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 ✂️🎲
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 ✂️🎲
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'
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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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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...
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...
With more people joining Bluesky we'd love to connect our community: go.bsky.app/Ds5rSze 👋
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
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.
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
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-...
(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.”
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
🧊📏🌏 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...
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
I’m shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this casino
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COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
🪁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
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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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
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Erm..not sure that this is the message that we want to put across to our students, University of Aberdeen.
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
B̵u̵i̵l̵d̵ ̵i̵t̵ Dig it up, and they will come.
@theage #Tuvalu Matt Golding
Welcome @vprahalad.bsky.social ! Nice to see you over here 😊
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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"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
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