People say that all the animals in Australia are dangerous. It's not true. Wait, what...?

My PhD students do. I like to do this as a congrats on your first paper 😀

It certainly (and thankfully) won't be the wettest year on record in Darwin. We may be on track for one of the top 5 at this rate... With devastating floods across many northern Aus regions, thankfully, this wet season is almost at a close... #hydrology 🧪

Shudder

To be honest, the typesetting process has always been a joke. Most errors for authors to fix are introduced by the journal at this stage.

Also, yay, making a bad system worse? Great.

This should generate a lot of interest from researchers and research users. On one hand, it is a highly profitable company automating parts of the process. On the other, more papers are being submitted ( #AI a factor), and reviews take ages. #academicsky

Thoughts?

Groundwater Temperature Processes and Patterns: Implications for Stream Thermal Regimes Shallow groundwater temperatures are controlled by ground surface temperatures and are influenced by climate change and land cover changes. Deeper groundwater temperature is constant year-round, maki...

Paper led by @dalhydro.bsky.social on Groundwater Temperature Processes and Patterns, Implications for Thermal Regimes in WIRES Water. #openaccess #hydrology 🧪💧

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Be careful out there everyone. There's a veritable shopping list of catchments on flood watch in the NT, with at least one cyclone on its way.

Devin Townsend - Almost Again - Quarantine Live YouTube video by Aidan Umpherson

I love me some Heavy Devy: Almost Again is such an amazing song. youtu.be/Yk-8k5Bzvp4?...

The fact that he can sing like that, while playing guitar like that. Wow.

Universities tend to find the least efficient way to do most things. This sounds a lot like the "we can't accept this, it's the old form" kind of thing that I see (note: the old form includes all the information that the new form has).

This weekend Darwin's wet season rain will likely reach 2000 mm. Wow. As much of northern Australia is flooded, or in flood watch, more rains to come... #dataviz #hydrology

Hmm. It's a bit hard to see what I do most of my research on. Oh wait, IT'S GROUNDWATER!

AI hasn't led to massive increases in efficiency? Perhaps it's because of the soul crushing admin that
takes up 120% of working hours...

I do use AI, & I do think there's efficiency gains. I'd give it all back for a 50% reduction in pointless admin tasks. #AcademicSky

fortune.com/2026/02/17/a...

Record flooding in the NT goes under the radar - ABC listen The NT Cattlemen's Association says the lack of a Tennant Creek radar, meant stations were "making decisions in the dark" during this week's severe flood event.

The lack of radar coverage in the Northern Territory amazes me with the frequency of flooding up here. Not all decisions should be based on population density...

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Temporally clustered streamflow events control focused groundwater recharge in drylands Temporally clustered streamflow events control focused groundwater recharge in drylands, Rau, Gabriel C, Bastías Espejo, José, Acworth, R Ian, Andersen, Martin S, Irvine, Dylan J, Bernardi, Tony, Cuthbert, Mark O

What drives #groundwater recharge in arid regions? #OpenAccess paper led by @hydrogeoscience.bsky.social shows that groups of smaller rain events are more important than one off large events. Implications for climate change. 🧪 @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Assessing seasonal river-wetland connectivity using remote sensing-based monitoring in tropical environments Understanding the timing of river-floodplain wetland connection is critical for anticipating ecological risks, including aquatic fauna strandings. In …

Please check out our #openaccess paper published in Ecological Indicators that provides an approach to inform lateral connectivity between #rivers and #wetlands using #RemoteSensing. Codes to apply the approach are provided.

@charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This paper about Global Subsidence of #River Deltas looks great, and I'm keen to read it. However, I think it should be illegal to use the word "global" if #Australia is not included. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academia's a funny game. In 2026 I've had a paper accepted (yay) and seen a paper based on an idea I discussed with someone at a conference (boo). It wasn't my idea, but the paper included someone that I've collaborated with in the past. Thought I may have gotten involved. Oh well... #academicsky

Ha. Stokes says teams may have "worked out Bazball". Sit back and watch you destroy chances of winning is a pretty simple strategy.

Rare white kangaroos to be sold to prevent overcrowding at wildlife park White western grey kangaroos are a popular sight in a small wildlife park nestled near the South Australia – Victoria border and some are now being sold.

Interesting to see my home town in the news... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

The thing is, the same thing happened (same brand) last year. I don't want what they're selling. I've learnt my lesson.

Well, I'm in the market. I'll check them out...

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After using almost an entire roll of gaffer tape in an attempt to keep them together, this is the final state of my shitty Hard Yakka boots after a week's fieldwork in the desert. Utter garbage of a product. Never again 💩🧪

Orange desert sand and blue sky with large storm clouds. Near Devil's Marbles Australia

The views are stunning in central Australia. Far from the worst place to do work. As a guide, the Devil's Marbles Hotel is AWESOME! 😎👍

All good, all good. Yep, don't forget, they measure temperature in the shade too. Not always that much about...

Southern hemisphere, so, summer. To be fair it's 40°C (in the shade), so, I'd guess that some of the sand might get to 50 °C...

I'm a slow learner. Here are 2024 and 2025 photos of my boots that melted during fieldwork (to be fair, in the desert in Nov/Dec). Hard Yakka boots... Never again. 🤬

As far as I'm concerned, they can keep it up as long as they want. What a complete and utter joke. Literally the dumbest way to play test cricket... A point that they regularly demonstrate.

Man, I listened to 123,888 minutes of music this year. That's 86 days. Wow.