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Be content. Be radical. #wellbeingwednesday

Have you heard of the Peter Fairweather Student Conference Support Award⁠? ⁠ Open to students who will present at #ESAus23, this $1000 award can be used to support conference-related travel, registration or accommodation. Applications close 14 May. ecolsoc.org.au/awards/confere…

Do you know of an award-worthy emergency comms person, project or program? Nominations for @EMPA_Conference Awards for Communication Excellence have been extended until 23 April! Categories inc. readiness + resilience, response, recovery, research, media and community engagement.

I have made a personal submission to The Accord Panel where I try to think at the highest levels what Australia needs for its future Higher Education and Tertiary system mso.anu.edu.au/~brian/accord.…

Thanks to Malcolm Harris for mentioning my forthcoming book called The Palestine Laboratory (ThePalestineLaboratory), out with Verso Books in May, on the latest LARB Books podcast. Revealing surveillance and hi-tech skullduggery: lareviewofbooks.org/av/mckenzie-wa…

Interested in doing research that promotes social resilience and adaptation to #wildfire in Tasmania? The wonderful David Bowmann and fellow pyrogeographers at The Fire Centre University of Tasmania seek a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Application close 8 May 2023: careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/4985…

Feeling exhausted AND cynical / depersonalised AND ineffective? Then you meet a common definition of burnt out. Enjoyed the End of Burnout by Jonathan Malesic. Lots of good points about cultural and systemic factors. Check out Malesic's substack: jonmalesic.substack.com

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Did not expect to pump out a post a week for six months. (Will almost certainly not keep it up) If offbeat #scicomm is your thing, check out Future Fire hclarke.substack.com/archive?sort=n…

Did not know that Shaun Micallef models for scientific research into emotions doi.org/10.1371/journa…

All the talk about #ElNino is really about ‘will Australia be dry’, and hen it come to making Australia dry there is a lot more than just El Niño. So what do the non-Australian models think Australia’s winter will be like? Dry… plus warm in the south climate.copernicus.eu/charts/package…

Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement, preventing climate policies. It’s what we’re up against. Not just us climate scientists - all of us caring about the future, about our children. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mee…

Highly recommend this paper for your next journal club/reading group/lab catch up! A really insightful framework for thinking about the academic system and it’s role in a climate and biodiversity crisis. Thanks Hamish Clarke for leading our discussion 🍩 elifesciences.org/articles/84991

Wildfire Futures is a new(ish) project me, Trent Penman, Lauren Bennett and a gaggle of other researchers work on. Give our twitter a follow and sign up to a newsletter if you want to learn more!

"#ClimateChange is likely to decrease prescribed burning effectiveness and increase total costs, therefore a rethink of best practice is required." 🔥 Clarke et al explore flexible #firemanagement for competing values in their exciting study. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…