Dr Micha Campbell

Academic milestone achieved. Someone fell asleep in my talk at Northumbria last week. I've been told that they let out a little audible snore 😂

#ANSTO is advertising an ongoing position on the MX beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, looking for a chemical crystallographer to join the team.

I've no experience on MX, but in general the beamline scientists at the Aussietron seem to have a good time? Should be a great experience! […]

#ANSTO is advertising an ongoing position on the MX beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, looking for a chemical crystallographer to join the team.

I've no experience on MX, but in general the beamline scientists at the Aussietron seem to have a good time? Should be a great experience! […]

British farmers face ‘catastrophic’ harvest, warns Jeremy Clarkson Former Top Gear host says a lack of rainfall is severely affecting UK crops Daniel Woolfson Senior Business reporter Daniel Woolfson Related Topics Jeremy Clarkson, Clarkson's Farm, Farming, Inheritance tax 08 August 2025 2:58pm BST Gift this article free Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson has become an outspoken advocate for farmers since launching TV series Clarkson’s Farm Credit: Aaron Chown/PA British farmers are facing a “catastrophic” harvest this year, Jeremy Clarkson has said. The TV star, who runs the Diddly Squat farm as well as a pub and shop in the Cotswolds, warned in a post on X that this year’s harvest had been severely affected by the weather after it “never stopped raining in 2024 and never started in 2025”. He said: “It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food. If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.” It follows warnings earlier this summer that many British farmers could be on course for one of the worst harvests on record resulting from exceedingly dry weather in the spring. The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) predicted that production of main arable crops, wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape could be near all-time lows.

NewsTV News Jeremy Clarkson says he believed in global warming all along "It was a joke" By Alex Berry 29th April 2024

April 24, 2020 In an article for The Sun, Clarkson compared the consensus on climate change to eugenics, stating: “…today, we are told that all of science is agreed on global warming. We hear it IS happening and it IS our fault. No argument is allowed. History has taught us that this is ­dangerous. A hundred years ago, someone came up with a new idea called eugenics.”41 March 22, 2020 In an article for The Times entitled: ‘My old age is cancelled, society’s about to collapse and the greens just can’t stop smiling’, Clarkson argued that environmentalists welcomed the COVID-19 pandemic as a solution to overpopulation, stating that, “of course, we could explain to our idiotic green friends that thousands and thousands of people are dying. But let us not forget that ‘eco-ists’ have been calling for a Thanos-level cut in the world’s population for years. In 2018, their spiritual leader, Sir Attenborough, said ‘our population growth has to come to an end’. Clarkson also stated: “so, a virus that kills 10% or 20% of us? That’s something the greens would welcome. Especially if it’s essentially a cull of the old and the sick.”42 August 11, 2019 Clarkson spoke about his distaste for cyclists in London and argued that cycle lanes aren’t good for the environment. He claimed that cycle lanes will soon be thought of as a bad idea, using the example of the U-turn on diesel cars.43 March 1, 2017 In a Sun column, Clarkson called the proposed ban on diesel cars in the city centres of Paris, Madrid and Athens as “draconian”. He went on to say, “one day we will learn to ignore the messages of doom from climate ‘scientists’”.44 January 28, 2017 Clarkson criticised the London air pollution warning issued by London mayor Sadiq Khan and the subsequent media coverage, suggesting that “the air was so clear and so fresh and so beautiful that I even went for a walk”. In the same piece he claimed that Prince Charles had “loony climate-change mates running amok”.45 46 October 30, 2012…

zero sympathy for this slimeball, who is now trying to claim that his climate denial was just an act.

Doesn't matter what he 'really believed' - what matters is that he was an effective advocate for prolonging and worsening fossil fuel use. FAFO, buddy.

www.desmog.com/jeremy-clark...

Heads up Sydneysiders and art lovers: The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition for this year closes this weekend.

The good news: You can also get a day pass and also see the "Yolŋu power: The art of Yirrkala" exhibition.

#art #Sydney #NSW […]

Panels one and two: Two white mice make their way through a maze. Panel three: Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says: “Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.” The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!” Panels four and five: The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen” Panel six: The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Bamburgh castle stands proud on a small hill overlooking a beach.

End of an excellent week visiting Northumbria University. Everything is more fun when you collaborate with friends! Lots of fun science on the way, and Northumberland really turned the weather on. First North Sea swim ✅️

#northumberland #Northumbria

Housemate asked to borrow my bike. No worries, says I, just be aware the shifters are on the bar ends, and the brakes are wired backwards to what you're used to. For some reason he changed his mind? No appreciation for style.

#BikesBikesBikes #fahrrad #bicycle

PSA: have you been swooped by an Australian magpie yet? Remember you can report these cases so other people know of the danger in that area (especially cyclists as magpies *really* hate cyclists).

