' #ClimateChange is likely to decrease prescribed burning effectiveness and increase total costs, therefore a rethink of best practice is required.' 🔥

Clarke et al explore flexible #firemanagement for competing values in their exciting study. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…

Wildfire Futures is a new(ish) project me, Trent Penman, Lauren Bennett and a gaggle of other researchers work on. Give our twitter a follow and sign up to a newsletter if you want to learn more!

Highly recommend this paper for your next journal club/reading group/lab catch up! A really insightful framework for thinking about the academic system and it’s role in a climate and biodiversity crisis. Thanks Hamish Clarke for leading our discussion 🍩
elifesciences.org/articles/84991

“In Canada, fire area burned has doubled since the early 1970s,” says #myTRU wildfire expert Mike Flannigan. “My colleagues and I attribute this largely to human-caused climate change.” The Washington Post TRUResearch

washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…

Been thinking about this for a while but I reckon I’m gonna take a break from this place for a month or so. The Stan Grant pile on was a Newscorp thing, but it was effected here. Twitter sucks so hard now. I’ll be at my blog if anyone asks.

Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement, preventing climate policies.
It’s what we’re up against.
Not just us climate scientists - all of us caring about the future, about our children. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mee…

Beyond the obvious dangers of hollowing out the state, this growing story shows how procurement processes can disable fair competition. If only all providers to government received the unwritten rules 'Why the PwC scandal is tip of the iceberg' theage.com.au/business/the-e…

All the talk about #ElNino is really about ‘will Australia be dry’, and hen it come to making Australia dry there is a lot more than just El Niño. So what do the non-Australian models think Australia’s winter will be like?
Dry… plus warm in the south
climate.copernicus.eu/charts/package…

Did not know that Shaun Micallef models for scientific research into emotions
doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Feeling exhausted AND cynical / depersonalised AND ineffective? Then you meet a common definition of burnt out.

Enjoyed the End of Burnout by Jonathan Malesic. Lots of good points about cultural and systemic factors.
Check out Malesic's substack: jonmalesic.substack.com

Did not expect to pump out a post a week for six months. (Will almost certainly not keep it up)

If offbeat #scicomm is your thing, check out Future Fire

hclarke.substack.com/archive?sort=n…

Thanks to Malcolm Harris for mentioning my forthcoming book called The Palestine Laboratory (@paleslaboratory), out with Verso Books in May, on the latest LARB Books podcast.
Revealing surveillance and hi-tech skullduggery: lareviewofbooks.org/av/mckenzie-wa…

Have you heard of the Peter Fairweather Student Conference Support Award⁠?
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Open to students who will present at #ESAus23 , this $1000 award can be used to support conference-related travel, registration or accommodation.

Applications close 14 May.

ecolsoc.org.au/awards/confere…

Interested in doing research that promotes social resilience and adaptation to #wildfire in Tasmania? The wonderful David Bowmann and fellow pyrogeographers at The Fire Centre University of Tasmania seek a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Application close 8 May 2023: careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/4985…

Good play equipment is so very good