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Libby Robin
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Writer, historian of ideas, Environment in museums What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅 New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. 🌿

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4h
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4h
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/13/a... Good! Now let's get on with Peta Murphy's legacy...
Australian Parliament Sports Club de-registered as lobby group amid MP outrage
Exclusive: The Australian Parliament Sports Club has de-registered as a lobby group, as its CEO claims politicians were fully aware of lobby groups' involvement in the club.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4h
The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke Great new #history initiative to counterbalance the presentism of media. Well done @australia.theguardian.com @austhistassoc.bsky.social

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4h
Adopting a ‘she’ll be right’ attitude to Australian politics may be seductive, but it certainly isn’t guaranteed | Julianne Schultz

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4h
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Well done @albomp.bsky.social - a better look!
Pocock reinvited to parliamentary sports club after PM weighs in
The former star Wallabies player turned independent senator was kicked out of the social sports club after raising concerns about its links to the gambling industry.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 20h
If the paper is published the university should be able to find this out without a manual alert from the researcher. Filling out bibliometrics for rankings bureaucrats is not what Uni staff need to do ... where is AI when you need it?

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 20h
We need a more critical approach to "international rankings" - these may result in staff required to undertake extra paperwork documenting publications rather than doing research or teaching. There is a lot of ghost work involved in documenting "productivity" that gets in the way of actual work
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 20h
“The challenge for Australia’s top universities … is to align perceived prestige with academic integrity. That should mean linking executive incentives not to ranking positions alone but to measures like … equitable pay, staff retention and audit transparency.”

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Australia's universities may win in global rankings, but they're failing teachers and students
An overreliance on foreign students and a predilection towards wage theft means Australia's universities are worse than the rankings suggest.
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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 20h
💡 Cheaper energy bills AND reduced emissions?

Our new report finds that Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving room for the federal gov't to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households.

Here’s how: buff.ly/9UPN4ub
A graphic of wind turbines on a rocky shore, with the text New Grattan Report Bills down, emissions down, a practical path to net-zero electricity
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d
The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 2d
... and the point of conferences is to meet people!
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 2d
What does "working to exit the lease" mean? Working to take as long as possible to get out?

Costs after one month should be borne by the Bishop not the Chancellor... or better still, she can keep her office & simply pay for it herself like a normal person.

Greed isn't becoming.

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
John Clarke was right. We need more women writing comedy. Keep on pioneering!

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Outrageous. They all talk politics at the sports club, and few have Pocock's sporting credentials. The Gambling Lobby isn't sporting. Nor can it decide what is "politics" and what isn't. @davidpocock.bsky.social
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Birthday Wendy!
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
They "have to work" - so you can't... The parked truck with the lads having lunch in it under the window of my office, with a bass that shakes my building is my bete noir. I can't even tell you what the "music" is - it is too loud to hear. We will all be deaf before they turn 35...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... If “events create opportunities for constructive dialogue on issues that matter to Australia’s economy and community” why are they priced out of the reach of ordinary voters? Gambling is destructive & Aust does more of it than elsewhere. No public interest here
Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry
Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
University of Melbourne rated best in Australia in global rankings report Goodo. But are we really considering the cost of "rankings"? What about collaborative collegialism? Too much focus on scores & pubs in the "right" journals is bad for the public interest which 🇦🇺universities also serve
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 4d
#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #MagneticSouth needs to focus more on the greater glider, less on "what is within the law" ... the law is a last resort. Is Magnetic South an environmental thug or not? More trees is good for gliders, good for emissions. Why not spare this special area?
Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remark
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
More a naughty toddler than a parent...

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
Sad that we've lost the various arts of letter-writing. Cheap and cheerful stamp collecting taught me a lot of geography. Tanzania had great stamps too. US and Britain (anonymous stamps!) weren't very interesting. Now almost all our news fed from US... instantly with no stamp art.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
Love resisting "the pull of known outcomes" ... 20/20 hindsight can definitely skew the unfolding ...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
Never been to Luxembourg but their stamps were always great!
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Congratulations all - esp Richard Robson from Australia.
Scientists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in 'metal-organic frameworks'
Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal-organic frameworks", the award-giving body announces.
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 4d
If you prefer to read the text, it’s now available too - research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 4d
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
News Corp executive warns AI firms attempting 'Grand Theft Australia'
News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller issued a call to arms for all media companies to stand together and demand the government rule out any changes to copyright laws.
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Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 4d
Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 5d
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/08/q... Getting second hand old planes from USA... what could possibly go wrong?🤔
As if to prove a point, leaked Qantas group chats reveal a gross problem
The embattled airline is already facing turmoil over its union bargaining with staff and pilots, as well as backlash over a decision to close regional crew bases.
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 5d
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/08/a... We should not discount the emissions budget caused by AI data centres. This is not just "productivity". Keeping a lid on emissions might force more transparency in the sector too. We have a "known issue" here already.
Can wise heads fix the hard problem of AI policy?
The problem with AI is no-one is quite sure what its impacts will be. They could be positive or negative, significant or colossal. So how do governments prepare?
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