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That sinking feeling: Australia’s Limestone Coast is drying up https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/05/that-sinking-feeling-australias-limestone-coast-is-drying-up

It was a little strange talking with some of the #Australia focused climate/energy groups for this @… story.
They really wanted to focus on #Japan, and not

China is challenging Japan's LNG dominance. What does that mean for Japanese buyers?
Japanese companies have long held the leading position in the buying and trading of one of the world's key energy sources, but that era of hegemony has come to an end.

E-scooter injury toll revealed in study just ‘tip of the iceberg’ in Australia, doctors warn | Road safety | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/e-scooter-injury-toll-reve…

Vendor of AI tech comes to Australia and promises to grow our GDP by 4% if only we give tax incentives to increase use of AI tech. Stenographers in the press report the amazing "windfall" but thankfully we have Crikey to call BS:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2…

OpenAI’s ‘productivity’ garbage is an age-old scam that’s long crippled Australia
Touting the economic benefits of AI is straight from business lobbyists' playbook, one used over and over again.

Focal Point On Vision Australia Radio
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

First Introduced To Australia In 1788, This Invasive Species Now Kills Over A Million Birds A Day
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2025/04/26/first-introduced-to-austral…

First Introduced To Australia In 1788, This Invasive Species Now Kills Over A Million Birds A Day
From island extinctions to nationwide losses, feral and domestic cats have been reshaping Australia's biodiversity for decades at a staggering cost.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00493 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

Australia cancels rapper Ye's visa over 'Heil Hitler' song (Christine Chen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australia-says-it-cancelled-kanye-wests-visa-over-heil-hitler-song-2025-07-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p123#a250702p123

I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

Lovely to give the keynote 'On Epistemic Humility: storytelling, positionalities, and just survival in/through research', for the Higher Degree Research Forum, University of South Australia.
I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.
#HigherEducation

Exclusive: Legal Practice Board of Western Australia confirms Dire Wolf ransomware attack
https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12158-exclusive-legal-practice-board-of-western-australia-confirms-dire-wolf-ransomwar…

Exclusive: Legal Practice Board of Western Australia confirms Dire Wolf ransomware attack
Hacker newcomers claim to have exfiltrated 300 gigabytes of data, including limited contact details and correspondence and bank account information.

#CFP: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?
https://ift.tt/BHoa05x
JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - Special Issue on Voicing…
via Input 4 RELCFP

#CFP: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?
JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - Special Issue on Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?

"Researchers launch five-year study on floating solar for farm dams"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Researchers launch five-year study on floating solar for farm dams
AgEcon Australia has launched a five-year research project to assess the feasibility of floating PV systems on farm irrigation dams in Australia, aiming to reduce water loss, lower on-farm energy costs, and create new income streams for landholders.

The drought in southern Australia is not over—it just looks that way #Australia

The drought in southern Australia is not over—it just looks that way
How often do you mow your lawn in winter? That may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought. But the answer helps explain why our current drought has not broken, despite recent rain—and why spring lamb may be more expensive this year.

Good for them.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/sci-tech-vr0v1u2nz/-/a-47pleMA9Qeip-F7ZfIeC9A:a:89340020-/0

Australia cancels Kanye ‘Ye’ West's visa over Hitler song
Australia's home affairs minister Tony Burke confirmed the news that Ye would be blocked from entering the country over the controversial rapper's …

Laki Tasi steps from rugby pitch to the gridiron through NFL International Player Pathway Program https://www.raiders.com/news/laki-tasi-rugby-pitch-to-gridiron-2025-nfl-international-pathway-program-australia

Big batteries flex their muscles, hit new records in evening peaks in Australia and California
#EnergieOpslag

Big batteries flex their muscles, hit new records in evening peaks in Australia and California
Big batteries are having a growing influence on evening demand peaks in Australia and in California, where their output hit 10 gigawatts for the first time this week.

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again? https://theconversation.com/a-1980s-cost-of-living-crisis-gave-australia-a-thriving-arts-program-could-we-do-it-again…

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again?
Four decades ago, amid a cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment and stagnant wages, a unique partnership between artists and trade unions thrived.

