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Dr Georgy Falster

@raindrop-herder.bsky.social
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mildly misanthropic swimming skiing scientist. climate & paleoclimate, co-lead PAGES2k pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2k…. person of european descent, born on Kaurna land. she/her

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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
PhD position open: The weather forecast for groundwater recharge events • Seeking a PhD researcher with expertise in groundwater, climatology or meteorology, interested in tackling the question: • What weather events replenish groundwater and how do climate influences change this? • Using our…
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PhD position open: The weather forecast for groundwater recharge events
• Seeking a PhD researcher with expertise in groundwater, climatology or meteorology, interested in tackling the question: • What weather events replenish groundwater and how do climate influences change this? • Using our novel Australian cave observatories of recharge events • Our aim is to provide regional stakeholders with the first weather forecast for groundwater recharge over different timescales • …
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/04/2026
Australia and Norway both have highly profitable resource industries. Norway taxes oil and gas at 78% and has used that revenue to build the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. The comparison highlights the massive opportunity Australia has missed. Read more: theaus.in/4sHQcex
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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 27/02/2026
Call for 5-year NERC Independent Research Fellowships is now open. No limit on grant value and open to international applicants. If you're interested in being hosted by Earth Sciences at Oxford, our internal expression of interest deadline is 16th March. Further details: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Early Independence: NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2026
Apply for a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (IRF) to further your career through an independent research project.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How thrilling that the Department of Climate Change is the one in charge of new coal mine approvals. Maybe someone should point out to the minister that the portfolio is notionally about mitigating climate change rather than helping it along?
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date! Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4 ❄️
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
And I made a little web app where you can go and download monthly precipitation time series data from your location of choice (as long as it's in Australia) wateriso-aus.shinyapps.io/apic/
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Australian precipitation isotope calculator
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
and another one: has anyone here gone through the arduous process (e.g., for teaching graphics) of converting the various past1000 forcings (volcanic, solar, GHG) to radiative forcings in W/m2? This seems like....a big job. And surely someone here has the code for it(!) Hence my attempt at laziness
IPCC AR4 WG1 Chapter 6 Figure 6.13. There is an equivalent at IPCC AR6 WG1 Chapter 2 Figure 2.10 but only from 1750.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Has anyone here used the PMIP4 past1000 submissions from IPSL-CM6A-LR or MPI-ESM1-2-LR? And more importantly: could point me to where I could find them?! I only recently learned that they exist but can't find them. At this stage I'm only after tas (past1000 and the associated historical sim) tyty
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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
A sad and lovely piece co-authored by my UNSW colleague Rob Brooks on the recent passing of marine scientist and research leader Prof Emma Johnston AO. theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...
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Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity
The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I won this sweet prize for being the biggest nerd at an enormous meeting of nerds @linkedearth.bsky.social #AGU25
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It's been a fantastic #AGU25 week for Hydroclimate2k - lots of new H2k friends made at the poster session, SO many amazing Common Era hydroclimate talks, and an H2k lunch so fun that I forgot to take a photo. A great reminder of what a wonderful global community we have :) #21daysof2k
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Typically, I forgot to ask someone to take a photo of my #AGU25 talk. But I liked the part where people giggled instead of hurling fruit every time I (mostly accidentally) threw shade on various parts of the community.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
At #AGU25? Come by my poster this afternoon to chat about our in-development @pages-ipo.bsky.social database or indeed any of my absurd number of current projects
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Can days 1-4 of #AGU25 exceed the lofty heights of day 1, which featured a full day of fun presentations but most importantly this incredible exhibition hall prize?? Immediately my new map projection of choice
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The snowgum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) is one of the (relatively) few Australian tree species with clear annual rings. Researchers at Adelaide Uni and ANU are using snowgum cellulose d18O to produce a new record of alpine hydroclimate over past centuries #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Interested in tropical (paleo)hydroclimate dynamics, water isotopes, and data-model comparison? Going to #AGU25? My supervisor, Alyssa Atwood, is giving an invited talk on our research into the 8.2 ka Event on Thurs., 18 Dec. between 11:40-11:50 CT! 🌊🪨🧪👩🏻‍💻 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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a picture of a waterfall with the words welcome to the amazon hope you brought a raincoat below it
ALT: a picture of a waterfall with the words welcome to the amazon hope you brought a raincoat below it
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Did you know the current Hydroclimate2k project isn't the first time PAGES 2k has dipped a toe into understanding global hydroclimate? In 2016, researchers gathered in Palisades, USA to discuss data-model comparisons of Common Era hydroclimate. Read about it here: pages2kpmip3.github.io #21daysof2k
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PAGES (Past Global Changes) @pages-ipo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Have you been following @profmattjones.bsky.social and @raindrop-herder.bsky.social who are sharing insights into the work of the PAGES 2k Network working group? Drop them a follow to see what else they have in store during the #21daysof2k! Website: pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2...
