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Astrophysics and Deep Learning postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne Uni. Bit of a greenie.
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I hope they can forgive us one day.
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Speaking with the Murugappan family about my decision today as interim Home Affairs Minister to enable them to return #HometoBilo, the big-hearted QLD town which has embraced them so warmly #auspol
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Green’s Leader Adam Bandt with the perfect response to this “gotcha” question and a message to all you “journalists” out there that think this a good way to treat this election campaign. #auspol #AusVotes2022 #Elections2022
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Devastated for the people of Ukraine as war descends. Thinking of all the people who must be so fearful and trying to find safety. And all their loved ones across the world ❤️
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KILL THE BILL! Or read it. [video]
watch: youtu.be/6QArtcoeiAU
I've read the Andrews govt's pandemic bill, reviewed Human Rights Law Centre rec's & assessed changes secured by 3 crossbenchers.
Here. Stop reading what liars & con artists tell you about a bit of legislation.
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Lockdown's over, vaccination's up. Hooray! Now there's only the existential threats to worry about. Nobody says it better than Greta.
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Somebody at likes Oscar Wilde - this article about scientist Dorian Abbot is captioned "Dorian Gray".
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Just in case anybody arrives here by searching.
The iOS app verified my cert. On Android, it says invalid. My device is rooted, so perhaps that plays a role?
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I went straight from grabbing the certificate to using your VDS-NC app, and the cert failed to validate.
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This is promising: I got my international vaccination certificate without issue. And I downloaded the VDS-NC app too. Pretty cool.
But: my certificate comes up as invalid! "The app read the QR code correctly but the security check failed." Something's amiss? #covid19au
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Woooo. Visitors and cafes are back next weekend. I'm excited!
Interesting that hospitalisations are below predictions. Good news all round. #covid19vic
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I'm genuinely curious how this can happen. Is there literally nobody in the state public service with solid, technical credentials? Is everything done on the advice of large consulting firms that give garbage advice?
theguardian.com/australia-news #covid19Vic #COVID19Aus
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This was hilarious. Do yourself a favour and check out this Fringe show online... Took me back to the innocent, heady days of 2020's first adorable toilet paper riot.
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I'm pumped as fuck to finally announce my 2021 @melbournefringe show.
ANTI-LOCKDOWN ODE | OCTOBER 5-10, 2021
tix: melbournefringe.com.au/event/anti-loc
Pandemic said no Tom, you can't do a live show. So I've changed it to digital & I'm fucken doing it anyway. go fuck urself, pandemic.
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Great story indeed. As a scientist who also worked in the parliament, I have often wondered whether I could help in these sorts of situations. "Formal meeting request?"
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Hot damn, @liammannix can write! What a story 
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Beautiful gravitational lensing image by Annalisa Citro and collaborators on the today -
arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09748
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I went through almost this exact list, I'd say it took about 3 seconds.
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Melbourne earthquake determination:
1. Is the washing machine on spin cycle?
2. Is a big truck driving past?
3. Is someone moving furniture and dropped a piano?
4. Is blasting/drilling going on nearby?
4. Is it going on long enough to consider these questions?
5. Earthquake!
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The earthquake was cool from here, although part of me was thinking "oh no, 2021 has more tricks up its sleeve"
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They are calling it a protest but would 'civil unrest' not fit better? #covid19vic
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Sometimes I've been known to say that division caused by social media misinformation is a threat to civilization. I don't feel like such a crank today
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It seems Angus Taylor is the science minister.
Yep.
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Good piece on denialism by . I wonder if the growth of anti-vax sentiment is entirely organic. Hard to say these days!
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While the paranoid mindset and arguments of antivaxxers and climate deniers can appear very similar, there are important differences between the politics of the two phenomena. theguardian.com/australia-news
This is a great op-ed by - thought provoking, timely and has some novel ideas. I'll throw Inside Story a few bucks!
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I'm for Zero: Covid, flu deaths, smoking, road crashes, domestic violence. We've been willing to live with all except Covid, but we shouldn't be insidestory.org.au/what-about-oth
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I f'n love reading stuff like this on : "This article is about the fictional humanoid type of creature. For the desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems, see GNOME. For the garden ornament, see Garden gnome. For other uses, see Gnome (disambiguation)."
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Unfortunately I find myself agreeing with editorial today. But I'm glad I'm not in charge. If they lessen the burden on us, it increases the burden on our health workers. No easy answers.
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There are also arguments for a soft lockdown until vaccinations come in rather than go for 0:
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Should Victoria consider a 'soft lockdown'?
@TonyBlakely_PI: "Let's assume we're sitting at 40 cases on 2 September ... options, we keep going hard with the mental health impacts ... Or do we go for a soft lockdown & pivot earlier than we would have liked living with the virus."
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The data is hard to contradict. Lockdown much easier to stomach when the graph looks like the right one, isn't it?
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NSW has exceeded last year's VIC peak of 700 cases very close to 12 months ago. Here is a side by side comparison. When VIC peaked there were signs of a break I think, I can not see one for NSW.
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2021 covid lockdowns are like climate action. It's way too late to get things back down to zero, but every bit helps - cos the alternative is lots of people die. 😧 #COVID19au
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Truly bizarre. Citing pre-prints is normal academic practice in many fields. Why would you kill someone's application (which can take a month to prepare) over such a trivality?
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The @arc_gov_au has ruled *dozens* of fellowship grants ineligible because the applications cited "preprints".
Not just in the applicants' publication list, but *anywhere* in the app.
Not just those co-authored by the applicant, but *any* "preprint".
twitter.com/matthewbailes/
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Just saw another story on Paramount+ on Ten news. This time they showed the logo on the backdrop!
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Jan is a pensioner who teaches part-time for a school that got JobKeeper. Now the Liberals want her to repay $1049.
Nearly a dozen billionaires benefited from JobKeeper paid to profitable firms. Where's their letter of demand? #DividendKeeper andrewleigh.com/the_gave_taxpa #auspol
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Another very good explainer from on herd immunity. theage.com.au/national/is-th
I'd like to know: What's the real rate of vaccine hesitancy, do we have any data? Dan says there's no evidence it's high, others throw around 20%. #COVID19Aus
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Gladys blaming lack of compliance again. It's like a general looking at a disastrous map and blaming the troops for lack of fighting spirit in holding the line. #covidnsw #COVID19Aus
NSW media conference is just the government haranguing the citizens for non compliance and non vaccination. It's a dreadful sign that things are out of control. #COVID19Aus #covidnsw
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With optimistic settings we can expect to spend about 2 months a year locked down, including dropping outbreak chance due to vaccination. If the chance of an outbreak occurring is ~1/fortnight, then we're spending 4-5 months locked down.
Warning, oversimplified model! (2/2)
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I made a (very!) simple model to see how many days we can expect to be in lockdown the way things are going. You can have a play here - share.streamlit.io/coljac/lockdow
Here's with 3% daily outbreak chance; median 66 days in lockdown, 7 lockdowns. (1/2)
#COVID19Aus #COVID19Vic
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