It is free and will also tell you where you may need to be careful - they send you emails of […]

Today is my one-year anniversary of moving to Deutschland! It's been an interesting year, with some good and some bad, but that is true of every year.

I've found Mainz to be exceptionally welcoming. I love living in the Neustadt, I love living in a walkable, bikeable, dense city. I've made nice […]

I have finished my #Hottest100 re-listen, and oh boy when the synths kick in on "Never tear us apart" !!! A visceral reaction, every g-damn time. So many bangers in the whole countdown, Australia has such a rich musical catalogue.

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

A watercolour sign with "Support the Femmes" in yellow bubbly writing with pink highlights

First four days of le tour (femmes) has been great. So happy to see people getting behind the women! So for #ArtEveryDay 219/365 some janky sign writing encouraging everyone to #SupportTheFemmes!

RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving lives in English Channel It says it has saved the lives of 58 people crossing the Channel "in their most distressing times".

When you have to defend your own actions in public from people who complain that you saved a child’s life, it’s proof that your society is fundamentally sick.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dejyg4l37o

"Women want to be hairdressers, men like maths" is just the kind of thinking the LNP needs to stay in minority for the next decade. Mad about the attitude, not mad about them condemning themselves to political obscurity […]

If you use my textbook, Introduction to Modern Climate Change, I've updated chapter 13. That chapter reviews the history of climate science and politics and ends in the printed book in early 2021. The update covers the 2021-2025 period.

drive.google.com/fil...

Line chart showing house prices going from $100,000 in 2000 to over a million dollars in 2025.

I got this real estate agency "annual market report" in the mail where they are proudly displaying this chart showing house prices around the area exploding from $100k to now over a million AUD. It's ridiculous. All I see is 25 years of policy failure. Silly me […]

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Monday after #Hottest100, which of course means re-listening to the countdown! Thanks #JJJ for having the broadcast recorded and repeatable 💚

Great to see work by colleagues in the media! They are trying to understand the flood history of the Sydney basin, critical when the floodplain has become so heavily developed.

#Geomorphology #Paleoclimatology #palaeoclimatology #Flood #Sydney […]

Reminding myself that the point of writing a paper is to learn something new, but not enjoying feeling like SUCH an idiot. Current me's life would be easier if past me had done a fewer fun fieldwork courses and a bit more chemistry courses as an undergraduate 😂

Screenshot of an Instagram reel showing the stairs in the Bundestag Station in Rainbow colors

Screenshot of an Instagram story showing the Bundestag Station sign covered in a pride flag

Merz says he won't put pride flags on Bundestag for pride. So BVG (the Berlin public transportation company) put pride flags all over the Bundestag station 😂

If anyone has access to this and has 5 minutes to download and email it, I'd appreciate it! Wild that publishers ask for $$ for 60 yr old articles...

https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1963.03615995002700020027x

#academia #AcademicChatter

a schematic of a style. it is vaguely phallic, looking kind of like a flower bud, or a rolled joint if I'm being honest here.

a cross section of the style in its sac. note the fine growth rings in the style, looking like tree rings. each might represent only a few hours of growth!

How do clams digest stuff? It turns out it's surprisingly intricate and frankly, bizarre! The clam takes in food particles through the mouth and passes it to the stomach. The stomach is connected to a bizarre organ called the crystalline style. This style is an […]

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“How’s the script draft coming?”

“Terrible. Absolutely fucking woeful.”

“Is the AI not helping?”

“The AI is the /problem/. The characters are refusing to follow the prompts. They just want to sleep in and have brunch.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Second: this article came out about the many, many environmental effects of megaconstellations (used my photo of the Ituna, Sask SpaceX debris) https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/commercial-space-race-comes-with-multiple-planetary-health-risks/

So. Starlink is destroying the night sky […]

Help from the #rstats folks. I have a landuse raster and a state raster. I want to tabulate the area of each landuse in each state. I've been reading {terra} docs but I can't figure out which function to use (`zonal` or `crostab`, `freq`).

I believe I've done this before but I can´t remember […]

"When classes were over and students were moving into their summer housing, I e-mailed with Alex, who was settling in in the East Village. He’d just finished his finals, and estimated that he’d spent between thirty minutes and an hour composing two papers for his humanities classes. Without the […]

Me: complaining to my officemate about being homesick.

Officemate: ah that sucks, do you want a coffee?

Me: NOT A GERMAN COFFEE!

Sorry Deutschland, your coffee is terrible. Countdown is on, 6.5 weeks 'til good coffee.

It's still early, but I've already had two conversations with newly-appointed lecturers bemoaning how they miss postdoc life 😂

Applications for the Leanne Armand award are now open. This award funds early and mid-career researchers based in Australia to access training in micropaleonotology. Applications are due 28th September, all details can be found on the AQUA website […]