'Freeport declares force majeure at Grasberg', following massive block-cave 'inrush' (underground mine failure). Looking at 2 years to fix. The Grasberg mine is right beside Puncak Jaya. Was discovered by mountaineering geologist Jacques Dozy during the first ascent expedition. Here he is, right:

Up where the yellow-footed rock-wallabies are found at Boolcoomatta, you can also find euros (western wallaroos), such as this one. Kangaroos, wallabies and wallaroos are all related being part of the Macropodidae family.

Einsteins theory has been proven.

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

Re-sharing this gem from my early days as a SCUBA Diving Magazine "ask a marine biologist" column. @vicky.science asked me a fun question. www.scubadiving.com/are-there-an... 🦑🧪🌎🐟 #SciComm

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bird migration is on now at high latitudes of the northern hemisphere

oh this is pretty cool 👀 Not only is a new analysis of the Yunxian skulls suggesting that our species split from the others at least a million (!!) years ago, it also implies that Denisovans are sister to us (!!) and not Neanderthals 🤯🧪💀 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

We can't ignore these 'outcomes', or elect fools to lead us, & leave ''outcomes' to a contest between nature & exploitation. If we want to continue living in a world full of wonder, we must do the science, do the work & manage the planet to ensure sustainability. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

disappointed to learn that people were talking about rapture as in the religion stuff instead of the raptorial forelegs of mantises and mantis shrimps

Article is from 2017, but honestly, look at them! They're so adorable :) The world needs more cute rodent photos! "Striped from head to toe – new breeding group for the Barbary striped grass mice" www.zoobasel.ch/en/aktuelles...

Seems like if several ubiquitous health care interventions cause autism, we should really be studying those freaks who ended up neurotypical.

"Trump claimed he had ended foreign wars and questioned the purpose of the UN. He also said he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize and bragged about strikes on alleged drug boats near Venezuela." "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?" the diplomat reportedly said.

Citizen science bushwalks in Namadgi NP ACT Australia for threatened Rosenberg's goannas in October to December 2025

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

I'm on the spectrum. I'm 76. RFK Jr can fuck off into the heart of the sun.

Fuck these guys. “The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.”

I have a gazillion photos of the yellow-footed rock-wallabies at Boolcoomatta. Here's one to start with. It was amazing to spend time with them. I love their stripey tails.

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters. At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Some positive news for your feed! "...a team of biologists has found the presence of around 50 Indian giant flying squirrels, which an official on Sunday said would help authorities take effective steps for its conservation." #PowerToTheRodents www.ndtv.com/india-news/5...

Could they possibly get any cuter? NOPE!

Two fossils found in Germany show very young pterodactyls with arm bones thought to have been broken in flight, probably because of severe tropical cyclones

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

"Fluffy creature — with tail longer than body — found in the Andes. See the new species [2024] The “very long tail” belongs to the Otavalo’s Andean mouse, Thomasomys otavalo, recently discovered as a new species." I am reminded of the mouse's tale from Alice. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Trish the postie beetled up on the scooter this morning to deliver this parcel and shout jauntily, 'Living the dream!' from the footpath. Unimprovable. #Freepotatoes #Spring #seeds #Delivery

A new, tour de force review on the future approaches to treat and potentially cure Type 1 diabetes @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created a storage medium that can hold 36 petabytes of data

So as a bit of an FCDO website nerd, I can confirm Palestine has been added to the list of countries. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Keep cancelling! creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

A single abandoned net is estimated to kill an average of 500,000 marine invertebrates ( crabs and shrimp), 1,700 fish and 4 seabirds 30,000 sq miles of purse seine nets and gillnets 215 sq km of bottom trawl nets 46,000 miles of main long lines www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

I am begging men to do this. Begging.

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Remember when we had reliable landlines for phones for emergencies? In the 2011 Brisbane floods we had no electricity for 8 days, nothing electronic worked, no contact with the outside world except the landline phone. That safety net was taken away from us without consent. Tragedy has resulted.

Vote with your dollars.

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New shark new shark NEW SHARK

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

"The long-eared jerboa stands—and hops—in a class of its own The tiny, furtive rodent...has a mouse-like body, rabbity ears, a snout like a pig’s, and back legs that look like a miniature model of a kangaroo’s." www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/iss...

And we only know this because they were released. There are thousands of other people still there.

Torture, cruelty and humiliation is the point.

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

So Flint, Michigan gave $1,500 to all pregnant people, plus $500 each month for the first year of the child’s young life. It saved Flint $6.2 million dollars a year, due to lower rates of rates of prematurity and low birth weight, with fewer corresponding admissions. The right thing, AND cheaper.

People who made the greatest gains in muscle power over eight weeks of resistance training also improved the balance of bacteria in their gut

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Cops have arrested 7 people I assume are white because of lack of detail about them.