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Some of the beautiful varves from Nar Gölü, Türkiye. Each pair of layers represents one year of lake sediment. The varves tell us about hydroclimate e.g. where they change colour, as do the proxies we measure from them e.g. Dean et al 2015 QSR 124:162 #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of the current flagship activities of PAGES 2k is compilation of the Hydroclimate2k database. This map shows records currently being assessed for inclusion, with more records being added by a global team of project members. Read more here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... #21daysof2k
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Throwback to 2017 when Iso2k project members met up in Zaragoza, Spain for the first (and only!) in-person workshop of a mammoth five-year database collation effort. Here we are, variably spelling out the name of the project or providing an enthusiastic backdrop #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
In 2019/2020 Kangaroo Island (Australia) was devastated by severe bushfires. Researchers at the University of Adelaide are developing new Common Era lake and speleothem records to discover how fire and rainfall regimes on KI are changing with climate change #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
Photograph of a landscape with bare sandy soil showing through sparse new regrowth. The landscape is gently hilly, and a road is visible from the lower right of the photo until it disappears over the horizon. The sky is an uninterrupted pale blue.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hydroclimate2k will be at #AGU25! Come along to poster PP33C-1090 from 2:15 on Weds 17th to say hi and see what we're up to. #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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Hydroclimate2k: A New PAGES Database of Hydroclimate Proxy Records for the Common Era
The PAGES 2k Network has provided important context for current global warming,...
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
One of the great things about @pages-ipo.bsky.social projects is the opportunity to work with amazing scientists from all over the world; here's a few of the 2k Network at a workshop in Nottingham last year #21daysof2k
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The PAGES 2k Network (pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2k-network) has been investigating the climate of the last 2000 years since 2008. The Network is currently focusing on hydroclimate, co-ordinated by scientists from 8 countries over 5 continents #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Yaal Chac, Mexico – a new site for inclusion in the Hydroclimate2k database (Metcalfe SE et al., 2022, Quat Sci Rev 282: 107445) and a photogenic start to our #21daysof2k event. Over the next 3 weeks we'll be giving daily insights into the work of the PAGES 2k Network. @pages-ipo.bsky.social
Yaks Chac, a lake in Mexico
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
new water isotope preprint! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... We used the MAGIC of machine learning (ok, random forests) to predict monthly precipitation stable isotopes over the Australian continent, at monthly resolution from 1962-2023. Details at the paper; pretty animation below
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Petra Vaiglova @petravaiglova.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’m very pleased to share that our paper on Early Neolithic boar feasting at Asiab is out in @commsearth.nature.com. rdcu.be/euyuO. Many thanks for all the Early Career Research support that made this study possible 🐗🦷👩‍🔬 @raindrop-herder.bsky.social
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Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia
Communications Earth & Environment - Ceremonial feasting in Early Neolithic Asiab, western Iran, involved transport of animals over substantial distances to celebrate far-flung social networks,...
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
absolutely thrilled to have spent two hours this morning sorting out GST assignments on my purchase card acquittals when apparently there is an entire finance department at the University of Adelaide busy doing...something else. I swear this place is set up to actively discourage research
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.
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Science & Medicine at ANU @scienceanu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In a drought-prone country such as Australia, there’s an age-old question: why do the rains sometimes disappear? Recent research from @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social shows Australian scientists are getting closer to answering this question. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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Why is southern Australia in drought – and when will it end?
New research suggests southern Australia may experience longer and more frequent droughts in the future, as the climate changes.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 15/05/2025
Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
in these dark times, I am thrilled to announce I just sent off a finalised paper draft to co-authors, featuring SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN panels across 28 figures (that's a personal best or personal worst, depending on your preferences)
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
two weeks into my DECRA at the University of Adelaide: my project funds still don't exist, I don't have building access, and I won't have a computer until mid-May. I'm not sure what's going on with the admin/HR/finance in this place but the results are.....shambolic.
