Dr Chloe Lucas (@chloetas) — Bluesky Profile

4 months ago

Fully-funded #PhD research scholarship using #DeliberativeDemocracy principles and #Games to explore the ethics of Carbon removal technologies.

#SocialScience #Research #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #Climate #Adapt #CDR #GreenSky #GeoSky #Tasmania ✂️🎲

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4 months ago

Fully-funded #PhD research scholarship using #DeliberativeDemocracy principles and #Games to explore the ethics of Carbon removal technologies.

#SocialScience #Research #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #Climate #Adapt #CDR #GreenSky #GeoSky #Tasmania ✂️🎲

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4 months ago

Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making This PhD project develops play-based, deliberative methods such as tab...

PhD Opportunity! 📣 🎲 If you are excited by interdisciplinary social science, climate action and tabletop/role play games, have I got a project for you!

Come to beautiful Tasmania for 'Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making'
tinyurl.com/6s6yuwtc
#AcademicSky

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6 months ago

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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9 months ago

A sobering look at some key #climate indicators from last year -

CO2 Emissions in 2024 - Record High

Coal - Record High
Gas - Record High
Oil - Record High (tied 2019)

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www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

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1 year ago

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022.

The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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1 year ago

With more people joining Bluesky we'd love to connect our community: go.bsky.app/Ds5rSze 👋

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1 year ago

#geosky #edusky #greensky #climate #academicsky

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1 year ago

‘How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?’: research reveals what Australian kids want to know about our warming world The result shows climate change education in schools must become more holistic and empowering, and children should be allowed to shape the future they will inherit.

Our research with 1500 Tasmanian school children is featured in The Conversation today. We found that children’s concerns about the future and desire for action as the focus of most of their questions. Current climate change education does not deal with these issues, focusing instead on the science

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1 year ago

Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action The lives of the current generation of children are being shaped by climate change, but their opinions and concerns are not well understood or accounted for in decision-making. Our study of children’s...

Just published in One Earth,
our analysis of children’s questions about climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action.

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2 years ago

Australia not prepared for how Antarctic ice changes will hit economy, scientist warns Exclusive: Prof Matt King says accelerated melting could transform country and affect viability of some agricultural industries

The loss of Antarctic sea ice is not only an environmental problem but one that could have sudden and enormous impacts on our coasts, weather and economy - says @deformedearth.bsky.social calling for political leadership in Antarctic research and #climate adaptation #greensky

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2 years ago

‘It’s Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate The head of research at online publication Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie, joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss her new “radically hopeful” read, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the F...

I went head-to-head with Hannah Ritchie of Our World In Data about her book, It's Not the End of the World, and its data omissions which paint a far rosier picture of the polycrisis than her backer, Bill Gates, would have us believe.

news.mongabay.com/2024/01/its-...

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2 years ago

I’m a millionaire – this is why I’m at Davos begging to pay more tax | Phil White I’ve seen how growing inequality is tearing societies apart. Now I’m calling for the world’s richest people to pay their fair share, says founder member of Patriotic Millionaires UK Phil White

(Some of) the super-rich demand to be taxed more: “this is about our personal values and the kind of society we want to live in. I don’t want to hide away in my big house watching TV by myself or with other millionaires while people are having to visit food banks or that new phenomenon, heat banks.”

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2 years ago

Wow, Sage policy profiles is a great tool! I discovered my research cited in policy documents in UK, Ireland, EU, US, and Aotearoa New Zealand, but strangely not in Australia where it has all taken place. #geosky #greensky #academicsky

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2 years ago

Iceberg bigger than New York makes long-awaited break from Antarctica The world’s largest iceberg is on the move.

🧊📏🌏 Some measurements in Australian terms: the world's largest iceberg (currently) is about as long as the distance from Melbourne to Geelong. Or from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. Or Sydney to Wollongong. That's 74km x 63km x 400m deep.
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

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2 years ago

Waves of Wellness Waves of Wellness (WOW) Foundation is a mental health surf therapy charity, committed to changing lives by delivering for-purpose prevention programs, and innovative support programs for people expe...

