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Just to be clear, this is more than €500M being sucked out of the research ecosystem every year by this one publisher, representing a huge profit margin of almost 30% that is so high because journals are effectively unregulated monopolies.🧪 (annualreport.springernature.com/2024/)

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The 2025 report by the UK Climate Change Committee is out: "Climate change is here, now. Until the world reaches Net Zero CO2 emissions, with deep reductions in other greenhouse gases, global temperatures will continue to rise." ➡️ There is #NoEscapeRoom www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

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This. I don't get the UK Gov's obsession with journal Open Access. So long as any paper describing public-funded research is freely available to everyone through some (no-cost) means -- arXiv, institutional repository, etc -- why do we need to throw £1000s per paper at publishers as well?

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Another great colleague who got her visa too late to travel to #EAS2025 😭

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🫣 People who show embarrassment are judged to be more trustworthy and sociable. tcnv.link/kSmtxeh

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🧪"The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage...the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound. These burdens disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender." dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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" 84% of world’s reefs have been hit by bleaching since January 1, 2023. This is the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and it surpasses the record set by the previous one, which lasted from 2014-2017 and affected two thirds of the ocean’s reefs." www.scientificamerican.com/article/wors...

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okay as scary as these sound, can everybody please understand that these people have absolutely no privileged knowledge, and - especially in the case of someone like Sal Khan - they often are just management consultants that go from meeting to meeting saying "okay great" and nothing else

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#ArXiv is a rebel movement gone mainstream. -- Licia Verde at #EAS2025, from her speech accepting Jocelyn Bell Burnell Inspiration Medal from the European Astronomical Society on behalf of ArXiv #OpenScience

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ARC says Linkage Projects (LP24r2) will fiiiinally be announced tomorrow (25th June). Announcements tend to happen around 11am AEST, but it varies.

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the solar system data from Rubin is going to be amazing. I really hope I and a lot of other planetary scientists still have jobs when it really starts coming down from the main survey. Contact your elected officials to support the NSF and NASA and reject the current administration's budget requests!

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The Vera C Rubin Observatory is a groundbreaking project that released its first images today…I will be dedicating this whole week to talking about its first discoveries and what makes this telescope so incredible because y’all my mind is already blown 🤯🤩🧪🔭 📸: NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory

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WHAT

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I just got an email saying the embargo is lifted, so here's the full @vrubinobs.bsky.social press release: noirlab.edu/public/news/...

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Not a fan of the American dude saying that some projects are too big to be undertaking by anyone except the US when Rubin has come to life because of SO MANY scientists from ALL OVER the world, even when those that worked in the US Get your US imperialism out of our science @vrubinobs.bsky.social

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A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

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24 hours later the government has backed the US attack on Iran but clearly it remains uncomfortable doing so, but not as uncomfortable in years gone by.

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Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

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I’m in a different time zone but feel the need to reiterate, as if anyone should have to, that the ABC of all places does not need to, indeed shouldn’t, platform the former Prime Minister and lobbyist Scott Morrison am I going fucking insane (accidentally posted this on X lol)

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Autonomous. Vehicles. Are not. Ready. For. Public. Roads. road.cc/content/news...

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I still hear people excusing the behaviour of Albanese & Wong with versions of "they don't have a choice - it's the job, etc." They really do have a choice. They could, at any moment, live up to the principles they espouse, and the worst that would happen is they might make a bit less money.

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It was a huge amount of fun talking about sci-fi depictions of AI from disembodied systems like Hal or Skynet to more personable instantiations like Data, the role of gender in AI, and the more positive stories we have yet to tell that could shape how we think of AI. www.youtube.com/watc...

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"I can't answer questions about decisions I didn't make." Read more: chaser.com.au/national/alb...

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Delighted to be back in Vasto for the 2nd accretion meeting, at the beautiful Palazzo d'Avalos. Looking forward to a wonderful week of science and fun

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Dark Emu in full flight, winter solstice night. The dark Coal Sack nebula under the Southern Cross forms the emu's head. The glowing area at the emu's feet (near the tree) marks the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. A beautiful treasure in our sky. June 21st 2025 #astrophotography

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Labor is completely captured by gas interests. Against warnings from scientists and even their own ministers, they waved through fracking the Beetaloo for a foreign company. 🇦🇺 deserves enviro laws that work-and a govt with the backbone to enforce them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tuvalu is on the frontline of climate change and rising sea levels - a nation that will be outlived by Australia’s fossil fuel industry. The only way to “adapt” to climate change is to leave. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Happy solstice everyone, and may you know that the tilt of the Earth and not the distance from the Sun is the reason for the seasons.

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If you read Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities, you'll be struck by the importance of manufacturing jobs in giving life to a city in the mid-20th century. We don't really make stuff in cities of the global north the same way anymore, but we haven't adjusted our mindsets.

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Check out my colleague Prof. James Chibueze's very cool contribution in Nature Astronomy for #BlackSpaceWeek 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Day 4 at #NIC18 & we are at last ready to discuss #NeutronStar equations of state! Anthea Fantina from GANIL reviews the latest advances on this field linking #NuclearTheory and #Astrophysics!

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Just remember, when you see arguments lamenting the ‘cost of the transition’ that cite apparently eye watering figures, that we continue to spend even more each year on the continued expansion of fossil fuel production.

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Obviously I have skin in this game- being an Australian govt-funded Antarctic scientist and all - but this rolling short-term funding model threatens a world leading concentration of experts at a time when Antarctica is changing faster than govt policy…

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The Marie Curie Lecture tour by @aip.org.au is happening late July & August! The lecturers for 2025 are Dr Sol Jacobsen & Dr Danielle Holmes. Check out the dates in major cities below and register for a ticket! All welcome to these public events. www.aip.org.au/Women-in-Phy...

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It’s past time for Australia’s universities to stop greenwashing companies like Woodside. @roycerk2.bsky.social recent report, published in Drilled and Crikey, reinforces Australia Institute research highlighting the crisis of integrity in the governance of Australia’s universities.

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When science is transparent and data-driven, public trust grows and evidence-based decisions become the norm. Read our full submission on this important topic: science.org.au/dataact2022

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Federal education minister refers concerns about ANU to regulator: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-20/anu-concerns-referred-tertiary-education-regulator/105441544

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NTEU calls out Deakin for pushing staff into junior pay rates despite years – and in some cases decades – of experience. NTEU Victorian Division's Sarah Roberts: “These casual academics are now being forced onto lower pay rates with dangerous workloads.” www.nteu.au/branch/VIC/D... #HigherEd

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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If you have "an overbearing leadership style", "a dislike of awkward questioning" and "contempt towards people who offer criticism" then you too can be a University leader. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A city-sized sphere of neutrons with the mass of a star is doing weird stuff while plowing through the gas floating around the galaxy. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-pulsar-p... This article is for paid subscribers, who literally make it possible for me to buy food and stay alive. 🔭 🧪

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NASA creates many technologies, but occasionally it gets credit for something it only popularizes. Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral was born #OTD in 1907. He got the idea for ✨Velcro✨ in 1941, after seeing prickly seeds stick to his dog’s fur during a walk in the Alps. 🧪

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Yesterday I gave my "Pride in Physics" lecture at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics. This was my personal story of my academic career and how my journey in understanding myself and transitioning is intertwined with it.

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New NICER pulsar mass-radius-magnetic pole geometry results this morning! For our 5th source, PSR J0614-3329! #highenergyastro 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2506.14883

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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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