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Agriculture science engineering soil water mycology cybernetics !Canberra Australia! He/Him
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Dryness = 1 is the "King" to determine if ecosystem respiration is sensitive or insensitive to temperature,

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Tropical Cyclone Alfred will pass over this tongue of warm water in the East Australian Current (EAC) as it approaches QLD's southeast coast. This may help it gain strength prior to landfall, with current forecasts suggesting landfall as a high-end cat 2 system. 📷: IMOS

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"Almost forty per cent of federal government agencies duty-bound to produce an AI transparency statement have missed the February filing deadline, in a blow to Canberra’s efforts to build public trust in its use of the technology." www.innovationaus.com/dozens-of-ag...

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"In other words, for every dollar lost in slightly increased travel times, the report estimates New Zealand gains between NZ$2 and $10 in reduced crash costs" Lol great article on the complete lack of any benefit (and therefore sense) to raising speeds. theconversation.com/false-econom...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

submitted 51 days ago • 124 comments

*I blame the Middle Ages in science fiction “Globalized culture,” Roy expounds, “is by definition a kitsch culture”:...the Middle Ages in science fiction, and on scraps of places, period and historical figures that are all … unmoored" www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

How Germany generated its electricity in 2024 🇩🇪🔌↩️ 💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨 💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨 💨💨🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤 🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟤🟠🟠 🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠 🟠🟠🟠☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🌽🌽 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 🇪🇺💦💦💦💦🗑️🗑️🗑️🟢🛢️ 💨 Onshore wind 🟤 Lignite 🟠 Natural gas ☀️ Solar PV 🌽 Biomass 🌊 Offshore wind ⚫ Hard coal 🇪🇺 Net imports 💦 Hydro 🗑️ Other 🟢 Bio waste 🛢️ Oil

submitted 90 days ago • 63 comments

"People seem to be grappling with a more fundamental question: Does posting add more to my life than it extracts? In this iteration of the internet, in this ideological climate, with these platform-specific incentives — is social media 'worth' it?" annehelen.substack.com/p/posting-less

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Buried paleosols hold a LOT of #Carbon. What happens when they are exposed? McMurtry et al. show “paleosols defy expectations of C content and reactivity” Getting to the root of the problem: Soil carbon and microbial response... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t stop thinking of commonalities between Trumpian politics and The Artifical Kid by @bruces.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Good news for once! We’ve found a 300-year-old coral that’s so big it’s visible from space. It’s now considered the world’s largest. Best of all: it’s not yet harmed by climate change & global warming. It’s being called a beacon of hope. Let it also be a call to action! #DoSomething 🧵

submitted 123 days ago • 65 comments

Ascii flame #digitalart #indiedev #retro

submitted 145 days ago • 36 comments

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." - Glamorizes hustle culture - Speciest - Was taught to you in elementary school "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." - Metal as fuck - Implies that you are a wizard - No one will know you are testing out a font

submitted 154 days ago • 156 comments

William Gibson (abridged)

submitted 156 days ago • 55 comments

The space agencies have posted this Webb image today. This is SN H0pe, a lensed supernova that confirms Hubble tension. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2024/10... 🔭 🧪

submitted 168 days ago • 2 comments

Oh man... "Regularly ‘reboot the room’." I think I might know who wrote that 😂 Great guide: covidaction.nz/en/improving...

submitted 203 days ago • 2 comments

Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977

submitted 204 days ago • 35 comments

So much Hello World on Bluesky at the moment. Welcome!!

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