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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just out - incredibly important analysis led by Dr Chiara Holgate with @raindrop-herder.bsky.social @climatenerilie.bsky.social and a very large impressive team on causes of Australian droughts. A timely read in SA and WA for sure... www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review - Communications Earth & Environment
Australia experiences meteorological droughts due to insufficient moisture transport and heavy precipitation, which are influenced by climate variability and land processes, and are expected to become...
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Out today: our comprehensive review of Australian droughts. It covers the nature and drivers of drought development, intensification & termination - and how those are changing with climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Scientific diagram summarising the causes of drought development, intensification, and termination in Australia. The graphic shows that drought development and intensification is associated with El Nino and positive IPO conditions in the Pacific Ocean, positive IOD conditions in the Indian Ocean, reduced onshore moisture transport, high pressure systems over south-eastern and south-western Australia, dry MJO phases, and wind-evaporation feedbacks - with all affected by anthropogenic forcing. Drought termination is associated with La Nina and negative IPO conditions in the Pacific Ocean, negative IOD conditions in the Indian Ocean, enhanced onshore moisture transport, cut-off low weather systems in south-eastern Australia, monsoon lows in north-western Australia, and wet MJO phases - with all affected by anthropogenic forcing.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
DECRA day #1: got stuck in a bizarre loop where to find out my finance project codes I needed access to a system that could only be granted entering, into an online form, the correct project codes. In better news, there's a feijoa tree outside my new building.
Photograph of a gently tattoo'd arm holding a bicycle helmet upside-down by the straps. The helmet is acting as a basket for a handful of feijoas. In the background is visible a feijoa tree in a patch of morning sunlight.Photograph of a woman with chin-length blonde hair, smiling down at the camera, wearing a blue checkered shirt open over a navy mock-turtleneck. The photo is taken from a low angle. In the background is a brick building, with the letters "E MAWSON LABORAT" visible on the façade.
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Christy Till @ctill.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@agu.org has a tool to find & contact your legislators about FY25 #science funding. It provides scripts, email text, phone numbers & sends emails. agu.quorum.us/campaign/FY2...
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Support Science Funding in this Pivotal Moment
Congress is setting its spending limits now--tell your legislators to support science in their appropriations bills.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
After three jam-packed years, today was my last day at ANU. During my postdoc here I learned a LOT, went to cool places, did fun science, and met a truly delightful bunch of people. I'll miss ANU but looking forward to starting my DECRA fellowship at Adelaide Uni in just under a month
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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Rumours in Canberra that election will be called on Monday. We still have choices Australia. I want to preserve them. Putting my money where my mouth is. www.climate200.com.au/campaign/fight-back-against-coal-funded-lies-meta?utm_source=copylink&utm_medium=social&utm_content=sharelink
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We’ve got their backs. | Climate 200
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
90 minutes to get home, get glam, and get to the National Museum? No problems, with a classic Georgy slapdash black tie effort* Now off to the #SMP2025 Gala Dinner to see how many times I can work the word 'megadrought' into casual conversation
Photograph of a woman with short blonde hair, mid-swish of an icy blue satin princess dress.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
✅ run ✅ shower ✅ off to @scienceau.bsky.social Science Meets Parliament (handily just 900 m down the road from me in Canberra) #SMP2025
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women* and Girls* in Science. I've been lucky to have a string of supporters through my career (such as it's been) - many of whom are women. And brilliant, inspirational women at that. You know who you are - all my thanks.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2025
Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046
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Richard Allan @rpallanuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Water vapour is increasing with and amplifying warming as expected: doi.org/10.1029/2022... This is intensifying the global water cycle and swings between wet & dry extremes which will only accelerate without rapid and massive cuts in greenhouse gases
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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Looking at you Australian Universities. The best time to leave was over a year ago. Second best time is now.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 14/01/2025
LA fires forecast to be costliest blaze in US history with estimate of over $200bn in losses #Climate
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LA fires forecast to be costliest blaze in US history with estimate of over $200bn in losses
Fires have killed at least 24, displaced thousands, destroyed over 12,000 structures as winds predicted until Wednesday
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Kevin Garcia @garciakevin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our nerdy #ChristmasTree is up again at North Carolina State University ! 🧪🎄
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Ryan Abernathey @rabernat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My book is still out there! Please use, adapt, and help maintain if you find it helpful for teaching!
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