It did stink but the exciting bit is that it sounds like a victim of a Powerful Owl!

Do I love horses? Yes. Do they belong in National Parks? Absolutely not. Glorious news!

It's Friday!

Didn't want to be missed

Tiny, Kermit and their new chicks are thrilled to hear others love them too!

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

One of my favourite things about science is that somewhere out there, someone is studying some of the most obscure things you can imagine: "We studied the fungal diversity of very old cable car pylons" Of course you did, and I'm very happy that you did www.nature.com/articles/s40...

Christmas Island can't lose another bat species

Happy Friday! Here's an echidna in a ball pit 🥰

Yes Giant Cuttlefish sex is not the most important thing happening right now (unless you are a Giant Cuttlefish) but we are all in this together... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#BogongMoths are a crucial spring food source for #MountainPygmypossums - declines in Moth numbers are an urgent threat to the possums’ survival. Help scientists track the Bogong Moths via #ZoosVictoria Moth Tracker: www.zoo.org.au/moth-tracker/ Image - Zoos Victoria. #citizenscience #wildoz

Happy Friday from Oscar

This is Nooji, who had a facial reconstruction after being hit by a car. He is so cute 🥰

Can confirm that he hasn't shut up about it (Yes, I'm proud of him!)

I love Rakali but I did vote for the Short finned eel Eels are cool and more people should think so!

Kelly Gardiner sarah firth Rachel Ang Bernard Cleo Ita Mehrotra Jonathan Butler Jaclyn crupi Tara Calaby Grace Yee Fiona Hardy All pulled out of Bendigo Writers Fest. Support them however you can.

Clare Wright Randa Abdel-Fattah Evelyn Araluen Jeanine Leane Paul Daley Claire G Coleman Kate Mildenhall Jess Hill Sonia Orchard Thomas Mayo Daniel James Fiona Stanley Kirstin Ferguson Michelle Scott Tucker Kylie Mirmohamadi Jock Serong Melanie Cheng Kate Larsen Cher Tan Madison Griffith 1/2

Today's cutest workmate award..

Here's another one of my favourite workmates, Iris. She's a Guthega Skink 🥰

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event - @petrastock.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Any of my contacts have ideas for us?

Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🧪🌎

Such a grim fate for Cosmos, which used to be the premier science mag in Australia (wrote a few pieces for them, back in the day). We (former contributors) found out last year Cosmos has been training its slop engine on our work: bsky.app/profile/keta...

If I see any more AI slop of animals on trampolines or similar I'm going to lose it. If you cared about the environment you 1. Wouldn't use it 2. Wouldn't share it

When you reach for the rat poisons, stop for one second and think about where it goes. Often not rats and mice. Here we demonstrate it ends up in possums, many are then eaten by predators like powerful owls. Please avoid second generation anticoagulants 🙏♥️🦉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to see these excellent doggos at work (and occasionally the plats they find!) Dog, they also sniff out DRAGONS (Vic Grassland Earless ones) and Broad toothed Rats.. to add a couple more cool threatened species to the list

Stop calling it ‘AI art’; start calling it Roboslop.

If you are in Vic or NSW and you aren't following your local Gazette regional news channel, you should be. The local channels, and the Australia-wide news channel The National Account, are really solid. Local news, often with a climate and energy bent. They deserve a bigger audience.

Lighting cigarettes in the car with the part of the car specifically made for lighting cigarettes

I think we need to stop obsessing over the mushroom murders and turn our attention to the NT coroner’s inquest report into the police shooting and death of Kumanjayi Walker by policeman Zach Rolfe

🚨 Wild platypus at work! 🚨

I found it. It's your weekend read.

Just my work bestie being his beautiful self

This is heartbreaking. One of the conversations I have most often with visitors at work is around not chasing the beautiful Ibis on the grounds and not calling them 'Bin Chickens'.

Rinse. Repeat. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Is it even Mamm Soc without a whole heap of 💩💩!? Ending a brilliant first day of #ausmamsoc25 with diet and foraging of translocated eastern barred bandicoots from @angiesymon.bsky.social

I am so lucky to have some incredibly talented and thoughtful people in my life 🥰😭

"The Albanese government will launch a lobbying campaign in a bid to reverse a Unesco recommendation that an ancient rock art site in Western Australia can’t go on the world heritage list until damaging industrial emissions linked to a controversial Woodside gas development are stopped."

No, You Shouldn't Let Your Kids Use ChatGPT. A thread. 🧵 1/16

Wow. Honestly, just so infuriating. I have zero confidence any of this is going to stick, and the next time Bowen drops subsidies for home owners to buy batteries it all gets memory holed. So many of us have been warning about these problems for YEARS ketanjoshi.co/2023/06/09/m...

He wS murdered by a cop. He was murdered by THIS cop.

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Societies war on rodents has just ended up being a war on everything. Our research showing owls and frogmouths are all heavily impacted by second generation anticoagulant rodenticides. SGARs are the new silent killer in the environment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you know Tim or myself, you'll know that we are always immensely proud of each others work. Please read this wonderful, but deeply sad piece that has made me cry but is, as always, beautifully written.

We made it to our final destination with no mishaps.. iykyk @timinclimate.bsky.social

There's a few more days until applications close for this PhD project. The project would involve working with my group to help test ideas about fire naivety, using lizards. It would involve a mix of field work and behavioral trials www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

@timinclimate.bsky.social just came out with this and both of us can't stop laughing. We have questions?

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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