Why *don’t* they do that now??
10.03.2026 07:32
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Why *don’t* they do that now??
Nothing wrong (e.g. efficiency) with a pot, but not as safe to pour from. Partner recently explored plastic-free kettles & didn't find any we could actually buy anywhere. So we got a stove-top kettle that works on induction. Works fine. Can be a small advantage having control over its heating rate.
A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer:
The cases described are fictional.
“A complete joke”
After the starting gun fires, Australian researchers have to wait 2–3 years before even starting the race.
Really clear article explaining the impossibly long new time-frames for Australian Research Council grants.
By @liammannix.bsky.social
Car ads: Massive utes or hybrids are more suitable for "Australian conditions" *nudge-nudge, wink-wink*
Australian conditions: Only produces+refines ~20% of the oil (i.e. petrol) it uses.
Back to the days of Bangkok and Singapore?
Maybe there should be a rule – a solemn, moral obligation – in every organization that if you propose a new process or form then you’re duty-bound to actually use it, several times, before anyone else is allowed to?
Putting this in my weekly 2-hour “See, punctuation matters” lecture to my PhD students.
A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.
We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.
One day of taxpayer subsidised fuel = $30 million
730 days (2 years) of taxpayer funded climate risk assessment science = $27 million
minister.dcceew.gov.au/mcallister/m...
Thanks. Yeah, I assume viable operation would end at much higher altitude, but honestly don’t know.
What's the … ah … minimum viable altitude?
AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).
If she knew, then I hope so.
It would be amazing if mummy didn't know.
Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon.
The offence is the point.
Welcome to middle-age, my friend, welcome.
The Albanese government has sat for more than three years on the climate risk assessment it commissioned from the ONI. All attempts to use FOI and parliamentary procedures to access the documents have been unsuccessful. satpa.pe/corZhNG
Electricity retailers unhappy folks are supplying and storing their own energy instead of buying from them. Not happy with ripping folks off on their solar FiTs to make profit, now they want to slug everyone 5x the daily supply charge. reneweconomy.com.au/plan-to-incr...
Angus Taylor’s brain. #MadAsHell #auspol
www.instagram.com/reel/DUp7OSE...
4. Guy who, in 2019, falsely accused respected Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore of vast travel expenses largesse, based on what turned out to be a fake document. He obfuscated, and denied his office had doctored anything.
"It looks a little messier than we hoped," his staffer, on WhatsApp.
3. Guy who, he says, did not attempt to intervene regarding a federal environmental order to rehabilitate critically endangered native grasslands poisoned with herbicide on a property he and his brother own.
2. Guy who co-founded and helped manage a speculative company that later (in 2017) received $80 million from taxpayers, paid into its Caymans account, for surprisingly expensive, low security cotton water rights attached to properties it owned near St George. He denies any involvement.
This Angus Taylor, ICYMI.
We still don't know where that money went btw - bc Cayman Islands.
Very nice! There ain't much sunlight getting to ground level at 300nm. Is there a path for making that, say, >400nm or so?
Just discovered $3 billion in extra nuclear sub spending between May and December $15.4B → $18.6B
Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice"
That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.
Very happy to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science position with me and Christian Schwab at Macquarie University in Sydney.
We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.