I love to donate to great initiatives as Christmas gifts for family who don't need more stuff. The surfer in my life is getting a donation on his behalf to Waves of Wellness - who support young people in nature with surf coaches who are trained mental health professionals. www.foundationwow.org

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2 years ago

COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals.

I’m shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this casino

GreenSky

COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

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2 years ago

🪁Geo Theme: 'Geographies of Energy Futures'🪁

This theme, led by Catherine Butler, Peter Forman & @ankitkumar.bsky.social, invites contributions on:

🌍Diverse energy knowledges
🌍Marginality & justice in energy transitions
🌍Imaginations of energy futures

Get in touch at journals@rgs.org #geo #geosky

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2 years ago

This new report is very important to me.
We have explicitly collected good news and significant positive developments since the adoption of the Paris agreement. These 5 major shifts give hope that we can do it if we really want to.
newclimate.org/resources/pu...

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2 years ago

BlueSky Invites for Scientists, Researchers, and Medical Professionals Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, medical professionals, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities...

From @farhana.bsky.social's feed:

If you know folks who need a code, have them go here directly. It’s not restricted to the listed categories anymore, so journalists, activists, students, etc welcome:
#academicsky #geosky #highered
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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2 years ago

Erm..not sure that this is the message that we want to put across to our students, University of Aberdeen.

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2 years ago

A single day above 2C doesn’t mean the world has breached the Paris target- that refers to the average temperature over multiple decades. But it highlights how incredibly urgent it is to cut emissions NOW

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2 years ago

Flood insurance is a driver of population growth in European floodplains - Nature Communications This study finds that flood insurance policy design affects economic development in floodplains and, consequently, flood risk in Europe. Therefore, the authors advocate for flood insurance design to be integrated in climate change adaptation policy.

Flood insurance is a driver of population growth in European floodplains

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2 years ago

B̵u̵i̵l̵d̵ ̵i̵t̵ Dig it up, and they will come.
@theage #Tuvalu Matt Golding

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2 years ago

Welcome @vprahalad.bsky.social ! Nice to see you over here 😊

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2 years ago

I see examples all the time of using global statistics to argue about the effectiveness of personal, national, or company actions, or vice versa. Unfortunately, this often doesn’t add up.

Here’s a common example:
“Flying is just a few percent of emissions. What’s the point in me flying less?”— a lot of frequent flyers :)
It’s true emissions from flying are small at the GLOBAL level. But for an INDIVIDUAL high emitter, flying is likely their largest source of emissions, and thus their most effective opportunity to reduce many tons of carbon. Compare the blue slice from flying in this individual vs. global breakdown of emissions:

Want to take effective climate action?
Global levers for whole industries *are not the same* as effective actions for individuals, companies or countries.
Focus on reducing the biggest pie piece you can.
Evidence-based advice from a climate scientist (me!) wecanfixit.substack.com/p/get-your-c...

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2 years ago

US students file complaints against six universities over fossil fuel investments Students say that by investing in fossil fuels their schools are violating commitments to the public interest

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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2 years ago

"You can close your eyes and sing a lullaby to drown out the noise, but it's gonna get louder and louder and it's gonna be harder and harder to ignore"-my conversation about Saving Ourselves in the Communicating #Climate podcast:
Spotify: lnkd.in/dShyH5Mv
Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/dKfGSAHY
#Greensky

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2 years ago

Climate adaptation projects sometimes exacerbate the problems they try to solve – a new tool hopes... Preliminary findings show that managed retreat, structural flood protection and climate-resilient development projects are most at risk of maladaptation.

New research on avoiding maladaptive climate responses from Aotearoa “To be just, climate adaptation requires a counter-intuitive approach. It should prioritise community wellbeing and examine the risks posed by both climate change and adaptation.”#greensky #geosky

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2 years ago

BBC Sounds - Hoax - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Hoax on BBC Sounds

Listened to Hoax by @toriherridge.bsky.social
this morning on my run and it is SO GOOD! 5 episodes of scientific whodunnit. Marvellous . Check it out.

🧪⚒️🌍📖 #HistSci #PhilSci #Science

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