#utas — Public Fediverse posts

Farenheit Ammonite on Stage in Tasmania

Look what I discovered today:

Acclaimed company Here Theatre has returned with an ensemble of Tasmanian and Victorian theatre makers to develop Fahrenheit Ammonite, a world bending new play by Kit Lazaroo, directed by Dr Jane Woollard. Critics have long admired Lazaroo’s work, calling it “first rate, sometimes clever, sometimes truly inspired”, and “an exemplary demonstration of how theatre can be political and contemporary without being didactic or simplistic” […] The play draws inspiration from Fahrenheit 451, Richard Adams’s Watership Down, and Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite. Lazaroo began the script as a retelling of Bradbury’s novel from Mildred’s perspective, imagining how she might resist the limitations imposed upon her by her creator, and what text she might choose as her own reason to survive. Into Mildred’s journey Lazaroo has woven Clover the Rabbit, and later the endangered Goth from the Planet Jeep, creating a tapestry of voices that challenge, subvert, and expand the canon. — University of Tasmania

So, huh. Not sure what to make of that. Except…cool? Even cooler if they sent me a video. (Just saying, Utas, and Here Theatre.)

The world is a strange place…

‘The Real Housewives Of London’ Renewed For Season 2 At Hayu
#News #Hayu #NBCUniversal #TheRealHousewives #TheRealHousewivesofLondon #UTAS

https://deadline.com/2026/02/real-housewives-of-london-renewed-season-2-at-hayu-1236718620/

🌞 #UNSW #Sydney_Uni #CurtinUni #UTAS have revealed the alarming impact of heatwaves on pet dogs

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/extreme-heat-linked-to-increased-pet-dog-deaths

#UTas is looking to appoint a Research Associate in ice core science to work on the Million Year Ice Program. 3 years, fixed term. Seems to be open to international applicants.

https://careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/501145/research-associate-ice-core-atmospheric-sciences

#Ice #GetFediHired #AcademicChatter #postdoc

Universal Television Alternative Studio UK Sets Creative Team
#News #AmyDallmeyer #AndrewJackman #Monkey #NBCUniversal #TobyGorman #UniversalTelevisionAlternativeStudio #UniversalTelevisionAlternativeStudioUK #UTAS #UTASUK

https://deadline.com/2025/05/universal-television-alternative-studio-uk-hires-amy-dallmeyer-1236391675/

This is cool. #UTas is offering a free short course on the science, impacts, and responses to climate change.

https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/the-climate-shift-exploring-science-empowering-action

#ClimateScience #climate

#UTas is advertising for an associate professor in geoscience. Cool opportunity to live and work in my favourite Australian city!

https://careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/500666/associate-professor-in-geoscience

#AcademicChatter #geoscience #fediJobs

Bigger Than ‘Planet Earth’? Creative Team Behind ‘The Americas’ Talk Working With Tom Hanks & Hitting Career Highs On NBC’s Most Expensive Unscripted Project Of All Time
#News #BBCStudios #LondonTVScreenings #MikeGunton #NBC #Peacock #TheAmericas #TobyGorman #TomHanks #UTAS

https://deadline.com/2025/02/nbc-the-americas-tom-hanks-peacock-mike-gunton-toby-gorman-1236294493/

#introduction - I'm Anya Reading - good to meet/connect!

Working on Antarctica (tectonics, ice sheet change, int. with ocean and atmosphere, inter disc. links). Focus on ground-based geophysics (esp. seismology) and compute. Professor of Geophysics at #UTAS #physics #comp_antarctic group, enabling/advocate for research, learning, #diversity in #stem.

#Antarctica #GRIT #obspy #python #glaciers #icesheets #tectonics #geophysics #seismology #compute #fieldwork #openresearch #earth #climate

Surprising no-one, paying academics less for more insecure jobs teaching dumber material to increasingly checked-out students makes them no longer able or willing to properly quality control their output.

> “Academics consider using ChatGPT to generate feedback, with marking time at University of Tasmania college slashed” via ABC Hobart

#AcademicChatter #UTAS #lutruwita #Tasmania #nipaluna #Hobart

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-21/tas-utas-marking-time-cuts-chatgpt-assignments-students/103125634

Important reading by Nathan Bindoff, Australian #Antarctic Partnership Program, #UTAS

“It looks as though the Southern #Ocean is shifting gear but we don’t yet know where it’s heading and what that means for us. That’s where our research comes in.”

@guardian
#Antarctica #oneoceanoneplanet

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/12/without-the-southern-ocean-we-cannot-survive-on-earth-our-research-must-wait-no-longer

Time for a #space #conference! At #UTAS for once!

Prof David Bowman from #University of #Tasmania #UTAS sounds the clarion call for Australia's relationship with devastating #bushfires
in the wake of the #Maui fires #MauiFires.

