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Andrew Styan

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Media artist, PhD in whole earth system thinking, wonderer, ex metallurgist. Schenberg arts fellow. Awabakal land, Newcastle, Australia https://andrewstyan.com/you-are-here/ “in the spaciousness of uncertainty there is room to act” Rebecca Solnit

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Oct 11

Recently added some letters to my name for research into an immersive artwork that encourages system thinking. The world and its challenges are complex. We need a system-based mindset and language to navigate uncertainty and develop holistic solutions.

Intro paper here: arc.net/l/quote/nivi...

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · 6h

A provocatively named coal ship just got provocatively tagged in Newcastle harbour.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · 15d

True if ‘America’ is defined as the Trump family.

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · 16d

refrigerator stylists?

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · 20d

My daughter asked what I was up to tomorrow, I told her I hadn’t planned that far ahead.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · 23d

One for the good side in the seemingly never ending climate change information v misinformation battle.

John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to lead a University of Melbourne submission to the Senate inquiry on climate misinformation and also speak to @readfearn.bsky.social at @australia.theguardian.com about the trends in climate misinformation & how to counter it www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Sep 26

‘The way that the media deals with the climate is it’s an environmental story and it’s a future story. Whereas this is a housing story, a cost-of-living story, an inequality story, a role of government story…’

- Richard Denniss, Executive Director

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 22

And the wind turbines bearing witness.
Quintessential post-apocalyptic image right there.

⚡The Starship Entity✨2025 @thestarshipentity.bsky.social · Sep 22

Natural gas pipeline ruptures in southern Wyoming, sending huge flame & charring freight train apnews.com/article/wyom...
And lighting up the night sky with a glow seen more than 60 miles www.arabtimesonline.com/news/natural...

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 21

I find it difficult to ‘welcome’ the target. There is no sign of a government acknowledgment of the need for rapidly exiting Australia’s ff extraction, as the science demands. As a major ff exporter our moral global role should be to slow the world’s dependence, rather than support new extraction.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 15

ok. thanks.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 15

“how you died does not redeem how you lived”

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · Sep 14

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 14

is ups the government run service (or was) and fundamentally run as a ‘service’ rather than a ‘ business’?

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 14

A ‘real’ photographer is conceptualising in ‘stops’ of exposure, derived from shutter speed, aperture and sensitivity. 1 stop is double/half the amount of light reaching the film & easy to do that in your head for shutter with fractions of a second. Film and aperture have similarly ‘odd’ units.

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · Sep 13

dear America you don't have a left, you have Conservatives, a right, a far right and then you have Trump, and then you have the extreme right he enables...get out of the country and have a look at how fucking crazy it is to the rest of us...I wish I was joking.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Sep 11

For a project I am working on - how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia - what did he do that we are still feeling the effects of? (Housing, immigration debates, loss of workers rights, black arm band of history, jingoism etc)

Really interested in your takes.

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Sep 11

The greatest contributor to what Ken Henry calls the shift from Australia as the nation of the ‘fair go’ to the nation of ‘finders keepers’.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 31

a useful bit of knowledge. thanks.

GregoryWalters @catmanforever.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you see the Eureka Stockade flag today, know that Raffaello Carboni, an Italian immigrant who helped create the flag, said:

"I call upon all diggers, irrespective of colour, religion or creed, to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge for all the oppressed from all nations on earth." #auspol

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 28

correct

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 28

…. or social housing or public space

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 17

Same in Australia, but their power is waning. The right wing party they own was decisively defeated last election. I suspect a combination of compulsory voting and declining boomer numbers. Young people want change.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 17

I just realised that this is a measure of bedload, certainly an alternative visualisation. The dredge David Allan runs 7 days a week keeping the port of Newcastle clear for coal ships. 10 x 1,100 m3 loads each day.

And Kooragang Island is 10k? years of sediment deposition.

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 17

Perhaps the best way to visualise sediment flow are the satellite images you just shared showing river outfalls. Our local river (Hunter) flowing out to sea at Newcastle runs brown with sediment (along with trees and the occasional cow) during floods. 3/3

Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 17

measurement, just the occasional turbidity measure.

I did find references to some localised sediment studies and to SedNet. This paper seems at first glance to have a good intro to some of the dimensions of sediment and rivers and will read that.
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(PDF) Large-scale patterns of erosion and sediment transport in river networks, with examples from Australia

PDF | This paper examines the patterns of sediment transport in rivers in terms of the sources of sediment and its transport and deposition through the... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thanks Joe, I understand now.
I'm interested in river systems as part of a visualisation of the planetary water cycle, and hadn't considered sediment. At my local scale (Australia) I've just checked some of the public river gauge data and there is no mention of routine sediment ... 1/3

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Andrew Styan @andrewstyan.bsky.social · Aug 16

How is the sediment discharge value determined Joe? A measurement of some sort?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 12

"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives."

--Mamdani, in this interview:

“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani

New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.

www.thenation.com

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