Dr Matthew Parnell
@dr-matthew-parnell.bsky.social
Experienced sustainability professional, facilitator, educator + catalyst for a living systems approach to sustainability transformation. At Yalukit Willam, Boonwurrung Country, Melbourne (Naarm), Australia.
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Pollution been an issue for so long in New Delhi that the city’s famous Red Fort is turning black, an outward sign of a growing health and political crisis that’s now bringing angry residents onto the streets. https://cnn.it/4oiebPc
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Pollution been an issue for so long in New Delhi that the city’s famous Red Fort is turning black, an outward sign of a growing health and political crisis that’s now bringing angry residents onto the streets. https://cnn.it/4oiebPc
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A designer posted this and all I can see is the pile of short-life things people put on the kerb on household bulky waste clean-up day. A career in landfill.
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
A designer posted this and all I can see is the pile of short-life things people put on the kerb on household bulky waste clean-up day. A career in landfill.
Reposted by Dr Matthew Parnell
Should’ve acted earlier (say, 3 decades).
Ford CEO Jim Farley said China's auto industry has "enough capacity" to serve the "entire North American market, put us all out of business."
Ford CEO says the US-China EV war is just like the American auto industry's 1980s showdown with Japan, but 'on steroids'
Ford CEO Jim Farley said China's auto industry has "enough capacity" to serve the "entire North American market, put us all out of business."
www.businessinsider.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Should’ve acted earlier (say, 3 decades).
Gary Bartz at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival #MIJF last night - what a wonderful evening of joyous-and at times, transcendent- music! Supported brilliantly by local musicians led by Barney McCall!
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Gary Bartz at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival #MIJF last night - what a wonderful evening of joyous-and at times, transcendent- music! Supported brilliantly by local musicians led by Barney McCall!
Surely they are joking!???
Closing down Institutes or Centres like this almost never works.
Closing down Institutes or Centres like this almost never works.
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Surely they are joking!???
Closing down Institutes or Centres like this almost never works.
Closing down Institutes or Centres like this almost never works.
Same here. Handed to external consultants - patronising, trite, tin-eared, irrelevant + mostly useless. I feel for those at UTS going through this, given its unlikely many academics involved will ever get a permanent full-time job in the sector again.
Wear those undies on the outside as protest!
Wear those undies on the outside as protest!
Somewhere in this Australian university, some well-paid HR people (and consultants, there's always consultants) thought that it was good idea to tell staff worried they might be made redundant that they should hand-wash their good undies to cope with the stress. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended
The University of Technology Sydney is suspending more than 100 courses as it prepares for a controversial redundancy program to save $100 million.
www.abc.net.au
August 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Same here. Handed to external consultants - patronising, trite, tin-eared, irrelevant + mostly useless. I feel for those at UTS going through this, given its unlikely many academics involved will ever get a permanent full-time job in the sector again.
Wear those undies on the outside as protest!
Wear those undies on the outside as protest!
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Mobile phones in 1923. Well, they got that completely wrong 🤔
August 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mobile phones in 1923. Well, they got that completely wrong 🤔
Well, well, whoda thunk it?
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Well, well, whoda thunk it?
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ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN FINLAND
81 STATIONS BETWEEN 30c and 33c
Dozens of tropical nights with Min 20/23C
Records by swathes.
Most long standing record heat wave ever recorded anywhere in Europe
Summer in Finland started grey,cold,a no-summer and look at what it turned out to be:the tropics !
81 STATIONS BETWEEN 30c and 33c
Dozens of tropical nights with Min 20/23C
Records by swathes.
Most long standing record heat wave ever recorded anywhere in Europe
Summer in Finland started grey,cold,a no-summer and look at what it turned out to be:the tropics !
July 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN FINLAND
81 STATIONS BETWEEN 30c and 33c
Dozens of tropical nights with Min 20/23C
Records by swathes.
Most long standing record heat wave ever recorded anywhere in Europe
Summer in Finland started grey,cold,a no-summer and look at what it turned out to be:the tropics !
81 STATIONS BETWEEN 30c and 33c
Dozens of tropical nights with Min 20/23C
Records by swathes.
Most long standing record heat wave ever recorded anywhere in Europe
Summer in Finland started grey,cold,a no-summer and look at what it turned out to be:the tropics !
My latest piece on Second Nature - this time I have a go at emerging issues in use of recycled materials in building construction, using a socio-technical systems lens.
drmatthewparnell.substack.com/p/recycled-b...
#circulareconomy #sustainablebuilding #recycledmaterials
drmatthewparnell.substack.com/p/recycled-b...
