Rob Phair

#Straya #auspol #nature @australianlabor.bsky.social

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Russia

Hard agree.
The UK has been undervaluing “information & narrative power” for a while now. Giving up on the BBC World Service right now would be another massive own goal (in a series of own goals).

You know which country is pretty damn good at info warfare? China.

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Australia now has access to a new marine heatwave outlook tool that provides up to four months’ advance indication of the likelihood of ocean temperature extremes. Developed by
@csiro.bsky.social and BoM, the tool is designed to support awareness and preparedness for marine heatwaves.

For The Guardian, "amid the AI noise and disinformation, the World Service must be enabled to keep scattering human voices in our own dark times."

I don't know how international news would survive without it...

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

And another bites the dust?

The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“men that burn the world“

- Rubio talks about “climate extremism” at Munich #MSC2026 while Russian bots spew #FossilFuels sponsored #disinformation

#Europe

#Europe #MSC2026 #Trump #MAGA

#Europe #Trump #MAGA

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

great for Jakara, but I wonder what the justification for a second moguls event is?
Minimal difference b/w individual & dual
Other events don’t get a second chance

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

#OutAndBiking #cycling 🤣

#ClimateAction #CarbonBudget

Hey @jillbelch.bsky.social are you sharing some of your excellent #woodburning posts here!
I notice you seem to have more at the other place

#climate #Trump

#climate #Trump

#Kudelka #OneNation #Straya #auspol @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed at least 15 Olympic training bases.

🧵 1/12 ⬇️

How mainstream parties embrace far right positions, but instead of improving their own numbers, end up shifting public opinion to the right

@amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol #Straya

Does Minister Gabrielle Williams actually exist? I’ve seen no evidence…

“Joke“ rather than “”anecdote”

Jeff Bezos has just done the Russians a great favour, as they will now be able to commit war crimes in Ukraine without being disturbed by reporters.

“To stop fossil fuels, we must stop fossil fuel ads. Politicians, here’s your chance to move up the trust rankings,” writes Belinda Noble, founder of climate communications charity, Comms Declare.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4r0xBtX

#OneNational #auspol #Straya

. @australianlabor.bsky.social is approving massive new fossil fuel projects like Woodside’s North West Shelf, making Australia hotter and ruining your life.

Oh… and it won’t stop at 50C

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...