David Hutchinson

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects EOI #DPEI27 announcement:

❗️Outcomes for Expressions of Interest should now be available in your RMS account ▶️ rms.arc.gov.xn--au-lmy

ARC should also email Lead CIs with their outcomes (may take a while & be staggered).

Full apps open 2 Mar, due 22 Apr.

AI Lost Out to Traditional Models in Forecasting NYC's Blizzard Two days before New York's biggest snowstorm in a decade began, forecasters were still unsure how much snow would fall. One traditional US model had consistently predicted a major hit, while newer art...

Will AI weather models lead to better & faster extreme weather warnings? @wxpizza.bsky.social is watching how forecasters prioritize AI predictions before issuing public warnings about incoming storms. More models don't always mean enhanced decision-making. ow.ly/RWMj50YlyfC @bloomberg.com

Things should clear up for the morning commute once silicate weathering has been shut down for long enough that slowly accumulating volcanic CO2 catastrophically deglaciates the entire planet

PhD opportunity for an Australian or New Zealand student (or someone currently studying in Australia) to study nano-microplastic contamination at University of Queensland with a wonderful colleague of mine Dr Elvis Okoffo. Also with Prof Kevin Thomas and Cassandra Rauert.

Excited to do some Antarctic science under the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social umbrella!

The CGT discount is the most unfair tax handout there is.

It is exacerbating inequality and locking a generation out of home ownership.

Enough is enough.

No more tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis. Labor must scrap the CGT discount in the next budget.

Underlying demand, and underlying demand ex-solar contribution (both utility and rooftop) over the last week or so ... 🔌💡

Connecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to the Southern Ocean Following the Closure of Equatorial Seaways During the Cenozoic Before the Miocene, the Atlantic overturning circulation was confined to the Northern Hemisphere, becoming inter-hemispheric thereafter During the Cenozoic, the upwelling of North Atlantic Deep W...

🚨New paper from the team 🚨 In this climate modeling study, PhD student Erwan Pineau investigated the paleogeographic drivers controling the evolution of the AMOC during the Cenozoic. And the southern ocean gateways have a significant impact! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

I'm all for progressive income tax. I would also support progressive super tax (which we don't have). It's just that those things aside, I think progressives in Australia have learned that GST=bad because "John Howard" and I don't think it's necessarily all bad.

Ok but in Sweden you can go to university for free.

I get that argument, but a tax that generates significant revenue, is simple to implement, and can't be dodged by tax deductions is generally a good thing. The redistribution effect can take place through the actual services. Also my experience is Aus pays much higher salaries than Sweden!

Having lived for ~5 years in Sweden where the GST is 25% (with some lower rates for certain categories like fresh food), I am actually quite sympathetic to the view that our GST is too low, and more revenue could pay for useful services, e.g. childcare, infrastructure.

NOFF Tasmania on Instagram: "🚨 PINK SLUDGE IN CHANNEL AND HUON RIVER 🚨 Today, NOFF and the Bob Brown Foundation released a joint statement after NOFF alerted the EPA and collected samples of the pink... Tasmania is facing a crisis as an algal bloom spreads through the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Huon River. The EPA and Government must acknowledge the link between salmon farms and the growth of these ...

Alarming algal bloom happening now in Tasmania's southern waters

Reported from Randall's Bay spreading into the Channel and Huon River, this is a major concern

Full press conference with Bob Brown and NOFF 👇

www.instagram.com/reel/DTCaAEV...

Definitely reached this point

Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.

Devastating news that marine biologist, science communicator, and UniMelb VC Professor Emma Johnston has died after a short illness.
She really was an extraordinary and visionary leader, and I have no doubt she would have made a fine Chief Scientist one day.
theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

10/10 Allegra, would reviewer 2 again 😁

Yeah nah, deserves it.

Current Vacancies

I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.

All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below

I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)

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according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Nine of the Top 10 countries in solar PV per capita are in Europe
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70

It's a universal truth.

Gee Matt you're sounding a little rambly there... 😜

Absolutely robbed. Apparently headbutting is cool and normal if you're Reece Walsh.

Excellent use of Baywatch material here by Matt Osman. #ICP15

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

I mean, you can't expect these programs to achieve miracles.

Absolutely - this was my first reaction too, given the awful things happening in for profit childcare and the fact that this is *meant to be universal, hence public*

No but I am ok with that!