Dr Alan Nixon
@alangnixon.bsky.social
Eora man on Darkinjung country; Father of 2 boys - #ClimateActionNow; University Teacher and Discipline Lead - Social Sciences. Attempting to start an #antifa garden under the palms and gums of Empire Bay, NSW (Yes, the irony - pic above). Opinions mine.
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Dr Alan Nixon
@alangnixon.bsky.social
· Dec 18
Simply being vocal about #ClimateChange is enough. Supporting those taking action is even better. But obviously taking action yourself is the place of #RealHeroes. Please click the hashtag and search by user to see the many actions people are taking. Support them (re-posts and follows), join them.
I find it telling our Foreign Minister @senatorwong.bsky.social is prepared to stand on the world stage with a former 'tv personality' who it turns out also happens to be a serial killing psychopath. Apparently without any qualms. I guess being complicit in a GENOCIDE does things to you. #auspol
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Please tell me absolutely no one on the planet believes this imperial scene-setting about Venezuela. You'd have to be the thickest prick, seriously
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Please tell me absolutely no one on the planet believes this imperial scene-setting about Venezuela. You'd have to be the thickest prick, seriously
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Nannas are preparing to make our Christmas video. Watch out for it!
knittingnannas.org/2025/12/09/n...
knittingnannas.org/2025/12/09/n...
Nanna News 8 Dec 2025
Knitting Nannas are back on the streets of Sydney after a thrilling and exhausting time in Newcastle blocking coal ships. Preparations are underway to make the Nannas Christmas video on Friday.
knittingnannas.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Nannas are preparing to make our Christmas video. Watch out for it!
knittingnannas.org/2025/12/09/n...
knittingnannas.org/2025/12/09/n...
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Coming early next year!
Our first full length doc “is going out into the world at what feels like exactly the right moment, especially during this time where we need to question the structures we live within, and collectively work to reimagine our paths forward.” - Ryan Lough
Our first full length doc “is going out into the world at what feels like exactly the right moment, especially during this time where we need to question the structures we live within, and collectively work to reimagine our paths forward.” - Ryan Lough
Grasshopper Hops Into Deal On Adam McKay-Produced Docu ‘You Need This’
Grasshopper Hops Into Deal On Adam McKay-Produced Docu 'You Need This'
deadline.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Coming early next year!
Our first full length doc “is going out into the world at what feels like exactly the right moment, especially during this time where we need to question the structures we live within, and collectively work to reimagine our paths forward.” - Ryan Lough
Our first full length doc “is going out into the world at what feels like exactly the right moment, especially during this time where we need to question the structures we live within, and collectively work to reimagine our paths forward.” - Ryan Lough
100% real quote from Exxon's assistant general counsel on why Big Oil is trying to block lawsuits to make polluters pay for the costs of their pollution:
“I didn’t just move my family to Texas from the East Coast to have a bunch of activists and ambitious politicians bankrupt the company.”
“I didn’t just move my family to Texas from the East Coast to have a bunch of activists and ambitious politicians bankrupt the company.”
Exxon's next Supreme Court play
Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits — part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.
www.exxonknews.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
I live in a tri and sometimes quadri-lingual context, so I use tools like deepl and google translate quite often. Please beware, deepl has a new AI translater that just makes up crap, in my case a petition with a link that goes to a fishing website. Avoid at all costs.
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I live in a tri and sometimes quadri-lingual context, so I use tools like deepl and google translate quite often. Please beware, deepl has a new AI translater that just makes up crap, in my case a petition with a link that goes to a fishing website. Avoid at all costs.
"The problem here is the “Wizard of Oz” moment."
#TheNerdReich again proving #AI isn't there yet.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
#TheNerdReich again proving #AI isn't there yet.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"The problem here is the “Wizard of Oz” moment."
#TheNerdReich again proving #AI isn't there yet.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
#TheNerdReich again proving #AI isn't there yet.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun
I'm watching a doco on Minchin, so everyone can have this one a little early.
"I really like Christmas
It's sentimental, I know
But I just really like it."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv...
I'm watching a doco on Minchin, so everyone can have this one a little early.
"I really like Christmas
It's sentimental, I know
But I just really like it."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv...
