But at least we might get a submarine in 30 yrs time

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks” Just contemplate that sentence. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/tasmania-saltmarsh-wetland-restoration-former-sheep-farm/105883488

Second deadliest attack on journalists in history, and I haven’t seen it reported by any of Australia’s biggest media outlets

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

This article is a part of the Special Issue “Biological invasions in plant communities”. Thanks to the wonderful guest editors who were super helpful. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

If you have to lie to make your point, your point isn't worth making.

When the duck has a sinus infection, the obvious thing to do (apparently) is give it a warm bath 🙃

Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia

Machine learning being used productively! theconversation.com/botanical-ti...

If everyone could repost this, it would help me out tremendously! I know everyone may not have the means to donate, but sharing helps too! #VetMedSky #MedSky #ResearchSky #VetMed #Academics 🦇🐦🧪🐶🐱🌎

"We make students ready for the job market. But without the tools to think deeply, imagine ethically and reason clearly, we risk leaving them soul-starved." theconversation.com/top-australi...

Unreal! I have 3 recent science grads (1x Vet, 2x Ag) in the house atm. Not one of them has ever heard of a pivot table. WTF??

As B.C. grapples with summer wildfires, the provincial government needs to understand that in a changing climate, continued industrial logging will make these fires worse. #climate #wildfire #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#auspol #Australia #mushrooms #media #racism

The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

@davidjgibson.bsky.social Mushroom woman found guilty on all counts! www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.

Addressing climate & ecological breakdown is ultimately a social problem not a technical one Which means that, for most of us, understanding the psychology of collective climate action is more important than understanding climate science Free download www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien

At @rewirenewsgroup.com, we published this piece about how professors across the country are fighting Trump’s fascist takeover of higher ed. It’s definitely worth reading!

1. People seem upset that I associated the language in Trump’s Gold Standard Science executive order with the science reform movement, in this Guardian piece. “Trump would have attacked science anyway” Of course. But it’s not Trump that is the biggest concern. It’s the courts.

We're delighted to announce the reappointment of @jwmorganecology.bsky.social and @markooiecol.bsky.social as Co-Editors-in-Chief of Australian Journal of Botany! Their continued leadership ensures the journal remains at the forefront of botanical research in Australia and beyond 🌱 📖

Spot on

Nike has cancelled fmr AOTY Grace Tame as a brand ambassador because of pro-Palestinian posts?! So, Nike opposes human rights and supports genocide?! Good to know. #IStandWithGrace #BoycottNike #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine

In the Western Eurasian steppes, ancient nomadic burial mounds are refuges for native grassland biodiversity. Eerie similarities to the tallgrass prairie plants that hang on in Midwest graveyards www.currentconservation.org/how-do-ancie...

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Shoals now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great read from Richard Flanagan on the AFL stadium. Original budget $375 million, now $1.86 billion, for just 7 games a year, in breach of all planning and heritage laws, opposed by 70% of Tasmanians. Truly unconscionable by the AFL. #auspol #afl www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20890/...

I absolutely did not enjoy reading this - is it a harbinger of what’s to come, or confirming what has arrived already? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Palaearctic Grasslands 64 is published at: edgg.org/sites/defaul.... It includes the second call of the XX Eurasian Grassland Conference, which is also directly available as an article at: edgg.org/sites/defaul...

Here's how we know this EO is a SNEAKY sinister thing: 1. When Trump wants people to know about something, it is very public. 2. It was released on the Friday evening of a holiday weekend 3. Cloaked under piles of sciencey language 4. First thing this morning, loud and proud: RFK's vax rollback

How do different deer species affect woody vegetation? Understanding that not all deer are the same is essential to effective forest management and restoration. 🧪🌏 Summary thread below ->

For Aus botanists / ecologists: a recording of the recent function to celebrate the life of one of Australia's most eminent ecologists, Dr Bob Parsons - mentor to many, avid stamp collector, and mad Tigers fan, is available here: aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode. A field of phacelia, Norfolk:

Many things are bad (some are even historically awful), but sleep deprivation from doomscrolling makes everything worse. Try not to stay up too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Earless dragons were presumed extinct in Australia – now Daisy and Kip have sniffed out 13 of them

The Future of Ecological Research with Prof. Mark Westoby | EcolClips youtu.be/93e5iDjzL2o?... #PlantScience #Ecology 🧪🪴🌿🏔️

And here we go.....

“It feels like if nothing is done to prevent this administration from dismantling our public lands and the support behind them, we could very well lose access to the trails, the mountains, the forests and the wildlife that we all love so dearly.” mountainjournal.org/cascading-ef...

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

A few lightening strikes last night caused some fires to deal with today. This huey is dropping 4000l (2.5 trucks' worth) every 3 mins

"Look Dad! I found a ball of needles"

A message from a Brazilian academic with a Fulbright award has made its way to me. They're being forced to remove or replace a list of verboten words and phrases from their project. These include "cross-cultural interactions," AKA THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF FULBRIGHT PROGRAMS.

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Women are driving conservation efforts on the ground; they are restoring degraded ecosystems that bring back biodiversity. Unfortunately, this recognition is not followed by rewarding actions. 🌐We need to amplify their impact! #WomenAndWetlands #WomenChangeMakers

You can find it in the highlands and central highlands of Lutruwita / Tasmania. But it’s fossil pollen is found around the Southern Hemisphere. This was filmed Mt Field NP, which I think is one of the most impressive places to see the species. #science #botany #wildoz #science #rareplant #tasmania