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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies. Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

How one think tank poisoned Australia's climate debate One of the Institute of Public Affair's greatest successes has been to stitch climate denialism into the very fabric of the conservative political identity.

“IPA’s fingerprints can be found across climate denialism in Aus. “Of all the serious sceptics in Australia”, IPA exec dir John Roskam told SMH in 2010, “we’ve helped & supported just about all of them.”

The modus operandi of IPA is clear, & ruthlessly effective.”

www.crikey.com.au/2019/01/29/i...

Omg welcome!✨

Orange and yellow background to a tile. Title is "(In)Accessible Information: Australia's Approach to Transparency." Below it states"A Centre for Public Integrity Webinar"

I wish I could attend but this from the Centre for Public Integrity on Information Transparency looks important.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

‘Days of severe storms’ to rumble across Australia, with hail and millions of lightning strikes expected Low pressure troughs sitting over swaths of the country are being charged by warmer-than-average ocean temperatures, weather expert says

Days of severe storms have been forecast for every mainland state and territory in Australia this week, with possible wind gusts, heavy rain, large hail and flash flooding on the cards.

How to Have the Best Time with Atomic Clocks and Millisecond Pulsars What time is it? For many applications, ranging from GPS navigation to interferometry-based astronomy, answering this question with extreme precision is crucial. To do so, one needs a highly stable…

Folks know I'm keen on building an interplanetary, universally utilised timescale that uses pulsars for timing, navigation & positioning. 🔭🧪

Recent paper proposes the fusion of terrestrial atomic clock time + pulsar time!

academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

And @astrobites.bsky.social coverage too 👇

How scientists are making the most of Reddit As X wanes, researchers are turning to Reddit for insights and data, and to better connect with the public. As X wanes, researchers are turning to Reddit for insights and data, and to better connect w...

Astronomer here! My outreach work on Reddit has been featured in Nature! 😎

🔭🧪🎢

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

I like how every book on Audible starts with a guy saying “This is Audible.”

Yes my man, many audiobooks are.

My first ever job was in the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages.

We never rejected names but sometimes we would write letters that basically said "really? You sure?"

PLEASE RETWEET (or whatever it's called):

I want to follow and support fellow science journalists on Bluesky! Help me find them!!

Reply to this if you are among that hallowed number.

@easternblot.bsky.social @jjbw.bsky.social @eshirin.bsky.social @duncanfyfe.bsky.social @colinschultz.bsky.social

The push for nuclear energy in Australia is driven by delay and denial, not evidence | Adam Morton Unsubstantiated claims of nuclear energy’s worth distracts from the urgency to act now on climate crisis

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The science on Covid boosters As Covid-19 variants continue to outpace vaccines, and the risks of long Covid remain, the government needs to be prepared to act rapidly and at scale.

Check out @biancanogrady.bsky.social’s piece on covid boosters from the last Saturday Paper!💉
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Of course Sir William Gaston Walkley, the petrol station guy Australia’s most ´prestigious’ journalism awards are named after was also a massive racist. Great reporting by Osman Faruqi
www.theage.com.au/national/the...

Australia’s greenhouse emissions are a national disgrace that are destroying the planet and costin... The quarterly emissions data reinforces how much of a joke our 2030 emissions target is

Greg Jericho unpacks data heavy stories so well for me, found his most recent piece after the Intergenerational report so digestible!
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...