This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
Why does this feel like a line of dialogue in a Big Short-esque retelling of these events 20 years from now
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
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If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column
Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If your funding agency mandates OA publication (fair enough), but grant amounts go down or stay static while overheads go up, there's no way even medium size grants can justify this cost. What ECR these days can afford this costs? Yet funders & institutes want high impact work, high impact papers.
Sorry to be dejected on main but man it is really a time of disappointment in people hey!
So many people with whom I thought I shared a worldview and felt camaraderie with, and I was totally wrong, they just don't really share that worldview.
Yeah, every single one of these. And I thought the bar was pretty low...
Reminder that while #CancelChatGPT is great and all, don't think for a second the competition is any better
Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.
Okay, so, where should I start? We've got European colonisation, federation, the White Australia policy, the modern information environment, the role of resource extraction, the UK and US, multinational capitalism, the Whitlam dismissal, the Third Way 90s, the Accords, geography...
Normal people: "Why are we wasting all these resources for this slop?"
Google: "Drain that lake, we need to Guarrmocation scrretary development"
Yeah, it's long been a problem that once you leave somewhere you immediately lose IT access. Would be nice to have such a solution, but often they don't really care - you're gone and no longer their problem.
Food for thought to those out there using/paying for these services.
Don't know tbh. When I first started here as a postdoc I sent a few things via my gmail and was told quite clearly that that wasn't OK. Guess it's one of those things they don't make much effort in enforcing.
That definitely would not fly here, given our data security requirements.
I just don't get it. I feel like I'm losing my mind watching so many others around me embrace this crap.
Quite literally the official chatbot of the war in Iran
Useless
One I stumbled across the other day from a colleague of mine back at UNSW; CounterCurrent AI - uses machine learning and forecasting to make shipping more efficient (no idea re: the effectiveness, from what I understand they haven't been around long, but a neat idea).
🌊 New paper in @natclimate.nature.com: 'Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming', by @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
"Marine-based sectors in East Antarctica, representing ~5 m of potential sea-level rise, are at risk of losing stability at 2–5 °C."
▶️ rdcu.be/e5bQS
I'm starting to find that papers mis-cite my own papers in really, really perplexing ways. It's quite obvious why if you just go to that one hyped up tool and ask it about your own work...
ChatGPT got my supervisor's name right but changed me to be a "William" (lol) and gave the wrong number
Great timing. John Oliver says the same thing over half an hour:
Reason #29407 to stop legitimising X....
The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.
Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.
ICYMI,
THIS is a great example of why supporting independent journalism is so crucial.
Mainstream media is on a unity ticket in enabling - or at the very best, failing to question - authoritarian creep*.
[*like Minns and Albanese] #nswpol #auspol
