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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 11/04/2025

Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research. NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... "At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...

Graph of science funding of NASA from 1980 until present with estimated 50% cut included. This drops NASA Science to under $4B. Image source: Casey Dreier/The Planetary Society

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is a lovely tribute to the DC-8 “flying lab”, retired last year. It’s been an integral part of my career, from the very start of my PhD right through to our most recent paper in review. Although the plane has retired, its legacy lives on through the data! ✈️ magazine.caltech.edu/post/nasa-dc...

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NASA's DC-8, Used by Caltech Scientists as an Airborne Lab, Retires — Caltech Magazine

A NASA DC-8 aircraft used to train many Caltech student-scientists has taken its final flight.   By Andrew Moseman When the vintage DC-8 airliner made one of its harrowing low passes over Cal...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/04/2025

Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is theicct.org/publication/...

a chart showing aus way above us, eu, china etc for emissions

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@agu.org do you have an email address to contact for help with an AGU account? The website won’t allow me to update my account to my new email address following my change of affiliation. Thanks!

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Professional update: after 12 years at the University of Wollongong (including the last one on secondment to the public service as a science policy fellow), today I start a new position at James Cook University (JCU) as Associate Dean Learning & Teaching in the College of Science & Engineering.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What it has been like, living a few blocks away from the devastated area.

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A report from the 2025 Los Angeles fire apocalypse

just my personal account

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Al Chen @icancallubetty.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Although first responders were successful in keeping the fire from JPL, over 150 JPLers have lost their homes. Here’s link to the Caltech/JPL disaster relief fund if you’re so inclined: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema... Thanks for your support of our JPL family.

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Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ignore the timestamps on all but my pinned post; looks like these came across from Twitter without timestamps but they’re all more than a year old, some going back a decade!

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

After almost a year of hiatus, I guess I'm here now.

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 31/05/2023

Great morning yesterday co-leading the @UOW @Healthy_Cities Ride2UOW from the northern suburbs. Great to see so many riders out, despite a windy morning, ending with a nice brekkie and an interview for @UOWTV !

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 14/12/2022

Great to see @UOW now flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags! #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 06/12/2022

Thanks @uowresearch for supporting #OpenAccess! Thanks to funding from a UOW OAHI grant, this publication that I first shared back in May is now free to read for all.

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 06/12/2022

I did a new thing! I’ve been a podcast super-fan since I got my 1st iPod in 2005. But I’ve never been on the other side 🎙 … until now! Excited to be the very 1st guest on Science Bytes by @NCInews. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google - link below👇 dir.lat/CsxGN3

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Podcast | NCI

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 01/12/2022

Thank you all for the congratulatory messages last week when I received the 2022 Anton Hales Medal from @Science_Academy ! Before I share my thanks and what this means to me, I want to talk about the cognitive dissonance I've been feeling over the last two weeks... 🧵👇

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 23/11/2022

@UOW winners of @Science_Academy awards (all from SEALS!) with the legendary Robyn Williams (a South Coast local!): Nico Flament, Alison Broad, yours truly, @KerryleeRogers_ and Allen Nutman #ShineDome22

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 22/11/2022

Excited to be in Canberra about to hear about the incredible science of the newest @Science_Academy fellows at Science at the Shine Dome #ShineDome22

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 07/11/2022

❗️Job alert❗️ We are recruiting for a postdoc to work @UowCac in very close collaboration with Meredith Jordan's group at U. Sydney & with @KableGroup_UNSW. Unique opportunity to combine fundamental #CompChem with #AtmosChem...

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 01/11/2022

Almost sent an email asking if we could get something done “before the end of the world” (meant to write “year”), so… that’s how things are going at the moment 😂

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 13/10/2022

Curious about how climate change affects equity in… Food 🥘 Housing 🏡 Fisheries 🎣 Indigenous communities 🖤💛❤️ Energy storage 🔋 ? Come to our expert panel on Monday! BYO lunch, free desserts! Not in Wollongong? No problem - virtual attendees welcome. Register👇

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 10/10/2022

Still on the fence about attending our #ClimateChange and #Equity Q&A? Come for the great discussion- and the desserts by local Indigenous caterer Donna Dunning! We also welcome virtual attendees (but you’ll have to bring your own treats 😉). Registration link below 👇

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 09/10/2022

Hi #Wollongong! 👋 Do you want to know how #ClimateChange relates to #Equity? Come to our Q&A panel on Monday 17th as part of @GCCWeek to hear from @UOW experts: @karencharlton12 + @QHanich + @ecoheff + @ashmarkstone + Caiyun Wang. Register here!...

