Alan Stenhouse
@basketmonkey.bsky.social
Researcher with interests in environment, ecology, conservation, climate change, AI, software dev, society, systems, etc. Currently researching/developing human-AI collaborative intelligence.
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A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research
Abstract. Natural history collections play a crucial role in our understanding of biodiversity, informing research, management, and policy in areas such as
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Our new paper explores how AI-based “digital curators” (or agents) might revolutionize natural history collections by assisting human experts with routine tasks while preserving crucial human oversight.
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After a few decades as an ecologist, with >60% (~20yrs) spent in the field undertaking terrestrial vert fauna surveys, my biggest take-aways inc:
1. You don't know everything,
2.You will forever keep learning,
3. Indigenous cultural knowledge = landscape ecology = awareness,
4 awareness = knowledge.
1. You don't know everything,
2.You will forever keep learning,
3. Indigenous cultural knowledge = landscape ecology = awareness,
4 awareness = knowledge.
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
After a few decades as an ecologist, with >60% (~20yrs) spent in the field undertaking terrestrial vert fauna surveys, my biggest take-aways inc:
1. You don't know everything,
2.You will forever keep learning,
3. Indigenous cultural knowledge = landscape ecology = awareness,
4 awareness = knowledge.
1. You don't know everything,
2.You will forever keep learning,
3. Indigenous cultural knowledge = landscape ecology = awareness,
4 awareness = knowledge.
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The biggest lie the fossil fuel industry ever sold to the Australian public was the idea that LNG is a “transition fuel”. As Ketan shows in the clip, there’s no transition happening. Just a continuation of the same planet wrecking system to enrich a small cartel of international FF producers.
HEY FRIENDS
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The biggest lie the fossil fuel industry ever sold to the Australian public was the idea that LNG is a “transition fuel”. As Ketan shows in the clip, there’s no transition happening. Just a continuation of the same planet wrecking system to enrich a small cartel of international FF producers.
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HEY FRIENDS
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
HEY FRIENDS
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal
You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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What stage of fascism is it when the leader doesn’t mind being called a fascist? 🤔 #Trumpland #USFascism
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
What stage of fascism is it when the leader doesn’t mind being called a fascist? 🤔 #Trumpland #USFascism
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1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
Alliance of Industry Groups: Letter on EPBC - Business Council of Australia
www.bca.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
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Students, Staff & Alumni of Go8 unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) disgruntled about their endorsement of deeply regressive EPBC changes championed as "essential" by the Business Council of Australia-led Alliance may wish to make their objections known to their institutions
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Students, Staff & Alumni of Go8 unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) disgruntled about their endorsement of deeply regressive EPBC changes championed as "essential" by the Business Council of Australia-led Alliance may wish to make their objections known to their institutions
The importance of using multiple sources of data for biodiversity evaluations:
"On the NSW north coast in the Styx River State Forest, citizen scientists counted 338 glider dens, while FCNSW counted nine."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"On the NSW north coast in the Styx River State Forest, citizen scientists counted 338 glider dens, while FCNSW counted nine."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Absolute madness': Environment groups decry glider survey results
New data points to the "systemic" under-reporting of greater glider dens within areas earmarked for logging in NSW, which scientists say could result in localised extinctions.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The importance of using multiple sources of data for biodiversity evaluations:
"On the NSW north coast in the Styx River State Forest, citizen scientists counted 338 glider dens, while FCNSW counted nine."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"On the NSW north coast in the Styx River State Forest, citizen scientists counted 338 glider dens, while FCNSW counted nine."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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A shutdown of the AMOC, a crucial system of ocean currents, “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore in view of the evolving science over the past years,” explains PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social via CNN.
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A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat | CNN
Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of collapse and the country is preparing for this “existential threat.”
edition.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A shutdown of the AMOC, a crucial system of ocean currents, “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore in view of the evolving science over the past years,” explains PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social via CNN.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
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“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
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I guess it's unlikely but if Aus does end up winning COP31 this is probably a good taste of how the government will treat the Pacific nations it's claiming to be elevating
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I guess it's unlikely but if Aus does end up winning COP31 this is probably a good taste of how the government will treat the Pacific nations it's claiming to be elevating
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The problem with pinning our hopes on nature to clean up our emissions is that the more the planet heats, the less it's able to do so
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
The land and ocean CO₂ sink are 25% and 7% smaller, respectively, than they would have been without the effects of climate change and variability, on average for the 2015-2024 period.
Combined, this is equivalent to the total sink (land and ocean) being nearly 20% smaller than otherwise.
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Combined, this is equivalent to the total sink (land and ocean) being nearly 20% smaller than otherwise.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The problem with pinning our hopes on nature to clean up our emissions is that the more the planet heats, the less it's able to do so
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
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We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies).
Read the highlights in a short article:
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies).
Read the highlights in a short article:
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies).
Read the highlights in a short article:
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies).
Read the highlights in a short article:
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
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It’s not enough for renewables to rise, but carbon emissions need to decrease—and rapidly—to have any impact on the #ClimateCrisis. Fossil fuel and plastics need to become a thing of the past. #COP30 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate
Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are forecast to reach a new high in 2025 but could soon peak.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It’s not enough for renewables to rise, but carbon emissions need to decrease—and rapidly—to have any impact on the #ClimateCrisis. Fossil fuel and plastics need to become a thing of the past. #COP30 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Free water testing for nitrate contamination – next stop Southland, Canterbury
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz
#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz
#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
Free water testing for nitrate contamination - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Find free nitrate contamination water testing near you, or request Greenpeace's free mail-in water testing.
www.greenpeace.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Free water testing for nitrate contamination – next stop Southland, Canterbury
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz
#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz
#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
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We’re hiring a Quantitative Ecologist (Internship)!
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We’re hiring a Quantitative Ecologist (Internship)!
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
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@australianlabor.bsky.social's environmental law reform package (as of today) is genuinely terrible, on multiple fronts theconversation.com/labors-envir...
Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise
Labor’s long-awaited environmental reforms do represent progress. But ambition levels have been dialled back and much depends on the detail.
theconversation.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
@australianlabor.bsky.social's environmental law reform package (as of today) is genuinely terrible, on multiple fronts theconversation.com/labors-envir...
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In awe of the team at Clinic Nineteen treating adults & children for long COVID & related diseases. COVID infection is commonplace in the community & repeat infections increase your chances of getting LC so do your best to avoid infection. Indoor air quality is key.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Long COVID patients seeking help 'let down by the system'
Patients are calling for better access to long COVID care after the closure of one of the country's last public clinics.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In awe of the team at Clinic Nineteen treating adults & children for long COVID & related diseases. COVID infection is commonplace in the community & repeat infections increase your chances of getting LC so do your best to avoid infection. Indoor air quality is key.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is officially open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in:
Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
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Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
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LoCITT-T - Long COVID Treatment Trial
longcovid.scripps.edu
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is officially open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in:
Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
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Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
1/16
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Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.
As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.
As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
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The Luxon Govt’s bonkers plan to build 17 Big New Roads that we don’t really need will cost us at least $44 billion.
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance
The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Luxon Govt’s bonkers plan to build 17 Big New Roads that we don’t really need will cost us at least $44 billion.
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
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NEW: “ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden.
“Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
“Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
NEW: “ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden.
“Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
“Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
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Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide.
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide.
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...