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BBC World Service - Science In Action, A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference from space.

Science In Action: A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Shameless self-promotion here, but for anyone in Hobart tomorrow looking for a warm dry place to spend their lunch hour, I’m giving a (free!) public talk on Antarctic sea ice loss at TMAG. @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social @antarctic.bsky.social

St. Pete researchers unveil new ocean mapping robot The Center for Mapping and Innovative Technologies has also launched a crowdsourcing initiative.

Wondering what my better half has been up to? Well, wonder no more! stpetecatalyst.com/st-pete-rese...

The #IPCC is now hireing ‘chapter scientists’ to support the author teams for the upcoming IPCC Report.

If you are an early career scientist with strong synthesis and organisational skills, and from a developing country or a country in transition, do check this out!

www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

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and @helen-amanda.bsky.social for the Bowie Lecture "outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and unselfish cooperation in research".

Plenty of other great people in the list too!
www.agu.org/honors
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Some wonderful people and scientists have been recognised by the @agu.org honors program.

These include @climatenerilie.bsky.social on the award of the Cesare Emiliani Lecture "outstanding contributions to paleoclimatology and/or paleoceanography" 1/2

Our quarterly Seasonal Newsletter for Spring has arrived.

Catch up on the latest #Antarctic research, explore our new policy briefing, or watch a video on mapping the Antarctic seafloor 🎥

🔗 Read it now: createsend.com/t/y-B9D206F6...

Long while since have looked at this. The nearest glaciers to Australia, on Puncak Jaya in Indonesian Papua, and all-but gone now, below.

(Cloud-free images are scarce. This from May is the latest really clear one: browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=15&lat=...)

The Mercury reporting today that the Labor president would follow convention and vote No if the vote is balanced.

📙🐧✨ Image from Penguin Books' newsletter for the release date of “The Penguin Book of Penguins” (September 18, 2025)
@ptfretwell.bsky.social
@lisaefretwell.bsky.social
#PenguinBooksUK

Breaking the ice: why study Antarctica? From unique wildlife to resilient microbes, world-changing climate dynamics to untapped biotechnological potential – four UNSW scientists outline what makes Antarctica a laboratory like no other.

I am thrilled to share this multimedia story highlighting my experience on the #Denman Marine Voyage earlier this year, alongside the inspiring work of 3 other Antarctic scientists:

news.unsw.edu.au/en/breaking-...

✍️ @melissalyne.bsky.social

🌊🇦🇶 #DMV @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @ccrc.bsky.social

❄️ What’s changing in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean?

📨 Discover the latest insights and research in our quarterly Seasonal Newsletter, out next week.

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Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.

ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

is this a test to see if people read the paper before reposting?

Hobart stadium shouldn't proceed, planning commission recommends The proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium in Hobart should not proceed, a long-awaited assessment from the Tasmanian Planning Commission recommends.

ABC reporting that 3 independents are required to get it through upper house. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Kurtis Marschall shines light on pole vault camaraderie in epic Tokyo final The South Australian’s bronze medal was not the only reason for celebration in a historic world championship final

Such a wonderful story about the value of friendship in the midst of medals and world records

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

GPS timekeeping is increasingly vulnerable: here’s how to deliver future-proofed time With crucial infrastructure increasingly dependent on accurate, resilient clocks, outages in the dominant system for global positioning highlight the need for other ways of distributing time informati...

Society relies on GPS so much more than we realise. Modern life stops if it is interrupted.

But it's vulnerable

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌊 “The fact that 1.5 million Australians may be impacted by rising seas and coastal hazards by 2050 is shocking, even for this sea level scientist.” — Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @utas.edu.au

▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...

So does bluesky

i.e., people, infrastructure, remote fieldwork. Sustained, coordinated and collaborative work to accelerate knowledge faster than the change itself accelerates. 4/4

And yet, "specific characterisations of change at high southern latitudes [to] evaluate risk is limited"

This requires "better physical models, downscaled modelling and enhanced observations of change, particularly in the Australian Antarctic Territory"

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06 Australia's Future Climate and Hazards Report A report presenting a national view of Australia's current climate and priority hazards, and how these are likely to change over the rest of the century under different global warming scenarios.

I was glad to play a role in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean section. It explains a warming East Antarctica, ice melt, increasing warming Southern Ocean (SO), rapidly changing sea ice, and massive CO2 absorption by the SO

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www.acs.gov.au/documents/fa...

Breaking: First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050 One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

So very important that the Australian Government has released its evidence-based climate risk assessment.

It explains so clearly that climate risks are not far off, but right now and very soon.

Risks are not limited, but widespread and, indeed, touch us all.

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

"The cost of inaction will always outweigh the cost of action" Minister Bowen

Comparison of Passenger Railway Networks

More railway data: brilliantmaps.com/worlds-ra...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

Congrats to @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and colleagues for this important new paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Polar 'geoengineering' won't fix climate warming, study finds Proposed "geoengineering" projects designed to reduce the impacts of global warming in polar regions would be ineffective, extremely costly and environmentally dangerous, researchers have warned.

Yeah it's not time to do more dumb things to the planet

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’ Underwater curtains and artificial ice thickening divert attention from cutting fossil fuel use, says group of climate scientists

Polar geoengineering dismissed as ‘unimaginably expensive’ and ‘dangerous’

agree