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16 Jul 2023
What in the heck
15 Jul 2023
I've never been so angry reading a scientific article as the 2nd paragraph made me.
I blocked the site from my news feed SO fast.
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10 Jul 2023
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7 Jul 2023
RT @BOM_au: This #NAIDOCWeek, why not learn about your local Indigenous community's weather knowledge? You can find traditional weather & c…
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3 Jul 2023
The duality of isopods
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23 Jun 2023
#PollinatorWeek did you know that baltic isopods may be the first underwater pollinators known to science?
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14 Jun 2023
Exiting news from Australia: The newly described 47.000 yrs old Tiliqua frangens was a gigantic armoured skink which reached a length of about 60 cm und weighed more than 2 kg. In terms of weight it is the biggest skink on record. theconversation.com/meet-the…
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14 Jun 2023
RT @Riotswimbananas: The trans athlete “debate” would have dramatically affected me growing up.
I was 5’2” at 8 years old. 6’0” at 12. Pa…
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13 Jun 2023
For Pride Month 🏳️🌈
Spotlight on a gay Magyar paleontologist, discoverer of Transylvanian Dinosaurs, who postulated on the evolution of birds and named species after his boyfriends ass. Oh, and hijacked a plane & planned on becoming the King of Albania.
Baron Franz Nopcsa 🎊 🧵
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13 Jun 2023
To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.
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2 Jun 2023
Aseroe rubra is a hilarious fungus in the stinkhorn family, Phallaceae, that smells like absolute hell and mimics a rotten meat/feces mixture to help attract the flies that disperse its spores. Here it is coming up in Podocarpus totara/Agathis australis forest in NZ
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29 May 2023
Had a wonderful tour as part of work today at @ANSTO. Their science communication is fantastic, definitely demystified some assumptions I had about nuclear science!
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28 May 2023
Meet lug-nut.
One of my strangest finds so far. I found a blueberry hermit crab adapting with a lug nut cover. experiment.com/projects/blue…
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28 May 2023
Upon rounding a bend in the road I had to stop at an amazing spectacle of what seemed like a flock of flamingos on a distant salt lake. Only problem is this was Australia! Closer looks revealed a ultra-saline soup with salt crystals forming these shapes above the surface.
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27 May 2023
Todays highlight was seeing Hakea petiolaris flowering in it’s natural habitat.
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27 May 2023
The Hakea francisiana is at it again dazzling us with its pink flowers. It’s getting so tall that it’s hard to get a picture these days.
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The massive currents swirling around Antarctica are a crucial driver of the global network of ocean currents that transport heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. How will this lifeline change on a warming planet?
[animation: @NASAViz]
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25 May 2023
The Badlands episode of Prehistoric Planet 2 reminded me that a really great paper came out this year on Cretaceous desert environments, which palaeoartists should appreciate as I know this is an FAQ for restorations, and it has great figures -- and is open access!
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