5 accomplishments in a week? We’d be happy if you had 3 accomplishments in the past academic year. Especially if you could explain them as a set of bullet points rather than a 10-page single spaced explanation for why nothing got done this past year.
How about proctological research on Uranus?
Great job @ElsevierConnect !
"We practice Neurosurgery on SATURN in a country called « ILLUSIONLAND ». 60 million homo sapiens sapiens who live in this country migrated 30 years ago from the Earth."
Are you the Sultan of Stink or the Governor of Gas? Time to shine! 💨
We’re asking Aussies to track their toots for at least 3 days with the ‘Chart Your Fart’ app.
Help us map Australia’s windy ways for gut health science: research.csiro.au/cshw/proje…
ALT A digitally designed image imitating a CD cover with words in the image reading: "So Flatulent, the farts of summer". Song names are then listed as follows: "Mark Ronson Ft. Bruno Mars Uptown Funk. Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit. Tame Impala Let It Happen. Britney Spears Oops!…I Did It Again. Britney Spears Toxic. Phil Collins In The Air Tonight. Taylor Swift Shake It Off. Snoop Dogg Drop It Like It’s Hot. Flume Holdin On. Daddy Yankee Gasolina. shaggy it wasn’t me. Vance Joy Riptide
(Frozen soundtrack) Let it go."
Distinguished Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick passed away yesterday. A beloved colleague at the heart of our School for 50 years @UTAS_ , his kindness, dedication, and commitment to the Tasmanian environment will not be forgotten. He will be missed.
#WilcanniaWeir Independent Review panel members are now confirmed as Chair Geoff Wise, James McTavish, Professor Stuart Khan. They’ll be joined by a representative from the @MD_Basin_Auth , as a panel observer.
Read more: tinyurl.com/fpm4j4nv
Alright Germany, we can forever argue whether you call it Krapfen, Berliner, Pfannkuchen, Kräppel....
...or we can unite as one and hunt down whoever came up with these.
Some opinion articles, including a recent one in The Conversation, repeat the trope that the vast majority of nonnative species "pose no danger at all to native ecosystems" & should be ignored by managers. We addressed this misinformation over a decade ago:redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricc…
Whoaw - sounds like a dream job - in Seattle and in the department of an old friend who also happens to be one of the best fish landscape ecologists on the planet....
Ha, if you ever heard me present an intro to ecoacoustics and I played you the Gyrinid beetle sound - that is when it was recorded (FB memory exactly 10 years ago)
International student cap has serious consequences for global rankings of Australian unis. Students come to the country for specific unis. It’s like the government hasn’t even considered the stupidity of their actions. Political survival over good policy. abc.net.au/news/2024-08-28/i…
What's going on? Waterbugs! 🐞
Waterbugs tell us about the ecological condition of freshwater environments, if only we're willing to listen.
Simon Linke, our bioacoustic expert, is putting waterbugs on the global map: csiro.au/en/news/All/Article…
ALT Screenshots and lyrics from the 4 Non Blondes song "What's Up". The first frame shows the singer, with lyrics "And so I wake in the morning and I step outside", the second frame shows the singer closer up with lyrics "And I take a deep breath and I get real high", the third frame shows the singer holding a guitar with lyrics "And I scream from the
top of my lungs" and the fourth and final frame shows a picture of a dytiscid beetle with text overlaid "<loud scraping noise>"
NEW PAPER: Treating gaps and biases in biodiversity data as a missing data problem doi.org/10.1111/brv.13127
Gappy data is especially challenging in #citizenscience. Great work led by @BowlerDBear working out when gappiness (in space/time) matters, and best ways to cope with it