Interesting perspective. The thing that I wonder about a lot is how people develop sufficient expertise to judge/handle the tooling. If we can get a volume of answers and insights more quickly, how do we build the muscle memory for more analysis? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢 An Australian dashcam company may be putting customers’ privacy at risk by broadcasting their location and live camera feed to the world.

This is amazing. Make sure to click on the photos to see some nerdy joy! The cognitive connections, the lightbulb moments, the networking with likeminded future collaborators. AI will never. 🤗

Not good news www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This is the sort of good journalism at risk because of Pauline Hanson's hatred of the ABC. An excellent piece of work that delves into indigenous connection to country. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Just what you need to wake you up www.facebook.com/share/r/1DiV...

A fantastic discussion on a hot button topic - urban trees. Tune in and send it to a friend! #OurEucalyptHome #LoveAGum #UrbanForest

‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies

Brings new meaning to location, location, location. Conservation needs to be done differently in Aotearoa but this ain't it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

I heard that Vovos were making a return but not Tim Tam Vovos. Where are the chocolate coated yoyos for winter? Plain ones barely make it of South Australia. Though they have been sighted on occasions on the NSW far south coast, but so has a tagged flying fox from Adelaide.

Some interesting thoughts here but it does note that more data would be useful www.themandarin.com.au/314619-austr...

Stumbled on this on live TV cos I watched Race Around the World 2 (film makers under 50). Not quite Utopia but funny. Wonder if other Tassie controversies like Marinus, Lake Pedder will get a run. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A bit of good news for funding on weeds. Hawkweed is nasty but cost effective to control if hit early. Dogs to the rescue again. aboutregional.com.au/500k-boost-f...

If you’re a tiny prawn, barramundi or rare sawfish in a northern Australian gulf, you can’t easily swim south to escape the heat.

World’s largest successful island-wide eradication of invasive pigs Just over two years ago I reported the 'likely' eradication of feral pigs from Australia's third-largest (4,405 km2) island — Kangaroo Island. I indicated 'likely' because the program still required the proof-of-eradication phase…

The cuts to the NDIS will destroy lives. My family already is in the NDIS hell, now we have to worry about our daughter’s future. My column for @deepcutnews.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

[Commentary] Urban wildlife species are not temporary visitors, but permanent residents. To protect them, scientists must study how city environments alter their internal biology. The gut microbiome may be the most important, overlooked tool for understanding how animals adapt to human landscapes.

Hi blue friends in Switzerland and Germany! Come hang out with me next week in Zurich, Lucerne, Bern and Berlin! blue-community.net/2026/02/erin...

Getting serious about environmental data This webinar www.tern.org.au/webinars/aus... explores how we could turn a fragmented environmental data landscape into a connected, resilient, national‑scale capability that serves reporting, operations and long‑term stewardship? Continued funding would help.

A New South Wales town hosts a celebration of the "little grey" tractors that helped save it from flooding 70 years ago.

36 hours ago my paper on Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory went live It’s now #8 in Clinical Psychologist. Top 4% of 32M research outputs globally This is what happens when a question has been waiting to be asked. Share, repost, comment-every interaction counts doi.org/10.1080/1328...

Prof Bill Sutherland has a great series of YouTube videos covering various 'Conservation Concepts'. For his latest one he interviewed me about mapping important areas for global biodiversity and the role of Key Biodiversity Areas www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN9N... @billsutherland.bsky.social

Taylor Swift's trademark filings are a new legal frontier in addressing AI deepfakes. A law professor explains:

Feel good story of the day. The ABC celebrates 75 years of School of the Air with an AM Radio Show. Must be public benefit in ensuring all kids no matter how remote getting an opportunity. Worked for the inventor of Moodle software. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

So much to appreciate and learn about theconversation.com/indigenous-a...

For those who read Kim Stanley Robinson, ACT Government working with San Diego Zoo on preserving the endangered Torrey Pines. The ones near me look pretty healthy and have survived fires, with a bit of help. www.facebook.com/share/1HqzMg...

“AI-generated online mastheads masquerading as regional news outlets is likely the 1st instance of "pink slime" journalism in Aust. The sites..were traced back to an Aust web-builder living overseas who claims the now-deleted outlets were an experiment gone wrong” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Lovely essay by @palmblad.bsky.social developing the sense of environing - a verb - that does things to us (all organisms) rather than just something out there (to be managed), or an adjective that decorates something else. Environment with grit... @carsoncenter.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social

🐚 Shellfish gathered mostly by women sustain food security across the Pacific—yet often go uncounted. A new story on the #NLCGIAR Research Programme shows how long‑term research partnerships are helping make these “forgotten fisheries” visible. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eCsE76xD

"We found that individual flying foxes can literally travel thousands of kilometres a year, criss-crossing their entire range and sometimes multiple times," Dr Welbergen said. "They are not so much migratory as profoundly nomadic." www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08...

Please share with your trainees (will be useful for both undergrads and grad students!)

📚IPBES Nexus Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment 👉 Learn more about #PlantHealthDay with @fao.org#PlantHealthDay

This #PlantHealthDay, a reminder: plant health depends on biodiversity. Biodiversity loss reduces water availability, increases pathogen emergence and exacerbates some forms of water pollution, undermining human, plant and animal health.

What the...? Beavers... in trees? Another of rewilding's many wonderful nature surprises 😂

Lots of people have criticisms of the ABC, many deserved but it’s still doing its job explaining. The new doco Cases that Changed Australia demonstrates why good process & respect for human rights and the law matters. No idea if iview is geoblocked but ABC often puts significant content on YouTube.

AI in history but also AI in society. Professor Hughes Warrington is quite positive on how it can help analysis, acknowledges AI is here but poses the challenges in how it’s managed particularly the ‘ifs, buts & maybes. Video too www.youtube.com/live/MkAWkIF... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

🧪 this is a massive issue for Australia. We need to solve it, and we still have time! If eradication is still feasible then let’s invest more and communicate better before it’s too late #RIFA

Must be a plot here for a new Donna Leon novel.

Plenty of promotion on other social media but in case you have not seen. Also an extensive national program of activities on their web page. sheshapeshistory.com/she-shapes-h...

A good use for AI, but its not LLM www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

There are mixed views about the royals, but you have to respect the commitment of The Princess Royal, Princess Anne. Dawn service at Gallipoli, Türkiye then a service in Hyde Park, London, later in the day. Presumably time zones, a RAF plane and NATO airfields helps but still, no slacker #ANZACDay

I got a bit teary listening to Pōkarekare Ana sung by an Aircraft woman from the RNZAF and Leading Aircraft woman from the RAAF at the closing of the ANZAC Dawn Service on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Just beautifully sung, thank you #ANZACDay26 #LestWeForget