Tom Duff

@nifiju Did the tower manage to capture the peak wind speed?

Our Wombat OzFlux tower site got quite affected during a severe wind event in June 2021 (and again late Oct 2021), leaving the tower destroyed but today I passed some of the heavily affected areas in the Wombat State Forest: just 😯😯😯 never seen anything like this

@erikkain @Forbes Apologies for delay (new baby). It could be that the manipulation is not by the studio - maybe a 'true fan' offended that the wokeness of the last jedi?

Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Is A Travesty via @forbes #StarWars forbes.com/sites/erikkain…

@ozdendro @itsnotfairman @Phil_Zylstra @ozjimbob There was this work: agriculture.gov.au/forestry/natio… - but I haven't seen results apart from a paper by Volkova

Really interesting paper, scaling from plant traits to ecosystem flammability in prescribed burns. By Bianca Tumino, @jane_cawson @The_Snark & Jason Goodger. Great to see another paper exploring the potential of plant traits in explaining ecosystem flammability!

Australia's drinkers are not reacting well to the leadership debate #auspol

After dragons, this will be the next animal to be studied in my combustion course

Excited about our new paper in @CSIROPublishing International Journal of Wildland Fire exploring the influence of fuel moisture on emissions and fire radiative energy. We show that live, moist fuels don't follow assumed trends like dead dry fuels do. publish.csiro.au/WF/WF18084

@mccarthy_nfm I'll get back to you on that - it was pretty windy (30km/h+), but not too hot. Next weekend could be a ripper, forecast for Melb is 36 and windy

@The_Snark They finally got them lit! That's awesome. What was the GFDI in the end?

Burn to learn! Helping out at the CFA / CSIRO cropfire experiments #wildfire #firescience #csiro

#ProudToBe #womaninSTEM #WomanInScience

Fawkner police station came under the best kind of ember attack today when Ember the Crisis Response Dog 🐕 dropped in to say “WOOF!” 🐶

Alen Slijepcevic from #CFA presenting at @AMOSupdates on developments in applied research since Black Saturday #AMOSfire #amos

Michael Reeder presenting on the drivers of fire weather in southern Australia -Rossby Waves ratcheting up the temperature #amos #amosfire #wildfire

I don't swear a lot on Twitter but fuck. Fuck this. I'm off to have a rant at the sky for my mentor and my mate. He made The News Quiz. I'm devastated and sending love to his family. What a wonderful man twitter.com/BBCBreaking/st…

@planetmoney have this week's episode on the costs of wildfires. Well worth a listen #wildfire #firescience

@gollnerfire My first thought was purely selfish - then I realised how many people that I knew were unlikely to have money to live on for the coming weeks

@The_Snark Sadly this is affecting science worldwide. It’s really rough here, especially for postdocs and contractors

Sometimes doing fire science is really hard #science #wildfire

But then again, I get to go to work, so I can't complain