Sure thing, Heggy. But first, we’re going to need a pig and a live TV feed.
#auspol #uspol #BlackMirror

CripChat Australia
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14021 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34
We report the first X-ray and radio polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) atoll-source 4U 1728-34 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We discovered that the X-ray source was polarized at PD = 1.9 +/- 1.0% with a polarization angle of PA = -41 +/- 16 degree. Simultaneous Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observations show that the source was in a relatively hard state, marking it a…

I find it culturally fascinating that Barnaby Joyce, despite his drunken philandering, would actually increase his vote in New England during an election that demolished the coalition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/neng

New England Federal Election 2025 Results
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.

It’s time to reclaim the word “Luddite”. Interesting report showing that Australians are getting more aware of the risks of AI with more exposure to the technology.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Yaguang Li, Frank Grundahl, Mads Fredslund Andersen, Duncan J. Wright, Jack Soutter, Robert Wittenmyer, Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Courtney Crawford, Yixiao Zhou, Mathieu Clerte, Pere L. Palle, Sergio Simon-Diaz, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Rasmus Handberg, Hasse Hansen, Paul Heeren, Jens Jessen-Hansen, Mikkel Lund, Mia S. Lundkvist, Karsten Brogaard, Re…

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.

15-Hour Qantas Flight Takes Passengers From Perth to Perth Amid Mideast Closures
Flights on Monday and Tuesday were delayed and diverted because of temporary air space closures in the region.

Shame about the appalling ‘fearless motivation’ background music, but if you can get past that, Tim Minchin’s 9 life lessons are goodies.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DX5KtjvPt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

147M views · 363K likes | Tim Minchin - Live To Learn | These 9 life lessons from comedian Tim Minchin will make you laugh -- and learn! Source: The University of Western Australia | By RISE | Facebook
These 9 life lessons from comedian Tim Minchin will make you laugh -- and learn! Source: The University of Western Australia

Australia Tax Whistleblower Pleads Guilty To Four Charges https://thedissenter.org/australia-tax-whistleblower-pleads-guilty-to-four-charges/

I just saw this movie, and there's some crazy-ass shit in Australia, I tell you what.

Aurora activity could continue on Monday night, with displays possible in UK, North America and Australia | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/aurora-june-2025

About bloody time! Should never have happened.
In a statement, Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette apologised for the impact of the board's decision on Sabsabi, Dagostino and the wider arts community.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/kha

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026 Venice Biennale
After controversially and suddenly withdrawing Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has announced it has reversed its decision.

Laki Tasi steps from rugby pitch to the gridiron through NFL International Player Pathway Program https://www.raiders.com/news/laki-tasi-rugby-pitch-to-gridiron-2025-nfl-international-pathway-program-australia

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories: ‘Israel commits crimes like it breathes. It must be stopped’ | #ELPAÍS English

Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/26/student-allegedly-hacked-western-sydney-university-to-get-discounted-parking-and-alter-academic-results-ntwnfb

I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

Ah, frequency illusion bias/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon! I have been learning about the nation-state Treaty of Westphalia stuff.
I'm finding it a bit odd that I'm so late to learn about this ... is it less emphasised in Australia? Why is it emphasised in the US?
At my current stage of learning, Australia's self-definition feels heavily 'state', with any discussion of 'nation' often being tied to racism.
More to learn I guess!
#NationState #TreatyOfWestphalia

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the results of Australia’s age assurance trials, plus signs of regret over US chip bans to China.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/australia-okays-age-assuran…

Australia okays age assurance tech - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the results of Australia’s age assurance trials, plus signs of ...

