Susan Smith

Interests in #climate #science, #environment, #human_rights, #local and #world #news

[Susan Smith @Stardustau]

#IndigenousThoughts #Poetry #QandA #StevenOliver

[QandA @QandA]

Poet, actor and performer Steven Oliver closes the final Q+A for 2022 with an ode to understanding and respect - his poem, 'An Acknowledgement Of'. #QandA

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

The kindness and decency of ordinary Australians - qualities and attributes that the odious Hanson and her rotten ilk would sweep away… https://t.co/GlIiYQdmfA

[Susan Smith @Stardustau]

@bunsenbernerbmd Love and hugs to Brix. Please get better little one.🤗💕

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

They've already written the obituary. A press release sitting in a folder, waiting for the day Thwaites finally goes.

The shelf that held back a glacier the size of Britain is shattering.

We are watching something that cannot be undone.
https://t.co/sUycber5QL

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The man who accused me of ''witchcraft'' - after every other attack had failed - continues to champion institutional narcissism.

Yet the message for him is clear: Enough with the bullying. Not every UN senior official accepts to be intimidated into silence.

[Susan Smith @Stardustau]

This story is just so frightening , yet it is real and it happened in Australia. My heart goes out to her family 😪

https://t.co/6wAR24DviP

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

WHY are we letting Israeli soldiers destroy every inch of Palestine? Is it ''a war''? Would you accept others do this to you and your home?

Let's stop this genocide together.
Diplomats
Politicians
Judges
Police officers
Journalists
Citizens
Anyone can and must take action.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[CNN @CNN]

El Niño has officially begun, and it's expected to intensify into a historic "Super" El Niño that could shift weather patterns around the world https://t.co/9OC6K72s2p

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice

And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense

Such a tiresome waste of time

[Susan Smith @Stardustau]

Vale @ProfRAScolyer 🕯️🕊️My condolence to your family during this very sad time.

[Professor Georgina Long AO (Bluesky @gvlongphdmd) @ProfGLongMIA]

Vale Richard.

I am deeply saddened to lose such a cherished colleague. Richard was a truly extraordinary pathologist - the 'pathologists' pathologist' - who also made generous time for clinicians navigating complex diagnostic cases, understanding that an accurate tissue diagnosis was critical to patient care. His knowledge was vast, his skill exceptional, with an unparalleled eye for accurate tissue diagnoses, and the precision to apply decades of experience where it mattered most.

He shared his expertise widely: through consultation on external specimens, through diagnostic and classification frameworks now used worldwide, and as a devoted teacher and mentor. Richard has left an indelible mark on all who had the privilege of working alongside him. 

My thoughts are with Richard's family during this difficult time, particularly his wife Katie and children Emily, Matthew, and Lucy.

See tribute on @MelanomaAus website >  https://t.co/cAYaKPl2oA

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

With the passing of Richard Scolyer, we have lost one of our brightest lights and one of our biggest hearts.

As the joint 2024 Australian of the Year, Professor Scolyer took his place in the national spotlight with determination and purpose as he very publicly dealt with his glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Every day, this remarkable man – the cancer specialist who became his own subject – took us into his confidence, and he lifted us all in the process.

Richard’s journey was difficult and confronting. “My uncertain path”, as he termed it with characteristic understatement.

Yet it was one he travelled with courage, determination, and a grace that never ceased to be remarkable. The way he shared it with us was an act of profound generosity. He showed us what it means to hope, and to keep searching for solutions. He showed us how to stand firm against fear and stay true to yourself.

Now Richard’s journey is done, yet his legacy will always be with us. The recently established Richard Scolyer Chair at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse proudly bears his name. And one day when a cure is found, Richard’s name will be spoken.

The hearts of all Australians go out to his wife, Dr Katie Nicholl, and their children, Emily, Matthew and Lucy.

And may Richard Scolyer rest in peace.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

3 yrs on & Yates finally takes the fall. For gross, systemic failures, clumsy coverups & attacks on whistleblowers. These guys laugh at Parliament. Time to change the rules. Time for Labor to act on unregulated massive partnerships - who laugh all the way to the bank 🏦💸💵

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I, together with ICC judges and Palestinian HR defenders, need your help to counter US admin's abuses.

Please sign and share the petition.

The EU must not ignore its responsibilities toward us!

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.

“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.*

Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.**

Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”***

* in 1937, Guy Callendar published a paper showing that the world had already warmed over the last 50 years due to human emissions what he called “carbonic acid“ – what we now call CO2 – from burning fossil fuels

** If you are wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?”

— it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now.

So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming.

*** For more on the well funded disinformation campaign, read or watch Merchants of Doubt and The Petroleum Papers

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Next Monday, students across Australia will see their HECS debts rise by over $1 billion because of indexation. They’ve been making repayments all year, but those repayments don’t get credited to their accounts until after indexation is added. The timing’s all wrong. We wouldn’t put up with this in your credit card or home loan - it’s not fair to make graduates put up with it.

The cost-of-HECS crisis was created by the Morrison Government has been allowed to continue under the Albanese Government. Substantial reform is well overdue. I won’t stop pushing the government until it is fixed.

[MSF International @MSF]

This Ebola disease outbreak is different. Find out why 👇

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it.

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress.

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves.

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption