David Hutchinson
@dkhutch.bsky.social
Paleoclimate modeller at UNSW, visitor at ANU
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I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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Current Vacancies
careers.utas.edu.au
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
1/n
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
1/n
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Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement
The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C
👉Emissions still rising
👉Pledges improving, not delivering
👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles
…and the next decade will decide everything
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C
👉Emissions still rising
👉Pledges improving, not delivering
👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles
…and the next decade will decide everything
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement - Nature Climate Change
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, Nature Climate Change asked experts to reflect on the progress of and barriers to several of its key Articles. They share their thoughts on import...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement
The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C
👉Emissions still rising
👉Pledges improving, not delivering
👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles
…and the next decade will decide everything
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C
👉Emissions still rising
👉Pledges improving, not delivering
👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles
…and the next decade will decide everything
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Nine of the Top 10 countries in solar PV per capita are in Europe
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Nine of the Top 10 countries in solar PV per capita are in Europe
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70
1 Australia: 1,521 Watt/ Capita
2 Netherlands 1,491
3 Germany 1,187
4 Estonia 973
4 Austria 973
6 Greece 964
7 Spain 962
8 Belgium 943
9 Hungary 933
10 Switzerland 908
...
NB:
China: 620
US: 519
India: 70
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It's a universal truth.
October 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It's a universal truth.
Absolutely robbed. Apparently headbutting is cool and normal if you're Reece Walsh.
Canberra were robbed!!!
Broncos edge past Raiders with golden point field goal in thrilling NRL qualifying final
September 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Absolutely robbed. Apparently headbutting is cool and normal if you're Reece Walsh.
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On the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I am posting the cartoon which was my response to the chest-beating nationalistic rhetoric immediately used by George W Bush to stir up support for a military response. The editor at the time would not publish it.
September 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
On the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I am posting the cartoon which was my response to the chest-beating nationalistic rhetoric immediately used by George W Bush to stir up support for a military response. The editor at the time would not publish it.
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Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶
September 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶
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I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Got myself a gift for a blood donation milestone 🩸
August 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Got myself a gift for a blood donation milestone 🩸
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Should be more of this!
"Real Zero has one definition.
You commit to phasing out fossil fuels and you do it without relying on offsets, carbon capture and storage, and any other technology that does not exist yet.”
- Dr @shantabarley.bsky.social, Fortescue Chief Climate Scientist
#auspol
You commit to phasing out fossil fuels and you do it without relying on offsets, carbon capture and storage, and any other technology that does not exist yet.”
- Dr @shantabarley.bsky.social, Fortescue Chief Climate Scientist
#auspol
August 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Should be more of this!
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NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
August 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
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@chriswallace.bsky.social posted this excellent piece on the dead bird place
August 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@chriswallace.bsky.social posted this excellent piece on the dead bird place
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📣 Job opportunity 📣
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!
You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶
👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!
You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶
👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Job Search
careers.pageuppeople.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📣 Job opportunity 📣
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!
You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶
👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!
You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶
👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Nikolai Ivanovic Lobachevsky was his name, oi!
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Nikolai Ivanovic Lobachevsky was his name, oi!
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We figured out a cheap-ish way to make ocean models create Dense Shelf Waters (DSW) on the surface of the Antarctic continental shelf! How?
Fast answer: Ocean surface cells thinner than 1 m!
Long answer on the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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More info in the thread
Fast answer: Ocean surface cells thinner than 1 m!
Long answer on the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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More info in the thread
Antarctic Dense Water Formation Sensitivity to Ocean Surface Cell Thickness
The ability of ocean models with depth coordinates to form Antarctic Dense Shelf Water (DSW) depends on their surface vertical resolution
Deeper surface cells shift the direction of surface Ekman...
dx.doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We figured out a cheap-ish way to make ocean models create Dense Shelf Waters (DSW) on the surface of the Antarctic continental shelf! How?
Fast answer: Ocean surface cells thinner than 1 m!
Long answer on the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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More info in the thread
Fast answer: Ocean surface cells thinner than 1 m!
Long answer on the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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More info in the thread
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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
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
July 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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
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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🚨 New paper alert 🚨
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
July 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored.
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored.
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
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Should crown witnesses from a murder trial be giving interviews discussing when they personally decided the accused was guilty, when there remains the possibility of a successful appeal and retrial? We're thinking no, probably not.
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Should crown witnesses from a murder trial be giving interviews discussing when they personally decided the accused was guilty, when there remains the possibility of a successful appeal and retrial? We're thinking no, probably not.
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Key climate wild cards like tipping points and abrupt shifts are still missing from many models. A new piece by CCRC’s @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & Steven Sherwood explains why accounting for these uncertainties is essential.
Read the full piece here: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
Read the full piece here: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
The climate wild cards still missing from our models
Climate models have been remarkably effective at projecting global warming trends, but they still fail to fully capture some crucial processes that could dramatically accelerate climate change, accord...
www.unsw.edu.au
July 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Key climate wild cards like tipping points and abrupt shifts are still missing from many models. A new piece by CCRC’s @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & Steven Sherwood explains why accounting for these uncertainties is essential.
Read the full piece here: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
Read the full piece here: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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This morning's Sydney Morning Herald is a master class in irresponsible reporting of a murder trial that is not concluded. Icing on the cake is the op-ed by a psychologist musing on the possibility that the defendant is a narcissist.
July 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This morning's Sydney Morning Herald is a master class in irresponsible reporting of a murder trial that is not concluded. Icing on the cake is the op-ed by a psychologist musing on the possibility that the defendant is a narcissist.