The birth of young radio jets in changing-look AGN: a population study
Sufia Birmingham, Charlotte Ward, Kristina Nyland, Dougal Dobie, Matthew J. Graham, David L. Kaplan, Tara Murphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01355

The birth of young radio jets in changing-look AGN: a population study
Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei (CLAGN) are a rare subset of AGN that show significant changes to the flux of broad Balmer emission lines. Recent studies of CLAGN, such as 1ES 1927+654 and Mrk 590, have revealed that changes in the optically observed accretion rate are accompanied by changes in radio activity. We present a time-domain population study of 474 spectroscopically confirmed CLAGN at radio wavelengths using the Australia SKA Pathfinder Variable and Slow Transients Survey and the…

Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up https://therecord.media/australia-ransomware-victims-must-report-payments

Zahlen, bitte! Medizinische Hilfe in 2 Stunden an jeden Ort im Outback: Der RFDS
Wie schafft man schnelle ärztliche Versorgung im riesigen Outback? Das sichert der Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia per ausgeklügeltem Flug-Netzwerk

Reappraising the Elatina series: Solar dynamo clocking and inference of orbital periods
F. Stefani, T. Weier, G. M. Horstmann, G. Mamatsashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02628

Reappraising the Elatina series: Solar dynamo clocking and inference of orbital periods
We reconsider the 680 million year old Elatina series of sedimentary laminae from South Australia that show a remarkably stable periodicity with a main period of around 12 years, which is close to the Schwabe cycle, and a second period of 314 years that has been coined Elatina cycle. By analyzing the residuals of the series' minima from a linear trend, and deriving Dicke's ratio, we first show that the series exhibits a high degree of phase stability, except one single break point which may ind…

After HESTA being completely unavailable from mid April - everything was supposed to be up and running again today. I just tried to log in. This was at 4:30pm. I'm not experiencing issues - you borked the system. 🤬
#HESTA #Australia

Comparative Studies: Cloud-Enabled Adaptive Learning System for Scalable Education in Sub-Saharan
Israel Fianyi, Soonja Yeom, Ju-Hyun Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23851

Comparative Studies: Cloud-Enabled Adaptive Learning System for Scalable Education in Sub-Saharan
The integration of cloud computing in education can revolutionise learning in advanced (Australia & South Korea) and middle-income (Ghana & Nigeria) countries, while offering scalable, cost-effective and equitable access to adaptive learning systems. This paper explores how cloud computing and adaptive learning technologies are deployed across different socio-economic and infrastructure contexts. The study identifies enabling factors and systematic challenges, providing insights into how cloud-…

HyperFusion: Hierarchical Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
Liliang Ye (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yunyao Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yafeng Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia), Junqing Yu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Wei Yang (Huazhong University of S…

HyperFusion: Hierarchical Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
Social media popularity prediction plays a crucial role in content optimization, marketing strategies, and user engagement enhancement across digital platforms. However, predicting post popularity remains challenging due to the complex interplay between visual, textual, temporal, and user behavioral factors. This paper presents HyperFusion, a hierarchical multimodal ensemble learning framework for social media popularity prediction. Our approach employs a three-tier fusion architecture that pro…

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-qantas-confirms-cyber-incident-one-its-contact-centres-2025-07-01/
Australia's Qantas says 6 million customer accounts accessed in cyber hack

Political turmoil in Washington has dried up job opportunities in what Professor Ladher calls
“the best research ecosystem in the world.”
Some decided they would now rather take their skills elsewhere, including Austria, Japan and Australia,
while others opted to stay in India.
As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas,
expel foreign students and slash spending on research,
scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarm…

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.

"Woodside boss says young people ‘ideological’ on fossil fuels while ‘happily ordering from Temu’"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Dissenter Update: June 2, 2025 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-update-june-2-2025/

Poster No 2028: Auditory stimuli extend the temporal window of visual integration by modulating alpha oscillations https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641972 "auditory input resets alpha phase in the visual cortex";

Finally some positive dash cam videos
Dash Cam Owners Australia - Good deeds on the road 2
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W0MtV3aBmU&si=TjeDFmFJcib0mANZ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Shins:
🎵 Australia
#TheShins
https://theshins.bandcamp.com/track/australia-peter-bjorn-and-john-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/47TQjzeG4KI0XWWb0wkbri

Now I just want to see giant kangaroos
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/australia-once-had-giant-kangaroos-experts-what-happened-to-them/105205566

Australia once had giant kangaroos — here's what experts think happened to them
A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their extinction.

