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Miss 6 was reading a kids book about weather and declared she wanted to know everything about weather, so as a joke I handed her my copy of Sturman & Tapper. Review: not enough colour pictures 🤣

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The 2nd Science-Industry Workshop on Severe Convective Storms will be held on 7-8 August 2025! We will bring together scientists and industry professionals working in the severe storm space, to share research, talk data, and address common challenges. Register now at unsw.to/storms!

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Australian scientists, now is your chance to comment on a major restructuring of Australian Research Council's grant schemes. 🧪

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Day 1 of the CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel meeting in Lorne and lots of fascinating talks already. Plus beautiful beach views and the chillest kookaburra I have ever seen.

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1/2 Tomorrow, I'll be talking to Victorian high school girls at Parliament about the future opportunities, challenges and solutions in STEMM 🌏🌦🧬🧪💉🤖👽

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Weather forecasting has gotten much better over time. We underestimate how much weather forecasts have improved how societies run, produce food reliably, and protect themselves from disaster. My article from last year on this topic: ourworldindata.org/weather-fore...

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@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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Our study into why 2022 was so wet in Eastern Australia is now published (open access).This was a combined effort from 19 mostly ECRs to understand the meso, synoptic and planetary scale drivers of this remarkable year. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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I don’t ever want to watch a video please don’t make me watch a video

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#AMS At the Meehl Symposium

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physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

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Its pretty stark just how much warmer 2023 and 2024 were globally than any prior year on record. For more details, see our Berkeley Earth global temperature report here: berkeleyearth.org/gl...

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One problem with having written on a topic for a decade (😮) is that writing an introduction that doesn't just plagiarise your last several introductions feels increasingly challenging 😆

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The accuracy of the forecasts for the extreme heat currently hitting much of Australia has been exceptional. In some areas, the forecast bounced around, but for good reason that @weathermanbarnes.bsky.social and I explained for The Conversation. The reality is weather forecasts are better than ever!

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🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

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Good quotes from @weathermanbarnes.bsky.social and @drjucker.bsky.social. I was shocked to see exact temp numbers in a news article 3 weeks out - please journalists, let the experts (BoM) make the forecast.

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Do you want to know more about how Australia's climate is changing? You can read the recent State of the Climate report, or come to a free AMOS webinar tomorrow afternoon and listen to us talk about it! www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the... events.humanitix.com/state-of-the...

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Hi Fellow Blue Skyers, Appropriately named place for the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society! Hoping the sky is blue for you today! Follow us for the latest news on weather, oceans and climate science from Australia and abroad.

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Markets need information to operate well, in a recent discussion I wondered aloud what would be the result if real estate ads were legislated to do climate disclosures - so I mocked one up.

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A reminder that if you want to find all the latest on climate and weather science from Australian-based researchers, follow my feed.

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The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society is hosting a free webinar next Thursday 5 December from 3-5pm AEDST, offering insights and analysis from report authors and other experts. To attend, register at the website below.

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Now that there are people here I am reposting arguably my greatest contribution to science to date:

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In Australia, PhDs are typically examined based on their thesis alone. I've just been asked to examine a thesis from a country with an oral defence, which is my first time encountering this - does anybody have good guides/advice on asking good questions, or other things to know?

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Are you looking for a conference full of awesome climate science in a beautiful location? AMOS2025 is in Cairns in June 2025 and it's going to be great! Check out our session on all things extreme rain, or any of the other sessions at amos2025.org.au/abstracts/

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For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

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The @science.org.au has released the Decadal Plan for Earth Systems Science, with the peak body called for urgent investment to develop an Australian Institute for Earth Systems Science. Read more about the recommendations in the plan.

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Calling all Australian #climate and #weather scientists/meteorologists, please check out my Oz Climate & Wx Science Feed below to see if you're there, and if you're not, tell me so I can add you!

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one of my Twitter bangers from 2021, reproduced here, with minor editing: I've been collecting "lessons I've learned communicating climate on Twitter" over the last 8 years and finally thought I'd write a 🧵. This is mainly aimed at younger scientists, but others might find it useful.

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There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

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For those interested in following the latest in Australian-based climate science, check out this new feed (which is also now included in my starter pack - pinned to my feed): bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Is there a way to find out what starter packs you (or somebody) is on? It seems like people don't know they've been placed on a starter pack, which is a shame since it means a) they might not see the pack and all the others they'd like to follow, and b) it increases the risk of duplicates.

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New paper by Sebastian Sippel and colleagues provides evidence that the SST component of most current global temperature datasets is too cold during (roughly) 1900-1930. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Check out NOAA’s Sea Level Calculator. This tool combines data from NOAA and NASA to identify significant historical floods in your area and show how often similar events will happen in the future with sea level rise. 🔗 Try it here: coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast...

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🌊 🇦🇶 Australian Antarctic Research Conference is underway in Hobart, Tasmania at UTAS. Opening science talk by Ben Galton Fenzi on the new AAD Australian Antarctic Division outlook for policy makers report that was recently published.

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Around Melbourne Uni this Thursday? Come to our first ever End of Year public colloquium! Enjoy a drink in the sun and hear from the amazing Jas Chambers from Ocean Decade Australia. Tickets are free but seats are limited so register now :)

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Submission deadline for AMOS 2026 in Cairns is approaching fast! Find a session for your science, and if it includes insights into past climate, consider submitting to our session: urgent insights for an uncertain future: climate change and variability in palaeo-records amos2025.org.au/abstracts/

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Ever wondered how we quantify the human influence to extreme weather for individual observed events and for types of events in general? Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’ by @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/qa-the-evolv...

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I made one for stats papers

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Congratulation to CCRC's Zoe Gillett for winning the award for best paper by an early career researcher by the CoE for Climate Extremes 👏 This paper explores the links between large-scale circulation changes to ENSO and weather systems that affect east Australian rainfall. doi.org/10.1029/2023...

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