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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Sep 2

An exciting line up of projects funded by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Scheme: rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Research Management System - Funded Projects - Discovery Indigenous 2026 round 1

RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...

rms.arc.gov.au

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · Sep 1

wonderful look at Melbourne seasons from @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social

"The reason Indigenous calendars work well is because they’re based on evidence – changes in plants and animals, and subtle changes in weather patterns."

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...

Don’t be fooled by Melbourne’s Fool’s Spring

From the ‘Spring of Deception’ to ‘The Swooping’, understanding the cycles of Australian weather can help us all love Melbourne’s eclectic seasons, say University of Melbourne experts.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to this one!

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Apr 24

Recently I chatted with my good friend @lindenashcroft.bsky.social about de-extinction, dire wolves, funding conservation, and why the scientific community should be more supportive of taking risks and chasing the ‘impossible’. You can listen here www.3cr.org.au/lostinscienc...

Dire wolves and dire research funding outlook

On this week's show Stu has a look at the impact of US science funding cuts on the Australian scientific research landscape, and Linden talks to Euan Ritchie about the hoopla around Dire Wolf resurrec...

www.3cr.org.au

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Andrew King (he/him) @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social · Mar 19

In this article @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I look at the latest WMO report on the climate in 2024. In a nutshell- the climate is moving further away from its pre-industrial state because of our greenhouse gas emissions. We need to get to net zero ASAP theconversation.com/flooding-in-...

Flooding in the Sahara, Amazon tributaries drying and warming tipping over 1.5°C – 2024 broke all the wrong records

The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet again. Coincidence? Of course not

theconversation.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · Mar 17

A few years ago a climate science colleague of mine said "When it gets really bad, they will blame us for not telling them how bad it would be."

Today - Alan Kohler made that prophecy come true in one of the most shameful examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

As Trump abandons climate action, we must accept net zero won't happen

While markets and media were chasing Donald Trump’s tariff fiasco last week, something far more important was unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio.

www.abc.net.au

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Mar 11

New semester, new teaching globe! Coming to a Coriolis explanation near you Thanks @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com for doing a clean out of your toy room :)

Woman with brown hair looking at the camera, holding a globe of the Earth

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · Mar 5

‘Meta did not respond to questions…further testing showed Cyclone Alfred was still being hidden on some devices and accounts….’

sources more reliable than f/b:

www.getready.qld.gov.au/find-your-lo...
www.abc.net.au/brisbane
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Facebook blocked Cyclone Alfred searches ahead of landfall and hasn't explained why

Despite hundreds of thousands of accounts talking about Cyclone Alfred on Facebook, social media giant Meta was blocking or hiding search results about the impending storm before being contacted by AB...

www.abc.net.au

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Mar 3

Very excited about our first school-wide seminar tomorrow! A/Prof Sune Rasmussen from Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute joins PhD students Yanxuan Du and Calla Gould-Whalley to explore dramatic climate changes in our Earth's history events.unimelb.edu.au/science/even...

Past abrupt climate changes – mechanisms and consequences

Please join us for the first monthly seminar from the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The seminar will be in person, with ...

events.unimelb.edu.au

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Mar 1

Climate change primary ingredient for 2024/25 summer’s heat
This is Australia's second hottest summer on record, but it will be one of the coolest in the 21st century
— Uni Melbourne climate scientist Dr @lindenashcroft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@readfearn.bsky.social

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Feb 27

Naww!

Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Feb 4

I agree Ailie - it doesn't sit well with me either. Totally agree it is our job to share what we're privileged to study, but it sometimes feel like taking the p!$s. Particularly when researchers are asked to write a piece with a pre-determined narrative...

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · Jan 30

Ongoing bushfires in VIC's Grampians National Park.

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 30

Damn straight!

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 30

Great opportunity to do a Masters at one of Australia's best weather and climate research centres!

Martin Jucker @drjucker.bsky.social · Jan 30

we’re looking for master’s students to work with is at UNSW 👇 if you’re interested, be quick!

UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · Jan 30

@climateandweather.bsky.social at CCRC is looking for domestic master’s students for 2025. If you’d like to learn about climate and weather, and work together with NSW government agencies to make NSW a safer place to live and work, apply at www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Jan 29

LA is in a high fire risk region & fire weather conditions are complex. So we @wwattribution.bsky.social looked at many lines of evidence. All show: our burning of fossil fuels increased the likelihood of such extreme fire weather conditions www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 29

Ooh, and this one: "It is essential to highlight ways for scientists to effectively engage in science communication that maintains scientific credibility and trust in science and allows scientists to fulfil their roles as both scientists and citizens"

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 29

And this quote "...it is pointless to try to separate the citizen from the scientist or to impose silence to create false credibility based on unattainable and undesirable neutrality"

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 29

I particularly like the distinction between neutral science:
"science free from values,” compared to objective science: “science free from personal biases of scientists”

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 29

I used to think science was completely objective, free from human values and biases.

Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day!

So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism - npj Climate Action

We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free scien...

www.nature.com

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 28

Always learn so much when the wonderful @kelamb.bsky.social and I catch up. Good luck to anyone listening in though - we're mums who work part time, you know we only speak double speed 🏎️🏎️

Karen Lamb @kelamb.bsky.social · Jan 28

Off to meet the excellent @lindenashcroft.bsky.social to chat all things communication! #scicomm

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 28

The lines show the CO2 increases in the past, the star shows the @metoffice.bsky.social CO2 prediction for this year at the Moana Loa observatory, the pink shows where we need to be to stay under 1.5C of global warming. We've got a lot of work to do

A man pointing to a graph on a screen. There's a pink band going down, a black line going up and down, moving outside the pink band as the graph goes to the right

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Jan 28

Fascinating to hear from @richardabetts.bsky.social this morning on predicting CO2 emissions for the coming year as well as truly defining current global warming levels.

So much work to hone in on one number!

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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hi, thanks for coordinating this Flora! Can you please add me? 2019-20 cohort ✨

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