Remember how banning guns because of one mass shooting in 20 years didn't reduce violent crime? Well, I'm sure if they just keep banning everything that ever gets used in a violent crime, human nature will just magically change, right?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvxxd4knjo

Australia fast-tracks first-ever machete ban after weekend attack
The ban follows a machete attack between gangs at a Melbourne shopping centre on Sunday afternoon

This morning at 7.30am in Canberra:
-2.7°C actual
-5.1°C feels
#Canberra #Australia #Winter #Weather

Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country (Ainslie Chandler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Captain Cook’s Ship ‘Endeavour’ Finally Located After 250 Years Sunken off Coast of Rhode Island https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/captain-cooks-ship-endeavour-finally-located-after-250-years-off-rhode-island/

Captain Cook's Ship ‘Endeavour’ Finally Located After 250 Years off Rhode Island
In just his first voyage with Endeavor, he charted the coastline of eastern Australia, and circumnavigated both New Zealand islands.

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Digital Transformation of Urban Planning in Australia: Influencing Factors and Key Challenges
Soheil Sabri, Sherah Kurnia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13333 …

Digital Transformation of Urban Planning in Australia: Influencing Factors and Key Challenges
Over the past two decades, several governments in developing and developed countries have started their journey toward digital transformation. However, the pace and maturity of digital technologies and strategies are different between public services. Current literature indicates that research on the digital transformation of urban planning is still developing. Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand the influencing factors and key challenges for the digital transformation of urban pl…

An Australian journalist who had reported on the Columbia University protests while studying there recounts his interrogation and deportation by CPB at LAX (Alistair Kitchen/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/ho

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Read this shocking story about what the US has become and how ordinary travellers are treated.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Article if anyone needs it https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/reporter-los-angeles-protests-rubber-bullet-lauren-tomasi-9news-australia/

#NowPlaying - and rainy sunday hootenannying with the not-quite (grateful) dead boys, live in 1981. was very honored to write liner notes for this, owsley's last time mixing/recording the band before moving to australia in advance of the oncoming ice age. @…

The perils of observing a Total #SolarEclipse from the stratosphere: how the Romanian 2012 flight over Australia - https://www.astrofoto.ro/wp/?p=880 - had ended; the tree had to be cut in the end ... for AUD 200. No plans to repeat that effort. 17/n

UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-partners-unite-to-sanction-ministers-inciting-west-bank-violence

UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence
UK sanctions Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in response to their repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities, alongside partners Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway

From @…
Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival
MELBOURNE Dates: 3–5 October · Venue: Stupid Old Studios
Returning for its second year in Australia, Cheerful Earful’s Melbourne edition brings back fan favourites like TOFOP, Do Go On, and Plumbing the Death Star, alongside late-night hangouts and special guests at the Stupid Old Studios hub.

The world's funniest podcast festival returns - Cheerful Earful 2025 expands into the US
The beloved podcast festival returns with 15 days of live shows, over 50 podcasts, and a debut in New York City

I'm getting a bit tired of government censorship of the Arts community
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/21/state-library-of-queensland-karen-wyld-first-nations-writer-…

"Australia approves 250 MW agrivoltaic solar farm in Tasmania"
#Australia #Tasmania #Solar #SolarPower

Australia approves 250 MW agrivoltaic solar farm in Tasmania
Australia's federal government has approved a 250 MW agrivoltaic solar farm in Tasmania, following a 20-day review. The landowner-led project is designed to minimize environmental impact and integrate solar generation with agricultural use.

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, a killer new find-- Melbourne, Australia's PHANTASM. Some really ripping hardcore punk here highlighted by the raw, furious vocals of Bernadette Fitzgibbon. Stumbled across this 4 song 7" EP 'Conflict Reality' that Phantasm put out in 2023 via Hardcore Victim, and I've really been digging it this week.

