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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 23/01/2026

I want to see Pulp cover Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire

Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 25/11/2025

So, your forecasts are sharp and reliable, but are they valuable? Our new EMS paper on RUVPY is out - reference implementation of RUV. Honest assessment needs to be tailored to the specific decision. RUV is general enough to model almost any context. Go forth and tinker. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 15/10/2025

The flowerpot hats are the low-res pixelated version you got when you drew normal hats on computers in the 80s, but in real-life. Was that intentional or is my brain playing tricks? #devo #genius

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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 01/09/2025

The coming and going of air masses and jet streams over Australia and New Zealand during winter 2025.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Modern water treatment may be the most important life-saving invention of the human race. If these people forgo this, that's on them (but also their vulnerable children), but know what the outcomes can be: bacteria, parasites, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and other horrible, preventable illnesses.

New York Times headline: "Raw water devotees swear by natural springs despite the risks"

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 01/01/2025

Thanks for all your efforts on The Last Drop @timsmedley.bsky.social. It's a fantastic overview of the water emergency and even as a hydrologist I really learnt a lot. Anything you would change in the book following your recent work on degrowth?

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 17/12/2024

Wow I love supercomputers! Just finished a run in 4 hours that would have taken 18 days on my laptop. We have come a long way since these were a thing 💾

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 08/12/2024

And more intense rainfall causes larger sediment and nutrient plumes over the inshore reefs. It's all a bit sad

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 07/12/2024

It's going to be another difficult summer for the reef. Hard to recover from the last marine heatwave when almost each spring sets a new record

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 05/12/2024

I've just seen them as an enticement to read the actual abstract, not really a substitute

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 04/12/2024

Loving all the graphic abstracts these days, but what do you all use to make them? My attempt looks pretty crap

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Australia's warmest spring since national records began in 1910, 2.08 °C above the 1961–1990 average

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 30/11/2024

#Custard were on fire last night at The Baso in Canberra, seemed to be enjoying it as much as we all were. You nailed that cow bell Sam!

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 30/11/2024

I could watch Gurdeep all day

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 30/11/2024

The program basically unfollows everyone unless their description contains one of the keywords I give it, or I've engaged with them in some way. The API makes it really easy, this #ATProtocol is pretty impressive.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 30/11/2024

Just unfollowed 502 accounts, please dont take it personally. I got a bit excited clicking on all those starter packs and my feed stopped reflected what I wanted it to be about. Clicking is a bit of a drag so I wrote a little program to talk to the API and do it for me, thanks @bsky.app!

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 30/11/2024

Looks like that could be it. I was thinking Malaysia was the big palm oil exporter, looks like my knowledge was a bit out of date! ourworldindata.org/grapher/land...

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Land use for palm oil production

An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 30/11/2024

Hopefully bio-thermal wouldn't have that scale of impact! Seems a bit short sighted if that's the case since they have so much geothermal capacity

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 29/11/2024

Indonesia sure stands out. I wonder what's driving that level of deforestation. Is it for timber exports or new mines?

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 27/11/2024

Success! Actually avoided this place for a day and got some real work done

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯 Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 25/11/2024

That sounds nice and simple, why didn't I think of that haha

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 25/11/2024

Yeah same, my feed no longer reflects what I want 😞 I'm writing a python script at the moment to automagically unfollow people. Anyone I haven't engaged with or whose description doesn't include a keyword is gone, sorry

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 25/11/2024

I've heard rumours that some have forgone getting the $10k back just so they can get around the rules, but now we are just gossiping ;)

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If your home/livelihood are ever more frequently wrecked or threatened by severe flooding, and you've been wondering why, this graphic (plus climate breakdown) tells you all you need to know.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 25/11/2024

Thanks, both links really helpful. I'll have another crack shortly

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Oh fun! Might see you at the cafe, its the place to be :) Email sent, lets see if it goes anywhere.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Yeah its really different to Sydney planning. This suburb in particular is interesting because its managed by the developers (Terry Snow's airport group) rather than ACT directly. I think it has led to some good urban design and the future looks bright. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the astro turf either

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

The developers have been (surprisingly?) pretty receptive around the neighborhood. We managed to get a bunch of native trees protected during the DA phase, including Bluetts block on the hill. I'll shoot them a message about adding some shade clothes

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Hey, that's our local playground! Agree about the lack of shade. Some good trees planted but they will take years

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Wow Matt, that was fun to play with! Can definitely see ways to weave this into the classroom. I'm going to have take a closer look at all the other @galacticpolymath.com content now 😄 Actually in Australia, family migrated when I started high school

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I imagine a lot more would get done if leadership at #COP29 looked like this.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

This one grates at me too! I'm not young, I'm in senior leadership roles, and an ECR doing my doctorate atm. All things can be true. Maybe starting an "old ECR" community is easier than changing the current one? 🧓

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Especially if you live in a place where active travel is encouraged (and funded) like #Canberra

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

OMG I was just there yesterday. It's kinda fun how you can walk inside it.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Not a problem, the new link worked perfectly

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Actually, I don't think I included the (:gen-class) mentioned in those instructions though. So that could be it. Either way, the bug is me. The important thing is knowing that creating native binaries with #clojure is totally possible, I love it

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Thanks! Yeah that's pretty much what I fudged my way to in the end, but I couldn't make it work

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 24/11/2024

Sounds like a fun comp. Unfortunately the link is broken

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 23/11/2024

Completely agree. I've dropped back from full-time BOM and research to teach high school science part-time for this reason. I see it as a form of activism. We shouldn't lose sight of our individual comparative advantage, not everyone needs to be at a protest.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 23/11/2024

That's enough yak shearing for today

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 23/11/2024

Thanks, I just went down that rabbit hole based on your recommendation. Worked great running with bb but I would still need to convince them to install that. Had a go at using graalvm to get a native binary but I didn't seem to be smart enough. Worked with a Java hello_world but not Clojure.

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Richard Laugesen @laugesen.com.au · 23/11/2024

Genuine question, is @calnewport.bsky.social really Cal? Digital minimalism and all that

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