I grew up next to Whistlepipe Gully in Perth hills, Western Australia. Today I went to look at trees I’d walked under with my grandma when I was little, that I was looking forward to showing my baby, and they’re dead 😢 Experts are warning of “forest collapse” across southern WA

Detailed analysis shows more WA heatwaves stories discussed the affect of extreme heat on the cricket (10%) than linked the disaster with climate change (5%)

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1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ So we achieved a rare QUT Digital Media Research Centre trifecta today, with Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected], Amanda Lotz, and me all quoted in James Purtill’s piece on Meta’s discontinuation of #NMBC -related payments to Australian news outlets.
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Malnourished, homeless, orphaned: The horrors for Gaza’s children. A nurse does ops on 6 dead pregnant women to save their babies. Rarely, if ever, has any country killed, injured & orphaned as many children as quickly as Israel is right now. My new column abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

In honour of our much missed colleague, the late Darren Osborne.

Could you be the 2024 Darren Osborne science cadet?

Regionally based?

Love science journalism?

Want to launch or grow a career, & be mentored by the ABC Science crew & others?

APPLY NOW

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Through the heatwave I've been wondering why we STILL build dark heat-absorbing roads in Australia. Turns out there's an alternative that's not being used- it's a long story of spy planes, hoons, and housing affordability for ABC Science abc.net.au/news/science/2…

Go woke, win everything and be the best fast bowler on the planet

I've confirmed with Antoinette Lattouf that this post is what ABC News said violated their 'social media policy' & is why they fired her.

Human Rights Watch is the world's most prestigious human rights organisation.

This is deeply alarming censorship & intimidation by ABC management.

Thanks Mathew!

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs

An ingenious study by Xiang Hui Oren Reshef zhou Yu looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year.

The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

Latest stort is an interview with Jeremy Howard - the Australian who helped invent ChatGPT, but now fears big tech is locking up 'the most powerful technology in the world' ABC Science for Science Fiction abc.net.au/news/science/2…

Honoured to be a finalist in the 1st WA Climate Awards last night, in Ambition at Scale category. Congratulations to the incomparable Bill Hare for winning, & to all the night’s winners. Everyone wins from climate action in WA! Great initiative by Meri Fatin WA Climate Leaders

Thanks Edward - you can hear the full story in episode two of our Hello AI Overlords podcast, out today abc.net.au/listen/program…