New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B cash-and-stock deal (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

Current Galactic Chemical Evolution models fail to explain rising Na-abundances of young thick disc stars
E. K. Owusu (School of Science, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia Defence Force Academy, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberger Institut f\"ur Theoretische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany), A. J. Ruiter (School of Science, University of New South Wal…

Current Galactic Chemical Evolution models fail to explain rising Na-abundances of young thick disc stars
We recently identified an upturn in [Na/Fe] for the population of Solar-type stars in the Galactic thick disc ($-0.3 < [\mathrm{Fe/H}] < +0.3$ dex) at super-Solar metallicity in GALactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) data. Here, we investigate the cause of this unexplained Na enrichment between ([Fe/H] $\sim 0 - 0.6$ dex) using the OMEGA$+$ galactic chemical evolution code. We investigate the increase of [Na/Fe] with four combinations of nucleosynthetic yields from the literature, with source…

Hoe futiel het ook lijkt, teken evenals ik toch maar, net als @… . Dat maakt duidelijk dat we met velen zijn.
http://www.stopreturnfascism.org

Poster No 857: Plastic changes in the occipital regions during pitch perception associate with blindness onset age; "Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641972

This should really be called "tax the rich more and the poor less" More money for a wealthy person won't mean they drink more coffee or eat more pub meals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/can-aust…

Can Australia still afford the pub, our coffee addiction or Friday night takeaway?
From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs and cafes we love, there may be something bigger at stake.

Efficacy of Temporal Fusion Transformers for Runoff Simulation
Sinan Rasiya Koya, Tirthankar Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20831 https://

Efficacy of Temporal Fusion Transformers for Runoff Simulation
Combining attention with recurrence has shown to be valuable in sequence modeling, including hydrological predictions. Here, we explore the strength of Temporal Fusion Transformers (TFTs) over Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks in rainfall-runoff modeling. We train ten randomly initialized models, TFT and LSTM, for 531 CAMELS catchments in the US. We repeat the experiment with five subsets of the Caravan dataset, each representing catchments in the US, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, and …

“It is a cruel joke that taxpayers who could never dream of sending their own kids to such superbly well-resourced schools are indirectly subsidising those that can,” said Matthew Wade, a sociologist at La Trobe University who has studied the scheme for years.
“We should all be offended by witnessing something so manifestly unfair continue unabated.”

📝 #CFP: Reconfiguring Australia's Postcoloniality? | Religion Call for Papers @relcfp #acrel https://relcfp.com/2025/05/21/australia-postcolonial/

Koalas on the brink: Precision DNA test offers a lifeline to Australia’s icons #Australia

Koalas on the brink: Precision DNA test offers a lifeline to Australia’s icons
A University of Queensland-led project has developed a tool to standardise genetic testing of koala populations, providing a significant boost to conservation and recovery efforts.

😞
Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour - BBC Sport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c9q09ry8y21o

Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour
Scotland and Glasgow prop Zander Fagerson is ruled out of the British and Irish Lions' tour to Australia with a calf injury.

Software Security Mapping Framework: Operationalization of Security Requirements
Sung Une Lee, Liming Dong, Zhenchang Xing, Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Stefan Avgoustakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11051

Software Security Mapping Framework: Operationalization of Security Requirements
The escalating complexity of modern software development environments has heightened concerns around supply chain security. However, existing frameworks often fall short in translating abstract security principles into concrete, actionable practices. This paper introduces the Software Security Mapping Framework, a structured solution designed to operationalize security requirements across hierarchical levels -- from high-level regulatory standards (e.g., ISM, Australia cybersecurity standard pu…

Four wealthy nations
—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia
—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade,
according to new data published by Oil Change Internationalon Monday, the first day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
Oil Change's analysis,
titled Planet Wreckers,
notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction,
32 billion tons of carb…

'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
"This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis."

Some core #urbanism from an unlikely source … 7 News Australia
They've had a slight reputation for "announcing" policies that are not from the government but just from think tanks. But this news report is all good stuff (like the last time, when Parramatta Road was proposed for light rail)
This is completing a "ring road" or circle line of

9News Australia reporter Lauren Tomasi was shot with a rubber bullet by law enforcement live on camera while reporting on LA protests against immigration raids (Natasha May/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2…

FFS
Ray Stevens, a Gold Coast Liberal National party MP has called for the return of vagrancy laws to allow police to prosecute homeless people amid an ongoing crackdown on tent cities in Queensland.
"The police reluctantly tell me they have no legislative power to move these people on, which I find incredibly disappointing..."