#circulareconomy #sustainablebuilding #recycledmaterials
Recycled bricks as an expression of a socio-technical system
The unintended consequences of prioritizing aesthetics in recycled material choice.
drmatthewparnell.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My latest piece on Second Nature - this time I have a go at emerging issues in use of recycled materials in building construction, using a socio-technical systems lens.
drmatthewparnell.substack.com/p/recycled-b...
#circulareconomy #sustainablebuilding #recycledmaterials
drmatthewparnell.substack.com/p/recycled-b...
#circulareconomy #sustainablebuilding #recycledmaterials
I spotted this “conference of the pelicans” on my morning bike ride around the Williamstown foreshore on Boonwurrung country in Melbourne. Always a pleasure, pelicans!
#birds
#birds
July 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I spotted this “conference of the pelicans” on my morning bike ride around the Williamstown foreshore on Boonwurrung country in Melbourne. Always a pleasure, pelicans!
#birds
#birds
And a tragic last minute (literally last minute) loss for the Wallabies in front of 90000 at the MCG. A fantastic game nevertheless!
July 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
And a tragic last minute (literally last minute) loss for the Wallabies in front of 90000 at the MCG. A fantastic game nevertheless!
Eagerly awaiting the start of the Wallabies vs British and Irish Lions at the MCG! Woo! Carn the Wobblies!
July 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Eagerly awaiting the start of the Wallabies vs British and Irish Lions at the MCG! Woo! Carn the Wobblies!
Read + weep. Academia is now deep in the enshittification zone: the drive to publish to stay alive in academia; the need to be highly cited; the greed of academic publishers; the increasing use of LLM AIs; and peer reviewers who can't spot the bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Read + weep. Academia is now deep in the enshittification zone: the drive to publish to stay alive in academia; the need to be highly cited; the greed of academic publishers; the increasing use of LLM AIs; and peer reviewers who can't spot the bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
My latest post on my Substack - Second Nature. This is the first of my Retrospectives, where I dust off an old article and add my reflections on the content in the article. This is the link open.substack.com/pub/drmatthe...
Enjoy (and consider subscribing - its free!)
Enjoy (and consider subscribing - its free!)
July 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My latest post on my Substack - Second Nature. This is the first of my Retrospectives, where I dust off an old article and add my reflections on the content in the article. This is the link open.substack.com/pub/drmatthe...
Enjoy (and consider subscribing - its free!)
Enjoy (and consider subscribing - its free!)
Took my Sustainable Operations students from Insight Academy for a walk in the Jawbone marine reserve at Williamstown, Victoria last week. Its a perfect place to talk sustainability: the worst of our industrialised world and the best of environmental preservation and reconstruction starkly contrast!
July 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Took my Sustainable Operations students from Insight Academy for a walk in the Jawbone marine reserve at Williamstown, Victoria last week. Its a perfect place to talk sustainability: the worst of our industrialised world and the best of environmental preservation and reconstruction starkly contrast!
Beautiful day for x-country skiing on Taungurung country at Mt Stirling, Victoria on Saturday!
June 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Beautiful day for x-country skiing on Taungurung country at Mt Stirling, Victoria on Saturday!
Great day at Dixon's Creek in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, on Saturday, planting trees with the Tree Project!
June 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Great day at Dixon's Creek in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, on Saturday, planting trees with the Tree Project!
Great image of the place where I lived for nearly 14 years! Talking property values when walking across an amazing landscape is a sad sign of the times!
June 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Great image of the place where I lived for nearly 14 years! Talking property values when walking across an amazing landscape is a sad sign of the times!
My latest post on Second Nature at drmatthewparnell.substack.com. The problem of waste solar panels and the failure to apply a whole-systems approach.
June 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My latest post on Second Nature at drmatthewparnell.substack.com. The problem of waste solar panels and the failure to apply a whole-systems approach.
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In case you had any doubts about the #climate & #energy bullet we dodged federally - its all playing out in QLD! #auspol #solar ##wind reneweconomy.com.au/lnp-reverses...
LNP reverses approval of Brookfield-backed wind farm in stunning about-face
Queensland wind farm celebrated as the first to be approved by newly elected LNP government becomes the first to be retrospectively rejected using extraordinary planning powers.
reneweconomy.com.au
May 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Currently working from this beautiful place at Mordialloc Beach on Boonwurrung Country in Melbourne! Literally, on seat, with laptop.
May 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Currently working from this beautiful place at Mordialloc Beach on Boonwurrung Country in Melbourne! Literally, on seat, with laptop.
Excellent thread on the promise vs reality of international carbon markets.
May 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Excellent thread on the promise vs reality of international carbon markets.