Climate change is already here.

https://theconversation.com/australia-is-sleepwalking-a-bushfire-scientist-explains-what-the-hawaii-tragedy-means-for-our-flammable-continent-211364

The month of #ScienceWeek begins! I've got an action-packed ~5 weeks coming up, full of #SciComm and #Space content all around lutruwita / #Tasmania! If you're keen to hang out, or see some great local #science content, check out some of the events below 👇

🌘 Aug 4 - presenting at Beaker Streets "Young Tassie Scientists After Hours: Science for Kids (for Adults)" at #TMAG
🤖 Aug 5 - watching @parisba argue that #AI is anything but #creative in "The Great Debate" at The Theatre Royal
🍎 Aug 6 - speaking at the ABC Ockham's Razor event, LIVE at Willie Smith's Apple Shed down #Huonville
🛰️ Aug 12 - speaking at TastroFest up in #Devonport, as part of a series of presentations running all next week with the support of Libraries Tasmania
🏰 Aug 14 - mingling at the Government House launch of #ScienceWeek 2023, likely whispering in people's ears about my plans for a science centre out west...
🚗 Aug 15-18 - travelling around Tas on the #YoungTassieScientists Southern road trip! This includes about a dozen schools plus at least one event with Children's University!
🎙️ Aug 16 - giving the ECR address at Hobart's #ScienceMeetsParliament dinner, hosted by Minister for Science and Technology, Hon Madeleine Ogilvie MP
🎪 Aug 19 - staffing a booth at Inspiring Tasmania's #FestivalOfBrightIdeas / #FoBI down at Salamanca
🎓 Aug 22 - talking futures and opportunities as the occasional address at the afternoon session of Winter Graduations for #UTAS's College of Sciences and Engineering

(Then I take a week off to catch up on normal work + sleep, and do 2 days of #SciComm training with #SuperstarsOfSTEM)

🏫 Sep 1 - back at it, as a keynote for the 'It Takes a Spark!' #STEM #Education conference, alongside the fantastic Dr Lila Landowski!

(Then maybe I get a break from speaking for a bit, at least until the Australian Space Research Conference comes to town a few weeks later 😬)

Links and tickets:
🌘 https://www.beakerstreet.com.au/2023events/young-tassie-scientists-after-hours/
🤖 https://www.beakerstreet.com.au/2023events/great-debate/
🍎 https://www.beakerstreet.com.au/2023events/ockhams-razor-live-at-willie-smiths/ (Sold Out)
🛰️ https://libraries.tas.gov.au/event/tastrotalk-with-mars-buttfield-addison-devonport-library/
🏰 https://westcoastspacecentre.com
🚗 https://youngtassiescientists.com
🎙️ None (seemingly not public/on the internet at all this year?)
🎪 https://festivalofbrightideas.com.au
🎓 https://www.utas.edu.au/about/events/graduation#content2-1381297
🏫 https://spark-educonferences.com.au/tasmania-2023/

whoever actually thinks that moving #utas into the city is a better option is either a restaurant owner or just deluded

#Python session was baffling, frustrating and eventful. We won in the end. But to get there, we had to bash our heads against the wall. So much fun 😝 I love group #coding! Going to make it a regular thing for #PhD students at #UTAS.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-14/utas-to-start-paying-back-11m-owed-to-staff/101852254

#utas #classwar #workerssolidarity #humanrights #Universityoftasmania #australia #slavery #wages #gst #tax #union #law #capitalism #fascism #workers #organise #strike #statism #trickledowneconomics #imperialism #education #university #eattherich #poverty

#introduction

Hi, I am Tobias Stål, nice to meet you!

I am a #geophysicist at the Australian Centre of Excellence in Antarctic Science #ACEAS based at the University of Tasmania #UTAS (math and physics). Presently, I am working on seismology and geothermal heat, but my background is in #geology, particularly #sedimentology and #carbonates.

I like music, old boats, well-written code (usually not by me) and to drink beer and coffee. I am learning linguistics.

#python #antarctica #seismology

#workshop at #work. I don’t use it much because I’m a data scientist, but still cool 🤓 #UTAS #CSAW #architecturalScience

Do we have a vaccine to stop devil facial tumour disease yet? No. Are we making progress? Yes.
We published 4 papers in 3 months and won an #ARC #LinkageProject grant. Read about here #TheConversation https://theconversation.com/amp/thousands-of-tasmanian-devils-are-dying-from-cancer-but-a-new-vaccine-approach-could-help-us-save-them-194536
. #UTAS #Tasmania

@imo_weg @histodons Pimp your work and give your ideas, IP and copyright to industry for not even enough money to live on while you do it. #UTAS