Time to get rid of the monarchs birthday holiday and associated honours list. When someone like Scott Morrison makes the list it's just a slap in the face of people who deserve recognition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/sco

Scott Morrison receives country's highest honour for leading Australia through COVID crisis
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the final talk of the morning sessions of the #SolarEclipse Conference Thoby Dittrich talked about the Modern Eddington Experiment (the website https://moderneddingtonexperiment.org is under heavy construction): the best observing result of gravitational deflection of starlight by the Sun in the optical during solar eclipses is still Brun's from 2017 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00343 - while others have tried with a vengeance since. The goal remains to observe the significant deflection of star positions between 1 and 2 solar radii from the center of the Sun: this is known as the 'forbidden zone' because the corona can be very bright here and only bright stars can be measured reliably - but those in turn are rare. It turns out that the star fields around the totally eclipsed Sun in 2027 and 2028 will be unusually rich in good candidates so there is (or should be) considerable interest in the physics didactics community to make use of these eclipses in southern Spain / northern Africa and Australia, respectively. 4/n

Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
I got lucky—when I was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told me, explicitly and proudly, why I’d been pulled out of the customs line.
“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me.
He identified himself to me as Adam, though his colleagues referred to him as Officer Martinez.
When I said that…

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Well, fuck. Had I known ahead of time, I’d have flown to Hawaii for the long weekend.
#scomo #auspol https://aus.social/@maude…

Just quietly, I spent a lot of November- April mentally preparing myself for a Trump-alike in Australia.
That resoundingly didn't happen, I am so thankful!! Whatever faults Albanese has, he is not Dutton and doesn't have Dutton's track record of racism/anti-immigration.
But I am noticing myself being cautious and self-censoring when responding to posts about the US. Even when I'm simply liking pro-democracy, pro-rule-of-law content! I guess I'm not ready to let my guard down yet

Did you know Australia exports 70% of its agricultural production, yet 3.4 million Australian suffered from food insecurity last year? # FoodSecurity # CSIRO
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025

First national stocktake of Australia's food system reveals hidden costs and big opportunities
A new report shines a light on the complex challenges and opportunities facing Australia's $800 billion food system.

Australia Explained In Assyrian
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

High resolution radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region
Ernesto Garc\'ia Valencia, Laurent Loinard, Arnaud Belloche, Gisela N. Ortiz Le\'on, Sergio A. Dzib, Cherie K. Day, Roopesh Ojha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15927

High resolution radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region
We report on large-scale radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) that led to the definite detection of five young stars and the tentative detection of five more. As in other regions surveyed in the radio domain, the majority of detected sources are fairly evolved low-mass T Tauri stars, but we also detect one protostellar object (Ced 110 IRS4) and one Herbig Ae/Be star. With the exception of the protostellar source, the…

"FBi Radio is regarded by the industry as a cornerstone of the Australian music scene." FBi Radio is also home to some of Australia's great podcasts including *All The Best*, *Back Chat*, and *Race Matters* https://www.

Booming popularity and 'wild' profits: #Australia's 'disturbing' #Pokemon #card #crime wave.

Booming popularity and 'wild' profits: Australia's 'disturbing' Pokemon card crime wave
Pokémon card trading can be big business — but many who collect the cards are worried a new surge of interest is ruining the community.

Australia Explained
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

I think I need to figure out how to make these.
I don’t have great #luck with VTTs, but my rolls with RL math rocks are TERRIBLE. I had one Irish GM offer to mail #dice to me in Australia, and a Mexican GM advised—straight-faced, no less—I seek out a santero.
I feel my

Went to order some 3d printing filament today and it was about 15% cheaper than normal - apparently it mostly comes from China so excess supplies due to Trump tariffs - a win for Australia 👍 #3dprinting

Here's a dream job for any reporter wanting to get their feet on the ground. Alice Springs is a beautiful and interesting part of Australia with great story potential. #newsjobs

Was just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…

Teen artist striving for ‘hope’ during global wars banned from show
A teenager submitted a painting of a young angel in combat fatigues and flags from global conflict zones, but organisers have refused to hang it.