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Speech-language pathologist in education. Word nerd. Likes reading science.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

9 years in the making, yesterday's #IPCC 6th assessment report synthesises a 6000-page (?) summary of climate and related sciences, and is arranged around 18 'headline statements'

I'm going to try and summarise it in 18 plain-language tweets 😬

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Dear Journalists covering tomorrow's IPCC report release,
First of all, THANK YOU.
Second of all, here are a couple of questions you should not be asking climate scientists, ever ever ever.

[Ben Eltham @beneltham]

What you need to understand is the people with $5m in super have worked hard for that money. They’ve hired tax accountants, engaged financial planners, moved some money around multiple secrecy jurisdictions, organised a watertight family trust. There should be reward for effort

[ness @vanessabas]

Prime minister, Alice Springs doesn't need a 'solution'. Our children need agency via @crikey_news https://t.co/5usEyYW5io

[Lyn Stone @lifelonglit]

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[Dr. Merritt Turetsky @queenofpeat]

False narratives about the #Arctic & #permafrost are being driven by the media. Here are some facts from science. 1) permafrost underlies 1/4 of N hemisphere land and 1/2 of Canada. Frozen ground is a backbone for ecosystems and infrastructure. 1/ https://t.co/zSUFgrTRK2

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

So, eleven-and-a-bit years ago, I wrote the only written narrative in Minecraft: the story that appears after you kill the Ender Dragon. (A narrative which players often call The End Poem.)
Today, I officially librated that ending.

Er, what does that mean?

🧵

[ness @vanessabas]

@Lucy_TheConvo @SandroDemaio Oooh looks great!!

[ness @vanessabas]

@SketchesbyBoze On grief and loss: “the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.” Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

[ness @vanessabas]

More than one in six children live in poverty — and both Labor and the Coalition seem fine with that via @crikey_news https://t.co/jPlFWQbtfP

[ness @vanessabas]

Screw Stage 3 tax cuts. They are fiscally irresponsible and massively unfair, overwhelmingly benefit high income earners.

Let's get this full page ad in the paper before the Budget.
https://t.co/XSHrM5KePN

[Chelsea Hetherington @chelsea_hetho]

#BREAKING: The UN Human Rights Committee has found the Australian Government violated the rights of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to adequately address climate change. The decision follows a landmark complaint made by eight Torres Strait Islanders in 2019. @abcnews

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

I really can't believe Ben Roberts-Smith was invited to the Queen's funeral.

And not Christian Porter.

[ness @vanessabas]

@goodreads Gorgeous read, it’s stayed with me.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I've been covering bad parts of the internet for long time now.

For years, there was one site extremist researchers warned me not to cover because publicizing it would be dangerous.

But it's time people know KiwiFarms—and how they're chasing political enemies around the world.

[Will Hayward @mrwillhayward]

https://t.co/SHfv3RxUaY

[marquelawyers @marquelawyers]

Tony Abbott has added his name to the list of opponents to the Voice to Parliament proposal, further confirming that it's a really good idea.

[ness @vanessabas]

@DarrianTraynor @SenatorThorpe facts

[Mr Leyshon @RyonWLeyshon]

A 🧵on the importance of handwriting when learning to read and write:

Handwriting letters helps to *create* networks that link sensory and motor systems in the brain, networks that brain imaging research shows will be constantly drawn upon as a literate adult.

But… how?