Up this week: Proteaceae. Flowers are 4-merous, stamens fused to the uniseriate perianth, 1 carpel with a long style & pollen presentation. This Gondwanaland family is found throughout the S. Hemisphere but is most diverse in Australia. 📷: Leucospermum sp/cv. #Proteaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Legend: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Brilliant cartoon: @cathywilcox.bsky.social

In the 21st century, one of the wealthiest societies in human history, yet diminished and lost: a nation of rich cowards without even the courage to acknowledge our origins and far less the possibility of a better future than the nightmare daily growing around us. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Well said @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

You know it makes sense!

Its corpse flower season in Australia’s botanical gardens. This year starting with a quartet in Cairns #plantscience 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Albanese's prioritising a Zionist US-Israeli Voice to Parliament & its potential to impose US Christofascist Zionist Colonial ideology into our institutions will not only silence First People but every citizen in Australia. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/austral... Boot these bums out.

In this season of Good will at #Christmas the Australians clearly didn't get the memo. You have to say this top class Trolling. #Cricket #England #Ashes #AUS

Essential historical context.

Imagine being an Australian First Nations watching the speed of change to combat what could essentially be called racism. Those, like the liberal Party, care far more about a white segment of our society (0.4%) than our only Indigenous people with over 30 deaths in custody this yr! #AusPol

The Australian media response to the Bondi horror has been a lot of shallow, reactionary, egging on of fear and blame. In contrast, this provides an important and serious approach. Do you think your NSW chapter could have a read @australianlabor.bsky.social? #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/aft...

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Imagine taking a lesson on morality from Howard. One of the key protagonists that created a world in which extremism could flourish.

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

At the same time as we express our grief for atrocious massacre of #Jewish people at Bondi we must not forget that more #women have been killed this year by domestic violence and more #indigenous people have died in custody. This is not the Australia we aspire to.

Don’t look back in anger theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

This is great insight and our future senate nightmare: Pauline Hanson: Australia’s Greatest Political Lazarus www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Women were first admitted to the Linnean Society in 1905, after a campaign by Marian Farquharson. This portrait by James Sant shows the first formal admission of women as Fellows. buff.ly/vcmY3sD #EYAInclusion

#auspol #Australia

The drive home was a surprise. #FNQ #WetTropics #Nature

Pretty funny that the party who fights culcha wars for Aussie flag thongs in supermarkets on Australia Day sold our gas to tax dodging foreign owned multinationals so you pay more. How very patriotic

If Pauline Hanson wasn’t racist and was genuinely concerned about the dangers of people covering their faces then why doesn’t she ever speak up about these scumbags?

#SundayPix #SundayPixPictures The phenomenal work of Marianne North as exhibited at Kew Gardens 800 paintings from 1871 to around 1883 she visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Brazil, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Sri Lanka and India, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Seychelles, Chile and others.

Pocock is fast becoming the only decent, principled, active politician Australia has. @albomp.bsky.social is fast becoming the most sluggish, ineffective, disappointing Labor Leader Australia has ever had. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Anything Henry is worth a read.

The LNP should just come out and say ‘we can’t back net zero because Gina, the IPA, Advance, and the Minerals Council won’t let us’. #LNP could not give a crap about what voters want or what’s best for the environment.

Cicada nymph:

"Living in poverty while at uni, that's not the way it should be for a society that's about mobility and opportunity." Professor George Williams discussed his new Vantage Point essay 'Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's future' on RN Breakfast! #auspol

My first peer-reviewed article. 🥳🍾🎉🥂🪅: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #History @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social

My article has been published online!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Building better collaborations in arts and humanities PhD research – insights from Alastair Owens’ work with museums and doctoral students: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/bette... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky #ECRchat

Awesome team: www.cricket.com.au/news/4387603...?

What a lucky county.

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Professor Langton: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Australian Parrot Flower https://www.wikiart.org/en/marianne-north/the-australian-parrot-flower-1880

🌸 The orchid that blooms underground Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #Botany #SciComm 🧪

An Australian tragedy, an unemployable man, goin' thru the bins🥺😪

Climate vandals: Qld government

Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am 12 years in to life in Australia, and am hoping for another 40+ but even if I do hit the five decade mark I’m still not gonna be able to pronounce Cairns properly. I swear it’s a vowel sound I just don’t have.

"Science is actually an inspirational, incontrovertibly human enterprise requiring enormous amounts of creativity, lateral thinking and intuition." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Academicsky #SciComm 🧪 #edusky #science ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-false-...