James Bennett

This is so great! 🙏

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

Congrats! And thanks 🙏

Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Australia Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) profoundly affects Australian weather, climate, ecosystems and socio-economic sectors. This Review presents...

🚨New paper
CCRC scientist Andrea Taschetto and team have published a comprehensive review of ENSO impacts in Australia in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com. This is an important and long-overdue synthesis, building on foundational studies such as McBride & Nicholls (1983). ++

ICLR = I Can Locate Reviewer: How an API Bug Turned Blind Review into a Data Apocalypse On the night of November 27, 2025, computer-science Twitter, Rednote, Xiaohongshu, Reddit and WeChat group lit up with the same five words: “ICLR can open t...

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Simpsons jokes will outlive the pyramids

Indonesia floods death toll passes 500 Another 500 people are missing, while thousands more have been injured after a cyclone hit the region.

Sumatra death toll past 500 now www.bbc.com/news/article...

Snowfall at Perisher, NSW on 1 December 2025.

Australian rainfall deciles during spring 2025 from BOM.

Observed AAO from CDAS.

Summer begins with negative AAO/SAM continuing (warmth/high pressure over Antarctica pushing sub-Antarctic westerlies further north than usual). The bushfire risk across parts of eastern Australia increases with every burst of westerlies.

Is it possible that ‘most of the world’ does not actually hate LLMs? Most normies I know (ie not software people or artists) love them.

Congrats Richard!

So, your forecasts are sharp and reliable, but are they valuable? Our new EMS paper on RUVPY is out - reference implementation of RUV. Honest assessment needs to be tailored to the specific decision. RUV is general enough to model almost any context. Go forth and tinker. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

A @davidsligar.bsky.social classic

This rules

This is so great

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‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm One expert says he is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’

‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
- by @readfearn.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at the CSIRO Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s national scientific agency is expected to cut up to 350 more research roles from next year as it looks for savings and new sources of funding to plug budgetary shortfalls. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) held its town hall on Tuesday afternoon where the agency’s leaders outlined the troubled times ahead. Continue reading...

‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at the CSIRO

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A powerful Owlet stretching its magnificent wings.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

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We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies).

Read the highlights in a short article:
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...

HEPEX through the Alabama Water Institute Podcast Series In March 2025, the Alabama Water Institute (AWI) and CIROH hosted the 20th anniversary of HEPEX, a milestone event that brought together scientists, practitioners and decision-makers from around th…

🚨New blog post🚨
Everyone needs more #HEPEX podcast content, including you 🫵

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More youth coded than working class coded imo

Eastern Australia has gone from dry, stable westerlies in mid-October to something a little more showery for the start of November. Here's how the broad-scale pattern has evolved. Note that negative AAO/SAM (reds over Antarctica) hasn't quite dissipated yet.

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I will be helping give a webinar on the climate and hazard work underpinning the Australian National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA), Monday 20 Oct - please register! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b1585f...

Low pressure system sweeping along the NSW coastline on Thursday morning.

The coming and going of air masses and jet streams over Australia and New Zealand during winter 2025.

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The Guardian on our study published today:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Antarctic origins of the air mass arriving over south east Australia.

This, but unironically

given one of the few good uses for LLMs is coding assistance maybe tech council members should immediately open source all their code under a permissive license. to do otherwise would risk harming investment in the AI industry in Australia, imo