White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin
YouTube video by Tim Minchin
music.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun
I'm watching a doco on Minchin, so everyone can have this one a little early.
"I really like Christmas
It's sentimental, I know
But I just really like it."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv...
I'm watching a doco on Minchin, so everyone can have this one a little early.
"I really like Christmas
It's sentimental, I know
But I just really like it."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv...
She's grown so much in a few weeks. Honestly an amazing dog. Loving, smart, cat/dog friendly and not an escape artist (Well tested). Also happy to chill more than wanting lots of exercise. Perfect for our family so far. Look at those head wrinkles... awwww.
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
She's grown so much in a few weeks. Honestly an amazing dog. Loving, smart, cat/dog friendly and not an escape artist (Well tested). Also happy to chill more than wanting lots of exercise. Perfect for our family so far. Look at those head wrinkles... awwww.
Extra Special Envoy, Jillian Segal, asked at Estimates to provide complete list of organisations who she met with.
Responds: request is too broad to be meaningfully answered - only provides sectors she's met with.
#alltoohard
#takingthepiss
Responds: request is too broad to be meaningfully answered - only provides sectors she's met with.
#alltoohard
#takingthepiss
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Note taking more effective than AI for learning
But AI can enrich student learning experience.
www.cambridge.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Check out the baby monobrow of this kid blue-winged parrot 🥲
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Check out the baby monobrow of this kid blue-winged parrot 🥲
The cruel actions of Moreton Bay council are bad enough.
But if we were a just and fair society, this would not just be a matter of homeless people's right being violated.
Being homeless would itself be considered a breach of #HumanRights.
It's also a gross policy failure. #homelessness #auspol
But if we were a just and fair society, this would not just be a matter of homeless people's right being violated.
Being homeless would itself be considered a breach of #HumanRights.
It's also a gross policy failure. #homelessness #auspol
The City of Moreton Bay council violated the human rights of homeless campers when they destroyed their tents and belongings in April, the Supreme Court has heard.
December 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This systematic review compiles 726 fossil records of Chilean insects, arachnids and myriapods from Carboniferous to Quaternary, exposing key gaps in South America's paleoentomology.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is cool 😎. #Networks of #Alpine #Plants that are connected to a central ground cover 'Cushion Plant'. Water retention is the key. The Cushion Plant covers the ground and traps moisture (and warmth) in an environment where it would otherwise run off quickly.
💻 The influences of multiple #CushionPlants in shaping plant–plant network structures
Results:
1️⃣ Cushion plants significantly influence the network structures.
2️⃣ Cushion plants⬆️, network complexity⬆️.
#AlpineEcosystem | #ClimateChange | #PlantCo-occurrenceNetwork
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Results:
1️⃣ Cushion plants significantly influence the network structures.
2️⃣ Cushion plants⬆️, network complexity⬆️.
#AlpineEcosystem | #ClimateChange | #PlantCo-occurrenceNetwork
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
First post: New paper!
Our research shows how climate warming alters trait-growth relationships in tropical montane forests, with potential implications for species composition, carbon cycling, and biodiversity. #Climatechange #Tropicalforests #Forestecology
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
Our research shows how climate warming alters trait-growth relationships in tropical montane forests, with potential implications for species composition, carbon cycling, and biodiversity. #Climatechange #Tropicalforests #Forestecology
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
Frontiers | Linking leaf traits to growth responses under climate warming in tropical trees
Climate warming is affecting the composition and distribution of Andean tropical montane forests (TMFs), resulting in varied growth responses among tree spec...
www.frontiersin.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
🇮🇳 Equitable #climateaction in India is constrained by centralised authority, regulatory weakening & civic exclusion, find Thomas & Antony. India's Panchamrit Policy must embed environmental democracy, restore institutional pluralism & strengthen civic accountability to ensure a #justtransition⬇️
Climate commitments and democratic contradictions: India’s Panchamrit policy in comparative south Asian perspective
www.tandfonline.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🇮🇳 Equitable #climateaction in India is constrained by centralised authority, regulatory weakening & civic exclusion, find Thomas & Antony. India's Panchamrit Policy must embed environmental democracy, restore institutional pluralism & strengthen civic accountability to ensure a #justtransition⬇️