Socceroos playing 4am Saturday: Victorian government has granted all pubs in the state permission to open their doors for the game. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Today marks 3 years since the Murphy report was released. Its findings were clear: “The torrent of advertising is inescapable. It is manipulating an impressionable and vulnerable audience to gamble online.” Yet Labor refuses to take meaningful action on gambling ads.

The Greens have repeatedly offered to pass laws to ban gambling ads. But the gambling industry says no, and the PM falls in line. It’s time Labor stood up to their donors, and started working for people, not gambling industry profit.

📅 2026 webinar: Pain and allostatic load in ME/CFS. Join Titled Pain Physio Sophie Shephard on 30 July, 6:30–8pm AEST, for practical guidance on pain care, PEM, safety and reducing harm in primary care.  Health professionals only. Register: zurl.co/DAGdd

🌿Are you teaching or learning plant modeling? Discover our latest article type: Methods for Plant Modeling articles describe software, tools, models, and other resources in an accessible way, making them suitable for educational use. 📰 See the collection at buff.ly/P1GV8q6

After a podcast and multiple news articles recently argued that neuroplasticity might be the cure for Long Covid, the two Swiss ME/CFS associations (sgme.ch & mecfs.ch) have published a position paper on the topic. German: static1.squarespace.com/static/5db09... #mecfs #cfs #pwme #longcovid 1/

Update from Virology Downunder: There are a lot of people sick....again...in winter.... virologydownunder.com/theres-a-lot...

Once students stopped attending lectures, many unis got rid of them. Structured continuous assessment can work but => F2F exams have mostly gone. That was bad enough before LLMs but now that approach is broken #HigherEd www.theage.com.au/national/i-w...

I did an interview with this crowd - I wonder if it made the cut? #SciComm #PlantScience

A few flowers hanging on in my winter garden, #MyGarden #Flowers

To allow killing of birds just when bird flu arrives is nuts

Government announces Future Drought Fund’s Drought Resilience Innovation Challenges projects #ClimateResilience #Agriculture minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...

Good littlr article by my daughter on housing, design and tips on how to work out what you really need open.substack.com/pub/lucindah...

What’s happening with Hantavirus?. “most likely …transmission from inhaling aerosolised ANDV from the urine, faeces or saliva of infected rodents in South America …before embarkation .. Subsequent cases … through person-to-person transmission on the ship, …No rodents were detected on the ship”

It’s like living in a dystopian matrix - you’re really ill but you’re being told it’s all in your head. You try to fight this fictionary world view only to be trapped by the 4 walls of your bedroom. Feel so much grief for pwME and LC

Our warming planet due to human-caused climate change. 100 years of average January-May temperature anomalies over land areas through 2026... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

2027--which is likely to coincide with the mature phase of a major El Niño event--is likely to set a new global temperature record, for the reasons laid out in our @pnas.org article from last month: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is not normal

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

No more live ‘Horses’ from Darryl (only Australians who Talk to under 40s will understand that ) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Much of Europe is sweating in an exceptional heat wave. Heat in Europe has increased 4 times more than in other mid-latitude areas, which has been linked to the Atlantic #coldblob in several studies. #AMOC Slide from a talk I'm about the present at London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026. 1/

It’s #InvasiveSpeciesWeek & for the #WildflowerHour challenge we are focusing on those non-native naturalised plants that are proving problematic! Find one in bloom & share you pics this Sunday using the hashtag #InvasivePlants. Read more here bsbi.org/blog/2026/06/i…

Unregulated Size, height, weight and angle (blunt shape of bonnet) have led to increases in pedestrian fatalities in past 5 years or so in Australia too

As an Aussie, I recommend going to a cinema or a big mall for a few hours - assuming your’s have aircon (which is probably not a given in the UK). Also Make shift evaporative coolers with a wet towel and a fan can help if it’s not too humid

I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!

🧵 Another excellent blog by Fred Rossi who is well worth following "The Patient Who Isn’t Supposed to Exist" darthfoo.substack.com/p/the-patien... Nominally on the recent, controversial WIRED article but the points are pretty general #LongCovid #MEcfs #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM #PwME 1/

One Nation and Labor just voted together to double the visa fees for people come to Australia to study, to nearly $5,000. The politics of Labor and One Nation is clear, treating people who come here to be a part of the community as either cash cows or scapegoats.

With new law, European Union can more quickly greenlight gene-edited crops www.science.org/content/arti...

Here we go - the last continent falls to birdflu www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

The ignorence of the dangers of childbirth and the high maternal death rates in places like Australia pre 1900 and still in many, many parts of the world is staggering. I feel so sorry for the family and this poor mother being duped into a ‘free birthing’ tragedy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Early release 🔥 our latest paper by phd student Georgia Lloyd - with fab refined protocols : Integrated LC/MS-MS approaches reveal toxicity differences across seed layers of Cycas angulata academic.oup.com/aob/article/...

Shame on tech companies: “64% of continuing YouTube [children] users, 61% of Snapchat users, and 60% of both Instagram and TikTok users, said platforms had taken ‘no action’ to remove or deactivate an account they had before restrictions.”

🦠 is a vascular disease and vaccines are reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events. Better still, get it as few times as possible

Good article exploring observed long term illness from acute infections #pwME

💃🎉 How good are refugees and migrants?

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Join us for the #Botany360 event, "College-level Botany Textbooks and Teaching: Different Approaches" Featuring Dr. Ken Cameron (BSA President) & Dr. Rachel Jabaily (BSA Director at Large for Education) 🌿Monday, July 13, 2026 🌿3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST Register today: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today @thesicktimes.org: We republished a great essay from @sunsopeningband.bsky.social, responding to last week's WIRED piece. "Any claim that exercise still needs to be tested is not made from a position of impartiality. These claims are made from the decision to ignore the existing literature."

Great graphic comic on Australian seed banks by Jess Harwood - she was a Eucalypt Australia Dahl Fellow last year. Great work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#PlantEcology #PlantScience #PostDoc #Alps

POTS is almost universal in ME patients too - more evidence that extreme LC is ME where the trigger is known

When someone is diagnosed with #MECFS or #long COVID, the hardest part often isn't the diagnosis itself. It's not knowing where to turn. This is the gap #Emerge Australia fills. Telehealth support calls. Education for GPs. Guidance. Advocacy. Learn more zurl.co/kBHpS

Great to see Australia getting back to waste water testing

EMERGE Australia is an excellent organisation - supporting people with ME, carers, medical folk etc and raising the issue of lack of care with policy makers

Antarctica peninsula temps reach 15degC . It’s winter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

PhD opportunity in Finland in #PlantScience #Trees

Australia endorses ambitious new global electrification target to hasten exit from fossil fuels reneweconomy.com.au/australia-en...