment. Really, really poor.

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 2h

It’s all part of #TheirABC propaganda. Of course Ali mentioned they were decimated of expertise during #Morrison #government and that the #ClimateCatastrophe has changed weather patterns so their old models no longer work. #auspol we need to monitor our weather more than ever. #auspol

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly, but you wouldn't have known it the way Ali's segment was packaged, terrible stuff.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2h

What a disgrace @senatorwong.bsky.social is. This country is so utterly cooked.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 7h

if only @senatorwong.bsky.social had any shred of credibility left after 24 months of 'grave concern' over the livestreamed genocide of Palestinians

meanwhile, PM @albomp.bsky.social👇

Image of Labor PM Albanese (left) & Liberal opposition leader, Dutton (right) wearing jackets emblazoned with donor logos

Text reads: "We'd like to thank our sponsors..."

Albanese's red jacket features: Australian Hotels Association, Responsible Wagering Australia (RWA), TAB, Westpac, Santos, Pratt Industries, Uber, nab, Sportsbet, Woolworths

Dutton's black jacket features: Woolworths, Responsible Wagering Association (RWA), Clive Palmer, Uber, nab, Citileases, Santos, Westpac, Australian Hotels Association, TAB, Sportsbet, Coles, Hancock Prospecting

Source: Greens campaign material

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 7h

if only @senatorwong.bsky.social had any shred of credibility left after 24 months of 'grave concern' over the livestreamed genocide of Palestinians

meanwhile, PM @albomp.bsky.social👇

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2h

Disgraceful letting Ryan Milgate put the boot into the BOM without Ali Moore on 774 ABC stating how many times they DO get it right. It's an incredibly complex task to predict the weather, especially rainfall, reliably. A little more homework and respect wouldn't go astray, Ali.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 5h

Yep, he can reside in the bilge where he belongs.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7h

Yet another reason to admire Jane Goodall. I wish more leaders with platforms would speak truth out loud.

Please fire the many horrible men (Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch, Netanyahu, Xi, Jong-Un, al-Assad, Duterte, Bezos, Zuckerberg...) destroying Earth and humanity into outer space.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship In a lifetime studying the behavior of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall became something of an authority on the aggressiveness of alpha male adults. Now, in an interview released just days after her death, the famed primatologist reveals what she would do with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other human beings she saw as showing similar traits: launch them on a one-way trip into space. The insight into Goodall’s thinking comes in the Netflix documentary Famous Last Words, recorded in March and kept under wraps until her death last week at the age of 91. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7h

I second this motion.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you everyone

❤️ 🙏🏽 ❤️

#Gunnawah

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 8h

Will upper management of these universities be fully accountable? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

www.abc.net.au

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

This was an amazing, powerful and sobering meeting. Proud to have been a part of it. www.facebook.com/share/r/1DVi...

Residents of the North, and the North's ecosystems and wildlife, are being sacrificed for corporate fossil fuel profits.

Redirecting...

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

It's #TeamPelican all the way, right @grogsgamut.bsky.social @coorongdan.bsky.social?

Like, there's literally no other sensible choice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

They're very good, just not great, that's reserved for #TeamPelican

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Me too, but let's be honest, we love #TeamPelican more.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

An excellent second choice

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

It's #TeamPelican all the way, right @grogsgamut.bsky.social @coorongdan.bsky.social?

Like, there's literally no other sensible choice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Wild how up to its 👁️balls Scitech is in fossil fuel & mining sponsorships

Alcoa Foundation Digital Technologies Enrichment
Chevron: Lighthouse Maths
Mitsui Future Computing Program
Rio Tinto Innovation Central
Rio Tinto: DIY Science Kits
Woodside: STEM Club;Karratha Integrated Digital Technologies

Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 3d

Scitech (WA Science Museum) is sponsored by a few fossil fuel companies. Including Woodside who provide "free" access to STEM club for kids.

Free = access to educational opportunities in exchange for promoting Woodside. The cost to students is the loss of a liveable planet.

Good deal kids?

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 4d

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved." - Dr Jane Goodall

Our tribute to Jane's incredible career and profound legacy 👇

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 6d

A solemn day as we pay our respects to Dr Jane Goodall and her extraordinary legacy. Vale, Jane, we promise to keep fighting for all that you loved and fought for too!

theconversation.com/only-if-we-h... With @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social, Marissa Parrott, @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social & Zara Bending.

‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution

Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.

theconversation.com

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 1d

What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits?

A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state.

But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

"some of the most effective undermining of environmental science has come from business leaders who say that their company is working alongside scientists [..] to solve climate problems
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PR consultants will create [..] sponsorships for their clients that make them look good"

👀 at you, Scitech👀

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but @albomp.bsky.social's 'Special Envoy' would not approve www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Over half of Australians support sanctions on Israel and its leaders for ongoing attacks on Gaza, poll shows

Survey finds 57% of respondents agreed government should impose similar sanctions on Israel as those against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

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