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 29/06/2022

And now officially introducing Dom to the Twitterverse! @DKpokro

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 28/06/2022

Very excited to be visiting @Laris_Schneider at ANU just in time to see the first analysis of #mercury in Dom Kpokro’s samples from Ivory Coast artisanal gold mining sites! @UowCac @uowresearch @AusMercury #MakeMercuryHistory

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 26/05/2022

❗️New article alert❗️ Two decades of changing anthropogenic mercury emissions in Australia: inventory development, trends, and atmospheric implications Now published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 🧵 dir.lat/1SPWdx...

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 24/03/2022

Huge congratulations to @Laris_Schneider & @martinjiskra, jointly awarded the Emerging Researcher Award for their contributions to mercury research! Both are outstanding researchers, and Larissa is also the founder of the @AusMercury network...

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 08/03/2022

I just discovered @PayGapApp - this is the #IWD content & context we need. Scroll through the feed to move past shiny images and see a sense of how things really are. Warning: it may make you 😡🤬🤯 (1/2)

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 02/03/2022

Last night, I woke up suddenly at 3am with a single, seemingly pressing question: “If a person who stuffs animals is a taxidermist, is a person who maintains them a taxidermatologist?” … 🤨 … I think my brain needs a vacation 🧠 🏝

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 26/01/2022

AI may be taking over the world but is still doesn’t understand my snarky emails…

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 18/12/2021

Last working week for 2021 done and dusted. Now it’s time for a break. When I come back, something a little different for 2022: I’m taking on a 1 day/week secondment to help UOW develop a Chief Diversity Officer role. Looking forward to the new challenge! But first, ☀️🏝🌊time!

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 09/12/2021

How did I leave off @DrHelenMcGregor ??? 🤦‍♀️ Another incredible colleague and role model and now Professor! 🌟

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 09/12/2021

This week has been chock-a-block with good news from all sorts of different angles. I know most of you follow me for my snarky complaints about Australian research funding and inequities (plus #atmoschem content), but here I am sharing some positive stories (1/4)

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 06/12/2021

Review requests on a Friday followed by WHY HAVEN’T YOU REPLIED YET emails on a Monday are doing my head in. Yes I know these are automated. And that is part of the problem - 48hrs is not enough time between these messages. It just contributes to the email overload. /end-rant

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 25/11/2021

Does continuing to be a US citizen (including filing US tax returns) entitle one to take today off for Thanksgiving? 🦃 🍁 Asking for a friend. A very tired friend. Who is me. Obviously.

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 20/11/2021

TFW you get up early on a Sunday morning and *finally* turn a blank page into a proto-paper (after it being in your brain and on your to-do list for weeks/months). 🙌 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 29/10/2021

Just wrapped up my last class of 2021. I am beyond exhausted 🙇‍♀️ but also so inspired. Our students are amazing - of course resilient but also super hardworking and creative. I’m honoured to get to witness the journey, from struggle to achievement. They will go far! @UOW 🤩

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 26/10/2021

Hello, old friend. I’ve missed you!

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 05/10/2021

Today marks the start of my 10th year working @UOW Thank you to the wonderful colleagues and mentors who have made it possible (and desirable) to build my career here. 💕

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 17/09/2021

Does anyone know if the mass vax hub requires a Medicare card? I’ve heard some int’l students are struggling to get appointments

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 17/09/2021

I walked past the Wollongong mass vaccination clinic this morning and saw them putting out signs that they’re open for walk-ins for Pfizer and AZ! If you’ve struggled to get an appointment, now’s the time! #vaxtheillawarra

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 07/09/2021

10 years ago today, I defended my PhD thesis. 15 years ago today, I flew to Boston to start grad school. 20 years ago Sunday, I drove* to LA to start university. This week has all the nostalgia milestones. What a journey it’s been! *planned to fly but then 9/11 happened…

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 05/09/2021

I’ve never been much of a sweet tooth (or much of a baker), so I went for a savoury option: salmon-en-croute 😋 #UOWBakeOff @UOW_VC

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 13/08/2021

Australia is getting closer to ratifying the Minamata Convention on Mercury! The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties held a hearing this week, and you can watch the whole thing (from 11:40:00)...

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 12/08/2021

Earlier this week, I got some good professional news and my husband opened a bottle of bubbly 🍾 and ordered us a fancy meal 🥘 and for one night in 2021 I got to party like it’s 2019* *which for the record is not nearly as fun as partying like it’s 1999 because I’m old & boring

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