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Professor Euan Ritchie

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Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him. Research: https://euanritchie.org/ The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Karate, Basketball, Carlton FC 🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2 .. more

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Nov 12

Ok, here’s my starter pack! go.bsky.app/4ASwaLv
Non-exhaustive list!

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reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 19h

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20h

Fantastic that this attribution research by climate scientists is out in the world!

Hope citizens, schoolchildren & journos use it to hold fossil fuel corps like Woodside & their enablers like SA Premier Malinauskas & fed Enviro Min Watt accountable for deaths & enviro harm fr fossil fuel projects

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 23h

👀 on NSW's proposed planning law overhaul! 👀

Read both the ABC & Guardian reports to understand how the NSW govt is using deceptive language & misrepresentations of ICAC's role in shaping the bill to ram through NSW planning law changes that're a bad-faith power grab 1/

'Deceitful' planning laws bypass environment, corruption safeguards, experts say

There are growing fears that a major overhaul of planning laws promoted to fast-track housing development will bypass environmental protections and remove safeguards against corruption.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

And still people wonder why more women don't report sexual assault www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

Former senator Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins as she tries to recover damages awarded to her for defamation.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

So, does this mean that those approving these developments could be charged with endangering life?

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Nature paper by Nerilie J. Abram, Nicola Maher, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Georgina M. Falster, Terry P. Hughes, Katrin J. Meissner, Louise J. Slater, Andrew D. King, Andrew J. Pitman, Gillian Moon & Wesley Morgan
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Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 1d

Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

But Vincent, you make it sound so easy...of course, you're right.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Where did I say hire more execs?

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

It's remarkable Jane is an elected MP.

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Rob Richards @robrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Universities have been leaders, not followers in the outsourcing industry.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

And I think this is a very generous assessment! theconversation.com/since-2020-4... The GBR and others are hardly getting better.

Since 2020, 4 of Australia’s natural World Heritage properties have deteriorated

Globally important natural areas such as Ningaloo and Shark Bay have been hard hit in recent years. But Macquarie Island is recovering.

theconversation.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Bingo!

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept"
- Lieutenant General David Morrison

Could have been written about senior academics unwilling to call out bad behaviour of the academy. There is a constructive & unconstructive way to review papers, & Editors have a job to know the difference.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. It's so embarrassing that unis have so many of the best and brightest, many looking for job security, and yet they outsource work to overpaid and often underwhelming consultants. Hire more staff in-house. Simple.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

So, time to end meal service.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Simple fix. Hire more staff to do the work of overpaid and often underwhelming consultants, in-house.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

IKR, it's utterly absurd that universities, with so many of the best and brightest compared to other organisations, outsource so much work at vast expense. If needed, hire some more staff in-house!

It's the same stupid mentality as the gutting of the Oz public service in preference for the big 4!

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

"One consultant totalled $85,000...almost $3,000 a day".

"Last year, a NTEU report estimated universities across Australia spent $734 million a year on consultants, a practice across the sector which the union has strongly criticised."

Here's an idea, hire more staff instead of consultants on $$$!

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

This nonsense must end, one would have hoped we'd learnt from the damage done to the Australian public service and government decision-making, but clearly not www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Uni staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies

As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.

www.abc.net.au

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Monday, everyone!

Here's our reminder that without far stronger environmental laws the wildlife and places we all know and dearly love will continue to be destroyed and disappear, forever.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... By @drphilmccormack.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and me.

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

This nonsense must end, one would have hoped we'd learnt from the damage done to the Australian public service and government decision-making, but clearly not www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Uni staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies

As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.

www.abc.net.au

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
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