‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Read our latest blog article which features a new publication, 'Ngarrngga: An Approach to Indigenous Education for all Australians', published by the Australian Educational Researcher. https://www.ngarrngga.org/stories-news/aer-new-publication

🦇 Some animals, including the Brandt’s bat, seem to defy the rules of aging. Understanding how they do it could help us live longer, healthier lives: buff.ly/oiQsFRf

What could possibly go wrong

The sugar gums are flowering and the air smells like apples

Growing old and tolerant? How Eucalypts and Acacias traits vary across life-stages. Come see my poster and talk at ESA 2025 conference. Monday, Nov 24 5:44 PM Tuesday, Nov 25 3:00 PM #ESA2025 #EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia #EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink #KaurnaCountry #Adelaide

We donate $25,000 a year to Nature Glenelg Trust. They do remarkable on-ground work for biodiversity in the places that we love #ESA2025. Eaglehawk waterhole, an NGT property, south of Bordertown, probably has South Australia’s best woodland bird diversity.

#esa2025 Keynote presentation from Tiahni Adamson #BushHeritage speaking about #FirstNations governance and #RightWay science. First Nations leadership is not only the right thing to do but leads to more effective #ecological outcomes

Spot the juvenile golden kelp on reef once stripped bare. Following the dedicated harvest of over 25 tonnes of longspined sea urchins, juvenile golden kelp are starting to grow along shallow rocky reefs within Sydney Harbour. This rehabilitation work is part of #ProjectRestore

Have you ever wanted to post a summary of a paper you published, but didn’t know where to do it? Or perhaps you thought about writing a blog? 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

Looking for a nice bird, flower, Rakali, reptile, frog walk at #ESA2025 this week - head to the St Peter’s billabong @ecolsocaus.bsky.social - darter, water skink, c30 bird species, and lots of native plants. Little grassbird and reed warbler nesting.

Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful. Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms. This is dangerous & disappointing.

A dangerous(ly adorable) predator approaches…

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜

What is space archaeology? 🏺 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

Eight lessons from island archaeology to optimise success in refining (1) targets for space colonisation and (2) the composition and behaviour of the colonist group. 🧪 🏺 #PlanetSci #SpaceArchaeology

One year ago, I started posting observations on BlueSky, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the journey. I've put all 196 observations from the last year into a little book called "What I noticed along the way". I hope you enjoy it. drive.google.com/file/d/1w0zL...

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved." - Dr Jane Goodall Our tribute to Jane's incredible career and profound legacy 👇

In the lead up to #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, we're reflecting on the species that we have lost, and the future we need to protect. These poignant artworks depict some of the unique Australian animals that are now extinct, as well as one species we can still save. 1) Kangaroo Island Emu (Extinct)

A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds. Credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.

Here's a challenging Open Middle problem to help students develop conceptual understanding of quadratics in standard form: www.openmiddle.com/maximum-...

Seaglass can take decades or centuries to be formed by the motion of the waves. Morning Edition's Chad Campbell and his daughter have tips on how beachgoers can search for these small treasures.

bigthink.com/starts-with-... ‘even if NASA’s budget is entirely restored, the loss of personnel, expertise, and mission continuity …is going to set science back by years or even decades…’ AND

A visualisation of major large-language models (LLMs), ranked by performance, using MMLU (Massive Multitasks Language Understanding) a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models.

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪 Who’s writing your science paper? A new study analysed over 1 million research papers and found growing use of large language models, especially in computer science, where up to 22% show signs of LLM editing. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm

Boozy Book Clubs Reading Between The Wines “Here’s Cheers Dog-Ears!” Prose & Prosecco Tequila Mockingbird Get Lit Ink & Drink Bookaholics Sots Who Swot Shelf Esteem Issues The Masters of Margarita

Terns and gulls feeding out in the Gulf St Vincent just on dawn. I know this doesn't look like a photo - but it is.

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It's 80 years since this devastating and unnecessary event, and the threat of nuclear weapons is growing again.

Women have never been to the Moon. But in one way, they were responsible for the iconic first footsteps. #InternationalMoonDay 🧪 🏺 #WomeninSTEM

The balance of different varieties of atoms inside a person’s teeth can reveal a week-by-week record of rainfall and protein consumption during their infancy.

"For the first 25 years of his career, Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease physician, never saw a child with Hib meningitis. But this spring he was an author of a report on two cases of severe disease in unvaccinated New York infants." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

These Peritrichia were a popular organism at yesterday’s zooplankton workshop! These stalked ciliates are especially cool because they contract quickly when disturbed. #plankton 🦑

How much energy does it take to generate one ChatGPT request? What about water use and the broader climate impact of generative AI? UCS’s José Pablo Ortiz breaks it down, and explains why we need smart policy to guide this tech. Read the blog:

Resource guide: Countering Disinformation in Your Community, Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...

A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station. Credits: NASA

Tonight's moon. Waning Gibbous 95.4%

Week 2 of #MathPhoto25 is here! This week look for symmetry, patterns and designs. Take photos and share using hashtags #MathPhoto25 and #symmetry. #ITeachMath

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

There is a huge difference between understanding the idea of a thing and being able to write a precise solution to an exam question involving the thing.

It's a beautiful day Some sort of public holiday here. Don Dunstan's birthday or something. Anyway enjoy your day wherever you are

First slime mould of the season.

We had a disappointing year for quandongs last year, so hopefully we get a bumper crop this year

ElectraNet says South Australia has one of the most advanced electricity networks in the world, regularly achieving 100% instantaneous variable renewable energy. 50% rooftop solar is world leading and green fuels are attracting business. #auspol #greenenergy

Like two owls, "with eye & claw, both of us have swooped down upon the many enemies of equitable, inclusive, & humanistic purposes in education". Read @pasisahlberg.bsky.social in this Foreword to my new book out next month. buff.ly/HDeDyHQ🦉🦉 @dianeravitch.bsky.social @ctffce.bsky.social

A new paper has outlined a national roadmap to boost ocean literacy in Australia. The authors are urging the creation of a national ocean literacy strategy and a dedicated coalition to help turn knowledge into action for ocean sustainability. 📝 www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsoci...