NEW IN: incredible camera trap images from the Guaviare Jaguar Corridor. 📸🐆 Over 114 species were documented by WWF Colombia & local communities in annual wildlife monitoring. Jaguars were spotted on 22% of cameras - a paws-itive sign of their resilience in a habitat threatened by deforestation! 💚

Perfect post @demwar.bsky.social. #auspol #NetZero #ClimateCrisis

Dog stolen from #Wynnum #Brisbane in stolen car last week still missing. Drop off point no questions asked and large reward. Dogs are family

We could all have free healthcare on the money they are spending to fight free healthcare. WTF is wrong with people

I wonder where the Tasmanian government is going to get the workers to build this shiny, new stadium? Will be competing with Queensland's Olympic construction and general construction nationwide. What a nightmare. Will be as farcical as the Spirits debacle. #politas

Half a million Australians with psychosocial illness without support: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-12/productivity-commission-review-mental-health-agreement-failing/106000508

Yiles. www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05...

Australia's Laura Tingle has a look at the BBC's woes. They go a bit deeper than the stupid editing of Donald Trump's speech which has triggered legal action. There are several news items which the Beeb executive has not dealt with appropriately over time. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"Whitlam was a rarity in modern Labor leaders in that he was not afraid of power. Not of it and crucially, not of using it." @amyremeikis.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Children & babies in Chicago and its suburbs are feeling the impacts of immigration enforcement. Children had to see a teacher dragged out by federal agents at Rayito de Sol daycare earlier this week. A baby was pepper sprayed today in Cicero, IL. School attendance is dropping in immigrant nhoods.

Fascinating new research: 2+ decades later, bird communities in northern New Mexico are more biodiverse in patches that experienced low-severity fire when compared to nearby high-severity patches

If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was. They are trying to come for her job. This is the time for solidarity. forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...

Quite a headline.

IU lecturer removed after *one* student complaint and no due process

#RodentOfTheDay Heunglin's Striped Grass Mouse (Lemniscomys zebra) "[A] species of rodent in the family Muridae. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, arable land, and plantations ." Ph/inf: eol.org/pages/4463012

“—survivors suffered “unimaginably cruel deaths from dehydration and sepsis while trapped alone in a pitch-black tomb that alternates as an oven during the day and a freezer at night. “One shudders to think how many children have died this way in Gaza.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Some good news. Incredible results of what seems a high quality study. Very sick babies in ICU - in areas where tuberculosis & polio are big threats - who were vaccinated as newborns, gained a huge boost in survival rates from those & other infections. A change in protocols might be revolutionary.

Torture by the authorities seems legal in the US, including torturing pregnant women

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

'That prick Crick' may rhyme, but it was Watson who was the more egregious. Old summary: www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18....

ICE believes you're not entitled to it. It seems like it's been denied, like across the board.

And the compilations need to be backed up securely on physical media, so that big tech can’t delete or corrupt the files.

Another recent account

I felt horrified hearing this story and also feeling like this woman lost her husband. And that she had to learn about this across borders over a phone. I am glad that it seems she has a lot of people in her life that have listened to her sharing and share her outrage.

This story makes me think more about how many families in Chicago of deported residents need support and also need to feel they can share their stories. They need to feel safe. This is one story I'm sure of many many more.

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

and yes, that includes you, universities...

Disinformation rife ahead of #COP30 climate summit in Brazil - but a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action. @caadcoalition.bsky.social #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.dw.com/en/disinform...

Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Ask the ABC (the public media organisation Australia) to join Bluesky. help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/req... There are mirror accounts posting ABC news stories here. Why wouldn't they want to engage with a large section of their constituency on here so they can communicate and get feedback themselves?

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

So it's yet another invasive species... "Karenia cristata has not previously been identified in Australian waters." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Red-necked Wallaby by Diana McGrath in Canberra, Australia 🦘 #wallaby #australia

My son tells me that the warranty clock starts when the laptop is first booted up. My "new" laptop seems to have been first turned on around 20 months ago. Well out of manufacturer's warranty 😠

“In May 2025, Scotland’s largest city [Glasgow] reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland or Montreal do a double take: during the morning rush hour, there were more bicycles than cars traveling along Victoria Road, a major artery…” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

#RodentOfTheDay Darwin's Leaf-Eared Mouse (Phyllotis darwini) "Acquiring their name from the famed biologist himself, Charles Darwin studied this species during his research expedition aboard the Beagle that took place from 1831-1836." #MouseMonday Photo/info: www.oneearth.org/species-of-t...

🧪Now that the flaws in Ripple et al. (2025) are on record, it’ll be an interesting test of scientific integrity to see if and how that paper is used. This Science letter, for instance, cites Ripple et al. (2025) in calling for strict wolf protection across Europe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...